Cindy Sheehan to provoke the Second American Revolution July 4th

June 30, 2006 by element115
Hunger Strike at White House!
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UN aid chief warns Gaza is on the verge of humanitarian crisis

by element115
Gaza is three days away from a deadly humanitarian crisis unless Israel promptly restores fuel and electricity to the densely populated area after its offensive.

"They are heading for the abyss..."

Without clean water in the hot summer weather, "we would in days see a major humanitarian crisis."

...children make up about half of the area's 1.4 million people.

"Military action targeting innocent civilians violates international humanitarian law."

"They are locked in a situation where they do their utmost to cut the bridges between them and create hatred that bodes ill for the future," he said. "Why do they do things that are so counter to their own interests?"

"Under international law, Israel has the obligation to allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza. It also has the duty to ensure that the vital supplies for the population, including food and medicine, are adequate."
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Thousands protest across Mideast against Gaza offensive

by element115
Thousands of protesters in several Muslim countries took to the streets Friday in reponse to the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

...the protesters chanted, "Palestinians, we are with you until to the last moment."

Arabs and Muslims must support "the Palestinian people who are strongly standing fast against western racism that is backing Jewish racism."

"Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine!"
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Irish MP: Israel an "abhorrent and despicable" regime

by element115
...described Israel as "one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet."

"The bombardment of civilian infrastructure amounts to collective punishment and a crime against humanity and the abduction and imprisonment by Israel of some 25 democratically elected Palestinian representatives demonstrates the true nature of Israel's commitment to not so democratic principles."
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The Israeli government is losing its reason

by element115
Haaretz Editorial --> The government wishes to convince us that all these actions are intended only to release the soldier Gilad Shalit.

...the greater the government's creativity in inventing tactics, the more it seems to reflect a loss of direction rather than an overall conception based on reason and common sense.
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Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies

by element115
ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.

The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter.
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Analysis: Israel's wider aims in Gaza

by element115
BBC --> Israel feels that it has to reduce the power and effectiveness of Hamas and that this is a good opportunity.
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Israel intensifies pressure on Gaza

by element115
... Israel's offensive in Gaza entered its third day.
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China to tighten supervision over blogs, search engines

by element115
Blogs and search engines, the most active parts of China information industry, will undergo strict supervision of the government.

"As more and more illegal and unhealthy information spreads through the blog and search engine, we will take effective measures to put the BBS, blog and search engine under control," said Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of the State Council.
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Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

by element115
The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.
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The Geneva Convention for a Non-State Entity

by element115
Supreme Court ruling seems to me a remarkable point in the development of a kind of quasi-sovereignty for non-state organizations.

...non-states which have no mechanism for ratification, let alone debate, one can easily imagine a scenario in which non-state organizations form themselves and immediately possess the rights of a state, with no corresponding need to adhere to any laws in their own activities.

If this is the case, then we have the answer to the war: it will be privatized.
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'Blue Pill' Prototype Creates 100% Undetectable Malware

by element115
"The idea behind Blue Pill is simple: your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix controlled by the ultra thin Blue Pill hypervisor. This all happens on-the-fly (i.e. without restarting the system) and there is no performance penalty and all the devices."
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The U.S. Vs. John Lennon

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Trailer -->
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Checking the Decider

by element115
Finally.

It seemed almost too much to hope for, but the Supreme Court finally called George W. Bush onto the carpet yesterday and asked him the obvious question: What part of "rule of law" do you not understand?
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5 GIs being investigated in 4 Iraq deaths

by element115
The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday.

Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident.
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Prediction: Bush & Congress Will Override the Supreme Court's Gitmo Decision

by element115
...a bill to override the decision and keep the terrorists in jail until they are securely transferred to host countries for permanent punishment.

They will challenge the "judicial interference with national security" and challenge dissenting Congressmen and civil libertarians to either stand with the terrorists or the American people. The Pentagon will continue to release a small number of detainees as circumstances allow. The bill will pass easily and quickly. And if the Supremes invalidate that law, we'll see another legislative response, and another, until they get it right. Just watch.
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Man charged after videotaping police

by element115
Michael Gannon, 49 was arrested Tuesday night, after he brought a video to the police station to try to file a complaint against Detective Andrew Karlis, according to Gannon?s wife, Janet Gannon, and police reports filed in Nashua District Court.

Police instead arrested Gannon, charging him with two felony counts of violating state eavesdropping and wiretap law by using an electronic device to record Karlis without the detective?s consent.
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Study: Money Does Not Buy Much Happiness

by element115
...a study published in the June 30 issue of journal Science reveals that income plays a rather insignificant role in day-to-day happiness.

