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Signs of the Times for Wed, 30 Aug 2006

Singing Paeans ToTheir Fallen Cannon Fodder

Signs of the Times
30/08/2006

David Smith, 12, stands in front of an image of his father Friday during the dedication ceremony for Paul R. Smith Middle School in Holiday. Smith was an Army sergeant who was awarded the Medal of Honor after he died in battle in Iraq in April 2003. The school opened Aug. 8, but the ceremony was last week.

Dr. Andrej Lobaczewski writes in his seminal work 'Political Ponerology' (now available from QFGpublishing.com)...

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The Terrorist Patsy That Wouldn't Play Ball

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
August 30, 2006

The problem with carrying out terror attacks and then blaming it on Muslim patsies is that if you don't silence the patsies for good, they tend to 'sing', and in the case of Muslim Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, keep on 'singing'...

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Rumsfeld Accuses Critics of Appeasement of Fascists

Juan Cole
30/08/2006

The LA Times reports that

' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday compared critics of the Bush administration to those who sought to appease the Nazis before World War II, warning that the nation is confronting "a new type of fascism." '

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The LA Times continued:

' He continued, "Can we truly afford to believe that, somehow or someway, vicious extremists could be appeased?" '

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The Palestinian Vice-Prime Minister kidnapped by Israel - Tasneem Shaer: "My father is not a terrorist"

by Silvia Cattori
Swiss Journalist

The Palestinian Vice-Prime Minister, Mr Naser Shaer, was kidnapped on 19 August by Israeli soldiers. Few weeks ago, Voltairenetwork published an exclusive interview with this very respectful personality by the Palestinians. Mr Naser Shaer, 45 years old, became Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Education in the new Palestinian Government formed by Hamas on March 2006. Former rector of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Al Najah in Nablus, Mr Shaer is a moderate person. He does not belong to any political party, and is not a member of Hamas as widespread in the media. Tasneem, his eldest daughter, gives to Voltairenetwork, in a very simple and sober way, her account of the abduction of Mr Shaer and the bad and humiliating conditions of his detention.

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Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City

by Stephen Lendman
30 August 2006

It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected needs. They included restructuring teachers' salaries, improving the deplorable educational infrastructure forcing teachers to conduct classes in laminated cardboard shacks, a lack of books and other educational materials and providing food for the many impoverished children who come to school each day hungry.

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