U.S. troops fire on Cdn diplomats' car

January 31, 2006 by element115
Four Canadian diplomats, including the charge d'affaires to Iraq, escaped injury Tuesday when their vehicle was shot at in Baghdad by U.S. soldiers.
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Dutch biometric passports cracked, ID info stealable

by element115
The Dutch passport, one of the first to include "biometric" information which can be read digitally in accordance with new internatiomal legislation, has been cracked from a range of 10 metres such that cleartext of the data stored therein is extracted.
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Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol

by element115
...just before President Bush's State of the Union address - Police escorted Sheehan from the visitors' gallery above the House chamber after she caused a disruption, said a Capitol Police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the incident were sketchy.
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Covert ops and disinformation aimed at Iran

by element115
...top officials had adopted a new strategy of "deterrence and disruption" toward Iran in the autumn of 2004 that was aimed ultimately at covert operations by special forces to damage nuclear sites, according to a government official.
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The Fear That Kills

by element115
In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq.
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Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union

by element115
Since the early 1970s, author and playwright Gore Vidal has been delivering his own State of the Union address.

"Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us."
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Democracy isn't for our friends only

by element115
ROBERT FISK ---> They were supposed to have given their support to the pro-Western, corrupt, absolutely pro-American Fatah, which had promised to "control" them, rather than to Hamas, which said they would represent them. And, bingo, they have chosen the wrong party again.

What are we to do with people who don't vote the way they should?
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Most Iraqis Doubt US Will Ever Leave

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Large majorities of Iraqis believe that the United States has no intention of ever withdrawing all its military forces from their country and that Washington's reconstruction efforts have been incompetent at best, according to a new survey.
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Kennedy Goes Nuts On The Senate Floor

by element115
VIDEO ---> He is screaming. The face is fire-engine red. The fists are waving furiously.

...mr. President, if you are concerned and you want a justice that is going to stand for the working men and women in this country, it?s not going to be judge alito. If you are concerned about women?s privacy rights, about the opportunity for women to gain fair employment in america, it?s not judge alito. If you care about the disabled, the rehabilitation act that we passed, the ?idea? act to include children in our schools that we passed, that?s been on the books for 25 years, the disability act that we have passed to bring all of the disabled into our society, if you are looking for someone that is going to be a friend of the disabled, it?s not going to be judge alito. And finally, if you are looking for someone that is going to be willing to stand up to the executive branch of government at a time that he is going to exceed his power and authority and the law of this country, it is not going to be judge alito
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RFID, tinfoil, "luciferian beehivers" and you

by element115
Electronic passports - the initial feedback Department of State received on the proposal was apparently 98.5% negative.
...still
Biometric passport are going to be issued during a pilot program in the US starting this month...and full compliance mandatory this October.
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Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying

by element115
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.
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Federal Reserve enters Bernanke era

by element115
White House adviser Ben Bernanke won Senate approval on Tuesday to assume one of the world's most influential economic posts -- chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Netanyahu compares Hamas election win to rise of Hitler

by element115
"The Likud will not continue transferring territory, [we] need to stop giving them money - neither ours nor the world's - and [we] must prevent them from establishing an army any which way possible," Netanyahu said, adding that the Likud will derail Hamas' continuing ascent.
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Nuclear Iran is not a threat

by element115
Why is all this pressure being mounted against Iran when both Washington and Jerusalem unofficially concede that there is nothing to be done to prevent Iran?s government from continuing along its present course of nuclear development?

The contradictions in Western official and unofficial discourse about Iran and its nuclear ambitions are so blatant that one might suspect disinformation, but it probably is simply the cacophony of single-minded bureaucracies working at cross purposes, and the effect of the multiple lobbies involved and of US domestic political exploitation, and the paradox of the American policy itself, whose nonproliferation efforts actually provoke nuclear proliferation.
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Japan to leave Iraq in May

by element115
Japan will withdraw its ground troops from southern Iraq by the end of May along with pullouts by the British and Australian forces from the area, Japanese media outlets have reported citing sources in the Japanese Government.
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Judge offers a choice: Join the Army or go to jail

by element115
A judge offered a 20-year-old man facing sentencing an unusual choice: Enlist in the Army or go to jail for up to a year.

Michael Guerra, 20, had pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, after he was accused of violating an order of protection.
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Putin Warns Against Foreign Meddling

by element115
President Vladimir Putin had sharp words for his critics and stark reminders of Russia's nuclear might at an annual news conference Tuesday in which he sought to burnish his image as a competent leader at the helm of a great and fast-growing country.
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Al-Qaeda Propagandizes For Bush On Eve Of State of the Union

by element115
Hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden's latest release, an audio tape that boosted George W. Bush's poll numbers despite it being described as a probable fake by bin Laden expert Professor Bruce Lawrence, Ayman al-Zawahri has popped up on the eve of the State of the Union to hand Bush all the ammunition he needs to threaten American citizens for a sixth consecutive time.
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Presidential signing statements are more than just executive branch lunacy

by element115
There are two ways President Bush likes to wage war on your civil liberties: He either asks you to surrender your rights directly?as he does when he strengthens and broadens provisions of the Patriot Act. Or he simply hoovers up new powers and hopes you won't find out?as he did when he granted himself authority to order warrant-less wiretapping of American citizens.
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Irrationality in Politics

by element115
Is there a neurological explanation for blind partisanship? According to this press release, scientists, using fMRI scans, have found that when "committed Democrats and Republicans" are faced with criticism of their favorite politician, they show no increase in activity of the parts of their brains associated with reasoning.
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Putin Touts Russia's Missile Capabilities

by element115
"Russia ... has tested missile systems that no one in the world has," the ITAR-Tass, Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies quoted him as saying at a news conference. "These missile systems don't represent a response to a missile defense system, but they are immune to that. They are hypersonic and capable of changing their flight path."
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Senate Confirms Alito to Supreme Court

by element115
The Senate today easily confirmed Samuel A. Alito Jr. as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, making the conservative jurist a probable swing vote on a number of major issues, including abortion rights. The vote was 58 to 42.
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Rice to Press for Isolation of Hamas-led Government

January 30, 2006 by element115
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press U.S. allies today in London to deprive the incoming Hamas-led Palestinian government of financial support unless it abandons terrorism and accepts the existence of Israel.
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Blair in secret plot with Bush to dupe U.N.

by element115
A White House leak revealing astonishing details of how Tony Blair and George Bush lied about the Iraq war is set to cause a worldwide political storm.
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Iran gives UN inspectors access to nuclear site

by element115
UN nuclear inspectors have visited sites related to the former Lavizan military complex in Iran in what is a key concession in the UN investigation of the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear program.
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The US and Israel shouldn't set pre-conditions on duly elected leadership

by element115
Hamas' victory does not emerge from a vacuum.
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Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians

by element115
...the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious manner reminiscent of a terrorist - she got too close to the border fence - and so a soldier fired several bullets into the child, hitting her in the neck and blowing open her stomach.

Aya was the second child killed by the Israeli army last week. Soldiers near Ramallah shot 13-year-old Munadel Abu Aaalia in the back as he walked along a road reserved for Jewish settlers with two friends. The army said the boys planned to throw rocks at Israeli cars.
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Is America actually in a state of war?

by element115
The so-called "insurgents," who wreak such havoc, are not America's enemy. They are not our rivals for territory. They are not our ideological antagonists. Abstracting from the present confrontation, they have no reason to wish us ill.

