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"If Saddam Hussein indicates that he has weapons of mass destruction and that he is violating United Nations resolutions, then we will know that Saddam Hussein again deceived the world. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world." --White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer

"This is the worst president [sic] ever... He [GW Bush] is the worst president [sic] in all of American history." --Helen Thomas (cached link to story)

"Bush himself is the most incompetent and dangerous President [sic] in living memory." --Prominent opposition Labor MP in Australia, Mark Latham, telling parliament the world could not trust the American dictator. Link

"The nakedness of the power grab [in Iraq] is indeed an extension of the naked grab for power that has characterized the Bush regime since the original coup in 2000. The new W-ar of imperialism calls for a new resolve of resistance." --Michael Rectenwald, Pittsburgh, March 30, 2003 speech

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US Forces Make Iraqis Strip and Walk Naked in Public On 25 April 2003, the newspaper Dagbladet (Norway) published photos of armed US soldiers forcing Iraqi men to walk naked through a park. On the chests of the men had been scrawled an Arabic phrase that translates as "Ali Baba - Thief." A military officer states that the men are thieves, and that this technique will be used again.

Photo by Tomm W. Christiansen

Iraq: Stripped naked and humiliated by US soldiers (Amnesty International Press Release) "Amnesty International expressed concern today at the disturbing article and images portrayed in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet which show American soldiers escorting naked Iraqi men through a park in Baghdad. The pictures reveal that someone has written the words 'Ali Baba - Haram(i)' (which means Ali Baba - thief) in Arabic on the prisoners' chests."

Bush hints Iraq has destroyed chemical, biological weapons Dictator Bush today raised the possibility that Saddam Hussein's government destroyed the prohibited chemical and biological weapons that were the justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

How U.S. soldiers helped themselves to found cash and got caught The word went out: Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash were left behind in bricked-up buildings inside one of fallen President Saddam Hussein's palace compounds. Before long, U.S. officers said, a half-dozen U.S. soldiers had stashed away $12.3 million in two separate capers.

McCain: N.Korea Bigger Threat Than Iraq North Korea's atomic weapons stash is a bigger threat to America than was pre-war Iraq, said Sen. John McCain said Friday.

Bush, master of the snub An expert at bullying his way through, he has now perfected his use of another tool for punishing those who stand in his way --Nearly two and a half years after taking office, US Dictator George W. Bush has mastered not just the 'bully pulpit' of the White House, but also its quieter cousin, the snub.

Protesters pay Sup. Tony Hall tries to create new fines for civil disobedience (CA) Despite admonitions from activist groups that reining in protesters could result in violations of First Amendment rights, Sup. Tony Hall has mounted a frontal assault aimed at curtailing acts of civil disobedience and holding protesters responsible for costs associated with their activities.

Monster backpedals on listings purge (April 25) Monster.com, the popular career Web site, has partially backed away from a decision to limit which nations could be listed on résumés and job postings. Citing a desire to comply with federal laws, Monster this week deleted some references to seven federally sanctioned countries from job listings and resumes. Iran, Syria, Sudan, Myanmar, Cuba, Libya and North Korea are on the list.

Monster.com's resume purge draws fire (April 23) Job-hunters at Monster.com who happened to go to school in Syria or Iran may be in for an unpleasant surprise on Thursday. Monster pointed to a federal list of sanctioned countries that restricts U.S. companies from engaging in certain business activities.

Forest Service Blocks E-Mail Comments In a move criticized by both environmentalists and business groups, the U.S. Forest Service is rejecting public comments on proposed rule changes when they come from certain e-mail servers or on preprinted post cards.

Dean Calls for Santorum to Leave Post Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Wednesday called for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum to resign his leadership post after the lawmaker compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.

