In a banner year for documentaries

When production chiefs from selected studios trooped to Icon Prods. headquarters after an invite to read the film Mel Gibson planned for summer 2006, they were surprised at the very first page of the script.

"The dialogue you are about to read will not be spoken in English."

Gibson, who last made the most successful Aramaic-language film ever, is at it again.

"Apocalypto" hardly fits the traditional definition of a summer film. Set 500 years ago, pic will be filmed in an obscure Mayan dialect, presumably with the same kind of subtitles Gibson reluctantly added to "The Passion of the Christ." It will star a neophyte cast indigenous to the region of Mexico where Gibson will shoot in October. And it likely will carry an R rating, unless Gibson tempers the onscreen depiction of violent scenes he wrote in his script.
http://www.variety.com/VR1117926430.html

A French court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced 62 people for taking part in a child prostitution ring engaged in the sexual abuse of children as young as six months.
 
Billed as the biggest child sex trial in France, 65 men and women were accused of taking part in a child prostitution ring, in which 45 children, aged from six months to 15 years, were raped or sexually assaulted between 1999 and 2002.
http://www.rense.com/general67/childx.htm

The government is investigating another possible case of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday.
 
Testing indicated the presence of the disease in a cow that died on the farm where it lived, said John Clifford, the department's chief veterinarian. The department would not say where the farm was. The cow was at least 12 years old and died of complications during calving, Dr. Clifford said.
http://www.rense.com/general67/usprobe.htm

Cyberspace is becoming a new battleground for the United States and China, amid growing concerns about Chinese industrial espionage through various types of computer worms, security experts say.
 
At least one "Trojan horse" program used to steal files from infected computers has been traced to servers in China, providing further evidence that US companies may be targets, say analysts.
http://www.rense.com/general67/worms.htm

During a visit to London in March 23, 2000, former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, referred to the emerging European Union (EU) as 'the new European Soviet.'
 
I point out that what Bush is implementing in this hemisphere is the same communist regional system (regionalism is communism) and can be similarly referred to as The New American Soviet. All regions being created internationally are modelled on The European Union.
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"Dictatorship can be established only by a victory of socialism in different countries or groups of countries," after which there would be federal unions of the various groupings of these socialist countries, and the third stage would be an amalgamation of these regional federal unions into a world union of socialist nations. (quote courtesy of Prof. Dennis Cuddy)

http://www.rense.com/general67/defeat.htm

India's financial capital was paralyzed Wednesday by the strongest rains ever recorded in Indian history, with torrential downpours — 37 inches in one day — marooning drivers, forcing students to sleep at school and snapping communication lines. At least 200 people died.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/27/international/i125504D55.DTL

ran’s Bourse Council has given the go ahead to establishment of the first-ever oil, gas and petrochemical stock market in the Islamic Republic, a deputy minister of oil said.

Mohammad Javad Assemipur told PIN the national council has promised to lay the foundation for the oil, gas and petrochemical bourse
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=7/26/2005&Cat=9&Num=2

Therefore, there MUST be some 25 minutes continuous video of first four men, riding from Luton, then video of each (supposed) "Muslim" Bomber, seated with his rucksack on each of  the 3 separate Underground cars, riding from King's Cross - to where the 3 bombs exploded SIMULTANEOUSLY!

If the London Police CANNOT produce those videos they SHOULD possess, the accused 4 men, 3 supposedly with rucksack bombs, were NOT on the Underground train cars, did NOT detonate bombs! And the Police are LYING
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FOJ20050725&articleId=734

Nearly 4 million children live with parents who had no jobs in the previous year, an increase of 1 million since the beginning of the decade, a national charity says.

That's 5 percent of all 72.5 million children living in the United States
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5169908,00.html

In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation's senior military officer have spoken of "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase of choice. Administration officials say that phrase may have outlived its usefulness, because it focused attention solely, and incorrectly, on the military campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/26strategy.html?ei=5070&en=a01fb557310fa03c&ex=1123128000&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1122479286-KBf6vLtiM0FeRXjTTwWVhw

“Over the past four years, consumer spending and residential construction have together accounted for 90% of the total growth in GDP. And over two-fifths of all private sector jobs created since 2001 have been in housing-related sectors, such as construction, real estate and mortgage broking.” (
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Whitney0727.htm

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Two days before the London subway bombings, Fed Master Alan Greenspan flushed nearly $40 billion in liquidity into financial markets. The sudden activity was an astonishing departure from the current policy of tightening interest rates to stifle inflation. The Chairman has not explained his erratic behavior, but there’s growing speculation that Greenspan may have had information about the likelihood of terrorist attacks and decided to “preemptively” head off a run on the markets. As it turns out, his actions may have been a positive factor in stabilizing the market following the incident, (check out “Following the Money” by The Cunning Realist for more on the Fed’s unusual action) but that doesn’t address the larger issue of whether Greenspan had inside information that an attack was imminent.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Whitney0721.htm

Latinos are highly susceptible to the 'hunkyness' of a young P. Bush," said the scientist. "Everyone knows Latinos will blindly vote for any handsome darkskinned, Spanish speaking man muffin, which is why I have constantly urged Erik Estrada to get into politics. And to take Spanish lessons."
http://www.pocho.com/news/2000/gpbushexperiment/gpbushX080100.html

In a banner year for documentaries, Bush Family Fortunes is the most important. No American reporter has uncovered more big stories than Greg Palast, but his work mainly appears on the BBC and never seems to make its way into the corporate-owned media in the U.S. Bush Family Fortunes allows Americans to see the news they’ve been missing
http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies9/BushFamilyFortunes.htm