Americans who bother to imagine the situation from the Iraqi point of view - a massive foreign invasion, launched on false pretenses; a brutal occupation, with control of local oil reserves surely part of the motivation; the heartbreaking deaths of brothers, cousins, children, parents - naturally understand that an "insurgency" is the appropriate response. Its goal is simply to force the invaders and occupiers to leave.
Taken as a whole, or in its parts, Iraq is not an enemy.
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Planted Articles in Iraqi Media May Be Violation

by element115
A secret U.S. military program that pays Iraqi newspapers to publish articles favorable to the American mission appears to violate a 2003 Pentagon directive, according to a newly declassified document.
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Audit: U.S.-led occupation squandered aid, undocumented spending and outright fraud

by element115
"Tens of millions of dollars in cash had gone in and out of the South-Central Region vault without any tracking of who deposited or withdrew the money, and why it was taken out," says a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which is in the midst of a series of audits for the Pentagon and State Department.
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Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar

by element115
Interview With William R. Clark

...argues convincingly that the rationale for intervening was not just for control of the oil fields, but also for control of the means by which oil is traded in global markets.
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March 18 & 19 - International Days of Action Against the War

by element115


From Latin America & the Carribean, to Africa, Asia and the Middle East- No More Interventions

End All Colonial Occupations from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Palestine and Haiti

Money for Jobs, Healthcare, Housing and School - Not War!
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Hamas will make a deal

by element115
If Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in 1967, the movement will end armed resistance...
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Al-Zawahri mocks Bush over terrorism war

by element115
In a new video aired Monday, al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri mocked President Bush as a "failure" in the war on terror, called him a "butcher" for killing innocent Pakistanis in a miscarried airstrike and chastised the United States for rejecting Osama bin Laden's offer of a truce.
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Iran invites Blair to anti-Holocaust conference

by element115
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters during his weekly press conference, "I think that it would be good if Mr. Blair takes part in the seminar on the Holocaust in Tehran. Of course, he can make the case in support of the Holocaust and at the same time hear the points of views that he cannot listen to there".
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Stark warning over climate change

by element115
Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed, a major scientific report has said.

The report, published by the UK government, says there is only a small chance of greenhouse gas emissions being kept below "dangerous" levels.
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UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of...$7 trillion (and solve the world's problems at a stroke)

by element115
The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.

The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.
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Protests Over Muhammad Cartoon Grow

by element115
The controversy over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated Monday as gunmen seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade boycott of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the Middle East to exercise vigilance.
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Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases

by element115
...study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did.
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Officials Confirm Bird Flu Death of Iraqi

by element115
Iraqi and U.N. health officials said Monday a 15-year-old girl who died this month was a victim of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, the first confirmed case of the disease in the Middle East.

Tests were under way to determine if the girl's uncle, who lived in the same house, also died of the virus. He died 10 days later after suffering the same symptoms, officials said.
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Exxon profit tops $10 billion

by element115
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Monday reported a quarterly profit of $10.7 billion, capping a year of record earnings dominated by surging oil and gas prices.

The results pushed up Exxon's profit for the year to a staggering $36.13 billion -- bigger than the economies of 125 of the 184 countries ranked by the World Bank. Profit rose 42 percent from 2004.
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US journalist in video appeal

by element115
Jill Carroll, the kidnapped US journalist, has appeared in a new video on Aljazeera, weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.

Carroll is visibly crying in the video and wears a veil as she speaks to the camera. The footage has a time signature with the date 28 January.
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The Worst-Case Scenario

January 29, 2006 by element115
Hundreds of thousand of people could die in a nuclear attack, but hundreds of thousands of others could be saved. That's because the Pentagon - after decades of searching - believes it has found a drug to treat radiation exposure. Why isn't that drug available?
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US psychological operations aimed at foreigners reach US public

by element115
"The increasing ability of people in most parts of the globe to access international information sources makes targeting particular audiences more difficult," said the document.

"...information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP, increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa."
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Has the police state arrived?

by element115
It is reasonable to assume that the police will use the cameras to track the movements of anyone the government or its security services don?t like, and with digital facial recognition technology already tested at airports around the world, that would be easy.
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ID cards 'will track where people go'

by element115
...a leaked letter from Mr Burnham indicates that the chips will use radio frequencies to allow "contactless" reading of the card by special scanners.

The Home Office said the signals emitted would be picked up only at a distance of a few inches. But Phil Booth, co-ordinator of the No2ID campaign, said receivers could easily be boosted to receive signals from much further away. This would allow anyone carrying the card to be tracked in the street or entering a building.
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ID cards are of 'limited value'

by element115
BBC ---> ID cards would be of "limited value" against terror and would not have prevented the London attacks in July, says the reviewer of anti-terror laws.
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Credit card for children

by element115
Mastercard is to introduce credit cards directly aimed at children, encouraging them to go into debt and consume products without the use of cash.

Supporters regard the cards, which are issued by Bluecorner, as the natural step in an increasingly cashless society. They argue that the prepayment cards will familiarise children with plastic without spending too much.
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The Hamas Victory

by element115
Uri Avnery ---> If Ariel Sharon had not been in a deep coma, he would have jumped out of his bed for joy. The Hamas victory fulfils his most ardent hopes.
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Blair and Bush 'conspired to go to war regardless of United Nations'

by element115
According to reports in The Mail on Sunday, the Prime Minister and the US President decided to go to war regardless of whether they obtained UN backing. The allegations will undermine claims that the final decision to go to war was not made until MPs voted in the Commons a day before military action. It will also bolster claims that the President and Mr Blair decided to go to war months before military action began.
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A Statement from Jews Against Genocide

by element115
On January 19th we, a group of concerned Jews, spray painted the infamous Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frie" ("Work Makes You Free") on a sign placed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the Kalandia checkpoint that read "The Hope of Us All".

The new terminal is set up so that there is no physical contact between the soldiers and the Palestinians. The soldiers scream commands to the Palestinians over loud speakers as they are made to go through a series of electronic gates and turnstiles. The new Terminal embodies the occupation in its alienated, bureaucratically cruel form. it is situated between one Palestinian area and another and flanked on both sides by the annexation barrier effectively turning Ramallah into a ghetto.
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Spies, Lies and Wiretaps

by element115
A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation, contemptuous dismissals of civil liberties concerns, cynical attempts to paint dissents as anti-American and pro-terrorist, and a couple of big, dangerous lies.
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Palace Revolt

by element115
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it.
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Police 'faked Tube death log'

by element115
Extraordinary allegations that Special Branch officers deliberately falsified vital evidence to hide mistakes which led to the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes at a south London Underground station were made last night.

...police altered the contents of a logbook, which detailed the Brazilian electrician's final movements, in a bid to cover up their blunders.
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State of the Union? It's Nothing but Theater

by element115
On Tuesday night, President Bush, like his recent predecessors, will play his part in the gaudy spectacle of ballyhoo and hype that the State of the Union has become. From a Rocky-style entrance of the president through a gantlet of applauding solons to the introduction of mini-celebrities carefully situated in the gallery, the prime-time extravaganza will have all the spontaneity of -- and about as much meaning as -- a televised Hollywood awards ceremony.

It is time to end the meaningless annual ritual of the State of the Union address. What began as a yearly survey of the nation's condition has deteriorated into a frivolous moment of political theater and continuous campaigning.
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Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change

by element115
Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to Act.
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ABC's Woodruff, Cameraman Injured in Iraq

by element115
The two were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling with an Iraqi Army unit.
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Other dimensions might soon be detected

January 28, 2006 by element115
Northeastern University and University of California scientists say they might soon have evidence of extra dimensions and other exotic predictions.

An article describing this work appears in the current issue of Physical Review Letters.
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Saudis: U.S. paved way for Hamas victory

by element115
A confidential Saudi report prepared just weeks before the Palestinian elections predicted a Hamas victory in Gaza and the West Bank and puts the blame on the United States: "By failing to strengthen (President Mahmoud )Abbas's position, the U.S. has paved the way for a Hamas victory," states a document prepared by the Saudi National Security Assessment Project.

"Moreover, the U.S administration's faith in the power of elections to transform people makes it oblivious to the possibility that the democratic process is often a double-edged sword which can have unintended consequences," goes on to say the policy brief .
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Google challenges EU plan to regulate the internet

by element115
Google, the giant internet search company, is to lead industry opposition to new proposals from the European Commission to regulate online content.
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Iran cut-off could mean $90-a-barrel oil

by element115
Analysts say the price of oil could go to $90 a barrel if Iran responds to nuclear sanctions by cutting off supplies.

