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December 1, 2005

A picture worth a thousand words
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051130/480/mdcg10111301415
Photo of Naval Academy midshipmen displaying their enthusiasm as they wait
for President George Bush's arrival to deliver a speech

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=542&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
The Face of War
By Gabriele Zamparini

While millions of people all over the world were demonstrating and
organizing to stop this slaughter, the "supreme international crime" was
being prepared by the corporate media months before the invasion officially
started. And it wasn't just the FOX News and the other Murdoch's gems of
journalism. The "liberal" (sic!) media were adding their candid voice,
singing the 'liberation of the oppressed Iraqis'. So full of nobility!

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Other articles of interest

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=VAR20051130&articleId=1374
If you can't shoot the messenger, lock him up
Siddharth Varadarajan, The Hindu

President Bush's alleged threat to bomb Al Jazeera shouldn't surprise us.
Ever since the NATO attack on Yugoslavia, the U.S. has looked at the media
it can't control as the "enemy." If there were any doubts about the
authenticity of the Daily Mirror story on President George W. Bush wanting
to bomb the head offices of Al Jazeera, the British government would appear
to have cleared them up by threatening editors with prison if they publish
the text of the confidential memo from which the London tabloid sourced its
account.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=4&ItemID=9236
IMC-UC: Indymedia as Social Movement
Amy L. Dalton, ZNet

The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is not an organization
dedicated to reporting on something happening "over there." Its hundred-plus
volunteers are rooted in the very space where things are happening. And they
are telling their story as they make it.

http://www.reason.com/sullum/113005.shtml
Rocking the Bus: A Colorado woman takes a stand against arbitrary ID checks
Jacob Sullum, Reason

The first time she was asked to show identification while riding the bus to
work, Deborah Davis was so startled that she complied without thinking. But
the more she thought about it, the less sense it made. That's how Davis, a
50-year-old Colorado woman with four grown children and five grandchildren,
ended up getting dragged off the bus by federal security officers, who
handcuffed her, took her to their station, and cited her for two
misdemeanors. Davis, who is scheduled to be arraigned on December 9, is
risking 60 days in jail to show her fellow Americans that they don't need to
blindly obey every dictate imposed in the name of security.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski133.html
Wishful Thinking Promoted, Truth Jailed
Karen Kwiatkowski, LewRockwell.com

Sometimes, as in the case of Sgt Kevin Benderman, truth must be jailed.
Benderman told the truth about Iraq and about America, and he is safely
ensconced for a fifteen-month prison term. SSgt Al Lorentz spoke truth, and
he was both bad-mouthed and marginalized, as not a team player and worse.
Captain Ian Fishback tried to do the right thing; not a single West Pointer
stands up beside him, and his career may be over. Isolate, punish, pressure,
torture. It's what Truth deserves, isn't it?

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051128/adams_01.shtml
The End Of Copyright
Ernest Adams, Gamasutra

I think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of a major era in world
history. It may take fifty years, it may take a hundred, but the age of
copyright is drawing to a close. I don't know if this is a good thing or a
bad thing, but it's inevitable.

http://www.alternet.org/story/28646/
America's Debt Time Bomb
John F. Ince, AlterNet

America's exploding debt is a ticking time-bomb. No one can say for sure
what might trigger a crisis and when the bomb might explode, but this much
is for sure: America's current level of borrowing is unsustainable.

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NewsWire

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2761
Pundits Extend Middle Finger to Public: For media elite, why U.S. went to
war is a meaningless debate

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/01/embedded-time-reporter/
Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security
Forces

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12841
The booming business for psyops

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/30/right-wing-rock/
Like it or not, you're funding right-wing rock

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051130-14481700-bc-us-fbi.xml
FBI complains about newspaper article

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=445955c5b47f88f5260e4f14fbdeaff5
Zhao Ling -- Be An Independent Journalist in China at Your Own Risk

http://www.terradaily.com/news/life-05zzzzzzzzx.html
Species Take Care Of Each Other In Ecological Communities

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398
Failing ocean current raises fears of mini ice age

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article330224.ece
Environmental cost of continent's consumption: How Europe is choking
itself - and the world

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2973
New Reports Underscore Link Between Humans and Global Warming

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1519962.htm
GM crop failure a warning

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511300010
Rush Limbaugh on kidnapped peace activists: "I'm telling you, folks, there's
a part of me that likes this"

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/01/D8E7H2EG0.html
Good News: War criminal Murtha admits Army Is 'Broken, Worn Out'

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051130-123345-7097r
Bush wants to 'Vietnamize" Iraq war

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/1526201
Is the US training Iraqi death squads?

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8194
The unpopular in pursuit of the unwinnable

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1201-06.htm
Flight logs reveal hundreds of CIA flights to Europe

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