Jeremy Scahill says that John Cusack's new film, "War, Inc." works to un-embed
Hollywood; Obama responds to Bush and McCain attacks; Texas community leaders
sue Homeland Security over construction of border fence with Mexico; climate
change bill raises question: who will receive money from regulating greenhouse
gases?; union concerned immigration raids have "chilling effect" on organizing
workers; female addicts sent to prison instead of treatment; health ministers
from around the world to focus on how to overhaul drug patent rules; and more
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Jeremy Scahill | John Cusack's War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608R.shtml
Jeremy Scahill writes a review for Truthout of John Cusack's new film, "War,
Inc.": "Back in 1989, in his smash hit, 'Say Anything,' John Cusack famously
stood with a boom box above his head outside the home of the woman he loved
blasting Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes.' With his latest films on the Iraq
war, Cusack is standing outside Hollywood with a TV above his head
broadcasting his political movies calling on the public to wake up and 'Do
Something.'"

Introducing Islam
Friday, 16 May 2008 01:06 Bliss

I. ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
The name of this religion is Islam, the root of which is Silm and Salam which means peace.
Salam may also mean greeting one another with peace. One of the beautiful names of God is that
He is the Peace. It means more than that: submission to the One God, and to live in peace with
the Creator, within one’s self, with other people and with the environment. Thus, Islam is a
total system of living. A Muslim is supposed to live in peace and harmony with all these
segments; hence, a Muslim is any person anywhere in the world whose obedience, allegiance, and
loyalty are to God, the Lord of the Universe.

II. MUSLIMS AND ARABS
The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims are not to be confused with Arabs. Muslims
may be Arabs, Turks, Persians, Indians, Pakistanis, Malaysians, Indonesians, Europeans...

Do Pharmaceutical Commercials Benefit Americans?

On this week’s JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with Melody Petersen, an
independent journalist who formerly covered the drug industry for the
NEW YORK TIMES and is author of OUR DAILY MEDS: HOW THE PHARMACEUTICAL
COMPANIES TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES INTO SLICK MARKETING MACHINES AND
HOOKED THE NATION ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
Addressing how advertising and marketing have affected the
prescription drug business, Petersen said:

“A very powerful technique that the drug companies spend millions and
millions of dollars on is hiring physicians to give lectures to other
physicians on their drugs. It looks like the physician is up...

Truthout's Christopher Kuttruff reports on the Senate's rejection of the FCC
ruling in favor of media consolidation; for Truthout, J. Sri Raman writes
about escalating tensions along the India-Pakistan border; former Army Corps
of Engineers consultant indicted on bribery charges in New Orleans levee work;
financial disclosure shows Cheney triples Bush in assets; Lebanon's civil war
nightmare descends; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at
http://www.truthout.org

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Kuttruff | Senate Rejects Media Consolidation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051608A.shtml
Truthout's Christopher Kuttruff reports: "On Thursday night, the US Senate
initiated the process of overturning an FCC ruling made in December to allow
for greater media consolidation."

On May 13, 4:56 pm, jazzerci...@hotmail.com (-) wrote:

PETA ineffectively picketed

just opened this message, so maybe I'll hear something more from you
about it. Ilet us know

you should have your mom visit for a while. I hope that helps your
spirits.

mk5000

April was chosen so trained park staff could shoot adult breeding
cormorants sitting on nests. The shooters are aiming for cormorants
without young and
adult birds that are sitting on eggs that are less than two weeks
old.

Trees were marked in April so the shooters could tell which nests
could contain more developed eggs.

Is there a jail big enough to hold all the biofuel criminals?

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/296698 -

Harper, dion blind on biofuel

"Very late in the game, it appears that the light of reason has begun
to dawn on some American political leaders regarding grain and
oilseeds-based biofuels.

A group of Republican senators, including the party's presidential
nominee-presumptive, John McCain, have reportedly recommended the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency relax congressional mandates to blend
more ethanol into the gasoline supply, saying they're adding
significantly to food costs, although biofuels are still doggedly
backed by President George W. Bush and senators representing farm
states.

TOLERANCE IN ISLAM
An Abridged Version of the 1927 Lecture

by
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

An Abridged Version of Pickthall's Lecture

In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a
people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they
became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that
they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture. Before the coming of
Islam, tolerance had never been preached as an essential part of religion.

If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those
mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly fanatical outbreak known as
the Crusades could not have taken place, for they were based on a complete misapprehension.

Joe Lieberman is a Zionist Jew who hates Arabs and Muslims and would do anything to promote
Israeli interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman

Posted May 14, 2008

American Muslim & Arab Organizations Issue Statement on Homeland Security Committee Report

AMERICAN MUSLIM & ARAB-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS: SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE REPORT LACKS
SUBSTANTIVE ANALYSIS, CONTRADICTS OWN RECOMMENDATIONS

Muslim Advocates, MPAC, CAIR and ADC Issue Joint Letter Expressing Strong Reservations on
Latest Government Report on “Homegrown Terrorism” and Request Meeting with Committee

(Washington, DC - 5/14/08) - Four of the country’s leading Arab-American and Muslim-American
advocacy organizations today issued a rare joint letter expressing strong reservations about a
recently released Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee report on
“homegrown terrorism.” The report, issued jointly by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT)
and ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), claims that the threat posed by violent
extremists now comes “increasingly from within” the U.S.

SEE: Joint Letter to Senate Homeland Security Committee

http://www.gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49346

#1
Terri
Administrator

Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue
SF Chronicle

Washington -- Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South
Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind
rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his
support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal
immigrants.

It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also a huge issue for the
general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come
back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in
California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former
Gov. Gray Davis.

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/may/0516_obama_appeasement1.shtml

Obama says Bush falsely accused him of appeasement
By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press
May 16, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama accused President Bush of ''a false political
attack'' Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists --
early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing even as the
Democratic front-runner tries to sew up his party's nomination.

The White House denied Bush had targeted Obama, who said the Republican
commander in chief's intent was obvious.

In short order, the controversy spilled across the presidential campaign.

John McCain, the Republican nominee in waiting, said Obama was showing
''naivete and inexperience and lack of judgment'' in his willingness to meet
with U.S. foes.

Hillary Rodham Clinton then called Bush's original comments ''offensive and
outrageous, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy.''