Kona Haque, commodities editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told The Observer that nervousness about Iran has already added $10 a barrel to the oil price and a cut off would be "devastating."
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British intelligence 'in the dark' on London bombings

by element115
British security services have admitted they know almost nothing about why the London bomings happened or if Al-Qaeda was involved, according to a leaked intelligence report...

Blair's Downing Street office declined to comment.
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Tackle 'cultural Marxism,' U.S. writer urges new Canadian PM

by element115
A prominent U.S. right-wing commentator has welcomed the election victory of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, expressing hope that the prime-minister-designate will work to eradicate the "cultural Marxism" he says infests the neighbour to the north.

In an on-line commentary published on his website, Paul Weyrich, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation, said that he hopes Mr. Harper will use the next four years to replace Liberal-named judges who back same-sex marriage and abortion with appointees who are more to his liking.
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Blind Ignorance

by element115
Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses.
Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.
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Scholars Repudiate Official Version of 9/11

by element115
An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11.

Scholars claim government's account violates laws of physics and engineering.
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North Korea Warns of Nuclear War

by element115
"Dark clouds of a nuclear war are hanging low over the Korean Peninsula," the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Washington has denied any such intention.
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Koppel: Profitability not partisanship 'shapes what you see on TV news'

by element115
The agenda of television news organizations is based on profits, as opposed to politics, according to an op-ed written by former ABC Nightline anchor Ted Koppel.
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U.S. Army takes Iraqi women hostage

by element115
The U.S. Army has been detaining Iraqi women to help track down husbands or fathers who are suspected terrorists, according to documents released Friday and an interview with a female detainee who was released Thursday after four months in prison.

...held with eight other women in a small room at Baghdad International Airport.
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Trials of an internet giant

by element115
Fast, funky and free, Google became the way to search the web. But now it stands accused of censorship, exploitation and violating the privacy of its users...
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Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors

by element115
Wacky? Science fiction? It might happen this summer.
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Angry Fatah protests jack up turmoil post-Hamas win

by element115
Several thousands Fatah party supporters, joined by dozens of masked militants demonstrated in the West Bank, demanding that its central committee resign and that the faction boycott participation in any Hamas-led government.

Hundreds more Fatah supporters, including security officers, barged into the Gaza Strip's parliamentary compound, firing into the air, before marching through the streets towards Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's Gaza home.
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Russia 'to close rights group'

by element115
The justice ministry has asked a Moscow court to order that the Russian Human Rights Research Centre be shut down.
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United States Is Faced With A Chief Executive Who Can Do No Right

by element115
Fantasy may be in fashion. Reality may have been shoved into the shadows on Mr. Bush's watch. The truth is that he is the worst president in memory, and one of the worst of all time.
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The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile

by element115
In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly?the future Dean of Education at Stanford?wrote that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."

William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, wrote:
"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."
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Impeach or Indict Bush and Cheney

by element115
The Texas Observer ---> The year 2006 will be historic for the nation, and probably for humanity.
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Iran Claims Evidence Of British Involvement In Ahvaz Bombings

by element115
Iran said today it would hand over evidence to Britain that proved British involvement in bombings in the southern Iran city of Ahvaz earlier this week.
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Iran says Moscow agrees to expland plan to enrich uranium in Russia

by element115
Tehran and Moscow have agreed to expand the number of countries taking part in the plan to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.

"Increasing the number of partners in the plan was agreed," Mottaki told a news conference. "The place or the places ... is under review while negotiations continue."
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U.S. Senate unanimously passes resolution condemning Iran

by element115
The resolution also calls on all Security Council members, particularly Russia and China, to "act expeditiously" to deal with Iran's suspected noncompliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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The problem with democracy

by element115
Robert Fisk ---> And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power...
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Greg Palast Banned BBC Documentary

by element115
Viva la democracy a la USA
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Catastrophe Looms

by element115
Paul Craig Roberts ---> Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.

Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. Fox "News" and right-wing talk radio are the worst, but with propagandistic outlets setting the standard for truth and patriotism, all of the media is affected to some degree.
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9/10/01 : On the eve of destruction

by element115
The worse it sounds, the more likely it is true.
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US diplomat flees Venezuela rather than face charges of CIA espionage

by element115
The naval attache of the US Embassy in Venezuela, John Correa, has left the country after his participation in an espionage case involving several Venezuelan low-ranking officers was revealed.
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Bush Tried to Silence Climate Expert

by element115
The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

"They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public," Dr.Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA, said.
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Sheehan to Feinstein: Filibuster Alito, Or I'll Run Against You

by element115
"I'm appalled that Diane Feinstein wouldn't recognize how dangerous Alito's nomination is to upholding the values of our constitution and restricting the usurpation of presidential powers, for which I've already paid the ultimate price," Sheehan said in a statement.
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Documents Show Army Seized Wives As Tactic

January 27, 2006 by element115
The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
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US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

by element115
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations".

The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.
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How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?

by element115
Hamas' stunning victory underlines the contradictions and hypocrisies in Bush's Mideast policies.
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Mr. President, The Terrorists Have Won

by element115
...violent and heavy-handed Israeli campaign, in effect, created Hamas in the 1980s, and led to its exponential growth over the last twenty years.
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Carter calls for funding Palestinians

by element115
"The elections were completely honest, completely fair, completely safe and without violence," the former president said.

"The Palestinian Government is destitute, and in desperate financial straits. I hope that support for the new government will be forthcoming," Carter said at a Jerusalem press conference.
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Biden says US money to the Palestinians must be cut off

by element115
Senator Joseph Biden says the U-S should stop giving money to the Palestinians now that the militant group Hamas is in power.
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Israeli FM urges international community not to recognise Hamas government

by element115
Israeli Acting Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Friday terrorist groups "cannot whitewash the results of the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority."
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Halliburton swings to $1.1 billion profit

by element115
...cites 2005 as company's best year.
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$1,000 toaster, $20 ice cube trays

by element115
At issue is a multibillion-dollar Pentagon purchasing program.
Documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the retired officer, Paul Fellencer Sr., tried to blow the whistle on as much as $200 million in what he called wasteful spending.
Although he provided a four-page spreadsheet showing 135 cases of higher prices...the Defense Department dismissed his tip.
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Porn at The Homeland Security Department

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Nearly three-quarters of the automated "security event messages" and "detect.misuse.porn" alerts originated from 16 devices on the department's wide area network...
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Huge quake off Indonesian coast

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A massive underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 has struck off the eastern coast of Indonesia.
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How to turn a disposable camera into an RFID-killer

by element115
With a little work, a disposable camera can be turned into a low-cost device for disabling the tracking bugs in many products and ID cards.

It generates a strong electromagnetic field with a coil, which should be placed as near to the target RFID-Tag as possible. The RFID-Tag then will receive a strong shock of energy comparable with an EMP and some part of it will blow, thus deactivating the chip forever.
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EU inquiry may call Cheney

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Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the most hawkish members of the US administration, may be invited to appear before a European parliamentary committee investigating allegations of "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects by the CIA.
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Sea level rise 'is accelerating'

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Global sea levels could rise by about 30cm during this century if current trends continue, a study warns.
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New Facts Emerge On 911 Financing

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Researchers and investigators have uncovered links between a Miami bank that collapsed in 2002 amid a fraud scandal that was highlighted by billions of dollars in questionable cash and fraudulent loans and money movements linked to the Bush family and businesses linked to funding pilot training for the 9-11 hijackers.
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Presidential Prerogatives

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In a mid-morning news conference, Bush told reporters he is skeptical of a proposed law imposing new oversights on his use of the National Security Agency to listen in on electronic communications. He also said that he will block White House aides from testifying about the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, and that he will not release official White House photos of himself with former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Studio that scrubbed Abramoff/Bush photo earned $140,000 from 2004 campaign

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Reflections Photography president Joanne Amos told Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo that a "business decision" led the company to remove a photograph taken in late 2003 that is believed to feature Bush and Abramoff together. According to Amos, the photograph is "not relevant."
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Scientists develop bird flu vaccine

January 26, 2006 by element115
University of Pittsburgh scientists say they've genetically engineered an avian flu vaccine that has proven 100 percent effective in mice and chickens.
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The Palestinians' democratic choice must be respected

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The Guardian ---> Hamas's triumph in Wednesday's Palestinian elections is the best news from the Middle East for a long time.

