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Why does George W. Bush & Others continue to KNOWINGLY break the law of the land and violate the US Constitution and rights of American citizen by spying on Democrats and those opposed to his corrupt regime without warrants and judicial oversight?
Why did George W. Bush personally block an internal Justice Department investigation of the National Security Agency’s activities and withhold security clearances from lawyers investigating those who approved and oversaw the NSA’s illegal (…)

I’ll resort yet again to one of my favorite movie quotes, this one from The Magnificent Seven..when Calvera, the bandit is speaking to Yul Brynner: "I put it to you...if the Lord had not wanted them sheered he would not have made them sheep"
Mussolini stated it even more simply: "America is a nation of sheep" Perhaps we weren’t that then..but we sure are now.
What brings down any great nation...and they all fall eventually...is weakness, apathy, indifference and lethargy. We have them (…)

Olmert may not survive this disastrous war
By Gwynne Dyer The ceasefire in southern Lebanon will not hold. Israel will probably lose more soldiers killed in combat in the next month than in the past month (119). Ehud Olmert will probably no longer be prime minister of Israel by the end of this year. And it is all too likely that Binyamin Netanyahu will take his place.
The UN-sponsored ceasefire will not hold because Hezbollah has not been defeated. Despite a month of pounding by (…)

In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
Robert Fisk - The Independent August 16, 2006
In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in (…)

Venezuela Leading the Race For the UN Security Council Seat - by Stephen Lendman
In October, elections will take place for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two leading regional contenders vying to fill the opening are Venezuela and Guatemala, and the other countries in the region comprising Latin America and the Caribbean (GRULAC) will vote on which one gets it. If they’re unable (…)

Pentagon Orders American Special Forces To Mexican Oil Fields As Civil War Looms
August 16, 2006 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index942.htm
Russian Military Analysts are reporting today that the United States Military Leaders have ordered an ‘advisory contingent’ of American Special Forces Officers to Mexico in order to prepare their Mexican counterparts for an expected siege upon Mexico’s vast oil fields, and which provides (…)

Four-Fifths of U.S. High School Graduates Not Ready for College
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — Almost four-fifths of U.S. high school graduates failed to pass this year’s standard examinations designed to show their readiness for college, test designer ACT Inc. reported.
Scores on the four-part ACT test, taken this year by more than 1.2 million U.S. students, ranged from only 27 percent passing in biology to 69 percent in English, the company reported. A total of 21 percent met the benchmark in (…)

Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
During Tel Aviv demonstration, former MK Yael Dayan calls for end to women trafficking; ’it’s more than rape,’ she says. Haifa representative says prostitutes forced to look for customers in city’s streets during war, in spite of rockets Merav Crystal
Women rights activists held a demonstration against women trafficking Wednesday, during which they chanted slogans such as "Police, women are not goods" and "Customers are rapists." (…)

NEW ORLEANS, LA - AUGUST 3, 2006 - St. Bernard Parish resident and Hurricane Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella is towing his honorary FEMA trailer to Washington D.C. on August 18, 2006 in hopes of having dinner with President Bush. Rockey is a true survivor who rode out Hurricane Katrina on his roof by holding on to a rope for four hours in one of the most devastated areas of the New Orleans region. He eventually swam to safety then got in a boat to help rescue others. Now Rockey is on a (…)

By Sarah Olson
Clifton Hicks was looking for a body. Specifically, the Army tank driver was fumbling about in the dark, looking for and failing to find the remains of the Iraqis who, moments before, had been firing on his tank. When Hicks’s flashlight swept the ground around his feet, he realized he was standing in the remains of a man. Literally. His boots wedged between the rib cage and the pelvis, blood and human organs squishing out from beneath the soles of his shoes.
It’s this (…)