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Media Uses FAKE PHOTO of Dead Bin Laden
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywpYUgPQMo
Mainstream media used a FAKE image of Bin Laden and passed it off as the actual trophy shot of the terrorist that was apparently killed on May 1, 2011. The image was used on the front pages of the Daily Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites along with many cable news outlets.
Officials claim they have the real pictures of the dead Bin Laden, but say that they are too graphic to put out. The pictures apparently show Bin Laden with a gunshot wound to the side of the head but due to the wounds his face is "unrecognizable". Officials also say they quickly disposed Bin Laden's remains into the sea for the sole reason not to create a martyr shrine for future jihadists.
In my opinion there will be no pictures of the corpse of Bin Laden because he was never assassinated on May 1, 2011. IF they do roll out the photos, the corpse would be unrecognizable. Seems all too convenient to dump the body at sea and not show the public actual proof of his remains because there are none!
There is just too much proof that Bin Laden died in 2001 in Tora Bora, be it health issues or military involvement, check these out:
Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead… For the Ninth Time
Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
BREAKING NEWS: Osama bin Dead awhile
FOX NEWS Reported Bin Laden's Death in 2001
Bin Laden's Ghost Claims Flight 253 Attack
U.S. Openly Accepts Bin Laden Long Dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZlx_YhL0T0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnychOXj9Tg
May 1 is a day of historical events, here are a few:
1776 – Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1945 – Hitler was declared dead
2003 – Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq on an aircraft carrier
This is just a massive propaganda campaign by the Obama administration to boost his approval rating and to stir up patriotism in support of more wars across the globe. To say that the Obama administration killed Bin Laden on May 1st seems just too perfect. Bin Laden's supposed death is most likely politically motivated for Obama, and could be a pretext for another major 9/11-type event that will continue the global war on terror that will result in more unconstitutional measures and possibly a military service draft.
UPDATE: The media is still using the fake image of the dead Bin Laden! Sky news is still questioning whether the photo is real or fake, here's the undeniable proof that it's a total fraud:
The Anti-War Movement Loves Obama Wars
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1W40XKy12A
What Does it Mean to Be a Libertarian?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgcSAGIOhI
Iraqis Rage Against U.S. Puppet Dictatorship
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BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces detained hundreds of people, including prominent journalists, artists and intellectuals, witnesses said Saturday, a day after nationwide demonstrations brought tens of thousands of Iraqis into the streets and ended with soldiers shooting into crowds.
Four journalists who had been released described being rounded up well after they had left a protest at Baghdad's Tahrir Square. They said they were handcuffed, blindfolded, beaten and threatened with execution by soldiers from an army intelligence unit.
"It was like they were dealing with a bunch of al-Qaeda operatives, not a group of journalists," said Hussam al-Ssairi, a journalist and poet, who was among a group and described seeing hundreds of protesters in black hoods at the detention facility. "Yesterday was like a test, like a picture of the new democracy in Iraq."
Protesters mostly stayed home Saturday, following more than a dozen demonstrations across the country Friday that killed at least 29 people, as crowds stormed provincial buildings, forced local officials to resign, freed prisoners and otherwise demanded more from a government they only recently had a chance to elect.
"I have demands!" Salma Mikahil, 48, cried out from Tahrir Square on Friday, as military helicopters and snipers looked down on thousands of people bearing handmade signs and olive branches signifying peace. "I want to see if Maliki can accept that I live on this," Mikahil said, waving a 1,000-dinar note, worth less than a dollar, toward Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's offices. "I want to see if his conscience accepts it."
The protests – billed as Iraq's "Day of Rage" – were intended to call for reform of Maliki's government, not revolution. From the southern city of Basra to northern cities of Kurdistan, protesters demanded the simple dignities of adequate electricity, clean water and a decent job.
Obama gave $400,000 to Gaddafi family
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The U.S. continues to support dictators around the world militarily and financially.
Last year the Obama administration contributed $400,000 of taxpayer money to the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation, run by his son Saif, and to 'Wa Attassimou' which is another charity run by Gaddafi's daughter, Aisha.
The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi's son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi's daughter, Aisha.
Kirk says the grants should be withdrawn in light of the recent return to Libya of Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset Megrahi. The terminally ill prisoner was released from in Scotland on compassionate grounds, and got a hero's welcome from Muammar Gadhafi and other Libyans upon his return.
Saif Gadhafi was involved in negotiating for Megrahi's release, and accompanied him back to Libya.
"Just weeks after the Gadhafi family celebrated the return of a terrorist responsible for the murders of 189 Americans, the U.S. taxpayer should not be asked to reward them with $400,000," Kirk wrote to the president. "For the sake of the victims' families who have endured so much pain these last few weeks, I ask you to withdraw your Administration's request."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBIbhqeVimA
Clearly there has been no 'change' in the U.S. supporting dictators that are a menace to the population. America funds so many dictators around the world, the most famous are; Hosni Mubarak, Anwar El Sadat, Saddam Hussein, Papa Doc, Pol Pot, Noriega, Fahd bin'Abdul-Aziz, and many more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtj1uqXqKok
Is Libya The New Iraq? U.S. Prepares Libyan Invasion
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Many signs are pointing to the potential U.S. military invasion of Libya, much like how the U.S. invaded Iraq for oil, to topple Saddam and replace him with a brand new puppet dictator.
Obama announced that he will send CFR member and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns to Europe and the Middle East. According to Obama, Mr. Burns will "intensify our consultation with allies and partners." In other words Burns will serve as the point man ahead of the coming intervention in Libya, where there is around 46 billion barrels of estimated oil reserves.
According to the White House spokesman Jay Carney, "no options" have been taken off the table when it comes to the situation in Libya. "Our job is to give options from the military side, and that is what we are thinking about now," "We will provide the president with options should he need them." By saying that "all options" are being considered, that is basically a way for the Obama administration to threaten Gadhafi without actually coming right out and threatening him.
It's quite humorous how Obama is calling out Gaddafi when it was only just last year that Obama contributed $400,000 to Gaddafi's family. This should be no surprise as the U.S. routinely gives military and monetary aide to dictators including Saddam Hussein and Hosni Mubarak.
The similarities of the Iraq invasion and the coming Libyan invasion are overwhelming, According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. government is concerned about "weapons of mass destruction" Gaddafi apparently has:
"The government of Col. Moammar Gadhafi hasn't destroyed significant stockpiles of mustard gas and other chemical-weapons agents, raising fears in Washington about what could happen to them—and whether they may be used—as Libya slides further into chaos."
The Wall Street Journal article also stated that U.S. officials believe that Gadhafi possesses "1,000 metric tons of uranium yellowcake" which they believe are a serious threat to the international community.
There are also rumors of Al-Qaeda being in Libya, earlier today it was reported that Al-Qaeda has set up an Islamic emirate in eastern Libya, headed by a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.