In Israel and Washington reaction to Hamas's victory has been predictably negative. European governments should take a more sensitive view. The first watchword is caution. Applaud the process but don't take issue with the result. While the dust settles and Hamas works out its own priorities for government, Europeans should calmly analyse why Hamas got so much support.
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Israel rules out talks with Hamas

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Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out any talks with "an armed terror organisation that calls for Israel's destruction".
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The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead

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The story of Iraq and its people since 1991 is one of immense tragedy, of a fate cruel and evil that has befallen innocent human beings whose only crime has been living inside what was once the ancient land of Mesopotamia. It is ironic that the land that first gave rise to human civilization has been made to suffer tremendous hardship in the last fifteen years, severely decimated and destroyed, its wounds hemorrhaging from incessant human cruelty. The heart of the Fertile Crescent has become a barren wasteland, its waters, the Tigris and Euphrates, those veins of sustenance for our ancient forefathers, transformed into rivers of waste and pollution and decaying death, their fertility now mutated into toxicity.
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President Jonah

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Gore Vidal ---> Not since the glory days of Watergate and Nixon?s Luciferian fall has there been so much written about the dogged deceits and creative criminalities of our rulers. We have also come to a point in this dark age where there is not only no hero in view but no alternative road unblocked. We are trapped terribly in a now that few foresaw and even fewer can define.
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Russian Inventor Patents Invisibility Cloak

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A professor from chair of quantum and optical electronics of the Ulyanovsk State University in western Russia has patented a method of making things invisible.

The so-called invisibility cloak, created by Oleg Gadomsky, is called "The method of conversion of optical radiation" in the patent.
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Kerry Calls for Filibuster of Alito

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Senator John Kerry, D-Massachusetts is calling for a filibuster to block the Senate confirmation vote of federal judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Canada' s Tories

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Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader"

Canadians, Gore said, should vigilantly keep watch over prime minister-designate Stephen Harper because he has a pro-oil agenda and wants to pull out of the Kyoto accord.
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British TV shows question 'Munich'

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"Munich: Mossad's Revenge" airing Thursday night on Channel 4 and the BBC2's "Operation Bayonet," which aired Tuesday, feature interviews with two retired agents from Israel's Mossad who say they were directly involved in Israel's revenge attack upon the Palestinian gunmen who killed Israel's Olympic athletes in 1972.

The remorse shown by Israeli agents in Spielberg's film is not apparent in the voices of the men who claim to have committed the reprisal killings. One of the agents said he had "no hesitations" in carrying out the killings.
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The license to say anything

by element115
"Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news," said Aaron Brown, whose four-year period as anchor of CNN's NewsNight ended in November.

"Any criticism of the administration is regarded as hatred of the president and hatred of the country itself," he said.

Important issues, such as the prosecution of the war in Iraq at home and abroad, are being clouded over by "mud-wrestling" that skirts substance.

Journalists have fallen short in presenting important news in ways that allow viewers to see how it matters in their lives.
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A six per cent democracy

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The Guardian ---> The hollowness of Israel's commitment to free, fair elections was exposed in East Jerusalem yesterday.

...just over 6% of the Palestinian electorate in occupied East Jerusalem were granted the opportunity to vote in their city in the second Palestinian parliamentary elections.
Yet even the lucky 6,300 - the number permitted by Israel to vote is entirely arbitrary - faced a campaign of intimidation to discourage voting.

Israel tried to score points internationally by allowing elections in East Jerusalem, while trying to choke the life out of them.
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ACLU Releases Government Photos

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The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions.

Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests, and a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been "spying" on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said.
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Mr. Abramoff's Meetings

by element115
Here is what we don't know about Jack Abramoff and the White House: whom he met with and what was discussed. Nor, if the White House sticks to its current position, will we learn that anytime soon.
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Detention facilities in USA

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KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) , said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million...
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Bush commits US to defence of Israel in face of Iran threat

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Guardian ---> George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon.
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Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper

by element115
According to the report, Mossad recruited a woman close to bin Laden with the help of the intelligence service in her country. Neither the woman's name nor nationality were given.

Contacted by Reuters, Danny Yatom, who was head of Mossad at the time, declined comment on the report.
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Why We Fight

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A Film By Eugene Jarecki
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Hamas Captures Landslide Parliamentary Win

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Hamas won 76 seats in the 132-member parliament, while Fatah, which controlled Palestinian politics for four decades, won 43 seats, said Hanna Nasser, head of the Central Election commission. The 13 remaining seats went to several smaller parties and independents.

The triumph by the Islamic militant group plunged the future of Mideast peacemaking into turmoil, with Israel saying it would not negotiate with a Palestinian government that includes members of Hamas.
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Spychips

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How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID...
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Fascism Doesn't Always Roar...

January 25, 2006 by element115
...don't look to wild-eyed Gadaffis, bearded Husseins, or flaming-faced bin Ladens for fascism in America; those are CIA creations and that's not how it will come. Look for the well-scrubbed, kissy-faced, prayerful hands class president for our own proud mutation of the hoary tradition. We do nothing quite like anyone else and this will be no exception. The new facilitator will beam and quote scripture as he reveals his horns and tail. The Repuglicans will rejoiceth in his presence, yea, even while the Dimocrats bow and scrape, begging for a crust of the royal bread...and thus fascism will have decended upon America, not roaring and fierce, not raking the air with bloody claws, not squalling and preening, but softly, quietly, unnoticed, on cat's feet
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Plan Seeks More Elite Forces to Fortify Military

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A top-level Pentagon review of defense strategy calls for bolstering the U.S. military with thousands more elite troops skilled in fighting terrorists and insurgents and partnering with foreign forces -- as part of a decades-long plan to expand efforts to thwart terrorists worldwide, according to U.S. officials and military analysts.
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Fiddling While the World Burns

by element115
The world's rich and powerful are heading this week to their annual meeting in the plush mountain resort of Davos, Switzerland. Hosted by the great global corporations (Citigroup, Siemans, Microsoft, Nestles, etc.), some 2000 CEO's, prominent politicians, pundits and international bureaucrats will network over great food, fine wine, good skiing and cozy evenings by the fire contemplating the world's future.

This is not a secret cabal; journalists will issue daily reports to the rest of us on the wit and informal charm of our financial betters. Rather it is like the political convention of those who manage the global economy. Call it the Party of Davos.
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Slouching Toward Global Enslavement

by element115
...the 1913 birth of the U.S. tax code. That same year, the Federal Reserve Act was passed. What this meant is that a private corporation, the Federal Reserve, now manages the monetary and financial system of the United States of America. As such, they have greater power than our president and Congress as they control the banking system and the country's business cycle.
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Why the West will attack Iran

by element115
The same Europeans who excoriated the United States for invading Iraq with insufficient proof of the presence of weapons of mass destruction already have signed on to a military campaign against Iran, in advance of Iran's gaining WMD. There are a number of reasons for this sudden lack of squeamishness, and all of them lead back to oil.
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UK ID cards "defeated" yet still going ahead

by element115
The London Independent is reporting that the government has been "defeated' on the ID card scheme and that a victory for freedom has been won.