White Quits as U.S. Army Secretary The civilian who oversees the U.S. Army, Thomas White, has submitted his resignation, the Defense Department said on Friday, after controversy over his role in the failed energy trader Enron Corp. and support for an artillery system killed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Interior Gets Break in Trust Fund Case Judges Halt Work of Special Master --A long-running battle between a federal judge and the Interior and Justice departments went before a federal appeals panel yesterday, as government lawyers sought the reversal of fraud and contempt rulings in the Indian trust fund case against Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton.

Bush: Harming a Fetus Should Be Fed Crime The White House urged Congress on Friday to pass a law making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an assault on its mother, a subject currently in the news in connection with a California murder case.

Out of Touch You press the screen. The machine tells you that your vote has been counted. But how can you be sure? --by Wyatt Olson "...exit polling by media outlets -- which is one of the few methods available to detect ballot-box anomalies -- is waning. The nation's switchover to touch-screen computers will likely speed up as billions of dollars authorized by Congress become available for the new technology."

Laws Not Up to SARS Epidemic Quarantining the Infected and the Exposed May Trample Civil Liberties --With the spread of the highly contagious SARS virus from Asia to Toronto, federal officials here say this nation's patchwork of public health laws, many 100 years old and possibly unconstitutional, has left the United States ill-prepared to handle a major epidemic.

Bush briefed on SARS outbreak The White House said Friday that Dictator George W. Bush was receiving routine briefings on the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, from government and scientific experts. [And, after the words "acute" "respiratory" and "syndrome" were explained to him, the briefing went on as planned. --Lori Price]

4,000 Quarantined in Beijing as Suspected SARS Cases Climb At least 4,000 Beijing residents with exposure to a contagious respiratory disease are being kept in isolation, often in their own homes, health authorities said today, and a second major hospital was put under total quarantine, with virtually no one allowed to enter or leave.

Bush: Iraq may have destroyed arms US dictator George W. Bush nearly declared the war in Iraq over, and for the first time suggested Baghdad may have destroyed the banned arms at the core of his argument for military action. [Hello, McFly? Didn't the Idiot Usurping Dictatorial Weasel wage W-ar on Iraq because Saddam Hussein allegedly *refused* to destroy the WMD??]

Banned weapons may never be found in Iraq: Bush U.S. Dictator George W. Bush has hinted that chemical and biological weapons might not be found in Iraq, saying the arsenal could have been destroyed or moved out of the country.

Britain: Blair under pressure over failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Every day that has passed since United States and British forces seized control of Iraq has left the claims that war was waged in order to eliminate the threat from weapons of mass destruction looking more threadbare.

Bush Aims to Say Military Part of War Over Next Week, Aides Say Dictator George W. Bush intends to use a speech aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier next week to declare that the military phase of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq has come to an end, two regime officials said.

Muslim Clerics Call for Unity - and an Islamic State - in Iraq Hundreds of white-clad worshippers sat cross-legged on a boulevard in this war-shattered city Friday and listened to a cleric's exhortation: Iraqis must unite to create an Islamic state.

Rumsfeld says U.S. expects democracy, not theocracy, in Iraq The United States expects an eventual government of Iraq to be a democracy where the rights of minorities are guaranteed, not a theocracy run by clerics such as in neighboring Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.

Powell defends attack on Baghdad hotel American secretary of state Colin Powell has written to Spain's foreign minister defending the decision by US troops to open fire on a hotel in Baghdad used as a base for foreign journalists.

Troops Net Aziz, Iraqi Cleric Blasts U.S. 'Tyranny' American forces have netted a former Iraqi top spy hours after capturing Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's best-known apologist, but a senior Muslim cleric likened the U.S. presence in Iraq to Saddam's tyranny.

Tariq Aziz gives himself up to US Iraq's former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has surrendered to US forces in Baghdad, it was reported last night. He is the highest-profile member of the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein to have fallen into Washington's hands.

Iraqi deputy prime minister surrenders to U.S. Tariq Aziz, perhaps the best-known Iraqi official after Saddam Hussein, has surrendered to U.S. authorities in Baghdad, U.S. Central Command confirmed late Thursday.

