The Daily DrEd July 17, 2006

(The Daily DrEd can also be found online at: neworleans.indymedia.org/news/)
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Republican Senator who submitted phony transcript for Congressional Record to mislead Supreme Court says "no big deal," he and others have done it before
www.unknownnews.org/060707KylGrahamBrownback.html
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FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list.
www.sianews.com/modules.php
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Bush Rejects Lebanon's Call for Cease-Fire
President Bush rejected Lebanon's calls for a cease-fire in escalating Mideast violence on Friday, saying only that Israel should try to limit civilian casualties as it steps up attacks on its neighbor.
www.raidersnewsupdate.com/raidersjournal.htm
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'Lebanon can be shut down for years'
Lebanon can be "shut down for years, as long as necessary" a senior military official said over the weekend. He added that the goals of the Israeli blockade of Lebanon were, on a tactical level, to make sure that no rockets could be supplied to Hizbullah, and strategically, to make the government in Beirut take responsibility for its southern border.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite
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Wayne Madsen EXCLUSIVE TO WMR. Our intelligence sources in Lebanon have reported to us exclusively that Israel is now using poison gas and depleted uranium shells on towns in the south of Lebanon. Residents of the small village of Kasarshoba became violently ill, experiencing severe vomiting, after the Israelis hit the village with poison gas. In other cases, underground shelters in southern Lebanon were hit by Israeli depleted uranium shells. Our sources also report that the entire southern suburbs of southern Beirut, with a population of 800,000, have been totally depopulated. Israel has targeted thousands of civilian homes for destruction.
www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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Wanyne Madsen on Todd Levanthal State Department propaganda/historical revisionism chief was fired by Pentagon/NSA official and then re-hired by State Department. Todd Leventhal, the State Department's propaganda chief and historical revisionist, who posts his missives at usinfo.state.gov/media/media_resources/misinformation.html (including attacks on this editor's articles usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Apr/01-220547.html), was once fired by his boss but quickly reinstated as a result from pressure from the powerful pro-Israeli neo-con lobby in Washington. Leventhal's operations are funded by the International Information Programs under Karen Hughes' International Public Diplomacy bureau. Leventhal's latest attack is against John Perkins' book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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Israel Prepares to Invade Syria
As to be expected, the story about a Hezbollah drone hitting an Israeli warship was tweaked this morning to fit the emerging agenda. “Senior Israeli army officers said Saturday that the rocket which hit an Israeli missile boat off the Lebanese coast Friday night was an Iranian-built radar-guided C-802,” reports the Bangkok Post.
prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/160706israelprepares.htm
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Putin Suspects Israel of Pursuing Wider Goals in Lebanon Attack
President Vladimir Putin said he thinks Israel is pursuing wider goals in its military campaign against Lebanon than the return of its two captured soldiers, the Associated Press news agency reports.
“However complicated the questions are, maximum efforts must be applied to resolve the situation in a peaceful way and I think all efforts have not been exhausted,” Putin said early Sunday.
prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/160706putinsuspects.htm
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How to Use Middle-East Conflict to Sell War With Iran, Take Iraq Failure off the Front Page and Salvage the 2006 Elections - How do you get Americans to support a war with Iran that has been on the agenda for neocons like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?
www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_kall_2c_ro_060715_how_to_use_middle_ea.htm
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The Ultimate Diversion - The current situation in the Middle East is to divert attention from the banking cartel's collapse of the economies of the world. I don't just mean the USA, I mean the entire planet.
wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/07/ultimate-diversion.html
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Hurricane Aid Flowing Directly to Homeowners
Nearly $10 billion in federal aid is finally starting to flow into the hands of people in Mississippi and Louisiana who lost their houses in last year’s hurricanes, the culmination of a year of political battling and bargaining between the states and Washington.
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/us/17rebuild.html
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IDF Reserve Infantry Division Called Up An IDF reserve infantry division was called up on Sunday to prepare for a possible ground operation in south Lebanon, according to The Jerusalem Post. Armored personnel carriers (APCs) and tanks were reportedly moving north and command posts were being set up along the northern border.
www.israelnn.com/news.php3
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Rice Says Israel May Need to Prolong Offensive Israel may need to prolong its offensive in Lebanon to further reduce the 'threat' from Hezbollah, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today, as some Democrats called on her to travel to the region immediately to help defuse the crisis.
