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You think people who are against the Iraqi war are 100% SATANICALLY-INSPIRED! WOW! If you spent more time reading the loving words of Jesus you would see how wrong you are preaching this war mongering brand of Christianity. Jesus never said to wage wars and slaughter your neighbor but: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; :il: JESUS

Canada and Haiti A Pawn in Their Coup? By YVES ENGLER Does the new Canadian Prime Minister support democracy in the Americas or U.S. orchestrated coups? In his first major foreign policy move Paul Martin's government faithfully followed the U.S. (and French) lead in removing the legally elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, from power. Contrast this with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) whose chairperson, Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, said in a statement that CARICOM deplored "the removal of [Haitian] President Aristide " from office, as setting "a dangerous precedent for democratically-elected governments anywhere and everywhere." In other words, Canada has sided with the two "colonial" powers with a centuries-old tradition of meddling (to put it mildly) in Haitian affairs, instead of with the Caribbean nations which have endured a shared history of slavery and other forms of exploitation. Three weeks into an armed insurrection that left the country in turmoil and Aristide gone Martin said that he hoped "all parties ...respect constitutional order and the rule of law." Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham did no better with his comment that a "constitutional transition " was underway. The constitutional transition Mr. Graham refers to was a "coup" backed by the revival of Haiti's military force that has always served the country's tiny elite _ less than two percent of the population holding at least half the nation's wealth _ and the most reactionary faction of the U.S. political establishment. Whether President Aristide was actually kidnapped by U.S. forces, as U.S. Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters alleged, or was just presented with "an offer he couldn't refuse," there is no question that the Bush administration played the decisive role in this regime change. Let us connect the dots. In 1990 Aristide overwhelmingly won Haiti's first democratic election. Since he was a voice of the poor and oppressed, alarm bells went off among right-wing U.S. politicians and the corporations they represent. Bush the First immediately moved to undermine the new Haitian government by withholding aid and supporting opposition groups. Nine months into his mandate Aristide was ousted by General Raoul Cedras _ backed by the CIA _ who instituted a military reign of terror that led to the death of more than three thousand people, mostly supporters of Aristide. The Organization of American States announced an embargo against the illegal Haitian regime, which the U.S. promptly ignored. Not until the new Clinton presidency did the U.S. restore Aristide to power _ on condition that he adopt the harsh neoliberal policies of the International Monetary Fund. One of the IMF policies _ the elimination of tariffs on rice _ led to a massive increase in subsidized U.S. rice exports that devastated Haitian rice growers. Still, in 2000 Aristide again won the presidency and his Lavalas party took more than 80% of the local and parliamentary seats in legislative elections. In several multi-candidate contests where Lavalas gained a plurality rather than a majority of votes they should have faced a second round election. Instead a few candidates simply took their seats. (Imagine an MP with a plurality instead of an absolute majority!) In response the new Bush administration (and others) froze foreign aid until new elections could be agreed upon. This effectively gave the opposition a veto over international aid. Even after the senators in question stepped aside, the opposition continued to reject new elections because they knew they couldn't win at the ballot box. And with the country cut off from bilateral and multilateral financing Haiti's economy went into a tailspin, spurring political discontent. The International Republican Institute, a Republican-Party backed arm of the National Endowment for Democracy, gave the Haitian opposition political parties three million dollars a year. A month ago "rebels" armed with American-made weapons marched into the country from the Dominican Republic. This unsavory lot of wanted murderers, former coup plotters and narco-traffickers includes Emmanuel Constant who has already gone on record saying that in the mid 1990s he was on the CIA payroll. Rebel leader Guy Philippe was trained by the U.S. military as an army officer in Ecuador, according to a report published Friday by Human Rights Watch. Already it's been reported that Philippe has met with high-ranking members of the political coalition that opposed Aristide and he's been seen around U.S. marines. Last week the Bush administration stepped up its pressure by undermining Aristide's personal security when it blocked him from increasing his bodyguard staff hired from the U.S.-based security firm, the Steele Foundation. Was there a coup and did Canada support it? We do know Canadian troops were present at the airport when Aristide left the country. We do know Canada stood by and did nothing to support the legally elected president of the country as he faced armed opposition. We do know right wing American politicians are already touting Canada's complicity as justification for U.S. policy in Haiti. Unfortunately the evidence suggests Paul Martin has turned his back on millions of Canadians who want this country to support and build real democracy around the world. Instead, he has joined with right wing extremist elements in the U.S. who tell the world 'it's our way or the highway." Yves Engler at Concordia University. He can be reached at yvesengler@hotmail.com

