Until her meeting in Jerusalem last weekend with ardent Zionist Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Puppet Mahmoud Abbas, the process had been frozen since the last days of Bill Clinton's administration.

Abrams' personal influence over Bush could not possibly match Rice's, but his political connections are next to none. Notably, to the Zionist Lobby of pro-Likud Jewish organisations and the Christian Right. This gives him enormous clout.

We can be sure that the Zionists will continue wiping Palestine off the map.

Now, another story to make us proud to be Americans. We have absolutely no compunction about using extreme psychological torture.

José Padilla, a Brooklyn-born former gang member, was classified as an "enemy combatant" and taken to a navy prison in Charleston, South Carolina. He was kept in a cell 9ft by 7ft, with no natural light, no clock and no calendar.

Whenever Padilla left the cell, he was shackled and suited in heavy goggles and headphones. Padilla was kept under these conditions for 1,307 days.

He was forbidden contact with anyone but his interrogators, who punctured the extreme sensory deprivation with sensory overload, blasting him with harsh lights and pounding sounds.

Padilla also says he was injected with a "truth serum", a substance his lawyers believe was LSD or PCP.

The techniques used to break Padilla have been standard operating procedure at Guantánamo Bay since the first prisoners arrived five years ago.

They wore blackout goggles and sound-blocking headphones and were placed in extended isolation, interrupted by strobe lights and heavy metal music.

These same practices have been documented in dozens of cases of "extraordinary rendition" carried out by the CIA, as well as in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That means the Bush Regime has been deliberately driving hundreds, possibly thousands, of prisoners insane around the world.

Entrepreneurs in Florida are selling T-shirts and bumper stickers with the slogan: "America Made Me Mad" and shipping them to Guantanamo. That's the free market spirit.

Talking of which, we'll take a short break here...

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