[Imc-cleveland] Arabian Sights == Anglo-American atrocities / Reading between the [head] lines...GOOD/bad news? (all in the eyes of the beholder)

Wed Apr 18 15:34:34 UTC 2007

Arabian Sights....

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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work
Robin Williams

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read
Mark Twain

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth
Henry D. Thoreau

"We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men"
"In a time of universal deciet telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
Geroge Orwell

            "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village."
            Gandhi 

      The fact is that the internal and external repressive policies of the United States of America have already destroyed -- and continue to decimate -- millions of people inside America and throughout the world. Especially is this true with respect to the vast majority of people of color in the ghettos, reservations and barrios of the U.S., as well as in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Caribbean and elsewhere...The enormous internal and external destruction of peoples and cultures around the world caused by the fascistic policies of the United States -- cloaked in a mythical democracy -- have wreaked more havoc, misery and destruction upon peoples nationally and around the world than the blatantly fascist regimes of World War II Germany and Italy combined. Notwithstanding the over 100 million Black people who had previously been murdered as victims of Europe and America's African "legalized" slave trafficking...to compare the contemporary United States, or any of its leaders, to the former fascist leaders Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini is utterly missing the point, as the U.S. is much, much worse, and its global power is far more encompassing and devastating...

      Larry Pinkney Fascism: An American Reality --Jul 6, 2006 

      http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_962.shtml 

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"Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq 
Joe Quinn 
      "Suicide bombings" are a daily occurrence in Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by the US government and its mainstream media to convince the world that there is still some "freedom and Democracy" work to be done by US troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else? (...) The al-Sarafiya bridge connected two northern Baghdad neighborhoods - Waziriyah, a mostly Sunni enclave, and Utafiyah, a Shi ite area. After more than a year of massacres of Sunni and Shia civilians by US-sponsored death squads working out of the Iraqi interior ministry, both Sunni and Shia civilians have fled neighborhoods where they were originally in the majority or where there was a mix of the two groups. Before the al-Sarafiya bridge was destroyed, nine spans across the Tigris linked western and eastern Baghdad. Now there are eight. How long will they last? The Tigris river now serves as a de facto dividing line between the mostly Shiite east and the largely Sunni west of the city, with the bridges the only connection between them. It's called "counter insurgency strategy" - divide and conquer. The reports that a "truck suicide bomb" had been detonated on the bridge came from the US military. No independent Iraqi or other source was able to verify this claim. In fact, AP Television News video showed the bridge broken in two places suggesting two blasts. Other Iraqi eyewitnesses claim that a U S attack helicopter fired two missiles at the bridge, but wi! th the m ainstream media parroting only the official US military line that it was "suicide truck bomb" these eyewitness reports are never heard...
      http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130203-%22Suicide+Bombings%22+-+The+Cover+Story+For+US+Military+Ops+In+Iraq

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      An Iraqi Life - $2500 
      NY Times, With SOTT Commentary 
            In February 2006, nervous [trigger happy] American soldiers in Tikrit killed an Iraqi fisherman on the Tigris River after he leaned over to switch off his engine. A year earlier, a civilian filling his car and an Iraqi Army officer directing traffic were shot by American soldiers in a passing convoy in Balad, for no apparent reason. The incidents are among many thousands of claims submitted to the Army by Iraqi and Afghan civilians seeking payment for noncombat killings, injuries or property damage American forces inflicted on them or their relatives...

      http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130172-An+Iraqi+Life+-+%242500

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      Al-Sarafya Bridge wasn't destroyed by a trapped lorry but it had been trapped 
      HAQ agency
            As our agency expected during the news of destroying al-Sarafia irony Bridge one of the most Baghdad famous traditional areas were destroying the Bridge wasn't by a trapped lorry as the governmental sources said when they announced the explosion news, in which the Internal Ministry admitted today that the body of the Bridge -450 meter length- were completely trapped with explosive riffles that indicates that this thing were organized, exact and its purpose is to destroy the Bridge. High level security sources said that destroying al-Sarafya Bridge wasn't by a trapped lorry as it was reported in the beginning but it was by remote controlled explosive rifles, and the news about a trapped car was made to cover the accident... 

      http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182&Itemid=1

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      Photos of 'tortured' Iraqi's corpse released

      Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to British forces abroad. 
      http://snipurl.com/1grk5

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      India firm on gas pipe from Iran

      A DISPUTE between Washington and its two major South Asian allies is intensifying as India and Pakistan dig in their heels over building a highly strategic, $10 billion gas pipeline stretching 2600km from Iran.
      http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21561309-2703,00.html

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      Chavez defies US with energy summit 

      Venezuela will seek to use oil wealth to consolidate regional support for anti-US politics as it hosts an energy summit of South American leaders.
      http://snipurl.com/1grki

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      Dollar at Near Record Low Vs. Euro

      The dollar gave up more ground to the euro, which climbed to within one cent of its all-time high, and the pound neared $2 Monday.
      http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070416/dollar.html?.v=3

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      Trouble in Squanderville
      Mike Whitney

      Two years ago, anyone who wrote about the housing bubble was dismissed as a conspiracy nut. Now hardly a day goes by that the headlines aren't splattered with the grim details of the massive meltdown in the real estate market. 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17543.htm

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      Gunman Kills 30 on Virginia Tech Campus 

      A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, in a classroom across campus Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing the death toll to 31. 
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6562543,00.html

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