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MAN TRAPPED IN CHOCOLATE VAT
By Peter Fredson August 20, 2006
Every day I sift through the Google News items. The other day I found several items that intrigued me. After reading about Iraq War failures, the casualty lists, the threats against Iran and watching John Bolton, now we can listen to all the nasty details of the murder of little JonBenet, day after day.
I also read that a Black Female Judge told George Bush that he had to stop his wire-tapping. reminding him that we have (…)

Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed
Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane
CHRISTOPHER LEAKE and ANDREW CHAPMAN / UK Daily Mail | August 20 2006
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight (…)

by Gilbert Achcar
The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on August 11, 2006 fully satisfies neither Israel nor Washington nor Hezbollah. This does not mean that it is "fair and balanced": it only means that it is a temporary expression of a military stalemate. Hezbollah could not inflict a major military defeat on Israel, a possibility that was always excluded by the utterly disproportionate balance of forces in the same way that it was impossible for the Vietnamese resistance (…)

Falling behind in Lebanon
The New York Times Published: August 17, 2006
Hezbollah is taking charge of reconstruction in south Lebanon, while the world is still dithering over the makeup of a peacekeeping force. After a month of war, large swaths of the country are in ruins. Thousands of people are without homes. Many Lebanese are furiously blaming the United States as well as Israel for their suffering. Whatever anger they may also harbor toward Hezbollah for provoking the war is being (…)

Egypt Warns Against Strike on Iran
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned against any military strike on Iran in an interview published yesterday.
The United Nations Security Council has demanded Iran suspend uranium enrichment by the end of the month after Tehran failed to persuade the international community its atomic scientists were working on power stations, not bombs.
Washington has declined to rule out military strikes as a solution to the nuclear dispute. (…)

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Amir Gissin (…)

Bush continues to claim that the spying is to protect us, yet look at all of these stories where the targets are Grannies, Quakers, peace groups, anti-war protests, Catholic Workers, etc.... Are these groups a threat to "national security"? Are they planning an attack on fellow citizens- or are they a threat to the war machine? California National Guard Suspected of Spying on CodePink and Raging Grannies Letter From a Military Mom: Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military (…)

If a judge’s ruling that declares President George W. Bush’s domestic spying program unconstitutional holds up under appeal, the President will be guilty of violating federal law at least 30 times and that could provide grounds for impeachment, says a leading Constitutional scholar.
Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University and a recognized expert on constitutional law, says the ruling Thursday by a federal judge in Detroit raises "serious implications for the Bush (…)

Iran launches massive military exercise
Tehran, Aug. 19 (AP): Iran today launched a series of large-scale military exercises aimed at introducing the country’s new defensive doctrine, State-run television reported.
The television report said the military exercise would occur in 14 of the country’s 30 provinces and could last as long as five weeks.
The first stage of the manoeuvers began with air strikes in the southeastern province of Sistan Va Baluchistan, the report said.
The (…)

El Supremo answers a question about the illegal wiretapping...
About the 1:20 mark of this video Bush appears to be confused by the message fed thru his earpiece.
We... I made my position clear about this war on terror and I... by the way, the enemy made their position clear, yet again, when they... when we are able to stop them.
The transcript doesn’t do it justice... you gotta watch this for knee-slapping comedy.
It’s okay to get a sentence mixed up, but an intelligent person ought (…)