New CIA director Hayden plans massive expansion of spying on Americans

May 31, 2006 by element115
President George W. Bush told Hayden to "take whatever steps necessary" to monitor Americans 24/7 by listening in on their phone calls, bugging their homes and offices, probing their private lives, snooping into their financial records and watching their travel habits.

The CIA operation will also coordinate with the Pentagon's domestic spying program that monitors activities of anti-war groups, organizations critical of the Bush administrations and others tagged as enemies of the state.
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How to Protect Yourself From Big Brother

by element115
Regardless of the government you live under, your actions on the internet are being tracked. Your every search recorded and kept in a database for future use/abuse. US citizens have had their web traffic monitored by the NSA and AT&T, and their every search history subpeaned by a Federal Judge. As we move towards a more wired and connected society, the potentials for abuse grow exponentially. Imagine a future where your past searches label you as a threat to your government. Or where your browsing history is known by everyone. It's possible now.
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British war crimes lawyer denied entry to Israel

by element115
The Interior Ministry denied entry to Kate Maynard, the British lawyer who submitted a complaint in London against Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, demanding he be prosecuted on war crimes charges related to his service as OC Southern Command from 2000 to 2003.

Maynard flew to Israel on Wednesday night to attend a conference beginning the following day and to meet with Palestinian clients. After questioning her at Ben-Gurion Airport, immigration officials refused to allow her to enter the country. She was "subjected to intensive and intrusive questioning."
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'World War III is Already Here'

by element115
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Gillerman, told assembled national representatives that the global war with Islamist terrorism is World War III.
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Troops told Geneva rules don't apply to Taliban

by element115
Canadian troops in Afghanistan have been told the Geneva Conventions and Canadian regulations regarding the rights of prisoners of war don't apply to Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters captured on the battlefield.

That decision strips detainees of key rights and protections under the rules of war, including the right to be released at the end of the conflict and not to be held criminally liable for lawful combat.
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Bush hosts 'emotional' screening of 9/11 film

by element115
Bush late Tuesday hosted an "emotional" White House screening of the film "United 93," with relatives of some of the passengers who died aboard the September 11, 2001 flight attending, his spokesman said.
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WWJD?

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Graphic images -->
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American Capitalism and The Moral Poverty of Nations

by element115
JASON MILLER --> Of Faustian Bargains and Disposable Human Beings.
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The second Adolf Eichmann

by element115
When the Zionists captured East Jerusalem in 1967, they decided to annex this area and to link it permanently (whatever period that word may cover in historical terms) to the western (Zionist implanted) part of the City. Fully to manage the proposed merger, they needed, as had their Nazi predecessors and models, a highly efficient bureaucrat, without any trace of decency or conscience, and they found one in Ehud Olmert, a fanatical Zionist, whose parents had come to Palestine from the former Soviet Union.
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Media Protection Of The Supreme International War Criminals

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SILENCE IN THE SERVICE OF POWER...
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Israeli troops kill seven Palestinians in Gaza

by element115
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said the deaths would only feed the cycle of violence while Hamas premier Ismail Haniyeh also condemned the "massacres".
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Missed Opportunities

by element115
Uri Avnery --> from the beginning of the conflict, the Palestinians have missed opportunities. But these are negligible compared to the opportunities missed by the State of Israel in its 58 years of existence.
The list that follows is far from complete...
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The Tangled Web of American "Intelligence"

by element115
In recent months, among other uproars and scandals, Americans learned that the Defense Department has been collecting intelligence on and tracking domestic antiwar activists; that, since 2001, the National Security Agency (NSA) has had a presidentially authorized, law-breaking, warrantless surveillance program to listen in on the international phone calls of possibly tens of thousands of U.S. citizens; that, with the help of three of the four major telephone companies, it also has had a data-mining operation -- "the largest database ever assembled in the world".
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Wish List: Charles Krauthammer in Jumpsuit Orange

by element115
Kurt Nimmo --> It would be lovely to see Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist and neocon operative, paraded in jumpsuit orange. Instead, we must endure yet another Krauthammer article, published in the CIA?s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post. Charles Krauthammer is of course the PNAC criminal who pushed for Bush and the Pentagon to mass murder around 200,000 Iraqis, thus putting him on par with Nazi propagandists Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher.
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Humanitarian Crisis Looms in East Timor

by element115
Tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence wracking East Timor are facing a humanitarian crisis, with food, water, and medicine in short supply at dozens of camps that have sprung up around the capital. Violence between rival gangs continues, despite the presence of more than two thousand peacekeepers.
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2 Iraqi women killed by coalition troops

by element115
"Shots were fired to disable the vehicle," the statement said. "Coalition forces later received reports from Iraqi police that two women had died from gunshot wounds ... and one of the females may have been pregnant."
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Rocket rattles Israeli minister

by element115
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants into Israel from the Gaza Strip has landed near the home of Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz.
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U.S. Reportedly Ready to Join Iran Talks

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The United States is ready to meet with Iran and other nations for talks on Tehran's nuclear ambitions if the Islamic republic gives up uranium enrichment, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Riots in Paris suburb take police back to the streets

by element115
Riot police deployed on Tuesday to a troubled suburb of Paris after youths hurled petrol bombs at public buildings, pelted police with projectiles and took to the streets with baseball bats the night before.
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Prehistoric ecosystem found in Israeli cave

by element115
The cave was completely sealed off from the world, including from water and nutrients seeping through rock crevices above. Scientists who discovered the cave believe it has been intact for millions of years.
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Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist'

May 30, 2006 by element115
Al Gore delivers his speech at the Guardian's Hay Festival in Wales.
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Porter Goss Resignation Solved

by element115
The "mystery" of Porter Goss' resignation last month as CIA Director is apparently directly related to the huge seizure in Mexico several weeks earlier of over 5.5 tons of cocaine, according to government documents.

Goss' resignation appears to be connected to the unprecedented withholding by the Federal Aviation Administration of the registration records for the DC9 (N900SA) which more than six weeks ago was caught carrying a cargo of five-and-a-half tons of cocaine, neatly packed into 126 identical black suitcases at a jungle airstrip in the Yucatan.
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"The people don't rule here, wealth rules, the corporations rule."

by element115
Mussolini, himself the father of Fascism, adopted as his own the saying "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power." If that is the definition of Fascism, we have been drifting toward it for some time, but under Bush the "drift" has become a gallop, and so can no longer be comfortably ignored.
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Who Killed the Electric Car?

by element115
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up.
So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?
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Justices Set Limits on Public Employees' Speech Rights

by element115
The Supreme Court declared today, in a ruling affecting millions of government employees, that the Constitution does not always protect their free-speech rights for what they say on the job.
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'Bin Laden' tapes & 9/11 conspiracies

by element115
Philadelphia Daily News --> Why would bin Laden wait until immediately after Moussaoui's sentencing to proclaim his innocence? Why do we never hear anything regarding the actual process by which these tapes are authenticated?

..."bin Laden" goes out of his way to take full responsibility for 9/11 here when he made such a point of categorically denying his involvement immediately following the attacks.
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History of oil

by element115
Video --> Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion.
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Iran says will study EU nuclear offer

by element115
"We have to wait and see what kind of proposal will be made. We haven't seen it yet. They have to submit it so it will be studied and we will see how it can be followed up," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
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Former Lobbyist Testifies Against Official

by element115
A former congressional aide and lobbyist described Tuesday how he obtained insider information, advice and assistance from Bush administration procurement chief David Safavian to advance two projects for Republican influence-peddlar Jack Abramoff, who then took the official on a lavish golf trip to Scotland.

