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friends2b | 1 Jun 2007 01:33
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The Worst Kind Of Lie

http://www.counterpunch.org/chuckman07092003.html

  July 9, 2003

They Do Their Job & You Don't See the Mess
The Worst Kind of Lie

By JOHN CHUCKMAN

A few years sometimes make a big difference in human affairs.
A few years ago an American President was put through the 18th century
ordeal of impeachment,
a vast, expensively-staged comic opera of white manes waving and grave
baritones intoning, over a dribble on a dress
and the lie he told to save himself embarrassment.

Today we have a President who has hurled the world into two dirty, pointless
wars after what undoubtedly qualifies
as the longest sequence of public lies ever uttered in a free society, and
yet in his homeland he remains popular
and is collecting enough campaign cash to rival the Swiss bank balances of
the Russian Mafia.

Leaders have always lied in times of war and when maneuvering for advantage
in international affairs,
American presidents, despite puffed-up claims to different moral standards,
no less so than others.

Usually the lies they tell are not understood until years later.
The lies then often seem to become small, unimportant details in a history
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friends2b | 1 Jun 2007 01:45
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Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush?

Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush?
The Importance of Tipping

By DAVID LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07092003.html

Tipping.

That's the new watchword.

When does the situation facing American troops in Iraq deteriorate to the
point that public sentiment "tips" against further U.S. involvement and
against the Bush administration's policy of occupation and "nation
building"?

The signs, for American GI's and for George Bush's reelection hopes, are
getting grimmer.

Already 70 American soldiers have died in Iraq since virtual fly-boy Bush
prematurely declared the war to be "over" in a staged victory rally aboard
an aircraft carrier off San Diego harbor.

A search for the terms "guerrilla war" and "Iraq" turns up hundreds of
citations, most dating from about the middle of June onward. Some, like an
article on June 18 in the Detroit Free Press, simply use the term "guerrilla
war" in news reports as an unremarkable and most apt characterization of the
current military situation in Iraq. Others, like an article on June 23 in
the Christian Science Monitor, use the term in editorials warning that the
situation threatens to become a "quagmire," (another Vietnam-era term that's
returning to currency). Still others use the term in articles warning that
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Sid Shniad | 1 Jun 2007 01:57
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U.K. public services union to consider boycott of Israel


   http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/865601.html
   Haaretz 31/05/2007
   U.K. public services union to consider boycott of Israel
   By Assaf Uni and Haim Bior, Haaretz Correspondents
   Britain - The United Kingdom's public services union UNISON will
   consider a
   proposal for imposing a boycott on Israel during its annual conference
   in
   mid-June, in the wake of Wednesday's decision by a British lecturers
   union
   to back a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
   UNISON representatives who are in contact with the Histadrut labor
   federation have in recent days presented the Histadrut's international
   activities director, Avital Shapira, with a copy of the proposal.
   According to the proposal, UNISON, which has some 1.4 million members,
   will
   urge other British unions to follow its lead and cut off all economic
   and
   cultural ties with Israel.
   Histadrut sources said the impression they have received is that
   UNISON
   will vote in favor of the boycott. The conference will be held June
   19-22
   in Brighton.
   If approved, the boycott would have a significant practical, and not
   just
   symbolic, impact, given that the union enjoys large economic influence
   in
   Britain.
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 1 Jun 2007 02:15
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Jihadist Groups Fill a Palestinian Power Vacuum

If the empire continues to seek to destroy Hamas, Hizballah, and the
like, jihadists will grow. -- Yoshie

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/world/middleeast/31palestinians.html>
May 31, 2007
Jihadist Groups Fill a Palestinian Power Vacuum
By STEVEN ERLANGER and HASSAN M. FATTAH

JERUSALEM, May 30 — It was 2 a.m. when masked gunmen raided Al Wafa
Net in the Khan Yunis camp in Gaza where 17 young men were surfing the
Internet.

"The gunmen tied their hands, then forced them to stand at the stairs
while they broke all the screens, and then the server and the
television and the photocopier," said the owner, Hamad, of the attack
a few months ago. "Then they burned all 36 computers."

In recent months in Gaza, there have been similar attacks on music and
video shops and pharmacies accused of selling Viagra, as well as on
American and United Nations schools.

A standoff between the Lebanese Army and Islamists at a Palestinian
refugee camp in Lebanon has focused attention on a jihadist element
taking root there as well as a radicalization in the Palestinian areas
themselves.

With the fragmentation of authority in Gaza, and its isolation, said a
Gazan analyst, Taysir Mhaisin, "there is an increase of fundamentalism
and the birth of groups believing in violence and practicing violence
as a model created by bin Ladenism."
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james m nordlund | 1 Jun 2007 04:11
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IFCO/Pastors for Peace: Join the Caravan to Cuba!

Join the Caravan to Cuba!
There is Still Time......

http://www.pastorsforpeace.org/

To sign up for the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba this July as we 
collectively break the US blockade and travel ban by taking humanitarian 
aid, and ourselves, to Cuba without asking for a US government license.

Our multi-colored caravan buses and trucks will travel on 14 different 
routes through the US and Southern Canada, visiting 125 cities in 47 US 
states and 6 Canadian Provinces - collecting aid and people as they go.
But 
if your time is limited you can fly down to Texas to join us as we prepare

to cross the border into Mexico and on to Cuba.

We will spend 8 days in Cuba from July 19th - July 26th so we will be
there 
for the July 26th celebrations.

