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2/18/2007 12:36:00 PM GMT
By: Emile Tayyip
Local police have restored security and tranquility to Zahedan after a bomb attack ripped through the city Friday night, a day after another explosion involving an attack on a bus owned by the local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed about 18 people and wounded 31 others in the same city.
"Terrorist agents try to implement their ominous plots without being bothered at all," Zahedan Governor General Hassan-Ali Nouri told IRNA, adding (…)

Times: What we learned from Libby trial about the secretive operation of Vice President Dick Cheney RAW STORY Published: Sunday February 18, 2007
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(Editor’s note at bottom: Times puts ’hold’ on Cheney story)
Monday’s New York Times contains an article which will tie together some of the revelations that resulted from testimony at the trial for former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was charged with obstruction of justice and lying to investigators (…)

Thousands of illegal aliens held in camps and legal limbo
Feb 18 3:49 PM US/Eastern
The US government is holding growing numbers of illegal immigrants in jails far from their lawyers and family, and even sometimes in tents, where their rights are not respected, civil liberties groups say.
"It’s like Guantanamo Bay, but these people are not terrorists. They are just immigrants," Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), told AFP. (…)

A nation can survive its’ fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his banners openly. But a traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself... for the traitor appears no traitor; He speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their faces and their garments, he appeals to the baseness (…)

by Carolyn Baker
EVIL:
1 a: morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked "an evil impulse"
b: arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct "a person of evil reputation"
2 a: archaic : inferior
b: causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive "an evil odor"
c: disagreeable "woke late and in an evil temper"
3 a: causing harm : pernicious "the evil institution of slavery" b: marked by misfortune : unlucky Merriam-Webster Online]
Canada’s Red Pill press has recently (…)

Protestors demonstrate against the expansion of a U.S. military base in Vicenza, northern Italy, February 17,2007.
Protesters converged on the small northern Italian city of Vicenza on Saturday to speak out against the planned expansion of a U.S. military base there.
Italian government officials had warned of the risk of violence, but the demonstration was peaceful and without incident.
Banners with angry slogans were directed as much against the Italian government as against American (…)

By William Fisher
In the face of multiple legal and legislative challenges, President George W. Bush this week issued an executive order to allow cases against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to move forward to trials by military tribunals.
The challenges are to the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), which Bush signed into law last October. The first three cases to be tried under the law involve an Australian, a Yemeni, and a Canadian, all held at (…)

By Diet Simon Debate is heating up in Germany over keeping or scrapping nuclear power production and over what to do with nuclear waste, which is dangerously radioactive for a million years.
Chancellor Angelika Merkel’s CDU conservatives want the establishment of dumps speeded up and nuclear power generation extended. Their parliamentary group has teamed up with Merkel’s office, the economics ministry and experts from the state of Lower Saxony to make “an understanding offer” to the (…)

de David Swanson
David Swanson is co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America.
An Iraq vet named Charlie Anderson told me that he likes to get his photo taken with senators and House members, and then have his friend fiddle with the camera, so that Charlie gets to talk while the elected official has to stand there and smile. And this is what Charlie says: "Congressman, I work every day to try to end (…)

"We’re in the express elevator to Hell, baby..." Bill Paxton "ALIENS"
The real "surge" test is already underway in Iraq and all is strangley quiet on the Middle East front. I suspect it’s a false calm, but the Bushies are smiling in anticipation of telling the Dems "we told you so". I doubt they’ll have that opportunity, however, despite the negative Senate vote on Saturday (which the Reps are crowing about).
It looks like all Hell will break out before a week is up. Afghanistan is (…)