*911 TRUTH*

Plague Puppy's recent annotations to his Grand Ballroom (NYC) talk:
www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Confronting%20the%20Evidence/NIST.htm

WRH--Were the core columns of the Twin Towers made of steel or jelly?
www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc1_core.html

Tova Gabrielle--The psychology of patriotic denial (thanks Liz):
tinyurl.com/3rpj8
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/101404Gabrielle/101404gabrielle.html

"...As far fetched as it may seem, this wouldn't be the first time in history a country planned or executed a major attack on its own soil and blamed foreign factions for political purposes. The Reichstag Fires, which occurred under Hitler's regime in Germany, and Operation Northwoods in the United States, under the Kennedy administration during the early sixties, are two prime examples of such planning..."



*CENSORSHIP*

21st century book-burning (thanks Liz):
207.44.245.159/article7073.htm

"...At [Lynne Cheney's] urging, the Education Department destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed to help parents and children learn more about America's past..."



*CIVIL LIBERTIES*

Elaine Cassel--Civil liberties since 9/11/01:
www.counterpunch.org/cassel10182004.html



*TORTURE*

Pentagon rewards Abu Ghraib accomplices (thanks Liz):
www.uruknet.info/

"...Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, want to promote Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez..."



*SUDAN*

How can we name the Darfur crisis? (thanks Liz):
www.blackcommentator.com/109/109_darfur.html

"Is Darfur genocide that has happened and must be punished? Or, is it genocide that could happen and must be prevented? I will argue the latter..."



*ISRAEL*

Uri Avnery--Ariel Sharon's worldview:
www.counterpunch.org/avnery10182004.html

"...A dozen small settlements will be dismantled in order to keep practically all the 250,000 West Bank settlers where they are. Israel will "concede" the Gaza Strip, which constitutes 1.3% of pre-1948 Palestine, in order to take permanent possession of the West Bank, which is 16 times larger..."

Israel destroys homes with love and wisdom (thanks Liz):
www.countercurrents.org/pa-mcgreal181004.htm

Israeli slaughter of Palestinians continues (Rense):
tinyurl.com/6w7ar
www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php




*IRAQ: WAR PROPAGANDA*

Kurt Nimmo--Zarqawi, Zarqawi, Zarqawi - an engineered excuse for killing Iraqis (thanks Liz):
www.uruknet.info/

"...Repeated protests by doctors in local hospitals that the vast majority of the casualties are civilians have been dismissed as rebel propaganda. Now the town is waiting for an imminent ground and air assault, amid fears of a bloodbath..."



*SOCIAL SECURITY*

Bush will privatize Social Security (Rense):
www.alternet.org/story/20209



*THE DEMOCRATS*

Bush or Kerry: The atrocity will continue (thanks Liz):
www.uruknet.info/

"...Can you 'imagine German candidates [campaigning] for the Chancellor of Germany competing on who participated more actively in the Holocaust', wrote the Palestinian political analyst Omar Barghouti in an open letter to the American people..."



*MILLION WORKER MARCH*

William Hughes--The March was a spirited success:
baltimore.indymedia.org/feature/display/8305/index.php

A Wobbly reports back:
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8309/index.php



*RUSSIA*

Russia slips into repression (thanks Liz):
www.countercurrents.org/russia-ramonet171004.htm



*ENVIRONMENT*

The environmental destruction of cellphones (thanks Liz):
www.countercurrents.org/en-lean181004.htm

"...Tests by both the US and the Californian environmental protection agencies have established that they should be classified as toxic waste..."



*ANIMALS*

North sea cod "may never recover" (Rense):
tinyurl.com/68gwk



*TENNIS*

A discussion about the forehand, featuring Andy Roddick's. (What, no mention of Federer?)
tinyurl.com/6n3e4


peace,
NJS

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