Voice of the White House

April 30, 2006 by element115
It is well-known inside the Beltway, and the White House, that these physically unattractive, aging and flabby legislators eagerly solicit Washington?s legions of crooked lobbyists for favors such as drugs, sex with whores, both female, men and boys (but as far as is known, not animals?yet) and as many free trips and visits to expensive resorts as possible. The legend that the lobbyists go after the Congressmen is not true; it is the other way around. In this case, it was pathetic paid sex for votes and nothing more. The great number of these eager petitioners are, most unfortunately for the President, all Republicans, including some very important Committee Chairmen.
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Why are the Palestinians expected to take the blame?

by element115
How long is a sane man expected to sit on his hands while his enemy slaps him in the face? The Palestinian people have endured a prolonged aggression by a pariah state, and yet the world not only expects them to sit on their hands, the world blames them for it.
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Failed States

by element115
The US Has the Characteristics of A "Failed State"

Comments On Noam Chomsky's New Book
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Seen through a Syrian lens

by element115
Robert Fisk --> "Unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq...
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Report: Turkey won't let U.S. attack Iran from its land

by element115
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the United States to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan.
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Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? Israel has American warheads ready to fire

by element115
Independent --> As international political powers seek Iran's capitulation on nuclear weapons development, little notice is given to what the Americans and the British have done to create this crisis nor what steps the Israelis might eventually take to make it profoundly more complicated.
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Celebrate tolerance, or you're dead

by element115
Oriana Fallaci appeals to Europe to save itself.
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Nepal's parliament approves vote

by element115
Nepal's parliament on Sunday unanimously approved a proposal by the new prime minister to hold elections for a special assembly to draw up a new constitution that will decide the future of the monarchy.
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The People Who Shape Our World

by element115
This year's TIME 100
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New oil shock ahead as $100 spike looms

by element115
The growing international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme could trigger a catastrophic oil price spike, sending crude prices over $100 a barrel, senior Wall Street analysts are warning.
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The myth of "keeping up"

by element115
You can't keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber.You can never be current on everything you think you should be.
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Colbert Roasts Bush

by element115
...and Dubya is sitting right there.

This is fantastic stuff.
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Bush challenges hundreds of laws

by element115
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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Mexican police shoot at striking miners

by element115
The footage is from last Thursday, when the State Police and a Federal agency tried to throw the miners out of the plant they were occupying. In the video you can see the police shooting at the striking miners and an helicopter flying around the site also shooting at the people on the ground. The shooting was apparently done by the State police, but the federal agents did not intervene. Mexico's attorney general has declared that the federal government wil not investigate.
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Feds Drop Bomb on EFF Lawsuit

by element115
The State Secrets Privilege is a vestige from English common law that lets the executive branch step into a civil lawsuit and have it dismissed if the case might reveal information that puts national security at risk.
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Israeli acting Prime Minister says Iran president "psychopath"

by element115
"...we are dealing with a psychopath of the worst kind, with an anti-Semite," Olmert said. "God forbid that this man ever gets his hands on nuclear weapons, to carry out his threats."

"Ahmadinejad speaks today like Hitler before taking power," Olmert told Germany's Bild newspaper. "He speaks of the complete destruction and annihilation of the Jewish people."

...no, he does not!
...He speaks about Zionist' politics, not about nation and people!
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Tens of Thousands in NYC Protest War

by element115
"We've been lied to, and they're going to lie to us again to bring us a war in Iran," said Marjori Ramos, 43, of New York. "I'm here because I had a lot of anger, and I had to do something."

"We are here today because the war is illegal, immoral and unethical," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "We must bring the troops home."
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Immigrants to boycott work, school and shopping

by element115
The range of activities shows both how powerful the immigrants' rights movement has become in a matter of weeks.

Officials in Los Angeles braced for huge crowds: Assistant Police Chief George Gascon said as many as 500,000 people could take part.
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Israeli cabinet pushes on with West Bank barrier

by element115
"The changes are very important and we are committed to making a supreme effort to complete the security fence everywhere as quickly as possible," Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister-designate told his Cabinet before it voted on the changes.
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US Accuses Iran of 'Playing Games' on Nuclear Issue

by element115
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has accused Iran of "playing games" in its dealings with the international community concerning its nuclear activities.
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U.S. to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes'

April 29, 2006 by element115
As the United States prepares a team of 30 to defend its record on torture before a U.N. committee, Amnesty International has made public a report blasting the United States for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world.
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Israel continues bombing Gaza

by element115
Five Palestinians sustained wounds, including one who was seriously injured, after the IDF shelled the northern Gaza Strip.
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Kellman Report

by element115
African Genocide
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War clouds

by element115
LA Times --> LET ME TELL YOU about the next war.

It will start sooner than you think - sometime between now and September.

When the war begins, it will be between Iran and Israel. Before it ends, though, it may set the whole of the Middle East on fire, pulling in the United States, leaving a legacy of instability that will last for generations and permanently ending a century of American supremacy.
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How Many US Troops are Really in Iraq?

by element115
How Much is the War in Iraq Costing?
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Snitch and earn....Scary

by element115
"Every year on 4/20, students and residents gather on Farrand Field at CU Boulder to defy the authorities and smoke marijuana publicly.

The University of Boulder Police Department fought back by taking pictures of as many participants as possible. They have a website with photos up, offering an $50 reward to anyone who positively identifies someone who was photographed.
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The Security Council deadline myth

by element115
Under a Safeguards Agreement concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency - as required by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - Iran agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to "verify" that no "source or special nuclear materials" are being used in furtherance of a nuclear weapons program.

During the past three years, every report Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has made to the IAEA Board concluded that - as best he can determine - no proscribed materials have been so used.

The NPT and the IAEA Statute and the Iranian Safeguards Agreement all guarantee Iran's "inalienable" right to conduct research into - and to enjoy all the benefits of the peaceful use of - nuclear energy.
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IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

by element115
Juan Cole --> The IAEA found no smoking gun.

Here is its conclusion...
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Susan Sarandon speaks of death threats after opposing Iraq war

by element115
Susan Sarandon today said death threats and attacks by the American public and the media after she spoke out against the Iraq war had left her very scared.

...the film star said she had been labelled a "Bin Laden lover" for asking questions about the US invasion of Iraq.
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China, Russia urged to back UN measures against Iran

by element115
Armed with an international report that raises concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the United States and its European allies are urging Russia and China to back tough measures aimed at turning up the heat on Tehran.
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Death Made In America

by element115
Wondering if your conscience is still anesthetized...

WARNING!!! Extremely disturbing images
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Anti-war activists march in New York

by element115
Anti-war activists march down Broadway, to protest the war in Iraq, with thousands of supporters in New York April 29, 2006. The marchers demanded an immediate withdrawal of troops, the same day news organizations noted April as being the most deadly month for U.S. troops in Iraq, with at least 69 killed.
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...more Anti-war Protests

by element115
Photos
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A Chilling FBI Fishing Expedition

by element115
Mark Feldstein --> On March 3 two FBI agents showed up at my home, flashing their badges and demanding to see 25-year-old documents that I have been reading as part of my research for a book I'm writing about Jack Anderson, the crusading investigative columnist who died in December.

I was surprised, to put it mildly, by the FBI's sudden interest in journalism history. I asked what crimes the agents were investigating.

