Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani --
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer who has

spent the last three years tracking and interdicting Bush

administration terror plans exposes the double-dealing side of

the alternative media, focusing on the Wing TV team of Victor

Thorn and Lisa Guliani, who have deliberately sabotaged the

ongoing efforts by the 911 Truth Movement to spread word to

endangered areas of possible pending 911's.

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Israeli/US Aggression and Occupation in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq: Teach-In
queer-j brad,

The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of San Diego sponsored a teach-in on July 27 to provide background to the recent attack on Lebanon, the escalation of attacks on Gaza, and the continuing occupation of Palestine, Iraq and now southern Lebanon. Six speakers discussed the historical and political context, the resistance, the human experience of occupation, and international law: Nasser Barghouti (moderator), Doris Bittar, Farid Abdel-Nour, Nadia Keilani, Marjorie Cohn and Jonathan Graubart. Audio Duration: 1:38:40, with partial transcript. A question and answer period followed. Audio Duration: 1:03:40.

"Imagine if the I-5 was bombed and I-805 and the I-15 and the depots of fuels and half of the gas stations of San Diego were bombed. Then imagine if one third of our hospitals had been destroyed. We have no electricity, no water and 800,000 of San Diego residents were forced to flee, go somewhere, inland maybe. Then you would get to understand the situation in Lebanon."

"As an artist, I have gathered many photo essays that document how individuals resist, often through creative acts, like Haldia at the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, whose camp now is surrounded by rubble, built her entire home with mortar, cinder blocks, and river rocks from Nabitieh... There are many forms of resistance, and all can be legitimate... For the ordinary person, Hamas and Hezbollah crush the walls of a demented and bigoted logic, whatever else you agree or disagree about their philosophy."

"Stability has historically has been usually brought about by barbarism and brutality...The reason Middle East politics is so complicated is that is usually hanging by thin delicate threads that connect different communities with each other... The reason the Middle East is unstable is that there hasn't been that kind of brutality in its history... I'm afraid that this administration takes this cruel truth not as reminder not to overvalue stability, not as a reminder of how cruel it is to merely pursue it. They take it as a prescription for what to do."

Prior to 1991, our first attempt to destroy Iraq, Iraqi women had equality in education and health care. They had the most progressive human rights in the region and they were the first Arab women to hold high positions in academia, government and law. Before the US invasion, they constituted 40% of the public sector work force and they made up 20% of Iraq's Parliament. In the U.S. Congress, only 15% of it is made up of women... Today an Iraqi woman walking alone in the street is asking to be killed, raped or kidnapped... I asked Iraqis if they had a message for the American people. None of their messages was without an expletive..."

"Bush could stop Israel in its tracks with a snap of his fingers. But why would he? Israel is doing his bidding. Redrawing the map of the Middle East to facilitate U.S. domination. Bush began that task with Iraq, and Israel is following suit with Palestine and Lebanon... The United States loyal and consistent support for Israel's policies to the tune of more than 3 billion dollars in aid per year has enabled Israel government to conduct a war of terror against the Palestinian and Lebanese people."

"These can be subject to great debate in the specifics, but a number of the Israeli actions defy any sort of debate. Certainly collective punishments, which is a pretty explicit effort to impose massive desperate conditions on the civilian population until they give in, is no question illegal. Certainly causing massive displacements, the attack on the power plants, even the United Nations, which is fairly diplomatic about this, has called these war crimes."

"About forty years ago, 1967, in six days the Israeli army destroyed the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, occupied all of the Sinai strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, killed thousands of soldiers in those Arab armies, all in six days. Today after 14 days of punishing bombardment of Lebanon, the Israeli army has not been able to progress more than 10 km into Lebanon."

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The Shortwave Report 8/11/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Cuba, Netherlands, Spain, and Russia.
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Operation Apocalypse: "888" Results
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer continues his

examination of End-Times Christians, and how they have been duped

into becoming a suicide cult, with an analysis of four predictions in his

August 1 essay, "Operation Apocalypse." The results are shocking and

disturbing, and invite new questions, even as they answer old ones.

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IndyMedia Presentation at Activist San Diego
Jonathan,

San Diego IndyMedia will be doing a short presentation at Activist San Diego's meeting this month. Please come if you would like to know more about IndyMedia.