Although most people imagine that if they had more money they could do more fun things and perhaps be happier, the reality seems to be that those with higher incomes tend to be tenser, and spend less time on simple leisurely activities.
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Russia makes rouble convertible

by element115
For years it was the changeable currency of defaults, declines and dodgy wheeler-dealing. But the Russian rouble, riding high on Moscow's burgeoning status as an energy superpower, becomes fully convertible from tomorrow as the petrodollar giant unleashes on the world a currency to match its growing economic clout.
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JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press

by element115
Video --> "Last American President Offers His Warning"

Thats right, old JFK says everything thats happening now is basically...well... unamerican...
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Is Superman still American?

by element115
...the long-standing member of the Justice League of America seems to have traded in his allegiance to the flag for an international passport.
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Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

by element115
Jason Miller --> How Many More Innocents Must Die Before the World Realizes that Israel is Gathering Thorns and Thistles?
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Methods questioned in investigation leading up to Sears Tower arrests

by element115
Critics are voicing concern about the FBI?s use of informants, methodology, and alleged pattern of entrapment in relation to the arrests last week of seven Miami men for having allegedly plotted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and federal buildings in other cities.
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911 Truth And Texas Terror

by element115
...the White House needs a successful 911-2B attack to maintain Bush?s grip on power and continue the global war on terror.

What on earth would they do if, for instance, an uncontrollable Democrat were to win the leadership of either the House or Senate? It could actually mean independent investigations, and that?s simply impossible, in light of what has happened.
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Israel air strikes in Gaza set ministry ablaze

by element115
Israeli air strikes in Gaza City destroyed the Palestinian Interior Ministry on Friday in what marked the first Israeli attack against a government structure since Hamas won parliamentary elections in January.
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House of shame

June 29, 2006 by element115
Guardian --> President Bush's effectiveness as a domestic president is ending not with a bang but a whimper. Five months before the midterm elections, congressional Republicans fear that association with him may alienate their constituencies and result in loss of the House of Representatives.
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Torture teachers

by element115
Salon --> Human rights advocates have long suspected a link between interrogations in the "war on terror" and a secretive military survival school that trains elite U.S. troops to resist torture.
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US surprised at reports Romania wants to leave Iraq

by element115
The United States said it was surprised by reports that Romania planned to withdraw its troops from Iraq, and said it would ask for clarification.
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The weapon of last resort

by element115
Rather than negotiate to free its 19-year-old solider Gilad Shalit, the Israeli government seems to have decided that he is worth more dead than alive.

...the current adventure exposes the profoundly racist nature of Israel's ruling elite. As far as it is concerned, the Palestinians are not entitled to the right of equal human dignity. Indeed, in its lexicon, such a concept does not even seem to exist.

That is why 10,000 Palestinian prisoners of war in Israeli detention camps, including several hundred women and children, are deemed to be of no value whatsoever, whereas a single Israeli prisoner of war deserves a major onslaught on the most defenceless and densely populated strip of land on the face of the earth.
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Secrets of Dallas

by element115
...the role of George Herbert Walker Bush, the father of the current president, in the JFK assassination-cum-coup.
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Bush Seeks to Use Media Leaks to His Advantage

by element115
Attack on Newspapers Continues as Some Democrats Accuse White House of Trying to Divert Attention.
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Israeli missiles pound Gaza into new Dark Age in 'collective punishment'

by element115
Belfast Telegraph --> ...the attacks against objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.
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L.A. 9/11 Conference Lays Case For Gov Involvement In 9/11

by element115
Now that the chemical results are in, it is just one more piece of evidence that if presented in a court of law would result in a conviction of murder. As followers of the 911-truth movement know, this is one more solid scientific fact on the mountain of facts that PROVE beyond reasonable doubt that 911 is and could only be an inside job.
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Pre-War Intelligence

by element115
Three Words: The Vice President...
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US raids in Iraq generate questions, resentment

by element115
Hamza's daughter Sarah said the retired pharmacist's assistant stood up and walked to the hall door near his bedroom.

"Suddenly he shouted and returned to us holding his left side and fell to the ground," she said.

Sarah said her sisters were trying to staunch the bleeding when U.S. soldiers outside demanded a locked door to the house be opened. Her brother Ahmed moved to look for the keys.