The aide, Neil Volz, who was a partner of Abramoff's at the time, also outlined how the Abramoff team received assistance from several Republican congressmen including, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio.
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Why it's over for America

by element115
The Independent --> An inability to protect its citizens. The belief that it is above the law. A lack of democracy. Three defining characteristics of the 'failed state'. And that, says Noam Chomsky, is exactly what the US is becoming. In an exclusive extract from his devastating new book, America's leading thinker explains how his country lost its way.
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'Super prison' to be unveiled in Australia

by element115
An $8 million super prison for terrorist prisoners is the centrepiece of a $100 million terrorism and security package.
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Feds pressuring Internet companies to track you

by element115
As it turns out, we can blame the Europeans for being a step ahead of the US when it comes to this new wave of privacy invasion.
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Embedded Journalism and the Disinformation Campaign for War on Iran

by element115
Now Introducing, the Office of Iranian Affairs (Formerly Doing Business as the Office of Special Plans.
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Do All Human Beings Have Basic Human Rights?

by element115
...actions speak louder than words. Today the United States is no longer making an honest attempt to adhere to the Declaration's basic principles in either its national or foreign policies.
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Saddam case 'built on bribes'

by element115
A defence witness in Saddam Hussein's trial over the killings of Iraqi Shi'ite villagers claimed many of those allegedly executed were still alive and said the prosecution case was built on bribes.
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Bush worshippers are the real un-Americans

by element115
The yahoo Bush worshippers (YBWs) are the real un-Americans. Although they heavily lard their speech with the words ?democracy,? ?liberty,? and ?freedom?; the YBWs do not understand the meaning of these words.
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US scientists back autism link to MMR

by element115
American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine.
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Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq

by element115
Yet just like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily, conveniently out of the awareness of the general public. Torture did not stop simply because the media finally decided, albeit in horribly belated fashion, to cover the story, and the daily slaughter of Iraqi civilians by US forces and US-backed Iraqi "security" forces had not stopped either.
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U.S. sends 3,500 more troops to Iraq

by element115
The soldiers will deploy in Anbar province, where Sunni tribal leaders had been cooperating with the U.S. military, the report said. However, since the beginning of the year, 11 of the leaders have been killed by insurgents in the regional capital of Ramadi, and last week, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told CNN parts of Anbar were fully under insurgent control.
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Why Bush Needs to Spin the War

by element115
If this War on Terrorism is a "good war," wouldn't that be self-evident, with no media manipulation required?
Then why is the Bush administration plowing millions into PR campaigns?
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British Teachers Favor Call to Boycott Israelis

by element115
Britain's biggest association of higher education instructors voted Monday to urge its 67,000 members to consider boycotting Israeli academics who had failed to renounce what it called Israel's "apartheid policies."
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Israeli chopper attacked rescue workers

by element115
Ambulance driver Khaled Abu Saada tells Ynet that during IDF operation in Beit Lahiya army helicopter launched missile at rescue workers as they were evacuating dead, wounded. "I do not know for certain whether the missile was meant to kill us or warn us to keep away - but it was definitely aimed in our direction," he says
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EU passengers could face long queues to enter US after ruling

by element115
A deal requiring EU airlines to hand over the personal details of all passengers on flights between Europe and the US was thrown out by European Court judges today.

The American authorities asked for 34 pieces of information about every passenger, including their credit card details.
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"We Are Determined"

by element115
SPIEGEL --> Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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New Witness Describes Alleged Iraq Atrocity

May 29, 2006 by element115
Girl, 12, Was Sole Survivor When Her Family Was Killed in Haditha...

Congressman says the incident was mass murder and that it was covered up.
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Blair Bowed to U.S. Pressure in Speech, Paper Says

by element115
Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening it on global warming in a speech he delivered Friday at Georgetown University, according to a British press report Sunday that Blair's office immediately denied.
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Israeli helicopter strike leaves four dead

by element115
Four Palestinians, including three militants from the radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, were killed overnight on Monday in an Israeli helicopter attack in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security officials said.
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Scientists race to create bionic arm

by element115
"The goal is to develop an arm that moves like a real biological arm, feels like a real biological arm and looks like a real biological arm," said Greg Clark, a bioengineer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

If it works as hoped, the bionic arm not only will be deft enough to handle small objects, such as shirt buttons, but it also will deliver sensory feedback to the patient's brain. Amputees will feel what they are touching, just as if they were using their own hands.

...by 2009.
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The US wants to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour

by element115
The Pentagon plan calls for deploying a new nonnuclear warhead atop the submarine-launched Trident II missile that could be used to attack terrorist camps, enemy missile sites, suspected caches of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons and other potentially urgent threats, military officials say.
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The Evil Is In Our Government

by element115
Paul Craig Roberts --> Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism?
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Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'

by element115
Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news.

...over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts, known as Video News Releases (VNRs).
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A new superbug is stalking the world

by element115
IF YOU are unfortunate enough to catch it, you will suffer from intractable diarrhoea with gut-searing pain and fever. If you are frail, you may die. Should you survive, you may be stricken by repeated bouts of sickness. The disease is so debilitating that some turn to a treatment that is stomach-churning in its own right: enemas containing the faeces of a healthy donor, often a spouse.
Clostridium difficile is a superbug to be reckoned with. Like many other infections caught in hospital, it is increasingly becoming resistant to treatment with antibiotics.
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Guantanamo hunger strike spreads

by element115
The number of detainees on hunger strike at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has grown and now involves 75 inmates.
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Showdown Over Iran

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> Israel is using the U.S. as a mighty lever to pry apart its hostile Arab neighbors, as per the "Clean Break" plan laid out by a team of advisers to the Israeli government in 1996 ? including Pentagon bigwig Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, and others prominent in the ranks of the War Party.
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6 nations plan to sign off on Iran package

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Top U.S., Russian, Chinese and European officials plan to sign off this week on a package of incentives and penalties meant to reward Iran if it gives up uranium enrichment - and punish it if it doesn't, diplomats said Monday.
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Massacre cover-up 'may go to the top'

by element115
TWO senior politicians have suggested that the US military may have covered up an incident in Iraq last November in which a group of marines allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including women, children and a baby being shielded by its mother.
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Union in Ontario votes to boycott Israel

May 28, 2006 by element115
The Ontario divison of Canada's largest union has voted to support an international campaign that is boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.

Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario convention in Ottawa voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until it sees Israel recognizing the Palestinians' right to self-determination. The Ontario group represents more than 200,000 workers.
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Like it or not, Bush III is being primed to run

by element115
International Herald Tribune --> Bush III? Or has the dynasty run its course? Those are the questions some Republicans are asking themselves as political talk bubbles up yet again about President George W. Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, and his interest in the White House. The chief driver of the mini-buzz is the current occupant of the White House, who has said twice this month that his younger brother would make "a great president."
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Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End

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New York Times --> The World Wide Web is the most democratic mass medium there has ever been. Freedom of the press, as the saying goes, belongs only to those who own one. Radio and television are controlled by those rich enough to buy a broadcast license. But anyone with an Internet-connected computer can reach out to a potential audience of billions.

This democratic Web did not just happen. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989, envisioned a platform on which everyone in the world could communicate on an equal basis. But his vision is being threatened by telecommunications and cable companies, and other Internet service providers, that want to impose a new system of fees that could create a hierarchy of Web sites. Major corporate sites would be able to pay the new fees, while little-guy sites could be shut out.
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Stop internet repression

by element115
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for posting or sharing information. The internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments, with the help of some of the world's biggest IT companies, are cracking down on freedom of expression.

---> irrepressible.info
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PayPal killer?

by element115
Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14
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Requiem for a Nightmare

by element115
Tomorrow is the day we honor the fallen American heroes of so many wars.

They may be clueless neocons, erroneous White House talking heads, or smear artists and their self-appointed town criers. But what they all have in common is that each one bravely ducked when called and later took part directly or indirectly in assaulting the reputation of those who stood in harm's way. They are known, affectionately, as Chicken-hawks
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Today, our chance to fight a new hi-tech tyranny

by element115
The Observer --> Forty-five years ago a remarkable article in The Observer launched Amnesty International. Now, we are joining with the human rights organisation again to highlight a new threat to freedom - internet censorship. Internet users are spied on, controlled and locked up around the world for opposing repressive regimes. This is our chance to do something about it.
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"Global warming is a hoax"

by element115
The Washington Post --> As evidence mounts that humans are causing dangerous changes in Earth's climate, a handful of skeptics are providing some serious blowback...
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...let's change the history

by element115
Unity08 is a diverse group of Americans that believe that neither of today?s parties reflects the aspirations, concerns or will of the majority of Americans. Both parties have polarized and alienated voters. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money.

We will not waste time pointing fingers. Instead, we will focus on how America can find common ground on critical issues - to give the overlooked majority in the middle a voice and a choice in 2008.