Does this sound familiar? Remember the Bush administrations main reasons for invading Iraq were; 1) Saddam has WMDs 2) Al-Qaeda was there. But currently the excuse to invade Libya would be about humanitarian issues.
(Libya's Justice Minister is saying Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie Bombing)
More troubling signs that the U.S. is preparing for something. The U.S. embassy in Libya has been closed, sanctions imposed, and U.S. personnel have been pulled out of the country.
The White House said on Thursday that enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya was among the options on the table. "When we are examining all options, and that option has been tabled, at least in the press, but certainly has been discussed in other venues, that by exploring those options we are looking at feasibility, and I mean that broadly," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
This was one of the options ordered by the Bush administration that impacted the military and the citizens of Iraq on almost a weekly basis, especially after the intense "Desert Fox" bombing campaign of 1998. The Anglo-American military used these zones to prevent Saddam's government from using military aircraft to attack the Kurds and Shiite Muslims, but in time the no-fly zones became a means to force Iraq to comply with the UN and Coalition demands to search for prohibited weapons in Iraq. A likely scenario would be implementing a no-fly zone over Libya to stop the government from bombing protesters again if the protest situation persists.
Ynetnews.com says that an anonymous "European official" is claiming that the U.S. and NATO have already been very busy making plans for military action against Libya….
"The source said NATO and US warplanes stationed in Italy may be ordered to take down Libyan planes, and that electronic warfare against them may already have been implemented."
"The source told al-Quds al-Arabi that NATO forces may launch an aerial attack on Libya or fire missiles from warships positioned in international waters near Tripoli. Libyan army weapons caches may also be targeted, the source said."
The truth is that Libya is not a place we want to be sending U.S. troops to take out Gaddafi and his government. Like Iraq, Libya is a deeply divided nation made up of a large number of tribal factions that hate each other. That isn't a place we want troops in the middle of.
Not only that, but the people of Libya are not too fond of the United States. Any U.S. military intervention, no matter how desired, would soon be deeply resented. Our soldiers would rapidly become targets just like they are in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not only that, but when the U.S. military gets into a country they almost never leave. The U.S. would remove Gaddafi and replace him with a better U.S. puppet dictator who will also be hated if not more by the Libyan people.
The U.S. military is stretched way to thin to even think about invading another country, the U.S. is in a financial crisis and have already spent over $2.5 TRILLION dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Neocons Fueling Another Invasion
Military intervention "is something which I hope doesn't happen, but it looks as though at some point that it should happen," Simon Henderson, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told CNN.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a fanatical neocon operation. It supports the positions of the Likud and other racist warmongers in Israel. It was founded by Martin Indyk, the former research director of AIPAC.
WINEP is also involved with the Council on Foreign Relations in policymaking on the bogus war on manufactured terrorism and the intelligence created network of radical Islamists.
"What's an acceptable number of civilian deaths? I don't know. Choose your figure," Henderson said. "At the very least, instead of having a casualty list certainly in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands, we don't want a casualty list numbering in the tens of thousands, or 100,000 or so."
WINEP was intimately involved with Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans making the case – including cooking up bogus intelligence and scary WMD stories – for the illegal invasion of Iraq that ultimately resulted in the murder of over a million Iraqis, so any crocodile tears over the lives of Arabs is disingenuous, to say the least.
Bush era diplomat Nicholas Burns, who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and is more or less a permanent fixture at the Pentagon psyop CNN these days, says Moammar will probably go out in destructive fashion. "You've got to assume the worst about Moammar Gaddafi," he said. "With his back to the wall, he's going to go out in a blaze of vicious attacks."
Other prominent neocons seem to be a bit more reticent. Propagandist Robert Kagan, who served as an advisor for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq – or rather the committee for the invasion and destruction of Iraq – told CNN the global elite are not "talking about immediate military actions now." In other words, attacking Libya is a distinct possibility. It may just take some time to get things rolling.
Kagan is a founding member of Project for the New American Century – the organization most responsible for creating the ideological underpinnings of the Iraq invasion – and is also a globalist stooge at the Council on Foreign Relations. He worked in the State Department.
Ibrahim Sharqieh, deputy director of Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, interpreted Kagan's statement as indicating that military force remains a possibility. "In my opinion, it's still premature to talk about U.S. military intervention in Libya at this point, but we should not eliminate it completely," Sharqieh said.
The Brookings Institute takes money from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations, JP Morgan Chase, Shell Oil, the World Economic Forum, and no shortage of other transnational banks and corporations. It is a premier globalist operation.
Finally, it should be noted that Libya has refused to obey the IMF and the Wall Street banksters. It's not just about oil, dictator Gaddafi made a fatal mistake by attacking his own people thus allowing the globalists the opportunity to invade his country.
The people of the Middle East and Libya are pawns in this Anglo-American New World Order of the middle east and are doing their bidding by buying into the protests that are engineered by the U.S. and Britain.
Organizers who ran the "Egyptian Revolution" attended a CIA-coup college that is partnered with a neocon institution called International Republican Institute (IRI) that includes the board of directors John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Brent Scowcroft.
There will be no change for the Libyan people when Gaddafi is gone, but they will be in for a surprise after their oil is stolen and they are reduced to groveling at the feet of the banksters and their loan sharking operations run out of the IMF and the World Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_J76ddRJRE
Neocon Analysts Push for Invasion of Libya
Is Barack Obama About To Order The U.S. Military To Invade Libya?
Obama Prepares Invasion Of Libya Under Humanitarian Cover
Castro: U.S. to Invade Libya for Oil
Gaddafi blames unrest on al-Qaeda
Gaddafi orders explosion of Libya's oil pipelines
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has ordered his security forces to sabotage oil facilities, Time magazine reported Wednesday, quoting a source close to Gaddafi.
According to the report, the forces were ordered to start blowing up oil pipelines in order to cut off flows to ports in the Mediterranean.
"The sabotage, according to the insider, is meant to serve as a message to Libya's rebellious tribes: It's either me or chaos," said the report.
Time also reported that the insider said Gaddafi only has the support of about 5,000 soldiers in the army and that the Libyan leader has told people close to him that he realizes he cannot take control over Libya with the troops he has.
FLASHBACK: 1991 Burning Of Kuwait Oil Fields By Saddam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoxBG5zdxg
Libyan Unrest Gets Oil Market's Attention
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CUBA and Nicaragua have sprung to the defence of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests.
"To me, it's absolutely clear that the Government of the United States is not interested in peace in Libya," said the 84-year old former Cuban leader, who still heads the Cuban Communist Party.
Washington, he said, "will not hesitate to give the order for NATO to invade that rich country, perhaps in the coming hours or days."
There has been no immediate reaction to turmoil in Libya from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Mr Gaddafi's closest ally in the region.
But Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega defended his friend, saying he had spoken with Mr Gaddafi, who is "waging a great battle … and in these circumstances is trying to dialogue, and defend the integrity of the nation so that it does not break up, and so that there is no anarchy.
