Hamas Government in Palestine

Hamas Hardens Campaign Rhetoric

Q&A: The Palestinian Authority's Government

Hamas Leader Sets Conditions for Truce

Israel: No Talks Until Hamas Renounces Violence

Israel Seeks World Support Over Hamas

Hamas Urges West to Keep Aid Tap Flowing

Bush Refuses to Support Hamas Government

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Coke Gets a Zero for Effort

"A viral marketing campaign launched by Coca-Cola Australia to promote its new Zero brand to the youth market has spawned a number of spin-off blogs that have cast its latest publicity spree in a less-than-flattering light":
Viral Marketing Campaign

Spoof Site

Critical Blog

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Bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer, The Bush War Economy, Google's China Web, and Buddha on the Brain

Why Not Test Bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer?:
Hard Decision

"America's role in corporate globalization will be 'security export'. We will build the weapons systems and send our children into endless war in order to protect the profits of the corporate elite. Under corporate globalization, there are places called 'the non-integrating gap' that have not yet submitted to the authority of the new world order. The job of the U.S. will be to go into the 'non-integrating gap and make sure these countries comply with the dictates of corporate globalization.":
The Bush War Economy

"Do not use Internet for any political or other unintelligent purposes.":
Google's China Web

"Davidson found that intense meditation was connected with gamma brain-waves, and wonders if the spiritual practice could help heal depression.":
Buddha on the Brain

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Diebold's Flaws, Missing Iraq Reconstruction Money, Bush's Botched Drug Plan, and Africa's Dictator

"Concerns about Diebold's systems have migrated from the conspiracy fringes to the political mainstream.":
As Elections Near, Officials Challenge Balloting Security

"Finding out what happened to Iraq's $37 billion in oil-financed reconstruction funds - its stacks of plastic-wrapped hundred-dollar bills popping up all over the country like play money - has taken investigators down many paths.":
In Search of Rebuilding Billions

Bush "is visiting disease and death on tens of millions of our elderly and ill with a botched Medicare/Medicaid drug plan that has plunged the nation's pharmacies into total chaos while driving the states even closer to bankruptcy. As you read this, millions of Americans are without medications that may be life-sustaining because of what Bush has done to 'improve' their pharmaceutical plan.":
The Latest Bush Mega-Catastrophe Is Now Pharmaceuticals

Outrage over the dictator poised to lead Africa:
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir

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America, The Land of The Ignorant

To this day, the complete and utter idiocy of the American people for electing George W. Bush as the President of the United States of America renders me awestruck. The only thing that tops this historical kick in the face, is the continued ignorance of the American people for allowing the current Administration to take more power and successfully control us with fear. While we watch the Democrats fail to stop the continuous election of neo-conservative Republicans, our freedoms are being stripped away and our world image is being tarnished beyond recognition or salvation. To all those in denial, here is our Commander In Chief's track record thus far:

Prior to becoming President:

• Ran for congress and lost.
• Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
• Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after.
• Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money.
• Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
• Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of his fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.

"Accomplishments" as President:

• Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
• Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
• Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
• Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
• First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
• First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
• First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
• After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
• Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
• In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
• Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
• Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
• Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
• Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
• Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.
• Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
• Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
• Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
• Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
• Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
• Most secretive and un-accountable presidency of any in US history.
• Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
• Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.
• Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
• Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
• Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
• First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
• First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
• Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
• Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
• Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
• Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
• First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
• All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
• His biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
• Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
• First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
• First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) .
• Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
• With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
• Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
• First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
• Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
• Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
• Failed to fulfill pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
• Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. No leads and zero suspects.
• Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
• Created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
• Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

Records and References:

• At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
• AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.
• All records of his tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to his fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
• All records of any SEC investigations into his insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
• All minutes of meetings for any public corporation served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
• Any records or minutes from meetings (or his VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.

