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Friday, October 20, 2006 |
ArizonaDailyStar: "Airstrikes by NATO helicopters hunting Taliban fighters ripped through three dried mud homes in southern Afghanistan as villagers slept early Wednesday. At least nine civilians were killed, including women and children, said residents and the provincial governor."
ICH: "Tony Blair set a 16-month limit for keeping British troops in Iraq yesterday as he admitted for the first time that they would be a 'provocation' if they stayed too long."
LATimes: "The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq acknowledged Thursday that a much-touted security crackdown by American and Iraqi forces had failed to reduce violence in the capital and called the results 'disheartening'."
SMH: "The war in Iraq has been a catastrophic blunder that has substantially increased the terrorist threat to Australia, one of the nation's most distinguished former diplomats said today."
Add Afghanistan to the list.
12:00:19 PM 
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TheNewAnatolian: "Under controversial Article 301, court hearings began yesterday against a trio responsible for the Turkish edition of a book by Noam Chomsky.
The case against the publisher, editors and translator of 'Manufacturing Consent', written by U.S. leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, were present for the hearing.
Aram Yayincilik owner Fatih Tas, editors Omer Faruk Kurhan and Lutfu Taylan Tosun and translator Ender Abadoglu are on trial on charges of spreading public hatred and enmity and denigrating Turkish identity, the republic and the Turkish Parliament under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The defendants are facing up to six years in prison apiece.
Translator Abadoglu said in his defense that he only translated the book and didn't distort its content. Underlining that the views expressed in the book belong to the authors and that the translator can't be held responsible, Abadoglu said, 'In a similar way, the views of French parliamentarians who are supporting the Armenian genocide claims were translated and published in newspapers. There are no cases filed against these translators. Hence, I think translators can't be held responsible."
We don't want this Turkey as a member of the European Union.
11:52:51 AM
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ArizonaDailyStar: "Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev compares the United States' proposed 700-mile wall on the U.S.-Mexican border to the Berlin Wall.
Addressing a news conference at University of Texas of the Permian Basin's Center for Energy and Economic Diversification, Gorbachev was by turns serious and flippant.
"You remember President Reagan standing in Berlin and saying, 'This wall should be torn down'," said the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the last leader of the Soviet Union.
'Now the United States seems to be building almost the Wall of China between itself and this other nation with which it has been associated for many decades and has had cooperation and interaction with.'"
The Busheviks have usurped power in the White House.
ICH: "The Bush administration can not allow the Democrats to take control of either house of Congress. And they are in a position to prevent it, regardless of the will of the American voters.
These are the two controlling facts that make all other conditions of the coming election trivial in comparison, or even irrelevant. The failure of the media and even the Democratic Party to acknowledge and deal with these facts in no way diminishes their significance. Quite the contrary.
And why can't the Busheviks allow the loss of even one house of Congress to the Democrats? Such a loss might, of course, result in the halting and even some reversal of the Bush/GOP agenda. But that is the least of their concerns. Far more important would be the reestablishment of Congressional oversight - of investigations, with the penalties of perjury and contempt of Congress, into vast array of crimes committed by the Bush administration. Among these crimes are bribery, the disappearance of billions of dollars in Iraq, war crimes, the disregard of acts of Congress, lying to Congress, and fraudulent elections. In a new, Democratic, House of Representatives, the incorruptible Henry Waxman, as the new Chair of the Government Affairs Committee, would doggedly examine and expose the corruption of the Bush Administration, and John Conyers, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, would, at long last, energetically investigate the issue of stolen elections. Accordingly, Bush and his partners in crime face far more than a curtailment of power; they face possible indictment, prosecution, and prison sentences for their crimes.
How, then, might the Busheviks avoid accountability for their crimes by remaining in control of the Congress? The same way that they seized control of the White House in 2000, and maintained control of Congress and the White House in 2004, namely by rigging these elections through their surrogates in 'the election industry'."
CommonDreams: "We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived as people in fear.
And now - our rights and our freedoms in peril - we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
We have been here before - and we have been here before led here - by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.
This President now has his blank check."
11:45:24 AM
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CorpWatch: "John Owen didn't realize how different his job would be from his last 27 years in construction until he signed on with First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting in November 2005. Working as general foreman, he would be overseeing an army of workers building the largest, most expensive and heavily fortified US embassy in the world. Scheduled to open in 2007, the sprawling complex near the Tigris River will equal Vatican City in size.
Then seven months into the job, he quit.
Not one of the five different US embassy sites he had worked on around the world compared to the mess he describes. Armenia, Bulgaria, Angola, Cameroon and Cambodia all had their share of dictators, violence and economic disruption, but the companies building the embassies were always fair and professional, he says.
The Kuwait-based company building the $592-million Baghdad project is the exception. Brutal and inhumane, he says 'I've never seen a project more fucked up. Every US labor law was broken'.
In the resignation letter last June, Owen told First Kuwaiti and US State Department officials that his managers beat their construction workers, demonstrated little regard for worker safety, and routinely breached security."
11:27:52 AM
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YNetNews: "Poll of 25 countries reveals that the majority of world's population opposes torturing prisoners suspected of terror involvement. In Israel, over half of Jewish population supports using torture to get information from terrorists, while most Muslims oppose it."
For those who have forgotten: Auschwitz.
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Terror, now available at rock-bottom prices.
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