Libya is confronting a growing diplomatic backlash against the bloody crackdown on protesters, denouncing charges it was carrying out massacres.
For US, more at stake in Bahrain than base alone
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As political unrest shakes its tiny Gulf ally Bahrain, much more is at stake for the United States than just the fate of the US Fifth Fleet's base, analysts said.
Also in play are Washington's extensive strategic ties with Bahrain's influential oil-rich neighbor Saudi Arabia and efforts by US arch-foe Iran to spread its influence from across the Gulf, they said.
In many ways, the unrest in Bahrain "is much more dangerous" for the US than the current state of affairs in Egypt, more than a week after mass protests forced president Hosni Mubarak to step down, said analyst Aaron David Miller.
To be sure, Egypt has greater weight than Bahrain, said Miller, a former State Department analyst and negotiator who is now an analyst with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
It is the largest and most powerful Arab state, has a peace treaty with Israel and receives $1.3 billion in US military aid each year.
And the Egyptian-US alliance remains intact, at least for now.
However, Bahrain's vulnerability "to more convulsive change and the impact that it could have vis-a-vis Arab policy for Iran, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf makes it … a more hot-button issue right now," Miller told AFP.
The Sunni Arab leaders of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, who govern over restive Shiite Arab populations near Shiite but non-Arab Iran, fear Washington's push for reform will sow greater instability, said analyst Patrick Clawson.
They strongly opposed Washington's pressure on Egypt for a transition to democracy to ease out Mubarak, according to Clawson, deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"The perception in the (Gulf) region is that democracy means either the complete chaos you had in Iraq or else the stasis and bickering you had in Kuwait," he said.
And if needed, the Saudis may be prepared to repeat their intervention in Bahrain in the 1990s, when they sent armored personnel carriers across the causeway linking the neighbors.
"So the Saudis are in a position to ensure that things don't get out of hand in Bahrain and they are of a mind to do that. That is a powerful constraint to what the United States can do under these circumstances," Clawson said.
The course of events could put a strain on the US-Saudi strategic relationship, which involves US military bases and billions of dollars in US weapons sales, as well as close cooperation on regional diplomacy and counter-terrorism.
Bahrain, fearing Iran's meddling, may continue taking a tough line toward unrest, although Bahraini security forces withdrew Saturday from a Manama square that had been the focal point of bloody anti-regime protests.
The implications of the apparently conciliatory move were not immediately clear.
"The Gulf rulers will be petrified that there is an Iranian influence in all of this, but I think the Iranians will be pretty incompetent" in trying to gain influence in the region, Clawson said, noting that will not prevent them from making a "good attempt" to do so.
What's more, he said, Arab Shiites increasingly look to their own leaders rather than Iran for guidance.
Nonetheless, analysts expressed concern about Iran.
"The issue of Iran is critical. What is a good outcome for us?" Miller asked.
"Here you have Iranian access to that Shia majority. You could argue that an Iraq-like outcome is not out of the question," he continued, referring to how Shiites now dominate affairs in Baghdad with some backed by Iran.
Michelle Dunne, a former Middle East specialist at the State Department, agreed that the Saudis would have a hard time accepting political change in Bahrain and that the Iranians would try to exploit instability there.
"The Bahraini problem is definitely a home-grown problem," said Dunne, now a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
"This is not Iran manipulating the politics of an Arab state, but the Bahraini Shia are desperate. They will accept support from where they can get it."
As for the naval base, analysts said its presence is not currently the focus of Shiite-driven protests, though it could develop as such if protesters eventually succeed in changing the government.
"At some point, that's going to be rethought… whether it's appropriate to have a US naval base there or not," said Dunne.
Anthony Cordesman, a former Defense Department intelligence analyst, said the US base in Bahrain is "very important" in light of the "steady buildup" by the naval branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guards over the past decade.
Agent who lied about WMD in Iraq faces jail sentence
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Curveball, aka Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi
A German politician has warned that the CIA informant Curveball could go to jail after telling the Guardian that he lied about Saddam Hussein's bioweapons capability in order to "liberate" Iraq.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was given the name Curveball by his US and German handlers, told the German secret service that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme.
The 43-year-old defector's evidence was then passed to the CIA and became the primary source used by the US to justify invading Iraq.
Politicians in Iraq called for Curveball's permanent exile following his admission and poured scorn on his claim to want to return to his motherland and build a political party. "He is a liar, he will not serve his country," said one Iraqi MP.
In his adopted home of Germany, MPs are demanding to know why the German secret service paid Curveball £2,500 a month for at least five years after they knew he had lied.
Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green MP, said Janabi had arguably violated a German law which makes warmongering illegal. He added that Gerhard Schröder, German chancellor around the time of the second Iraq war, should also reveal what he knew about the quality of evidence Curveball gave to Germany's secret service, the BND.
Under German constitutional law, it is a criminal offence to do anything "with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations, especially anything that leads to an aggressive war", said Ströbele. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment, he said, adding that he did not expect it would ever come to that.
The MP said he would table a question to the Bundestag demanding to know whether the German secret service knew that Curveball was lying before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Schröder famously refused to join the "coalition of the willing" who took part in the second Iraq war.
Curveball told the Guardian he was pleased to have finally told the truth but that he was scared of the consequences. He said he had given the Guardian's phone number to his wife and brother in Sweden "just in case something happens to me".
In the US, questions are being asked of the CIA's handling of Curveball and specifically why the then head of the intelligence agency, George Tenet, did not pass on German warnings about Curveball's reliability.
Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to the US secretary of state Colin Powell in the build-up to the invasion, said Curveball's lies raised questions about how the CIA had briefed Powell ahead of his crucial speech to the UN security council, where he presented the case for war.
Tyler Drumheller, head of the CIA's Europe division in the run-up to the 2003 invasion, said he welcomed Curveball's confession because he had always warned Tenet that Curveball may have been a fabricator. But the harshest criticism came from Iraq.
Jamal al-Battikh, the country's minister for tribes' affairs, said: "Honestly, this man led Iraq to a catastrophe and a disaster. Iraqis paid a heavy price for his lies – the invasion of 2003 destroyed Iraqi basic infrastructure and after eight years we cannot fix electricity. Plus thousands of Iraqis have died. This man is not welcome back. In fact, Iraqis should complain against him and sue him for his lies."
Others poured scorn on Curveball's plan to return to Iraq and enter politics.
Intefadh Qanber, spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), led by Ahmed Chalabi, said: "He is a liar, he will not serve his country. He fabricated the story about WMD and that story gave the USA a suitable pretext to lead the 2003 invasion, which hurt Iraq. For most Iraqis, it was obvious that Saddam was a dictator, but they wanted to see him ousted on the basis of his crimes against human rights, not a fabricated story about weapons of mass destruction."
In the US, a pressure group representing veterans of the Iraq war demanded the justice department open an investigation into the INC's relationship to Curveball.