...it can be done!
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A New Open-Source Politics

by element115
Newsweek --> Will 2008 bring the first Internet president?

..."free media" shapes the outcome of presidential races, and the Internet is the freest media of all.

No one knows exactly where technology is taking politics, but we're beginning to see some clues.

..."netroots" political organizers may succeed in redesigning our current nominating system.
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Asimov's First Law

by element115
Japan Sets Rules for Robots...
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Iraq Is the Republic of Fear

by element115
Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of bodies, bruised, torn, mutilated, executed only because they are Sunni or because they are Shiite. Power drills are an especially popular torture device.
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How Bush Brewed the Iranian Crisis

by element115
Paul Craig Roberts --> Until the Bush regime provoked a crisis, Iran was cooperating with the inspection safeguards. The weapons inspectors have found no Iranian weapons programs.

Not a day passes without new threats and lies issuing from Dick Cheney, Bonkers Bolton, and Condi Rice, and no one holds them accountable. The U.S. media is proud to be complicit in lies and war crimes.
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Russia opposes any use of force against Iran

by element115
"Unlike the U.S., Russia believes Iran's nuclear program needs to be resolved only through dialogue. Any use of force will further complicate the issue and will cause tension in the region."
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Paying for Israel's makeover

by element115

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the annexation of occupied territory is illegal. In the interest of peace, every single Israeli settlement on Palestinian land should be dismantled immediately.

...and the American taxpayer has been footing the bill for Israel's occupation of Palestinian land to the tune of $3 billion to $5 billion per year.
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White House wants NSA suits dismissed

by element115
The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
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Police state looms as Vancouver engages in the War on Terror

by element115
Vancouver Police Chief Jamie Graham last week breezily invoked the American-invented War on Terror to justify his proposal to install police video cameras around the city's public spaces.

Nothing is more corrosive to the social fabric of a city than unwarranted police surveillance. This is what all veterans of bloody battles for democracy and justice in countries around the world throughout history tell us, and our own most observant commentators, from George Orwell to Robert Fisk and John Pilger, repeat it: the encroachment of the police state marches in lock-step with the shrinkage of the democratic and just state.
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Surrender vs. the Right to Exist

by element115
Kathleen Christison, former CIA analyst --> The Zionist belief in Jewish supremacy has never truly been hidden.
Israel's interests as a Jewish state and Israel's "rights" always take precedence, no matter what the interests and rights of the Palestinians, and that Palestinian needs can be accommodated only when these do not interfere with Israel's or when Palestinians give in to Israel's demands.

The PLO did recognize Israel's right to exist in 1988 as a condition of its participation in peace negotiations, but any continuing Palestinian obligation to adhere to this recognition has been obviated by Israel's refusal to offer a reciprocal recognition of the Palestinians' existence.
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Palestinians face catastrophe

by element115
A delegation from the Arab Doctors Union warned on Saturday of a humanitarian catastrophe that will face Palestinians if the Israelis continue their blockade of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Lebanon border clash breaks out

by element115
Israel responded to the attack on a base near Safed by launching bombing sorties against Palestinian militants operating in Lebanon.

Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas then opened fire across the Israeli border.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said militants based in Lebanon "will receive a clear and harsh response with no hesitation if they do not stop".
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Indigo pulls controversial Harper's off the shelves

by element115
Canada's largest retail bookseller has removed all copies of the June issue of Harper's Magazine from its 260 stores, claiming an article by New York cartoonist Art Spiegelman could foment protests similar to those that occurred this year in reaction to the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
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Bush marriage breakup?

by element115
Quotes in the article attributed to "a longtime friend" include the assertion that "[w]hen the cameras aren't on, they have nothing to do with one another," and that "[f]or all practical purposes, they've broken up." The "family friend" continues: "After their last fight over booze, they just stopped talking -- period."
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Ahmadinejad: Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt

by element115
"I believe the German people are prisoners of the Holocaust. More than 60 million were killed in World War Two ... The question is: Why is it that only Jews are at the center of attention?," he said in the interview published on Sunday.

"How long is this going to go on?" he added. "How long will the German people be held hostage to the Zionists?... Why should you feel obligated to the Zionists? You've paid reparations for 60 years and will have to pay for another 100 years."
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'Zionist web keeping me from World Cup'

by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the "international Zionist web" was trying to keep him from visiting Germany for the World Cup soccer match.
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At least 1,000 UK soldiers deserted

by element115
More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the BBC has discovered.
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Revealed: how US marines massacred 24

by element115
...shot execution-style in the head and chest in their homes.
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Microsoft to buy eBay?

May 27, 2006 by element115
Microsoft, for several weeks, has been discussing the possible acquisition of online auction site eBay.

Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging it with its MSN portal in an effort to better take on Google.
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'Wings' to carry paratroopers 200km.

by element115
A new military parachute system which fits wings on soldiers could enable them to travel up to 200 kilometres after jumping.

"The system is reportedly 100 per cent silent and extremely difficult to track by air on ground-based radar systems."

They are due to finish by the end of 2006, with the entire parachute and wings combination expected to be available during 2007.
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The children of Guantanamo Bay

by element115
Lawyers in London estimate that more than 60 detainees held at the terrorists' prison camp were boys under 18 when they were captured.

They include at least 10 detainees still held at the US base in Cuba who were 14 or 15 when they were seized - including child soldiers who were held in solitary confinement, repeatedly interrogated and allegedly tortured.
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Moscow's First Gay Pride Parade Disrupted and Banned

by element115
Riot police broke up an attempt by gays and lesbians to stage Moscow's first gay pride parade Saturday.

Police said they had arrested about 120 people, both supporters and opponents of the parade.

The city had banned the parade on the grounds that it was anathema to the values of most residents.

"...it is absolutely unacceptable for Moscow, for Russia."
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Russians harness star power in new battery

by element115
Russian scientists have invented a battery that can capture energy not only from the sun, but also from the stars.

...battery can work on earth, independently of meteorological conditions, using solar and stellar energy.
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IDF fires at Palestinian ambulance

by element115
Israeli troops shot a Palestinian ambulance that was carrying a pregnant woman in labor early Saturday because the vehicle was behaving in a "suspicious manner," the army said.
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American cops taped torturing drug suspect

by element115
One of the most important domestic stories the national media suppressed.
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Court Rules: First Amendment Applies to Internet

by element115
The appeals court said online and offline journalists are equally protected under the First Amendment. "We can think of no workable test or principle that would distinguish 'legitimate' from 'illegitimate' news," the opinion states. "Any attempt by courts to draw such a distinction would imperil a fundamental purpose of the First Amendment."
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Israel warns of World Cup terror

by element115
Israel has warned European and American intelligence bodies of possible attempts by Hizbullah cells, led by Imad Mugniyah, to carry out terror attacks during the upcoming World Cup tournament in Germany.
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Judge Orders Private Drafts Turned Over in Leak Case

by element115
The judge overseeing the case against I. Lewis Libby Jr. ruled on Friday that Time magazine had to turn over drafts of articles so that Mr. Libby, the former White House aide, could defend himself.
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Gonzales was ready to quit over evidence

by element115
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they had been prepared to quit if the White House had directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a bitterly disputed search of a House member's office, government officials said.
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Huge Win for Online Journalists' Source Protection

by element115
A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists Friday, holding that the online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources as offline reporters do.
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Powerful quake rocks Indonesia

by element115
MORE than 1000 people were known to have died in an earthquake that shook the area around Indonesia's ancient royal city of Yogyakarta early today.
Witnesses said thousands of houses had collapsed in the quake. Office and government buildings were also in ruins.
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Israeli occupation has but one goal: the complete destruction of the Palestinian national cause