Iraq's Aziz Held, New Government Coming in Baghdad The United States said on Thursday Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, the internationally best-known face of Saddam Hussein's toppled inner circle, has surrendered to U.S. forces and the process of setting up a new government in Baghdad will start next week.

Don't Go Up Against U.S., UK's Straw Tells France British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned France on Thursday against trying to rival the United States and said he understood anger in Washington at French opposition to the war in Iraq.

Bush: Chirac Not Coming to Ranch Any Time Soon Dictator Bush, miffed over France's opposition to the Iraq war, said on Thursday French President Jacques Chirac should not expect an invitation to his Texas ranch any time soon.

Blair's secret war meetings with Clinton Poodle Tony Blair took repeated secret advice from the former American president Bill Clinton on how to unlock the diplomatic impasse between Europe and the US in the build-up to the war on Iraq, the Guardian can reveal.

MSNBC's Banfield: Media filtered realities of war War's sobering realities never reached American TV screens during the recent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, according to NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield.

BBC Chief Attacks U.S. Media War Coverage U.S. broadcasters' coverage of the Iraq war was so unquestioningly patriotic and so lacking in impartiality that it threatened the credibility of America's electronic media, the head of the BBC said on Thursday.

[George] Galloway's a crook - how convenient These dramatic revelations come just when Britain needs an outspoken voice of dissent more than ever --by Scott Ritter "Having been on the receiving end of smear campaigns designed to assassinate the character of someone in opposition to the powers that be, I have grown highly suspicious of dramatic revelations conveniently timed to silence a vocal voice of dissent."

Reason for War? To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush dictatorship argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war — a global show of American power and democracy.

The Busher of Baghdad Liberating Iraq by Caesarean section --by Alan Bisbort "More than 170,000 priceless items have been stolen, some dating back 9,000 years to the origins of Mesopotamia... Iraq's Oil Ministry, of course, was ringed by American troops and not a single paper clip was disturbed there. To the victors go the spoils, er, oils. Bush can now reward his corporate cronies -- including his father, who lends his eminence to the Carlyle Group -- with rebuilding contracts."

Gulf troops face tests for cancer (UK) Soldiers returning from the Gulf will be offered tests to check levels of depleted uranium in their bodies to assess whether they are in danger of suffering kidney damage and lung cancer as a result of exposure, the Ministry of Defence said last night.

Gingrich accused of idiocy, McCarthyism for criticism of State Department Former congressman Newt Gingrich, already under fire for his scathing attack on the US State Department this week, was pilloried anew in two separate, withering dressings down.

Turner Calls Rival Media Mogul Murdoch 'Warmonger' Ted Turner said on Thursday too few people owned too many media organizations and called rival media baron Rupert Murdoch a warmonger for what he said was Murdoch's promotion of the U.S. war in Iraq.

Playing Card Deck Shows Way to U.S. Regime Change In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive" destruction of Iraq, her people, and her culture, the Trade Regulation Organization is issuing a "55 most wanted" playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in Iraq.

Dixie Chicks' nude protest The three women of country music band the Dixie Chicks appear nude on the cover of a weekly showbiz magazine in a defiant answer to a backlash over their opposition to the war in Iraq.

The Dixie Chicks, Emily Robison, left, Natalie Maines, center, and Martie Maguire, are featured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.

Dixie sluts fight on with naked defiance They have been called Saddam's Angels and the Dixie Sluts, traitors and big mouths, all because they made a disparaging remark about Dictator Bush at a concert in London last month. Now the Texas-based Dixie Chicks are fighting back. They have posed for the cover of next week's Entertainment Weekly cheerfully wearing nothing but the epithets they have attracted and vowing to continue to speak their minds.

North Korea threatens to demonstrate its nukes North Korea has made the stunning admission that it already has nuclear weapons and could make a "physical demonstration" of them, the United States said yesterday.