Chalabi, who was very close to the former US vice-president Dick Cheney in the decade leading up to the 2003 invasion, has often been accused of being the man behind Curveball. It has long been known that Chalabi provided the CIA with three other sources who lied about Saddam's WMD capability. But when asked by the Guardian, Janabi and Chalabi denied knowing each other.
CIA knew Curveball was lying
Colin Powell demands answers over false Iraq intel: reports
Obama and Gates want to keep more troops in Iraq
CNN: Egyptian VP Suleiman a 'feared man'
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMz0VzftXrw
Torture Victim of Omar Suleiman Speaks Out
Omar Suleiman: CIA's Torture Chief in Egypt
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Antony Loewenstein
Desertpeace
Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured and tortured in the years after September 11 in both Egypt and Guantanamo Bay.
For years, "war on terror" supporters defamed Habib and claimed he was lying about his allegations of mistreatment. However last year in just one case against the Australian Murdoch press, he won a small victory:
The courts have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman, paving the way for a hefty payout.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal overturned a 2008 judgment in favour of Mr Akerman's publisher Nationwide News and yesterday ordered them to pay Mr Habib's legal costs in the five-year-old battle.
It was the second win for Mr Habib in a month after the full court of the Federal Court upheld an appeal in his mammoth compensation case against the federal government for allegedly aiding and abetting his torture by foreign agents.
Another hearing will now be held to determine what damages he will receive for the 2005 article in The Daily Telegraph and other News Ltd newspapers, headlined "Mr Habib, it's time to tell the full story".
Today, with the Egyptian uprisings in full swing, the man tapped by the US, Israel and the West to lead the country, Omar Suleiman, was one of Habib's torturers and there is intense scrutiny of who this man truly is.
I interviewed Habib exclusively tonight in Sydney about Suleiman, his calls for the torturer-in-chief to be charged, his knowledge about all the figures complicit in his rendition and his support for the Egyptian protests. He stressed that Suleiman was a CIA/Mossad agent who was willing to do anything for a price:
I reviewed Habib's book, My Story, in 2008 for the Sydney Morning Herald and it tells a powerful story. The extracts below are all the references to Suleiman:
The guard quickly told me that the very big boss was coming to talk to me, and that I must be well behaved and co-operate. Everyone was nervous. I have since found out that the boss was Omar Suleiman, head of all Egyptian security. He was known for personally supervising the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and sending reports to the CIA. In the beginning, he was often present during my interrogations. He must have thought that he had a big fish when I was sent to him by the Americans and Australians.
I was sitting in a chair, hooded, with my hands handcuffed behind my back. He came up to me. His voice was deep and rough. He spoke to me in Egyptian and English. He said, "Listen, you don't know who I am, but I am the one who has your life in his hands. Every single person in this building has his life in my hands. I just make the decision."
I said, "I hope your decision is that you make me die straight away."
"No, I don't want you to die now. I want you to die slowly." He went on, "I can't stay with you; my time is too valuable to stay here. You only have me to save you. I'm your saviour. You have to tell me everything, if you want to be saved. What do you say?"
"I have nothing to tell you."
"You think I can't destroy you just like that?" He clapped his hands together.
"I don't know". I was feeling confused. Everything was unreal.
"If God came down and tried to take you by the hand, I would not let him. You are under my control. Let me show you something that will convince you."
The guard then guided me out of the room and through an area where I could see, from below the blindfold, the trunks of palm trees. We then went through another door back inside, and descended some steps. We entered a room. They sat me down.
"Now you are going to tell me that you planned a terrorist attack", Suleiman persisted.
"I haven't planned any attacks."
"I give you my word that you will be a rich man if you tell me you have been planning attacks. Don't you trust me?" he asked.
"I don't trust anyone", I replied.
Immediately he slapped me hard across the face and knocked off the blindfold; I clearly saw his face.
"That's it. That's it. I don't want to see this man again until he co-operates and tells me he's been planning a terrorist attack! he yelled at the others in the room, then stormed out.
The guard came up to me, upset that I hadn't co-operated.
I said to him, "You have to let me go soon; it's nearly 48 hours."
He looked at me, surprised, and asked, "How long do you think you've been here?"
"A day", I replied.
"Man, you've been here for more than a week."
They then took me to another room, where they tortured me relentlessly, stripping me naked and applying electric shocks everywhere on my body. The next thing I remember was seeing the general again. He came into the room with a man from Turkistan; he was a big man but was stooped over, because his hands were chained to the shackles of his feet, preventing him from standing upright.
"This guy is no use to us anymore. This is what is going to happen to you. We've had him for one hour, and this is what happens."
Suddenly, a guy they called Hamish, which means snake, came at the poor man from behind and gave him a terrible karate kick that sent him crashing across the room. A guard went over to shake him, but he didn't respond. Turning to the general, the guard said, "Basha, I think he's dead."
"Throw him away then. Let the dogs have him."
They dragged the dead man out.
"What do you think of that?" asked the general, staring into my face.
"At least he can rest now", I replied.
Then they brought another man in. This man, I think, was from Europe – his exclamations of pain didn't sound like those of someone from the Middle East. He was in a terrible state. The guard came in with a machine and started to wire up the guy to it. They told the poor man that they were going to give him a full electric shock, measuring ten on the scale. Before they even turned the machine on, the man started to gasp and then slumped in the chair. I think he died of a heart attack.
The general said that there was one more person I had to see. "This person will make you see that we can keep you here for as long as we want, all of your life, if we choose."
There was a window in the room, covered by a curtain. The general drew back a curtain, and I saw the top half of a very sick, thin man. He was sitting on a chair on the other side of the glass, facing me.
"You know this guy?" the general asked.
"No", I replied.
"That's strange – he's your friend from Australia."
I looked again, and was horrified to see that it was Mohammed Abbas, a man I had known in Australia who had worked for Telstra [Australian telecommunications company]. He had travelled to Egypt in 1999, and had never been seen again.
"He is going to be your neighbour for the rest of your life."
It was then that I knew I was in Egypt, without a doubt. They then took Abbas away and closed the curtain.
After the first interrogation with Suleiman, I believed the Egyptians weren't interested in where I had been; they only wanted me to confess to being a terrorist and having plotted terrorist attacks so they could sell the information to the United States and Australia. I decided then that I wouldn't answer questions or explain anything; but, as a consequence, I was badly tortured in Egypt.
Suleiman: We will unleash "dark bats of the night… to terrorize people" if protests continue
The Best Speeches at CPAC 2011
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Rumsfeld and Cheney Booed at CPAC 2011
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Suleiman: Military Crackdown if Protest Continue
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Egypt's anti-government activists called on supporters Wednesday to expand their demonstrations in defiance of the vice president's warning that protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster would not be tolerated for much longer.
Vice President Omar Suleiman, who is managing the crisis, raised the prospect of a new crackdown on protesters Tuesday when he told Egyptian newspaper editors there could be a "coup" unless demonstrators agree to enter negotiations. The protesters insist they won't talk before Mubarak steps down, which the president is refusing to do.
