*AL CIA-DUH*

Is Al Qaeda just a Bush boogeyman (tx Nico):
snipurl.com/bxnm

"...now let's bet within how many hours the CIA will produce a new "bin laden audio/video" or someone plants a car bomb in Iraq....(Nico)"


(Repost.) The Power of Nightmares, Part III:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm


CIA man says let Osama bin Laden stay free:
snipurl.com/bycf



*HOMELAND SECURITY: CHERTOFF*

NY Times--Bush chooses Chertoff to head Homeland Security (legitgov.org):
www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/politics/11cnd-cabi.html

Elaine Cassel--Chertoff is Ashcroft's top Gremlin (legitgov.org):
www.counterpunch.org/cassel06112003.html

"...Chertoff's goal, I believe, and the goal of Ashcroft and Bush in supporting this prosecution in federal court, is to subject federal trials, as they see fit, to ad hoc exemptions of whatever laws (be they constitutional, criminal code, or rules of procedure) that will suit their purposes. Their grand scheme is to ultimately cripple and dismantle the federal courts as we know them, one brick at a time..."


Chertoff is Kerik without the sex (Rense):
www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/001326.html

"...In the days after 9/11, Chertoff -- as head of the criminal division under John Ashcroft -- was architect of some of the most regrettable policies of Bush I..."



*GOVERNMENT PSYOPS: DEMOCRACY NOW*

Democracy Now (1/11/05) airs program with FAIR rep claiming US government is engaging in Psyops campaign; i.e., ""The Government Is Running a Domestic Propaganda Operation Secretly Targeting The American People".
www.DemocracyNow.org


(Repost.) 'Democracy Now' Propaganda for Electoral Fraud and Fallujah Massacre:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/303212.shtml



*MAINSTREAM MEDIA*

CBS purges producer, executives for anti-Bush broadcast
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/cbs-j12.shtml



*THE DOLLAR*

America's external debt and the decline of the US dollar:
globalresearch.ca/articles/FRA501A.html



*ISRAEL*

Palestinian election: a travesty of democracy
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/abba-j12.shtml

"...There was, however, very little that was democratic about the election. It was held at gunpoint under Israeli military control, with Washington placing enormous pressure on the Palestinians to ratify the elevation of its favored PLO official..."

Palestinians ask for the right to govern themselves:
snipurl.com/bwpw



*AFGHANISTAN*

Cocaine now cheaperr than a cappuccino in Afghanistan:
snipurl.com/byc9



*GUANTANAMO BAY*

1,000 Days of Hell:
news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp

"...His terrified wife and three children looked on helplessly as Mr Begg was taken away in the middle of the night, transported to Bagram air base near Kabul before being flown to the infamous prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba..."



*IRAQ: TORTURE*

charles Graner's lawyer defends the practice of using leashes on prisoners; also making them stack up a pile (while naked, in the middle of the night):
snipurl.com/bycb

Iraqi victim says US torture is worse than Saddam's:
www.rense.com/general61/eevn.htm

"A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison forced by U.S. guards to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men said on Tuesday even Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not do such things..."



*IRAQ: 'ELECTIONS'*

Allawi admits parts of Iraq may be too dangerous to vote for the upcoming "election":
snipurl.com/bxy4



*IRAQ: WAR CRIMES*

US military "mistake" claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/iraq-j12.shtml



*GLOBAL WARMING*

An iceberg is about to ram into a glacier. Get ready for demolition derby (Rense):
snipurl.com/bycd



*CORPORATE POWER*

US bankruptcy judge terminates contract of US Airways workers
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/air-j12.shtml



*CORPORATE HISTORY*

(Online book.) Wall Street and the rise of Hitler:
www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html



*BUSH'S WIRE*

Alexander Cockburn on Bush's possible heart condition:
www.freepress.org/columns/display/2/2005/1039



*ASTRONOMY*

Black holes deform space and time around them:
snipurl.com/bxni

Machholz Meets the Pleiades
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050111.html



*TENNIS*

Australian Open coming, January 17 - 30, 2005. Will Federer and Justine-Henin repeat?
www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html



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