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January 8th, 2007 - by: danny

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“Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian media critic and director of the online
radio station Ammannet.net, said: ‘If Saddam had media planners, he
could not have planned it better than this. Nobody could ever have
imagined that Saddam would have gone down with such dignity.’”

How great. It’s over 60 degrees in January. Or is it. I am reading about snow storms in Colorado and the lack of snow in Central Park. For give me for thinking this is the biggest news around, but somehow it doesn’t seem to be taken seriously. Maybe all is ok, but I kind of doubt it.

Here’s one site to start with.

As for the war, I feel compelled to begin my coverage with this”

BBC: US Army urges dead to re-enlist

The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.

The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.

But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.

“Army personnel officials are contacting those officers’ families now to personally apologise for erroneously sending the letters,” the army said in a statement.

It said the database normally used for such correspondence with former officers had been “thoroughly reviewed” to remove the names of dead and wounded soldiers.”But an earlier list was used inadvertently for the December mailings,” it added.

WE MAY SURGE IN – BUT WE AIN’T SURGING OUT
Troop surge can’t be brief, backers insist

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-usiraq6jan06,0,3061050.story?coll=la-home-headlines

YESTERDAY: IRAQIS TO LEAD “TAKE BACK” BAGHDAD

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/06/iraq.main/index.html

Sounds like a war on Al Sadr….

DETAILS OF HADITHA AND THE CRIMES OF WAR

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010502248.html?nav=rss_print/asection

VIVA ROMA

ROME (AP) — Rome will light up the Colosseum on Saturday in support of Italy’s push at the United Nations for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, launched after a wave of denunciations across
Europe over Saddam Hussein’s execution.

Mayor Walter Veltroni said in a statement Friday that the lighting was a signal of ”hope” and an encouragement for Premier Romano Prodi’s government, which this week began a diplomatic push to have the issuetaken up by the U.N. General Assembly.

Rome’s Colosseum, once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, has become a symbol of Italy’s anti-death penalty stance. Since 1999, the 1st century monument has been bathed in golden light every time a death sentence is commuted somewhere in the world or acountry abolishes capital punishment.

Project Censored: US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human RightsUS Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights

By Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton

Project Censored Releases a New study on the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons

Full Study at:
http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/ElectromegnaticWeapons.pdf

ISRAELI JAILED FOR PROTESTING ISRAELI POLICY

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1983378,00.html

VILLAGE VOICE DROPS TOM TOMORROW CARTOON
Readers petition backward management: with Save Tom Tomorrow” campaign

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/viltom02/

HOW DUMB AM I?
I WROTE: But as Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra a more revered New Yorker once put it, it ain’t over till it is it’s over.

Sorry Yogi. Apologies Casey. What a dumkoff:

“It ain’t over ’till it’s over”
– Sri Yoginanda Berra–

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