Sunday, August 13, 2006

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Death in Lebanon
Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH
...The Guardian (10.08.06) casualty chart notes: Lebanon yesterday: Civilians killed: 8 (at least); To date: Civilians killed: 1,005; Israel yesterday: Civilians killed: 0; To date: Civilians killed: 35: The bodies of those still lying underneath the rubble are not included. Perhaps the Fox News Team should be sent to help dig them out, despite the Israeli restrictions on any form of movement. Let’s have a reality check, folks? I would like everyone to see the p! hotographs, with their captions, that have been sent to me by Lebanon’s As-Safir newspaper...



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UN Resolution fails to acknowledge that Israel has launched a War against Lebanon
Transcript of Resolution 1701: "the word "War" is not mentioned.

Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was drafted by France and the US in close consultation with the Israeli government. a) The resolution is in blatant violation of the UN charter and international law. It fails to acknoweldge that Israel has launched an all out war on Lebanon in violation of international law. It desc! ribes the bombing and destruction of an entire country as as a "conflict between Hizbollah and Israel". The word "war" does not appear in the the text of the Resolution. b) Referring to the two abducted Israeli soldiers, the Resolution states that Hizbollah was responsible for launching "the attack on Israel on 12 July". It denies the fact, amply documented, that an all out war against Lebanon had been in the planning stages well before July 12. c) The historical causes of the war are denied. The abduction of the two Israeli soldiers on July 12, is presented as a just cause for Israeli retaliation...

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The UNSC 1701 Resolution: Why No Lebanese Should accept it
The Angry Arab News Service
The UNSC 1701 Resolution: Why No Lebanese Should accept it. So here is the text of the draft UNSC resolution. "Expressing its utmost concern at the continuing escalation of hostilities in Lebanon and in Israel since Hizbollah's attack on Israel on 12 July 2006, which has already caused hundreds of deaths and injuries on both sides, extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced per! sons." This paragraph clearly lays the blame on Hizbullah for the Israeli war of aggression. And notice that Hizbullah's capture of the Israeli soldiers is sneakily blamed for "the hundreds of deaths and injuries on both sides." Both sides is always brought up when Israeli record of murder and terrorism is being covered by an international agency under US pressures, in order to absolve Israel...

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What a Relief: Terrorist Babies Have Been Killed!
Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett
Dear George, This is a personal appeal for you to decide. I know that you are "the decider" who will make sensible decisions once you read this letter. The topic is terrorism. The noun "terrorism" is on a lot of peoples’ minds. The Oxford English dictionary informs me that the word means, "use of violence and intimidation especially for political purposes." I recall Nelson Mandela resorting to violence when peaceful request! s failed to achieve his political ends of justice and representation for all South Africans. The Palestinians seem likewise to have been radicalised over time after their legitimate political grievances for justice, representation and statehood were ignored. Keeping occupied land, not respecting the dictates of UN Resolution 242 while not withdrawing to the 1967 borders, imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians, building Apartheid walls around the Palestinians, of course are the types of minor irritants that could never in the minds of fair and just people ever constitute any form of violence or intimidation for political purposes –never!...

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It’s that’s time again – for another ‘terror plot’
William Bowles , I'n'I
"Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world." – Home secretary, John Reid
It’s amazing really that nobody sees the paradox of Reid calling for the abolition of what’s left of our civil rights in order to preserve them but then there’s nothing logical about the 'war on terror’, it is itself a contradiction of terms. As to Reid’s notion of his "fundamental values" well, one assumes these include the wholesale destruction of societies and their peoples and standing by whilst his allies do the same...

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Collective punishment against Lebanese civilians
The Angry Arab News Service
36 collective massacres occurred against the Lebanese civilians since the onset of the Israeli assault (from July 12-August 11). Israel violated all conventions related to the prohibition of collective punishment whereas it perpetrated voluntarily crimes against civilians and their properties, namely Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibiting collective punishment and Article 48 forbidding military actions against civi! lian populations and infrastructure. These collective massacres are as follows...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 11 August 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 8:29pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce battles were going on at the time of writing between Resistance fighters and US Marines in the city of ar-Ramadi about 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that more than 70 Resistance men were attempting to storm the US headquarter! s in the Immigration building in the middle of the city, while other fighters battles Americans occupation troops in the area of the provincial government building...

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Lebanon 'peace deal'.
Lenin's Tomb
...Since Israel hasn't been able to win, and given a potential domestic crisis for Olmert as a result, it has accepted a resolution that doesn't give it everything it wants, but is so vague that it cannot hinder the assault either. Israeli troops have been ordered to advance to the Litani. That being the case, there is no way they will evacuate quickly without being driven out: one does not try to advance 30 kilometres into another country only to beat a hasty retreat. What is m! ore, the Israelis continue to attack the civilian infrastructure, destroying the power facilities in the port city of Sidon. Among Israel's other attacks was a calculated attack on a convoy of thirty cars fleeing Marjayoun, which killed at least six people and wounded thirty...