North Korea pushing ahead with "deterrence," says forces battle-ready North Korea said Friday that it was pushing ahead building military "deterrence" a day after US sources said the North Korean government had admitted it possessed nuclear weapons.

North Korea threatens test explosion of nuclear weapons North Korea has used this week's evidently stormy talks with the US to assert what Washington has long assumed – that the reclusive Communist state already has nuclear weapons.

U.S. 'Miss' Hits Afghan Civilians An American warplane mistakenly bombed a house, killing 11 civilians near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

Afghan security deteriorates as Taliban regroup (Jane's) After a winter punctuated by scattered attacks, March and April saw the closest to a co-ordinated offensive the anti-Kabul opposition has yet achieved. This left no doubt that the predominantly Pashtun forces aligned against the western-backed government of President Hamid

Two US soldiers killed, several wounded in Afghan clash Two US soldiers were killed and several other US and Afghan soldiers were wounded in a clash with unknown attackers in southeast Afghanistan, the US military said.

Afghan firefight kills 2 U.S. soldiers A firefight near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan's Paktika province killed two U.S. soldiers Friday and wounded several others, including at least one Afghan soldier, U.S. Central Command said.

DARPA-Developed Device Bridges Language Divides (DoD) Non-linguist U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have been able to communicate with local citizens by using a paperback-book-sized device called the phraselator.

While senator, Wellstone got at least 6 death threats Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., received at least a half-dozen death threats from anonymous callers during his 12 years in the Senate, according to FBI records made public Wednesday.

Bush Praises Santorum As 'Inclusive Man' The White House said GOP Sen. Rick Santorum is doing a good job as party leader and is "an inclusive man," despite his controversial remarks on homosexuality.

A Republican Group Demands That Senator Apologize to Gays A Republican group whose officials include former President Gerald R. Ford and Mary Cheney, the daughter of the vice president, demanded today that Senator Rick Santorum apologize to gays for his remarks equating homosexuality with bigamy and incest.

House Ethics Committee: Black leader blasts Lindner Remarks by Rep. Arlon Lindner last month about AIDS and Africa, the Holocaust and homosexuals may have been outrageous but don't merit punishment, a four-member House panel voted Thursday. The 2-2 Ethics Committee vote, which split along party lines, effectively kills House Democrats' complaint against Lindner. At issue were remarks that Lindner, a six-term Corcoran [Nazi] Republican, made to the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune and on the House floor in March, questioning whether gay people were victims of the Holocaust. On the House floor, he also warned that if the state did not adopt his bill stripping gay people of specific human rights protections, America could become "another African continent."

Democrat calls for release of redistricting maps The controversy over U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's efforts to push the state House into congressional redistricting re-emerged last week after U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas, obtained a copy of a map that likely would eliminate five Democratic congressmen.

Voting machine maker hires top Albany lobbyist With New York poised to spend $150 million to replace all of its voting machines, a leading manufacturer has hired a lobbyist with deep ties to the [GOP] Pataki administration, records show.

I.R.S. to Ask Working Poor for Proof on Tax Credits The Internal Revenue Service is planning to ask more than four million of the working poor who now claim a special tax credit to provide the most exhaustive proof of eligibility ever demanded of any class of taxpayers.

American Airlines CEO Donald Carty resigns American Airlines chairman and chief executive Donald J. Carty resigned today as the carrier struggled to conclude cost-cutting deals with labor unions and avoid bankruptcy.

The Bush Administration's Anti-Environmental Actions As Commented On By America's Editorial Pages --March 2001 - April 2003 "Despite the recent decision by President [sic] Bush's Environmental Protection Agency to restrict diesel emissions from off-road vehicles -- and does anybody think, in an administration that calculates everything to the nth degree, that the pre-Earth Day timing wasn't planned? -- the president [sic] has compiled a lengthy record of actions that could only be described as inimical to environmental protection."