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Bin Laden Back, Ivory Coast Civil War, Detainee Abuse, and The New Fascism

In new audiotape, Bin Laden both threatens the US and offers a kind of truce:
I'm Still Here

4 killed in Ivory Coast protests against UN:
Civil War

"Any discussion of detainee abuse in 2005 must begin with the United States, not because it is the worst violator but because it is the most influential.":
Rights Group Assails US on Handling of Terror Suspects

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.":
The New Fascism

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Iraq, continued

An Interview with Noam Chomksy:
"There Is No War On Terror"

Official US agency paints dire picture of Iraq:
"Out-of-Control"

Veteran reporter says 3,000-4,000 Iraqis killed every month:
Bush's Estimate Ridiculous

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Rethinking LSD

Psychedelic bus survives the acid test:
In Memory of Ken Kesey

The geek's wonder drug?:
LSD

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US Air Strike in Pakistan and Resulting Anti-US Sentiment

Anger in Pakistan over US air strike:
Reckless Imperialism

Zawahiri missed dinner that was bombed:
For What?

New anti-US protests rock Pakistan:
Good Job W

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Iran, continued

Russian expert says Israel likely to bomb Iran in Spring:
Significant Destabilization

Iran says not scared of Security Council, warns on oil prices:
Warning

Mideast asks Cheney for patience with Iran:
Saudi Arabia and Egypt

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Absolute Power and Impeachment

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.":
Gore Accuses Bush of Breaking Law

Bush could seize absolute control of the US government:
Absolute Power


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Samuel Alito: Confirmation Report

Tracking the Political Maelstrom

Scrutinizing Alito's Key Legal Decisions

Witnesses Are Carefully Selected

Alito's Record As a Judicial Activist

Are We Getting Borked Again?

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The Bush Beat, Lockheed Martin, and Climate Change

Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal solidify power at World Bank, Pentagon:
The Bush Beat

Meet the new interrogators:
Lockheed Martin

"Environmentalists dismissed the conference as a political stunt and warned that no technological quick fix could resolve the problem of climate change." "At a UN global warming conference in Canada last month the US declined to join an agreement signed by more than 150 countries to open talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases."
Climate Change

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In Memory - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a Baptist minister and activist who was the most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King won the Nobel Peace Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom before being assassinated in 1968. For his promotion of non-violence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. Martin Luther King Day was established in his honor.

"King was a brother, a friend, a colleague, a prophet, my hero, and just a simple human being filled with love, peace and compassion for all humankind." -Rep. John Lewis

We have a particular obligation to preserve King's "legacy of fighting for social and economic justice, a legacy of marching with the poor and the neglected, a legacy of demanding peace against senseless war." -Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin

It is important to remember King's values as our nation deals with war and the aftermath of Katrina.

Leaders Push Action In King's Memory

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Iraq, the Mother of All Budget Busters

"If Bush had come to the American people with a request to spend several hundred billion dollars and several thousand American lives in order to bring democracy to Iraq, he would have been laughed out of court."

"Americans need to ask themselves if the White House is in competent hands when a $70 billion war becomes a $2 trillion war. Bush sold his war by understating its cost by a factor of 28.57. Any financial officer anywhere in the world whose project was 2,857% over budget would instantly be fired for utter incompetence."

Thanks W

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A Nuclear Iran

Defence experts demand tightening of export regulations on potential weapon materials:
UK Cleared Nuclear Cargo to Iran

Iran set to reopen Uranium-enrichment complex:
Defying the U.N.

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The Congo Crisis, Murdered Journalists, The Bush Bombshell, and Republican Aid Cutting

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is killing 38,000 people each month:
4 Million and Counting

Journalists are killed for telling the truth:
Ultimate Censorship

Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera?:
The Bush Bombshell

The Republicans have passed a 774-page bill that will cut aid programs by $US40 billion over the next five years. "It slashes $13 billion over five years from student loan programs. It imposes an unrealistic 90 percent work participation rate on two-parent families receiving public assistance, with no allowance for workers who are ill, who must take care of a sick child or who simply can't find a thirty-five-hour-a-week job.":
Ruling Class Warriors

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The Pro-War Libertarian Quiz by Matt Welch

How far are you willing to go to win the War on Terror?