"Violations of the Espionage Act," was the response. The Espionage Act dates to 1917 and was used to imprison dissidents who opposed World War I.
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Ex-defense minister: Israel must recapture Gaza

by element115
Government reluctant because it doesn't want to admit evacuation was mistake.
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Building the Secrecy Wall higher and higher

by element115
The latest such obstruction is the administration's invocation of what, prior to the Bush administration, was the rarely invoked "State Secrets Privilege" in order to demand that a federal judge dismiss the lawsuit brought by the libertarian privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. That lawsuit alleges that AT&T secretly diverts electronic communications to the NSA in order to allow the NSA to monitor those communications without warrants.
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U.S. Deems al-Qaida Video Propaganda

by element115
The U.S. military has only seen "loss, disaster and misfortune" in Iraq, al-Qaida's No. 2 said, in a video message that a U.S. official deemed part of a propaganda campaign to demonstrate the terror network's relevancy.
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Six arrested in antiwar rally at University of Minnesota

by element115
High school and college students gathered to protest, with one man throwing paint on a military recruiting station.
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The Devil's Music

by element115
The Devil is said to have the best tunes, but what do they sound like? A new film about the history of heavy metal highlights the so-called Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.
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"Boycott Da Vinci Code film": top Vatican official

by element115
The Vatican stepped up its offensive against "The Da Vinci Code" on Friday when a top official close to Pope Benedict blasted the book as full of anti-Christian lies and urged Catholics to boycott the film.
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Citing 'liberal' immigration laws, U.S. blasts Canada on terrorism

by element115
Islamic terrorist cells continue to operate in Canada, according to a Bush administration report released yesterday that fingers a "liberal" immigration system for allowing terrorists to infiltrate the country.
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Iran moves to prevent sanctions over nuclear program

by element115
"If the issue is returned to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), we will be ready to allow intrusive inspections," Mohammed Saeedi, Iran's deputy nuclear chief, told state-run television.
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Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping

by element115
It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress.
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Hideous Kinky

April 28, 2006 by element115
Chris Floyd --> Government officials routinely detail policies that in a healthy atmosphere would shake the nation to its core, stand out like a gaping wound, a rank betrayal of every hope, ideal and sacrifice of generations past. Yet in the degraded sensibility of these times, such confessions go unnoticed, their evil unrecognized -- or even lauded as savvy ploys or noble endeavors. Inured to moral horror by half a century of outrages committed by the "National Security" complex, the establishment, along with the media and vast swathes of the population, can no longer discern the poison in the air they breathe. It just seems normal.
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United 93

by element115
Universal Pictures :: Forum
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Is the Zarqawi video a hoax?

by element115
Zarqawi may have died years ago. The Jordanian has not been seen in years; he did not communicate with his family when his mother died; he has made no attempt to help his wife.
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Bush Set to Approve Takeover of 9 Military Plants by Dubai

by element115
Bush is expected on Friday to announce his approval of a deal under which a Dubai-owned company would take control of nine plants in the United States that manufacture parts for American military vehicles and aircraft, say two administration officials familiar with the terms of the deal.
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Kadima, Labor sign deal in Israel

by element115
The centrist Kadima party of acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed a coalition deal yesterday with the left-leaning Labor Party.
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What You Won't See in Flight 93, the Film

by element115
Flight 93 took off at 8:42 that morning, a few minutes before the Flight 11 struck the WTC. It was not hijacked until 9:28. It is simple fact that the FAA, American Airlines and the military knew about the 911 hijacking before Flight 93 took off.
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Neil Young Gives It Away for Free

by element115
Hear Neil Young's "Living With War" for free!
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Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English

by element115
A Spanish language version of the national anthem was released Friday by a British music producer, Adam Kidron, who said he wanted to honor America's immigrants.
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Nuestro Himno

by element115
See this can't happen, not only about the Latins.

Asians, blacks and whites and all they do is adding

more and more, let's not start a war

with all these hard workers,

they can't help where they were born
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Is dollar's shift the start of something nasty?

by element115
...if the dollar starts rolling downhill, it could set off capital movements that would drive financial markets and commodity speculation into paroxysm.
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Mark of The Beast Builder?

April 27, 2006 by element115
Jim Williams, who runs the US-VISIT program and heads up the computerized tracking system for visitors to USA, told attendees at the National Business Travel Association's annual conference that he wants a global identification system.
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Petition to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

by element115
Juan Cole --> I've started a petition drive for college and university teachers to defend John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from baseless charges of anti-Semitism.
I feel it is time for teachers in higher education to stand up and be counted on this issue of the chilling of academic inquiry through character assassination.
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Chávez calls on South America to unite

by element115
South American nations will have to choose whether they want continental unity or individual trade agreements with the United States -- but not both, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said.
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The Peacelovers

by element115
Israel has launched an air strike in the Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and wounding two others.
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Test blast in Nevada: A nuclear rehearsal

by element115
Pentagon apparently looks for an optimal size of a 'bunker buster'.
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Israeli warning to Norway

by element115
Israel's ambassador to Norway, Miryam Shomrat says it would harm Israel's relations with Norway if Hamas representatives will meet Norwegian authorities next month.
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"Diplomacy," the smokescreen for savagery

by element115
Open any Western newspaper and you are struck by the abundant use of the word ?diplomacy." It is the second most used word after "democracy." However, careful analysis shows that U.S. version of diplomacy has become the favourite smokescreen of U.S. wars of aggression. Iraq and Iran provide the best cases.
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Pimping the war

by element115
Israeli intelligence chief says Iran has missiles that can hit Europe...
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Ten minutes to midnight

by element115
About 230,000 Turkish soldiers have been massing along the border with southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) since April 2. The Iranians, in coordination with the Turks, have massed along "their" border with southern Kurdistan with about 30,000-50,000 soldiers.
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...why isn't anyone talking about it?

by element115
The shocking account of Tyler Drumheller aired Sunday on '60 Minutes.'
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United States of Israel?

by element115
Robert Fisk --> When two of America's most distinguished academics dared to suggest that US foreign policy was being driven by a powerful 'Israel Lobby' whose influence was incompatible with their nation's own interests, they knew they would face allegations of anti-Semitism. But the episode has prompted America's Jewish liberals to confront their own complacency. Might the tide be turning?
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Sweden Boycotts Israel, Embraces Hamas

by element115
Sweden is boycotting an international air force exercise in Italy next month due to the fact that Israel?s Air Force will take part. It has also decided to grant entry visas to Hamas members.
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The passion of George W. Bush

by element115
The president doesn't care that he is reviled. He is a martyr, and someday all will see his glory. Meanwhile, he's got Karl doing his dirty work.
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Could Rumsfeld court-martial the retired generals?

by element115
If he wanted to get really brutal, Rumsfeld could convene a court-martial and prosecute the six retired generals who have been calling for his head. Military law, if read literally, permits him to do this. So, will he?
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Israel nixes Abbas's peace summit bid

by element115
The prospect of a peace summit between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was shot down by Israel Wednesday almost as soon as it was floated by the Palestinians.
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Facing Collapse, Palestinians Turn to America's Enemies

by element115
Once again, the geniuses who run United States foreign policy have transformed a glorious opportunity to gain an ally into total disaster. Rejected by the West whose democratic game it played and won, the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority has been shoved into the arms of America's enemies.
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Your Thoughts Are Your Password

by element115
Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person's thoughts to authenticate her or his identity.
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The questions that "United 93" can't answer

by element115
...some of the unanswered questions -->
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Israel arrests Hamas MP in West Bank

by element115
Ahmed Mubarak, 43, was arrested at his home in the Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah, where the Palestinian parliament is based.
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The San Diego Mystery Boom Tracked

by element115
...but they still don't know what caused it.
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Rice Says U.N. Must Act on Iran Nuke Plan

by element115
"Is the Security Council going to be credible?" Rice asked after meetings with NATO foreign ministers.

"In order to be credible the Security Council has to act," Rice told reporters at the NATO session.
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Russia and China warn UN not to antagonise Iran

by element115
Russia and China on Thursday warned against escalating the dispute over Iran?s nuclear programme. The call came on the eve of an eagerly awaited report on whether the country has met United Nations demands.
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Exxon Quarterly Profit 5th Highest Ever

by element115
In the first quarter, net income rose to $8.4 billion, or $1.37 per share, from $7.86 billion, or $1.22 per share, a year ago.
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Sister of Iraqi Vice President Killed

by element115
A sister of Iraq's new Sunni vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad.
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The doors of perception

by element115
We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right?
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House Poised to Grant Arrest Powers to CIA, NSA

April 26, 2006 by element115
The House version of the 2007 intelligence authorization bill would grant CIA and NSA security personnel the authority to make arrests for "any felony" committed in their presence, no matter how remote from the foreign intelligence mission it might be.
...something no element of the CIA has ever been empowered to perform.
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Al-Jazeera Cairo Bureau Chief Detained

by element115
Police have detained the Cairo bureau chief of Al-Jazeera for his reporting on the Sinai beach resort bombings this week, the pan-Arabic television channel reported.