"He is threatening to impose martial law, which means everybody in the square will be smashed," said Abdul-Rahman Samir, a spokesman for a coalition of the five main youth groups behind protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. "But what would he do with the rest of the 70 million Egyptians who will follow us afterward."
Suleiman is creating "a disastrous scenario," Samir said. "We are striking and we will protest and we will not negotiate until Mubarak steps down. Whoever wants to threaten us, then let them do so," he added.
For the first time, protesters were calling forcefully Wednesday for labor strikes, trying to draw powerful labor unions into support for their cause.
Suleiman's warning was the latest in a series of confused messages from the government to the protesters. Officials have made a series of pledges not to attack, harass or arrest the activists in recent days, followed by Suleiman's thinly veiled threat of a new crackdown.
"We can't bear this for a long time," he said of the Tahrir protests. "There must be an end to this crisis as soon as possible." He said the regime wants to resolve the crisis through dialogue, warning: "We don't want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools."
He also warned of chaos if the situation continued, speaking of "the dark bats of the night emerging to terrorize the people." If dialogue is not successful, he said, the alternative is "that a coup happens, which would mean uncalculated and hasty steps, including lots of irrationalities."
Although it was not completely clear what the vice president intended in his "coup" comment, the protesters heard it as a veiled threat to impose martial law – which would be a dramatic escalation in the standoff.
Suleiman: CIA's Torture Chief in Egypt
Total Cost Of Wars Exceeds $2.5 Trillion
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Total Cost Of Wars Exceeds $2.5 Trillion – No Worries! US Media 'Fluff' Numbing Nation, Robbing Next Generation
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Thus far, the war in Iraq has cost over $740,000,000,000 — but the cumulative cost could be between two and three trillion dollars. The war has caused the death of over 4,400 American troops, and left more than 31,000 wounded.
Video – Americans consider the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan among the less important problems facing their country – according to a recent opinion poll. That's despite thousands of U.S. soldiers killed in action and more than one trillion dollars spent. But as RT's Lauren Lyster reports it may be the mainstream media that decides what really matters for the public…
What does a Trillion dollars look like?
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Chief of Torture Omar Suleiman (right) to replace Dictator Hosni Mubarak (left).
As things now stand, the United States appears ready to have Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak tossed out in exchange for his newly-named Vice President, Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy master. That is, maintain the status quo by swapping one dictator for another.
Of course, Israel must sign off on this deal aimed at assuring that Egypt can remain as America's main base in the region, straddling as it does North Africa and the Middle East. Without that status quo, the U.S. would have to rethink its entire neo-colonial policies in the region.
But Suleiman looks like a nasty piece of work.
You don't get much about him in the US corporate media, but Agence France Press has pulled together the basics:
"For US intelligence officials, he has been a trusted partner willing to go after Islamist militants without hesitation, targeting homegrown radical groups Gamaa Islamiya and Jihad after they carried out a string of attacks on foreigners. A product of the US-Egyptian relationship, Suleiman underwent training in the 1980s at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School and Center at Fort Bragg in North Carolina….
"After taking over as spy director, Suleiman oversaw an agreement with the United States in 1995 that allowed for suspected militants to be secretly transferred to Egypt for questioning, according to the book "Ghost Plane" by journalist Stephen Grey. ..
"In the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the CIA relied on Suleiman to accept the transfer of a detainee known as Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who US officials hoped could prove a link between Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. The suspect was bound and blindfolded and flown to Cairo, where the CIA believed their longtime ally Suleiman would ensure a successful interrogation, according to "The One Percent Doctrine" by author Ron Suskind. A US Senate report in 2006 describes how the detainee was locked in a cage for hours and beaten, with Egyptian authorities pushing him to confirm alleged connections between Al-Qaeda and Saddam. Libi eventually told his interrogators that the then Iraqi regime was moving to provide Al-Qaeda with biological and chemical weapons. When the then US secretary of state Colin Powell made the case for war before the United Nations, he referred to details of Libi's confession. The detainee eventually recanted his account."
Thus our loyal ally Egypt provided the fake information used by the United States to justify go to war in Iraq.
Stephen Soldz of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and co-founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology provided the following excerpts from authors who discussed Sulieman:
Jane Mayer, in The Dark Side, pointed to Suleiman's role in the rendition program:
"Each rendition was authorized at the very top levels of both governments….The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top Agency officials. [Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt] Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as 'very bright, very realistic,' adding that he was cognizant that there was a downside to 'some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way'" (pp. 113).
Stephen Grey, in Ghost Plane, his investigative work on the rendition program, also points to Suleiman as central to the program:
"To negotiate these assurances [that the Egyptians wouldn't 'torture' the prisoner delivered for torture] the CIA dealt principally in Egypt through Omar Suleiman, the chief of the Egyptian general intelligence service (EGIS) since 1993. It was he who arranged the meetings with the Egyptian interior ministry…. Suleiman, who understood English well, was an urbane and sophisticated man. Others told me that for years Suleiman was America's chief interlocutor with the Egyptian regime — the main channel to President Hosni Mubarak himself, even on matters far removed from intelligence and security."
Suleiman's role in the rendition program was also highlighted in a Wikileaks cable:
"The context of the close and sustained cooperation between the USG and GOE on counterterrorism, Post believes that the written GOE assurances regarding the return of three Egyptians detained at Guantanamo (reftel) represent the firm commitment of the GOE to adhere to the requested principles. These assurances were passed directly from Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS) Chief Soliman (sic) through liaison channels — the most effective communication path on this issue. General Soliman's word is the GOE's guarantee, and the GOE's track record of cooperation on CT issues lends further support to this assessment. End summary."
"Shortly after 9/11, Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured by Pakistani security forces and, under US pressure, torture by Pakistanis," writes Soldz. "He was then rendered (with an Australian diplomat watching) by CIA operatives to Egypt, a not uncommon practice. In Egypt, Habib merited Suleiman's personal attention. As related by Richard Neville, based on Habib's memoir":
"Habib was interrogated by the country's Intelligence Director, General Omar Suleiman…. Suleiman took a personal interest in anyone suspected of links with Al Qaeda. As Habib had visited Afghanistan shortly before 9/11, he was under suspicion. Habib was repeatedly zapped with high-voltage electricity, immersed in water up to his nostrils, beaten, his fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks. That treatment wasn't enough for Suleiman, so:
To loosen Habib's tongue, Suleiman ordered a guard to murder a gruesomely shackled Turkistan prisoner in front of Habib – and he did, with a vicious karate kick.
After Suleiman's men extracted Habib's confession, he was transferred back to US custody, where he eventually was imprisoned at Guantanamo. His "confession" was then used as evidence in his Guantanamo trial."
