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This week:

* Churches are bombed,
* Teresa Heinz Kerry strikes a chord,
* Government failed in Iraq...
* Oil prices run away as production in Iraq drops,
* Palestinian families below poverty...

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August 3, 2004

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UN report: 63 percent of Palestinians below poverty line

August 2, 2004

By Haaretz (Israle)

BEIRUT - Some two million Palestinians were living on less than 2.1 euro ($3.00) a day, a poverty rate of 63 percent, in mid-2003, according to a United Nations report released Friday

The Draft (for war) Will Start in June 2005?

By Capital Advantage

The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan (and a permanent state of war on "terrorism") proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.

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U.S. Debt Burden Is Higher Now Than During Depression

By The Miami Herald

The total amount owed -- by consumers, businesses, governments and financial institutions -- totaled $34.4 trillion at the end of 2003, according to the Federal Reserve.

The economy produced $11.3 trillion of output. That makes the nation's debt triple its gross domestic product. In 1933, debt was about 2 1/2 times GDP, according to a study by the Gabelli Mathers mutual fund.

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Teresa Kerry: An Activist First Lady!

August 2, 2004

By Arab News (English)

Arab Press responds hopefully toward Teresa Heinz Kerry: "Heinz Kerry said on '60 Minutes,' that she and Elizabeth Edwards intended to keep their husbands 'honest,' should the Democrats win the White House in November."

A Fairy Tale About Oil: Remember Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?

Gulf News

There is a new version of the old tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves playing in Iraq, a theatre near you.

If it were not true, one would have thought its authors must have swallowed half dozen LSD hallucination pills to spin such a tale.

A Marriage Made in Heaven

By Reform Judaism Magazine

"More than a century after William Hechler paid his first visit to Theodor Herzl in Vienna, Christian Zionists are still zealous supporters of Israel.

The stakes of this evangelical-Jewish alliance are high, as Christians who want to hasten the Apocalypse have mobilized to support policies that are likely to exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the point of possibly bringing Jews and Arabs closer to a smaller-scale version of Armageddon."

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A Solution to Serial Wars within Our Grasp

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