...he was accused of "propagating false news" about the three bomb blasts that killed 21 people and wounded 85 others in the town of Dahab on Monday.
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Extent of CIA flights revealed

by element115
BBC --> The CIA has run more than 1,000 flights within the European Union since 2001.

The CIA has... clearly been responsible for kidnapping and illegally detaining alleged terrorists.
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Neil Young: 'Impeach the President' Lyrics

by element115
Let's impeach the president for lying

And leading our country into war

Abusing all the power that we gave him

And shipping all our money out the door

He's the man who hired all the criminals

The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors

And bend the facts to fit with their new stories

Of why we have to send our men to war

Let's impeach the president for spying

On citizens inside their own homes

Breaking every law in the country

By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees

Would New Orleans have been safer that way

Sheltered by our government's protection

Or was someone just not home that day?

Let's impeach the president

For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected

Dividing our country into colors

And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he's racking down on steroids

Since he sold his old baseball team

There's lot of people looking at big trouble

But of course the president is clean

Thank God
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America's rags-to-riches dream an illusion: study

by element115
The likelihood that a child born into a poor family will make it into the top five percent is just one percent, according to "Understanding Mobility in America," a study by economist Tom Hertz from American University.
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Iran's Euro Oil Exchange to open next week

by element115
Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said on Wednesday that the establishment of Oil Stock Exchange is in its final stage and the bourse will be launched in Iran in the next week.
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The Generals Protest

by element115
Eric Margolis --> Recently, six retired American generals stunned the nation by publicly accused Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of "arrogance and mismanagement" in the Iraq war. The White House and Pentagon unleashed a massive public relations counter-attack to defend him, but the damage to the administration was enormous.
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American Samizdat

by element115
Your right to read news stories and writing that disrupt the government/Big Media symbiosis is under attack. And you probably don?t even know it.
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Rove to Testify Again in CIA Leak Case

by element115
Escorted by his lawyer Robert D. Luskin, Rove went into the building for a closed-door session with the panel and Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is heading up the inquiry into who leaked Plame's status as a CIA officer to the news media in 2003.
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Fox News commentator Becomes White House Press Secretary

by element115
Tony Snow was named White House press secretary today after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates, people familiar with the discussions said.

A former director of speechwriting for President Bush's father, Snow views himself as well positioned to ease the tensions between this White House and the press corps because he understands both politics and journalism, said sources familiar with the President's decision.
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Rumsfeld in surprise Iraq visit

April 25, 2006 by element115
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived unannounced in Iraq, in what is being seen as a show of support for the new Iraqi government.
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Human bomb hits Sri Lanka army HQ

by element115
At least 10 people were killed and 29, including Sri Lankan Army Commander Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, were critically wounded when a suspected LTTE female suicide bomber blew herself up at the heavily-guarded army headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Bush Agenda

by element115
Invading the World, One Economy at a Time,...
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The Corporate Control Of Society and Human Life

by element115
They control or greatly influence what we eat and drink, where we live, what we wear, how we get most of our essential services like health care and even what we're taught in schools up to the highest levels. They create and control our sources of information and greatly influence how we think and our view of the world and them. They even now own patents on our genetic code, the most basic elements of human life, and are likely planning to manipulate and control them as just another commodity to exploit for profit in their brave new world that should concern everyone. They also carefully craft their image and use catchy slogans to convince us of their benefit to society and the world. Corporations also decide who will govern and how. We may think we do, but it's not so and never was.
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Clashes in Athens as Rice visits

by element115
Athens police have fired teargas during a clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting against a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Some 5,000 riot police were deployed for Rice's visit.
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Tehran insider tells of US black ops

by element115
A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times Online about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime - or preparing for an American attack.
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Vermont lawmakers to call for Bush impeachment

by element115
Rep. Dave Zuckerman, P-Burlington, claims support from at least a dozen lawmakers, including Democrats, Progressives and one independent, and expects to have more co-signers before handing the resolution into the House clerk later today.

Zuckerman is relying on the Jefferson Manual of rules for the U.S. House of Representatives that allows state legislatures to initiate impeachment proceedings by submitting charges to Congress.
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Resolution to push Bush impeachment

by element115
State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) has sponsored a resolution calling on the General Assembly to submit charges to the U.S. House so its lawmakers could begin impeachment proceedings.
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Phased Ethnic Cleansing

by element115
...the reality of the situation, however skilfully and effectively obscured by the information apparatus that rules our global village?s news sources, shows a different image. It reveals, that today?s ever-closing siege upon the Palestinian people is yet another phase in a policy of what could be described, in accordance with modern day terminology, as "phased ethnic cleansing."
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Israel's nuclear ambitions

by element115
It's a pity that the Israeli experts, instead of proposing to "invest more heavily" in reponses to nuclear threats, appear to not have considered the much simpler and cheaper option of making the whole of the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.
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Democrats will propose eliminating federal gas taxes for sixty days

by element115
The measure, proposed by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), would reduce the cost of gas by $0.184 per gallon and the cost of diesel by $0.244 per gallon. The move, aides say, will provide $100 million dollars per day in relief.
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US will go for other states after Iran and Iraq, says Margolis

by element115
Renowned American journalist Eric Margolis has said that the US will "go for" Pakistan and Saudi Arabia after Iraq and Iran.
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Zarqawi video pops up on Internet

by element115
...appeared calm and decisive as he made a direct pitch for Iraqis' support, denouncing America and the new Iraqi government.

The 30-minute online video was the first time he had shown himself in the three years since shooting to prominence in Iraq at the start of the insurgency.
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Letter from 1800 physicists to Bush

by element115
The letter will be read in public on April 26, 5:00 PM, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House, and delivered in person to the White House.
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Greek Police Gird for Protests During Rice Visit

by element115
On the eve of a visit here by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the police increased security around potential American targets on Monday and prepared for a wave of protests by antiwar demonstrators and others.
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Israel to launch "eye in the sky" over Iran

by element115
Israel is set to launch on Tuesday a highly accurate imaging satellite which will enhance its ability to spy on Iran, a report in the mass circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth said.
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Stuff the kids

April 24, 2006 by element115
It bombards them with adverts, seduces them with merchandise - and then fills them with additives.

...how the fast-food industry exploits its key audience - the very young.
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Executed for the crime of entertaining the children

by element115
For the crime of staging a children?s show, Faud Radi and Haidar Jawad were executed by the new moral guardians of Baghdad.
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California Becomes Second State to Introduce Bush Impeachment

by element115
"bases the call for impeachment upon the Bush Administration intentionally misleading the Congress and the American people regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify an unnecessary war that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives and casualties; exceeding constitutional authority to wage war by invading Iraq; exceeding constitutional authority by Federalizing the National Guard; conspiring to torture prisoners in violation of the 'Federal Torture Act' and indicating intent to continue such actions; spying on American citizens in violation of the 1978 Foreign Agency Surveillance Act; leaking and covering up the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, and holding American citizens without charge or trial."
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Rage and Light: Militarism and its Discontents

by element115
Chris Floyd --> ...this PNAC document from 2000 explicitly stated that America should establish a military presence in Iraq no matter what the political situation in that country might be; this was an urgent need that "transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." It is now abundantly clear, from a nearly overwhelming number of sources, including some from inside the Bush Administration itself, that the Bush Faction intended to invade Iraq from their first moments in power.
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Neocon Academic Glorifies P2OG Terrorism

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"From the founding of the United States, the federal government has relied on subterfuge, skullduggery, and secret operations to advance American interests," Henriksen notes, dispensing with the normal neocon tendency to avoid history or at best gloss over it. "Even in the midst of World War II, America's greatest conventional war of the twentieth century, the United States resorted to cloak-and-dagger missions under the Office of Strategic Services. For example, the OSS, along with British intelligence services, aided the French resistance to the German occupation, helping prepare for Europe's liberation. When divisions were absent in the Cold War, American operators instigated them." Indeed?and one such instigation was Operation Gladio, a clandestine "stay-behind" operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO after World War Two to fight against "communist influence," or subvert democratically elected governments not sufficiently reactionary or fascist through terrorism and mass murder (one such incident was the Strage di Bologna, or Bologna massacre, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200, a collaboration by Ordine Nuovo, the Italian secret service, and the P2 Masonic lodge and part of Operation Gladio's strategia della tensione, or strategy of tension, designed to manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and threats of terrorism).
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Bush Brandishes Jail Time at Critics

by element115
Over the past five-plus years, the American people have gotten a taste of what a triumphant George W. Bush is like, as he basked in high approval ratings and asserted virtually unlimited powers as Commander in Chief. Now, the question is: How will Bush and his inner circle behave when cornered?
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Top White House posts go to Jews

by element115
Jerusalem Post --> After appointing Joshua Bolten to be the White House chief of staff, US President George W. Bush nominated another Jewish staffer, Joel Kaplan, to serve as Bolten's deputy, putting him in charge of the daily policy planning.