By NEVE GORDON On the southern tip of the West Bank, situated on the slope of a mountain, there is a small village of Palestinian cave-dwellers. Its name is Jinba, and it is home to roughly three hundred inhabitants. A visitor might see the sheep grazing on a nearby hill and a tractor plowing the fields. An idyllic scene, especially following the rainy season, when the desert has turned green. But here too, the ostensible tranquility is little more than an illusion. Not unlike other cave-dweller villages in the Mount Hebron region, life in Jinba has become unbearable, and the small rural community is now on the verge of being annihilated. A few hundred meters south of Jinba the Israeli military set up a training camp and confiscated acres and acres of agricultural land which had previously belonged to the inhabitants. Armored vehicles and jeeps travel unrestricted even on fields adjacent to the village which the military has not expropriated, and thus destroy crops and frighten young children. A few hundred meters to the north, along the mountain ridge, a series of Jewish settlements and outposts have been constructed. The settlers threaten any Palestinian who climbs the mountain slope, thus preventing the residents of Jinba from plowing their northern fields and grazing their sheep. In addition, these settlers have also blocked the path between Jinba and Yatta, the major town in the region where the cave-dwellers buy basic foods and obtain medical services. Hence, the military and settlers have successfully restricted Jinba's residents to a miniscule piece of land which barely suffices to sustain the population. The inhabitants have been confined to a desert island of sorts, and in many ways their lives are now similar to the lives of thousands of Palestinians who are trapped between the separation barrier -- a complex series of trenches, roads, and fences -- and the Green Line, the pre-1967 border; it is extremely difficult for them to travel into the West Bank and impossible to enter Israel. Their movement has been severely restricted, and they have, in a sense, been imprisoned. Two months ago, the cave-dwellers suffered yet another blow. On January 15, a small plane sprayed some of the fields the villagers still had access to, destroying the crops that had been planted just a few weeks earlier with chemicals. What could not be carried out from the ground was accomplished from the air. To the inhabitants of Jinba the message was clear: You will not continue living on this land for long. The method is to destroy the infrastructure of existence so that the inhabitants will leave their land "of their own volition." In Hebrew it's called "transfer". But who is behind this sinister plot? On February 4, Ta'ayush activists (Jewish-Arab Partnership), together with an attorney from the Association for Civil Rights and a fieldworker from Physicians for Human Rights, visited Jinba. While they were there, the attorney made a phone call to the Hebron police, asking them to look into a complaint involving settler harassment of Palestinians. Little did she know what was to ensue. Four nights later, at about 3 am, three cars arrived in Jinba. The visitors seemed to be security officers from the nearby settlements. They woke the cave-dwellers, separating the men and women. Children were screaming and the elderly crying, but the armed men were unimpressed. They took the Palestinian men aside and threatened them. "Don't you dare walk in the direction of Mitzpeh Yair (an illegal outpost), and don't come near Bir El-Ad (the route to the regional capital Yatta)," the settlers shouted, thus reducing even further the villagers' living space. Before leaving, the settlers threatened that if the villagers were again to cooperate with lawyers or with Ta'ayush activists, their lives would be turned into hell. The settlers cannot directly prevent Israeli activists from visiting the cave-dwellers so instead they terrorize the local Palestinians. Their threat is also directed at the peace activists: Every time you come to gather evidence, we shall make the lives of the locals more miserable. This is a paradigmatic example of how settlers try to torpedo the work of Israelis who are struggling to protect the basic rights of the indigenous population. The well-orchestrated plot to embitter the lives of Jinba's inhabitants indicates that in the Mount Hebron region the breakers of the law work in concert with those who are paid to protect it: an unholy alliance has been established between the settlers, on the one hand, and the military and police on the other. Who told the settlers that a lawyer had visited Jinba? Who sprayed the fields? And who has allowed the soldiers to trample and destroy crops with their armored vehicles? The enormity of the danger facing the cave-dwellers becomes even clearer when one takes into account the rapid construction of the so-called separation barrier. According to the maps published by the Israeli government, the barrier will pass north of the cave dwellers' villages. Thus, like the villages in the north, they too will be stuck between the barrier and the Green Line. The ongoing harassment of the cave-dwellers as well as the attempt to undermine their infrastructure of existence should accordingly be considered as part of a war of attrition. By the time the separation barrier is erected in this region, the inhabitants' hold on the land will be very fragile. It will, therefore, be relatively easy to uproot and expel them from their homes so that the land can be annexed without Palestinians. The situation in South Hebron is but a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at large, which the current Israeli government conceives as a demographic war: it wishes to grab as much land as it can without upsetting the Jewish majority within the State. In Hebrew, as mentioned, this kind of scheme is called "transfer." Neve Gordon teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel and can be reached at neve_gordon@yahoo.com

