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July 25, 500 gathered in front of the Holocaust Memorial on Lombard Street to show that "Baltimore Stands with Israel." Across the street, behind steel barriers erected by the Baltimore Police Department, was a group of 75, protesting Israel's bombing of Beirut, and US complicity.

A parallel or shadow government, a Cheney-Rumsfeld-Bush axis, was established..Groups, offices and departments were eliminated and ad hoc groups formed.. The NSC was developed into a kind of parallel government.

News Junkie Scott's Blog (7/27/06)

God granted us a 20/20 hindsight vision and we fail to appreciate it – that is our only fault, but God keeps re-giving the same gift over and over – (certainly sounds like pleonasm, but if God is OK with it so am I). Watch how closely we are reliving our mistakes from the most recent past – and none of us is in Hell (yet).

Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain aren't merely "hawkish"; as "Honorary Co-Chairmen" of a pre-Iraq-war spin machine called The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, they were leading cheerleaders for a war that now threatens to mushroom out of all control--unless we remove the Liebermans, McCains, and their fellow war cheerleaders from our U.S. Congress.

Local activists protest the Israeli war machine.

In a funky, eclectic white tent at Artscape across from the food court, a Baltimore art gallery presented a dozen artistic musings on how to re-think, revise, re-envision and re-use Baltimore's abandoned urban spaces.

On July 25, 2006, a spirited rally was held in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. The protesters demanded an end to Israel’s murderous attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. The rally was preceded by a march through the neighborhood, which included the protesters carrying 50 coffins draped in black. The coffins symbolized the innocent Lebanese and Palestinians, who have been slaughtered in the latest war crimes committed by Zionist Israel.

El presidente cubano Fidel Castro lidera desde las siete de la mañana la conmemoración en la oriental provincia de Granma, ganadora de la emulación nacional que se desarrolla en Cuba en homenaje a los jóvenes que en 1953 asaltaron dos fortalezas militares en esa región, para derrotar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, fecha que marca el inició de la última etapa de lucha por la independencia