1) Should the National Security Agency or CIA have the ability to monitor domestic phone calls or e-mails without obtaining judicial approval?

2) Should the government have the ability to hold an American citizen without charge, indefinitely, without access to a lawyer, if he is believed to be part of a terrorist cell?

3) Can you imagine a situation in which the government would be justified in waterboarding an American citizen?

4) Are there American journalists who should be investigated for possible treason? Should Sedition laws be re-introduced?

5) Should the CIA be able to legally assassinate people in countries with which the U.S. is not at war?

6) Should anti-terrorism cops be given every single law-enforcement tool available in non-terrorist cases?

7) Should law enforcement be able to seize the property of a suspected (though not charged) American terrorist, and then sell it?

8) Should the U.S. military be tasked with enforcing domestic crime?

9) Should there be a national I.D. card, and should it be made available to law enforcement on demand?

10) Should a higher percentage of national security-related activities and documents be made classified, and kept from the eyes of the Congress, the courts, and the public?

Reason Online Article

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A Gestapo Administration by Paul Craig Roberts

"Caught in gratuitous and illegal spying on American citizens, the Bush administration has defended its illegal activity and set the Justice (sic) Department on the trail of the person or persons who informed the New York Times of Bush's violation of law. Note the astounding paradox: The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriot who exposed the administration's illegal behavior.

Bush has actually declared it treasonous to reveal his illegal behavior! His propagandists, who masquerade as news organizations, have taken up the line: To reveal wrong-doing by the Bush administration is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Compared to Spygate, Watergate was a kindergarten picnic. The Bush administration's lies, felonies, and illegalities have revealed it to be a criminal administration with a police state mentality and police state methods. Now Bush and his attorney general have gone the final step and declared Bush to be above the law. Bush aggressively mimics Hitler's claim that defense of the realm entitles him to ignore the rule of law.":

A Gestapo Administration

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Discussing Palestine, Israel, and Gaza

After Israel, who can run Gaza?:
Militants in Control

Mayhem in Gaza and the future of Palestine:
Warning Shots

A glossary of dispossession regarding the media's language deployed over the eviction of Gaza Strip settlers has been used to cover up discussion about the wall and Palestian hardship:
Hidden Behind Words

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Bush Family Coup, Agent Orange, Hillary Clinton and Iran, and a JFK Conspiracy Theory

The Bush Family Coup:
Mondo Washington

A chemical weapon used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War is still damaging new generations:
Agent Orange

Hillary Clinton, AIPAC and Iran:
Entrenched Hypocrisy

Cuba paid Oswald to kill Kennedy, new film says:
Another JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory

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OZ Magazine Archive

OZ, the revolutionary magazine that Richard Neville and other hippies started in Sixties London, is now available archived on the internet:

OZ Archive

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Albert Hoffman, Fix-It Plan for New Orleans, and Afghanistan?

Nearly 100, LSD's father ponders his 'Problem Child':
Albert Hoffman and LSD

This housing recovery plan would make the federal government the biggest landowner in New Orleans:
Big Government Fix-It Plan

An Afghan suicide bomber strikes during U.S. envoy visit:
Oh, Them Too...

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Iraq - The New Vietnam

The Endless Struggle:

Rebel Attacks in Iraq Kill 50, 30 at a Funeral

Iraq Facing Hurdles, U.S. General Warns

Americans Said to Meet Rebels, Exploiting Rift

Iraq's Bloodiest Day in Months Include 11 U.S. Deaths

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Abramoff and DeLay: Devil's Advocates

The infestation of Washinton:

Tremors Across Washington as Lobbyist Will Aid Inquiry

DeLay Ends Bid to Regain Post as G.O.P. Leader

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Can We Dismiss the Torture Question?