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Terra! Terra! Terra!
Sploid
The alleged U.K. terror plot has been investigated for months by British intelligence, and the idea that the airliner attacks were planned for today seems to be nothing more than political fabrication and media hysteria. Tony Blair and George W. Bush even planned the terror freakout in a series of phone calls that began last Friday and continued through the weekend. Blair and Bush put the finishing touches on their diabolical operation in a phone call early Wednesday, the Associated Pr! ess revealed today...

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Fascist Christian Militia With History of War Crimes Consulting With Fascist Israeli Occupation Army Also Guilty Of War Crimes
Palestinian Pundit
Israel has called on the services of the Christian militia it once sponsored in Lebanon to help its current fight against Hizbollah, the militia's former leader has disclosed. Gen Anton Lahad assumed control of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) in 1984 - two years after it was implicated in the massacre of up to several thousand Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and! Shatila. Now he says that Israel is tapping into his expertise in secret meetings...

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One Iraqi father gets a taste of freedom
Truth About Iraqis
Freedom. Liberty. Justice. Family of nations. War on terror. From Zappy's Where Date Palms Grow: Saturday, August 12, 2006 Dracul’s Barbecue It is told that Count Dracul had his enemies impaled on the outskirts of Transylvania to horrify the Turks from ever wanting to invade Transylvania that was back in the fifteenth century. Last week a neighbor found his son in front of his door, Impaled with a reinforcing steel rod, there were tomat! oes and onions on both sides of that Rod. I am going to stop blogging for a while. Zappy, who can blame you. But do our souls go silent as well? What can we possibly tell this father? How can we console him? And when we are done consoling him, how many countless others are there grieving, distraught and in disarray? What do Iraqis have to look forward to? Death? In Iraq these days, it is said those who die are blessed for they do not have to face what else is coming...

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The Anglo-American empire’s “next 9/11” will set up final war; “foiled” UK terror plot a propaganda dry run
Larry Chin, Online Journal Associate Editor
The August 10 report of a spectacular foiled UK-based super-terror plot, an alleged Operation Bojinka variation, has sparked an unprecedented round of 9/11-style fear and panic mongering throughout the world. This is a new attempt, at the highest levels of the Bush and Blair administrations, in concert with Pakistan’s ISI and Israel, to fabricate the justification! for an escalation in the "war on terrorism" across the Middle East. This escalation will include an attack on Iran and Syria as early as October, and with even greater geostrategic violence to follow. Proof that Bush administration planning the next 9/11. Dick Cheney recently declared: "The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again." That is a concise description of Cheney’s own administration, and its intentions. And he knows it...

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Demonstrate today! Stop the U.S./Israeli assault on Lebanon and Palestine!
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Event details: Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. re-event coverage of the march in the Washington Post, entitled "Protest to Encircle White House." As far as the "peace deal" agreed to last night by the U.N. (not by the warring parties!), I believe this headline, describing actions taking place after that vote, pretty much says it all: "Israel nearly triples troops in Lebanon." Actually! what also says it all about this one-sided deal is the slogan you'll be chanting today if you go to one of the demonstrations: "No justice, no peace!"...

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War now, peace later: Israel’s doves line up behind war - Part one
Jean Shaoul, WSWS
One of the most significant features of Israel’s wars of aggression in Gaza and Lebanon is the unanimity between the so-called "hawks" and movements that in the past were considered "doves." Peace Now has remained largely silent over Israel’s massive assault on Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, ongoing since June. In the case of Lebanon, from the moment full-scale hostilities began in July following Hezbollah’s capture of two I! sraeli soldiers, Peace Now declared its support for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and the Olmert government. It issued a statement on its web site explaining that its members had gone to Kibbutz Gonen in northern Israel to proclaim that Israel had the right to respond to the capture of the Israeli soldiers and that Peace Now supported Israel’s right to defend its borders. Peace Now has echoed the government’s propaganda that Israel faces provocations by Hamas and Hezbollah, accepting the official Israeli and American definition of both organisations as terrorist groups...

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We are all Hezbollah!
Sabbah's blog
... I wrote this poem a few days ago..my friend in Lebanon passed on Friday. He was helping women and children escape from Tyre. His legs were blown off and he was left in this position for many hours. He later died on the way to assistance when the Hezbollah soldiers found him. He was not a soldier. Just a boy studying photography, he likes flowers and had a small little bird, and loved peanut butter. sorry if i sound mad right now...

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Bomb Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers in Baghdad
AP
Two U.S soldiers were killed Saturday when their foot patrol was hit by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, the military said. The deaths brought to 23 the number of Americans killed in Iraq this month. At least 2,600 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The names of the soldiers were not released and no further details were given...


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LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves
Terrorists planned to mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport bins?

Steve Watson / Infowars.net A
The latest terror plot facade is nothing more than an exercise to assess how subservient the general population has become and a primer to making permanent the panicked and ridiculous freedom crushing security measures we are seeing being rushed into implementation at the moment. Whilst the government is saying there is no goin! g back on these measures and that they will become permanent, the media is bleating about rushing in biometric retina scanners and Orwellian behaviour sensing technology. This is the only way they can do these things without backlash and protest, just have a major terror alert and rush them through. How is it that people can still deny that our governments are forwarding a big brother control agenda? ID cards, Biometric databases, retina scanners, face scanning cameras, behaviour sensing machines. The list goes on. It has been proven over and over that these measures will not help prevent terrorism, the government itself has even admitted this, so why do they relentlessly push them?...

