More than 170 men and women in uniform sacrificed their lives in "Operation Iraqi Freedom"! Iraq War Online Memorial provides information about each of the US and UK casualties, giving their name, rank, photo, age, hometown and brief details of their passing during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This memorial site contains an open Guestbook (Book of Condolence) inviting visitors to send messages to those families who lost their loved ones. Visit www.iraqwar-memorial.com to sign the Guestbook and to leave a message of condolence.

Operation Iraqi Freedom has entered the post-combat phase, but the families who lost their loved ones are left to deal with their personal grief�It is important for YOU to send a message to comfort them, and the place to do so is: www.iraqwar-memorial.com





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AUSTIN, TX � October 17, 2003, 10:00 AM CST � Texans for Peace, a leading national organization that works on peace and social justice issues, announced today that it was sending a representative to Iraq for the second time this year. Charlie Jackson, the organization's founder, will travel to Iraq as a member of a two-week delegation of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. The focus of this trip is to assess the current situation while continuing to work towards peaceful resolution to the current conflict.

Mr. Jackson spent four weeks in Iraq earlier in the year and returned after being injured in an automobile accident while traveling North of Basrah. One reason he is returning on November 20 is to, "make sure that the people of America get the truth," paraphrasing statements made earlier this week by Vice President Dick Cheney. He has accused the Administration of subterfuge and malfeasance in its handling of Iraq and going to war. "This administration is a filter that distorts the realities of the day and seems incapable of either intelligence or truthfulness regarding America's fears and responses that are appropriate in the world today," stated Mr. Jackson

This trip will primarily be centered in and around the city of Baghdad and will include visits to schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, the University of Baghdad and homes of Iraqi citizens. Mr. Jackson will carry messages and letters from children in Texas to children in Iraq and from Texas families with service members stationed in Baghdad.

"During my last trip I was able to learn, first-hand, many of the concerns of ordinary Iraqi citizens," said Mr. Jackson. "I am looking forward to reconnecting with the friends that I met on my prior visit and gaining a better understand of their current needs and interests. I also hope to provide a friendly face and some comfort from home to the young U.S. men and women who are still stationed in Iraq."

Teachers and military families who would like to send messages to Iraq can contact Texans for Peace at info@texansforpeace.org or by mail (postcards only please) to 5801 Westminster Dr., Austin, TX 78723

About Texans for Peace
Texans for Peace (http://www.texansforpeace.org) is a statewide non-profit organization for Texans who believe in peace and social justice. Headquartered in Austin, Texans for Peace provides programs, education, and action on a wide range of issues while at the time working to strengthen peace and nonviolence throughout the state. Although the organization primarily focuses on local issues, Texans for Peace also represents the face of "friendship" (the state motto of Texas) throughout the U.S. and the world.

About Charlie Jackson
Mr. Jackson, a high-tech business executive, is well acquainted with the practical and policy issues that surround conflicts such as the one in Iraq. He has served in a variety of public capacities beginning with an early career as a congressional staff member and continuing as an economic development professional and entrepreneur. His international peace activities have taken him to the war in Bosnia and the indigenous regions of Central America. He resides with his two sons in San Antonio.

About Christian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams (http://www.cpt.org), headquartered in Chicago, is a grassroots efforts of churches and volunteers that offers an organized, nonviolent alternative to war and other forms of lethal inter-group conflict. CPT has demonstrated that small groups of people, trained in the skills of documentation, nonviolent intervention, and various ministries of presence, can make a striking difference in explosive situations. CPT currently has ongoing activities in Hebron (Israel) and Colombia in addition to Iraq.

Texans for Peace
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Charlie Jackson
512-573-8627
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A Dream for a Future with Alternative Energy
America has become a vassal state to OPEC. Our military men and women are offered as a serf army to the OPEC nations. We use billions of US tax dollars and the blood of our soldiers to preserve the power of these unpopular governments. Wind power and solar energy could quickly free us from OPECs shackles. Hulagus Web In the first quarter of 2005 the cost of a gallon of gas climbed to the highest price ever. In that same period ExxonMobil the behemoth global oil company surged forward as the largest and most profitable corporation in the world valued at more than 402 billion on Feb. 28th. The American public funded this success through military operations to secure the oil and in turn pay for the success with higher and higher prices at the pumps . While America politicians and businesses clamor over the dwindling global oil reserves other countries are taking necessary actions to replace oil as their principle energy source. Germany and France have both implemented successful alternative energy programs dramatically reducing their dependency on oil and oil rich countries. This is perhaps one of the principle reasons why their governments are labeled as uncaring towards Americas political predicament with foreign oil. While America spends billions to secure oil resources with their military Germany and France pour their wealth into expanding their alternative energy programs. Its a race that America is losing. Politically the American blight in the Middle East is of great advantage to countries in support of renewable energy because these countries are getting a head start on the global race towards the technological development of more efficient renewable energy systems. Billions spent on preservation of the status quo of the OPEC nations assures France and Germany oil for the immediate future. At the same time the money saved from opting out of participation in the Coalition can be used to build many alternative energy resources and research new methods of securing renewable energy. Wellorchestrated protests against American involvement in Iraq and other Middle East countries endears Canada France and Germany to the world. Implementing alternative energy requires us to be motivated as we know its much easier to simply hook into the grid. David Suzuki Why is America so dependent on oil and unwilling to seriously turn to alternative energies to gain freedom from OPECs shackles? A principle reason is the naivety regarding possible options of renewable energy coupled with the distorted way big oil and their hoard of PR people compare the cost of oil against the cost of other energy sources. The cost of a barrel of oil is used to determine its kilowatthour cost. That price is stripped clean of the billions spent each year for securing the oil. The barrel price only reflects OPECs asking price. Not considered in the kilowatthour cost is the tax money spent on military mobilization to assure the resources of companies like ExxonMobil reach American shores. The death of American soldiers and their overwhelming sacrifices to keep oil flowing to power America or to squander on SUVs and ATVs is never considered as a part of the oil cost in the corporate offices of the energy titans. Some feel adamant that alternative energy will not only provide cheaper energy but remedy or at least diminish the primary reasons for ongoing global conflict. Alternative energy provides the ability to offer a large level of redundancy in sources so that countries are not dependent on the natural resources of another nation. It also provides a much cleaner energy reducing the tremendous pollution problem of fossil fuel. The profitability of alternative energy is an investment that starts today and pays off tomorrow. Most alternative energy resources are much safer to produce and use. The oil business however has a bad history of subjecting even their employees to dangers in the production and transportation of the fuel. On March 23 2005 a huge explosion erupted in an oil refinery in Texas wounding around 70 employees and killing 14. In the Tosco Avon Refinery in Martinez California an explosion in 1999 killed 4 employees. After an investigation that refinery was closed and lawsuits are still raging over the accident. Oil spills are another major hazards unique to the oil industry. Most are

WASHINGTON, DC DEcember 17 2003-- Now we are engaged in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The enemy pecks at us, inflicting a series of small, bleeding wounds. They hope thereby to so irritate us that we leave. Capturelife Press announces the release of a free article "10 Steps to Victory in Iraq" to solve the mess we are in.

Dr. David Chananie, an expert on the Vietnam War, wrote the article to show how lessons from Vietnam can be used in Iraq. His latest book is Not Yet At Ease: Photographs of America's Continuing Engagement With the Vietnam War, a Writers' Digest award winner for 2003. Dr. Chananie speaks on the topic: "Let's Remember Vietnam, Not Repeat It."

"To get out of Vietnam, we had to use things such as the Phoenix program, in which we murdered thousands of the enemy, and the Christmas bombings, called by some an act of unprecedented brutality," says Dr. Chananie. "We will have to show similar resolve in the war on terrorism or more Americans will die. The ten steps lie on a continuum from the benign to the brutal. We can select as many of them as we find necessary. I provide them here because I haven't heard anybody offer anything better."

The steps are:

Beef Up the Number of Troops in Iraq and in Our Military.

Control the Borders in Iraq.

Issue National Photo Identity Cards in Iraq.

Deny Sanctuaries for the Enemy.

Insert Spies in the Iraqi Population and Develop Informants.

Bring Back Ambushes and Take the War to the Enemy.

Bury Terrorists in Pigskins?

Use Psychological Warfare to Demoralize the Enemy.

Kill Terrorists' Families to the Last Member.

Disperse the Population of Tikrit and Fallujah Among the Shia.

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September 20, 2004 -- Alsamerai Family Holdings Co. Ltd. as an Iraqi origin entity have announced its intention to arrange financing ($1M-$500 million) for Iraq Reconstruction projects and offer safe and secure environment to those who care to work in Iraq.

The trade financing is involved with the supply of construction, transportation and heavy equipments. The projects are for infrastructure, harbours, airports, road and power station maintenance and re-building of bridges and dams effected. We work closely with most of the operating banks in Iraq as well as refer to the U.S EXIM Bank for those projects that is listed under U.S Government aid programs.