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Obama Scrambling To Replace One Crony Egyptian Government With Another
Mohamed ElBaradei: Globalist Pied Piper Of The Egyptian Revolt
Iraq 'Withdrawal' Incites More Attacks on U.S. Soldiers
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Iraqi soldier kills 2 U.S. soldiers
12 die in attack on Baghdad military headquarters
Obama's 'Mission Accomplished' Speech
Ron Paul San Francisco Speech
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Ron Paul San Francisco Speech – (9/4/2010)
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Shoes and Eggs Thrown at Tony Blair
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U.S. Soldier Waterboards 3-Year-Old Daughter
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TACOMA, Wash. – Army Sergeant Joshua Tabor was sentenced to 60 days in jail this morning after investigators say he "water boarded" his three-year-old daughter.
Police said 27-year-old Tabor punished his daughter last January in their Yelm home because she did not know her ABC's and was having trouble learning to use the bathroom. Authorities said he pulled his daughter's head backward into the kitchen sink.
Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil said Tabor knew she was afraid of water and thought it was an appropriate punishment.
At first Tabor entered a not guilty plea to the charge but then entered no contest please in August.
Tabor will not be allowed to see his daughter for the next five years.
Tabor's attorney said his client suffers from post traumatic stress disorder after serving tours as a helicopter mechanic in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another JBLM soldier, Ruben Colon, is awaiting trial for allegedly waterboarding his foster son as punishment last year.
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Obama's Iraq 'Exit' Is Like Bush's 'Mission Accomplished'
Obama Breaks Pledge to Withdraw Troops from Iraq
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Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011.
Obama declared in a speech to disabled U.S. veterans in Atlanta that "America's combat mission in Iraq" would end by the end of August, to be replaced by a mission of "supporting and training Iraqi security forces".
That statement was in line with the pledge he had made on Feb. 27, 2009, when he said, "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end."
In the sentence preceding that pledge, however, he had said, "I have chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months." Obama said nothing in his speech Monday about withdrawing "combat brigades" or "combat troops" from Iraq until the end of 2011.
Even the concept of "ending the U.S. combat mission" may be highly misleading, much like the concept of "withdrawing U.S. combat brigades" was in 2009.
Obama normalizing Bush's worst policies: ACLU


I'm sorry, it's very loud here. Can you say that again? You are or are not seeing the issue with the Secondary Lending calls? Are? Okay. Go ahead and start tracking them. Same drill, have them help the clients if possible otherwise ask them to call back. Hold on just a minute. I'll be right back. . .
I placed my phone and the ubiquitous one-sided headphones down between the pizza and the pitcher of rootbeer. Picking up a marbled black ball, I took a deep breath and threw it down the alley at the waiting ten pins.
I barely noticed as the ball connected perfectly and knocked them all sprawling. Good. I didn't have to throw the second ball to try to pick up a spare.
Yeah, this is Rodney. I'm back. Can you give me a status check on the agents in Lexington? Are they seeing any improvement at all?
Such was my Saturday. My company had a charity bowling event to benefit Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Utah. It was planned months in advance. We'd held bake sales and sold raffle tickets and put up posters around our buildings in Salt Lake City asking employees to donate, or form a team and join. I was invited by a former manager to join his team.
I didn't want to go. It's not that I'm against helping others, and Big Brothers and Big Sisters is certainly a worthy organization that does fantastic work. It's just that I work a lot of hours and Saturdays are generally reserved for kids and family. But, I also know that it's the extra things we choose to do that people remember. Much of my work is accomplished via influence and relationships. And if it took a Saturday bowling to help strengthen a relationship with that team, then, it was a worthwhile tradeoff.
What I didn't expect was to get a call at 7:30 Saturday morning that one of my sites was down. It quickly became obvious that all of my sites were down. I reached out to the client and joined their outage bridge on my headset, and assembled my team on a conference call on my other headset. But, 7:30 is a long way away from the bowling start time of 11:30. I figured we'd be done in plenty of time.
But, I did have to shower and get dressed.
Hey, sounds like we're in a bit of a waiting period. Give me a few minutes and I'll be right back.
The clock kept ticking and we were no closer to solving the problem. Well, I should point out that the problem existed on the client end. We were waiting on their engineering team to fix the problem. And we waited. And waited. Soon, it was time for me to leave for the event.
I need to switch to a single phone. I'm going to be using my cell phone and bouncing back and forth between the two calls. Bear with me, if you need something, it might be a minute before I check back in.
Rodney! Where have you been? Hurry up and get your costume on. We're about to start and they want to do pictures.
My friend had purchased "Rock Star" Halloween costumes for the members of the team. I wore the bright red jacket and zebra striped pants. Other team members had stars and lightening bolts painted on their faces with "big hair" fake wigs. As we gathered for multiple pictures, I discretely removed the earphones as each photographer took their turn.
I still had a job to do.
We worked out a strategy where I would stand on the far side of the arcade, away from the noise of the balls hitting the pins, the music and the really loud announcements. As it was my turn to bowl, my team waved me over and I put my call on hold.
Yep, I've now joined the ranks of middle-aged American men everywhere. I own a bowling trophy.


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Tails of Nye County celebrates grand opening
On a bright and crisp November morning with the sun beaming brightly in the sky and a sense of celebration in the air, a throng of local animal lovers gathered.
By Robin Hebrock Pahrump Valley Times
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce staff and Ms. Senior Golden Years ladies surround Tails of Nye County volunteers as they collectively celebrate the nonprofit's ribbon cutting ceremony on Nov. 2.
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times The new Tails of Nye County location was swarming with yard sale patrons on Nov. 2.
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times A new sign is proudly displayed above the door of the new Tails of Nye County office.
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times A huge array of donated items were on sale during the Tails of Nye County grand opening celebration, ranging from books, nick-nacks and furniture to kitchen gear, holiday merchandise and much more.
Robin Hebrock/Pahrump Valley Times A Tails of Nye County volunteer mans the cash box at the group's yard sale fundraiser, hosted Nov. 2 and 3.
Volunteers, patrons and supporters of all kinds came together, united in a single purpose – boosting Tails of Nye County, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation through its spay and neuter programs.
The morning included several exciting elements, with a grand opening in honor of Tails of Nye County's new office and a ribbon cutting to memorialize the organization's membership in the Pahrump Valley Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to raising awareness for the organization's mission with these ceremonies, Tails of Nye County also raised funding by hosting a two-day yard sale that drew a steady crowd of residents in search of unique treasures. The event concluded as a very successful endeavor and members of the nonprofit were delighted when all was said and done. Abundant thanks were extended to Pahrump Rentals, Pahrump Valley Properties, Nevada Realty and all those who donated and helped make the event possible.
Tails of Nye County volunteer Nancy Guin, whose focus is fundraising and community awareness, reported that the event brought in a total of $4,411. This money will go a long way toward supporting the group's programs, which include assisting people with the cost of spay and neuter services for their four-legged family members and a trap, neuter, release program for feral felines roaming the streets. "We really appreciate the community's support," Guin said with gratitude.
The new location is a big step forward for the organization. Guin explained that prior to securing the office, the group did not have formal premises.