However, this is only the surface appearance. If you actually read into the situation you will discover that in actual fact the scheme will still go ahead, we will all have compulsory ID cards and our personal information will be recorded and stored.
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Patriot Act Renewal Includes Creation of a Federal Police Force

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"A permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division,'" empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence" ...
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Chrislam

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In Africa, Islam and Christianity are growing - and blending...
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Cameras That Never Forget Your Face

by element115
The new generation of video surveillance systems can not only watch your every move, but they'll recognize your face when you come back. They can even find you in their memory.
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Pesticide tests may use pregnant women, kids

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The Bush administration would allow some limited pesticide testing on children and pregnant women under controversial rules set to be made final as early as this week.
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Woman dies of bird flu in China

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A woman in China has become the seventh person in the country to die from the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
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The confirmation of Samuel Alito is a done deal

by element115
...he won commitments from a majority of senators this afternoon and only a formal vote stands between him and the Supreme Court-we can say good-bye once and for all to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Academics and corporate media commentators like to call the encroaching dictatorial power of the Straussian neocon White House "unitary" presidential power, but we shouldn't fool ourselves-it is nothing short of the sort of authoritarianism the founders did their best to avoid by establishing separated branches of government and a process of checks and balances, now virtually extinct. In essence, what we now have is a government owned and ruled by a corporate plutocracy-and the father of modern fascism, Benito Mussolini, defined fascism as corporatism.
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Iran Positive on Moscow Plan to Enrich Uranium in Russia

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Moscow has proposed having Iran?s uranium enriched in Russia, then returned to Iran for use in the country?s reactors - a compromise that could provide more oversight and ease tensions with the United States and European Union over Iran?s nuclear program.
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Drive Out the Bush Regime

by element115
Make your plans now to participate in the State of the Union protests:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 8pm EST:
In large cities and town squares across the country, we will rally one hour before Bush's address. At 9:00 PM let the world hear us as we symbolically drown out Bush's lies bring your own noise - drums, pots and pans, musical instruments - your voice. Let taxi horns blare and church bells ring, as we bring our own state of the union message: BUSH STEP DOWN!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 11:00 AM, Washington, DC:
We will take our demand to the White House. This regime is immoral, dangerous, and criminally indictable. Bush Lied. Bush Spied. Bush Step Down. 2006. 2008. Too late. Turn your outrage into mass
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America's crime against humanity

by element115
Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.

The Pentagon has been using radiooactive weapons for at least a decade and a half with full complicity of at least three White House administrations and Republican and Democratic congressional legislators.

Conservatively, at least 300 tons and 1,700 tons of depleted uranium were used in the Gulf War and the current Iraq War, resectively. This is about 70 grams of depleted uranium per Iraqi citizen, and if inhaled or ingested, it is enough to kill them all.
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Bush the Incompetent

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Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things -- particularly when most of them were the president's own initiatives.
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US anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan hails Venezuela's Chavez

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Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.
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Google agrees to China censorship

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Users there won't find results for topics banned by the government...
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CIA flights likened to the work of gangsters

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The United States was accused of "gangster tactics" yesterday, and European governments were accused of turning a blind eye to the "outsourcing of torture", as a human rights watchdog concluded that the CIA conducted illegal anti-terror activities in Europe.
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Palestinians Vote for Parliament

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Palestinians today held their first parliamentary election in a decade.

Long lines formed at many polling stations, while Palestinian election officials predicted that 75 to 80 percent of the 1.3 million registered voters would cast ballots. Eleven Palestinian parties and blocs are competing in the election, which features more than 700 candidates.

About 900 foreign observers, including former president Jimmy Carter, were monitoring the voting.
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Keeping Secrets

January 24, 2006 by element115
Imagine we were to find out one day that Starbucks had been recording everyone's conversations for the purpose of figuring out whether cappuccino is more popular than macchiato. Sure, the result, on the margin, might be a better coffee product. And, yes, we all know, or should, that our conversations at Starbucks aren't truly private. But we'd prefer a coffee shop that wasn't listening-and especially one that won't later be able to identify the macchiato lovers by name. We need to start to think about search engines the same way and demand the same freedoms.

Perhaps one should live, as they say, as if everything you do will soon show up on Page A1 of the New York Observer. But living like that-as if everything you do will be publicly aired one day-is wretched, and the exact opposite of what it means to be living in a free society.
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The End of 'Unalienable Rights'

by element115
Every American school child is taught that in the United States, people have "unalienable rights," heralded by the Declaration of Independence and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Supposedly, these liberties can't be taken away, but they are now gone.
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Future charges possible

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"These are clearly crimes and the statute of limitations extends beyond this president's term."
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Wolfowitz under fire

by element115
The immediate cause of the turmoil at the World Bank is the appointment of an adviser to Mr Wolfowitz with close ties to the Republican party as the new director of the internal watchdog that investigates suspected fraud and staff misconduct. His choice has raised questions about the selection of someone so close to the president and whether this was the best person for such a sensitive post.
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Venezuela's Chavez hosts World Social Forum

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More than 60,000 had signed up for this week's World Social Forum in Caracas as of Monday and tens of thousands more were expected, organizers said. They include campaigners against U.S.-style free trade, environmentalists, Indian leaders and human rights activists.
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The Real Story of the 'American Taliban'

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After years of almost total silence on his son's arrest and imprisonment, Frank Lindh sets the record straight...
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How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?

by element115
There is no crisis today that justifies suspending the constitution. There is a constitution in effect today. That constitution has endured for over 200 years.
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Mossad agent arrested on border with Turkey

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An Iranian website reported Monday that an agent working for the Israeli Mossad was arrested while crossing the border between Iran and Turkey.
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Sanitised images hide truth about war

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The sanitised images of war broadcast on television are a "lethal weapon" masking atrocities which demonstrate that conflict can "never be justified."
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The re-declared War on Terror

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Amnesty International Annual Lecture hosted by TCD, delivered by Noam Chomsky at Shelbourne Hall, the Royal Dublin Society, January 18, 2006
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"God Bless Canada"

by element115
...a right-wing Albertan who closes his speeches with the strangely uncanadian "God Bless Canada" has been elected Prime Minister.
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Study: Army Stretched to Breaking Point

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Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
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NSA issues guidance on redacting Word, PDF

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The National Security Agency has issued technical guidance for U.S. officials on redacting or editing sensitive documents for release following a series of embarrassing incidents in which so-called metadata stored in electronic formats like Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files has been accidentally exposed.

The document, called "Redacting with confidence: How to safely publish sanitized reports converted from Word to PDF," says that these files can "contain many kinds of information, such as text, graphics, tables, images, (and) meta-data."
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Conservative Insider Magazine Says White House Bracing for Impeachment Hearings

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"Administration sources said the charges are expected to include false reports to Congress as well as Mr. Bush's authorization of the National Security Agency to engage in electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court warrant. "

The first formal step in possible impeachment proceedings will be an open hearing set for February 6, 2006 by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush eavesdropping program.
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Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School

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"The idea is to improve school safety for the children," said Phil Meara, superintendent, Freehold Borough School District, on Monday. "We had a swipe-card system that operated the doors, but the technology was obsolete."

Installation of the iris technology began in October. The system is now operational after two months of testing. The Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System (T-PASS), a software application developed by Eyemetric Identity Systems, was installed on the front office computers at each of the three schools.
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US stages missile defense "war games" for Congress

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The U.S. missile defense shield is still under construction for around $9 billion a year but lawmakers can play this week on a simulation of the single most expensive U.S. weapons program.
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Another nuke exercise

January 23, 2006 by element115
The Defense Department has scheduled a second major, three-day exercise to combat nuclear terrorism in the Charleston, S.C. area.
The military's Joint Task Force-Civil Support, headquartered at Ft. Monroe, Va., will host the three-day drill for commanders and representatives of other federal agencies that would be involved in managing the consequences of a 10-megaton nuclear blast, enough to inflict mass causalities and devastation on an American city.
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Bush Calls Surveillance Legal, Necessary

by element115
Bush's remarks were part of an aggressive administration campaign to defend the four-year-old program as a crucial and legal terror-fighting tool. The White House is trying to sell its side of the story before the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on it in two weeks.
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Vatican 'cashes in' by putting price on the Pope's copyright

by element115
For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

The decision was denounced yesterday for treating the Pope's words as "saleable merchandise" and endangering the Church's mission to "spread the Christian message".
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Most Loathsome People in America

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3. George W. Bush

Charges: Simply put, the stupidest man ever to lead this country. Bush?s lobotomized Will Rogers routine is a satirist?s dream, a European intellectual?s caricature of the dipshit cowboy American, all balls and no brains. Often responds to questions by attempting to define the word he finds the most challenging in them. Thinks press reports of his various crimes are responsible for his waning popularity, rather than the deeds themselves. Interprets the constitution like a Unitarian interprets the bible; for maximum convenience and with no regard to the actual text. Foreign policy vision is less serious and more simplistic than an issue of Captain America.
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Structure of the HIV virus is revealed for the first time

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HIV, the virus which leads to AIDS and which affects 40 million people across the world, has been seen in detail for the first time by Oxford scientists and their colleagues in Heidelberg and Munich.
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Pakistan PM: CIA attack reports 'bizarre'

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Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday ridiculed as "bizarre" a U.S. report that senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA attack on a home along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said no evidence indicates al Qaeda leaders were killed in a CIA airstrike.
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Russian General: Nine Eleven a Globalist Inside Job

by element115
According to General Ivashov, the covert operation nine eleven was effective because it turned "the people's demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy - destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as: aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of national liberation" and also depriving "peoples of their legitimate right to fight against aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence services."

