*ALBERTO GONZALEZ*

Gonzales hearings: Senate to confirm defender of torture as US attorney general:
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/gonz-j07.shtml

"....As White House counsel, he helped develop a pseudo-legal rationale for preemptive war, indefinite detention of detainees and, most infamously, torture..."


Gonzalez has blood on his hands (legitgov.org):
www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5170989.html

Confirming Gonzalez means confirming torture:
207.44.245.159/article7626.htm



*THE DEMOCRATS*

Final House votes on whether to approve Bush's "election". (Elijah Cummings voted for the Dictatorship. tx Nico)
clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll007.xml




*CIVIL LIBERTIES*

Elaine Cassel--They say they can lock you up for life with no trial:
207.44.245.159/article7625.htm



*ASIAN TSUNAMI*

Islamists on Net blame US for tsunami destruction (tx Nico):
sify.com/news/fullstory.php

(So does NJS. So should everyone who's paying attention.)



*GLOBAL WARMING*

Race icebergs spotted off of New Zealand's coast (Rense):
snipurl.com/btx5




*SOCIAL SECURITY*

White House memo says pitch Social Security doom (legitgov.org):
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791950

Bush eyes plan to use bulk of payroll taxes (legitgov.org):
snipurl.com/bu5a

(if they just raised the ceiling of taxable income to $100K there would be no problems with SS for the next 40 years.)

Bush math doesn't add up (Rense):
snipurl.com/bu5d



*MILITARY DRAFT*

Oppose the draft? It is already here:
207.44.245.159/article7621.htm

US Army sergeant may refuse re-deployment in Iraq:
207.44.245.159/article7623.htm



*MILITARISM*

New Pentagon vision transforms war agenda:
globalresearch.ca/articles/GAG501A.html

"...The U.S. military is increasingly being converted into a global oil protection service..."



*SOUTH KOREA*

South Korea North Korea is telling its citizens to get ready for a long
war with the U-S.
www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp




*IRAQ: WAR EFFORT*

Army reserve breaking down, general warns (legitgov.org):
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

"The Army Reserve, whose part-time soldiers serve in combat and support roles in Iraq and Afghanistan, is so hampered by misguided Army policies and practices that it is "rapidly degenerating into a 'broken' force, " the Reserve's most senior general says..."


The Mighty US GIs: Lied to, used and losing:
uruknet.info/


(Repost.) Bush will lose in Iraq:
globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO501A.html

"...Key to all guerrilla wars: never fight the stronger invader head on, mano a mano..."


US forces breach resistance stronghold (Rense):
www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php



*IRAQ: COST*

Looting of Iraq's cultural treasures continues:
snipurl.com/bu5b



*US 2005*

Self-portrait with shackles for the year 2005:
www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml

"Only one small spot in the vast Indian Ocean basin 'seems to have received full advanced warning of the waves to come -- the ostensibly British island of Diego Garcia, which is actually a sizeable U.S. military base, a stationary 'aircraft carrier' for the war in Iraq..."



*HAITI*

Why are the impoverished Haitian people being forced to pay Ten Years Back Pay to the Brutal Military they Disbanded Ten Years Ago?:
globalresearch.ca/articles/LAU501A.html



*GARY WEB*

A Cuban perspective on Gary Webb:
www.counterpunch.org/allard01052005.html

(Remember that Webb supposedly killed himself by shooting himself in the head--TWICE.)



*GATEKEEPING*

DU's Skinner sells out (again), kissing Bush Regime A$$ over the Tsunami:
snipurl.com/btg8



*ASTRONOMY*

S is for Venus:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050107.html



*TENNIS*

The Fed Express keeps on rolling, this time in Doha:
www.atptennis.com/en/



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