Below we give the caravan schedule but you can get more details about what

its like to go on the caravan and where we will be when by checking out
our 
website www.pastorsforpeace.org  ; And look at the flyer about a new 
innovation this year - Hiphop without Borders - where actual and aspiring 
hiphop artists will be joining us to travel to Cuba, to workshop and
perform 
with Cuban artists - as well as bringing equipment to assist the
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james m nordlund | 1 Jun 2007 04:15
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US Campaign: End Israeli Occupation: Get Official 6-10 Protest T-Shirt

Get Your Official June 10 Protest T-Shirt Today!
Get Involved
Become a June 10 Organizer, Volunteer for Local Organizing Committee, 
Volunteer to Help on June 10, Download Organizing Resources

Endorse and Sign Petition

http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=179

Endorse (For Organizations), Map of Endorsing Organizations, Sign Petition

(For Individuals)

Logistics
Schedule of Events, Bus Parking Info, Get on the Bus, Logistics, 
Contingents, Ride Board, Housing Board, Affordable Housing Options in DC 
Area

June 11 Lobbying Day
Frequently Asked Questions, List of Meetings Scheduled, How to Set Up a 
Meeting, Sign Up for Lobbying Day

Donate

An Important Memo to Participants in the June 10th Mobilization!

June 10 Cultural Night

Call to Action
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Suzanne de Kuyper | 1 Jun 2007 05:31
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Re: DENIAL: The 51st State

Your analysis is, I am sure quite valid but there are several of us who have
sen from the very beginning the full horrors of what this administration is
doing, the short term and the long term results of these actions so mutely
observed by a compliant population as

On 5/29/07, friends2b <friends2b <at> sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> From: "Dreamers "<dreamers <at> awakeninthedream.com
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 11:40 PM
> Subject: DENIAL: The 51st State - by Paul Levy
>
> DENIAL: The 51st State
>
> By Paul Levy
>
> What the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that
> controls our government is doing,
> both domestically and internationally, is so horrifying (please see my
> article Homeland Insecurity
> http://www.awakeninthedream.com/insecurity.html)
> that it is literally traumatizing to consciously bear witness to it, to
> experience it.
>
> When we become traumatized, we become stuck, literally "frozen in time,"
> as
> our ability to creatively respond and mobilize ourselves in the present
> moment into effective action in the world becomes in-operative.
>
> When we become overwhelmed by trauma, we are not able to creatively
> express
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Suzanne de Kuyper | 1 Jun 2007 05:54
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Re: DENIAL: The 51st State

My apologies that I sent my comment unfinished..herewith the remaider:

On 5/31/07, Suzanne de Kuyper <suzannedk <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Your analysis is, I am sure quite valid but there are several of us who
> have seen from the very beginning the full horrors of what this
> administration is doing, the short term and the long term results of these
> actions so mutely observed by a compliant population .  And, we have acted
> in any way possible to us, from the beginning, without being
> traumatised...., rather energized.    The stories of what we have done and
> what 'punishment' has been meted out to us, i.e. what has happened to
> us....would make an interesting contrast to your thesis.  The revenge
> proclivity of this administration that represents this once great nation is
> all encompassing as well as deadly.  Those immured in the trauma you
> outlined so  expertly are enacting, perhaps, a bomb shelter reaction to the
> present cultural realities of this fascist military state that the USA now
> fully is.  A reaction that may be justified....not deridable nor despicable
> nor unreasonable nor irresponsible....There are those of us who do not fit
> that mold, yet what we do and have done is an acknowlegement that we of
> rational bent and legal persuasion, are at war, totally. Rather than being
> terrorised or traumitised, we are fully angry and act, with in the law.

 Ruth Badeer Ginsberg only realized that far too late what horrible time it
is here.

Sincerely and gratefully for your posting.

Suzanne de Kuyper, Amsterdam

>
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Anthony Fenton | 1 Jun 2007 07:20
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CUBAN COMMENTARY SUPPORTS VENEZUELA'S RCTV CLOSURE

Copyright 2007 Financial Times Information
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Copyright 2007 BBC Monitoring Service , Source: The Financial Times  
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BBC Monitoring International Reports

May 31, 2007 Thursday

ACC-NO: A2007053135-14E05-GNW

LENGTH: 1080 words

HEADLINE: CUBAN COMMENTARY SUPPORTS VENEZUELA'S RCTV CLOSURE

BODY:

Text of report by Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde website on 29 May

[Commentary by Rosa Miriam Elizalde: "TVes as It Is.]

The big change took place at 2359 on Sunday 27 May. RCTV broadcast  
the Venezuelan National Anthem, sung by faces as pale as could be  
found anywhere but this country, a telluric compendium of the  
Americas, as [Cuban novelist] Alejo Carpentier called it. A second  
later, the Venezuelan Social Television (TVes) signal appeared on the  
screen. From the street one could hear a guaracha recalling "that  
everything must end;" fireworks could be seen above Avila.

Venezuela has suffered from a sort of schizophrenia over the last few
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friends2b | 1 Jun 2007 12:14
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Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi

"Those who have to tread the long and weary path of a life that sometimes
seems to promise little beyond suffering and yet more suffering need to
develop the capacity to draw strength from the hardships that trouble their
existence. It is from hardship rather than from ease that we gather wisdom.
A citadel of endurance can be built on a foundation of anguish. How can
anybody who has learnt to ignite his heart with the thunder-flame of his own
pain ever know defeat? Victory is ensured to those who are capable of
learning the hardest lessons that life has to offer.

We live, we make mistakes, we suffer and we learn. That is the cycle of life
we have to follow. So for those of you who will have to face the usual - and
at times more than usual - quota of disappointment and sorrow, I would like
you to remember on the darkest nights of storm that there are those who do
not know you, but who understand your trouble and who care, because they
themselves have known the absence of a comforting light. And in those times
when your lives are full of light, I would like you to think of the ones who
are deprived of the basic requirements of a meaningful existence, those who
dare to hope that salvation is around the corner."

- Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi

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