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/world/middleeast/16cnd-policy.html
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Mexico leftist to launch civil resistance Backed by hundreds of thousands of followers, the leftist who 'lost Mexico's presidential vote' [was the victim of a Bush/ChoicePoint coup d'etat] vowed on Sunday to launch a civil resistance campaign to protest at fraud and force a recount.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060716/wl_nm/mexico_election_dc
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Muslim extremist admits he was spy who revealed Canada bomb plot Muslim leaders in Canada have reacted with fury after a radical advocate of Sharia law revealed that he had been a government spy who helped to uncover an alleged al-Qaeda plot, writes Toby Harnden. Mubin Shaikh, 29, came forward to confirm that he was recruited by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country's equivalent of MI5, and directed a 10-day winter training course in guerrilla tactics.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml
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Inquiry snub 'baffles' top Muslim 16 Jul 2006 A leading Muslim [Sir Iqbal Sacranie] has said he is "baffled" at the decision not to hold a public inquiry into the July 7 terror attacks.
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1907443.html
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Jackson mayor to set curfew on homeless 13 Jul 2006 Jackson Mayor [Nazi] Frank Melton said today he’s planning to amend the city’s emergency proclamation to include a 10 p.m. curfew on the homeless, beginning Friday. Melton said he would instruct police to pick up 'vagrants' who are out after 10 p.m. and take them to Champion Gymnasium. On June 22, Melton installed a state of emergency intended to curb juvenile crime. Since then, he has extended it four times.
www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
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Containing the Military Industrial Complex
More than any other weapons system, the chief products of the military industrial complex are lies. We just learned this week that Congress was cracking down on corruption by denying another contract to Halliburton. In reality, Halliburton has completed its main task of building five permanent bases and doesn't care as much about more contracts for services for soldiers. And, in fact, last month the Senate rejected, nearly along party lines, a bill to create honest contracting and impose penalties for fraud of the sort almost openly engaged in by Halliburton.
www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/13040
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Nasrallah showed determination to continue to fight Israel
The leader of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has warned that the current confrontation with Israel was only the beginning.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14011.htm
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Hizbollah's response reveals months of planning, If Lebanese dislike Hizbollah, they hate Israelis
It will be called the massacre of Marwaheen. All the civilians killed by the Israelis had been ordered to abandon their homes in the border village by the Israelis themselves a few hours earlier. That's when the Israeli jets arrived to bomb them, killing 20 Lebanese, at least nine of them children. The local fire brigade could not put out the fires as they all burned alive in the inferno. Another "terrorist" target had been eliminated.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14006.htm
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Israeli is preparing the battlefield
We are now in the period preceding major conventional operations. Israel is in the process of sealing the Lebanese coast. They have disrupted Lebanese telecommunications, although they have not completely collapsed the structure. Israeli aircraft are attacking Hezbollah's infrastructure and road system. In the meantime, Hezbollah, aware it is going to be hit hard, is in a use-it or-lose-it scenario, firing what projectiles it can into Israel.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14005.htm
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Wildly disproportionate attack on Lebanon seems like pretext to confront Iran
Is it really Iran that is pushing for war? Think about it. Why would Iran want to provoke a war with Israel and the U.S. - both heavily armed nuclear powers - when it has no nuclear weapons itself?
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14013.htm
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U.S. Bombs On U.S. Aircraft Flown By Israeli Kills Eight Canadians:
Eight Canadians were killed in Lebanon on Sunday, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay told CTV television
tinyurl.com/pe74j
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Want Sick Microchipped
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey want patients suffering from chronic diseases implanted with a microchip containing a code that will give emergency room staff access to their medical information. Within the next 30 days, Horizon will start sending letters to patients with chronic diseases explaining the new volunteer program
www.raidersnewsupdate.com/raidersjournal.htm
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U.S. grants Israelis a green light :
The effective U.S. green light to Israel appeared to leave the United States at odds with most of its allies
www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/16/news/policy.php
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Israeli strikes are part of a broader strategy :
Israel, with U.S. support, intends to resist calls for a cease-fire and continue a longer-term strategy of punishing Hezbollah, which is likely to include several weeks of precision bombing in Lebanon, according to senior Israeli and U.S. officials.
msnbc.msn.com/id/13884768/
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Lebanese villagers ordered out:
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said the move was aimed at forcing an exodus of tens of thousands of civilians in order to put pressure on the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah militia.
www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19814098-23109,00.html
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Lebanon blames US for UN silence:
Lebanon has accused the United States of blocking a Security Council statement calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, and said the impotence of the UN's most powerful body sent wrong signals to small countries.