May 26, 2006 by element115
It is part of Israel's quest to drown out the link between Israeli political slogans and its crimes, and thus maintain the horrid reality forced upon the Palestinian people through targeted killings and assassinations, aerial attacks, incursions, arrests, confiscations, demolitions, destruction, closures, forced impoverishment and humiliation that persist on a daily basis. Hordes of Israeli tanks invading West Bank cities -- Nablus, Jenin, Hebron, Qalqiliya, Jericho, Tulkarem and Bethlehem -- arresting tens of Palestinians and reeking havoc are unending. The chokehold on the already sealed Gaza Strip is accompanied by an onslaught of Israeli missile and mortar attacks numbering in the hundreds each day, the occupation confirming repeatedly the way in which it plans to "deal with" Palestinians.
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The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation

by element115
No matter how sophisticated and super-duper are NSA's methods for identifying terrorists, no matter how big and fast are NSA's computers, NSA's accuracy rate will never be 100% and their misidentification rate will never be 0%. That fact, plus the extremely low base-rate for terrorists, means it is logically impossible for mass surveillance to be an effective way to find terrorists.
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Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention

by element115
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities.
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Italy to pull 1,100 troops from Iraq

by element115
Italy will pull 1,100 of its troops from Iraq in June, the new government said Friday, giving its first specific numbers about the planned withdrawal.
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Haniyeh: US, Israel conspiring against us

by element115
Palestinian PM speaks of 'international network' conspiring with Israel 'to suffocate and starve us'
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Enron: The Bush Connection

by element115
...what you have here is economic political gangsterism, which has now seized control of the government. You can't look at it any other way. We have a system in which basically, instead of - that basically, just like the mob, is able the rewrite the laws, pick the judges. They have decriminalized what we call deregulation, Ken lay's great gift to America, deregulation of industry.
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Interview with Prof. Norman Finkelstein

by element115
I don't think that anyone believes that American coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict is evenhanded. I don't even think that journalists and editors who are responsible for that coverage believe it. The coverage in the American media of the Israel/Palestine conflict is, frankly, useless.
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Russia to honour Iran arms deal

by element115
Russia's defence minister has confirmed that Moscow intends to honour a controversial deal to supply Iran with surface-to-air missiles.
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Hayden confirmed as CIA chief

by element115
The U.S. Senate confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden on Friday as the next CIA director, with the Bush administration hoping he will help reinvigorate an agency battered by a string of intelligence failures.
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Islamic Jihad leader killed in Lebanon

by element115
Islamic Jihad blamed Israeli intelligence and vowed to retaliate for the attack, which killed its leader in southern Lebanon, Mahmoud Majzoub, and his brother, Nidal.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora condemned the killings and pledged to "exert all efforts to punish the aggressors." He indicated that Israel was the primary suspect.
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Judge: Reporters Must Give Libby Documents

by element115
A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case.
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O'Reilly's wisdom

by element115
O'Reilly: Young Americans "have no idea what's going on" because they "get their news from Jon Stewart"
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Reports of Gunfire on Capitol Hill

by element115
Police sealed off part of the Capitol complex on Friday amid reports that shots were fired in the garage of a House office building.
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House panel votes for Net neutrality

May 25, 2006 by element115
By a 20-13 vote Thursday that partially followed party lines, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would require broadband providers to abide by strict Net neutrality principles, meaning that their networks must be operated in a "nondiscriminatory" manner.

All 14 Democrats on the committee (joined by 6 Republicans) supported the measure, while 13 Republicans opposed it.
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Invisibility Cloaks Possible, Study Says

by element115
Researchers lay out design specs for materials that they say will be able to bend electromagnetic radiation around space of any size and shape.

The theoretical breakthrough is made possible by novel substances called metamaterials.

...the man-made materials are embedded with networks of exceptionally tiny metal wires and loops.

The structures refract, or bend, different types of electromagnetic radiation?such as radar, microwaves, or visible light?in ways natural substances can't.
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Israel Preparing For Strike On Iran?

by element115
Olmert's decision to make a case for an Iranian strike on American TV makes it seem like Americans are making the decision with him, rather than following his lead.

Olmert has testified before Congress that any action his country takes is in no sense gratuitous, but rather it is a matter of survival.

Israel admits that it is buying 500 "bunker-buster" bombs.
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Bush-Blair press conference

by element115
Blair --> "...the terrorism that is afflicting virtually every country in the Western world, either in actuality or potentially, the terrorism that is happening all over different countries of the Middle East and in Asia and elsewhere, and the terrorism that is there in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Bush --> "...it's important for the American people to know that politics isn't going to make the decision as to the size of our force level; the conditions on the ground will make the decision."

Blair --> "I think what we need to do is to recognize that there are threats in our world today that require us to act earlier and more effectively."

Bush --> "Mr. Prime Minister, can I buy you dinner?"
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Gas station's shocking sign of times

by element115
This weekend, a Manhattan Beach, California, gas station said the price of regular gasoline was -- an arm.
The price of mid-grade -- a leg.
The price of premium -- your first born.
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NYC Mayor Advocates U.S. Worker DNA or Fingerprint Database

by element115
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg thrust himself into the national immigration debate Wednesday, advocating a plan that would establish a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers.
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Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'

by element115
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."
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Israel transfers weapons to Abbas

by element115
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided on Thursday, in accordance to defense establishment recommendations, to allow the transfer of weapons and ammunition from Israel to supporters of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Ken Lay--Guilty...George Bush--Guilty

by element115
The man who paid many of the biggest bills for George Bush's political ascent, Enron founder Kenneth Lay, has been found guilty of conspiracy and fraud almost five years after his dirty dealings created the greatest corporate scandal in what will be remembers as an era of corporate crime.

Now that his strange bedmate have been convicted of fraud, isn't it time for the president to end the fraud of claiming that he was ever anything less than a political partner of Lay and the Enron team?
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Bush's China Syndrome

by element115
Chris Floyd --> Hypocrisy, History and Twelve Kinds of Hell...
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Alleged AIPAC informant promoted

by element115
The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case.

...promotion to senior adviser on Iraq to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state.
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'How can people live, I wonder?'

by element115
Eight months ago, the Palestinians were celebrating the end of Israel's military occupation of Gaza. But the artillery shells keep falling, factions are fighting each other and the economy is on its knees as Israel blockades exports. Has anything changed for the better?
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Iran Proposal to U.S. Offered Peace with Israel

by element115
The two-page document contradicts the official line of the George W. Bush administration that Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel and the sponsorship of terrorism in the region.
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"Victory"? Forget it

by element115
Salon --> Bush is trying to keep Americans from abandoning his disastrous war by claiming victory is at hand. But even his own generals know that's a lie.
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White House blocks direct talks with Iran

by element115
The White House yesterday ruled out previously authorised direct talks between Tehran and the US ambassador in Baghdad, which were to have focused on the situation in Iraq. The move marks a hardening of the Bush administration's position, despite pressure from the international community to enter into direct dialogue with Iran.
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The Rohani Letter

by element115
...most likely, you haven't heard about the other May 8 letter from Iran.

"A nuclear weaponized Iran destabilizes the region, prompts a regional arms race[,] wastes the scarce resources in the region [and accords] Iran no security dividends."

He even argues that there are "Islamic" reasons "not [to] develop and use weapons of mass destruction."
He then lays out an eight-point framework for a negotiated solution, one of which is, "Iran would consider ratifying the Additional Protocol, which provides for intrusive and snap inspections."

The media have largely ignored this significant development.

...why isn't this offer worthy of direct talks with Iran?
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Voice of the White House

by element115
...the "unbreakable system" has a built-in trapdoor that you could drive a Mack truck through and the various agencies have this, believe it. When they encounter a scrambled message or conversation using this compromised system, the "unbreakable system" alerts them and since they have the means at hand to look into it, the recorders start in working. This is in the same category as "Internet II" which is almost entirely controlled by the domestic counter intelligence people and enables them instant access to all the user's messages.
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What If They Gave a War...?

by element115
...where the hell is everybody?

Bread and circuses. The government and the corporations are giving us bread and circuses to keep us sufficiently distracted so the powers that be can pursue their agendas.

...we desperately need a revolution.
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Sex theme park to open in London

by element115
Visitors to Amora will pass through seven zones including Pleasure and Orgasm.
The 10,500sq-ft, designed to "separate fact from myth and educate everyone into being better lovers".

...opens on 7 September
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Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed

by element115
President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a congressman's office be sealed for 45 days.