When: Monday, August 14, 7PM

Where: Please join us at 4246 Wightman, 1 block south of University on Van Dyke, 2 blocks west of Fairmont Av in City Heights.
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Leafletting at Opening of Stone’s “W. T. C"
Al uh Looyah,

Make a Powerful Statement Leafletting at Opening of Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center”
Concerned citizens who believe there is a great amount of information being withheld from the public about what happened on September 11, 2001 will begin their campaign to leaflet at theaters across the United States on August 9 to educate World Trade Center movie goers about the need for a real investigation into the disastrous incident.
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San Diego Indymedia August Events
sdimc volunteer,

Monsterous neocons, bloodthirsty imperialists, hateful bigots, fascist war criminals, the inhuman prison industrial complex, greedy capitalists and lying corporate media aren't taking August off, so neither are we.

SDIMC 101
Learn How to Be the Media, Cover an Event, Compose a Story, Post to SDIMC Website, Participate in SDIMC.
Wed August 9, 7-9PM FREE

Open Hack Nite
ACTIVISTS, HACKERS, and ARTISTS get together, share, teach and learn tech skills. This month: intro to Ruby on Rails web design software and DIY music videos.
Wed August 16, 8-10PM FREE

SDIMC Film Nite
Berlusconi's Mousetrap. This film chronicles the massive anti-G8 protests in Genoa, Italy and the violent response of the Italian Prime Minister.
Wed August 23, 7PM $3-$5 donation requested.

All events at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, one block from City College, downtown San Diego.
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The Shebaa Farms under International Law
Gabriel Sawma,

On July 12, 2006, Hizbullah militia penetrated into Israel, they killed six soldiers and kidnapped two. Israel in return retaliated against Hizbullah by attacking Lebanese infrastructure. Hizbullah used rockets to attack Israel. In the process, civilians on both sides were killed. Hizbullah demands that Israel release Lebanese prisoners in exchange for the two kidnapped soldiers, and the evacuation from Lebanese Farms called “Shebaa Farms” occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967.
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The Shortwave Report 8/4/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
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Washington Post Runs Story on 9/11 Deceptions
Truth Bomb,

The Washington Post has run the following article suggesting that the 9/11 Commission suspected deception by Pentagon but failed to act.

In this time of great deception and lies, telling the truth is a challenging feat. With the Washington Post running a report on Pentagon lies suggests that the 9/11 myth may be revealed to the public.
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Queer Pride Events in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego held its 37th annual LGBT [Queer] Pride celebration July 28-30, and while most of the speeches, parade floats and festival booths were assimilationist, parts of the celebration did hearken back to the radical, liberationist roots of Queer pride. Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, dominated the July 28 rally, though his sermon-like speech which opened the July 28 pride rally was nearly equaled by the heartfelt poem read by San Francisco-based Queer African-American rapper Juba Kalamba as a memorial to his friend, AIDS activist Rocky Williams, who committed suicide July 24 after he became homeless when he could no longer afford San Francisco's astronomical rents.
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Israel's Racism
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Historically Jews have been among the world's victims of racism, but since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 the Jews who run Israel and support it in the rest of the world have turned into the perpetrators of racism. Israel's current attacks in Lebanon and Gaza show the essentially racist nature of Zionism — particularly its regard for Jews as a sort of "master race" and its belief that one Jewish life is worth hundreds or even thousands of Arab or Palestinian lives — and the striking similarities between how Israel treats its neighbors and how Nazi Germany treated the Jews.
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Bareback Videos Bring Back Natural Sex
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Bill Gardner and John Singleton founded Hot Desert Knights Video in 1998 to bring natural sex back to Gay pornography. Their videos feature "bareback" — condom-free — sex and avoid the highly staged and artificial action of more mainstream Gay videos. They insist they're not propagandizing for bareback sex and that Gay men who aren't HIV-positive should use condoms to help stay uninfected, but they also defend their right to make bareback videos as a civil liberties issue and say they're helping Gay men sublimate their desire for condom-free sex.
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Powerful Gay Art on Display in North Park
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Queer artist Al Walz's stark, sexually explicit images stand out in the current exhibit of Queer artists called "Gay Seduction" at the Arts & Entertainment Center, 3026 University Avenue in North Park, San Diego. His works depict Gay men's objectification of each other and feelings of unworthiness and suicide. He sat for an interview for the August 2006 issue of Zenger's Newsmagazine and revealed that he's a quite different person — quieter, more settled, less sex-obsessed — than he was when he created the works in "Gay Seduction." The gallery is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons and may be reached at (619) 260-1731 or  http://www.theaecenter.com
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San Diegans Protest Queer Executions in Iran
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