"Once he reached the television table he was shot in the head from the window and fell to the ground," she said.
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U.S. Supreme Court blocks Guantanamo war crimes trials

by element115
The Supreme Court dealt U.S. President George W. Bush a stunning defeat Thursday, ruling the controversial military trials of terrorists suspects detained at Guantanamo prison camp were illegal under both U.S. and international law, including the Geneva Convention.
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IDF Forces Demolish Access Routes in S. Gaza

by element115
The operation is in continuation of IDF destruction of several Gaza bridges and the takeover of strategic areas of southern Gaza.
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Bush Attack on New York Times Could Have 'Chilling Influence'

by element115
Defending The New York Times's recent disclosures of secret government programs to monitor Americans' overseas phone calls and financial transactions, the Overseas Press Club of America today told President George Bush that his administration's attacks on The Times could have a "chilling influence" on editors around the country.
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Guide to Detecting the NSA

by element115
AT&T customers aren't the only ones apparently being tapped. "Transit" traffic originating with one ISP and destined for another is also being sniffed if it crosses AT&T's network.
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Bush Administration Supports Israel

June 28, 2006 by element115
The Bush administration affirmed on Wednesday Israel's right to defend itself against acts of terror.

"Let's just point out, once again, you have the Israeli forces trying to reclaim somebody who was kidnapped and is being held hostage in Gaza. And they are doing what they can to return him."
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Palestinian Group Says Israeli Executed

by element115
...a Palestinian militant group said it killed an 18-year-old Jewish settler kidnapped in the West Bank. Israeli security officials said Eliahu Asheri's body was found buried near Ramallah. They said he was shot in the head.
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Israel steps up Gaza offensive

by element115
Israeli forces have rounded up dozens of Palestinian cabinet ministers and Hamas politicians, increasing pressure on the Islamic militants to release a captured Israeli soldier.
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Israeli missile hits university in Gaza City

by element115
A missile fired by an Israeli military plane hit a university in Gaza City on early Thursday, Palestinian witnesses said.

The missile left a big hole in the soccer field of the Islamic University in Gaza City, said the witnesses.
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Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead

by element115
A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.
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The Right to Resistance According to International Law

by element115
Hans Lebrecht --> According to international law, the people of a country, occupied by a foreign power, has the full right to fight for their liberation. The Palestinian people, inhabitants of the territories, Israel has conquered and is occupying by military means since June 1967, too have this briefed right.
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Insurgents offer to halt attacks in Iraq

by element115
Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks ? including those on American troops ? if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from
Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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'Troops Home' Fast

by element115
...a hunger strike for peace which begins July 04.
We are announcing the fast from Washington, DC on 07/04 and having our last supper on 07/03 in Lafayette Park.
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Syria: Israel made big mistake

by element115
"Israel is making scandalous mistake that is crossing the bounds of logic"
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Russians Send Special Forces to Iraq

by element115
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's special services to hunt down the killers of four Russian hostages in Iraq, the Kremlin said.
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Superfast internet cafe launches

by element115
Computers at Goonhilly satellite station, on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall are connected to BT's global internet protocol network.

...possible to use the cafe's computers to download in less than 15 minutes a file the equivalent size of the DVD version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with its 19,000 illustrations, 629 audio and video clips and 100,000 articles.

The service will be free to visitors.
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Seeing isn't believing

by element115
A year on from 7/7, wild rumours are circulating about who planted the bombs and why.
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...on Scanner Darkly

by element115
Joshua Glenn --> ...will Keanu and his drug buddies get politicized and take action against their not-too-distant-future surveillance society? Or will these slackers stay glued to their couches, entertaining themselves with interminable Linklater-esque bull sessions?

...the "phildickian" worldview, binary opposites?good/evil, real/unreal?are impossible ever to untangle.

...social control was now exercised not through class domination but increasingly subtle mechanisms.

Westerners have been "oedipalized" (normalized, trained to desire their own repression) at home, at school, and at work.

...the agent of social revolution among those marginalized from economic and political life: the criminal, the part-time worker, the unemployed.

...semi-employed, drug-using, near-schizophrenic schlemiels who through sheer stubbornness and perversity succeeded in their struggle against neototalitarianism and irreality.
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Another 'Stonehenge' discovered in Amazon

by element115
A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory - a find that archaeologists say shows early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.

The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet (2.75 meters) tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter.
On the shortest day of the year - Dec. 21 - the shadow of one of the blocks disappears when the sun is directly above it.
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Big Brother watching you surf, Canada?

by element115
One of Canada's largest Internet service providers is warning its customers that Big Brother is lurking on-line, with the federal government expected to revive an Internet surveillance bill.

If the legislation is reintroduced, it could allow police unfettered access to personal information without a warrant, experts warn.