I have addressed the false doctrine of you Christian Zionists many times in the past. The doctrine of the death and destruction of the Palestinian people is absolutely not Christian. This is the doctrine of devils! Mass murder, mass theft, mass deportation is not Christianity, you have been deceived! Christianity is about LOVE! Jesus said to love your neighbor

This is everyday life in the West Bank and Gaza: homes bulldozed, civilians bombed, people unable to get to the hospital because the hundreds of check points have been closed, children shot with high-powered US rifles

I guess to the uninformed your argument might seem convincing

Anti-Semitism is a racist ideology directed against the Jews. It has old roots. The Anti-Semitism of the Second World War, carried out by the Germans, was one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. But the campaign against the supposed new 'anti-Semitism' today is basically a ploy on the part of the Israeli Government to seal off the Israeli state from any criticism of its regular and consistent brutality against the Palestinians. The daily hits carried out by the IDF have wrecked the towns and villages of Palestine, killed thousands of civilians (especially children) and people are aware of this fact. Criticism of Israel can not and should not be equated with anti-Semitism. The fact is that Israel is not a weak, defenseless state. It is a regional superpower. It possesses more tanks and jet fighters than the rest of the Arab world put together. There is a big difference between racist anti Semitism, hatred towards Jews and those who condemn the Israeli state sponsored terrorism and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

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Dogs are a good example because of all the breeding that has been done to them. If you look at cats and horses, these are other animals that men have experimented with the most. Well! if I can show that in all of mans history in breeding animals there has been no evidence of animals changing their kinds, in fact it proves the opposite, that there is a limit that can

Dogs have been bred for thousands of years for different features but even though they can change different characteristics, they still remain dogs. God put limits within each

The good news that this article brings out is

It has been called a modern-day Manhattan Project

There certainly is a big difference between Cuba

UNICEF's 'State of the Worlds Children 2004 Cuban achievements in the health care field are impressive. Cuba's infant mortality rate is 6.3 deaths per 1000 live births, compared to Latin American nations with an average of 32.8 per 1000 births, and a U.S. rate of 7 per 1000 births. Cuba provides 100 percent free health care to all citizens, and has some of the best health indicators in all of Latin America, with about 1 doctor for every 170 people. Cuba also contributes to world health by sending 15,000 health professionals to serve in more than 64 countries in five continents. Cuba's achievements in the health care field have earned praise from the World Health Organization for being a model for the developing world; particularly in the areas of primary and preventive care. The Center for Defense Information, or CDI, a private research group based in Washington, reported that thanks to Cuba's biotech industry Cubans are immunized against 13 major diseases. The CDI report stated, "Today, Cuba is probably the most vaccinated society on earth.

Actually the Chavez government has been trying to help the poor of Venezuela, using money for government subsidized housing, medicine, and food. Chavez's big sin was the high taxes on oil which he used to help the poor, this upset the Bush administration which of course represents the oil cartels. The reality is that it is the opposition, which is mainly formed of the same sectors that robbed the country for 40 years and kept most of those who now support the Chavez government in poverty and controlled them with repression, these (with CIA help) are trying to topple Chavez a democratically elected official. The American government openly confesses to back democracy but then violently oppose any elected government that uses socialist policy to help the poor. Americans should be conscious of the enormous good Chavez social transformations have had on the poor of Venezuela and that is why the majority in Venezuela still support him. You guys should watch the documentary

I do admire their zeal.

Not surprisingly, the infestation of terrorists and evildoers who need "regime-change" always seems to crop up in these oil-rich locations. This administration is trying to corner the world

Running out of Oil, and Time: Panic will strike if we're not prepared with new technologies. By Paul Roberts Los Angeles Times Mar 8, 2004, 20:16 SEATTLE

And wouldn't it be wonderful if you were able to prove some of that before you spread it around...... like manure. You have nothing but THEORIES and RUMORS and you treat them like facts. Can you prove that Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11? No And the rest is the accepted liberal line on the war, no facts, but that's the standard answer. Be original.

(CBS) NEWS Paul O'Neill George Bush's Treasury Secretary speaks to correspondent Lesley Stahl.

Just look at the CIA report, after interviewing tens of thousands of Iraqis after the war they couldn

Looks like there is more oil in Canada than all of the Middle East, imagine that. From the Alberta Energy Department Canada has the world's largest single deposit of oil containing an estimated 1.6 trillion barrels of bitumen

I just wanted to stick this here as one uninformed person said the US only used 5 million in imported oil a day when in reality it