The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents under seal and that they remain in the custody of the solicitor general.
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Brain Waves Control Robot

by element115
In a step toward linking a person's thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's very simple moves.
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US says government should judge spy secrets

by element115
The United States government, not any court, is the best judge of whether to keep programs such as its controversial effort to eavesdrop on citizens a secret, an assistant attorney general said.
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Abbas stuns Hamas with talk of referendum

by element115
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he will call a national referendum on accepting a Palestinian state alongside Israel if Hamas does not agree to the idea within 10 days.
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Google reveals artificial intelligence search engine plan

by element115
A search engine that knows exactly what you are looking for, that can understand the question you are asking even better than you do, and find exactly the right information for you, instantly.
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Cheney may be called in CIA leak case

May 24, 2006 by element115
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested Cheney would be a logical government witness because he could authenticate notes he jotted on a July 6, 2003, New York Times opinion piece by a former U.S. ambassador critical of the Iraq war.
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Another raid by FBI

by element115
Feds Raid Home of Photo Agency Head...

...her computers were used to illegally hack into the computers of Us Weekly magazine to obtain information about celebrities, in particular Charlie Sheen.
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Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide

by element115
The new service will bring blogger commentary about AP news stories to communities large and small throughout the USA, giving bloggers a voice in trusted local papers throughout the nation. For many news readers, this will be their first exposure to the blogosphere with national, international, business and sports news presented along side links to blogger commentary and perspective.
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Canadian Prime Minister finished with press corps

by element115
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll no longer give news conferences for the national media, after a dispute led a number of journalists to walk away from an event when he refused to take their questions.

His staff has tried to manage news conferences by saying they will decide which reporters get to ask questions. The press gallery has refused to play by those rules.
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Soft drinks: Unsafe beverages

by element115
Diabetes in a can
Osteoporosis in a can
Cancer in a can

This isn't an attack on the Coca-Cola or Pepsi corporations. It's a revealing of the truth.
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U.S. Urged to Stop Paying Iraqi Reporters

by element115
A Defense Department investigation of Pentagon-financed propaganda efforts in Iraq warns that paying Iraqi journalists to produce positive stories could damage American credibility and calls for an end to military payments to a group of Iraqi journalists in Baghdad.
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Truth is what your country needs most

by element115
Assassinations that kill and maim beyond their intended target are a CIA staple, assisted by robotic planes and false information extracted by torture. The claim, "we never mean to kill good people", no longer applies, unless you believe that babies have criminal intent. So how shall we update this mantra for the third millennium? "We only kill good people when they are in the company of a bad person and we don't want to look them in the eye". This position is openly argued by political leaders and the New York Times.
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World Council of Churches slams Israel

by element115
Israel bears the burden of responsibility for the present crisis in the Middle East, the World Council of Churches has announced, following a meeting of its Executive Committee in Geneva

...Israel's actions towards the Palestinians "cannot be justified morally, legally or even politically."

The failure "to comply with international law" had "pushed the situation on the ground to a point of no return," they concluded.
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Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of 'mistaken identity'

by element115
The capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as "a critical victory in the war on terror".

...was described in the United States as "a major breakthrough" in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

Bush called him a "top general" and "a major facilitator and chief planner for the Al- Qaeda network". Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, said he was "a very important figure".

European terrorism experts point out that the Libyan was neither on the FBI's most wanted list, nor on that of the State Department "rewards for justice" programme.
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Will Elena Benador Start World War III?

by element115
...the woman who played a crucial role in brainwashing millions of Americans into supporting the invasion of Iraq - and is trying to do the same in Iran.
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Israel's UN ambassador praises Bolton

by element115
Gillerman, addressing a New York meeting of B'nei Brith International, a Jewish humanitarian organization, heaped praise on U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, jokingly describing him at one point as "a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations."
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Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite

by element115
Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism?
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European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions

by element115
Alleged terror suspects have been kidnapped in the European Union (EU) by the CIA and taken to third countries where they have been subjected to torture. The European governments knew of these illegal actions and were even involved in them.
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American War Crimes In Iraq 1991-2005

by element115
Warning Graphic Violence
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The Militarisation of the Eastern Mediterranean

by element115
Israel's Stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline...
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Tomorrow --> May 25th, Towel Day

by element115
A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
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Top Experts To Expose 9/11 Fraud At L.A. Conference

by element115
In June 2006 researchers, scholars, journalists, media personalities, and average folks will come together from all over the USA to gather in Los Angeles to invite the rest of the world to examine the facts of 9/11.
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The National Post apologizes for anti-Iran report

by element115
A Canadian newspaper apologized Wednesday for an article that said Iran planned to force Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing to distinguish themselves from Muslims.
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ACLU Launching 'Don't Spy on Me' Campaign

by element115
A civil rights group was launching a nationwide Don't Spy On Me campaign Wednesday to urge the public to demand that the Federal Communications Commission and state utility commissions probe whether phone companies broke laws by sharing customer records with the government's biggest spy agency.
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US tests ship-based defense system against short-range missile

by element115
An interceptor missile fired from a US warship destroyed a short-range target missile in its last few seconds of flight, the US Missile Defense Agency said.

"It was the first sea-based intercept of a ballistic missile in its terminal phase," the agency said.
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Wisconsin Governor Signs Abstinence Bill

by element115
...sex education teachers can still teach about birth control, but must emphasize that abstinence is the only 100 percent effective method to avoid health risks.
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1000s quarantined in Bucharest

by element115
About 13000 people were quarantined in the Romanian capital on Monday as troops and police sealed off streets in response to the city's second bird-flu outbreak, said officials.
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Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State

May 23, 2006 by element115
Hey America! Freedom is just around the corner...behind you.
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Secret guarding

by element115
Slate --> The new secrecy doctrine so secret you don't even know about it.
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House Speaker tells President Bush FBI raid was unconstitutional

by element115
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) told President Bush yesterday that he is concerned the Federal Bureau of Investigation?s (FBI) raid on Rep. William Jefferson?s (D-La.) congressional office over the weekend was a direct violation of the Constitution.
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Senate panel backs Hayden CIA confirmation

by element115
Gen. Michael Hayden moved a step closer Tuesday to becoming the nation's 20th CIA chief, where he will take over a spy agency looking for a leader to steer it through troubles ranging from al-Qaida to Washington politics.
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Bush cautiously welcomes Olmert's West Bank plan

by element115
"Today, Prime Minister Olmert shared with me some of his ideas. I would call them bold ideas," Bush said, raising the possibility they could serve as an alternative if there was no progress soon on a U.S.-sponsored peace "road map."

"Our comfort level has increased in this visit," a senior U.S. official said, suggesting Olmert would aim to put the proposal in motion during the final 2 1/2 years of Bush's term.
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Zfone

by element115
Secure Voice over IP
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Libel suit threatens to mute Canadians

by element115
A fresh lawsuit making its way through Canadian courts threatens to result in severe restrictions being placed on what internet users can post to message boards. It just might enhance corporate abilities to strong-arm ISPs and authors, too.
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US warns against Chinese build-up

by element115
China is rapidly extending its military reach and could pose a threat across Asia, a Pentagon report warns.
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FCC says they cannot investigate NSA data mining

by element115
...because it is classified.
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The War the Media is Not Reporting

by element115
"Our job was to strike fear in the hearts of the Iraqi people."

"We would leave the bodies in the streets and blame it on the Shi'ites or the Sunnis. [In Fallujah] we were ordered to go into mosques and slaughter people while they were praying."

"We would dig holes and leave mass graves of children, women, and old men. We were ordered to let people die on the street. We were told that the Geneva Convention means nothing to us in combat."
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2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak

by element115
Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors' charge that Vice President Cheney's chief aide lied to them.
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'Seeing machine' for the blind

by element115
An MIT poet has developed a small, relatively inexpensive "seeing machine" that can allow people who are blind, or visually challenged like her, to access the Internet, view the face of a friend, "previsit" unfamiliar buildings and more.
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Amnesty attacks Government over human rights

by element115
Amnesty International has accused the British Government of using the war on terror to force through measures which cause "serious human rights violations".
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IDF arrests most-wanted Hamas bomb mastermind in West Bank

by element115
After an eight-year manhunt, Israeli security forces early Tuesday seized the Ramallah-area commander of Hamas' military wing, Israel's most wanted man in the West Bank.
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A new audio message from bin Laden?

by element115
Osama bin Laden says Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

The information is contained in a new, five-minute audio message posted Tuesday to a website.