Bell Sympatico has informed its customers that it intends to "monitor or investigate content or your use of your service provider's networks and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request."
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IDF troops arrest Hamas cabinet minister

by element115
The officials said Labor Minister Mohammed Barghouti was stopped on his way to his village north of Ramallah. Military jeeps stopped his car, ordered him out of the vehicle and took him away.
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Israeli warplanes buzz palace of Syrian President

by element115
Israel Air Force warplanes predawn Wednesday carried out a low-altitude flight over the palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Mediterranean port city of Latakia in northwestern Syria.
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Nuke the Messenger

by element115
Washington Post --> In accusing the press -- and specifically, the New York Times -- of putting American lives at risk, President Bush and his allies have escalated their ongoing battle with the media to nuclear proportions.

But not once has the White House definitively answered this question: How are any of these disclosures actually impairing the pursuit of terrorists?

Terrorists already knew the government was trying to track them down through their finances, their phone calls and their e-mails. Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks, for instance, Bush publicly declared open season on terrorist financing.

all these disclosures do is alert the American public to the fact that all this stuff is going on without the requisite oversight, checks and balances.

How does it possibly matter to a terrorist whether the government got a court order or not? Or whether Congress was able to exercise any oversight? The White House won't say. In fact, it can't say.

By contrast, it does matter to us.
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EU justice comissioner calls for national search into CIA flights and prisons

by element115
EU justice comissioner Franco Frattini has urged national prosecutors and judges to investigate their governments' alleged involvement in secret CIA prisons and flights, using the facts from a key report backed by the Council of Europe on Tuesday.

Mr Frattini urged EU members to take action "whatever the truth that emerges."
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CIA may have accessed Canadian banking records

by element115
Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating whether United States officials have improperly received the banking records of Canadians.

The Toronto Star reports the investigation is also trying to determine if the Central Intelligence Agency was given unauthorized access to the confidential files.
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EU' anti-terrorism control orders ruled illegal

by element115
The control orders, which can be used to curtail people's movements, tag them and restrict who they can meet, were brought in by the government to deal with suspects thought to be involved in terrorist activities, but against whom there is not enough evidence to prosecute.

...a senior judge ruled that so-called "control orders" were incompatible with the European convention on human rights.
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Israelis Bomb Camp, Cut Power and Water

by element115
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas deplored the incursion as a "crime against humanity," and a leading Hamas politician issued a call to arms against the Israeli troops.
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Fear in Gaza as Israeli forces strike

by element115
The Israeli action overnight, which included taking out a power station, bombing a bridge a few miles away, taking up positions about 32 km (20 miles) from here, and carrying out sonic booms, was perhaps designed to show the Palestinians that Israel means business.
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A new Canadian tool can re-grow teeth say inventors

by element115
The wireless device, smaller than a pea, must be activated for 20 minutes each day for four months to stimulate growth.
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Israeli F16 warplanes strike southern Gaza

June 27, 2006 by element115
Israeli radio reported that the Israeli army had started a large- scale operation into the Gaza Strip.
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US reacts cautiously to Hamas recognition of Israel

by element115
White House Spokesman Tony Snow made the remarks in reference to the agreement reached by the rival leaders of Fatah movement and Hamas to recognizing the right of Israel to exist.

"Let's wait until we see something for real."
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Posters at right-wing board threaten to kill Times editors, reporters

by element115
Posters at the right-wing Free Republic message board today were roused into a fury of indignation by a news story about the New York Times' revelations of the administration's illegal programs of warrantless surveillance.
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Israel launches fresh Gaza raids

by element115
Missiles struck buildings in Gaza City, knocking out power nearby, and in a refugee camp in central Gaza. Artillery was also used for the first time.
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The Voice of the White House

by element115
The recent exposure of American spying on international bank transfers only touches the tip of a very volatile subject.

From a co-worker who works in the Vice President's circle, we learn that Cheney was in such a rage about the New York Times exposure of the Schrank business that he was turning bright red and banging the furniture. As Cheney has a very bad heart, his staff have tried to calm him down, fearing the worst.

DHS now fully monitors any unusually large amounts of money transferred, among many others, to the ACLU, P.E.T.A., MoveOn.org, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Defenders of Wildlife, and EarthJustice, as well as contributions of any size to Antiwar.com, Greenpeace, Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families For Peace, and any of the Muslim organizations, regardless of their nature, found on the DHS/governmental hit list, as well as any American, or foreign, citizen found on the "secret" 'no fly list.'

While these bank surveillance programs initially dealt only with genuinely suspect groups and individuals, Cheney and his party saw this as an excellent opportunity to "get a handle" on any individual or organization that they viewed as possible present or future domestic (and foreign) political opposition.

One of the prime aims of the current Administration is to prevent Americans from shipping money to overseas banks, to purchase and hold foreign currencies such as the euro, and to invest; most especially, in Russian businesses
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Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5

by element115
A noted terror expert has told the BBC that Mohammed Siddique Khan, the alleged ringleader of the 7/7 London bombings, was working for British intelligence agency MI5 as an informant at the time of the attacks.