We do seek those financial institution who care to strengthen their presence in Iraq grapsing the opportunity that it is now the time to have a firm hold on this vastly wealthy country. Iraq represents the future of oil supplies to the rest of the world.

Contact Information:

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The Economies of the Middle East
Last year in the Islamic Financial Forum in Dubai Brad Bourland chief economist for the Saudi American Bank SAMBA breached the embarrassed silence that invariably enshrouds speakers in Middle Eastern gettogethers. He reminded the assembled that despite the decadeslong fortuity of opulent oil revenues the nations of the region excluding Turkey and Israel failed to reform their economies let alone prosper. Structural weaknesses imperceptible growth crippling unemployment and deteriorating government financing confined Arab states to the role of oiladdicted minions. At 540 billion said Bourland quoted by Middle East Online the combined gross domestic product of all the Arab countries is smaller than Mexicos or Spains adds The Economist. According to the Arab League the gross national product of all its members amounted to 712 billion or 2 percent of the worlds GNP in 2001 merely double subSaharan Africas. Even the recent tripling of the price of oil their main export commodity did not generate sustained growth equal to the burgeoning population and labor force. Algerias official unemployment rate is 26.4 percent Omans 17.2 percent Tunisias 15.6 percent Jordans 14.4 percent Saudi Arabias 13 percent and Kuwait sports an unhealthy 7.1 percent. Even with 8 percent out of work Egypt needs to grow by 6 percent annually just to stay put estimates the World Bank. But the real figures are way higher. At least one fifth of the Saudi and Egyptian labor forces go unemployed. Only one tenth of Saudi women have ever worked. The regions population has almost doubled in the last quarter century to 300 million people. Close to two fifths of the denizens of the Arab world are minors. According to the Iranian news agency IRNA the European Commission on the Mediterranean Region estimates that the purchasing power parity income per head in the area is a mere 39 percent of the EUs 2001 average comparable to many postcommunist countries in transition. In nominal terms the figure is 28 percent. These statistics include Israel whose income per capita equals 84 percent of the EUs and the Palestinian Authority where GDP fell by 10 percent in 2000 and by another 15 percent the year after. Faced with ominously surging social unrest the Arab regimes all of them lacking in democratic legitimacy resort to ever more desperate measures. Saudisation for instance amounts to the expulsion of 3 million foreign laborers to make room for indigenous idlers reluctant to take on these vacated mostly menial jobs. About one million typically Western expat experts remain untouched. The national accounts of Arab polities are in tatters. Saudi Arabia managed to produce a budget surplus only once since 1982. Per capita income in the kingdom plunged from 26000 in 1981 to 7000 today. Higher oil prices may well continue throughout 2003 further masking the calamitous state of the regions economies. But this would amount to merely postponing the inevitable. Arab countries are not integrated into the world economy. It is possibly the only part of the globe bar Africa to have entirely missed the trains of globalization and technological progress. Charlene Barshefsky was United States Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001. In a recent column published by the New York Times she noted that Muslim countries in the region trade less with one another than do African countries and much less than do Asian Latin American or European countries. This reflects both high trade barriers ... and the deep isolation Iran Iraq and Libya have brought on themselves through violence and support for terrorist groups ... The Middle East still depends on oil. Today the United States imports slightly more than 5 billion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the 22 members of the Arab League Afghanistan and Iran combined or about half our valueadded imports from Hong Kong alone. Indeed Jewish Israel and secular Turkey aside 8 of the 11 largest economies of the Middle East have yet to join the World Trade Organization. Only two decades ago one of every seven dollars in global export revenues and one twentieth of the worlds foreign direct investment flowed to Arab pockets. Today the Middle Easts share of international trade and FDI is less than 1.5 percent half of it with the European Union. Medium size economies such as Swedens attract more capital than the entire Middle Eastern Moslem world put together. Some Arab countries periodically go through spastic reforms only to submerge once more in backwardness and venality. Oilproducers attempted some structural economic adjustments in the 1990s. Jordan and Syria privatized a few marginal stateowned enterprises. Iran and Iraq cut subsidies. Almost everyone especially Lebanon Egypt Iran and Jordan increased their unhealthy reliance on multilate

Why Are We In Iraq?

Evelyn Pringle e.pringle@sbcglobal.net

In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, administration officials convinced us that we had to go to war to get rid of Saddam's WMDs. They used repeated phrases like: "we know," "beyond any doubt," and "these are not assertions, these are facts." But as we all know now, all of their assertions (aka, facts) turned out to be false. In plain language, they lied their way into this war.

People need to think about this. If it wasn't truly necessary to go to war in Iraq to protect ourselves from Saddam and WMDs, then what other reason would justify a preemptive attack on another country?

For me, the answer came easy. All I had to do was follow the money. Who stood to gain from military action? Look up the main companies that were awarded defense contracts and then check to see who within the Bush administration is connected to those companies, past and present.

Of course, everybody has heard of Halliburton, a poster child for war profiteering that has gone the full financial circle in Iraq. It was enriched doing business with Saddam when Cheney was running the company, by selling $73 million in oil-field supplies through subsidiaries in foreign countries.

Then it got richer during preparations to destroy Iraq. On the very day Congress voted in favor of the resolution, someone in the Pentagon picked up a phone and told Halliburton it had 9 weeks to build an Army base for 7,000 soldiers.

Now its getting even richer through contracts to rebuild the country it helped destroy. And they owe it all to Cheney. While he was Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, he directed millions of tax dollars in government business to Halliburton. Then when he left his government job, he cashed in by becoming the company's CEO and the largest individual shareholder, holding stocks and options worth $40 million.

While Cheney was in charge, Halliburton's offshore tax havens went from 9 to 44. In 1998, it subsequently went from paying $302 million in federal taxes to getting an $85 million refund in 1999.

It is also a notorious corporate criminal. Under Cheney's watch, it was fined $2 million for persistently over billing the Pentagon. However, they did not learn their lesson. It is once again being investigated for over billing for transporting gasoline by $61 million and $27 million for meals served to our troops that were never served. It also had to admit that 2 employees accepted $6.3 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor to ignore over billing in a contract.

Finally, Halliburton is now being investigated, here and abroad, for paying Nigeria government officials $180 million in bribes to gain a $3.8 billion contract while Cheney was CEO.

When is enough enough? Why are we doing any business with this corrupt company in the first place?

I find it difficult to understand the media's kid-glove treatment of the Halliburton scandals and of members of the Bush administration in general, when I consider how they handled allegations about Clinton's 20-year-old land deal in which the Clintons lost money. For some odd reason the media has done very little reporting on the financial scandals involving Cheney.

Halliburton is by far not the only firm involved in this grand war profiteering scheme. Its track record is merely a part of a larger pattern in which many of Bush's relatives and close associates benefit financially from the Iraq war.

For instance, former president George H. W. Bush resigned in the fall of 2003 from a company called the Carlyle Group (but he still owns stock). This company is heavily associated with military and security contracts. It received $677 million in contracts in 2002 and $2.1 billion in contracts in 2003.

Bush's younger brother Neil has a $60,000-per-year contract with a principal in Washington-based New Bridge Strategies, a private firm set up by Bush's former campaign manager, to generate contracts in Iraq.

A $327 million contract that was awarded to the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, benefits Winston Partners, the private investment firm of Bush's other brother Marvin Bush.

In the history of this country, there has never been a more clear cut case of war profiteering. We may find it difficult to face the truth, that yes, these greedy people not only would, they did, send our young people off to be killed in Iraq because they stood to gain financially.

Its time for Americans to face the cold hard fact that war is big business and the Bush administration is top-heavy with CEOs.

I am a citizen concerned over the war in Iraq.