Can we dismiss the torture question? When you're the most powerful country in the world, you can get away with murder... literally:

U.S. to Seek Dismissal of Guantánamo Suits

Case Dropped Against U.S. Officer In Beating Deaths of Afghan Inmates

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New Stream of Consciousness: Alabaster Caverns

I was searching for something but I knew not what. I had exhausted my searches within my house and taken my search to the outdoors. I was accompanied by a friend, however his name escapes me. For some reason rationality had left me along with all knowledge of what I had originally been looking for.

As we took our pursuit to the nether regions of the dark night, the traversed landscape grew more foreign with every wary footstep. Neither of us spoke, yet we seemed to communicate without speech, seamlessly melding thoughts through the dense night air. As we slowly approached the horizon, my whereabouts began to transform about me. It was as if my world had lost its three-dimensionality. The farther we walked, the more my surroundings appeared to be two-dimensional and side scrolling. It was disorienting, but we continued on in absent-minded pursuit. I was determined to find out what exactly it had been that caused my desire to comb these wintry shadows. Confusion shrouding recognition, the opaque landscape about us transformed from dark to dusk, from dusk to dawn, and eventually from dawn to day. The wintry wonderland about us apprehensively lost its cold and alienating characteristics to be replaced by the warm and welcoming sun that, some how, I had managed to miss as it arose over the pregnant horizon. My feet never realized the transition from snow to sand.

What had once been dense cold was now blissful warmth, the gentle embrace of miniscule glass at my feet. Water washed over our exploring digits as we attempted to gather knowledge of our foreign surroundings. Caves had replaced snow banks, the dark shadows taking on hints of orange rather than blue, alabaster cones thrown about the mountain hidden beneath the sands. Nothing moved as abstractly as our bodies as we adorned the hillside with our god-like bodies. We only appeared flawed when juxtaposed with these heavenly sceneries.

Convinced that what we sought must be hidden away within the shadows of God’s mouths themselves, we carried onward into the soft dark of a neighboring cavern, the faint smell of fresh water drawing us nearer by the step. I was simultaneously frightened and comforted by these newly discovered hideaways. Nothing seemed obtrusive, save the tentacle-looking growths that bejeweled the glimmering sides of the cavern. Upon second glance, it became clear that they quivered in unison with our heavy breaths. The hot air escaping our gasping mouths seemed to give life to these out-of-sea oceanic creatures.

Failing to notice the breath of life he possessed, my companion continued on ahead of me. Distracted by the complexities of the creatures burrowing and pulsating in the walls, I slowly lost pace from my friend. I could hear him no more than 20 steps ahead, yet I could not convince my mind to put a burner to my feet so to speak. I was lost in a daze of astonishment. This new realm was completely foreign to any previously sought out area of existence. I brushed my sweating palms and fingertips along these sumptuous organisms, hoping to gather anything that might reveal the secret of their plight. Had they always been here? I knew not.

I rested against the hypnotic wall only to find that a thick, earthly growth jutting out perpendicularly had punctured my shoulder. A signal was shot to my brain, confusing it further with the pang that began to fill my upper torso with intense bliss coupled with nerve-shattering pain. I tore myself from the suffocating embrace of the wall to find that I had bled through my overcoat, soaking the riveted trusses of the cavernous inset. The flush of blood along my back was warm and poignant. I cared not that I was losing the same life force that seemed to breathe life upon these deceitful beasts. Lost in a world of misinformed orientation and entangled corruption, I pulled away with every last breath of volition to hear my friend moaning about 40 yards ahead of me, deeper within the engulfing mouth of God or Satan, neither of us knew which.

No matter what side this beast belonged to, it was otherworldly by all accounts. I could not travel faster than a brief jog due to the intense pain in my left shoulder. Regardless, I managed to reach my friend before he placed his hand upon the crude-looking door set asymmetrically in the noreaster wall of the butt of the cavern. In a look of pure agony, he reached out to me in mind alone, begging the question of molested invasion. What had possessed my otherwise conscientious companion? Again I knew not.