"The organizers of [the nine eleven] attacks were the political and business circles interested in destabilizing the world order"
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Iran's Oil Exchange threatens the Greenback

by element115
The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. are planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar.
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Saddam lawyers seek to try Bush, Blair

by element115
President of the Jordan Bar Association, Saleh Armouti, who recently joined Saddam's defense team, told journalists the attorneys will seek Saddam's approval this week to file a law suit against the American and British leaders in a European international court.

The lawyers want to try them on charges of illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country.
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Deplete Uranium Is the Biggest Untold Story of War

by element115
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
- Henry Kissinger
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Experts see $100 a barrel oil

by element115
"Even if Iran pulled a small amount of its oil off the market, say it pulled a half million barrels a day, I could see oil prices literally jumping over the $100 per barrel mark," said James Bartis, a senior researcher at Rand Corp.
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Will Abramoff's Deep Throat Swallow God's Mouthpiece?

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Cheney's War Workshop Plots Another Attack

by element115
Paul Craig Roberts ---> We are witnessing the same drumbeat against Iranian WMD as we witnessed in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Fox "News," which in fact is the most thorough-going dispenser of war propaganda since the Nazi Third Reich, provides a parade of bought-and-paid-for-consultants who assure credulous audiences that Osama bin Laden has forged an alliance with Iran, which will soon be providing al Qaeda with nuclear weapons.
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Israel killed Arafat, says Assad

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"Of the many assassinations that Israel carried out in a methodical and organised way, the most dangerous thing that Israel did was the assassination of president Yasser Arafat," Mr Assad told a gathering of Arab lawyers in what was billed as a speech on democratic reform.

"This was under the world's gaze and its silence, and not one state dared to issue a statement or stance towards this, as though nothing happened."
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U.S. tells Israel it will shun PA gov't that includes Hamas

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Haaretz ---> The American administration has promised Israel that the United States will not recognize any Palestinian government in which Hamas participates, government sources in Jerusalem have said.
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Hillary Clinton, War Goddess

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Justin Raimondo ---> She wants permanent bases in Iraq ? and threatens war with Iran...
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Iran threatens to restart full-scale enrichment if referred to U.N. Security Council

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Iran will immediately retaliate if referred to the U.N. Security Council next week by forging ahead with developing a full-scale uranium enrichment program, a senior envoy said Monday.
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Reporters Ejected from Gov. Jeb Bush Speech in Florida

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Florida Republican Party officials on Saturday called security to eject reporters listening to Gov. Jeb Bush speak to several hundred party activists in Tallahassee.
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Hunger strikers close to death

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DESPITE force feeding by the American military, several hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay may be close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees.
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Flying car captured on Google Earth

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Experimental Oz project packs grav-busting hyperdrive...
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Halliburton knowingly supplied US troops with contaminated water

by element115
Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, disputes the allegations about water problems at Camp Junction City, in Ramadi, even though they were made by its own employees and documented in company e-mails.

"The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of untreated water from the Euphrates River," Granger wrote in one of several documents. The Associated Press obtained the documents from Senate Democrats who are holding a public inquiry into the allegations Monday.
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Rice says time for talking with Iran is over

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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday there was strong international consensus against Iran's nuclear plans and time had run out for talking to Tehran.
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Russians: British Spied Using Fake Rock

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Russia's main intelligence agency on Monday accused four British diplomats of spying _ using electronic equipment hidden inside a fake rock in a park _ as well as funneling funds to non-governmental organizations.

The announcement came a day after state television channel Rossiya broadcast footage purportedly showing four British Embassy staff using electronic equipment concealed in the rock in Moscow to receive intelligence from Russian agents.
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Why America Has to Be Fat

January 22, 2006 by element115
...being fat makes you pretty good for the economy.
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The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet

by element115
...the nation's largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day discover that Yahoo suddenly responds much faster to your inquiries, overriding your affinity for Google. Or that Amazon's Web site seems sluggish compared with eBay's.

The telecommunications companies' proposals have the potential, within just a few years, to alter the flow of commerce and information -- and your personal experience -- on the Internet.
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U.S. Funds Enter Fray In Palestinian Elections

by element115
The Bush administration is spending foreign aid money to increase the popularity of the Palestinian Authority on the eve of crucial elections in which the governing party faces a serious challenge from the radical Islamic group Hamas.
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The Other Big Brother

by element115
The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program.
Even its leaders say the outfit may have gone too far.
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When George Met Jack

by element115
White House aides deny the President knew lobbyist Abramoff, but unpublished photos shown to TIME suggest there's more to the story...
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French woman feared suffering from bird flu

by element115
The case was being treated as potential bird flu because of the "symptoms and because the woman saw dead birds while travelling in a country affected by the epidemic," the statement said Sunday.
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Dutch open 'Big Brother' jail

by element115
Fail to pay traffic fines or commit a petty theft in the Netherlands and you could find yourself electronically tagged inside a Big Brother-style jail.
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Duke Professor Skeptical of bin Laden Tape

by element115
He thinks bin Laden is dead and has doubts about the tape. Lawrence recently analyzed more than 20 complete speeches and interviews of the al Qaida leader for his book. He says the new message is missing several key elements.
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Israel warns Iran of 'destruction'

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Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the Iranian people Saturday that they faced "destruction" unless they managed to restrain their new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Brain Scan Shows No Change in Sharon

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A scan of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's brain Sunday showed no change from a week ago, hospital officials said.
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Consumer Advocates Fear Corporate 'Fiefdoms' and a Class-Based Internet

by element115
Two-thirds of Americans now have Internet access at home, but more than 75 percent of them are worried that the days of free and diverse Web services may be over, according to a survey commissioned by the Consumers Union, Free Press, and Consumer Federation of America.
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'Tell the Truth About Torture, Mr. President' Campaign

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"The White House has dodged the truth about torture for too long," said Dr. William F. Schulz, Amnesty International's Executive Director. "With reports of torture in the news virtually every day, it is imperative the president and all in his administration end the secrecy and end the torture. This campaign will allow thousands of Americans to demand that torture in our names is not committed again and insist that the president speak the truth in his State of the Union address(Jan.31) about this heinous crime."
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What's not right about the Osama Bin Laden audio tape.

by element115
...the neo-cons are once again using the Big Lie to further their ambitions of global domination and worldwide fascism. The 911 attacks are beginning to look more and more like the Reichstag Fire, both engineered to bring about fascist control.
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Israel Looks at Possible Elections Win by Hamas

by element115
The Israeli cabinet met today to discuss policy toward the Palestinian Authority in the event the radical Islamic group Hamas does well or even wins the election for the Palestinian Legislative Council on Wednesday.
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Third Reuters Iraq journalist freed from US custody

by element115
The U.S. military freed an Iraqi journalist who works for Reuters on Sunday after holding him for nearly eight months without charge.
At least two journalists for other international media organizations are still being held.
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Extraordinary renditions

by element115
The USA has a long history of making friends with its future enemies: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein count among that illustrious group. Osama bin Laden, who, like Bush, is the privileged son of an oil dynasty, was once the good friend of the United States. Now the commander-in-chief has turned his guns on this one- time ally in a repetitive mantra of demonology.
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The War on Dissent Gets Creepy

by element115
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.
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Iran and Israel: The Ambiguous Nuclear Weapons

by element115
To object to Iran's nuclear future without pressuring and bringing Israel into open and honest negotiation seems outrageously insulting.
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Italy Warns Against Any Israeli Retaliation Vs Iran

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"I tell Israel that you can not and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades," Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini warned Friday.
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"Fixed" Intelligence from Feith's "Gestapo Office

by element115
...the CIA and the Bush Administration's Impeachable Lies about Iraq's Prewar Links to al Qaeda
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Bin Laden: Where is he? Who's protecting him? Why can't we find him?

by element115
The latest audiotape proves the al-Qa'ida figurehead has pulled off one of the most remarkable disappearing acts in history.
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China to build world`s first "artificial sun" experimental device

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A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China`s Anhui Province.