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Miri Eisen, Mother For Peace, Justifies Killing Arab Kids And Arab Bloggers See the Light
Umkahlil
...The Christian Science Monitor writes that the Arab and North American transplant Zionist bloggers aren't seeing eye-to-eye so much nowadays. Pity that they no longer will be used by Zionist propagandists to put a good face on Israel. Like Miri Eisen, a transplanted American, who is hailed as a "Mother For Peace," along with Vichy Palestinian Noni Darwish, who comes on CNN to put a nice face on Israel's slaughter ! of handicapped Lebanese kids. At least Rosemary Church of CNN International didn't let her get away with it (this is a great video)...

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The Wailing Wall Martyr Brigade: Jewnetic Engineering
Gilad Atzmon, peacepalestine
As the Israeli Army buries its dead in what seems to be a war that the Jewish State can never win, we happen to learn from a high official within the Pentagon that Israel is about to make use of what seems to be its ultimate devastating weapon. We also have discovered that the recent French-American diplomatic push for a UN Security Council Resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire is there to postpone the deployment of this n! ew weapon, preventing Israel from dragging the world into a new horrifying phase of warfare, with results whose outcome cannot be predicted...


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Bush Versus the Constitution
David Swanson
Last December, when Congressman John Conyers released a huge report documenting the evidence that Bush and Cheney had lied us into a war, he also introduced a bill (H. Res. 635) to start a preliminary investigation of the matter and make recommendations on impeachment. This showed far more courage, not to mention long hours of work, than any other member of Congress had mustered at that time or since. But it was disingenuous. Impeachment is itself an investigation; a pre! liminary investigation is redundant. And any investigation is unnecessary when the impeachable offenses are part of the public record. Last week, Conyers released an expanded report, including new superfluous evidence of proven crimes related to the war, plus a lengthy Section 2 focused on illegal spying programs. The evidence of blatant criminality and threat to the Constitution in this new section is devastating...

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The dog really does wag the tail!
Simon Jones
Just when it became patently obvious that the tail was in complete control of the dog (i.e., Izzy was directing US Middle East policy), the dog has decided to try to reassert control over its nether appendage. Since the days of Raygun, the Jewish lobby in Washington (and every nook and cranny in the US) has wielded more and more power, until with AIPAC, PNAC, 911 and Iraq, it took complete control over US foreign policy, getting Washington to wage open war agai! nst Israel's greatest enemy - Islam...


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The terror plot (London Liquids)

CANNONFIRE
Joseph Cannon (cannonfiremail@yahoo.com)

The terror plot

By Joseph

These days, one expects the conspiracy theorists to show up earlier. After all, an alt.conspiracy.princess-diana newsgroup appeared within hours of that tragedy. Yet we've had a surprising dearth of "alternative" takes on the recent foiled plot to blow up airliners.

Fortunately, "old reliable" -- Wayne Madsen -- has come through. He claims that Blair and allies literally cooked up the entire scenario, using the old Bojinka plot as a template. Unfortunately, most of his info comes from his usual unnamed sources, which means that we outsiders can do little but shrug our shoulders.

Madsen:

The London terror plan was "known" last Sunday by British and American authorities, according to the Indian press. American Airlines flight 109 from London Heathrow to Boston boarded a family of five, however, after the plane left Heathrow authorities determined that the father appeared on a British suspect list drawn up after the 7/7 London transit attacks. At first, the pilot was instructed to fly all the way to Boston where U.S. authorities could claim credit for apprehending the suspect. However, the pilot, fearing for the safety of his passengers and crew, refused and quickly returned to Heathrow without informing the passengers.
The "Indian press" story (from DNA, Daily News and Analysis) Madsen cites is here. The incident was covered elsewhere, of course, albeit in a rather different way. This little-noted "precursor" event is undeniably strange, and may prove significant.

Madsen does not prove his point by discussing Murdochian attempts to sandbag George Galloway and Scottish Socialist Tommy Sheridan. Neither am I sure of the relevance of the stories he tells about eavesdropping on Prince Charles and Prince William.

The following, however, is germane:
Not surprisingly, after Galloway tore into a Sky News reporter on a recent televised interview, The Sun, a Murdoch paper, is now reporting that one of the 24 British aircraft liquid bomber suspects now under arrest, Waheed Zaman, met with Galloway "many times." The paper quotes the sister of the suspect. A Galloway spokesman denies that Galloway knows the suspect. What is suspect is the Murdoch media empire that makes up news and commits illegal acts to provide cover for the false flag operations being conducted by Britain, the U.S., and Israel.

Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) agency has helped provide the cover story for the alleged liquid bombers. Working with British and U.S. intelligence, the ISI says it broke up the plot after arresting terrorist suspects in Lahore and Karachi. However, the ISI claims that the men were affiliated with the Kashmiri terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group that is run and funded by the ISI itself.
We thus come to what should be the starting point for any alternative take on this incident. Many reports stress the help allegedly given by Pakistan's decidedly non-democratic government. This is the same country which helped give rise to the Taliban, which helped give rise to Osama Bin Laden, and which still harbors the leader of Al Qaeda. Moreover, Pakistan created the Islamic bomb, using Saudi money and -- some say -- a certain degree of American equipment.