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This is an independent examination of the idiotic promotion practices of some marketers. Pepsi and Coke are not sponsors or cosponsors of this examination. Pepsi is a registered trademark of Pepsi Corporation. Coke is a registered trademark of Coca Cola Corporation. IDIOTIC PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGNS I received the following email from a direct email marketing company. This is not the first time I have seen someone use this technique in his or her direct promotion campaign. At first I had deleted the message for being the spam that it was... Then I realized what a good article this would make. So I dug the message out of my trash folder so that I could share it with you. SUBJECT Soda Taste Test Dear Consumer Today were gathering opinions and preferences about popular soft drinks. Your feedback will help us determine the peoples choice. SURVEY QUESTION DOES PEPSI TASTE BETTER THAN COKE? a. Yes b. No THE REAL GOAL EXPLAINED I understand what they are trying to do. They are trying to generate reader participation within their marketing campaign. And they are trying to do so within the strategy of using a question everyone generally has an opinion about. A good friend of mine has often told me about his first job as a telemarketing sales representative. It was his words that prompted me to write my article today. Eighteen years ago at the age of 19 my friend worked for a spell as a telemarketer. It was his first gig as a salesperson and it left a lasting impression with him. It seems that his boss had read the same book that our direct email marketer had read. It seems both have asked the exact same question although at different times and within different marketing mediums. Yet I am sure that the response will be the same. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE In 1984 it took less than a week for my friend to see the futility in this approach. The goal of the Pepsi vs. CocaCola question is to create an opportunity for the consumer to interact with the telemarketer or the direct marketer. This technique was born in the sales teaching manuals that suggest that the salesperson should stive to get the customer to answer three of four questions with a Yes before moving into the sales pitch. Of course the basis of the approach is legitimate in that you must create a dialog with the customer before you can ever hope to introduce the product or close a sale. When dialing a number at random the telemarketer would have to introduce himself Hello my name is Bill and I represent suchandsuch charity. Let me ask you a question. We are interested in knowing whether you prefer Pepsi or CocaCola? Then the telemarketer was to insert a deliberate pause and await an answer. Often times the inserted silence would generate a hangup. Other times it would generate a very hesitant answer. And even if the question was able to generate the appropriate level of interest in the conversation the consumer was often lost when the next step was to take the consumer into a sales pitch totally unrelated to the Pepsi vs. Coke equation. The change in direction was often rightly perceived as a deception on the part of the telemarketer. THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY My friend knew that there had to be a better way. He had read all of the same books and had a desire to make more money while working this commission job. He was properly motivated to get the most out of what was available to him. While working the phones he continued to tweak and refine the script. The first thing to be dropped from his script was the Pepsi vs. Coke question. He had learned from the school of hard knocks that this technique created more problems than it helped to solve. How are you doing today was just as effective as the Pepsi vs. Coke question and it did not carry with it the baggage of deception. With some tweaking and trialanderror my friend had managed to increase his closing ratio by 50. With his success in hand he approached the boiler room managers and shared with them the secret of his success his new script. THE MANAGERS KNEW THEY HAD FOUND A BETTER WAY The new script was employed immediately and the sales of the entire team rose in accordance with the results that my friend had accomplished. Within days my friend was offered a position with the management team. Although my friend turned down the promotion a new town every 90 days did not appeal to him the lessons learned were taken with him into his other sales positions. THE DIRECT MARKETER ALSO CARRIES THE DECEPTION BAGGAGE If you were to anwer the email concerning the Pepsi vs. Coke question you would be asked for ALL of your personal information and told that you were entitled to these great deals from our partnering sites. Simply ch

Orange, Connecticut June 1, 2004 -- US forces will be surrounded in Iraq, 100 soldiers blinded by friendly fire and the Fleet lost at sea, according to a claimed "precognitive history of the US-led war on Iraq".

"Nine, the Bodhisattva", a screenplay by Thomas Gregory, is the story of a nine-year-old girl with supernatural powers ("Nine") and WWII General Joseph Stilwell who accepts the mission to lead 100 blind soldiers out of the desert.

Leading us on a journey through space and time, Nine and Stilwell learn that "Desert Bud", a popular videogame in this country, is actually a war half a world away.

We can see what happens when Sergeant Lincoln draws the "Eye-Rack" card with the promise of restoring his sight: Boing -- his eyes pop out and he claims he can see. But we can tell: light and shadow, not much else... well, at least he's not 100% blind.

We can hear Private Grant snickering in the background. After mocking Lincoln for getting his eyes from the "Eye-Rack", Grant disobeys Stilwell's direct orders -- and violates the Inter-Galactic Rules of War -- by eating Desert Bud, a green flower that grows in the region. Desert Bud makes him deathly ill, revealing the secret of the infamous plant -- it's radioactive, and we made it that way.

Calamity follows disaster as the Fleet is wiped out and the mortar rounds land closer and closer. Will Nine and Stilwell get our troops out of the desert? They do that and more, healing the blindness of our troops and securing their safe passage back home.

"Nine, the Bodhisattva" was written in November 2002 as an experiment in "military remote viewing", a technique employed in intelligence gathering operations. The story shares eerie parallels with events so far in the Iraq conflict. One example is the treatment of prisoners of war: before taking command of "Desert Bud" Nine is locked up in a closet by her guardian, Chester Churchill, to make her "promise not to tell". In the "real life" version of the story, Americans have been warned the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is even worse that it now appears . If "Nine, the Bodhisattva" is any indication, the next revelation will be that children have been among those tortured at Abu Ghraib.

Dedicated to Children and Veterans everywhere, "Nine, the Bodhisattva" is online at http://www.ninethebodhisattva.com/

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New Trend Shows Domain Branding More Important Than Ever Before.
On Feb. 6th 2003 websidestory Inc. websidestory.com a web analyzation company released a report showing that the majority of websites are now visited by direct navigation instead of using search engines and web links. Direct Web Navigation is when a visitor locates a site by typing the domain directly into the browser or from a using a bookmark. According to websidestory.com in 22001 48.14 of sites were found through direct navigation and the other 51.85 through search engines and weblinks. As of 22003 that percentage has risen to 64.43 and only 35.55 were found through search engines and links. This study however does not diminish the importance of search engines and links for initially finding a website. But it does give evidence that a domain and site that a visitor is able to remember will be returned to directly in the future. Note I said able to remember and not worth remembering. Sure your site should be of such value that it is worth remembering but if you dont have that solid brandable domain that sticks in the brain like glue than it wont matter. How many times have you wanted to return to a cool site but couldnt remember the domain to get their? Of course you could search for it at a search engine but this takes more time and effort. The more steps you put in front of your prospects the less likely your site is to be found. This is why domain branding is so important. For a very low investment any online business has the power to intensely leverage their marketing. Think about it. Your Domain name is the most important marketing tool you have. Your domain is the first thing your audience sees and your first chance to generate a response from a consumer. Do they visit or move on? This decision is hugely impacted by the effectiveness of your domain. The entire basis of marketing is getting someones attention and your domain must do just that. It becomes extremely powerful to use a brandable domain name to leverage your marketing to the maximum. Put simply a quality short memorable domain will always lead to an increase in sales. Nobody knows this better that large corporations who have spend millions on solid brandable domain names. In one famous example venture capitalists in California paid 7.5 million to acquire Business.com. Even forsalebyowner.com fetched 835000. A little off topic but still interesting is Exmarine Darryl Pollock who registered the domain IraqiFreedom.com and has received offers into the thousands Note He has been qouted saying that if he were contacted by the pentagon he would completely cooperate with them. Crazy isnt? But big business knows that these domains are worth because that domain will bring in sales for years and years to come. They can build it promote it brand it and it will work for them forever. Even two word hyphenated domains are grabbing some pretty prices checkout these recent Afternic and Ebay sales Internetbank.com 92800 EPrivacy.com 35080 eloans.net 6060 EzHomeLoans.com 4725 venturecapital.net 14510 officetravel.com 2625 qalaxycafe.com 1890 When you are marketing your site business product service you must be seen heard and remembered by your audience. Consumers are bombarded with messages all day every where they travel. You must stand out and the most cost effective way to do this is logical domain branding. So what domains are memorable and what makes a domain brandable? Find out and see examples in Part 2 of our special domain branding articles series. Get Part 2 now by sending a blank email to mailto10336QuickPayPro.com?subject63 About the Author Wayne Ford is the owner of httpwww.domainheat.com a leading supplier of daily expired and soontoexpire domain lists. He also has just released a new 2tier affiliate program that pays up to 75 on a whole library of internet marketing products and services. Join free at httpwww.gotprofit.com

