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Who Controls What? Current rating: 3
26 Jan 2003
It seems America is mostly populated by the lowest form of life on the planet. Thatâ€(TM)s why so many people support the war machines slaughter; this is most likely due to a form of social engineering (kill off the ones that donâ€(TM)t go along with it)
That has created this monster society based on greed and selfishness we call America one only needs to look at the policies enforced the behavior of the people that occupy this land called America to see the inhuman conditions that are created around the world as a result. Trillions spent every year to satisfy their vanity or insanity. While millions live in the streets and go hungry. Millions in the prison industrial complex hundreds of thousands slaughtered either by the "law enforcement" thugs, or while scratching out a existence every year. While the corporate thugs roam the world raiding other countries to steal their property even the recreation in America glorifies this behavior, like the “Raiders” etc. face the facts most Americans are willing accomplices to the murder and slavery that goes on in their name and this trend will likely continue until the earths biosphere is destroyed and human life on this planet is extinct. Basically the shit is just getting deeper in America.
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Nation Of Islam Websites Come Under Sustained Web Attack.
Current rating: 3
26 Jan 2003
Two Nation of Islam websites (still offline at the time of writing this article) came under sustained DDoS attacks today making them inaccessable to internet viewers.

The websites are promotion for the hugely controversial Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.

Farrakhan, who promotes racial separation for African Americans has been accused by hacker groups of sponsoring recent attacks on White Nations websites.

Since the recent hacking of the prominent Stormfront.org reports are coming in that Farrakhan's websites have become the focus of retaliatory attacks by Neo-Nazi's.

Sources report that members of www.resistance.com and other White Nations organizations are attacking Farrakhan's websites and denying them access to the internet.

Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott in New York City. In 1977, Farrakhan broke away from the mainstream African American Muslim group and and formed his own Nation of Islam.

Many people including African Americans have since accused Farrakhan of prejudiced statements against whites and Jews.

WEBSITES UNDER ATTACK
- http://www.finalcall.com
- http://www.noi.org

See also:
http://www.noi.org
http://www.finalcall.com
Israel Kills A 6-Year-Old Palestinian As Gazans Bury Their Dead
Current rating: 6
26 Jan 2003
Ali Talab Ghreiz, six, was killed and his five-year-old brother injured when the tank opened fire with a heavy machine-gun, Palestinian hospital sources said.

“The kids were playing in the yard when an Israeli tanks approached them and intentionally fired in their direction, Yasser Alhour, an eye witness whose house oversees the area the children were playing in told IslamOnline.

“This is not the first time the Israeli occupation army fires at children,” said the boy’s grandchild, Ali Ghreiz, adding that his eight-year- old granddaughter Tesnim, cousin of the killed child, was seriously injured last month after the Israeli army shot her in the stomach.

Rafah is frequently raided by the Israeli army especially during nights resulting in the death of many children, the last of whom was Alaa Al Sedoudi.

“This is a horrifying crime,” said Dr. Ali Mussa, head of the Abou Youssef Al Naggar hospital, adding that (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) “Sharon’s terrorist government continue to deliberately kill Palestinian children in Rafah.”

He added that Alaa, the younger brother who was injured, is in a stable condition describing his state as moderate.

540 Palestinian child killed

Palestinian children below the age of 18 who were killed during the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation reached 540, according to the information center of the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The boy's death brought to 2,898 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising against Israeli occupation, in September 2000, including 2,155 Palestinians and 687 Israelis.

Earlier Sunday, Israeli occupation troops pushed deep into Al-Zayton district south of Gaza City, leaving 13 Palestinians dead and over 64 other wounded some seriously.

Up to 60 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles thrust into the district backed by U.S.-made Apache helicopters, which shelled the houses of Palestinian citizens, eyewitnesses told IslamOnline, adding that the Israeli troops took used the houses as military barricades and used dozens of citizens as human shields.

Gaza City in shock


The brother of Khaled Shalof, 17, one of the 12 Palestinians killed by Israel

Meanwhile, Gazans buried their dead among feelings of anger and shock.

shocked and disbelieving, dozens of shop-keepers and workshop owners sifted Sunday through the rubble of their businesses after the Israeli army made its deepest incursion into Gaza City, for the first time penetrating the heart of the city since the start of the current uprising, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

In addition to 12 people killed and 64 wounded, more than 50 metal workshops, 80 small stores and three houses were smashed in the blistering overnight attack that exploded in the city's largest residential district of Zeitoun.

Still shaken from eight hours of pitched fighting and the detonations of helicopter rockets and tanks shells in the night, Fuad Simna looked at the ruins of his metal factory, before Sunday's raid one of the largest in Gaza.

"I can't believe my eyes. They destroyed my workshop, everything is destroyed," he said.

The Israeli army claimed his lathes and other machinery turned out homemade Katyusha-style rockets, more than 10 of which have been fired by militants across the Gaza border into southern Israel in recent days.

"How are we going to build mortars and rockets when we are working on our heavy iron industry?" he asking, staring at the wreckage of a building where 50 of his workers used to build pre-fab houses, caravans and girders.

"This kind of destruction of factories prevents hundreds of Palestinians from working. The 50 here will be added to the list of unemployed, when there are already more than 70 percent of people jobless in the Gaza Strip because of the Israeli closure," Simna said.