A U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity, termed the message: "part of bin Laden's ongoing effort to paint himself as relevant and knowledgeable about current events."
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Doomed to failure by 'poverty gene'

by element115
SCOTTISH scientists have discovered a "poverty gene" which causes people from deprived areas to age rapidly, pass on health problems to the next generation and might even explain negative attitudes to employment.
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Iran Requests Direct Talks

by element115
Iran has followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent letter to President Bush with explicit requests for direct talks on its nuclear program, according to U.S. officials, Iranian analysts and foreign diplomats.
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Katrina autopsy: Police shot mentally disabled man in back

by element115
"Clearly he was shot from behind," said famed New York pathologist Dr. Michael Baden.
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The dream of harnessing the sun's power could come true

by element115
The prospect of virtually limitless energy is not merely science fiction.
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Web inventor warns of 'dark' net

by element115
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.
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Possible human-to-human transmission of Bird Flu in Indonesia

by element115
All seven people infected with bird flu in a cluster of Indonesian cases can be linked to other patients, according to disease trackers investigating possible human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus.
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The Lords Of The Global Drug Trade

May 22, 2006 by element115
James Casbolt --> It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme.

As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile.

James Casbolt worked for MI6 in 'black ops' cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999. His father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain.
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US 'to circumvent Geneva Conventions'

by element115
THE Pentagon is considering new rules on military interrogations that treat "war on terror" detainees differently from prisoners protected by the Geneva Conventions, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.

Although he did not elaborate, Mr Rumsfeld's comments suggested that the Pentagon is considering permitting interrogation techniques to be used against "war on terror" detainees that would not be permitted against prisoners who enjoy Geneva Convention protections.
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Listening in

by element115
Seymour M. Hersh --> A government consultant told me that tens of thousands of Americans had had their calls monitored in one way or the other.
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The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush

by element115
The Cato Institute has published a report...

It addresses everything from the torture memos to searches and seizures, from wiretapping to habeas corpus -->
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State Secrets Privilege Shuts Courthouse Doors

by element115
The state secrets privilege has been invoked by the Bush Administration with greater frequency than ever before in American history in a wide range of lawsuits that the government says would threaten national security if allowed to proceed.

In virtually every case, the use of the privilege leads to dismissal of the lawsuit and forecloses the opportunity for an injured party to seek judicial relief.
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Israeli war crimes probe

by element115
THE Attorney General was to fly to Israel today to investigate whether war crimes charges should be brought against Israeli soldiers who shot dead two Britons.

Lord Goldsmith said: "It has been suggested to me that under the Geneva Convention I could consider prosecution. The meetings are being set up through usual diplomatic channels and I have every reason to think the Israeli authorities will be open and give me full co-operation."
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The Death of the American State

by element115
If one were to judge the success of the American constitutional state in limiting state power by the same standards we would apply to a medical procedure, or the success of a business enterprise, we would readily admit to its total failure.
The American state has evolved into a thriving contradiction of the announced expectations of a constitutional republic. Washington, D.C., has been a combination slave-market, fencing operation for stolen property, and street-corner gang long before the current gang of racketeers took over.
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Rice faces silent protest in Boston

by element115
Dozens of faculty and students turned their backs and waved protest signs when U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received an honorary degree from Boston College on Monday.
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US wants missile shield for Europe

by element115
THE Bush Administration is moving to establish a new anti-missile site in Europe that would be designed to stop attacks by Iran against the United States and its European allies.
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Venezuela to buy Russian fighter planes

by element115
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on his Sunday television and radio show, Alo Presidente, that his nation will sign a deal to buy Russian fighter planes when he visits Moscow in August or September.
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The Future of Neurotechnology

by element115
Neurotechnology expert Zack Lynch explains the new field and tells us what the future holds for treating brain disorders.
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Scientists See Arctic Melt Passing 'Tipping Point'

by element115
Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the recent winter, new figures show, spelling disaster for wildlife and strengthening concerns that the region is locked into a destructive cycle of irreversible climate change.

The pace of decline since 2003, if continued, would see the Arctic totally ice-free in summer within 30 years.
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Radio-Frequency Chips Coming to Cattle

by element115
The system isn't expected to be fully online until 2009, but already it's clear that in the sprawling U.S. beef and dairy industries ? home to 100 million cattle ? many producers will automate data gathering with radio-frequency chips attached to cattle ears.
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Anxiety, Paranoia, Depression; The American Way

by element115
The country that spends more of its resources on war than any other is afraid of the terrifying killers in pitifully weak countries.

The nation that possesses more nuclear weapons than all others and that rains hi-tech death from the sky upon numerous countries too weak to defend themselves (think Panama, Sudan, Serbia, Iraq for starters) is afraid of the mad terrorists out to bomb with weapons of mass destruction.
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Markets continue downward spiral

by element115
Another wave of selling hit markets today as fears over inflation and rising interest rates continued to undermine investor confidence.
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U.S. Planes Kill Afghan Villagers

by element115
...bombed a village in southern Afghanistan and killed 16 civilians and wounded 15 more, among them women and children.

The United States-led coalition said it had conducted a "successful operation" in the area and killed at least 20 Taliban fighters in the bombing Sunday night and may have killed another 60.
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Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document

by element115
This morning, Wired News released the full text of the AT&T NSA wiretap documents that are currently under court seal.

"...we believe the public's right to know the full facts in this case outweighs AT&T's claims to secrecy."
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The first trans-Atlantic stock market

by element115
NYSE Offers to Buy Euronext for $10.2B...

NYSE Group Inc. said its purchase of Euronext, which runs the Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon exchanges, would create "the world's largest and most liquid global securities marketplace" with combined listings of $27 trillion. The combined company, worth $21 billion, would be called NYSE Euronext.
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A Lawyer for Saddam Thrown Out of Court

by element115
Guards grabbed Saddam Hussein's only female defense attorney and pulled her from the courtroom Monday, and the chief judge shouted down the deposed Iraqi leader ? a raucous start to a new session of his trial.
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US says personal data on millions of veterans stolen

by element115
Personal data on about 26.5 million U.S. military veterans was stolen from the residence of a Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst who improperly took the material home, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said on Monday.

The data included names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for the veterans.
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Israelis aim to sue Ahmadinejad

by element115
A group of Israeli diplomats wants to sue Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide.
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U.S., Turkey to hold joint military exercise next week

by element115
The United States and Turkey will hold a joint military exercise next week using naval, army and air forces aimed at demonstrating a determination to stop missile and nuclear technology from reaching Iran and other countries.
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Inflated Terrorism - Propaganda Lies

by element115
The Bush administration is paltering to the American public with exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases and a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US military has become the new supreme-power force repressing "terrorism" everywhere.?
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Blair pledges to override Human Rights Act

by element115
The Blair government's ongoing offensive against civil liberties escalated this week with the declaration that it wants to override a range of existing laws such as the 1998 Human Rights Act. This followed a High Court ruling earlier this month that the government was guilty of an "abuse of power" in its efforts to subvert the rule of law.
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FBI to get veto power over PC software?

by element115
The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use software on your computer only if the FBI approves.

No, really. In an obscure "policy" document released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.
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Ebola in U.K.?

May 21, 2006 by element115
A WOMAN who arrived in London on a flight from Africa yesterday is reported to have died from the deadly and contagious ebola virus.

Panic has spread among cabin crew and hospital staff after the death of the 38-year-old Briton.
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Attorney Gen.: Reporters Can Be Prosecuted

by element115
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security.

The nation's top law enforcer also said the government will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly.
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"It made me feel as if I were a drug dealer or terrorist"

by element115
ABC's Brian Ross appeared on "Reliable Sources," and said some very chilling things as he explained the impact being felt by him and others over the government's spying program of journalists which he broke ealier this week....
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US films at Cannes go Bush-whacking

by element115
US directors are using this year's Cannes Film Festival to pummel President George W. Bush, showing movies that take the US leader to task for everything ranging from sexual repression, Iraq, corporate collusion and climate change.
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Abbas to meet new Israeli PM

by element115
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is to meet Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in the highest-level talks between the two sides since Hamas took office in March.