An Interview on history and educational media
AN INTERVIEW 1. Can you briefly summarize why you think history is a weapon of war against people? Briefly? not really except to say Sun Tzu wasnt the first to notice that propaganda was the first and most important part of conquest. Caesars won more through secret deals and blackmailing the likes of Herod and the Sanhedrin than they ever did through force of arms. We saw how guerillas work against a conqueror in Vietnam and even in Iraq at the present. I have written about fifty books. The framework for a new history that is based on forensics and science or artifacts rather than priestly powermongers is now available. 2. But surely there are many who have written a truer history since the end of the Dark Ages? Yes but the destruction of libraries and the records of supposed beliefs in things like the Flat Earth or Kelts being barbarians is still a part of current scholarship because people quote Caesars Journals that were actually written by Hirtius or other propaganda as if these reports are actual fair reportage to some extent as they say that is all we have. Michael Parenti and others like Howard Zinn of Harvard who have often been drummed out of Universities do tell a little of what I consider is true history. There has been some earlier authors quoted in the works of Herodotus and others once considered fiction but now being supported by actual artifacts. 3. What about when war is not going on? We still get the same history dont we? I love how Joseph Campbell described the SPIN which occurred at the start of WWII in his address called Permanent Human Values to the women he taught at Sarah Lawrence University. It ended up getting him branded as a Nazi by some truly sadistic government mouthpieces in the media. In any event we have always been preparing for or engaged in war as I see it. 4. I recall having read that address it was magnificent and should be required reading for everyone and covered before every movement of government towards more conflict. But surely you arent saying that all history is a lie are you? Campbell didnt go that far. No of course not. There are always lots of facts presented along with dates and data that can boggle the mind of a good statistician. Mark Twain knew a lot about lies damn lies and statistics though. 5. Yes and we recently saw how the standard operating procedure of passing the buck or Hide the Ball worked on the coverup of the real reason we invaded Iraq and all that weapons of mass destruction didnt we? But lets get into the Great Pyramid which you write volumes about. You make the point that the fit of the rocks or blocks cant be explained by the scholars who say Egyptians built it as some sort of makework program now that the slaves fiction has been thoroughly disproven due to artifacts. In fact you have built a rather intricate charge of a conspiracy to destroy and lie about these things to the point of blaming WGBH and the video called This Old Pyramid. Can you substantiate these charges for my listeners? I do but it isnt done in a sound byte. Let me say this though. I saw a letter from David Suzuki of The Nature of Things in response to formal factual presentations from Davidovits and Morris about how they used modern equipment with forklift trucks and hardened steel tools to make that puny Pyramid which they didnt even have the guts to admit shifted in the sand. He noted he had not been given the footage or facts that showed these things. And when it comes to Hawass and his trotting out weird alien theories or theorists as if that proves he is open to alternatives THAT is pure SPIN! 6. I found the part where Archaeology Magazine was printing articles saying the Sphinx and Pyramids were mere imitations of natural landforms a little bizarre. But that poured in place theory of Davidovits which you support doesnt explain the fit of the sarcophagus or the obelisks found in their quarries. I support that as just one of the technologies they used and you are right it cannot explain a 1150th inch tolerance in the lidless sarcophagus that never had any human remains in it. In fact no Giza Pyramid had any funerary purpose and no remains of humans have been found in them. The American Research Center in Egypt did use AMS accelerators to date biologics found inside the Pyramid in some places. These biologics like straw showed the Great Pyramid is 450 years older than the Step Pyramid which Egyptology says was built before the Great Pyramid. 7. Ok I guess we cant cover all the other possible technologies that you and the likes of Christopher Dunn have shown could have been used. You really do have a passionate stance on the matter of Hawass and the likes of Cayce the Masonic agent and his Foundation which paid to educate Hawass and Lehner though. I surely do have issues with liars and the Bible Narrative which ultimately justifies

News Coverage on Iraq (US vs The World!) The news is spun in opposite directions by the press here & there.
"News Coverage on Iraq (US vs The World!)"

American News "Did we kill Sadam & his sons? Yee Ha! We may have!"

AMERICA'S CONCLUSION: "We did the right thing! There is less evil in the world now! We have reigned it in!"

The rest of the World's News

"Did innocent people get killed?"

THE WORLD'S CONCLUSION: "The Americans may have killed innocent men, women & children in their illegal, immoral & unjust lust for vengeance! They are EVIL out of control!"

The innocent people being bombed think: "When is it right for you to endanger & kill innocent people in order to make yourself safer?"

Self Defense is attacking the attacker during the attack & not before the attack. For example, if you see your neighbor as an immediate threat & you attack first - this is not self defense but premeditated murder! Endangering & killing the innocent for any reason is TERRORISM!

Ponder this: If someone attacked your town in order to get revenge rather than solving the problem in a court of law & they accidentally killed you family in the act, wouldn't you consider them criminal terrorists & not a nation of laws?

Please see this image for yourself in order to get a better understanding. The image speaks for itself!

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Domain registries from around the world. By Clare Lawrence 29th September 2003 Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service. Do you sometimes come across exotic looking TLDs? Ever wondered which domain name is from where? I created the following table out of interest. Watch out for the new .eu TLD. The European Union is working on the its own TLD. Commercial TLD .aero Aviation .biz Business Organizations .com Commercial .coop CoOperative Organisations .edu Educational .gov Government .info info TLD .int International Organisations .mil US Dept of Defense .museum Museums .name Personal .net Networks .org Organisations Country codes .ac Ascension Island .ad Andorra .ae United Arab Emirates .af Afghanistan .ag Antigua and Barbuda .ai Anguilla .al Albania .am Armenia .an Netherlands Antilles .ao Angola .aq Antarctica .ar Argentina .as American Samoa .at Austria .au Australia .aw Aruba .az Azerbaijan .ba Bosnia and Herzegovina .bb Barbados .bd Bangladesh .be Belgium .bf Burkina Faso .bg Bulgaria .bh Bahrain .bi Burundi .bj Benin .bm Bermuda .bn Brunei Darussalam .bo Bolivia .br Brazil .bs Bahamas .bt Bhutan .bv Bouvet Island .bw Botswana .by Belarus .bz Belize .ca Canada .cc Cocos Keeling Islands .cd Congo Democratic republic of the former Zaire .cf Central African Republic .cg Congo Republic of .ch Switzerland .ci Cte dIvoire .ck Cook Islands .cl Chile .cm Cameroon .cn China .co Colombia .cr Costa Rica .cs Czechoslovakia .cu Cuba .cv Cape Verde .cx Christmas Island .cy Cyprus .cz Czech Republic .de Germany .dj Djibouti .dk Denmark .dm Dominica .do Dominican Republic .dz Algeria .ec Ecuador .ee Estonia .eg Egypt .eh Western Sahara .er Eritrea .es Spain .et Ethiopia .fi Finland .fj Fiji .fk Falkland Islands .fm Micronesia .fo Faroe Islands .fr France .ga Gabon .gd Grenada .ge Georgia .gf French Guiana .gg Guernsey .gh Ghana .gi Gibraltar .gl Greenland .gm Gambia .gn Guinea .gp Guadeloupe .gq Equatorial Guinea .gr Greece .gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands .gt Guatemala .gu Guam .gw GuineaBissau .gy Guyana .hk Hong Kong .hm Heard and McDonald Islands .hn Honduras .hr Croatia .ht Haiti .hu Hungary .id Indonesia .ie Ireland .il Israel .im Isle of Man .in India .io British Indian Ocean Territory .iq Iraq .ir Iran .is Iceland .it Italy .je Jersey .jm Jamaica .jo Jordan .jp Japan .ke Kenya .kg Kyrgyzstan .kh Cambodia .ki Kiribati .km Comoros .kn Saint Kitts and Nevis .kp Korea Democratic Peoples Republic of .kr Korea Republic of .kw Kuwait .ky Cayman Islands .kz Kazakhstan .la Lao Peoples Democratic Republic .lb Lebanon .lc Saint Lucia .li Liechtenstein .lk Sri Lanka .lr Liberia .ls Lesotho .lt Lithuania .lu Luxembourg .lv Latvia .ly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya .ma Morocco .mc Monaco .md Moldova .mg Madagascar .mh Marshall Islands .mk Macedonia .ml Mali .mm Myanmar .mn Mongolia .mo Macau .mp Northern Mariana Islands .mq Martinique .mr Mauritania .ms Montserrat .mt Malta .mu Mauritius .mv Maldives .mw Malawi .mx Mexico .my Malaysia .mz Mozambique .na Namibia .nc New Caledonia .ne Niger .nf Norfolk Island .ng Nigeria .ni Nicaragua .nl The Netherlands .no Norway .np Nepal .nr Nauru .nu Niue .nz New Zealand .om Oman .pa Panama .pe Peru .pf French Polynesia .pg Papua New Guinea .ph Philippines .pk Pakistan .pl Poland .pm St. Pierre and Miquelon .pn Pitcairn .pr Puerto Rico .ps Palestine .pt Portugal .pw Palau .py Paraguay .qa Qatar .re Reunion .ro Romania .ru Russia .rw Rwanda .sa Saudi Arabia .sb Solomon Islands .sc Seychelles .sd Sudan .se Sweden .sg Singapore .sh St. Helena .si Slovenia .sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands .sk Slovakia .sl Sierra Leone .sm San Marino .sn Senegal .so Somalia .sr Surinam .st Sao Tome and Principe .su Sovier Union .sv El Salvador .sy Syrian Arab Republic .sz Swaziland .tc The Turks Caicos Islands .td Chad .tf French Southern Territories .tg Togo .th Thailand .tj Tajikistan .tk Tokelau .tm Turkmenistan .tn Tunisia .to Tonga .tp East Timor .tr Turkey .tt Trinidad and Tobago .tv Tuvalu .tw Taiwan .tz Tanzania .ua Ukraine .ug Uganda .uk United Kingdom .um United States Minor Outlying Islands .us United States .uy Uruguay .uz Uzbekistan .va

March 24, 2004 -- This is the story of Monroe Mann. He's been working for years to put together the world's first wakeboarding feature film, to be shot in Orlando, Florida. Despite all the obstacles of being an independent filmmaker, he's been able to line up Avril Lavigne & Sum41 for the soundtrack and gain the support of the entire pro-wakeboarding community.

Here's the twist: Lieutenant Mann just got a call from his commanding officer. He and his battalion from the NY Army National Guard are packing their bags, leaving their civilian lives behind, and heading off to Iraq on May 15th.

Despite being confused and nervous about going to war, and despite the lack of funds and time, this Lieutenant filmmaker is determined to fulfill his dream.

How? By enlisting the support of the American people.

He and his crew at Loco Dawn Films have set up a website at www.WakinAMovie.com to help the cause. They are hoping that people will actually go there, donate money, and help make movie history. The website is designed to appeal to wakeboarders, film buffs, those with military affiliations� and to anyone who has ever had a dream.