The fact that White House policy is now in the hands of two Jews is not seen as significant by activists in the American Jewish community.

"He is simply appointing the best people for the job," said Nathan Diament, who heads the Washington office of the Orthodox Union.
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Thermite Identified As Culprit Of WTC Collapse

by element115
A new branch of 9/11 research claims to have identified the cause of the collapse of the twin towers. The photographic and video evidence makes a very strong case for thermite being responsible for the unprecedented implosions of steel framed reinforced buildings on September 11.
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Rice Pushes Security Council on Iran

by element115
The credibility of the U.N. Security Council will be in doubt if it does not take clear-cut action against Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
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Save The Internet

by element115
Congress is now pushing a law that would end the free and open Internet as we know it. Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment.

Let's show them we care - please sign this petition today.
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"The Iraqis Are Not The Enemy"

by element115
"When I came into the military, I signed a contract that said I would defend this country against all threats, foreign and domestic.

After spending a year in Iraq, I have found that the Iraqis are not a threat or the enemy. I did find that we are the threat and the enemy to them.

They acted as we would if someone came into America and said we are going to change your ways.

I feel this war is no longer about taking out a threat. But I believe it is about securing oil commerce for the future."
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Tony Blair's authoritarian populism is indefensible and dangerous

by element115
The prime minister's pose as an honest bloke talking common sense masks a frightening disdain for basic freedoms...
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Bulgaria OKs 3 bases for U.S. troops

by element115
Bulgaria has agreed to open three military bases to permanent use by 2,500 U.S. troops who would be available for combat in the Middle East and other nearby regions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will seal the deal when she visits the country this week.
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Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired

by element115
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
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Rumsfeld sued over Pentagon's recruiting database

by element115
The Pentagon last year acknowledged it had created a database of 12 million Americans, full of personal data such as grades and Social Security numbers, to help find potential military recruits.

...the suit alleges the Pentagon improperly collected data on people as young as 16 and kept it beyond a three-year limit, and said that the law does not allow for keeping records on race, ethnicity, gender or social security numbers.
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Bombs kill at least 30 in Egyptian resort town

by element115
At least 21 people were killed and 150 injured after a series of devastating blasts tore through the Egyptian resort town of Dahab. The three explosions, which happened at around 7.15pm local time (1715 GMT), left the streets littered with body parts, glass and debris, and smoke billowing over the tourist bazaar.
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Egyptian analyst: Can't rule out that Mossad was involved in attack

by element115
Retired General Salah al-Din Salim, an Egyptian researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute in Cairo, said that it could not be ruled out that the Israeli Mossad was involved in the terror attack in Dahab.
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A Spy Speaks Out

April 23, 2006 by element115
60 Minutes --> When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller - a 26-year veteran of the agency - has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.
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What's behind mysterious booms?

by element115
"My garage door is double steel and it weighs about 500 lbs. It was rattling back and forth like a leaf in the wind for about 3 or 4 seconds."

Phenomena produce theories, but no answers
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Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?

by element115
Alexis de Tocqueville once said: "America is great because she is good. If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

In January 2001, with the inauguration of George W. Bush as president, America set on a path to cease being good; America became a revolutionary nation, a radical republic. If our country continues on this path, it will cease to be great - as happened to all great powers before it, without exception.
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Scientists discover new antibiotic 100 times stronger than penicillin

by element115
Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk.

Researchers found the highly-potent compound, tagged AGG01, was active against a wide variety of fungi and bacteria including antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Research team leader Dr Ben Cocks said the discovery could have a profound impact on both human and animal health.
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Bush's five point plan to 'rescue' his presidency

by element115
TIME Magazine's Mike Allen outlines a "five-point plan" posited by President Bush's new chief of staff Josh Bolten to "rescue" the Bush presidency.
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Tide turns on Dubya's wreck

by element115
...it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces.

In recent weeks, scanning the political coverage in the mainstream US media and sampling the blogs has been to watch a flood tide ebbing to reveal a rotting, skeletal hulk. It is the George W. Bush ship of fools, stuck in the mud for the world to see in all its mendacity, its incompetence, its faith-based stupidity.

It is possible, at this late stage, that even Bush himself has begun to realise something is wrong. That oddly simian face is ashen, the eyes leaden. The voice is shrill and its tone defensive.
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Congress readies new digital copyright bill

by element115
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.

A new bill in Congress would expand restrictions on software that can bypass copyright protections and would grant federal authorities greater wiretapping and enforcement powers.
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Scientists find brain cells linked to choice

by element115
Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have identified neurons, or brain cells, that seem to play a role in how a person selects different items or goods.
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Air Force One Subject of Internet Prank

by element115
A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.
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Play pushed underground

by element115
Cancelled in New York, the first Toronto reading of My Name Is Rachel Corrie is being held at University of Toronto secret location tonight.
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IMF acquires new policing powers

by element115
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has won new powers to police the world economy after its 184 member countries endorsed a new framework to monitor how the economic policies of one country affects others.
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Judge allows defense in AIPAC trial to summon Rice

by element115
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis allowed the defense to summon Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify in the trial of two former AIPAC officials accused of disclosing classified information.
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

by element115
"The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not an isolated episode. It was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons."
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Iran: The Day After

by element115
What if they DO carry out just such a strike, nuclear or otherwise? Then what? What happens the day after?
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Pentagon acknowledges fabricating a "Zarqawi Legend"

by element115
An internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, states that "the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.

It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background...
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Scholars Call Moussaoui Trial a "Charade," Describe Accused as Patsy

by element115
"Even the most basic elements of due process have been violated," according to James H. Fetzer, "by failing to prove that the accused had anything to do with 9/11."

The mentally instable Moussaoui has now "confessed" that he and shoe-bomber Richard Reid were going to hijack a fifth aircraft and fly it into the White House, which was not the plot of which he was convicted. The Scholars believe government prosecutors have been playing a deceptive "shell game" by tying him to 9/11.
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Illinois General Assembly - impeachment

by element115
Urges the General Assembly to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States, George W. Bush, for willfully violating his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and if found guilty urges his removal from office and disqualification to hold any other office in the United States.
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New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones

by element115
Details of the plans are secret, but in general they envision a significantly expanded role for the military -- and, in particular, a growing force of elite Special Operations troops -- in continuous operations to combat terrorism outside of war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Developed over about three years by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, the plans reflect a beefing up of the Pentagon's involvement in domains traditionally handled by the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department.
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Dear Mr President

by element115
Pink performs Dear Mr President Live in NYC. It's a controversial song from her new album.
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Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld

by element115
The revolt by retired generals who publicly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened an extraordinary debate among younger officers, in military academies, in the armed services' staff colleges and even in command posts and mess halls in Iraq.

Junior and midlevel officers are discussing whether the war plans for Iraq reflected unvarnished military advice, whether the retired generals should have spoken out, whether active-duty generals will feel free to state their views in private sessions with the civilian leaders and, most divisive of all, whether Mr. Rumsfeld should resign.
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New message from bin Laden

by element115
...the first purported new message from bin Laden since Jan. 19.
The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified.
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Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution

April 22, 2006 by element115
The Nation --> The President is acting as if the decisions that may get us into another war are his to make and his alone.

Bush's top officials openly assert that he can do anything he wants - including attacking another country - on his authority as Commander in Chief.
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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

by element115
No one thought the experiment would have any big problems - the participants were just playing a short game of prison. Yet in less than a week the prisoners were becoming psychologically disturbed, and the guards disturbingly sadistic. There were riots, hunger strikes, and abusive treatment - all in the mock-up jail cells created in the halls of the Stanford psychology department.
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More muscle, with eye on China

by element115
The Pentagon is engaged in an extensive buildup of military forces in Asia as part of a covert strategy to strengthen and position U.S. and allied forces to deter -- or defeat -- China.
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Lawyer: Rice leaked data

by element115
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.
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The real first casualty of war

by element115
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.