Shell Goes into Shell over its Promises The oil giant Shell is failing to protect communities living around its installations, says a new report from Friends of the Earth. Emissions from Shell oil refineries and depots are behind high incidence of cancer, asthma and skin conditions, according to environmental activists.

Pull the Plug --by Bob Herbert "It is time to pull the plug on the death penalty in the United States. Shut it down. It is never going to work properly. There are too many passions and prejudices involved (and far too many incompetent lawyers, prosecutors, judges and jurors) for it to ever be administered with any consistent degree of fairness and justice."

Gag order for EMS crews on suspected SARS calls (HI) The state Department of Health (DOH) issued an SARS update Tuesday instructing emergency medical service personnel not to communicate possible SARS cases over medicom radios.

Strong Steps Taken Against SARS The French government has ordered immediate hospitalisation of anyone showing SARS symptoms even though the condition is not considered a major health risk within France.

Liberation animation by Eric Blumrich *warning: graphic images within animation

US back in nuclear bomb-making business The United States says it has regained the capability to make nuclear weapons for the first time in 14 years and has resumed production of plutonium parts for bombs.

U.S. restarts production of plutonium parts for bombs The United States has regained the capability to make nuclear weapons for the first time in 14 years and has restarted production of plutonium parts for bombs, the Energy Department said Tuesday.

Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes The United States' arsenal of 10,000 nuclear weapons isn't enough. The country needs more bombs, and the place to make them is the scandal-plagued Los Alamos National Laboratory.

N Korea talks over: Powell US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that three-way talks between North Korea, China and the United States had ended a day earlier than expected and warned Pyongyang that Washington would not respond to threats.

U.S., North Korea End Nuclear Talks in Beijing North Korea and the United States ended talks in Beijing on issues including North Korea's nuclear programs on Thursday, one day earlier than originally planned, Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

N Korea warns of war 'at any moment' Important talks between North Korea and the United States are continuing in Beijing, with Pyongyang warning that war could break out at any point.

N. Korea: U.S. Leading Region Toward War North Korea accused the United States of leading the region toward war Thursday in an apparent attempt by the nation to increase pressure on negotiators holding a second day of talks on its nuclear programs.

Russian official predicts 'catastrophic' events A top Russian Foreign Ministry official was quoted as saying yesterday in Tokyo that a "catastrophic" development of events in the US-North Korean nuclear standoff was imminent and could occur within the next day.

Annan says coalition [US-UK invasion forces] is an 'occupying power' The United States has reacted angrily to comments today by Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, that the coalition in Iraq is an "occupying power" and must respect international law. Last week, Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks, the deputy operations director at US Central Command, said that the United States did not consider itself an occupying power in Iraq, instead seeing the coalition as a "liberating force" - a classification that does not exist in the Geneva or Hague Conventions.

U.S. Warns Iraqis Against Claiming Authority in Void The American military moved today to strip Baghdad's self-appointed administrator of his authority and warned Iraqi factions not to take advantage of the confusion and the political void in the country by trying to grab power. [The American military is warning *Iraqis* (in their *own country*) not to 'grab power', after the United States (a foreign power) carried out the ultimate 'power grab' in Iraq an illegal invasion and occupation!]

US recruits Ba'athist police and functionaries for new Iraqi state The Bush regime intends to enforce the US occupation of the country with substantial elements of Saddam Hussein’s repressive apparatus.

U.S. Comes Up Empty in Iraq Weapons Hunt American forces are changing their search strategy after coming up empty at most of the top suspected weapons sites in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.