I had been equally abused by these angry walls, however different it appeared that mine be physical and his mental… What is the mind but a construct of physical processes? Apparently his were suspect. I regained complete control over the majority of my body, save the small fraction that was my left arm, injured by these horrifying atrocities buried deep within earth’s bosom. Understanding full well that my friend was beyond hope, doomed to desire that which is undesirable, I came down on him hard with my good arm, bringing true darkness to his ogling eyes. I sat upon a smooth root, left crystallized from aeons of dripping earthen secretions. I was forced into thought once again, tearing myself away from this choking environment that seemed to have already taken hostage my innocent companion.

The depth to which we had traveled appeared too great to drag the lifeless body at my feet, but the poorly sealed door in front of us seemed an even greater risk. The decision obviously being mine, I chose the door. Drawing in a last breath of anticipation, my lungs were flooded with air faintly reminiscent of sewage. It was as if the air had taken on the physical characteristic of human waste. Hastened to explore any further, the door was thrust open with a gust of wind stronger than I could have expected. With the opening of the door came complete and blinding light. The white was so vast that even the edges of reason seemed to continue on indefinitely. I was instantaneously reminded of the limitless equations derived in my early education of calculus. As the light grew brighter, my awareness grew dim, accepting the fate that was inescapable. For what seemed like hours, I squirmed about unable to grasp even a single attribute of my surroundings. The hours faded with my mind as I slowly began to welcome damnation.

We had pretentiously expected to discover earth’s secret, exploring deep within the heart of her subtleties, only to find her curses come to fruition. I noticed the blinding white slowly become a hazy black, and then the black faded into sleepy-eyed sight. Clearing whatever was left in the crevices of my sockets, I took in a lifetime’s realizations in a split second, none of which proved to be understandable. All I could see was my friend, his hand gently placed on the door we had previously opened. Only this time he was crystallized in the same manner as the root on which I had sat not too long before. I too felt as if crystallized; unfortunately I could not look about. Wherever I was, my friend loomed above me, floating in mid air no more than three feet my senior.

More of my writings can be found at my lit profile:

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Series: The Cost of Gold

"The articles in this series examine gold mining around the world.":

Part 1: Behind Gold's Glitter - Torn Lands and Pointed Questions
30 Tons an Ounce


Part 2: Tangled Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine
Treasure of Yanacocha


Part 3: Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste
The Hidden Payroll


Part 4: Drier, Tainted Nevada May Be Legacy of Gold Rush
Water Worries

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2005 in Cartoons

"Political cartoonists cast an eye back on 2005":

Mike Luckovich:





Mike Peters:




Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonists

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Cheney's Imperial Presidency and the 2005 U.S. Death Toll in Iraq

"George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.":

Cheney's Imperial Presidency

The year end U.S. death toll in Iraq:

844 in 2005

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Munich

Munich is inspired by the events that took place after the terrorist group Black September took 11 Israeli Olympic athletes hostage in what has now been deemed the 1972 Munich Massacre. The film follows the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the massacre. As the mission of revenge unfolds, the squad learns quickly the impossibility of shedding all humanity while assassinating men with families not too unlike their own. The film adequately depicts the violence of the murders and it becomes hard to hold onto a personal sense of "patriotism" in the name of revenge. The obvious lesson learned by the time it is all over is that war and murder are not solutions to a problem severely clouded with complexities on both sides. More than 30 years later we are seeing that truth unwind before our eyes in the Middle East. When will the senseless killings stop? When will both sides realize that land is just land and that to survive we must live upon it together in harmony? When will we stop killing in the name of an Invisible Ghost? No one knows what happens after death - let's stop speeding up the search.

For more information go to the following links:

Time Magazine: When the Terror Began
Info Please: Munich Massacre - The Worst Tragedy in Modern Olympic History"
Special Operations: Countering Terrorism - The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre
St. Petersburg Times Online: Terrorists Turn '72 Munich Olympics Into Bloodbath

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