If a device is developed that can withstand temperatures as high as 100 million Celsius degrees and control a deuterium-tritium reaction, it will be as though an "artificial sun" had been created able to supply infinite, clean energy for human beings.
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Iran says Israeli threats are a 'childish game'

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Iran on Sunday said Israel would be making a "fatal mistake" should it resort to military action against Tehran's nuclear program and dismissed veiled threats from the Jewish state as a "childish game."
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Israeli Hints at Preparation to Stop Iran

January 21, 2006 by element115
Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program.

"Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability and it must have the capability to defend itself, with all that that implies, and this we are preparing," Shaul Mofaz said.
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Belafonte Continues Tirade Against Bush

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Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.
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Franklin's fate

by element115
Larry Franklin has been sentenced to twelve years for his role in the AIPAC spy scandal. Since the Zionists have assured us that there is no AIPAC spy scandal, and it is just anti-Semitism, you have to wonder what the twelve years are for.
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Oklahoma Truth Convergence '06

by element115
Learn to fight back in the WAR FOR YOUR MIND. Come join us for a speaker?s forum discussing numerous UNANSWERED QUESTIONS surrounding the terrorist attacks of recent years, including the COVER-UP behind the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11.

Guest speakers include FIRST-HAND WITNESSES to terrorist atrocities, a former OK State Representative WHO LED THE FIGHT to uncover the truth behind the OKC bombing, a former Federal Grand Jury member who was booted from the OKC case for ASKING INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS, a leader in the 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT and others who have confronted the BEAST face to face.
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CIA Role a Mystery at Court-Martial

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Prosecutors say Mowhoush was stuffed headfirst in a sleeping bag and bound with electrical cord, then suffocated with Welshofer sitting atop his chest.

The defense contends a heart condition caused Mowhoush's death, and that Welshofer's commanders had approved the interrogation technique.
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Iran moves assets out of Europe

by element115
Ebrahim Sheibani, the governor of the Iranian Central Bank, confirmed Tehran had started shifting funds, according to Iranian news agency ISNA.
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World Tracker turns anyone into a cellphone spy

by element115
The next frontier in warrant-free surveillance is upon us, and it's open to everyone. A UK service called World Tracker apparently uses cell tower data (or GPS, when available) to track the location of just about any GSM cellphone. Just enter the number you want to track into the service's handy Google Maps-based interface, and you'll be able to zoom in on the device's location...
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What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis

by element115
Soaring fuel prices, rumours of winter power cuts, panic over the gas supply from Russia, abrupt changes to forecasts of crude output...
Is something sinister going on?
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Paul Wolfowitz Busy Neo-Conning the World Bank

by element115
Staff Rebellion Brewing...
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Latest Bin Laden Tape: Another of the NeoCons' "Greatest Hits"

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Experts already begin to come forward with revelations that Latest tape just another CIA fake...
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Collapse of U.S. Economy Imminent

by element115
In its attempt to establish a world empire dominating every nation on the planet, the U.S. has exhausted its ability to finance the expansion and the country now faces imminent financial collapse. From all indications, it looks like 2006 will spell the end for America.
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Alaska Legislature Mulling Making Murder Legal

by element115
The NRA has planned to bring "Shoot First" to all fifty states in the union this year, and they?re pushing in on all fronts to enact this dangerous and unnecessary law.
What it does is remove the responsibility of a person being attacked in any from retreating, instead allowing them to open fire any time they feel threatened.
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Wag the Osama

by element115
Isn't it a mighty big coincidence that Osama returns for a bizarre appearance just as Bush is on the ropes for illegal spying on Americans -- and as Karl Rove announces that he is going to use fear again to maintain one-party dictatorial control over America in the fall elections?
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The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse

by element115
For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation. It did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but distributed instead its own fiat currency, the U.S. Dollar, to other nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of inflating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar with less economic goods-the difference capturing the U.S. imperial tax.
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ID cards 'should be compulsory'

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Lord Falconer: "I think it is, I think it will become inevitable that you need reliable means of identification, both to stop people stealing your identity, and also making it much, much easier for you to deal with the state."

"You won't every time you want to change something have to fill in a long form, life will just become much easier."

"I think the government takes the view that to get the full benefits they will ultimately have to become compulsory."
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What do they know that they are not telling us?

by element115
There has to be a reason why the U.S. government is spying on its citizens. There must be a reason why laws are being enacted to put the U.S. on a police state footing. There's got to be a reason why the executive branch of government seeks more and more control of all aspects of governance, including shaping the views of the judiciary by placing jurists in high positions who defer to the executive at the expense of the influence of their own branch of government. And the fear of "terrorism" cannot be that reason.
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Currency War

by element115
At present, the Dollar is the global monetary standard for petroleum exchange. Hence, all petroleum consuming countries ? including China and Japan ? must buy and keep a large cache of dollars in their central banks.

What would be the effect of an Iranian Bourse operating on petroeuros rather than petrodollars?
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Are You Ready to Be Bugged and Tortured By George W. Bush?

by element115
It's not really terrorists George W. Bush wants to bug and torture. It's YOU.

It's not really terrorism he wants to fight. It's opposition from people he can't control.

It's not really US security he wants to protect. It's the power of his regime.

The Constitutional debate about whether these executive privileges are allowable in war is a smoke screen.

This isn't about war: It's about dictatorship. It?s about making power permanent by using private information against you, and by terrifying you with torture.

Team Bush believes it rules by Divine right. It has already re-defined "terrorist" to mean anyone who questions its power. It will use "anti-terrorist" wiretapping as a tool against anyone who dares oppose it.
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Voice of the White House

by element115
Yet again, our grossly incompetent CIA, in conjunction with the prevaricating manipulators in the White House, have produced another faked "bin Ladin tape" threatening to attack the United States but "offering a truce." The CIA has produced at least ten "original terrorist" tapes in the past three years. A man named Morton Weil, working for the CIA out of Waco, Texas, puts these together using someone fluent in Arabic. The documents are produced in Langley, sent to the NSC for vetting and, if approved as written, sent by courier to Waco, Texas where they are translated (from the English) into Arabic and then recorded by a person, as yet unnamed, fluent in that language .
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Iran's leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel

by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel if Europe were to open its doors.
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Great Russian freeze spreads west

by element115
Severe cold weather gripping large parts of Russia has now spread west, causing chaos in Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Scandinavia.
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Michael Moore Statement on Canadian Election

January 20, 2006 by element115
Oh, Canada -- you're not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That's a joke, right? I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny.
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The Coming Collapse of Income Tax

by element115
Within the next ten years the income tax system in the United States will be dismantled. A number of emerging new forces coupled with the universal dislike of the system will soon gain enough of a toehold to cause it to collapse.
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Sam Alito and the End of Constitutional Checks and Balances

by element115
The Senate Dems are About to Hang Themselves...
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Osama Bin Laden - Diabolical Boogeyman, or Government Scapegoat?