"This is the first time we have had an office and we all love it. In the past we worked out of Denise's house and garage," Guin detailed, referring to Tails of Nye County President Denise Scherer. While several of the volunteers still perform various functions from their own homes, such as making flyers or utilizing eBay, the bulk of the work has now shifted to the new office, helping provide a smoother operation overall.
One of the most important components of Tails of Nye County is the volunteer force, as the organization does not have any paid staff. Volunteering is simple, Guin said, with no specific time or activity requirements. Anyone wishing to lend a hand can do so, in whatever area they choose and there are many avenues one can explore to help out.
"Volunteers can spend as much time or as little as they want," Guin said. "We need people to help with the dog spay and neuter program, eBay, trapping feral cats, transporting cats to Las Vegas, fostering kittens, collecting donations, pricing donations for sale, handing out flyers, obtaining items for raffles, selling raffle tickets, working on grants, working events, and general bookkeeping and paperwork."
For those looking for other ways to assist the nonprofit, Guin said educating the community is key and of course, fundraising is always a major focus. "People could spread the word on the importance and benefits of spay and neutering pets," Guin stated of how locals could aid the group. "We can always use money donations, raffle items and yard sale items as well. Tails of Nye County is also in need of a large storage container/Conex box to store our donations."
The new office is at 520 East St. in Pahrump.
For more information on volunteering, donating or to arrange to receive spay and neuter or trap and release assistance from Tails of Nye County email info@tailsofnyecounty.com or call 702-306-3245. More information can also be found at www.tailsofnyecounty.com
Contact reporter Robin Hebrock at rhebrock@pvtimes.com
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Nellis airman killed in US 95 rollover crash near Nye County
By Sabrina Schnur and Marvin Clemons Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
Four Nellis Air Force airmen were seriously injured and one died after a rollover crash early Wednesday on U.S. Highway 95 near Lee Canyon Road.
10 firearms stolen from Pahrump home
By Selwyn Harris Pahrump Valley Times
The Nye County Sheriff's Office is seeking information on the theft of multiple firearms from a local home.
Community news briefs from Pahrump region
Pahrump's Mountain Falls gets thumbs up for 52 more homes
After delaying a request for approval for a tentative subdivision map for Mountain Falls, the Nye County Commission readdressed the item at its July 16 meeting, eventually giving the tentative map the green light with a 4-1 vote.
Helping hands turn Pahrump house into home
The Pahrump Valley Rotary Club is an organization dedicated to community service, touting the slogan, "service above self" and it is always actively seeking ways to help the community it calls home.
Pahrump nonprofit enhancing its space through grant
By Jeffrey Meehan Pahrump Valley Times
A Pahrump nonprofit that focuses on addiction rehabilitation services has gotten a boost from the Home Depot Foundation.
Special to the Pahrump Valley Times
Editor's note: The Nye County District Attorney's Report is provided by the office of DA Chris Arabia. Plans call for it to be provided on a monthly basis as the information becomes available. Duplicate names represent separate cases. See pvtimes.com for a look at recent DA reports.
Emergency calls: Busy start to July for Pahrump Valley fire, rescue crews
At least three people were transported to Desert View Hospital following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Honeysuckle and Dandelion streets.
Celebration set for brownfields project in Nye County
The community is invited to attend a celebration marking the first successful brownfield cleanup completed by the Nevada Rural Brownfields Partnership utilizing the revolving loan fund, the Rural Desert Southwest Brownfields Coalition announced.
Fatal crash west of Tonopah area
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that involved three vehicles, west of Tonopah.

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Home » West Side Story
Based on a Conception of Jerome Robbins
Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Originally Produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince
By Arrangement with Roger L. Stevens
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
From the first notes to the final breath, WEST SIDE STORY is one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time. Arthur Laurents' book remains as powerful, poignant, and timely as ever. The score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as one of the best ever written. The world's greatest love story takes to the streets in this landmark Broadway musical that is one of American theatre's finest accomplishments.
Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET is transported to 1950s New York City as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the "American" Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence, and prejudice is one of the most innovative, heart-wrenching, and relevant musical dramas of our time. ~ RATED PG-13
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Maria: Kris Bramson (July 21, 22, 26, 28, Aug 3, 5, 9, 11, 16, 19) / Jennifer Scott (July 20, 27, 29, Aug 2, 4, 10, 12, 17, 18)
Anita: Cheyenne Green (July 20, 28, 29, Aug 2, 4, 9, 12, 16, 18) / Madison Ferraro Wechsler (July 21, 22, 26, 27, Aug 3, 5, 10, 11, 17, 19)
Riff: Jeff Lawless
Bernardo: Tyler Lopez
Anybodys: Maya Galipeau
Chino: Joel Tinjaca (July 20, 28, 29, Aug 2, 3, 11, 12, 16, 18) / Lyndon Apostol (July 21, 22, 26, 27, Aug 4, 5, 9, 10, 17, 19)
Doc: Dale Alpert
Lt. Schrank: Ray Mastrovito
Officer Krupke: Jim Bukowski
Rosalia: Allison Martinez
Action: Jack Cleary
Diesel: Solomon Ha
Baby John: Michael Kronenberg
Snow Boy: Patrick T. Rogers
A-Rab: John Alejo
Big Deal: Ryan Siuffe
Pepe: Sonny Nguyen
Velma: Briana Bauer
Graziella: Sophie Katz / Kylie Vincent (Aug. 3)
Francisca/Natalia: Paige Barrella / Imani White
Consuela/Margarita: Maia De Villers / Camryn Griffith
Glad Hand: Maxwell Oliver
Indio: Jaden O'Neal
Luis: Gil Yousem
Toro: Kristofero Morales
Teresita: Terri Ann Driggs
Estella: Melissa Higashi
Minny: Whitney Murdy
Clarice: Kylie Vincent
Pauline: Angelica Smith
"Somewhere" Soloists Meagan Chew (July 21, Aug 3, 4, 9, 10, 17) / Terri Ann Driggs (July 20, 26, 29, Aug 2, 12, 18) / Angelica Smith (July 22, 27, 28, Aug 5, 11, 16, 19)
Jet Girls: Briana Bauer, Maya Galipeau, Sophie Katz, Whitney Murdy, Angelica Smith, Kylie Vincent
Jet Boys: John Alejo, Jack Cleary, Solomon Ha, Michael Kronenberg, Patrick T. Rogers, Ryan Siuffe
Shark Girls: Paige Barrella, Maia De Villers, Terri Ann Driggs, Cheyenne Green, Camryn Griffith, Melissa Higashi, Allison Martinez, Madison Ferraro Wechsler, Imani White


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Opinion: "The Talk"
Buz Blog, Columns / By editor
There has got to be millions of Americans who have lost all patience with the Antifa and BLM riots, arson, looting and vandalism of statues and property. In the midst of all of this lawlessness and anarchy, the so-called progressives are now calling for defunding police. They have already eliminated bail in many cities and states where the worst public violence has occurred, which can only result in the continuation and/or increase in the carnage and destruction.