Wakeboarding is a cross between snowboarding and waterskiing and is the fastest growing extreme sport in the world. In the words of Jason Bingham of Wakeboarding Magazine, "Those who choose to be a part of this film, choose to be a part of a revolution in extreme sports."

Contact Monroe or Brett at 212-505-1952 or via email at info@locodawn.com





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Nicosia, Cyprus -- A new study prepared by Civilitas Research shows that Turkey will face significant challenges, and will have to make some serious choices, regarding its relationship with the United States and the European Union if Washington goes ahead and launches an attack on Iraq.

The thirty four page report, 'Turkey and an Iraq Conflict: Responses and Implications', finds that although the Turkish government is strongly opposed to an attack on Iraq it will not actively oppose any action by Washington, nor will it prevent the United States from using military facilities in Turkey, such as the important Incirlik airbase.

However, Turkey is unlikely to be simply a spectator in any conflict. Fears that the Kurds of northern Iraq will use a US invasion as a chance to declare independence will almost certainly push Turkey into staging its own large scale military intervention to prevent the creation of a Kurdish state in the region.

While the decision to intervene in Iraq is unlikely to face much opposition in the short term, in the medium term Turkey will be faced with severe problems if it decides to stay in northern Iraq following the formation of a new government in Baghdad. Apart from facing stiff resistance by the Kurdish parties in the region, thus drawing Turkey into what could well be a prolonged and potentially brutal war, Ankara would also need to consider the damage done to its regional relationships by staying in Iraq. A prolonged occupation of Iraq could have severe consequences on Turkey's relations with the European Union.

An invasion would also have serious internal consequences. The Turkish economy is slowly emerging from the deepest recession since 1945 and a military occupation in Iraq could force another downturn in the economy. In terms of the level of support needed, recent figures produced by several sources indicate that Washington would need to provide at least US$7 billion annually to ensure Turkish economic security.

As Dr James Ker-Lindsay, the Executive Director of the Civilitas Research, and lead author of the report, notes, 'the Turkish Government will need to think long and hard about their objectives if they do decide to go into Iraq. If it pulls out of Iraq, Ankara may have to accept that it will be powerless to prevent the formation of a Kurdish homeland in the future. However, if Turkey chooses to stay put in the region at the end of hostilities it will need enormous political, economic and military support from the United States. The question that needs to be asked is whether Washington will be prepared to shoulder this burden.'

The full report can be downloaded for free from the Civilitas Research website:

www.civilitasresearch.com


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Based in Nicosia, Cyprus, Civilitas Research is an independent strategic research and consulting firm specializing on South East Europe - the Balkans, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. The company offers political risk analysis, EU consulting, socio-political research and industry intelligence services.

For further information please contact Civilitas Research at the following number:
+ 357 22 942 555

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AN INTERVIEW 1. Can you briefly summarize why you think history is a weapon of war against people? Briefly? not really except to say Sun Tzu wasnt the first to notice that propaganda was the first and most important part of conquest. Caesars won more through secret deals and blackmailing the likes of Herod and the Sanhedrin than they ever did through force of arms. We saw how guerillas work against a conqueror in Vietnam and even in Iraq at the present. I have written about fifty books. The framework for a new history that is based on forensics and science or artifacts rather than priestly powermongers is now available. 2. But surely there are many who have written a truer history since the end of the Dark Ages? Yes but the destruction of libraries and the records of supposed beliefs in things like the Flat Earth or Kelts being barbarians is still a part of current scholarship because people quote Caesars Journals that were actually written by Hirtius or other propaganda as if these reports are actual fair reportage to some extent as they say that is all we have. Michael Parenti and others like Howard Zinn of Harvard who have often been drummed out of Universities do tell a little of what I consider is true history. There has been some earlier authors quoted in the works of Herodotus and others once considered fiction but now being supported by actual artifacts. 3. What about when war is not going on? We still get the same history dont we? I love how Joseph Campbell described the SPIN which occurred at the start of WWII in his address called Permanent Human Values to the women he taught at Sarah Lawrence University. It ended up getting him branded as a Nazi by some truly sadistic government mouthpieces in the media. In any event we have always been preparing for or engaged in war as I see it. 4. I recall having read that address it was magnificent and should be required reading for everyone and covered before every movement of government towards more conflict. But surely you arent saying that all history is a lie are you? Campbell didnt go that far. No of course not. There are always lots of facts presented along with dates and data that can boggle the mind of a good statistician. Mark Twain knew a lot about lies damn lies and statistics though. 5. Yes and we recently saw how the standard operating procedure of passing the buck or Hide the Ball worked on the coverup of the real reason we invaded Iraq and all that weapons of mass destruction didnt we? But lets get into the Great Pyramid which you write volumes about. You make the point that the fit of the rocks or blocks cant be explained by the scholars who say Egyptians built it as some sort of makework program now that the slaves fiction has been thoroughly disproven due to artifacts. In fact you have built a rather intricate charge of a conspiracy to destroy and lie about these things to the point of blaming WGBH and the video called This Old Pyramid. Can you substantiate these charges for my listeners? I do but it isnt done in a sound byte. Let me say this though. I saw a letter from David Suzuki of The Nature of Things in response to formal factual presentations from Davidovits and Morris about how they used modern equipment with forklift trucks and hardened steel tools to make that puny Pyramid which they didnt even have the guts to admit shifted in the sand. He noted he had not been given the footage or facts that showed these things. And when it comes to Hawass and his trotting out weird alien theories or theorists as if that proves he is open to alternatives THAT is pure SPIN! 6. I found the part where Archaeology Magazine was printing articles saying the Sphinx and Pyramids were mere imitations of natural landforms a little bizarre. But that poured in place theory of Davidovits which you support doesnt explain the fit of the sarcophagus or the obelisks found in their quarries. I support that as just one of the technologies they used and you are right it cannot explain a 1150th inch tolerance in the lidless sarcophagus that never had any human remains in it. In fact no Giza Pyramid had any funerary purpose and no remains of humans have been found in them. The American Research Center in Egypt did use AMS accelerators to date biologics found inside the Pyramid in some places. These biologics like straw showed the Great Pyramid is 450 years older than the Step Pyramid which Egyptology says was built before the Great Pyramid. 7. Ok I guess we cant cover all the other possible technologies that you and the likes of Christopher Dunn have shown could have been used. You really do have a passionate stance on the matter of Hawass and the likes of Cayce the Masonic agent and his Foundation which paid to educate Hawass and Lehner though. I surely do have issues with liars and the Bible Narrative which ultimately justifies

More than 170 men and women in uniform sacrificed their lives in "Operation Iraqi Freedom"! Iraq War Online Memorial provides information about each of the US and UK casualties, giving their name, rank, photo, age, hometown and brief details of their passing during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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A Dream for a Future with Alternative Energy
America has become a vassal state to OPEC. Our military men and women are offered as a serf army to the OPEC nations. We use billions of US tax dollars and the blood of our soldiers to preserve the power of these unpopular governments. Wind power and solar energy could quickly free us from OPECs shackles. Hulagus Web In the first quarter of 2005 the cost of a gallon of gas climbed to the highest price ever. In that same period ExxonMobil the behemoth global oil company surged forward as the largest and most profitable corporation in the world valued at more than 402 billion on Feb. 28th. The American public funded this success through military operations to secure the oil and in turn pay for the success with higher and higher prices at the pumps . While America politicians and businesses clamor over the dwindling global oil reserves other countries are taking necessary actions to replace oil as their principle energy source. Germany and France have both implemented successful alternative energy programs dramatically reducing their dependency on oil and oil rich countries. This is perhaps one of the principle reasons why their governments are labeled as uncaring towards Americas political predicament with foreign oil. While America spends billions to secure oil resources with their military Germany and France pour their wealth into expanding their alternative energy programs. Its a race that America is losing. Politically the American blight in the Middle East is of great advantage to countries in support of renewable energy because these countries are getting a head start on the global race towards the technological development of more efficient renewable energy systems. Billions spent on preservation of the status quo of the OPEC nations assures France and Germany oil for the immediate future. At the same time the money saved from opting out of participation in the Coalition can be used to build many alternative energy resources and research new methods of securing renewable energy. Wellorchestrated protests against American involvement in Iraq and other Middle East countries endears Canada France and Germany to the world. Implementing alternative energy requires us to be motivated as we know its much easier to simply hook into the grid. David Suzuki Why is America so dependent on oil and unwilling to seriously turn to alternative energies to gain freedom from OPECs shackles? A principle reason is the naivety regarding possible options of renewable energy coupled with the distorted way big oil and their hoard of PR people compare the cost of oil against the cost of other energy sources. The cost of a barrel of oil is used to determine its kilowatthour cost. That price is stripped clean of the billions spent each year for securing the oil. The barrel price only reflects OPECs asking price. Not considered in the kilowatthour cost is the tax money spent on military mobilization to assure the resources of companies like ExxonMobil reach American shores. The death of American soldiers and their overwhelming sacrifices to keep oil flowing to power America or to squander on SUVs and ATVs is never considered as a part of the oil cost in the corporate offices of the energy titans. Some feel adamant that alternative energy will not only provide cheaper energy but remedy or at least diminish the primary reasons for ongoing global conflict. Alternative energy provides the ability to offer a large level of redundancy in sources so that countries are not dependent on the natural resources of another nation. It also provides a much cleaner energy reducing the tremendous pollution problem of fossil fuel. The profitability of alternative energy is an investment that starts today and pays off tomorrow. Most alternative energy resources are much safer to produce and use. The oil business however has a bad history of subjecting even their employees to dangers in the production and transportation of the fuel. On March 23 2005 a huge explosion erupted in an oil refinery in Texas wounding around 70 employees and killing 14. In the Tosco Avon Refinery in Martinez California an explosion in 1999 killed 4 employees. After an investigation that refinery was closed and lawsuits are still raging over the accident. Oil spills are another major hazards unique to the oil industry. Most are

AUSTIN, TX � October 17, 2003, 10:00 AM CST � Texans for Peace, a leading national organization that works on peace and social justice issues, announced today that it was sending a representative to Iraq for the second time this year. Charlie Jackson, the organization's founder, will travel to Iraq as a member of a two-week delegation of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. The focus of this trip is to assess the current situation while continuing to work towards peaceful resolution to the current conflict.