In an earlier post, we mentioned informant Randy Glass, who participated in an FBI sting operation against a Pakistani weapons dealer named R.G. Abbas, believed to have strong connections to the ISI. While dining with Glass and a government agent named Stolz in June of 1999, Abbas is said to have predicted the destruction of the World Trade Center.

That was then. Now, we are told, the Pakistanis may have helped to prevent Bojinka 2.

I urge readers to read Larissa Alexandrovna's take. She questions not the reality of the plot but the timing of the arrests:
The arrests appeared sloppy. Scotland Yard was still involved in raiding and arresting suspects at the time the story broke, and the raids and arrests continued throughout the day and evening. The mastermind was still in Pakistan, when one would have hoped that authorities would have ensured his capture prior to the raids, as such a person could provide information about higher ups and financial backers. Why did the Brits suddenly move? This was the question that had experts completely confused.

My opinion on this whole timing issue is that the White House played politics with classified information, again.
Later, she gives her bottom line:
Is it possible that the White House, eager to score political points with the American radical right (note, not actual Republicans, those having jumped ship eons ago), actually blew yet another classified program by yapping to reporters and talking point crafters? In my opinion, yes.

In my opinion it was despite the Bush administration that the Brits managed to still secure the alleged plotters, not as a result of White House help in the matter.
The timing is odd. One of the most intriguing stories about the plot appeared in Ireland On-Line:
The arrest in Pakistan of a key suspect with alleged al-Qaida links, British national Rashid Rauf, prompted an unidentified associate of his to make the call from Karachi to one of the suspects subsequently arrested in Britain, the officials said.

“This telephone call intercept in Karachi and the arrest of Rashid Rauf helped a lot to foil the terror plan,” a senior Pakistani security official.

It wasn’t clear exactly when the call was intercepted, but officials have said Rauf – one of at least two Britons of Pakistani descent arrested in Pakistan - was held about a week before the plot was foiled in Britain on Thursday.
The first question that pops into my mind after reading these words is: If the mastermind was in custody a week before, wouldn't the bad guys lie low, stash all incriminating evidence, and hightail it out of the U.K.?

Later in the story, we learn that Rauf and his family had been under surveillance since December.
The official said one of the suspects caught in Britain and named by British authorities, Tayib Rauf, is a close relative of Rashid Rauf.
So the Brits must have known something was up for months. And the plotters must have known that the operation was blown. When the cops haul in your boss, that's a pretty clear sign that the jig is up.

Grounds for crying "conspiracy"? Nope. Not yet.

But something about this story does convey a funky smell. Perhaps the plot was genuine, but blown out of proportion for political purposes? Lord knows we've seen that sort of thing before...

By the way -- I am wondering if the Rashid Rauf mentioned above is the same Pakistani advertising his services here? He is, we are told, a "Business Man, Entreprenuer, Author and Research Analyst." The page references a couple of restaurants in the U.K., as well as a firm called Healthwise, whose web page is here. I wonder if the products sold by this firm relate in any way to the stories we've heard of "liquid" weapons disguised as everyday items?

I'd like to know more about this fellow -- and I would like to know if the two Raufs are one and the same.




WHITE WINE MAY BE AS GOOD AS RED FOR HEART

UNDERNEWS
Undernews is the online report of the Progressive Review, edited by Sam Smith, who has covered Washington under nine presidents and edited alternative journals since 1964. The Review is an online journal and archive of alternative news. It has been on the web since 1995. See main page for full contents

WHITE WINE MAY BE AS GOOD AS RED FOR HEART

By TPR

TIMES OF INDIA - White wine may be just as good for the heart as red, says a new study. Till recently researchers had suggested that red wine contained antioxidants that were good for the heart. Grape skins are crushed along with the pulp to make red wine, but the skins are separated for preparing white wine. A group of American and Italian researchers compared the effects of feeding laboratory rats water or equal amounts of grape pulp extract, or grape skin extract for 30 days. The results published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry showed both extracts were equally effective in protecting the rats from induced heart attacks, reported online edition of health magazine Web MD. Rats fed either grape skin or grape pulp extract had significantly smaller heart attacks compared with those fed water, it said. In addition, tests showed both extracts appeared to have the same level of antioxidant activity.

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Key Terror Clues Found 10 Days Ago

British intelligence agents secretly raided a home 10 days ago that contained the bomb materials that were to be used for blowing up U.S.-bound planes, officials told CBS News.




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Bloglines - Chicago's Hancock Center heads for sale block

Deconstructing a False-Flag Operation

Chicago’s Hancock Center heads for sale block

By culhavoc on All Research

August 11th, 2006
by Culhavoc

Deconstructing a False-Flag Operation

This may be something to keep an eye on. The owners of Chicago’s John Hancock Building are considering selling the property. It’s the third-tallest skyscraper in Chicago and the fourth-tallest in the US.

