Australian Govt computer game prize awarded to "Escape from Woomera"
refugee rescue from prison camp simulation
received the money from the Australia Council
Escape from Woomera



NY Times has a picture of Saraiha Behzadi, a member of a combat unit of the People's Mujahedeen, performing maintenance on her tank
USA has signed a cease fire with this "terrorist" group in Iraq, I suppose that means that they are "our terrorists"
Saraiha maintains her tank

82nd Airborne withdraw from school after 5 days occupation, leaving 15 unarmed people dead.
Falluja liberates school from occupiers

Cargill guy appointed to supervise Iraq agriculture (Cargill, the worlds biggest private company, wants to control all the worlds grain. Theyre not there yet.]

Cisco to hardwire snooping in its routers


...Eventually, the euro would emerge as an alternative world currency, to which developing nations would flock when bullied by the United States. The Pirate's worst nightmare is that oil producing countries switch to the euro, unhitching oil prices from the dollar and causing the U.S. currency to fall to its natural, debt-burdened value.
blackcommentator


NYTimes says the lawyer who "helped U.S commandos locate and rescue ..Jessica Lynch" has been given asylum. ... What about the USAnian troops who fired on the ambulance when the Iraqi were trying to deliver Jessica days before? do they get some kind of medal?
who rescued Jessica?

"we have been burying invaders for centuries - and we have plenty of spaces next to General Maude."

bin Laden wins one?
"..the departure of American forces [from Saudi Abaria], except for a 400-member training mission that has been deployed since the Truman administration.." [those 400 guys must be getting extremely old]



Arcata, Calif., (population 16,000) is the first to pass an ordinance that outlaws voluntary compliance with the federal Patriot Act. To date, 89 cities have passed resolutions condemning the Patriot Act ... Arcata is the first to actually outlaw compliance.
americanfreepress

Privilege Revoked
The government says it can pry into the attorney-client relationship all it wants.
Attorney-clientprivilege defunct


SARS The head of the Canadian WHO lab found so few copies of the coronavirus in so many cases that he doubts it's the cause.
But Toronto police chief (correction of previous post) does seem to want to put any demonstrators in prison for one year if they commit _any_ offence at a demo.
SARS is a handy excuse to snatch anyone into indefinite solitary...
sars_for_wimps


Israelis writing numbers on Palestinians skin - who says Irony is dead?

Everything was booby trapped. Even the walls of houses. Just touch them, and they blow up. Or, they would shoot you the moment you entered. There were charges in the roads, under the floor, between the walls.....
"For me, in the D-9, it was nothing. I didn't mind. You would just hear the explosions.
Drunk in a D9 in Jenin

some leftish links
commondreams
avnery
US Fear
alternet
tompaine
whatreallyhappened
spiked-online

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