by element115
One of the quickest ways to determine the true relationship between Osama and the Bush administration is a quick check of administration comments about him. Obviously if he is the ultimate boogeyman then the Bush administration would stop at nothing to kill or capture him, and if he was a government scapegoat then the administration wouldn't want him to go away.
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Hypocrisy reigns in the Cheney/Bush administration and it infects everything they touch

by element115
Watching this administration dig a deeper and deeper hole of deception while trumpeting their progress with sincerity is hypocrisy at its worst - and it has left its mark on our Democracy and its original bearings of truth and integrity.
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An Interview with Tareq Aziz: Looking Back

by element115
The following interview with former Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq was reproduced exclusively for Palestine Chronicle and is published online for the first time.
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Italy to pull troops out of Iraq

by element115
Italy will withdraw 1 000 of its 2 600 troops in Iraq by June and aims to finish its mission there by the end of this year, Defence Minister Antonio Martino said on Thursday.
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Ominous sign

by element115
The president's growing disregard for the law...
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Depleted Uranium - A Hidden Looming Worldwide Calamity

by element115
...there's possibly one threat that tops all others both in gravity and because it's been deliberately concealed from the public - never discussed, explained or had any action taken to remediate it. It's the global threat from the toxic effects of depleted uranium (DU), and like global warming, DU has the potential to destroy all planetary life. How can something so potentially destructive be hidden and ignored and why?
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It's all about the voice

by element115
Just a slow, composed, husky voice out of a telephone line recorded on a scratched tape (not digital; a mere cassette). No video. Just a voice - capable of sending the markets into a tailspin and the networks into hysteria, spiking the oil bourses in London and New York, resetting the global agenda, unleashing armies of US intelligence analysts scrambling to confirm if the voice is real or fake.

You had totally vanished from the face of the Earth for more than a year. You are the most wanted man in the world. You re-enter the global stage just with your voice, a mere whisper. The simplicity of it. What politician would not dream of such power?
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Syria backs Iran in nuclear standoff

by element115
Syria asserted Thursday that Iran has a right to atomic technology and said U.S. and European objections to Tehran's nuclear ambitions are not persuasive.
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ElBaradei rejects EU's request to condemn Iran

by element115
...the head of the UN's nuclear monitor, has turned down a request by the European Union to issue a far-reaching condemnation of Iran's nuc­lear programme when the agency's board meets in extraordinary session next month.
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Trial Illuminates Dark Tactics of Interrogation

by element115
It was dubbed the "sleeping bag technique."
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The Poisoning of the Well

by element115
Psychologically fragile, weak-minded and made vulnerable by the events of 9/11, millions quickly believed the lies of false prophets and corrupt high priests, the excuses made by fear engendering televangelists, the reasoning as stated by greed mongering evangelists. God allowed 9/11 to happen, millions were told, because America had become a debauched society, threatened by homosexuality, allowing the mass murder of pin-size zygotes and abandoning the ways of the Bible. America had been allowed to fall away from its Christian ways, and so the always psychotic God had, once again, wrought violence, death and destruction upon the lands of those breaking covenants with the Almighty.
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Osama bin Laden: Is it him?

by element115
So why only on audio? Why no video tape? Is he sick? Yes, say the usual American "intelligence sources". It's the same old story: Osama bin Laden talks to us from the mouth of a cave, from within a cave, from a basement perhaps, from a tape almost certainly recorded down a telephone line from far away.
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Ex-Pentagon Analyst Sentenced to 12 Years

by element115
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said he gave Lawrence A. Franklin a sentence on the low end of federal guidelines because it appeared Franklin was trying help the United States, not hurt it.
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Bush Administration Demands Search Data

January 19, 2006 by element115
Google Says No; AOL, MSN & Yahoo Said Yes.
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Powerful Men Who Meet Secretly and Plan

by element115
Sometime later in 2006 the 52nd meeting of the Bilderberg Group will begin and continue over a period of four days in a five-star hotel resort. In attendance will be no more than 100 of some of the west's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers, industrialists, strategic thinkers and even a trusted journalist or two. All participants will be absolutely forbidden from disclosing what they discussed during the four days although the invited journalists are provided with a vague press release for the curious.
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Torture flights

by element115
...what No 10 knew and tried to cover up.

Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres.
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US Journalist Murdered after Writing Article on US-Bush Supreme Court Nominee Judge Alito

by element115
New York Times writer and journalist David E. Rosenbaum was just murdered, a mere matter of days after writing a critical article about US President Bush's Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. The article by Rosenbaum helped expose how Alito was long ago an advocate of unrestrained government power.

Web writer Kurt Nimmo wrote an article questioning Rosenbaum's death, and then Kurt Nimmo suddenly terminated his own long-standing website due to death threats. Mr Nimmo seems to have put his web archives back up for a short time...
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How long will the media let Bush hide the Abramoff meetings?

by element115
...during the Clinton administration this kind of thing would've dominated cable news every night.
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

by element115
Among other things, the neocon assault involves the suspension of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus. It entails the unlawful spying on law abiding citizens engaged in peaceful activities, including Vermont Quakers. The fascist neocons are in the process of dismantling the social safety net that millions of hard working families depend upon. They are engaged in a brutal campaign for world domination?disguised as a war on terror?that promises war that will not end in our lifetimes. They are hijacking the federal treasury and turning civil government over to their corporate cronies. And they are using our tax dollars to do it.
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Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors

by element115
The Guardian ---> It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work."
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Crippling disease sweeps Indian Ocean island

by element115
Doctors on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion are battling an epidemic of a crippling mosquito-borne disease that has no known cure.

About 7,200 cases of "chikungunya" had been recorded, including 1,600 cases last week alone.
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France defends right to nuclear reply to terrorism

by element115
France said on Thursday it would be ready to use nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a terrorist attack against it, reaffirming the need for its nuclear deterrent.
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20 wounded in Tel Aviv attack

by element115
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Tel Aviv fast-food stand Thursday, killing himself and wounding 20 people.
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Bin Laden tape

by element115
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden threatened new attacks were being prepared against the United States, according to an audiotape attributed to him and broadcast on al-Jazeera television on Thursday.
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Feds demand search records from Google

January 18, 2006 by element115
...the information requested includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period.

The release of such records sets a truly unsettling precedent.
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Target Practice

by element115
Washington's enthusiasm for remote-control assassination is partly about boys with toys. But after disasters like the failed attempt on Zawahiri, we need to take a closer look at the tactic.
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Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral Histories

by element115
Why have we not known about them until recently?
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Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified

by element115
Norman Finkelstein ---> Although the subject of many reports by human rights organizations, Israel's real human rights record in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is generally not well known abroad. This is primarily due to the formidable public relations industry of Israel's defenders as well as the effectiveness of their tactics of intimidation, such as labeling critics of Israeli policy anti-Semitic.

Yet, it is an incontestable fact that Israel has committed a broad range of human rights violations, many rising to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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EU to investigate CIA terror flights

by element115
ALLEGATIONS that the CIA has been illegally detaining terror suspects on European soil are to be investigated by a European Parliament committee. The move comes as a report issued yesterday accused the Bush Administration of employing a deliberate strategy of torture.

The 46 members of the EU committee have been given a wide-ranging remit and will be able to call any witnesses that they believe can shed light on whether US intelligence agencies have been flouting basic human rights and EU/US extradition agreements.
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Leading Conservatives Call for Extensive Hearings on NSA Surveillance

by element115
Checks on Invasive Federal Powers Essential...
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Freedom for Jill Carroll

by element115
The editor-in-chief of the Jordanian daily Al-Ghad, Ayman Al-Safadi, wrote a moving piece (in Arabic) about Jill in today's edition. Mr Al-Safadi was the one who hired Jill to work for the Jordan Times some years ago.
Here's translation --->
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The New Fascism

by element115
This new fascism is not fed only by lies, though to be sure the lies are there in preposterous abundance. This new fascism is fed by myths, our myths, the myths by which we rock ourselves to sleep. This new fascism is in truth an elemental fascism, reborn today by a confluence of events; the diligent work of the few, in combination with the passivity of the many, have brought forth this new order.
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Pentagon forbids troops to buy better body armor

by element115
The soldiers were ordered to leave their privately purchased body armor at home or face the possibility of both losing their life insurance benefit and facing disciplinary action.
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American who advised Pentagon says he wrote for magazine that found forged Niger documents

by element115
A controversial neoconservative who occasionally consulted for the Bush Defense Department has confirmed that he was a contributor to the Italian magazine Panorama, whose reporter first came across forged documents which purported that Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium from Niger.
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