Largest tract of land ever confiscated in history of Hebron District to take place 19 July 2005. Two military orders, T/06/05, and T/93/05 issued on 28 June 2005, if carried out, will confiscate the farmland of fifty Palestinian families (500 people) living in the village of Tarqumiya in the Hebron district. The order stipulates that Israel will confiscate ninety-seven dunums for building the Security Barrier/Annexation wall, but in actuality the military will also confiscate 500 dunums (125 acres) behind the fence. This tract is the largest amount of land ever confiscated in the history of the Hebron District. Telem, an Israeli settlement in the southwest corner of the West Bank, will expand onto the land, currently growing olives, grapes, and field vegetables. The land confiscation will take away income of fifty families. The military gave the families a deadline of 19 July 2005 to respond. A final court decision will occur on that day.

When the French government suggested a diplomatic initiative that might interfere with the White House agenda for war, the president responded by saying that the proposed scenario would “ratify terror.” The date was July 24, 1964, the president was Lyndon Johnson and the war was in Vietnam.

Four decades later, the anti-terror rationale is not just another argument for revving up the U.S. war machinery. Fighting “terror” is now the central rationale for war.

“The contrast couldn’t be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those who care deeply about human rights and human liberty, and those who kill, those who’ve got such evil in their hearts that they will take the lives of innocent folks,” President Bush said Thursday after the London bombings. “The war on terror goes on.”

A key requirement of this righteous war is that all inconvenient history must be deemed irrelevant. “By accepting the facile cliche that the battle under way against terrorism is a battle against evil, by easily branding those who fight us as the barbarians, we, like them, refuse to

The horrific terrorist bombings in London are a pale reflection of the terror erupting from George W. Bush's energy plan, which will ultimately kill far more people and wreck far more planetary havoc than four bombs and fifty deaths on a single city's streets.

Amidst Thursday's awful carnage, Bush leapt to deliver his set sermon on good versus evil. But in the same breath he bullied the G-8 nations into groveling at the feet of Big Oil, on whose behalf he is slaughtering thousands in Iraq.

Bush is the Osama bin Laden of climate change. Even conservative Republicans on the American corporate right are growing nervous about the continued emission of carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere, which has reached apocalyptic proportions.

Each day the doubters further diminish as robins find their way to Alaska and tropical diseases spread toward the poles. As the weather becomes unhinged, the world's biggest insurers join oil companies such as British Petroleum in escalating desperation. Even the Saudis have joined in, warning that their gargantuan reserves, the world's largest, may not meet demand ten years out.

Bob,

In your recent article entitled "Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election?", you said:  

"Serious questions have erupted in New Mexico, where every precinct that used electronic scanning devices went for Bush, no matter what its demographic make-up or party proclivities. As Kerry noted in a conference call involving Jackson, Fitrakis and Arneback, it was not the Democrat or Republican, Hispanic or Anglo, rich or poor make-up of a precinct that decided the outcome in New Mexico, it was the presence of opti-scan vote counters."

This is not true. Warren Stewart and analyzed the NM data and wrote a detailed report. We often found that the opscan percentages were higher for Kerry than the DRE percentages in counties that used both -- sometimes up to 25% higher or more. I still have all the certified election data. After I read your statement, I decided to check the counties that used only opscan and found that, while many more precincts did go for Bush, there were quite a few that went for Kerry:

Precinct 8 in Roosevelt County.
Precincts 7, 8, 11, and 12 in Quay County

For Mr. Gerard's lack of knowledge, I ask that you send him my response.

  1. Turkiye is not a Middle Eastern Nation.

  2. Is the US a role model for democracy?  Guantanamo, illegal occupation of sovereign nations, persecution and genocide of Native Americans and Africans.

  3. Is Europe a Democracy?  Half of the European nations still have royal families apart of the government, as well as close relations with religious clerics. The Belgians and French have killed over 20 million people in Africa and SE Asia combined.  There are outright tortures and persecutions in the US.  There are policies imposed on inner cities that are slow brewing genocide machines.