7/7 links with British intelligence agencies don't end with Khan. Terror expert John Loftus told Fox News' Dayside show that alleged London bombing mastermind Haroon Rashid Aswat was an MI6 intelligence asset that British security helped protect and hide before the bombings.
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Amendment to ban flag desecration dies by a vote in Senate

by element115
Senate fell one vote short Tuesday of the two-thirds margin needed to pass a constitutional amendment that would have given Congress the power to ban desecration of the U.S. flag after a debate that pitted the importance of the nation's symbols against a citizen's right to freedom of speech.
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Will Canada be the first cashless society?

by element115
Canada has long been one of the most wired nations in the world, and as a nation we've always been among the first to adopt new technologies and adapt our lifestyles to them.
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Israel won't let Abbas out of Gaza Strip

by element115
Abbas is in Gaza for talks with the ruling Islamic Hamas over a document that implicitly recognises Israel. The two sides announced an agreement today.

Israeli military officials said that Abbas would not be allowed to return to the West Bank, as part of an Israeli closure on the Gaza Strip meant to press the militants to release the soldier.
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Palestinians back prisoner release call

by element115
For Walid al-Houdaly, 46, the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants offers the opportunity that his wife and their 18-month-old child will be freed from prison.

Like many Palestinians, Mr Houdaly believes that the world is focussing on the fate of one Israeli soldier when thousands of Palestinians have been imprisoned or detained in what they regard as their fight for independence.
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Three Days in Rome?

by element115
Among those who had come to meet with the Pentagon team was an Iranian exile who was not exactly an unknown quantity in Washington. Manucher Ghorbanifar, an arms dealer, intelligence peddler, and former military intelligence official in the Shah?s regime, had been a key figure in the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, in which Washington secretly sold missiles to Iran?s Islamic rulers.
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Iran says will not benefit from talks with U.S.

by element115
"Negotiating with America does not have any benefit for us and we do not need such negotiations," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by state television.

"Iran is giving the message that Iran doesn't trust America and does not believe America has changed its position," said analyst Mahmoud Alinejad.
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EU urged to probe CIA allegations

by element115
The European Union's top justice official on Tuesday called for thorough national inquiries into alleged CIA secret flights and prisons in Europe and greater parliamentary scrutiny of intelligence services to prevent human rights abuses.
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Miami bomb plot suspects "entrapped," lawyers say

by element115
Seven men charged with conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI building in Miami were entrapped by a federal informant, lawyers for two of the suspects said on Monday.
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An End To Ambiguity

by element115
The New York Sun --> "An act of terror," Israel's chief-of-staff Dan Halutz called the Palestinian raid on an Israeli military outpost on the periphery of the Gaza Strip last Sunday.

It was in fact anything but that.
...the attack in question was a perfectly legitimate act of war.
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Tehran calls Russian diplomats' murder in Iraq "inhuman"

by element115
Iran's foreign ministry Tuesday denounced the murder of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, calling it an inhuman act.
...it is occupational forces that should bear responsibility for terrorist acts targeting innocent civilians and diplomats in Iraq.
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Annan urges calm as Israel mulls offensive

June 26, 2006 by element115
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called for restraint on Monday as Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border for a possible offensive.
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Possible Terror Threat Closes Calif. Port

by element115
A dock worker at the Port of Hueneme in Ventura County discovered a threatening message written in the cargo hold of a ship carrying bananas from Guatemala, said Will Berg, the port's marketing director.

Federal authorities said the message was written in English and read: "Nitro + glycerin my gift for G. W. Bush and his Jewish gang."

No nitroglycerine or other explosives were found during a thorough search, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

The message was scrawled in marker on a metal pillar in the ship.
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Israel rejects demands over kidnapped soldier

by element115
"The question of releasing prisoners is not on the agenda of the Israeli government at all," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a speech in Jerusalem.

"The time is approaching for a comprehensive, sharp and severe Israeli operation. We will not wait forever," he said. "We will not become a target of Hamas-terrorist blackmail."
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Hacking Iraq - soldiers take the internet into their own hands

by element115
The military provides just 6-12 computers for every 1,000 or so troops, time limits of 10-15 minutes per day are often enforced. Now, Hajjinets, the term for troop-owned ISPs, have sprung to life on almost every base around Iraq. A typical Hajjinet is built and maintained by one or two soldiers and can provide nearly 24-hr internet access.
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Soldier Who Killed Handcuffed Iraqi Is Freed

by element115
Army Spec. Edward Richmond Jr., 22, of Gonzales, La., was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced in August 2004 to three years in prison for the April 28, 2004, shooting death of Muhamad Husain Kadir in the village of Taal Al Jal, which is about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk.