US Biological Weapon Sales To Iraq -- Transcript Wednesday, 23 October 2002, 2:50 pm Press Release: Gulf War Veterans (Transcript of Joyce Riley of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, on Art Bell, June 3, 1997) *See also… http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ )

Haliburton, Bechtel & the Spoils of War --by Dr. Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed "Haliburton and Bechtel, to name but two, have landed sizeable contracts from the fallen Babylonian cow. Dick Cheney and George Shultz (Reagan’s man) have undeniable ties with those two companies. Ahmed Chalabi, the Bush administration’s choice to lead Iraq, is a figure out of Enron itself. The Swiss have just come out with information about him that would make the Houston executives proud. How do we square this activity with the declared aim of WMD, terrorist attacks, and regional peace?"

U.S. soldiers stand guard at their post of the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, April 23, 2003. Oil flowed from Iraq's southern oilfields for the first time since the country was invaded by U.S.-led forces last month, a U.S. military spokesman said. (Petr Josek/Reuters)

Families told: Don't send flea collars to troops Good intentions aside, the Pentagon is once again warning family members not to send U.S. troops in the Gulf flea and tick collars designed for pets.

F.B.I. Opens Inquiry Into Seizure of Documents From Associated Press The F.B.I. has opened an internal ethics investigation to determine whether its agents abused their authority by secretly seizing from a news organization documents on international terrorism, officials said today. An Associated Press reporter in the Philippines sent an unclassified F.B.I. document to another A.P. reporter in Washington last September as part of research for an article, but the package never arrived. FedEx originally said the parcel might have fallen off its delivery van. [LOL!] But the F.B.I., in an April 3 letter released today, acknowledged that its agents had confiscated the package.

Habla usted Clear Channel? If the FCC allows the two biggest Spanish-language media companies in the U.S. to merge, it'll create a media conglomerate that will dwarf all competitors -- and could help GOP-friendly radio titan Clear Channel deliver Hispanic votes for Bush in '04. (*Salon.com 'Premium' article)

The press and freedom: some disturbing trends --by Bob Edwards "Good Evening, and thank you for being here tonight. A pleasure to be embedded with you this evening... Now why are the tough questions not being asked? Do journalists wearing their flag lapel pins on TV not want to appear unpatriotic in time of war? The answer is yes."

Fired --by Henry Norr "Almost four weeks after suspending me for participating in an antiwar demonstration, the San Francisco Chronicle this week officially fired me from my job as a technology reporter and columnist. I consider this punishment a violation of my rights as a citizen and as an employee, and I intend to fight it with all the means available to me." [Quick action! Tell the San Francisco Chronicle what you think of this illegal firing!(415) 777-1111; letters to the editor intended for publication go to letters@sfchronicle.com; Phil Bronstein, editor pbronstein@sfchronicle.com;Robert Rosenthal, managing editor, mailto:rrosenthaul@sfchronicle.com;feedback, chronfeedback@sfchronicle.com]

25 protesters arrested at Lockheed Police today arrested about 25 demonstrators protesting Lockheed Martin Space Systems for its alleged creation of weapons of mass destruction.

Amnesty International renews local call for torture probe Amnesty International's Norwegian unit is asking local authorities to investigate claims that the US is torturing prisoners of war in Cuba and Afghanistan. Some POWs are believed to have been killed.

Children held at Guantanamo Bay Children younger than 16 are being held as "enemy combatants" in the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the US military admitted yesterday, a practice human rights groups condemned as repugnant and illegal. [just like the Bush dictatorship]

ACLU Sues FBI Over Secret 'No-Fly' Air Passenger List ACLU Seeks Gov't Data on 'No-Fly' List --The American Civil Liberties Union sued the FBI and other government agencies Tuesday on behalf of two peace activists detained at an airport because their names popped up on a secret "no-fly" list.

Why a 'No Fly List' Aimed At Terrorists Delays Others There are about 300 people world-wide the U.S. considers so dangerous to civil aviation it has them on a "No Fly List." Larry Musarra, retired Coast Guard commander and father of three, isn't one of them...

Men released after videotaping incident; no charges filed Two Arab-American men who police said had suspected explosives, a collapsible baton and shotgun shells in their car when they were spotted videotaping the Ambassador Bridge were released from custody Tuesday morning. Neither man was charged with a crime.