Abbas said on Saturday that his talks with Livni, being held on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh, would "certainly pave the way for a meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert upon his return from Washington."
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War-pimping -->

by element115
Israel: Iran 'months' from making nukes...
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West Bank woman killed by gunfire

by element115
A Palestinian woman has been killed during an Israeli army incursion at the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank.
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Coin image omits 'In God We Trust'

by element115
A Keller school district parent said political correctness has run amok at her daughter's elementary school, where the principal chose to omit the words "In God We Trust" from an oversize coin depicted on the yearbook cover.

The nickel design features President Jefferson and the word Liberty in cursive, with the words "In God We Trust" along the right edge.
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Markets 'are like 1987 crash'

by element115
"We are very uncomfortable about predicting financial crises, but we cannot help but see a certain similarity between the current economic and market conditions and the environment that led to the stock-market crash of October 1987," said David Woo, head of global foreign-exchange strategy at Barclays Capital.
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Inside story of the Guantanamo uprising

by element115
The camp commander's claims of a co-ordinated revolt are challenged by new details of the violence.
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Who's singling out Israel?

by element115
Supporters of the Palestinian cause are wrongly accused of anti-semitism.
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Israeli PM leaves for Washington

by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took off Sunday afternoon for Washington for his first official visit to the United States since he took office in early May, Israel Radio said.
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DisInfo Stories

by element115
...the neocons have stepped up the disinformation campaign designed to incite war fever in the U. S., Israel and other nations like Canada and Australia who could be potential allies in an attack on Iran.
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Ex-US soldier: 'If he didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid in the head'

by element115
This 20 minute interview will change how you view the U.S. occupation of Iraq forever -->

"When we were doing the night raids in the houses, we would pull people out and have them all on their knees and zip-tied. We would ask the man of the house questions. If he didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid in the head. We would keep going, this was our interrogation. He could be innocent. He could be just an average Joe trying to support his family. If he didn't give us a satisfactory answer, we'd start killing off his family until he told us something. If he didn't know anything, I guess he was SOL."
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Revealed: 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at immigration HQ in U.K.

by element115
A 'sex-for-asylum' scandal at the UK's largest immigration processing centre has been uncovered by an Observer investigation.
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Jewish MP denies Iran badge plan

May 20, 2006 by element115
IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified.

"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed said in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so.

...well, Drudge, why don't you put this one up?
...National Post?
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Shame, shame, shame

by element115


Toronto Star --> The National Post today sank about as low as a newspaper can go, essentially constructing a sensational and emotionally-charged story out of little or nothing, upsetting millions all over the world and probably making it much harder for a peaceful outcome with Iran to be achieved.

It did it by exploiting the Holocaust, no less.
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Israeli strike kills Palestinians

by element115
Four Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City.

...a missile was apparently fired from an unmanned plane into the city centre.
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Ottawa now wants Kyoto deal scrapped

by element115
The instructions to Canadian negotiators reveal Ottawa is pushing for the Kyoto Protocol to disappear.

Harper Equals Bush. Period.
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Assassination attempt ignites Gaza

by element115
An assassination attempt on the Palestinian intelligence chief ignited an already tense situation in Gaza, with gun battles breaking out between rival factions.
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A Little Fascism Goes a Long Way

by element115
"If you fail to pass the English proficiency exam, you will be deported."

"Unless otherwise offered or provided by law, no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the Government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services, or provide materials in any language other than English"
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Pentagon secret spending said at post-Cold War high

by element115
The Pentagon's spending on secret programs has hit its highest point since the end of the Cold War, a Washington-based research group said in a report released this week.

Classified programs appear to account for about $30.1 billion, or 19 percent, of the acquisition funds sought in the Defense Department budget for fiscal 2007.

Classifying Pentagon programs means they get less oversight by Congress, watchdog groups and the media.
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Egyptian backs Bosnian pyramid claim

by element115
Amid debate, visiting expert says structure appears to be human-made.
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A North American Union to Replace the United States of America?

by element115
Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada.
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UK soldiers to get life in jail for refusing to act as occupiers

by element115
SOLDIERS who object to taking part in a military occupation of a foreign country will face life in prison under measures due to be rubber-stamped in the House of Commons on Monday.

The little-noticed Armed Forces Bill will have its third reading in the Commons on Monday and left-leaning MPs are alarmed that it will legitimise pre-emptive military strikes.

It will change the definition of desertion to include soldiers who go absent without leave and intend to refuse to take part in a "military occupation of a foreign country or territory".
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Olmert denies humanitarian crisis in Gaza

by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied in an interview published Friday that Palestinians were experiencing a "humanitarian crisis" and said Israel would buy them any medicine they need.

"We wouldn't allow one baby to suffer one night because of a lack of dialysis," Olmert said in an interview with The New York Times.

Claims that the Palestinians face "humanitarian crisis" are "for the time being total propaganda," the Israeli leader said.
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Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold

by element115
"Be gone by evening prayers or we will kill you," warned one of four men who called at the house of Leila Mohammed, a pregnant mother of three children in the city of Baquba, in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad. He offered chocolate to one of her children to try to find out the names of the men in the family.
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The Snooping Goes Beyond Phone Calls

by element115
The Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security spend millions annually to buy commercial databases that track Americans' finances, phone numbers, and biographical information, according to a report last month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
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Low-level crimes in New York State may soon be required to give DNA samples

by element115
In most cities and states, vandalism, shoplifting, and loitering are misdemeanors - possibly involving community service, not jail time. But those who commit such low-level crimes in New York State may soon be required to give DNA samples to authorities - just as convicted rapists or murderers do.

If the Legislature passes the proposal, which is currently being debated, New York would be the first state in the nation to require DNA samples for all convicted offenders.
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Guantánamo uprising is put down by US guards

by element115
Activists say incident shows growing despair..
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Japan may start Iraq troop withdrawal in June: report

by element115
Government sources quoted by the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said the Japanese government has begun making arrangements with the governments of Britain and Australia, aiming at a decision on the withdrawal as early as next month.
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Winning - and Losing - the First Wired War

by element115
U.S. forces in Iraq are waging a pivotal campaign in modern warfare-combat on the first "networked" battlefield. One problem: the enemy has a few networks of its own.
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Cure for cancers 'in five years'

by element115
Scientists in Manchester say a cure for all types of cancer could be available on the NHS within five years.

The treatment - gene-modified t-cell therapy - could replace more intrusive treatments like chemotherapy.

Professor Robert Hawkins, clinical director of Medical oncology at the hospital, says the initial results of lab tests have been "spectacular".
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Is the Iranian yellow-badges story true?

by element115
Israeli politicians are sounding some very dire notes, but as far as I know, no one?s independently confirmed this morning?s story in the National Post yet.
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Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue

by element115
Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country?s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.

The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
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Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore' New Movie

May 19, 2006 by element115
...the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV ads focusing on what it calls "global warming alarmism and the call by some environmental groups and politicians to reduce fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions." The ad, which will be aired in more than a dozen cities across the country, is being released just a week before the May 24th opening (in LA and NYC) of Al Gore's new movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.

CEI?s general counsel Sam Kazman said, "I think what attracted [Exxon] to us was our position on global warming." CEI's position? The Institute believes the dangers of global warming are akin "to that of 'an alien invasion.'"
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Opposition to Iraq War at 62% in U.S

by element115
More adults in the United States are disappointed with their government?s decision to go to war in Iraq, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post and ABC News. 62 per cent of respondents think the conflict was not worth fighting, up five points since March.