About 10 San Diegans participated in a demonstration held July 19 as part of an international commemoration of the first anniversary of the execution of two 17-year-old Queer boys in Iran. Though some Leftists questioned the timing of a protest targeting Iran just when the U.S. is threatening an imperalist attack against the country, participants said that they felt a need to make a statement that the executions were wrong and in any case it was highly unlikely that President Bush would use Queer rights as a pretext to attack Iran when he is so adamantly opposed to Queer rights in the U.S.
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War Protester Arredondo Speaks in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

When Carlos Arredondo first heard the news that his son Alexander had been killed in combat in Iraq, he literally went ballistic. He attacked the van of the Marines who had come to notify him with a hammer, then broke into it carrying a can of gasoline and a blowtorch, and set the van — and himself — on fire. Since then he's found more constructive outlets for his grief, including joining Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace and touring the Boston area, where he lives, and the entire country with a display featuring a coffin and photos of his late son. He and his wife Melida told their story July 8 in San Diego and left an audience intensely moved.
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Karmabanque
small WORLD Podcast,

Max and Stacy are Karmabanque/Karmabank Radio; where the tired and oppressed can hear some "jolly good rants" and extremely metaphorical financial entertainment about the neo-feudal corporate occupation and the suicide consumers they inspire.
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Professor of Propaganda: Lies of Alan Dershowitz
Rachard Itani - repost from counterpunch,

In a characteristic op-ed, titled "Arithmetic of Pain", that would surprise neither his supporters nor his critics, published by the Wall Street Journal on 19 July 2006, Alan Dershowitz sinks to new lows of depravity and inhumanity in his long-standing hate-mongering and truth-twisting anti-Arab, pro-Israel crusade.

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COOKING PURE DATA
Estudiolivre,

COOKING PURE DATA
COOKIN RAW DATA
RAW IDEAS ?

Converging recipes…
we’re always ready to cook…

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The Shortwave Report 7/28/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
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WORLD PEACE FORUM DOCUMENTARY DVD
pumpkinhead,

The Think Peace Documentary Film Project to release DVD of the World Peace Forum.
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Hoff and CLI
James Watwood,

My article demonstrates that James P. Hoffa is a Neocon, a War monger, and does not take his job as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters seriously.
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The Shortwave Report 7/21/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.
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June Open Hack Nite
queer-j brad,

June's Open Hack Nite featured an introduction to video editing, zine making facilitated by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go, and human-to-human nonhierarchical wireless networking.

July's Open Hack Lab will include more technological skill-sharing - an introduction to old school GNU/Linux (command line/typing as a more powerful alternative to pointing and clicking) - and zine making.

Wednesday, 19 July 2006
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (note later start time)
Voz Alta 1544 Broadway downtown 1 block from City College

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Lebanon & Sudan: Premeditated neocon wars
FactsPlease,

Before emotions get the upper hand, let's catch our breath and consider what General Wesley Clark wrote in 2003--that as of late 2001, the Neocon-led Pentagon was planning a five-year campaign of wars against seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. (And let's not forget that Sudan has both oil and uranium.)

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The Shortwave Report 7/14/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Spain, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
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Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts
Bill Douglas, author of "The Amateur Parent -,

An expose of the 9/11 conspiracy wing nuts endangering the very core of our democracy, and world peace.
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Solidarity Delegation to Venezuela
Edward Mercado,

LAST CALL
The objective of this delegation is to bring the revolutionary process taking place in Venezuela to light by facilitating the active participation of the delegates with several different community organizations and community-based social programs.


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FBI: No hard evidence connecting Osama, 9/11
Truthnow,

Why does the FBI's "Most Wanted" poster for Osama/Usama Bin Laden NOT mention 9/11? According to the FBI, it's because "the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." Might this explain why General Myers said "the goal has never been to get Bin Laden" and why Bush doesn't "spend that much time on" Bin Laden? No hard evidence--yet thousands of lives and hundreds of billions can be spent on "war"?

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Former Ugandan Parliament Member Speaks in SD
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Miria Matembe, former member of the parliament of Uganda and longtime women's rights activist there, spoke at the Mission Valley library July 2 and rankled many local activists — including Ugandan émigrés — with her insistence that the government's treatment of the Acholi people in the north is not an act of genocide but an attempt to protect them against terrorists. Matembe also described the horrible state of Uganda's rape and domestic violence laws and the issue that led her to break with her long-time ally, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni: his insistence on amending the constitution so he could run for a third term as president.
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