...an address, "Reporting War and Empire", by John Pilger at Columbia University, New York, in company with Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk and Charles Glass
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Secret Service Officers Remove CNN Producer from Hu Photo-Op For Asking Question

by element115
President Hu can't suppress dissent in the United States like he does in China, but the Bush adminstration is helping out where it can.
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Protests force Bush to relocate meeting

by element115
Although President George W. Bush was scheduled to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on Friday, the presence of more than 1,000 protestors forced him to change his plans and meet with advisers and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State and Hoover Fellow George Shultz on the outskirts of the Stanford campus.

...armed law enforcement and Secret Service officers lined the streets outside of Encina Commons, as students, parents, faculty members and local residents protested Bush's anticipated arrival on east campus.
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Bush Defector To Demolish 911 Lies On May 6

by element115
The former top economist in Bush's Department of Labor, Morgan Reynolds, will speak out on the 9/11 inside job at the State Historical Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison on Saturday, May 6th.

Dr. Reynolds, who holds three U.W.-Madison degrees, and who is currently Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, will present evidence that top Bush Administration officials orchestrated the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the murder of almost 2,500 Americans, as a pretext for initiating their pre-planned "long war" in the Middle East.
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CIA: White House knew there were no WMD

by element115
The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 US-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said.

"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as saying in interview.
"We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change'."
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Iran To Enrich Uranium In Russia

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Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday the Islamic republic had reached a "basic deal" with the Kremlin to form a joint uranium enrichment venture on Russian territory, state-run television reported.

"Only issues regarding technical, legal and financial matters remain to be resolved which need more deliberation and exchange of views," the television quoted Soltanieh as saying Saturday in Moscow.
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'Diplomatic' Terrorism

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> Nuclear blackmail: The essence of U.S. foreign policy...
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Army Suicides Hit Highest Level Since '93

by element115
The number of U.S. Army soldiers who took their own lives increased last year to the highest total since 1993, despite a growing effort by the Army to detect and prevent suicides.

"These numbers should be a wake-up call on the mental health impact of this war," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "One in three soldiers will come back with post traumatic stress disorder or comparable mental health issues, or depression and severe anxiety."
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The Fahrenheit 9/11 of Rock

by element115
Neil Young wants to keep on rockin' the free world.

His new record, Living With War, makes very clear that if the Bush regime is allowed to continue, there may not be a free world to rock for much longer.
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Save the Internet

by element115
Congress is pushing a law that would abandon Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment.

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. If the public doesn't speak up now, Congress will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign by telephone and cable companies that want to decide what you do, where you go, and what you watch online.
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Perfect timing?

April 21, 2006 by element115
...Charlie's views on 911 made world headlines and were seen on national TV just days ago...and now -->

Scary Portrait Of Charlie Sheen...
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C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks

by element115
The Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency's secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.
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U.S. Wants Europe to Isolate Iran

by element115
The Bush administration called today for Russia and the countries of Europe to impose their own penalties on Iran over its suspected nuclear arms program if no agreement on sanctions can be reached soon at the United Nations Security Council.
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Administration calls for mandatory Web labeling law

by element115
Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposes.

Gonzales also warned that Internet service providers must begin to retain records of their customers' activities to aid in future criminal prosecutions.
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US Holds War Games in Honduras

by element115
US troops opened military exercises in Honduras on Friday, amid increased condemnation by social and political groups, and municipal authorities who say the maneuvers are an interventionist provocation.
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Israel Preparing To Reoccupy Gaza?

by element115
...a senior military commander said Israel is actively preparing to reoccupy the Gaza Strip and a powerful lawmaker said the entire Palestinian Cabinet could be targeted for assassination after the appointment of a wanted militant to head a new security force.
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The Coming Nuclear Epiphany in Persia

by element115
Chris Floyd --> And when this attack comes - either as a stand-alone "knock-out blow" or else as the precusor to a full-scale, regime-changing invasion, like the earlier aggression in Iraq - there will be no warning, no declaration of war, no hearings, no public debate. The already issued orders governing the operation put the decision solely in the hands of the president: he picks up the phone, he says, "Go" - and in twelve hours' time, up to a million Iranians will be dead.
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Cheney has tapped Iranian expatriate, arms dealer to surveil discussions with Iran, officials say

by element115
The Department of Defense and Vice President Dick Cheney have retained the services of Iran-Contra arms dealer and discredited intelligence asset Manucher Ghorbanifar as their ?man on the ground,? in order to report on any interaction and attempts at negotiations between Iranian officials and US ambassador to Iraq, Zelmay Khalilzad, current and former intelligence officials say.
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Former German Minister Says Building 7 Used To Run 9/11 Attack

by element115
Former cabinet member Helmut Schmidt, 25-year German Parliamentarian and global intelligence expert Andreas Von Bülow says that the 9/11 attack was run by the highest levels of the US intelligence apparatus using WTC Building 7 as a command bunker which was later demolished in order to destroy the crime scene.
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In Terror War, Not All Names Are Equal

by element115
A major government watchdog group is charging that Muslim charities are being shut down for supposedly backing terrorist causes, while giant firms like Halliburton are receiving the full protection of U.S. law for allegedly breaking government sanctions against doing business with Iran -- a country designated as a sponsor of terrorism.
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George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President

by element115
...the problems belong to the President - not his staff. And they are problems that go to character, not to strategy.
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I'm The Decider

by element115
Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of days
Corporation profits, Bloody oil money
I'm above the law and I'll decide what's right or wrong
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Russia says no Iran sanctions without proof

by element115
Russia would approve sanctions on Iran only if it saw hard evidence that Tehran's nuclear program was not peaceful, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Friday.
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Waco and the Bipartisan Police State

April 20, 2006 by element115
Thirteen years ago the federal government of the United States ended its altercation with a group of peaceful religious separatists - a conflict the government had initiated - by driving a tank through the Branch Davidians? home and church, pumping the interior with poisonous gas, and keeping the fire engines at a distance while the building and the people inside burned.

Waco is still important, because it illustrates the violent nature of the state, the fact that political power flows from the barrel of a gun, and the scary truth that the U.S. government is ultimately no different from all others in this respect.
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Email to Stillwell

by element115
Kurt Nimmo --> I must be honest, Ms. Stillwell. I do not believe I have ever read a more ignorant and slanted piece on nine eleven-and I have read hundreds. I consider your piece akin to crib notes to the nine eleven whitewash commission version. Please take that as a compliment.
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The Worst President in History?

by element115
Rolling Stone --> One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush...
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History of government surveillance of UFO witnesses

by element115
...a complex picture of many military units and government agencies that had jurisdiction of some kind when it came to the topic of UFOs. He pays special attention to the mysterious ?Men In Black,? believed by some to be a special unit of the U.S. Air Force.
Redfern?s research makes clear that the U.S. and British governments, as well as the governments of other nations, have been very interested in UFOs.
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The Twilight of Capitalism

by element115
...capitalism is eerily comparable to the disease of cancer in that the economic players in a "free market" economy that is run capitalistically will forget that they are one unit of a larger network of units that comprise a systemic whole, all of which are ultimately dependent upon each other for survival. When this forgetfulness occurs in a cell in the human body, and the body's various lines of defense against it are overridden, a tumor will develop as the cell seeks endless growth by dividing itself incessantly, eventually destroying major organs and killing the host through its selfish consumption of resources.
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British Euro-MP condemns Israel's apartheid policies

by element115
A British member of the European parliament has returned for a visit to the occupied territories, calling for Israel's apartheid treatment of the Palestinians to be condemned.