Nearby Bashir Aqel stood at his smashed doors, saying not a single part of his four-storey house was left unscathed by the battle. The facades of most of his neighbors' buildings were also scarred by bullets or shrapnel.

Along Saladin Street, the main thoroughfare leading into the city center, hardly a metal workshop was left intact after Sunday's fighting and the raids which pushed deep into the heart of the sprawling coastal metropolis.

Not far from the industrial area of workshop and mechanics' garages, Mohammed Dahdur, 60, stared at the remains of his dynamited house and tried to understand what happened to him.

Muttering in shock, he blamed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of using the show of strength to bolster his image ahead of Tuesday's general elections in the Jewish state.

"Sharon wanted success in the election to be written in our blood our children's blood, with the stone from our houses," he said.

Workshop owner Mussa Abu Shaaban, who used to employ dozens of workers, agreed.

"This is a cowardly operation, Sharon is trying to justify his failure to provide peace and security for the Israelis. We are not giving up and not leaving our land whatever the Israeli war going to be," he said.

Beside him children picked through the rubble trying to salvage what they could.

One 15-year-old boy, Wassim, said the destruction made him more determined to study hard and become a lawyer, to "defend my people who are oppressed by the Israeli occupation."

But a member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction promised a more immediate response.

"We will gather our pain today, but tomorrow we'll strike back," he said.
YOU ZIONAZIS ARE SCUM
Current rating: 3
27 Jan 2003
Why would you sobs hide the picture of the israeli flag burning and not hide the picture of the US flag burning
Answer: you bastards are zionazi scum!
Duplicate Posts
Current rating: 0
27 Jan 2003
Modified: 08:22:44 AM
Golly, it sure is rough on a guy, 99% of whose work consists of reposts, but DAN raised an important point, which we should clarify. The burning Israeli flag that he's so upset about was instantly recognizable as one of his innumerable reposts, so that is why it was hidden.

His American flag burning did not instantly call itself to attention, but now that we've had a chance to think about it, it's been used here before, too. So now it's gone also.

You should feel extremely grateful that you get one slot anywhere on our Newswire, considering the thousands of cases of your abuse of our website. We can simply return to the total ban at any time, which we are already pre-authorized to do.

You do have the option of coming up with NEW pictures of burning flags, whichever ones you want, even another US or Israeli flag, (just not the same one) - we really don't care about that -- it's your option, which says far more about you than it does about us. Then you will have ONE chance to post them here, provided you don't do anything else in the meantime to screw that up.

I can visualize the poster you're going to make now -- "Burning Flags of the World" by DAN -- "useful for any geography class or hate group."
Duplicate Posts
Current rating: 0
27 Jan 2003
Modified: 11:10:36 AM
Golly, it sure is rough on a guy, 99% of whose work consists of reposts, but DAN raised an important point, which we should clarify. The burning Israeli flag that he's so upset about was instantly recognizable as one of his innumerable reposts, so that is why it was hidden.

His American flag burning did not instantly call itself to attention, but now that we've had a chance to think about it, it's been used here before, too. So now it's gone also.

You should feel extremely grateful that you get one slot anywhere on our Newswire, considering the thousands of cases of your abuse of our website. We can simply return to the total ban at any time, which we are already pre-authorized to do.
Israeli Officer Obstructs Attack On Palestinians
Current rating: 0
27 Jan 2003
The officer's act of disobedience this month was the latest in a series of actions taken by Israelis opposed to the tough tactics Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has employed against a Palestinian uprising for statehood.

Maariv said the officer, a lieutenant in an elite intelligence unit, delayed passing on information for an air raid planned against a Palestinian city after 22 people were killed on January 6 in a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

The officer, who was not identified, told a military tribunal he acted out of conscience, saying innocent people would have been killed and calling his orders illegal under international law, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper did not specify the information he withheld.

The court tribunal rejected his argument and transferred him to a less prestigious intelligence unit, Maariv said.

Asked about the report, the army spokesman's office confirmed an intelligence officer was removed from his post after disobeying a direct order and impairing a military operation, but the spokesman declined to give details.

The army has refused to sanction conscientious objection, saying Israel's security would be harmed if soldiers were allowed to opt out of service while the country was locked in violence with the Palestinians that shows no sign of abating.


NO "SELECTIVE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION"

In December, the Supreme Court said it could not back the idea of "selective conscientious objection" by eight reserve soldiers who had refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

Last week, an Israeli state prosecutor mentioned her fears about her son's pending military service with Sharon as prime minister as having motivated her to leak information of a criminal probe of the Israeli leader over election funding.

Israelis vote in a general election on Tuesday, and Sharon's right-wing Likud party holds a commanding lead in opinion polls.

Sociologist Oz Almog of Haifa University said some left-wing Israelis, dismayed by the weakness of Israel's peace camp, were striking out on their own against the establishment.

"This kind of conscientious objection is important and it is good that we have it," Almog said of the reservists who refused to serve on occupied land.

"Even though it is on the edge, it makes you think, and we need it because the edges define the middle," he told Reuters.

But he said he believed such behaviour was "the exception to the rule" and the "deciding majority of the people" did not accept such dissidence.