Leave Home Without It Credit card companies cancel on Muslim New Yorkers --If you're Pakistani, or Muslim, or both, you might just find your credit cards cancelled, despite the good credit you've worked hard to build.

Mohamed Atta Worked for Elite U.S.—German Government Exchange Program For at least four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990’s terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, an elite international "exchange" program run by a little-known private organization with close ties to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

GOP Whackjob Alerts for Thurs., April 24:

Santorum defends comments on homosexuality Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday complained that his remarks about homosexuality -- under fire by gay rights groups and some Democrats -- were "taken out of context," but at the same time he defended them as an accurate reflection of the law on the matter.

Fund-raiser for GOP pleads guilty in case of child pornography Delgaudio took pictures of a 16-year-old girl --A prominent Republican fund-raiser who once said former President Bill Clinton was "a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation's young people" pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court to production of child pornography.

Jobless Claims Soared to Highest in Over a Year The number of Americans lining up for state unemployment benefits last week rose more than expected to the highest level in more than a year, the government said on Thursday in a report showing further labor market erosion.

George W. Bush's Resume –-by Kelley Kramer "I started wondering ... what would a George W. Bush resume look like exactly?"

GOP memo predicts drop in Bush poll numbers A GOP memo being sent to Republicans across the country predicts that Dictator Bush's high approval ratings will soon "drop to more realistic levels" and that some polls may show him behind Democratic rivals, but cautions that such a development should not be cause for alarm.

London Satire Pokes Fun at 'George Dubya' A British play that pokes fun at Dictator Bush and Prime Minister Poodle Tony Blair is slowly becoming a popular diversion.

Arizona Gov. Vetoes Primary Bill Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano on Friday vetoed Republican-backed legislation that would have eliminated Arizona's presidential primary.

Ill. to Maintain Death Penalty Moratorium Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday he will not lift the three-year execution ban in Illinois even if the Legislature passes bills aimed at improving the death penalty system. He said the changes don't go far enough.

Protest Targets Rowland (CT) Demonstrators Use Symbols of Recent Scandals, Inquiries --Armed with shovels, sifters and metal detectors, protesters angry about the state bid-rigging scandal and budget crisis converged in front of GOP Gov. John G. Rowland's gated mansion Tuesday to taunt him by "digging for gold."

Political tides keep turning left After 18 months under a conservative coalition government, it appears Norwegians are turning to the left. A new poll shows Labour and the Socialist Left winning enough support to form a new government.

Argentine protestors torch cars Protestors fighting their eviction from a bankrupt Argentine factory torched cars and lobbed Molotov cocktails at riot police on Monday as social tensions simmered ahead of Sunday's presidential elections.

SARS Bug Deadlier Than AIDS Says Doc A leading doctor has warned the SARS virus could be more devastating than AIDS. Dr Dixon, a fellow at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School, said if current trends continued, there could be a billion cases within 60 weeks.

China Quarantines Thousands in Beijing in Bid to Curb SARS China put into effect a sweeping quarantine today on thousands of Beijing residents who have had contact with suspected carriers of a highly infectious respiratory illness, as the government began using its huge police powers to combat a national health crisis.

SARS Fear Closes Beijing Hospital Authorities closed a major hospital Thursday and put patients and 2,000 workers under observation for the SARS virus, while across the city, anxious residents emptied grocery stores of rice, oil and frozen food in a bout of panic-buying.

China Seals Hospital Over SARS; WHO Angers Canada China sealed off a major Beijing hospital on Thursday to quarantine SARS-affected areas, and angry Canadian officials rejected the World Health Organization's warning to travelers to stay away from Toronto, now one of the epicenters of the virus.

SARS Fears Spreading Through Major Leagues Major League Baseball was left scrambling to calm fears over the spread of SARS on Wednesday after the World Health Organisation warned against unnecessary travel to Toronto.

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