"We should be honest. These are the racist policies of apartheid, yet Israel continues to pose as a victim," Liberal Democrat MEP for northwest England Chris Davies said.
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Protesters killed as Nepal police shoot at crowd

by element115
Nepalese police opened fire today as thousands of protesters marched toward the capital Kathmandu in defiance of a government-imposed curfew, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more.
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In the Silence, War Continues

by element115
It is impossible to imagine that George Bush and Dick Cheney and the rest of their group will actually be brought into court and charged, and perhaps that is the reason that the response has been silence. We do not even discuss what makes a war legal or illegal. It has not and will not be debated on the floor of the US Senate. It won?t be the subject of an investigation in the Washington Post or the New York Times. It won?t be a segment on 60 Minutes or an item the NBC Nightly News. Anyone who says that the invasion of Iraq was a war crime will probably be dismissed as a member of the loony left.
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Israel Fires 400 Rockets on Gaza in 2 Days

by element115
Gaza Strip has been under heavy rocket attacks from Israel since Friday, said a spokesman for the Israeli military.
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Woman arrested for speaking freely right after Bush call for "freedom...to speak freely"

by element115
She shouted in heavily accented English, "President Bush: Stop him from killing" and, "President Bush, stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong."

Bush, standing next to Hu, leaned over and whispered a comment to the Chinese leader, who paused briefly when the shouting began and then resumed his remarks.

The protester was waving a banner with the red and yellow colors used by Falun Gong, a banned religious movement in China. She kept shouting for several minutes before Secret Service uniformed agents were able to make their way to her position at the top of the camera stand. They dragged her off the stand.

A photographer who was standing next to the protester tried momentarily to quiet her by putting his hand in front of her mouth.
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Russia will deliver air defense systems to Iran - top general

by element115
The Tor-M1 is a fifth-generation integrated mobile air defense system designed for operation at medium, low and very low altitudes against fixed/rotary wing aircraft, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle), guided missiles and other high-precision weapons.
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Don't Impeach Bush - Commit Him

April 19, 2006 by element115
...a lunatic out of a Stephen King movie has brought the United States to the brink of Armageddon.
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When "Diplomacy" Means War

by element115
One of the nation?s leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans ?there is little potential support for the use of force against Iran.? This month the White House has continued to emphasize that it is committed to seeking a diplomatic solution. Yet the U.S. government is very likely to launch a military attack on Iran within the next year. How can that be?
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Bush Considering Replacing McClellan With Fox News Anchor

by element115
One of the people the White House has approached as a possible replacement for McClellan if his resignation comes any time soon is FOX News Radio host Tony Snow.
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Behind the White House Reshuffling

by element115
The President?s Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced that he would resign today, and more Cabinet changes are likely to follow. Plus, Karl Rove gives up some responsibilities to an up-and-comer.
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CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs

by element115
"A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we're getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to ... people putting information on there that doesn't exist anywhere else," Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times.
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We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world

April 18, 2006 by element115
The idea that each culture is possessed of its own specific wisdom and characteristics, its own novelty and uniqueness, born of its own individual struggle over thousands of years to cope with nature and circumstance, has been drowned out by the hue and cry that the world is now one, that the western model - neoliberal markets, democracy and the rest - is the template for all.
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Countdown Over Iran

by element115
Eric Margolis --> It's both fascinating and dismaying watching the manufactured 'crisis' over Iran reach new intensity each week.

Iran poses no real military threat to anyone, but listening to the Bush Administration or the US media one would think that that Tehran was about to unleash a nuclear holocaust on the world.
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Three Stages Of Truth Regarding 911

by element115
Great lies have the burden of truth pressing upon them, constantly, incrementally, compounding weight like interest. Truth crushes the lie slowly and then the resounding crash occurs suddenly. Years later, students will laugh and wonder how anyone could ever be so stupid as to believe a discredited lie.
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Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush

by element115
Thirteen of the nation's most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world."
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Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq

by element115
Boston Globe --> The great liberator of Iraq was actually the hyena that cleaned out the nation.
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Bush Now Caught In The Tangled Web He Spun

by element115
President George W. Bush's character is diseased. Serial lies spew from his forked tongue as the result of a damaged mind and personality that will not permit him to face the truth. He lies about leaks and leaks about lies.
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Why Oppose the Israel Lobby?

by element115
...the Israeli lobby is indeed powerful and influential; its influence is nefarious and damaging to Americans, Israelis, the people of the Middle East and the rest of the world (though not necessarily in that order.) The evidence supporting these statements is beyond dispute by any fair and open-minded person.
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Stand up for Humanity

by element115
Decent people living in INTERNALLY decent democratic societies with freedom of speech (such as those of the war criminal Coalition countries) are obliged to stand up for humanity - they will not be imprisoned, tortured or killed for simply stating the obvious, that "thou shall not kill" and that mass killing of "enemy infants" is utterly repugnant and unforgivably beyond the Pale. Silence kills and silence is complicity ? in the face of horrendous abuses of humanity we are obliged to INFORM everyone and to AVOID (where possible) any personal or business dealings with those responsible.
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US to Palestinians: Vote, then starve

by element115
Democracy as instrument of mass control...
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Rumsfeld on War Critics -->

by element115
...Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden's "Media Committees".
They are actively out there trying to manipulate the press in the United States. They are very good at it.

...this is a Comedy Club material...Bravo!
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The Billboard Liberation Front

by element115
Salutes U.S. Military in Iraq...
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Bush won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran

by element115
President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
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The inevitable loss of America's economic supremacy to China

by element115
When President Hu Jintao of China shakes hands with President George Bush in Washington tomorrow and gives one of his fixed grins for photographers, it will not be just another meeting between the leader of a large developing country and the chief executive of the richest nation on earth.

The rise of China is posing awkward questions for the US, along with the realisation that its days as the world's economic superpower are numbered.
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"Unbridled Capitalism Will Lead to Very Real Problems"

April 17, 2006 by element115
SPIEGEL --> Interview with Economist Kenneth Rogoff
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Entire US Real Estate Market Falling

by element115
House prices do not fall to zero, but the value of your equity in a house can easily fall to zero, and then way past zero into the red. Even a fall of only 10% completely wipes out everyone who has only 10% equity in their house. This means that house price crashes are actually worse than stock crashes. Most people have most of their money in their house, and that money is highly leveraged.
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Let's fill in the Blanks in the Speech of Iran's President

by element115
..."the occupier regime of Al-Qods must wipe off the map" just mean the Zionist regime not Israeli and Jewish people.

...the following day, we could find "Israel should be Wiped of the Map" title in nearly all of the news sources around the world.
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A war of nerves

by element115
Eric Margolis --> Respected international experts say that if Iran wanted to produce nuclear warheads, it would take 5-10 years. UN nuclear inspection has report no signs that Iran is working on nuclear weapons.
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Berlusconi 'trying to do deal to avoid prosecution'

by element115
Silvio Berlusconi refused again yesterday to concede defeat to Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition in the Italian election, demanding the formation of a broad coalition in a letter that commentators said amounted to a request by the media mogul for immunity from prosecution.
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Human rights organizations: 'IDF playing Russian roulette in Gaza'

by element115
Six Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations on Sunday petitioned the High Court of Justice to instruct the army to cancel an order reducing the "safety margin" for IDF artillery and tank gunners from 300 meters to 100 meters from civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.
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Cold War II, the sequel

by element115
In a recent poll, 57 percent of Russians regard the US as a "threat to global security."
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The "5 tons of coke" plane owned by Royal Sons, Tom Delay Appointee

by element115
One of the two owners of the DC9 (tail number N900SA) busted at an airport in the Yucatan last week after lumbering in from Caracas, Venezuela carrying an astonishing 5.5 TONS of cocaine was appointed in 1993 to the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican Congressional Committee by then-Congressional Majority Leader Tom Delay.
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Gulf countries will not assist U.S. if it attacks Iran

by element115
We are certain that Persian Gulf countries will not help the United States to attack Iran," Rafsanjani, said.

Shiite cleric and lawmaker Hussein al-Gallaf told reporters Gulf countries are seeking safety and don't want to be part of any struggle in the area.

"If there is anything to fear, we should fear Israel," he said.
"Iran is an Islamic state which we don't fear."
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What next?

by element115
Oil Prices Above $70 a Barrel

Gold, Silver Hit New Highs
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Petrodollars return as destabilizing force: IMF

by element115
"Global current account imbalances are likely to remain at elevated levels for longer than would otherwise have been the case, heightening the risk of a sudden disorderly adjustment," the IMF said in the report, the World Economic Outlook.
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Rumsfeld says of resignation calls 'This too will pass'

by element115
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed calls for his resignation by a group of retired generals, telling conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh that "this too will pass."