Like the WTC and Sears Tower, the Hancock is loaded with asbestos, which is extremely costly to remove.

I recommend keeping a watchful eye for shadowy investors/purchasors.

See “Monsters in the Closet” - Time Magazine

Chicago’s Hancock Center heads for sale block

Crain’s — The owner of the John Hancock Center is taking the first step toward putting the iconic Michigan Avenue skyscraper up for sale.

Shorenstein Properties LLC has hired New York real estate firm Eastdil Secured LLC to study options, including a possible sale, for the 100-story tower, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based investment company confirms. The move comes after San Francisco-based Shorenstein entertained offers from developers earlier this year for a hotel conversion of some of the building’s 888,500 square feet of office space.

“Once that evaluation comes in, Shorenstein will make a decision about whether to hold, to entertain these offers, to sell or whatever other possibilities the Eastdil report gives,” the spokeswoman says. The study is expected to be completed next month, she said.

Stephen J. Livaditis, senior managing director in the Chicago office of Eastdil Secured, declines comment.
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The possible sale comes amid signs that the investment market for downtown office towers may be peaking.

“Evidence is mounting that the investment market is calming,” according to a report by New York real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics Inc., citing in part rising interest rates.

“With the frenzy subsiding, institutional buyers are no longer paying such a premium on their acquisitions,” the July report says.

And Hancock Center, built in 1970 and located at 875 N. Michigan Ave., may face its own unique challenges.

Largely because of the unraveling in 2003 of a key tenant, insurance brokerage Near North National Group Inc., about 17% of the Hancock’s office space is available, according to real estate research firm CoStar Group Inc.

Even so, because of strong retail rents and revenues from broadcast antennas and parking, the Hancock Center could sell for $350 million, some sources estimated.

“If it turns out that the building trades at $350 million, that would mandate that the buyer have a solution for the vacancy,” says Chicago developer J. Paul Beitler, who made an unsolicited bid to buy the Hancock earlier this year. “It’s a gemstone building, but an enigma to investors” because of its varied income streams.

One of developers who expressed interest in a hotel redevelopment says he isn’t surprised by the move.

“I would do the same if I were in their shoes,” says John W. Rutledge, chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Oxford Capital Group LLC. He says he remains interested in a deal, “whether it be with the current owner or a new owner, but only if the economics make sense.”

Shorenstein purchased the building in 1998, paying $220 million from the namesake insurance company, now a unit of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp.

As a part of the sale, Hancock retained naming rights under an agreement comes up for renewal in 2008.

Despite a weak office market along North Michigan Avenue, office rents only about for about a quarter of the building’s net operating income, some sources say. The building also includes nearly 152,900 square feet of retail space, a 23,900-square-foot observation deck, a 34,300-square-foot broadcast facility for the antennas on top of the tower, and a 716-car garage.

The potential Hancock sales comes just two months after Shorenstein completed the $470 million sale of Prudential Plaza, the 2-million-square-foot office complex overlooking Millennium Park. The company’s other Chicago asset is 500 W. Monroe St., a West Loop office tower.

(source)

Also see: Chicago’s Sears Tower: 60606

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The London Plot
Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark

Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
A huge 'terror plot’ has just been uncovered in London. "This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale" say the London Metropolitan police. Britain's terror alert, accordingly, has been ratcheted up to its highest-ever level with security services, military and police now on "severe specific" alert. Not to be left behind, even though the list of unanswered questions, irregularities, and discrepancie! s continues to grow with each passing hour, the obedient Western media jumped at the occasion ensuring a spate of spectacular cover stories and anti-Muslim tirade. As usual, though the facts are still coming in, the media is dutifully following the open-ended cues provided by the US and British governments, and reproducing the handed-down script without a pause for the facts to emerge fully...

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Video
Lebanon Shocking Documentary "Fog of War"

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Best Lebanon War Documentary. Lebanese Doctors and Civillians Speak Out against the Terrorism they are facing from Israel. Chemical Weapons, Cluster Bombs, Massacres Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tradgedy in Qana. Lebanese testimonials to the war there, please share this video! Doctors Speak Out Against War Crimes...

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Israel Wants the Litani River Water and Farmlands
Dr. Sam Hamod
The fact that Israel is trying to destroy all of Lebanon, not just Hezbollah, is clear by their bombing of Christian villages and other infrastructure that has nothing to do with Hezbollah. What Israel really wants is control of Lebanon by a puppet government, but also covets the Litani River and the lands it irrigates--very good cropland that is the heart of the Bekka Valley, which is the heart of Lebanese agriculture. Israel also wants the electric! ity the dams and the Litani generate--so that they may use this for more of their "settlements" and, just like Hitler, they want this area but use different names for their taking of the land of others...

