*911 TRUTH: WTC7*

Plague Puppy--Nails in the coffin of WTC 7:
www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Flashes/squibs_along_southwest_corner.htm

(how obvious can it get that WTC7's collapse was due to controlled demolition?)



*INAUGURATION/CORONATION*

Inaugural security will stretch from sky to underground (legitgov.org):
snipurl.com/bz9e

(whom among us will go there and spread 911 Truth?)



*BUSH DICTATORSHIP*

Former Bush aide eyed for State job:
snipurl.com/byol

"The man who insisted that President Bush make the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa is poised to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea, according to administration officials..."

Arab intellectual alleges report coverup:
snipurl.com/bz8x

Tom Ridge wants to see fingerprints on passports:
snipurl.com/byvx



*HOMELAND SECURITY: CHERTOFF*

Doug Ireland--Chertoff's dirty secrets (Rense):
direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/01/mike_chertoffs_.html

"...He was John Ashcroft’s honcho in the indiscriminate grilling of over 5000 Arab-Americans after 9/11, cooked up the use of “material witness” warrants to lock up people of Middle Eastern descent and hold them indefinitely without trial, and on behalf of the Justice Department wrote a brief (in Chavez v. Martinez) arguing there was no Constitutional right to be free of coercive police questioning..."

Homeland Security by the Colors (Rense):
batr.org/wrack/011305.html



*PRIVACY*

Don Nash--Gulag Bushwald
www.unknownnews.org/050111a-dn.html



*SOCIETY/BARBARISM*

The neurobiology of mass delusion (tx Jeffrey):
www.energybulletin.net/newswire/php



*MAINSTREAM MEDIA*

Journalist took $240,000 to push Bush education program
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/will-j13.shtml

Remembering Gary Webb: The corporate media is the enemy:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/307970.shtml

The conservative marketing machine:
www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20946/



*GUANTANAMO BAY*

The Normalization of Horror, how the Guantanamo concentration is a permanent addition to the US:
snipurl.com/byv3



*SYRIA*

US mulls strikes on Syria (legitgov.org):
www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050111-105709-6329r.htm

(why not? We haven't attacked them yet.)


US demands that Russia cancel proposed missile sale to Syria:
snipurl.com/bywf



*ISRAEL*

Israel to demolish 3,000 more Palestinian homes (Rense):
www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-01/11/article03.shtml

Israel wants US taxpayers to pay $450 million for more checkpoints:
snipurl.com/byog



*ASIAN TSUNAMI*

US raising questions over tsunami aid:
snipurl.com/byw3

"The White House on Wednesday asked the Indonesian government to explain why it appears to be demanding that the U.S. military and other foreign troops helping with the tsunami relief effort leave the country by the end of March..."

Indonesia sets deadline for foreign troops:
snipurl.com/byw6



*IRAQ: DEATH SQUADS*

The "Salvador option"/
Pentagon plans death squad terror in Iraq
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/salv-j13.shtml

"Faced with intractable and growing armed resistance in Iraq, the Pentagon has drafted plans for the organization of death squads to assassinate political opponents of the US military occupation and terrorize the civilian population..."



*IRAQ: FALLUJAH*

Fallujah: Orwell's 1984 Revisited:
www.coastalpost.com/05/01/18.htm



*IRAQ: TORTURE*

US doctors tied to torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/tort-j13.shtml


Torture defendant's lawyer compares involuntary psychological torture of Iraqis with cheerleading:
tinyurl.com/3vcrx



*IRAQ: THE VATICAN*

The Vatican wants US to finish the job in Iraq:
snipurl.com/byuw

(!?)



*GLOBALIZATION*

How free is "free trade"?
www.countercurrents.org/gl-hassan120104.htm

"...So far, free trade operates in such a way as to allow the US to reap the profits of markets of the countries they have an agreement with, while effectively blocking their own markets for non-American products..."



*CELL PHONES*

Mobile phones tumor risk for children (tx Jeffrey):
www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-1436543-2,00.html



*FACTORY FARMING*

Devinder Sharma--Tsunamis, Mangroves and the Market Economy:
www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Sharma0111.htm



*CINEMA*

Why this dishonest portrait of a despicable figure?
The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/avia-j13.shtml



*TENNIS*

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

Hewitt marches on:
www.atptennis.com/en/

(Hewitt is one of the very few people in the world capable of beating Fed at the AO.)



*ASTRONOMY*

Can a 'distant' quasar lie in a nearby galaxy? (tx Jeffrey):
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcquasar.asp

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050112.html



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