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TOP STORIES --Powerful quake strikes off coast of Taiwan... Japanese official says ‘danger has passed’ after fears of destructive tsunami -- Castro recovering, could govern again, doctor says --Up to 500 killed in Lagos fuel blast... when fuel from a vandalized pipeline exploded in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said. »More Top Stories...»Yesterday's News...» Archive IRAQ --British Troops Raid Iraqi Police Station, Killing 7 ... Hundreds of British soldiers laid siege to a police station in the southern city of Basra today, killing seven gunmen, rescuing 127 prisoners from almost certain execution and ultimately reducing the building to rubble... --GI Special 4L20: The Empire Sends Holliday Greetings - ...No, child the Democrats will not stop the slaughter. The wonderful Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State Madeline Albright killed over one million mothers, fathers and children. They did it with bombs and sanctions and now they will help Mr. Bush continue killing us at the rate of 3,650 a month... --Gates visited Baghdad to quell US soldiers mutiny in Anbar,  US imminent attack on Ramadi soon --Car bombs kill at least 51 Iraqis --UK troops storm Iraqi police HQ ...Last time the Brits attacked a police station, it was because the police had arrested British undercover operatives caught planting bombs while dressed as Arabs. »More Iraq News Middle East --Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected a plan by military leaders  here to allow the Israeli Defense Forces to take out Palestinian militants it catches in the process of launching rockets from the Gaza Strip into nearby Jewish cities, WND has learned. -U.S. Is Holding Iranians Seized in Raids in Iraq --Israel to hand over funds to Palestinians --Defying U.N., Iran vows to accelerate nuke work ...Ahmadinejad says sanction backers will soon regret their ‘superficial act’ More M.E. news

OTHER --Lawyers: Dropped counts doom Duke case --From homeless to Hollywood --Cat Stevens returns, explains himself More   BUSINESS -- The mortgage bust goes on --Gold derivatives -- elephant in the boardroom --Real U.S. shortfall: $4.6 trillion in red ... ‘Taxing 100% of all wages, salaries, corporate profits would not eliminate a deficit of this magnitude’ --China wasn't impressed, so get your gold ---US Gold Forum »More Business News

Africa | Asia -- India warning on globalization -- US cancels Philippine exercises The Americas --Christmas day storms pummel Florida...Some homes were completely destroyed and people were hospitalized as Christmas Day storms battered central Florida with fierce wind and more than five inches of rain in some areas. --It's only money, and maybe it's not even that--Katrina Fraud Likely to Balloon Past $2 Billion -- Oaxaca: Confronting power, Building alternatives  Rochelle Gause, Left Turn... A popular uprising that shakes the roots of a long–held exploitive power dynamic is occurring in Oaxaca, Mexico. Not only does it threaten the corrupt and repressive government that has controlled the region for years, the movement is also creating an alternative structure for popular governance. --Venezuela may follow Iran on euro oil sales --Flight Delay Traffic Information More International --Putin to remain leader after leaving Kremlin --Ballistic Missile Defense: U.S. on collision course with Russia... Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the chief of Russia's general staff, told a meeting of foreign military attaches in Moscow "The creation of a U.S. anti–missile base cannot be viewed otherwise than as a major reconfiguration of the American military presence."  "Vanguard groupings of the U.S. armed forces in Europe have until now had no strategic components," the general said. "This raises the question as to who U.S. anti–missile plans are really targeted against, and what kind of implications they may have for Russia and Europe at large." More World News Canada --Metaphorical bulldozer... XymphoraToronto theater company CanStage, which was to have staged "My Name Is Rachel Corrie&quaot; in its coming season, has cancelled the play, obviously at the request of the Lobby. I actually feel sorry for the artistic director, who announced that the play was on the schedule, innocently failing to take into account the awesome power, and Absolute Evil, of the Lobby. He must have been reading too much Noam. He is so terrified of the Lobby that he had to make up a ridiculous excuse for the cancellation. Now, by censoring Rachel Corrie’s words, he is driving a metaphorical bulldozer... -CANADA: PEACEKEEPER OR WARMAKER? »»More Opinion–Editorials --"Shut up, go back to bed America"  Bill Hicks describes the Elite... Was Bill Hicks murdered for being popular and correct in identifying the ruling elite? It's a simple thing to give someone a radioactive isotope today and kill them quickly with cancer... he died in 1994 at age 32, after being banned by most mainstream television and at the height of his career and influence, not of lung cancer from smoking but from pancreatic cancer, where such isotopes deposit. --Jimmy Carter's Glossary --Call me Ebenezer, but Christmas as we know it needs to go...by Jason Miller --The Strategy of Disintegration: False flags, dirty tricks and the dismemberment of Iraq. Submitted by Israel Shamir --Shouting Truth to Depraved Power (and Its Unwitting Accomplices): Stephen Lendman Sounds Off... An Interview with Jason Miller I have become closely aligned with Stephen Lendman and correspond with him frequently by email. I recently conducted a provocative cyber–interview with him. Our Q&A offers readers a succinct and penetrating look at Stephen and his views. I wrote the questions and a bit of commentary, but Steve did most of the "heavy lifting" by answering my questions. To offer a more expansive view of Lendman, I included a number of links to his articles on a variety of sites. »More Mail --Some Christmas pudding from Michael Moore »More Subscribe to Newsletter To subscribe to our weekly Newsletter Send an e–mail to: newsletter and type "Subscribe" in the subject line. Your privacy is very much respected & we do not share your e–mail address with any other organizations, listservers, commercial enterprises, government agencies, shrinks, private dicks, ex–spouses … NOBODY! Iraq    |   World     |  Top Stories   |   M.E./Asia/Africa    |   Americas  |   Canada  |   OpEd  |   Tech  |   Business Contact Us · Bulletin Boards · Political Crossfire · Message Boards · Forum · Donations Click here to contact us directly for corrections © Copyright Steal what you want| Privacy Policy | xhtml validator  Design by Margot B & Associates Co–Editors: Delia C, Eric G, Larry B, Marlow B | Phone No.: [206] 905–4532  | Fair Use Notice