tinyurl.com/lgobt
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UN is a US puppet, Syria charges :
The United Nations is a "puppet" of the US administration, a Syrian state newspaper said Friday, blasting the Security Council for failing to take any action on Israel's deadly military assaults on Gaza and Lebanon.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp
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2,000 Israelis hold anti-war demo in Tel Aviv:
Around 2,000 people marched in Israel's commercial capital of Tel Aviv on Sunday to demand an end to the punishing offensive against Lebanon that has left some 150 dead, organisers said.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp
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Anti-Americanism made in US :
Following a trend of voting at the United Nations, the US-led Western diplomacy twice recently used two UN forums to protect the military atrocities of the Israeli occupying power, in a 50-year-old pattern that has pre-empted peace, security and development in the whole Middle East region, with tragic and devastating effects on the Arab world in particular.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14010.htm
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A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm:
Is an ambitious 1996 Middle East policy paper. A Clean Break recommended toppling the government of Iraq, "rolling back" Syria and Iran, and "electrifying" support for Israel in the US Congress in exchange for new missile defense contract opportunities. Three of the eight authors have since become prominent policymakers in the U.S. government.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1438.htm
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Syria vows to defend itself if Israel attack:
Syria warned that it would respond directly and by all means necessary to any Israeli attack on its territory, in its first official reaction to Israel's offensive on neighbouring Lebanon.
tinyurl.com/oq829
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Assad pledges Syrian help for Lebanon:
Syria will put its resources at the disposal of Lebanon to help cope with Israeli attacks devastating the country, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Lebanese President Emile Lahoud by phone on Saturday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060715/wl_nm/mideast_syria_lebanon_dc_1
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Syria 'ready for anything':
Syria is bracing itself for "any eventuality" as the regime nervously eyes a relentless Israeli operation over the border in Lebanon and faces up to increasingly hostile US rhetoric.
www.dawn.com/2006/07/16/int2.htm
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Iran: President urges world community not to close eyes to Zionists aggressions:
The president warned the Zionist regime that if they do not respond to this invitation properly, they should expect a horrible destiny.
www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0607168241162731.htm
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Covering up Gaza:
The state of Israel, fearful of the truth, continues to control media coverage of its brutal occupation
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14008.htm
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"Recognize the Centrality of the Palestine Question":
Palestine is the only Arab country in which there is a free vote, and in it the Islamist party won, and the response from external powers was that the party that won should immediately scrap the policy on which it won the election and adopt the policy of the party it defeated.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14015.htm
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Iraqi PM denounces 'criminal' strikes on Lebanon and Gaza: -
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday denounced Israel's attacks on Lebanon, calling them dangerous for the entire Middle East.
www.turkishpress.com/news.asp
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You 'Axis of Evil' :
Operation Together Forward is just the latest model of the Axis of Evil gimmick. In his Rose Garden press conference last month, Mr. Bush promised that this juggernaut of crack Iraqi troops and American minders would "increase the number of checkpoints, enforce a curfew and implement a strict weapons ban across the Iraqi capital." It's been predictably downhill ever since.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14012.htm
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Iran: If Muslim world must respond, Israel will regret it: Iranian news agency
'Faras', reported that the defense minister warned against harsh outcomes in the event of an attack on Syria or continued Israeli operations in Lebanon.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3276563,00.html
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N.K. envoy rejects UNSC resolution, warns of 'strong physical action' :
North Korea's envoy to the United Nations warned Saturday his country would be forced to take "strong physical action" should it be pressured on its "self-defensive" missile launches, protesting a resolution passed unanimously by the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) condemning his government.
tinyurl.com/nzm24
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Asia going nuclear amid rising oil price:
Led by fast-growing China and India, Asia is going nuclear in a big way to feed its ravenous appetite for energy.
tinyurl.com/kh4xg
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A Former Superpower Rises Again:
Moscow's political elite has been steadily drumming a new message into the heads of its guests from around the world, a message that has already taken hold in their own country: Russia, reborn from the ashes of the Soviet Union and newly awash in oil and gas revenues running into the billions of dollars, no longer feels compelled to play second fiddle to the world's major powers.
service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,426393,00.html
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Gingrich says it's World War III:
Gingrich said Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.
tinyurl.com/pn6d2
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Foreign companies buying U.S. roads, bridges that taxpayers built:
On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.
www.startribune.com/484/story/554337.html
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Heroin injecting room wildly popular with neighbors
Nearly three-quarters of local residents and businesses support the heroin injecting center at Kings Cross, reporting a significant decrease in public drug use and rejecting the idea it encourages people to inject drugs.
www.unknownnews.org/060712-injectingroom.html
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Sites with uncensored information
www.informationclearinghouse.info/
www.legitgov.org/
www.afterdowningstreet.org/
www.rense.com/
www.wanttoknow.info/
www.tvnewslies.org/news/
www.propagandamatrix.com/index.html
www.waynemadsenreport.com/
www.rbnlive.com/
neworleans.indymedia.org/\http://www.nytimes.com/ At least recently, The New York Times has been releasing usable articles, if you sift through the BS in some
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Ed Ward, MD; www.thepriceofliberty.org/arc_ward.htm
Ind. writer/Media Liaison for The Price of Liberty; www.thepriceofliberty.org/
Editor of The Daily DrEd; neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/8148.php