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Huge cost of US-Israel State Terrorism
Gideon Polya
...The continued civilian-targeting and infrastructure bombing by racist, war criminal US-Israeli State Terrorists (USISTs; US planes, tanks, bombs and shells and Israeli military "just obeying orders") is set to cause horrendous "annual avoidable deaths" of over 44,000 annually. The US is still blocking World demands for a ceasefire and USIST remains resolute in preventing Peace (or even "interim Peace") with Equality, Justice and Reconciliation in the Middl! e East. The only sensible course for the Civilized World involves immediate International Boycotts and Sanctions ("free market choice" in all areas of human activity) against racist, war criminal US-Israeli State Terrorists (USISTs) and against all the countries, corporations and individuals supporting US and Israeli war crimes in the Middle East. Such Sanctions and Boycotts were ultimately successful against the similarly racist and violent Israel- and US-backed Apartheid regime in South Africa...

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The latest "terror plot"
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
There isn't enough information yet to know if the latest "terror plot" was a real one, or yet another agent provocateur -induced, hyped-up phony. I just want to focus on one detail of the hype, which I have heard from several sources, because it comes straight from the U.K. police so it's being widely repeated: UK police said they could have caused "mass murder on an unimaginable scale". "Unimaginable"? Really? Blowing up nine planes is truly horrif! ic, but the dead might total, what, 2000-3000? That's about the number that were killed in Iraq in just the last month, and pales before the number of Iraqis that have died since the U.S./British invasion...

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Some Anti-war Activists fail to see the Imperialist Roots of the U.S. Democratic Party
By Joshua Frank with Axis of Logic editorial comment
Joshua Frank's discerning analysis shows that many anti-war activists like Cindy Sheehan fail to see the futility of supporting any Democratic Party candidate who tries to gain support on an anti-war ticket. Democrats have shown their true colors as never before in their nearly unanimous support of the war on Iraq and of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. We are often keen to re! mind people that Bill Clinton (Slick Willy) killed more people in Iraq than George W. Bush through his 8 years of sanctions. As president, he was also heavily invested in the industrial military complex and resulting death and destruction in former Yugoslavia and Sudan. The war on the people of Vietnam was driven than none other than Lyndon Johnson who repeatedly deceived the U.S. population. The Democratic Party has a long history of making war and interfering in the domestic affairs of many other sovereign nations. Any "anti-war" effort that embraces the Democratic Party is at best naíve and at worst in complicity with a political party that puts profits for the ruling class ahead of the welfare of working class and poor in the United States...

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Time Bomb
Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition
Some brief thoughts on the latest mass-induced near-death experience. The crawl on MSNBC Thursday night read Terror in the Sky: Mass Murder on an Unimaginable Scale! Well, no; and I mean no to everything. There is no terror in the sky, unless you're Iraqi or Lebanese, or reside in northern Israel or any of the world's other free-fire zones and might expect to see death fall from it. Or unless we can include the sky itself, churning with strange weather and unwholes! ome artifacts, and a sun that now seems to burn an alien white. Because if we look up, we may just catch our breath...

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Israeli strikes on Lebanese watersheds questioned
Kim Murphy
Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, raising accusations here that Israel is using its war on Hezbollah to lay claim to Lebanon's prime watersheds. Heavy fighting and a series of targeted strikes on open water channels and underground water diversion pipes has effectively suspended much of Lebanon's agricultural use o! f the Litani River along the coastal plain and in parts of the Bekaa Valley near Qaraon dam, according to water engineers who have surveyed the south...

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No dead Lebanese children on TV today
Craig Murray
...But let us do what none of the 24 hour news channels are doing; draw breath and count up to ten. What has actually happened so far? There have been, reportedly, 21 people arrested. There have been no terrorist attacks, no explosions. US sources are reported as saying that explosive devices have been found, but no news from the Police as yet. I am reminded of the Forest Gate arrests and the notorious "Chemical weapon vest" which was threatening London and requi! red 270 policemen and a four mile air exclusion zone to deal with. The media was shoving that out just as uncritically as it is shoving out this air attack, even though it made no sense. Anyone who knows anything about weapons knows that for a chemical weapon you want maximum dispersal - the last thing you are going to do is wrap it in fabric around a human body. And why the air exclusion zone? Were they going to throw the vest at a passing jet? The media never did ask any of those questions...

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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, August 11, 2006
Today in Iraq
Shiite assailants ransacked and burned a provincial office of the Iraqi president's Kurdish party, accusing its official newspaper of unfairly criticizing a Shiite cleric, police said (...) As night fell a mortar shell crashed out of the sky onto a cafe in a district north of the capital, killing six people playing dominos. Six bound and blindfolded bodies bearing signs of torture were found in different parts of Baghdad. Each had been executed with a singl! e shot to the head.
The bodies of two Soldiers missing as a result of a helicopter mishap in Al Anbar Province Aug. 8 have been recovered. Both service members died as a result of the accident...



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Israel Prepares Wider Ground Offensive
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Writer
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided Friday to launch an expanded ground offensive in southern Lebanon after expressing dissatisfaction over an emerging cease-fire deal at the United Nations, government officials said. Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz made the decision after meeting for several hours. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes pounded south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, killing at least 14 people across Leb! anon as ground fighting picked up intensity in the south. It was not immediately clear whether Israel was trying to pressure the U.N. Security Council, which was close to a vote on a cease-fire resolution, or whether Israel is really determined to send troops deeper into Lebanon...