...62%...after 3 years of horrors
...only in America
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Open Letter from Palestinian Academics

by element115
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
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Israel censures China over invitation to Hamas

by element115
Israel has issued an unusually strong rebuke to China over its decision to invite a senior Hamas minister to attend a Sino-Arab conference in Beijing later this month.
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Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming

by element115
...the world looks on, hoping that the great powers really know what they are doing, and that World War 3 won't start because of a subtle miscalculation in brinkmanship.
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N.Korea may be preparing missile launch: reports

by element115
North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range ballistic missile that could reach parts of the United States, Japanese media reports said on Friday, but Japan's government said it did not believe a launch was imminent.
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Letter to Palestinian Americans

by element115
Yesterday Israel's Occupation Forces attacked a house; routinely assasinated another two Palestinian young men, and as icing on the cake, demolished the house. It was seventy-four year old Mosharraf Tawfiq Al Mbaslat's house. He had a heart attack, later died. Medical teams were forbidden to enter the house by Israeli troops.
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What happened to the "what" or the "why"?

by element115
John Pilger --> ...how Britain's state broadcaster presents news to millions of people who do not enjoy the privilege I, and the BBC's representatives, share - that of being allowed to go and find out what and why things happen. Neither the "what" nor the "why" was evident in this bulletin; indeed, it wasn't so much news as a series of pronouncements by the spokespeople of the spokespeople, to paraphrase Orwell or Brecht.
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All About NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine

by element115
...the Narus ST-6400, a machine that was capable of monitoring over 622 Mbits/second in real time in May, 2000, and capturing anything that hits its' semantic (i.e. the meaning of the content) triggers.
The latest generation is called NarusInsight, capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second.
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CIA 'torture' lawsuit thrown out

by element115
A US court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a German citizen who says he was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA.
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You got your damn war...

by element115


...and it looks like "a mother and young child bent over as if in prayer, shot dead".
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Israel should face sanctions

by element115
The Guardian --> Never in the long struggle for freedom in apartheid South Africa was there a situation as dramatic as in Palestine today...
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We Are the Deciders

by element115
We are now victims of a full-bore public relations assault. White House bullhorns and media mockingbirds are out in force, only too happy to be diverted from discussing the treasonous Bush/Cheney/Rove/Libby leak of an undercover CIA operative or from investigating the restless murmurings of an impending nuclear attack on Iran.
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Hands Off the Internet

by element115
Hands Off The Internet is a nationwide coalition of Internet users united together in the belief that the Net's phenomenal growth over the past decade stems from the ability of entrepreneurs to expand consumer choices and opportunities without worrying about government regulation.
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Iran report of Holocaust-style badges questioned

by element115
Media is sending shockwaves across the country this morning with a report that Iran's Parliament has passed a law requiring mandatory Holocaust style badges to identify Jews and Christians.

But independent reporter Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli Middle East expert who was born and raised in Tehran, says the report is false.
"It's absolutely factually incorrect," he told The New 940 Montreal.
"Nowhere in the law is there any talk of Jews and Christians having to wear different colours. I've checked it with sources both inside Iran and outside."
"The Iranian people would never stand for it. The Iranian government wouldn't be stupid enough to do it."
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US fumes as Iraq backs Israel boycott

by element115
The US-backed Iraqi government sent an official representative to this week's meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, prompting criticism from members of Congress and the Bush administration.

Liaison officers from 14 countries met for four days this week to discuss ways of intensifying the Arab embargo against Israel. Among those taking part were delegates from several ostensible US allies, such as Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait.
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What Is the Real Purpose of Bush's NSA Surveillance?

by element115
Is terrorism being used as a cover to collect reams of information about Americans to establish a central database? Could there be political motives?
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Robot surgeon performs world's first unassisted operation

by element115
For the first time, a robot surgeon in Italy has carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself.
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US 'must end secret detentions'

by element115
The US should close any secret "war on terror" detention facilities abroad and the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, a United Nations report has said.

The UN Committee against Torture urged the US to ensure no one was detained in any secret facility.
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Guantanamo Prison Guards, Inmates Clash

by element115
Prisoners wielding improvised weapons clashed with guards trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military said Friday.

The fight occurred Thursday in a medium-security section of the camp as guards were responding to the fourth attempted suicide that day at the detention center on the U.S. Navy base, said Cmdr. Robert Durand.

Detainees used fans, light fixtures and other improvised weapons to attack the guards as they entered a communal living area to stop a prisoner who was trying to hang himself, Durand said.
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US: No security guarantee for Iran

May 18, 2006 by element115
The United States will not give Iran security guarantees in exchange for forfeiting its nuclear programme, state department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
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Films on Guantánamo and Iraq face war of cuts

by element115
The Guardian --> Two new films which expose unpleasant truths about Guantanamo and the battle for Iraq are coming under pressure from censors in the United States.
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Europe Shames U.S. Congress

by element115
CIA war crimes in Europe are now under official investigation there, but not here...
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Oil Diplomacy

by element115
Nothing the Bush administration ever does is about oil. It didn?t invade Iraq because that country might have more oil than Saudi Arabia. It isn?t threatening Iran because Iran has a tenth of the world?s oil and one-sixth of its natural gas. And the United States isn?t cozying up to autocrats in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan because the Caspian Sea is a mini-Persian Gulf in the middle of Central Asia, either.
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Bush's Insanity

by element115
George W. Bush is suffering from a peculiar but not that uncommon form of madness in which a pathological part of his psyche has co-opted all of the healthy parts into its service.
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EFF Can Use Critical AT&T Documents in Surveillance Lawsuit

by element115
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled today that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) can use critical evidence in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. However, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the evidence -- three documents that AT&T alleges are proprietary and contain the company's trade secrets -- will be kept under seal for now.
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American Military tested new generation Microwave weapons on Iraq civilians in 2003

by element115
A new Italian documentary shade more lights about US troops tested new generation of Laser, Microwave weapons on Iraq's military and civilians back in 2003 in the "battle of the Airport".

An interview with Iraqi eyewitness reveals the whole truth.
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Bowing To The Police State

by element115
Is Congress aiding and abetting the creation of a police state?
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Swiss reporter forced to strip at Gaza border security check

by element115
A Swiss journalist was forced by private security personnel to strip down to her underwear and pass through an x-ray machine at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip six times.

The security check was carried out by private security personnel but Israel Defense Forces soldiers were securing the border terminal and therefore looking on at the time.
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The Scariest Predators in the Corporate Jungle

by element115
The world's oil, gas and mining industries account for nearly two-thirds of all violations of human rights, environmental laws and international labor standards, according to a soon-to-be-released United Nations study.

The food and beverages industry is a distant second, followed by apparel, footwear, and the information and communications technology sector.
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Legal loophole emerges in NSA spy program

by element115
AT&T may be referring to an obscure section of federal law, 18 U.S.C. 2511, which permits a telecommunications company to provide "information" and "facilities" to the federal government as long as the attorney general authorizes it. The authorization must come in the form of "certification in writing by...the Attorney General of the United States that no warrant or court order is required by law."
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Dear NSA

by element115
Mining our collective wisdom since 2001

...we really listen to your problems!
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'Arafat used aid to buy weapons'

by element115
Jerusalem Post --> Yasser Arafat transferred millions of dollars in international aid and taxes transferred to the Palestinian Authority by Israel to purchase large quantities of weapons, the PA chairman's former financial aide, Fuad Shubaki, has told the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). Some of the Israeli money, Shubaki told his investigators, was also used to fund Palestinian terror groups.
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The Eternal Value of Privacy

by element115
The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"

"If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me." "Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition." "Because you might do something wrong with my information." My problem with quips like these -- as right as they are -- is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not.
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
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Iran, Bush & Nuremberg

by element115
What has been perhaps most mind-boggling about George W. Bush's presidency is its consistent inconsistency on the application of law, both at home and abroad. Bush demands respect for the law from U.S. citizens and lectures foreign countries on the need to abide by international norms, while simultaneously flouting the rules when they apply to him or his administration.
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Kick The Oil Habit

by element115
...seeks to provide a forum to advance progressive ideas and policies.
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Laser 'optical incapacitator' issued in Iraq

by element115
The U.S. military has given troops in Iraq a laser device to temporarily blind drivers who ignore warnings at vehicle checkpoints, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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The 9/11 Story That Got Away

by element115
In 2001, an anonymous White House source leaked top-secret NSA intelligence to reporter Judith Miller that Al Qaida was planning a major attack on the United States. But the story never made it into the paper.
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Human Ancestors May Have Interbred With Chimpanzees

by element115
According to the new theory, chimps and humans shared a common apelike ancestor much more recently than was thought. Furthermore, when the two emerging species split from each other, it was not a clean break. Some members of the two groups seem to have interbred about 1.2 million years after they first diverged -- before going their separate ways for good.
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Smokeless rockets launching soon?

by element115
Only time and money separate the current state of rocket propulsion science from the engine rooms of Star Trek's Starfleet, according to a university professor.
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