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November 25, 2006
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Broken Promises: Unhappiness with Globalization
William Pfaff — International Herald-Tribune
http://www.commondr eams.org/ views06/111 7-35.htm
The U.S. midterm election was noteworthy for what analysts called voter “populism,” which is to say, its element of economic protest. It is increasingly clear to voters in the United States — and in Europe — that the promise concerning globalization made to the public by economists, business leaders and politicians has not been kept. Workers in the rich countries were promised that they would ultimately benefit from globalization. Under the new corporate norms of the globalization era, wealth and rewards were to “naturally” trickle down to everyone in a company. Instead, workers find that their countries grow richer, as do corporations and executives, but ordinary working people grow poorer.

America’s Most Blatant Anti-Jewish Action
Lewis Regenstein — The Jewish Press (Brooklyn)
http://www.jewishpr ess.com/page. do/19897 /Shame_of_the_ Yankees_- _%3Ci% 3EAmerica’s_ Worst_Anti- Jewish_Action% 3C/i% 3E.html
On December 17, 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Union general Ulysses S. Grant issued his infamous “General Order # 11,” expelling all Jews “as a class” from his conquered territories within 24 hours. Henry Halleck, the Union general-in-chief, wired Grant in support of his action, saying that neither he nor President Lincoln were opposed “to your expelling traitors and Jew peddlers.” A few months earlier, on August 11, General William Tecumseh Sherman had warned in a letter to the adjutant general of the Union Army that “the country will swarm with dishonest Jews” if continued trade in cotton were encouraged.

Wartime German Records at ITS Center To Be Made Public
The Associated Press
http://www.iht. com/articles/ 2006/11/17 /news/germany. php
The two pages of testimony, in a file randomly plucked off a shelf, are among millions of documents held by the International Tracing Service, or ITS, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross. This vast archive in six nondescript buildings in [Arolsen] a German spa town contains the fullest record of Nazi persecution in existence. But because of concerns about the victims’ privacy, the ITS has kept the files closed to the public for half a century, doling out information in minimal amounts to survivors or their descendants on a strict need-to-know basis. This policy, which has generated much ill-feeling among Holocaust survivors and researchers, is about to change.

Front Line Soldiers Made World War I a ‘Literate’ Conflict
The Times (London)
http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ articl e/0,,1068-2446249, 00.html
On Christmas Day 1914, from a trench in northern France, a British soldier who signed himself “Boy” wrote a letter to his mother: “My Dear Mater, This will be the most memorable Christmas I’ve ever spent… just before dinner I had the pleasure of shaking hands with several Germans… it all seems so strange.” Boy was merely doing what so many soldiers of the Great War did as a matter of routine: putting his thoughts and observations into words, and committing them to paper… The written word was not the preserve of an upper-class officer corps, but embraced by men of all ranks.

The Political Victory of Political Correctness
Paul Gottfried
http://www.vdare. com/gottfried/ 060816_west. ht m
French politician Jean Marie Le Penn is being summoned to a French court to stand trial a second time for remarks made to a reporter from the rightwing newspaper Rivarol in January 2005. In his controversial interview, Le Pen expressed the opinion that the German occupation of France “wasn’t particularly inhumane, even if there were some blunders, which were inevitable.” The new suit for group defamation and, by implication, for criminally denying the official facts about the Holocaust that were issued by the international Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946, is being brought by an organization with long- standing and transparent connections to the French Left.

Al-Jazeera and the Truth
Charley Reese
http://www.antiwar. com/reese/ ? articleid=10031
Since American politicians have involved us so deeply in the Middle East, the American public is entitled to see the truth of what’s going on over there. The public can’t get that from American television, which sanitizes its reports You don’t need an electronic bug in the offices of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee to know that AIPAC and the Bush administration are putting pressure on the distributors to shun al-Jazeera. Denying Americans their First Amendment right to the truth, in regard to Israel, is always Job One with AIPAC. That is necessary because the truth about Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians and other Arab countries puts the lie to all of the Zionist propaganda.

Israel is Developing Tiny Flying Killer Robot
Reuters
http://www.theaustr alia n.news.com.au/ printpage/ 0,5942,20777773, 00.html
Israel is using nanotechnology to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets. The flying robot, nicknamed the “bionic hornet”, would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported yesterday. It was one of several weapons being developed by scientists to combat militants, it said. Others included super gloves that would give the user the strength of a “bionic man” and miniature sensors to detect suicide bombers.

British Muslim Leader Supported Irving
The Observer (Britain)
http://observer. guardian. co.uk/uk _news/story/ 0,,1951773, 00.html
One of Britain’s most prominent speakers on Muslim issues is today exposed as a supporter of David Irving, the controversial historian who for years denied the Holocaust took place. Asghar Bukhari, a founder member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), which describes itself as Britain’s largest Muslim civil rights group, sent money to Irving and urged Islamic websites to ask visitors to make donations to his fighting fund. Bukhari contacted the discredited historian, sentenced this year to three years in an Austrian prison for Holocaust denial, after reading his website.

John Stossel: Piercing Myths, Lies, and Stupidity
George C. Leef
h ttp://www.lewrockwe ll.com/orig3/ leef6.html
John Stossel, anchor of the ABC News program 20/20, is a rarity among the ranks of American media personalities. He’s a skeptic when it comes to everything except freedom… Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity is a book based mainly on Stossel’s iconoclastic reporting… The core of the book is about the false beliefs people hold regarding politics. Everywhere he looks – government schooling, regulations, environmental scare-mongering, subsidies, and so forth – Stossel sees that ordinary people have been fed a diet of baloney to cover up the fact that some people use politics to take life, liberty, and property from other people.

Human Population Through History: 1 A.D. to 2020
DESIP
http: //desip.igc. org/populationma ps.html
A series of global maps graphically portray the exponential growth of the world’s population over the past two millennia. Presented here by Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project (DESIP), these maps are from an article by John H. Tanton, “End of the Migration Epoch,” reprinted by The Social Contract (1995).

JFK on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=LlEqtaWpKEU&search=JFK%20on% 20Secret% 20Societies
Speech by John F. Kennedy on secret societies and freedom of the press, with video images of photos and symbols. Runtime: 5:24 minutes

Israel Stole Private Land for Jewish Settlements, Says New Report
Reuters
http://today. reuters.com/ news/articlenews .aspx? type=topNews&storyID=2006- 11- 21T155226Z_01_ L21821161_ RTRUKOC_0_ US- MIDEAST-SETTLEMENTS .xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt- L3- Top NewsNews-4
Almost 40 percent of land held by Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians, a left-wing Israeli group that monitors and opposes settlement-building said in a new report on Tuesday. Peace Now said it based its findings on the database of Israel’s military-run Civil Administration in the West Bank… “This report is a harsh indictment against the whole settlements enterprise and the role all Israeli governments played in it,” Peace Now said on its website. “The report shows that Israel has effectively stolen privately- owned Palestinian land for the purpose of constructing settlements and in violation of Israel’s own laws regarding activities in the West Bank,” the movement said.

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