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MEDIA ALERT: THE VALUE OF BLOOD
Sovereignty Shattered By Brute Force

Media Lens
... It is astonishing to reflect, for example, that our mass media system is not in fact state-controlled. Who could guess from the unvarying support of our media corporations for mass violence committed by our government and its allies? From their eager demonisation of leaders and countries labelled 'enemies' of the state? From their consistent indifference to the mass death of our victims? As Respect MP George Galloway re! cently told one hapless Sky News interviewer: "You don't give a damn. You don't even know about the Palestinian families. You don't even know that they exist... Because you believe, whether you know it or not, that Israeli blood is more valuable than the blood of Lebanese or Palestinians. That's the truth, and the discerning of your viewers already know it."...

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Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered
World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board
The claim that American and British security forces have thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up commercial flights between Britain and the United States should not be accepted uncritically. It is impossible to determine at this point whether or not such an attack was in the offing, although the mass media have, as usual, reported the assertions of the British and American governments as indisputable fact, with! out bothering to ask for any specific information that would substantiate the official story. The British police statement that the alleged plotters aimed to "create mass murder on an unimaginable scale" by blowing up mid-flight an unspecified number of aircraft is chilling. The far-reaching security measures that have been implemented—including the shutdown of London’s Heathrow Airport and an indefinite ban on carry-on luggage—add to the climate of fear and apprehension...

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Dirty Neo-Fascist Slugs Slam-Dunk Another Terror Scam
Evening round-up of twilight zone manic spewing propaganda blitz

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com
Numerous questions need to be asked about this latest attempt by the dirty Neo-Fascist slugs to bully people into placating to being treated like slaves and updates on the frothing propaganda being spewed by the news networks need to be quantified. For what it's worth, Drudge currently has this on his front page.... CNN: 'Don't use your cellphone wi! thin 50 feet of a suspicious object, you might detonate something'... Absolute twilight zone irrational bullshit. ABC News and FOX aren't done with this one yet. ABC says ten deadly terror suspects on the loose - that's not enough for FOX who say ten are on the run. Reports differ as to when the supposed plot was discovered - BBC says Bush spoke to Blair about it some days ago - other reports say its been known for weeks...


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It's time for Jewish dissenters to challenge Israeli policies
HENRI PICCIOTTO, Mercury News
...Jewish American leaders work tirelessly to promote the myth of Jewish consensus. Their tactics include refusing to rent space to dissenters, threatening funding cuts when Jewish institutions question Israel's actions and canceling meetings when they suspect debate might occur. Their most ubiquitous weapon is the hurtful charge of anti-Semitism, hurled at both dissenting Jews and Gentiles. Many Jews question Israel's pol! icies, but are afraid to speak out in their congregations or even to their families. But the time has come for Jewish dissidents to challenge the policies of the Israeli government. In the short run these policies kill Arabs, mostly innocent civilians; in the long run, they can result only in disaster for Israelis and Jews worldwide. Our silence in this time of crisis is complicity...

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The Pentagon's "Second 911"
"Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets"

MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research
One essential feature of "defense" in the case of a second major attack on America, is "offense", according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff: "Homeland security is one piece of a broader strategy [which] brings the battle to the enemy."(DHS, Transcript of complete March 2005 speech of Secr. Michael Chertoff)! In the month following last year's 7/7 London bombings, Vice President Dick Cheney is reported to have instructed USSTRATCOM to draw up a contingency plan "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States". Implied in the contingency plan was the certainty that Iran would be behind a Second 9/11. This "contingency plan" used the pretext of a "Second 9/11", which has not yet happened, to prepare for a major military operation against Iran, while pressure was also exerted on Tehran in relation to its (non-existent) nuclear weapons program...

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Abu Jahl ( Mr. Ignorant!)
Or the (Saudi) baboon who wanted to handle the magic lantern!

Nazar al Qabbani, Al Moharer
Before his death the great Arab poet Nazar al Qabbani, wrote a poem entitled Mr.Ignorant making ridicule of the Saudi Eunuch's who wanted to influence the Media and bought al Sharq al Awsat Newspaper, in London Fleet Street. The Saudi servile eunuchs, the traitors of Mecca and Medina, the plotters and the lackeys of their Zionist masters, those who sold Palestine to the Zionist gangster! s sixty years ago, the Saudis whores who helped destroy Iraq the cradle of Civilization, the beating heart of Arabity and Islam, thanks to their bloodthirsty US masters, these backward Saudi did everything, through petrodollars, bribes and threats to prevent publish or distribute this beautiful poem...

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The U.S. war against Lebanon
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Without comment: Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, two American officials said Thursday. The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other ! arms, a senior official said. (...) Cluster bombs, incidentally, are only illegal when used against civilians, not against military targets. And since Israel has declared that there are no civilians in southern Lebanon anymore, the problem is solved...