"I think about it, and I must say, there's always two sides to these things, and the sharper the criticism comes, sometimes the sharper the defense comes from people who don't agree with the critics," Rumsfeld said.

Heil Rumsfeld!
Rumsfeld Forever!
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Russia to insist on diplomatic solution for Iran

by element115
Russia will insist on a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis when diplomats from six countries involved in searching for a resolution meet in Moscow this week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
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Bush's New Chief of Staff Signals Shake-Up

by element115
President Bush's new chief of staff said Monday it was time to "refresh and re-energize the team," and he told senior White House aides who might be thinking about quitting this year to go ahead and leave now.
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Fear of reprisals as 17-year-old suicide attacker kills 9 in Tel Aviv

by element115
A youthful Islamic Jihad activist blew himself up outside a crowded falafel bar in Tel Aviv yesterday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding about 50.
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Neil Young sets his sights on Bush

April 16, 2006 by element115
He is country rock's biggest icon, and he is angry. Recorded in secret, his forthcoming album savages the war in Iraq.
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Your future according to Rockefeller

by element115
"The basic plan was published in 1930 by his intimate friend Hoffman Nickerson in his book, the American Rich. Nickerson's scheme is to nullify the Constitution by converting our Government into an absolute monarchy. He concludes, the only perfect form of government is hereditary absolute monarchy, but it might be wiser at the start not to violate American sentiment by undertaking to impose it openly. The conversion of President to absolute monarch merely requires the elimination of checks and balances on the power of the President that the framers of the Constitution "unwisely" incorporated into it, to convert his role to that of absolute dictator."
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Who is a terrorist?

by element115
Haaretz --> Israel is dropping thousands of bombs on towns and villages, on the "the launching pads" of the Qassams - another dubious term created by the defense establishment and blindly adopted by the press - and only the Palestinians, whose Qassam rockets haven't killed anyone since the disengagement, are called "terrorists."

The continuing imprisonment of besieged Gaza is precisely the opposite policy that should be applied to serve Israeli interests. The current policy only strengthens support for the Hamas, just like the terror attacks within Israel always strengthen the Israeli right. A nation under siege, its leadership boycotted, will have far more determination and resolve to fight to its last drop of blood. It is impossible to break the spirit of a desperate people. Only a nation that sees a light at the end of its desperation will change its ways.
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General Bush's lose-lose Iranian war options

by element115
The Sunday Times --> There is something unreal about the bellicose statements coming from some sources in the Bush administration towards Iran.
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Bush's Insane First Strike Policy

by element115
Most sane observers have calculated that if Iran is really planning on developing a nuclear weapon, it is years--perhaps even a decade--away from that goal. That was plenty of time to reassure Iran that it would not need the bomb, or to use international diplomacy to discourage the country from embarking on such a wasteful, expensive and dangerous project. Instead, by threatening to nuke Iran's nuclear research and processing facilities, the administration has predictably put Iran onto a crash course for developing the bomb. What alternative did Iran's leaders have after all the administration's bombast?

In fact, Bush-Cheney rhetoric may well have pushed Iran to seek to obtain nuclear capability by other faster means, such as obtaining a weapon, perhaps illegally, from Russia, or perhaps more directly from North Korea. After all, North Korea has the bomb and is strapped for two things that Iran has in abundance-oil and cash.
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Bombs That Would Backfire

by element115
NYT --> A brief look at history shows why.
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Iran suicide bombers 'ready to hit Britain and US'

by element115
Iran has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation's nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action.
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U.S. backup plan: Invade Iran by land, air, water strikes

by element115
...the plan is known in military circles as Tirannt, an acronym for "Theatre Iran Near Term."

...preparations under Tirannt began in earnest in May 2003 and never stopped.
The plan has since been updated using information collected in Iraq.
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Sherlock Holmes And 911

by element115
The Greatest Detective Examines The
Greatest Unsolved Crime Mystery.
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Soldiers families go on attack

by element115
The parents of British troops on active service in Iraq are to stage an unprecedented protest about the conflict, signalling growing discontent over the conflict in military circles.
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Ingathering

by element115
ZNet --> From left to right, the manifestos of all the Zionist parties during the recent Israeli election campaign contained policies which they claimed would counter the ?demographic problem? posed by the Palestinian presence in Israel.
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US government wants PayPal records

by element115
The US Internal Revenue Service wants the company to reveal the details of accounts linked to banks or credit cards in 35 countries. A summons issued by US District Court Judge James Ware in San Jose ordered PayPal to hand over records dating back to 1999, when the Internet money-transfer service was launched.
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Military Coup in the United States of America?

by element115
With the unending ?war on terror? resulting in a heavy tampering of the American Constitution by the current US Administration, and the consequent granting of virtually limitless powers to the President of United States for the duration of the unending war, a real 'Constitutional Conundrum' has been created.

Americans becoming frustrated with democracy and disheartened with the apparent inability of their elected government to negoatiate the nation?s confounding impasses, thus, is a natural response. Unable to effect a change themselves, they may now be looking for someone or something that could produce workable solutions. Despite its misuse by the civilian leadership, the one institution of government in which the Americans continue to retain faith is their military.
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Is Pentagon Creating a Secret Police Force?

April 15, 2006 by element115
Newsweek --> An informal panel of senior Pentagon officials has been holding a series of unannounced private meetings during the past several weeks about how to proceed with a possible merger between the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), a post-9/11 Pentagon creation that has been accused of domestic spying, and the Defense Security Service (DSS), a well-established older agency responsible for inspecting the security arrangements of defense contractors. DSS also maintains millions of confidential files containing the results of background investigations on defense contractors? employees.
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An Israel Accountability Act

by element115
Provisions in that document effectively destroy the will of the Palestinian people by undermining the ability of that government to carry forward its responsibilities. Its primary basis seeks from the Hamas government acceptance of the state of Israel, acceptance of agreements made by Israel with the former PLO authority, and cessation of violence against Israel, yet nothing is required of Israel, not acceptance of a Palestine state, not cessation of violence against the Palestinians and not recognition that Israel has broken the very agreements it wants Hamas to accept. The passage of the act makes moot America's purported interest in creating democracies in the mid-east and ensures the continuation of instability for years to come. In short, it appears that the US and Israel intentionally want to maintain a constant condition in the mid-east that will ensure not just the continuation of terror by insurgents and nation states in that area, but a legacy of unending war.
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The joke's on Bush as Chavez strikes it even luckier

by element115
Estimated oil reserves have just overtaken those of Saudi Arabia...
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Behind the Military Revolt

by element115
The calls by a growing number of recently retired generals for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have created the most serious public confrontation between the military and an administration since President Harry S. Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951.
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Blair refuses to back Iran strike

by element115
...the government maintains it cannot contribute to a military assault. "We will support the diplomatic moves, at best," a Foreign Office source told Scotland on Sunday. "But we cannot commit our own resources to a military strike."

Meanwhile, a new report on the Iran crisis has warned that neo-conservatives in the Bush administration are on "collision course" with Tehran.
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A Defiant Sheen Again Challenges Official 9/11 Fable on National TV

by element115
On Friday, April 14th on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live talk show, Sheen once again brought forward his questions about the official story to tens of millions of Americans.

"I've done a lot of research," then referred to the growing number of high-profile individuals who have already bravely stepped forward to ask questions about 9/11, stating "...its not just me, its the people that have come before me - the experts and the engineers, the physicists and the scientists and the scholars, that raised a lot of these things and I took a look at their research and said yeah, it doesn't add up, a lot of it doesn't add up, hence these questions."

Sheen expressed to a powerful round of applause from the studio audience.
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'Speak softly, don't argue and slow down'

by element115
The reputation of the "Ugly American" abroad is not, however, just some cruel stereotype, but - according to the American government itself - worryingly accurate. Now, the State Department in Washington has joined forces with American industry to plan an image make-over by issuing guides for Americans travelling overseas on how to behave.
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3 degrees

by element115
The world's temperature is on course to rise by more than three degrees Centigrade despite efforts to combat global warming, Britain's chief scientist has warned.