Mr. Jackson spent four weeks in Iraq earlier in the year and returned after being injured in an automobile accident while traveling North of Basrah. One reason he is returning on November 20 is to, "make sure that the people of America get the truth," paraphrasing statements made earlier this week by Vice President Dick Cheney. He has accused the Administration of subterfuge and malfeasance in its handling of Iraq and going to war. "This administration is a filter that distorts the realities of the day and seems incapable of either intelligence or truthfulness regarding America's fears and responses that are appropriate in the world today," stated Mr. Jackson

This trip will primarily be centered in and around the city of Baghdad and will include visits to schools, hospitals, churches, mosques, the University of Baghdad and homes of Iraqi citizens. Mr. Jackson will carry messages and letters from children in Texas to children in Iraq and from Texas families with service members stationed in Baghdad.

"During my last trip I was able to learn, first-hand, many of the concerns of ordinary Iraqi citizens," said Mr. Jackson. "I am looking forward to reconnecting with the friends that I met on my prior visit and gaining a better understand of their current needs and interests. I also hope to provide a friendly face and some comfort from home to the young U.S. men and women who are still stationed in Iraq."

Teachers and military families who would like to send messages to Iraq can contact Texans for Peace at info@texansforpeace.org or by mail (postcards only please) to 5801 Westminster Dr., Austin, TX 78723

About Texans for Peace
Texans for Peace (http://www.texansforpeace.org) is a statewide non-profit organization for Texans who believe in peace and social justice. Headquartered in Austin, Texans for Peace provides programs, education, and action on a wide range of issues while at the time working to strengthen peace and nonviolence throughout the state. Although the organization primarily focuses on local issues, Texans for Peace also represents the face of "friendship" (the state motto of Texas) throughout the U.S. and the world.

About Charlie Jackson
Mr. Jackson, a high-tech business executive, is well acquainted with the practical and policy issues that surround conflicts such as the one in Iraq. He has served in a variety of public capacities beginning with an early career as a congressional staff member and continuing as an economic development professional and entrepreneur. His international peace activities have taken him to the war in Bosnia and the indigenous regions of Central America. He resides with his two sons in San Antonio.

About Christian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams (http://www.cpt.org), headquartered in Chicago, is a grassroots efforts of churches and volunteers that offers an organized, nonviolent alternative to war and other forms of lethal inter-group conflict. CPT has demonstrated that small groups of people, trained in the skills of documentation, nonviolent intervention, and various ministries of presence, can make a striking difference in explosive situations. CPT currently has ongoing activities in Hebron (Israel) and Colombia in addition to Iraq.

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The Economies of the Middle East
Last year in the Islamic Financial Forum in Dubai Brad Bourland chief economist for the Saudi American Bank SAMBA breached the embarrassed silence that invariably enshrouds speakers in Middle Eastern gettogethers. He reminded the assembled that despite the decadeslong fortuity of opulent oil revenues the nations of the region excluding Turkey and Israel failed to reform their economies let alone prosper. Structural weaknesses imperceptible growth crippling unemployment and deteriorating government financing confined Arab states to the role of oiladdicted minions. At 540 billion said Bourland quoted by Middle East Online the combined gross domestic product of all the Arab countries is smaller than Mexicos or Spains adds The Economist. According to the Arab League the gross national product of all its members amounted to 712 billion or 2 percent of the worlds GNP in 2001 merely double subSaharan Africas. Even the recent tripling of the price of oil their main export commodity did not generate sustained growth equal to the burgeoning population and labor force. Algerias official unemployment rate is 26.4 percent Omans 17.2 percent Tunisias 15.6 percent Jordans 14.4 percent Saudi Arabias 13 percent and Kuwait sports an unhealthy 7.1 percent. Even with 8 percent out of work Egypt needs to grow by 6 percent annually just to stay put estimates the World Bank. But the real figures are way higher. At least one fifth of the Saudi and Egyptian labor forces go unemployed. Only one tenth of Saudi women have ever worked. The regions population has almost doubled in the last quarter century to 300 million people. Close to two fifths of the denizens of the Arab world are minors. According to the Iranian news agency IRNA the European Commission on the Mediterranean Region estimates that the purchasing power parity income per head in the area is a mere 39 percent of the EUs 2001 average comparable to many postcommunist countries in transition. In nominal terms the figure is 28 percent. These statistics include Israel whose income per capita equals 84 percent of the EUs and the Palestinian Authority where GDP fell by 10 percent in 2000 and by another 15 percent the year after. Faced with ominously surging social unrest the Arab regimes all of them lacking in democratic legitimacy resort to ever more desperate measures. Saudisation for instance amounts to the expulsion of 3 million foreign laborers to make room for indigenous idlers reluctant to take on these vacated mostly menial jobs. About one million typically Western expat experts remain untouched. The national accounts of Arab polities are in tatters. Saudi Arabia managed to produce a budget surplus only once since 1982. Per capita income in the kingdom plunged from 26000 in 1981 to 7000 today. Higher oil prices may well continue throughout 2003 further masking the calamitous state of the regions economies. But this would amount to merely postponing the inevitable. Arab countries are not integrated into the world economy. It is possibly the only part of the globe bar Africa to have entirely missed the trains of globalization and technological progress. Charlene Barshefsky was United States Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001. In a recent column published by the New York Times she noted that Muslim countries in the region trade less with one another than do African countries and much less than do Asian Latin American or European countries. This reflects both high trade barriers ... and the deep isolation Iran Iraq and Libya have brought on themselves through violence and support for terrorist groups ... The Middle East still depends on oil. Today the United States imports slightly more than 5 billion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the 22 members of the Arab League Afghanistan and Iran combined or about half our valueadded imports from Hong Kong alone. Indeed Jewish Israel and secular Turkey aside 8 of the 11 largest economies of the Middle East have yet to join the World Trade Organization. Only two decades ago one of every seven dollars in global export revenues and one twentieth of the worlds foreign direct investment flowed to Arab pockets. Today the Middle Easts share of international trade and FDI is less than 1.5 percent half of it with the European Union. Medium size economies such as Swedens attract more capital than the entire Middle Eastern Moslem world put together. Some Arab countries periodically go through spastic reforms only to submerge once more in backwardness and venality. Oilproducers attempted some structural economic adjustments in the 1990s. Jordan and Syria privatized a few marginal stateowned enterprises. Iran and Iraq cut subsidies. Almost everyone especially Lebanon Egypt Iran and Jordan increased their unhealthy reliance on multilate

WASHINGTON, DC DEcember 17 2003-- Now we are engaged in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The enemy pecks at us, inflicting a series of small, bleeding wounds. They hope thereby to so irritate us that we leave. Capturelife Press announces the release of a free article "10 Steps to Victory in Iraq" to solve the mess we are in.

Dr. David Chananie, an expert on the Vietnam War, wrote the article to show how lessons from Vietnam can be used in Iraq. His latest book is Not Yet At Ease: Photographs of America's Continuing Engagement With the Vietnam War, a Writers' Digest award winner for 2003. Dr. Chananie speaks on the topic: "Let's Remember Vietnam, Not Repeat It."

"To get out of Vietnam, we had to use things such as the Phoenix program, in which we murdered thousands of the enemy, and the Christmas bombings, called by some an act of unprecedented brutality," says Dr. Chananie. "We will have to show similar resolve in the war on terrorism or more Americans will die. The ten steps lie on a continuum from the benign to the brutal. We can select as many of them as we find necessary. I provide them here because I haven't heard anybody offer anything better."

The steps are:

Beef Up the Number of Troops in Iraq and in Our Military.

Control the Borders in Iraq.

Issue National Photo Identity Cards in Iraq.

Deny Sanctuaries for the Enemy.