He was released more than a year before his sentence was up, the Dayton Daily News reported today.
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Russian diplomat deaths confirmed

by element115
Russia has confirmed that four of its diplomats taken hostage in Iraq are dead, a day after a group announced their deaths in an internet video.
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War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000

by element115
"It's not just the immediate deaths that people are dealing with, but fractured lives. They are living in this constant state of fear. It's a very gloomy picture."
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The Empire at Bay

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> Iraq - high tide of the American Imperium?
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Flagwavers - a fable

by element115
PATRIOT ACT XIII had given the Bush dictatorship the power to declare any American who disagreed with its policies an "enemy combatant."
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Policing of the future

by element115
Nice Systems, the Israeli firm trying to sell extreme surveillance software to the British police, has put out a promotional video depicting the way our friendly bobbies will police our communities a year from now.

Nice Systems call this "policing with a more human face"
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Smart Pill to Report from Inside the Body

by element115
Soon Big Brother may be watching from the inside out. Like a Mars Orbiter beaming data back to Earth, a power-packed pill will soon be broadcasting from a stomach near you, transmitting both medical measurements and the device's position as it travels through the body.

The 26-by-13-millimeter device is about the size of a multivitamin capsule.
...the transmitter's broadcast range is 300 feet.
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FBI Exploits Mentally Ill in "Homegrown" Terrorism Effort

by element115
Kurt Nimmo --> It is now an established pattern: the government seeks out mental cases and disturbed individuals and turns them into "al-Qaeda" terrorists, or wannabe al-Qaedaites.

From all accounts, Narseal Batiste is not an over-the-top mental case like Zacarias Moussaoui, but it appears he is vulnerable enough to be exploited by the government, determined to fabricate "homegrown" terrorists.
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War on terror a losing game

by element115
What will it take to persuade this government that our military deployment in Afghanistan is a disaster for Canada?
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How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business

by element115
Andrew Sullivan on the harrowing new book "Oath Betrayed", in which a medical ethicist documents how members of his profession got caught up in the abuse of prisoners.
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Belgian national bank admits knowledge of US spying

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Belgium?s national bank admitted yesterday that it knew that the United States was monitoring financial transactions via the Swift system, which is based in Belgium, as part of its "war on terror".

Swift is a financial cooperative that handles international transactions for nearly 8,000 financial institutions in more than 200 countries.

...the country?s justice ministry said it had launched an inquiry into the covert US spy programme.
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The War on Children

by element115
The most vulnerable people in Gaza are suffering the worst acute mental and physical trauma as a result of Israel's actions: almost half the population is under 15.

The struggle in Palestine is an American war, waged from America's most heavily armed foreign military base, Israel. In the west, we are conditioned not to think of the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" in those terms, just as we are conditioned to think of the Israelis as victims, not illegal and brutal occupiers.
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White House Frequent Fliers

by element115
As Congress debatees a crackdown on members' and their staffs' accepting travel paid for by outside interests, newly filed records show Capitol Hill lawmakers aren't Washington's only frequent fliers.
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'We will be able to live to 1,000'

by element115
BBC --> Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why...
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Parkinson's disease linked to pesticides

by element115
People with long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides have a 70 percent higher incidence of Parkinson's disease than people who have not been exposed much to bug sprays, researchers say.
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Robots understand our emotions

by element115
First we had robots that can "feel". Now we are going to have robots that read our minds.
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Israeli "Retaliation" and Double Standards

by element115
...according to the BBC's analysis, this attack ends the immediate chances for "peace" negotiations and provides the context for the next round of the conflict between the Israeli army and the Palestinians of Gaza. We are left to infer that all the suffering the army inflicts in the coming days and weeks should be attributed to this moment of "escalation" by the Palestinians.
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Palestinian militants issue demands over hostage

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Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Islamic Army said Israel would receive no information about kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit until Israel released from jail all Palestinian women prisoners and Palestinian children under the age of 18.
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The purpose of the Constitution is to put a check on tyranny

June 25, 2006 by element115
Bush's domestic spying: How America is rapidly becoming a police state...
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Israel uses World Cup as cover for murder

by element115
Uri Avnery --> Since the beginning of the 2006 World Cup, more than 20 Palestinians, including boys and girls, a pregnant woman, a doctor and several paramedics have been killed. It seems that nobody in the world is paying any attention. Why should they? After all, the World Cup is more important.
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Warantless Surveillance Program to Become Legal

by element115
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush's warrantless surveillance program into law.
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A Vet Speaks Out

by element115
"I served two years in Iraq and it's in total disarray contrary to what the Bush propaganda machine want you to believe.