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The British Terrorist Plot: Stage Two of the October Surprise
Hassan El-Najjar
...The announcement yesterday of a British terrorist plot to destroy ten US aircraft using liquid bombs can be considered the second stage of an October surprise. It aims at keeping the US voters in tense conditions, making them feel that the world is not safe around them. This, purportedly, may push them back towards the War Party, which has the reputation of being "strong on security." The timing of the announcement of such a terrori! st plot should be received with skepticism and scrutiny, particularly because the pro-war corporate media have adopted the story and fully propagated it to death. The following are some points to be taken into consideration in scrutinizing the story. First, the announcement came just one day after the earthquake of defeating the symbol of war in the Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, representing a determination among American voters to fire proponents of war in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike. The announcement of the terrorist plot would serve as the Bush administration counterattack against the peace camp...

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Insane Americans think Muslims should wear yellow crescents on their sleeves
Palestinian Pundit
A new Gallup poll finds that many Americans -- what it calls "substantial minorities" -- harbor "negative feelings or prejudices against people of the Muslim faith" in this country. Nearly one in four Americans, 22%, say they would not like to have a Muslim as a neighbor. While Americans tend to disagree with the notion that Muslims living in the United States are sympathetic to al-Qaeda, a significant 34% believe they! do back al-Qaeda. And fewer than half -- 49% -- believe U.S. Muslims are loyal to the United States. Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here should carry special I.D...

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GI Special 4H11: A Call From My Son - August 11, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Just as I was going to have lunch he called. Well, I asked him what he "needed" and he said "to get the hell out of there and come home". He's tired of patrolling 12 to 14 hours, having the Iraqi's tell them to leave "town", not knowing who the enemy is, and he is with the Iraqi soldiers, who he said he cannot trust. The Iraqi soldiers go out on their own and "summarily execute with a bullet to the head" anyone they want to. He doesn't under! stand it, nor does he want to. He said "if he didn't know any better, he thought he died and went to hell." He watched from the rooftop of the [X] in [Anbar] as 3 of his buddies were shot, one dead, the kid from Vermont. They were in a horrendous gun battle, with RPG's and AK-47's blaring at them. They were all involved.


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Bloglines - Isreali ambassador caught lying through his teeth

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Isreali ambassador caught lying through his teeth

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Watch Isreali Ambassador to the US, Daniel Ayalon, dodge the truth and squirm his way through this interview with Sam Husseini, from the Institute of Public Accuracy. Ayalon buries himself with his brazen arrogance and intransigence. Typical.




Just Wonderin'

Suburban Guerrilla
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.

Just Wonderin’

By Susie on The Regime

How does the ever-increasing number of homegrown terrorists (particularly in the land of our chief ally) make it look like the Bush national security policies are working? And how does that reflect on the “state-sponsored terrorism” theory? Are we going to start bombing the Pakistani strongholds in London as a result?

Apparently these thoughts never occurred to Adam Nagourney.

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That’s the problem with Big Dick politics. There’s always someone else who’s going to want you to whip yours out and prove it.




Why the Recent Airline Bombing Plot Was Most Likely Bogus

Humint Events Online
The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist "Pearl Harbor" event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other issues of US government responsibility.

Why the Recent Airline Bombing Plot Was Most Likely Bogus

By Spooked

Small amounts of liquid explosive smuggled on board via carry-on luggage?

Please.

It is no secret that checked luggage is barely scrutinized at all.

Wouldn't serious terrorists utilize this fact?

As someone pointed out on the Diane Rehm radio show this morning, it is amazing no one has repeated a Pan Am 103 style bombing in the 18 years since that attack occurred.

My guess was that this recent plot was had real suspects but was partially staged-- and was done primarily to show that the authorities are doing their job.

Another reason to doubt the veracity of the plot is the fact that the airport shutdown and change in carry-on luggage screening occurred only after the plot was supposedly broken up and suspects were arrested. If the terrorists had been under surveillance for months, and the authorities knew this was going to happen, wouldn't they have started checking carry-on liquids earlier?




American Jews and Israel

Left I on the News
A leftwing view of the day's news and the way it's presented in the media

American Jews and Israel

By Eli

There's an interesting op-ed in today's San Jose Mercury News by Henri Picciotto, a Lebanese Jew now living in the United States and who is chairman of the board of Jewish Voices for Peace. He concludes:

Jewish American leaders work tirelessly to promote the myth of Jewish consensus. Their tactics include refusing to rent space to dissenters, threatening funding cuts when Jewish institutions question Israel's actions and canceling meetings when they suspect debate might occur. Their most ubiquitous weapon is the hurtful charge of anti-Semitism, hurled at both dissenting Jews and Gentiles.

Many Jews question Israel's policies, but are afraid to speak out in their congregations or even to their families. But the time has come for Jewish dissidents to challenge the policies of the Israeli government. In the short run these policies kill Arabs, mostly innocent civilians; in the long run, they can result only in disaster for Israelis and Jews worldwide. Our silence in this time of crisis is complicity. We need to help bring about the peace that would one day make my visit to Beirut -- and the visit of all Jews -- possible.




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…is not only a busy time for bees and bumblebees. I'm completely wrapped up in working in our Youth hostel. But, my friends, you should know that I'm taking me the time to view your wonderful photos daily. It's really a good medicine and great energy booster for me. I'm so sorry that I can't comment a lot on them at the moment. Better times will come…

I wish you all a beautiful week !