Insert Spies in the Iraqi Population and Develop Informants.

Bring Back Ambushes and Take the War to the Enemy.

Bury Terrorists in Pigskins?

Use Psychological Warfare to Demoralize the Enemy.

Kill Terrorists' Families to the Last Member.

Disperse the Population of Tikrit and Fallujah Among the Shia.

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New Trend Shows Domain Branding More Important Than Ever Before.
On Feb. 6th 2003 websidestory Inc. websidestory.com a web analyzation company released a report showing that the majority of websites are now visited by direct navigation instead of using search engines and web links. Direct Web Navigation is when a visitor locates a site by typing the domain directly into the browser or from a using a bookmark. According to websidestory.com in 22001 48.14 of sites were found through direct navigation and the other 51.85 through search engines and weblinks. As of 22003 that percentage has risen to 64.43 and only 35.55 were found through search engines and links. This study however does not diminish the importance of search engines and links for initially finding a website. But it does give evidence that a domain and site that a visitor is able to remember will be returned to directly in the future. Note I said able to remember and not worth remembering. Sure your site should be of such value that it is worth remembering but if you dont have that solid brandable domain that sticks in the brain like glue than it wont matter. How many times have you wanted to return to a cool site but couldnt remember the domain to get their? Of course you could search for it at a search engine but this takes more time and effort. The more steps you put in front of your prospects the less likely your site is to be found. This is why domain branding is so important. For a very low investment any online business has the power to intensely leverage their marketing. Think about it. Your Domain name is the most important marketing tool you have. Your domain is the first thing your audience sees and your first chance to generate a response from a consumer. Do they visit or move on? This decision is hugely impacted by the effectiveness of your domain. The entire basis of marketing is getting someones attention and your domain must do just that. It becomes extremely powerful to use a brandable domain name to leverage your marketing to the maximum. Put simply a quality short memorable domain will always lead to an increase in sales. Nobody knows this better that large corporations who have spend millions on solid brandable domain names. In one famous example venture capitalists in California paid 7.5 million to acquire Business.com. Even forsalebyowner.com fetched 835000. A little off topic but still interesting is Exmarine Darryl Pollock who registered the domain IraqiFreedom.com and has received offers into the thousands Note He has been qouted saying that if he were contacted by the pentagon he would completely cooperate with them. Crazy isnt? But big business knows that these domains are worth because that domain will bring in sales for years and years to come. They can build it promote it brand it and it will work for them forever. Even two word hyphenated domains are grabbing some pretty prices checkout these recent Afternic and Ebay sales Internetbank.com 92800 EPrivacy.com 35080 eloans.net 6060 EzHomeLoans.com 4725 venturecapital.net 14510 officetravel.com 2625 qalaxycafe.com 1890 When you are marketing your site business product service you must be seen heard and remembered by your audience. Consumers are bombarded with messages all day every where they travel. You must stand out and the most cost effective way to do this is logical domain branding. So what domains are memorable and what makes a domain brandable? Find out and see examples in Part 2 of our special domain branding articles series. Get Part 2 now by sending a blank email to mailto10336QuickPayPro.com?subject63 About the Author Wayne Ford is the owner of httpwww.domainheat.com a leading supplier of daily expired and soontoexpire domain lists. He also has just released a new 2tier affiliate program that pays up to 75 on a whole library of internet marketing products and services. Join free at httpwww.gotprofit.com

September 20, 2004 -- Alsamerai Family Holdings Co. Ltd. as an Iraqi origin entity have announced its intention to arrange financing ($1M-$500 million) for Iraq Reconstruction projects and offer safe and secure environment to those who care to work in Iraq.

The trade financing is involved with the supply of construction, transportation and heavy equipments. The projects are for infrastructure, harbours, airports, road and power station maintenance and re-building of bridges and dams effected. We work closely with most of the operating banks in Iraq as well as refer to the U.S EXIM Bank for those projects that is listed under U.S Government aid programs.

We do seek those financial institution who care to strengthen their presence in Iraq grapsing the opportunity that it is now the time to have a firm hold on this vastly wealthy country. Iraq represents the future of oil supplies to the rest of the world.

Contact Information:

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New Trend Shows Domain Branding More Important Than Ever Before.
On Feb. 6th 2003 websidestory Inc. websidestory.com a web analyzation company released a report showing that the majority of websites are now visited by direct navigation instead of using search engines and web links. Direct Web Navigation is when a visitor locates a site by typing the domain directly into the browser or from a using a bookmark. According to websidestory.com in 22001 48.14 of sites were found through direct navigation and the other 51.85 through search engines and weblinks. As of 22003 that percentage has risen to 64.43 and only 35.55 were found through search engines and links. This study however does not diminish the importance of search engines and links for initially finding a website. But it does give evidence that a domain and site that a visitor is able to remember will be returned to directly in the future. Note I said able to remember and not worth remembering. Sure your site should be of such value that it is worth remembering but if you dont have that solid brandable domain that sticks in the brain like glue than it wont matter. How many times have you wanted to return to a cool site but couldnt remember the domain to get their? Of course you could search for it at a search engine but this takes more time and effort. The more steps you put in front of your prospects the less likely your site is to be found. This is why domain branding is so important. For a very low investment any online business has the power to intensely leverage their marketing. Think about it. Your Domain name is the most important marketing tool you have. Your domain is the first thing your audience sees and your first chance to generate a response from a consumer. Do they visit or move on? This decision is hugely impacted by the effectiveness of your domain. The entire basis of marketing is getting someones attention and your domain must do just that. It becomes extremely powerful to use a brandable domain name to leverage your marketing to the maximum. Put simply a quality short memorable domain will always lead to an increase in sales. Nobody knows this better that large corporations who have spend millions on solid brandable domain names. In one famous example venture capitalists in California paid 7.5 million to acquire Business.com. Even forsalebyowner.com fetched 835000. A little off topic but still interesting is Exmarine Darryl Pollock who registered the domain IraqiFreedom.com and has received offers into the thousands Note He has been qouted saying that if he were contacted by the pentagon he would completely cooperate with them. Crazy isnt? But big business knows that these domains are worth because that domain will bring in sales for years and years to come. They can build it promote it brand it and it will work for them forever. Even two word hyphenated domains are grabbing some pretty prices checkout these recent Afternic and Ebay sales Internetbank.com 92800 EPrivacy.com 35080 eloans.net 6060 EzHomeLoans.com 4725 venturecapital.net 14510 officetravel.com 2625 qalaxycafe.com 1890 When you are marketing your site business product service you must be seen heard and remembered by your audience. Consumers are bombarded with messages all day every where they travel. You must stand out and the most cost effective way to do this is logical domain branding. So what domains are memorable and what makes a domain brandable? Find out and see examples in Part 2 of our special domain branding articles series. Get Part 2 now by sending a blank email to mailto10336QuickPayPro.com?subject63 About the Author Wayne Ford is the owner of httpwww.domainheat.com a leading supplier of daily expired and soontoexpire domain lists. He also has just released a new 2tier affiliate program that pays up to 75 on a whole library of internet marketing products and services. Join free at httpwww.gotprofit.com

Why Are We In Iraq?

Evelyn Pringle e.pringle@sbcglobal.net

In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, administration officials convinced us that we had to go to war to get rid of Saddam's WMDs. They used repeated phrases like: "we know," "beyond any doubt," and "these are not assertions, these are facts." But as we all know now, all of their assertions (aka, facts) turned out to be false. In plain language, they lied their way into this war.

People need to think about this. If it wasn't truly necessary to go to war in Iraq to protect ourselves from Saddam and WMDs, then what other reason would justify a preemptive attack on another country?

For me, the answer came easy. All I had to do was follow the money. Who stood to gain from military action? Look up the main companies that were awarded defense contracts and then check to see who within the Bush administration is connected to those companies, past and present.

Of course, everybody has heard of Halliburton, a poster child for war profiteering that has gone the full financial circle in Iraq. It was enriched doing business with Saddam when Cheney was running the company, by selling $73 million in oil-field supplies through subsidiaries in foreign countries.

Then it got richer during preparations to destroy Iraq. On the very day Congress voted in favor of the resolution, someone in the Pentagon picked up a phone and told Halliburton it had 9 weeks to build an Army base for 7,000 soldiers.

Now its getting even richer through contracts to rebuild the country it helped destroy. And they owe it all to Cheney. While he was Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, he directed millions of tax dollars in government business to Halliburton. Then when he left his government job, he cashed in by becoming the company's CEO and the largest individual shareholder, holding stocks and options worth $40 million.

While Cheney was in charge, Halliburton's offshore tax havens went from 9 to 44. In 1998, it subsequently went from paying $302 million in federal taxes to getting an $85 million refund in 1999.

It is also a notorious corporate criminal. Under Cheney's watch, it was fined $2 million for persistently over billing the Pentagon. However, they did not learn their lesson. It is once again being investigated for over billing for transporting gasoline by $61 million and $27 million for meals served to our troops that were never served. It also had to admit that 2 employees accepted $6.3 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor to ignore over billing in a contract.

