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Official Military Deaths:
2418 / 16,653 wounded

Iraqi Civilians Deaths: 250,000 and counting

Associated Press,
May 9. 2006

Women get paternal clues in men's faces

A man's face can tell you if he's fling or father material, short-term or relationship material.

 Masculine/Macho = Fling
Likes Children/Kind = Romance/Long Term

The message guys? If you're looking for a long-term partner, tone down the macho and tune into her.  If your relationships seem to fizzle within 3-6 months...reduce the machismo and try spending a little time around kids..
 

The Tennessean, May 9, 2006

Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law

E-mails reveal private meetings

Autism is just one of many side affects suspected to originate with the administration of mandatory vaccines.  By eliminating the ability to sue for bad vaccines these laws protect corporations but place every person required to take these vaccines for whatever reason, at risk. The checks and balances are gone.
 

The Wisdom Fund, Posted May 4, 2006

Background on Darfur
Sudan, Oil, and the Darfur Crisis

What this article doesn't tell you: When you analyze the situation in Darfur, you should be aware of Israel's strategy, and Congressman Tom Lantos' past record. --- According to a book published by the Dayan Institute for Middle East and Africa Studies called "Israel and the Sudanese Liberation Movement," Israel adopted a strategy which they called 'pulling the limbs then cutting them off.' What this policy entailed was the building of bridges with minority groups, pulling them out of the nationalist context and then 'encouraging' them to separate. Tel Aviv hoped that this strategy would inevitably weaken the Arab world, break it down and threaten its interests at the same time. In order for this strategy to work, Mossad agents opened lines of communication and connections with the Kurds in Iraq, Maronites in Lebanon and Southerners in Sudan.--"Israel's hand in Sudan's past and future," Yemen Observer, January 15, 2005
 

If Americans Knew

Special Report
Israel’s Treatment of Americans

"It may come as an unpleasant surprise for the American public to learn that for over 30 years, Israel has also repeatedly detained, tortured and incarcerated Americans of Arab origin, without suffering any sanctions or even a public reprimand from Washington."

Couples Company also did an article earlier this year, "Where American Lives Do Not Count" documenting the 39 Americans murdered by Israel.  Israel has never been held accountable for these murders and in several cases the murders were promoted.
 

Financial Times, London May 1, 2006

Electronic voting switch threatens mass confusion

Quote: "The clerk for Marion County – the state’s most populous – said that, so far, nine rounds of “fixes” had been required; she was unsure whether the primary vote today could be held without problems, according to The Indianapolis Star.
In Florida...the election supervisor for Leon County allowed anti-electronic voing activists to try breaching security..."
 

Guardian, London, (Originally ran Feb 24, 2006)

MI6 pays out over secret LSD mind control tests

Houston Chronicle/Orlando Sentinel

NASA engineer chasing dream to harness energy from ocean waves

Originally ran December 6, 2005
QUOTE: "The rocking motion of the waves pushes a long cylinder of magnets up and down a copper coil. His small model generates 10 watts of power in a 6-inch wave chop. A full-scale version could generate 160 kilowatts. That one buoy is enough to power 160 houses, following the rule of thumb that the average U.S. home uses about 1,000 kilowatts of electricity each month."
 

Ha'aretz Israel, May 2, 2006
 

The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up

Quote: "Something is changing in the United States. To be sure, it was only a few short years ago that prime minister Sharon's advisers could gleefully celebrate their success in dictating to U.S. President George W. Bush the terms of a public statement approving Israel's illegal settlements. No U.S. Congressman has yet proposed reducing or rescinding the $3 billion in aid Israel receives annually - 20 percent of the total U.S. foreign aid budget - (CC Note: It is actually 40% of the US Foreign Aid Budget, not 20%) which has helped sustain the Israeli defense budget and the cost of settlement construction in the West Bank. And Israel and the United States appear increasingly bound together in a symbiotic embrace whereby the actions of each party exacerbate their common unpopularity abroad - and thus their ever-closer association in the eyes of critics....

...I was teaching this past month a class on post-war Europe. I was trying to explain to young Americans the importance of the Spanish Civil War in the political memory of Europeans and why Franco's Spain has such a special place in our moral imagination: as a reminder of lost struggles, a symbol of oppression in an age of liberalism and freedom, and a land of shame that people boycotted for its crimes and repression. I cannot think, I told the students, of any country that occupies such a pejorative space in democratic public consciousness today. You are wrong, one young woman replied: What about Israel? To my great surprise most of the class - including many of the sizable Jewish contingent - nodded approval. The times they are indeed a-changing. <end quote>
 

NY Times, May 2, 2006

19 Months More in Prison for Professor in Terror Case

What this article doesn't tell you: The judge (Moody) in this case and his wife are both heavily active in Israeli and Zionist causes, blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian.  Al-Arian is an Arab who has been critical of Israeli apartheid and the oppression of the Palestinians.  The judge overturned the jury verdict and plea bargain, over-riding the wishes of the American people and extended his sentence.  That Al-Arian was working to support 'terrorism' has never been proven.  He was prosecuted under the Patriot Act for making donations and supporting various charities and organizations in Palestine over 15 years ago during the 1st Intifada and shortly thereafter.

This is one of an increasing number of cases where the political motivations of the judge and personal prejudices have violated the rights of Americans in favor of personal agendas.  No matter how you feel about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the fact that a judge with heavy ties and sympathies to a foreign nation and oppressive political system can throw out agreements to fulfill his own sense of vengeance requires some serious censure by the American people.  This man cannot be unbiased in a case involving Arabic people and that is a danger to any American brought before him.  With such blatant bias and demonstrated activism against people like Al-Arian, why was this judge allowed to sit for this case?

Defense for Children International, May 2, 2006

Five-year old boy detained by Israeli forces

This statement by the arresting soldier directed at the father pleading for his pre-school age son sums it up:

"Israel does not separate between children and adults," the officer told Samer. "All Palestinians are terrorists!"

The number of children used summarily executed, used for target practice and beaten  by Israel since 2000 alone, back up the soldiers assertion. (722 Palestinian children killed vs 121 Israeli killed children and 29,768 Palestinian children vs 7,633 Israeli children have been wounded since September 2000)

God help us if Americans adopt this mindset.

 

 
 
 

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