- Survey: Israel yet to grasp concept of democracy: More than half the Jewish population of Israel – 53 percent – is opposed to full equal rights for Israeli Arabs, according to a survey conducted last month by the Israel Democracy Institute. Inside the Jewish Fascist Theocracy.
- Japan moves to boost military: There goes the Pacifist constitution. Took about fifty years to move back to militarism. The bills, which have now been sent to the upper house and are expected to become law next month, will give the government more powers to respond to an attack on the country.
- US trying to give the appearance of control: U.S. Intensifies Security Crackdown in Iraq: Soldiers in Baghdad carried out 300 patrols overnight and arrested 92 people, U.S. officials said, an effort designed to show that troops will be more visible throughout the troubled Iraqi capital, where carjackings, thievery and drive-by attacks on government facilities are impeding reconstruction plans.
- Russia trying to give the appearance of control: Putin Offers an Amnesty Plan Covering Most Chechen Rebels
- Disarming the resistance: U-S military tells Iraqis to turn in all guns or face arrest
- Dirty bomb victims ‘may be shot’: Basically, if you get infected with biological weapons the police may shoot you.
- Keepers of Bush Image Lift Stagecraft to New Heights: On Tuesday, at a speech promoting his economic plan in Indianapolis, White House aides went so far as to ask people in the crowd behind Mr. Bush to take off their ties, WISH-TV in Indianapolis reported, so they would look more like the ordinary folk the president said would benefit from his tax cut.
- Pole chosen to be deputy NATO secretary general: Poland receives part of its bribe for supporting the US-led war.
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