In Iraq you'll come to your senses real quick when you smell the air permeated with the foul odor of death. The innocent Iraqi people are more than willing to share their daily suffering of losing a family member or friend. Having their homes reduced to rubble, living in constant fear day and night. And who do they blame? They blame the people of America for allowing George Bush to destroy their country.

The Iraqi people are not terrorists nor was their government hiding weapons of mass destruction. Have I earned my right to speak out against this war ? your damn right I have and I live with the constant nightmare every day. And I personally don?t give a rats ass if you think I?m unpatriotic for standing up for what believe to be a evil political cover up.

The War on Terror is, in fact, the War on Freedom. They just didn?t name it correctly. And people who support this war and this administration share philosophies with the Nazi party members who bolstered Hitler to power."
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Lawmaker Wants Papers Probed Over Stories

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The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program.

"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.

...Sure, shut the papers up...so the administration can do what it wants without monitoring of any kind.
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Warren Buffett gives away his fortune - Jun. 25, 2006

by element115
The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July.
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World energy consumption could be cut by half

by element115
Oil and electricity consumption across the world could easily be cut by half, with major benefits for the environment, if clean energy technologies that are currently available were applied, an international watchdog said.
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Tall stories: The plot to topple Chicago's Sears Tower was not all that it seemed

by element115
The alarming news flashed across America's TV screens on Thursday evening: government agents had thwarted an al-Qa'ida plot, using home-grown American terrorists, to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago in a ghastly repeat of 9/11.

When the dust had settled barely 24 hours later, a rather more modest version of events had emerged.
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Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away

by element115
The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet.
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Rumsfeld due to visit Israel on regional tour

by element115
Haaretz --> Rumsfeld, expected to visit Israel in the coming weeks, is among the leaders of the hawks in the Bush administration and has, in most cases, supported Israel in its confrontation with the Palestinians.
Rumsfeld's visit to Israel is expected to indicate that relations between the two defense establishments are "business as usual."
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Hamas militants attack Israeli military outpost

by element115
For the first time since its leaders took control of the Palestinian government in March, Hamas militants led a sophisticated pre-dawn attack Sunday on an Israeli military outpost along the Gaza border, killing two soldiers and abducting a third.
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IDF preparing Gaza ground attack

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"We intend to respond to this morning's incident in a way in which all involved... understand that the price will be painful," Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced at a news conference in Tel Aviv.
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Nonprofit Groups Funneled Money For Abramoff

by element115
Newly released documents in the Jack Abramoff investigation shed light on how the lobbyist secretly routed his clients' funds through tax-exempt organizations with the acquiescence of those in charge, including prominent conservative activist Grover Norquist.
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Iran to host Holocaust conference later this year

by element115
Iran has said it will still go ahead with its plan to host a conference questioning the Holocaust, with the event now scheduled for later in 2006.

In January, British Prime Minister Tony Blair described plans for the conference as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid", and advised Ahmadinejad to "come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe".

But Iran responded by inviting Blair to take part in the conference and "defend the Holocaust" as an historical fact.
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9/11 conspiracy theorists gather at LA conference

by element115
Some 1,200 people gathered at a Los Angeles hotel on the weekend for what organisers billed as the largest conference on the plethora of conspiracy theories that see the 2001 attacks on Washington and New York as, at best, official negligence, and at worst an orchestrated US attempt to incite world war.
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Major Terror Ring Or 'Al Qaeda Lite'?

June 24, 2006 by element115
The same people who told us that Zacarias Moussaoui was the 20th hijacker and that Jose Padilla was building a radiological bomb now are telling us that they've foiled a legitimate terror plot to take down the Sears Tower in Chicago. Maybe yes. Maybe no.
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Olmert: Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian ones

by element115
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "deep regret" for army operations that have killed 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in just nine days but said the lives of Israeli citizens threatened by Qassam attacks were "even more important".
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'UFO Hacker' Tells What He Found

by element115
...the 40-year-old Briton faces extradition to the United States from his North London home. If convicted, McKinnon could receive a 70-year prison term and up to $2 million in fines.

Wired News: Did you find anything in your search for evidence of UFOs?

McKinnon: Certainly did. There is The Disclosure Project. This is a book with 400 testimonials from everyone from air traffic controllers to those responsible for launching nuclear missiles. Very credible witnesses. They talk about reverse-(engineered) technology taken from captured or destroyed alien craft.

WN: What sort of evidence?