According to computer-modelled predictions for the Government, a three-degree rise in temperatures could put 400 million more people at risk of hunger; leave between one and three billion more people at risk of water stress; cause cereal crop yields to fall by between 20 and 400 million tons; and destroy half the world's nature reserves.
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End of story: Israel triumphant

by element115
Asia Times --> In Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, virtually everyone in the town knows that Santiago Nasar is going to be murdered. Yet nobody can or will do anything to prevent it. The murder is motivated and inexorable. Yet no one quite knows why Santiago Nasar, a rich young swashbuckling fellow, must die.

There is a similar feeling of unforgiving inevitability about President George W Bush's desire to go to war with Iran. In its carefully woven plot and its inventive, non-linear structure that is intended to sustain dramatic tension, Bush's Iran war leaps out of the pages of Marquez' metaphysical murder mystery.
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Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily

by element115
As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies.

The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100...
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Retired colonel claims U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran

by element115
"I would say -- and this may shock some -- I think the decision has been made and military operations are underway," Col. Gardiner told CNN International anchor Jim Clancy.
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The Strange Case of Doug Thompson and Others

by element115
What could turn a man against his conscience? What could make a man serve his self-respect up on a platter to a mocking world? What kind of fear is powerful enough to take away a man?s pride and conviction? It must be something.
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The Left, Online and Outraged

by element115
Washington Post on bloggers --> ..."one long, sustained scream."

...the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush...whom she considers "malevolent," a "sociopath" and "the Antichrist".
Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as "Satan," or about Karl Rove, "the devil"
..."weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving" Democrats
...the Catholic Church in a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned"
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Pentagon planned for Tehran conflict with war games in 2004

by element115
British officers took part in a US war game aimed at preparing for a possible invasion of Iran, despite repeated claims by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, that a military strike against Iran is inconceivable.

The war game, codenamed Hotspur 2004, took place at the US base of Fort Belvoir in Virginia in July 2004.

The senior British officers took part in the Iranian war game just over a year after the invasion of Iraq. It was focused on the Caspian Sea, with an invasion date of 2015.

William Arkin, a former army intelligence officer who first reported on the contingency planning for a possible nuclear strike against Iran in his military column for the Washington Post online, said: "The United States military is really, really getting ready, building war plans and options, studying maps, shifting its thinking."
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Army report on al-Qaida accuses Rumsfeld

by element115
...he had been "personally involved" in a Guantánamo Bay interrogation.

Mohamed al-Qahtani, a Saudi al-Qaida suspect forced to wear women's underwear, stand naked in front of a woman interrogator, and to perform "dog tricks" on a leash, in late 2002 and early 2003. The US rights group said it had obtained a copy of the interrogation log, which showed he was also subjected to sleep deprivation and forced to maintain "stress" positions; it concluded that the treatment "amounted to torture".
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What Rumsfeld knew

by element115
Interviews with high-ranking military officials shed new light on the role Rumsfeld played in the harsh treatment of a Guantánamo detainee.
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'We would rather starve'

by element115
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said the country's Hamas government would not be brought down by financial pressure from what he called an "unholy alliance" led by the United States.
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Bush and Cheney Directed Wilson-Plame Hit Squad

by element115
Now that we've spent millions of tax dollars on the CIA leak investigation, here?s a new bit of information that adds a whole new twist to the saga.
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Israel's Peres Says Iran Leader Will Meet Saddam's Fate

by element115
Speaking on April 15 in Jerusalem, Peres also urged the United Nations to take Mahmud Ahmadinejad to task over his latest threats against the Jewish state.
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Iran issues stark military warning to United States

by element115
"You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures.

"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," General Safavi said with a grin.
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Report says Rumsfeld allowed Guantanamo abuse

April 14, 2006 by element115
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld allowed an "abusive and degrading" interrogation of an al Qaeda detainee in 2002, the online magazine Salon reported on Friday, citing an Army document.
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To nuke or not to nuke: Bush decides

by element115
There will be an attack; that much is already assumed in Washington. Whether it should be nuclear is a matter of intense debate. The verdict may depend upon the wild card of the president's Messianic complex.
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The Lobby and the Bulldozer

by element115
For several decades, to the present moment, Israel's treatment of Palestinian people has amounted to methodical and despicable violations of human rights. Yet criticism of those policies from anyone (including American Jews such as myself) routinely results in accusations of anti-Jewish bigotry.
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Peace can only be the fruit of justice

by element115
Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Ismail Haniyeh outlines the basis for comprehensive peace...

"From time immemorial, Palestine was the peaceful homeland of native Muslims, Christians and Jews who lived together in peace and harmony, sharing a common history and heritage. In fact, it was only after Palestine was placed under the British mandate following World War I, and when the British colonialist authorities subsequently decided to illegally give Palestine, our ancestral homeland, to Zionism, that inter-communal and inter- religious harmony was disturbed.

As result of that wanton injustice, we find ourselves today as prisoners in our own homeland, enslaved and tormented by an illegal and immoral occupier who is treating our people as children of a lesser God, or even as if we were animals.

In fact, the criminal nature of this occupation transcends reality. The ugly scenes of murder, home demolitions, and humiliation to which our people are subjected to on a daily basis and which people outside Palestine watch on their TV screens, are but a small part of what is really happening on the ground.

Needless to say, the Israeli occupiers wouldn't be perpetrating their crimes against a helpless people whose only "crime" is its enduring yearning for freedom and justice were it not for the disgraceful apathy of the international community towards my people's plight.

Hence, I call on the international community to pressure the Israeli state to stop its systematic oppression and institutionalised persecution of my people."
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UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks blocked by US

by element115
The United States on Thursday blocked a U.N. Security Council statement drafted by Arab nations and aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop military strikes on Palestinian targets.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the draft, even after three days of intense negotiations, "was disproportionately critical of Israel, and unfairly so, and needlessly so."
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US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing

by element115
Under Bremer there was a tendency to see some militias as good, that is on the US side, such as the peshmerga fighters that belong to the two large Kurdish parties, and others as bad, such as the Mahdi army of the Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, who opposes the occupation.
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The Crucifixion of Christ, American Style

by element115
A must read --> ..."message of "love your enemies" was outdated and dangerous in these troubled times, when terrorists and evildoers lurk around every corner and can strike at any moment.

Vice President Dick Cheney: "Jesus? "love your enemy" message was a thinly veiled liberal euphemism that meant Christ wants to cut the defense budget and reduce the federal funding for the body armor badly needed by our brave young men and women in harm?s way.

Ann Coulter: "...with his sandals, long hair and beard, Christ bore an eerie resemblance to Osama bin Laden." O'Reilly said nothing but nodded his approval.
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Dead Cities

by element115
Chris Floyd --> Of all the war crimes that have flowed from the originating crime of President George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most flagrant was the destruction of Fallujah in November 2004. Now, as ignominious defeat looms for Bush's Babylonian folly, some of the key players in fomenting the war are urging that the "Fallujah Option" be applied to an even bigger target: Baghdad.
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Natural light 'to reinvent bulbs'

by element115
A light source that could put the traditional light bulb in the shade has been invented by US scientists.

The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emits a brilliant white light when attached to an electricity supply.

The material, described in the journal Nature, can be printed in wafer thin sheets that could transform walls, ceilings or even furniture into lights.
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Bush Gives Rumsfeld Strong Show of Support

by element115
President Bush today expressed his "full support" for his embattled defense secretary, saying the Pentagon needs Donald H. Rumsfeld's "energetic and steady leadership" at a challenging time.

Bush came to Rumsfeld's defense in apparent response to mounting criticism of the Pentagon chief and calls for his resignation. Among the critics lately have been several retired generals.
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Amid Soaring Gas Prices Exxon Chairman Gets $400 Million Retirement Package

by element115
Last year, Exxon made the biggest profit of any company ever, $36 billion, and its retiring chairman appears to be reaping the benefits.
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Neil Young Records "Impeach the President" Song

by element115
...recorded with a 100-voice choir.
Neil said it should be out in 6 to 8 weeks.

...there can be little question what it is about.

Truly mind blowing.
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Iran Leader: Zionist Regime Will Be Annihilated

by element115
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."

"The existence of this regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
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