In between showing video of these "mostly peaceful demonstrations", leftist talking heads will state the cause for the discontent of the demonstrators is "systemic racism" in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. They never define what systemic racism is, but always point to the fact that more people of color are imprisoned. As proof that it exists, they point to every video of police interaction with minorities from Rodney King to George Floyd. The left leaning mainstream media not only likes to fan the flames of racial division, they like to throw gas on it by continuously re-showing videos of alleged police misconduct. Then they will expound on how police need more and better training.
Interspersed between the videos, the media will invariably interview some black leftist expert, professor or pundit who will enlighten us on how black parents will sit their children down, especially their sons, and give them, "the talk". This talk is about how to react when stopped by white police officers. Evidently, not all black parents give this talk, or not all the kids listen, or the parents aren't giving the right information, because every one of these video incidents would not have occurred if resistance to lawful police arrests had not occurred.
The biased left leaning media and radical progressives want everyone to think that police go out every day to hunt down, beat, arrest and kill people of color. They want us to think that the courts, judges and juries convict defendants based on the color of their skin rather than the evidence.
Although the majority of major newspapers, network and cable news shows push this agenda, the majority of Americans still don't believe it, because the statistics show the exact opposite. For last year, the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting shows that of the 10 million arrests law enforcement made, there were 1004 subjects that were killed in encounters with police, 41 of these deaths were of unarmed suspects. 19 of those were white and 9 were black. During that same time period, 89 police officers were killed.
The Black Lives Matter leadership doesn't care about any black lives except those that can divide our country along racial, gender, economic or sexual orientation lines. If they did, they would be holding demonstrations in Chicago, New York, LA, Washington D,C., and any other city where blacks are shooting and killing other blacks in record numbers. With the rise in lawlessness in cities that want to defund the police, reports state that black children and babies are increasingly becoming the murder and shooting victims of black criminals. Where are the protests by BLM, Antifa, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?
As far as "the talk" that black parents give their children about the proper way to act when interacting with police, (all parents, regardless of color should give the same talk to their children), the conscientious black parent should advise their kids where the real danger lies. Statistics have been consistent for the last four or five years and they show that black victims are more than 30 times more likely to be killed by black criminals than by police.


Scottish labour market conditions continued to improve in September, with sharp growth being recorded in both permanent placements and temporary staff billings, according to the latest Royal Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs.
At the same time, pay pressures intensified, with rates of starting salary and temp wage inflation accelerating since August.
"Imbalances between staff demand and supply remained however, with candidate availability deteriorating markedly while job vacancies continued to rise," said the report.
"Sustained growth in permanent staff placements was signalled by Scottish recruitment consultancies in September.
"Moreover, the pace of expansion quickened to the fastest since July 2014 and outpaced the UK average.
Job openings in Scotland continued to rise at a robust pace in September.
Permanent vacancies rose markedly and at the quickest pace in three months.
Salaries awarded to newly-placed staff in Scotland continued to rise in the latest survey period.
Scottish recruitment consultancies signalled sharp growth in starting salaries for permanent staff, in which the rate of inflation accelerated to an eight-month high.
Sebastian Burnside, Chief Economist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said: "Although the availability of labour continued to decline in September, Scottish recruitment agencies continued to signal sharp growth in staff appointments, both permanent and short-term.
"Hiring intentions also remained robust, with permanent and temporary job vacancies rising at faster rates.
"This, in conjunction with poor candidate availability, translated into further stronger pressures.


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FOI and Publication Scheme
Welcome to the Publication Scheme for Euston Place Dental Practice
The Publication Scheme is required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
This Publication Scheme is a complete guide to the information routinely made available to the public by Euston Place Dental Practice. It is a description of the information about our Dental Practice which we make publicly available. Some information is not made publicly available. It will be reviewed at regular intervals and we will monitor its effectiveness.
The publications are all free unless otherwise indicated. Where information is provided at a cost the charges will be calculated as set out in Class 7.
How is the information made available?
The information within each Class is available in hard copy from Euston Place Dental Practice, 13 Euston Place, Leamington Spa, CV32 4LJ.
• In addition to accessing the information identified in the Publication Scheme, you are entitled to request information about Euston Place Dental Practice under the Code of Practice on Openness in the HPSS (1996).
• The Freedom of Information Act 2000 recognises that members of the public have the right to know how public services are organised and run, how much they cost and how the decisions are made.
• From January 1st 2005,it will oblige Euston Place Dental Practice to respond to requests about information that it holds, and is recorded in any format and it will create a right of access to that information. These rights are subject to some exemptions which have to be taken into consideration before deciding what information it can release.
• Revised environmental information regulations may be introduced in the future. These will enable similar access to environmental information as under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
• Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you are also entitled to access your dental records or any other personal information held about you, and you can contact Douglas Watt, Euston Place Dental Practice, 13 Euston Place, Leamington Spa, CV32 4LJ.
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Principal Dentists
Dr Paul Mulligan Dentist Male Full Time
First registration with GDC : 1999 Registration No: 75956
Dr Vinnie Thandi Dentist Female Full Time
First registration with GDC: 2000 Registration No: 78102
Dr Douglas Watt Dentist Male Full Time
Dr Charles Buckle Dentist Male Full Time
Associate Dentists
Dr Lisa Troop Dentist Female P/Time
Dr Sian Pirotte Dentist Female P/Time
Julie Farrington : GDC Registration No: 2822
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Tricia happy to stay on despite baby plans
HEARTBEAT barmaid Tricia Penrose won't be calling time on her role despite revealing: "I'm desperate for a baby."
The actress, who plays bubbly Gina Ward, is set to marry Cheshire-baseds This Morning presenter Mark Simpkin next year.
"I'm finally settling down and I want a family," she says. "But I've no plans to give up Heartbeat. If I get pregnant, they could always film me stood behind the bar to hide the bump!"
Tricia burst into tears when he proposed to her. The couple met almost three years ago at a charity event but only started going out when he interviewed her at last year's National Television Awards.
In contrast - after ten years on TV - Gina's love life continues to lurch from one unsuitable date to another. "People always feel sorry for her. I get loads of letters."
Off screen, Tricia couldn't be happier, having "more or less moved in" to Mark's Wilmslow home while the couple look for a bigger house in the area.
But there's one big drawback - her horror of creepy crawlies. "I'm arachnophobic. I have spiders, and Mark's house is covered in them. It's a 350-year-old cottage and when you go in the bathroom there's at least four spiders in the bath.
"I can't cope and just scream the place down - Mark tells me to stop screaming and picks them up."
Tricia was asked to take part in last year's Celebrity Big Brother but filming commitments at the Aidensfield Arms meant she had to turn the offer down.
Channel 4 bosses are now in the process of putting together this year's charity version of the show. "It's only for a week. I would definitely consider it so long as there's no spiders."