Finally, Halliburton is now being investigated, here and abroad, for paying Nigeria government officials $180 million in bribes to gain a $3.8 billion contract while Cheney was CEO.

When is enough enough? Why are we doing any business with this corrupt company in the first place?

I find it difficult to understand the media's kid-glove treatment of the Halliburton scandals and of members of the Bush administration in general, when I consider how they handled allegations about Clinton's 20-year-old land deal in which the Clintons lost money. For some odd reason the media has done very little reporting on the financial scandals involving Cheney.

Halliburton is by far not the only firm involved in this grand war profiteering scheme. Its track record is merely a part of a larger pattern in which many of Bush's relatives and close associates benefit financially from the Iraq war.

For instance, former president George H. W. Bush resigned in the fall of 2003 from a company called the Carlyle Group (but he still owns stock). This company is heavily associated with military and security contracts. It received $677 million in contracts in 2002 and $2.1 billion in contracts in 2003.

Bush's younger brother Neil has a $60,000-per-year contract with a principal in Washington-based New Bridge Strategies, a private firm set up by Bush's former campaign manager, to generate contracts in Iraq.

A $327 million contract that was awarded to the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, benefits Winston Partners, the private investment firm of Bush's other brother Marvin Bush.

In the history of this country, there has never been a more clear cut case of war profiteering. We may find it difficult to face the truth, that yes, these greedy people not only would, they did, send our young people off to be killed in Iraq because they stood to gain financially.

Its time for Americans to face the cold hard fact that war is big business and the Bush administration is top-heavy with CEOs.

I am a citizen concerned over the war in Iraq.

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Lets Fly Our Flag!
The flag stands for all that we hold dear freedom democracy government of the people by the people and for the people. Henry Cabot Lodge 1915 No matter what political party one belongs to or what ones particular view is concerning the events in Iraq and the Middle East the fact remains that our American soldiers are there. A good many of them are National Guard troops and reservists from the various states who have been activated and are being deployed overseas to a war zone. These are soldiers who are taking time out from their lives and families to serve the call has come and they are responding readily and wholeheartedly. Lets all show our support for them and all our military personnel by flying our national flag every day. Remember our flag should always be treated with the utmost care and respect. The flag represents a living country and as such is considered a living thing. Always display the flag with the blue union field up. Always hold the flag carefully never let it touch anything beneath it. Always keep the flag aloft and free never carry it flat or horizontally. Always keep the flag clean and safe never let it become torn soiled or damaged. Did you know the U.S. flag was adopted on June 14 1777 and is the fourth oldest national flag in the world. Join me in flying our national flag on the next flag holiday Labor Day September 6. The Soldier author unknown It is the soldier not the reporter who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier not the poet who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier not the campus organizer who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier not the lawyer who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the soldier who salutes the flag who serves under the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag who allows the protester to disrespect the flag. About the Author Cyndi Roberts is the editor of the 1 Frugal Friend 2 Another biweekly newsletter and founder of the website of the same name. Visit httpwww.cynroberts.com to find creative tips articles and a free ecooking book. Subscribe to the newsletter and receive the free ecourse Taming the Monster Grocery Bill.

Orange, Connecticut June 1, 2004 -- US forces will be surrounded in Iraq, 100 soldiers blinded by friendly fire and the Fleet lost at sea, according to a claimed "precognitive history of the US-led war on Iraq".

"Nine, the Bodhisattva", a screenplay by Thomas Gregory, is the story of a nine-year-old girl with supernatural powers ("Nine") and WWII General Joseph Stilwell who accepts the mission to lead 100 blind soldiers out of the desert.

Leading us on a journey through space and time, Nine and Stilwell learn that "Desert Bud", a popular videogame in this country, is actually a war half a world away.

We can see what happens when Sergeant Lincoln draws the "Eye-Rack" card with the promise of restoring his sight: Boing -- his eyes pop out and he claims he can see. But we can tell: light and shadow, not much else... well, at least he's not 100% blind.

We can hear Private Grant snickering in the background. After mocking Lincoln for getting his eyes from the "Eye-Rack", Grant disobeys Stilwell's direct orders -- and violates the Inter-Galactic Rules of War -- by eating Desert Bud, a green flower that grows in the region. Desert Bud makes him deathly ill, revealing the secret of the infamous plant -- it's radioactive, and we made it that way.

Calamity follows disaster as the Fleet is wiped out and the mortar rounds land closer and closer. Will Nine and Stilwell get our troops out of the desert? They do that and more, healing the blindness of our troops and securing their safe passage back home.

"Nine, the Bodhisattva" was written in November 2002 as an experiment in "military remote viewing", a technique employed in intelligence gathering operations. The story shares eerie parallels with events so far in the Iraq conflict. One example is the treatment of prisoners of war: before taking command of "Desert Bud" Nine is locked up in a closet by her guardian, Chester Churchill, to make her "promise not to tell". In the "real life" version of the story, Americans have been warned the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is even worse that it now appears . If "Nine, the Bodhisattva" is any indication, the next revelation will be that children have been among those tortured at Abu Ghraib.

Dedicated to Children and Veterans everywhere, "Nine, the Bodhisattva" is online at http://www.ninethebodhisattva.com/

Contact: Thomas Gregory
http://www.ninethebodhisattva.com/





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AN INTERVIEW 1. Can you briefly summarize why you think history is a weapon of war against people? Briefly? not really except to say Sun Tzu wasnt the first to notice that propaganda was the first and most important part of conquest. Caesars won more through secret deals and blackmailing the likes of Herod and the Sanhedrin than they ever did through force of arms. We saw how guerillas work against a conqueror in Vietnam and even in Iraq at the present. I have written about fifty books. The framework for a new history that is based on forensics and science or artifacts rather than priestly powermongers is now available. 2. But surely there are many who have written a truer history since the end of the Dark Ages? Yes but the destruction of libraries and the records of supposed beliefs in things like the Flat Earth or Kelts being barbarians is still a part of current scholarship because people quote Caesars Journals that were actually written by Hirtius or other propaganda as if these reports are actual fair reportage to some extent as they say that is all we have. Michael Parenti and others like Howard Zinn of Harvard who have often been drummed out of Universities do tell a little of what I consider is true history. There has been some earlier authors quoted in the works of Herodotus and others once considered fiction but now being supported by actual artifacts. 3. What about when war is not going on? We still get the same history dont we? I love how Joseph Campbell described the SPIN which occurred at the start of WWII in his address called Permanent Human Values to the women he taught at Sarah Lawrence University. It ended up getting him branded as a Nazi by some truly sadistic government mouthpieces in the media. In any event we have always been preparing for or engaged in war as I see it. 4. I recall having read that address it was magnificent and should be required reading for everyone and covered before every movement of government towards more conflict. But surely you arent saying that all history is a lie are you? Campbell didnt go that far. No of course not. There are always lots of facts presented along with dates and data that can boggle the mind of a good statistician. Mark Twain knew a lot about lies damn lies and statistics though. 5. Yes and we recently saw how the standard operating procedure of passing the buck or Hide the Ball worked on the coverup of the real reason we invaded Iraq and all that weapons of mass destruction didnt we? But lets get into the Great Pyramid which you write volumes about. You make the point that the fit of the rocks or blocks cant be explained by the scholars who say Egyptians built it as some sort of makework program now that the slaves fiction has been thoroughly disproven due to artifacts. In fact you have built a rather intricate charge of a conspiracy to destroy and lie about these things to the point of blaming WGBH and the video called This Old Pyramid. Can you substantiate these charges for my listeners? I do but it isnt done in a sound byte. Let me say this though. I saw a letter from David Suzuki of The Nature of Things in response to formal factual presentations from Davidovits and Morris about how they used modern equipment with forklift trucks and hardened steel tools to make that puny Pyramid which they didnt even have the guts to admit shifted in the sand. He noted he had not been given the footage or facts that showed these things. And when it comes to Hawass and his trotting out weird alien theories or theorists as if that proves he is open to alternatives THAT is pure SPIN! 6. I found the part where Archaeology Magazine was printing articles saying the Sphinx and Pyramids were mere imitations of natural landforms a little bizarre. But that poured in place theory of Davidovits which you support doesnt explain the fit of the sarcophagus or the obelisks found in their quarries. I support that as just one of the technologies they used and you are right it cannot explain a 1150th inch tolerance in the lidless sarcophagus that never had any human remains in it. In fact no Giza Pyramid had any funerary purpose and no remains of humans have been found in them. The American Research Center in Egypt did use AMS accelerators to date biologics found inside the Pyramid in some places. These biologics like straw showed the Great Pyramid is 450 years older than the Step Pyramid which Egyptology says was built before the Great Pyramid. 7. Ok I guess we cant cover all the other possible technologies that you and the likes of Christopher Dunn have shown could have been used. You really do have a passionate stance on the matter of Hawass and the likes of Cayce the Masonic agent and his Foundation which paid to educate Hawass and Lehner though. I surely do have issues with liars and the Bible Narrative which ultimately justifies

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