McKinnon: It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created.
I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers.
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IDF arrests Hamas members in Gaza

by element115
The IDF confirmed Saturday afternoon that IDF ground forces had entered the Gaza Strip early Saturday morning in order to arrest two Hamas members who were planning to carry out a terror attack in Israel in "the immediate future."

The arrest marked one of the first incursions into the area since Israel's withdrawal last summer, and came a day after MK Yuval Steinitz called for a ground incursion into Gaza to fight terror.
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Voice of the White House

by element115
The public is growing more and more unhappy so we now have Bush and his people frantically trying to drum up support for the continuation of the war.

Bush doesn?t want to lose face and the Neocons are still frantically trying to support their very own precious Israel.
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Indictment of suspected terrorists contains little evidence of plot

by element115
Even as Justice Department officials trumpeted the arrests of seven Florida men accused of planning to wage a "full ground war against the United States," they acknowledged the group did not have the means to carry out the plan.

"We're as puzzled as everyone else," said Howard Simon, the director of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "There's no weapons, no explosives, but this major announcement."
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White House becoming more secretive after leaks

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The Bush administration is becoming more secretive in response to press disclosures about the tracking of global financial transfers and other counter-terrorism measures, said Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.
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Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile

by element115
On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line.

Guards responded within minutes. And when they arrived, the protesters "ate a lot of gravel."

The FBI is involved in the case and federal charges are pending."
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Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data

by element115
Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday vigorously defended a secret program that examines banking records of Americans and others in a vast international database, and harshly criticized the news media for disclosing an operation he said was legal and "absolutely essential" to fighting terrorism.
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U.S. Senate adopts bill to isolate Hamas government

by element115
The United States considers Hamas, formally called the Islamic Resistance Movement, to be a terror organization. It has rejected talks with Hamas until it renounces violence, accepts interim peace deals and recognizes Israel's right to exit.
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Miami Terror Suspects Had No Explosives and Few Contacts

by element115
...officials conceded that the group never had contact with al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups and had not acquired any explosives.
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Is it a bird? Is it a spaceship? No, it's a secret US spy plane

by element115
The United States has never confirmed the existence of the mysterious aircraft, called Aurora, which was supposedly designed to sneak at very high speed over the Soviet Union and take covert snaps of what the enemy was up to. It was rumoured to be capable of flying at up to mach 8 and so could reach anywhere on the planet in less than three hours. In the early 1990s there were a string of supposed sightings and strange sounds over Scotland which some bewildered locals attributed to UFOs. Rumours in the press that Aurora was operating secretly out of RAF Machrihanish on the tip of Kintyre prompted Scottish MPs to ask questions in parliament.
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The dark side -> online

June 23, 2006 by element115
PBS --> Watch online the full program -->
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Template for News Stories on Government Data Gathering

by element115
Daniel J. Solove --> NSA warrantless wiretaps. NSA collection of phone records. CIA gathering of financial records.

The stories are endless. To help out reporters, I thought I'd just write a quick and easy template to make reporting a little bit easier. So here it is -->
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Meteorite Collision

by element115
Japanese animation, 7min. long, showing what would happen if a giant meteor hit the Earth.

...amazing...for many reasons.
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Encyclopedia of all human gene mutations planned

by element115
A plan for a global database of all human gene mutations has been announced in Australia.

About 100,000 human gene mutations have been discovered, but this total represents only about 5% of the predicted total number of mutations.
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Earth hottest it's been in 2,000 years

by element115
The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years.

"...human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."
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The Size Of Our World

by element115
...we are so small, and yet...
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Google and Its Continuing Dark Fiber Mystery

by element115
The market is still guessing about Google's continued purchases of "dark fiber" and what that will mean to the Internet.
Yet another explanation was floated at a recent IT conference: IPv6, the next-generation Internet standard.

With IPv6, the Internet will be able to handle trillions of individual addresses.
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Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says

by element115
Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two decades ago, and a sharply growing number of people say they have no one in whom they can confide, according to a comprehensive new evaluation of the decline of social ties in the United States.

A quarter of Americans say they have no one with whom they can discuss personal troubles, more than double the number who were similarly isolated in 1985. Overall, the number of people Americans have in their closest circle of confidants has dropped from around three to about two.
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Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?

by element115
Washington Post --> Two political scientists found that young people who watch Stewart's faux news program, "The Daily Show," develop cynical views about politics and politicians that could lead them to just say no to voting.

Participants also expressed less trust in the electoral system and more cynical views of the news media, according to the researchers' article, in the latest issue of American Politics Research.

...great...the death of "Real Mass-Media" is near.

...negative perceptions of candidates?...Impossible.

...Good job, Mr. Stewart.
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The Hitler vs. Coulter Quiz

by element115
Can you correctly attribute the following quotes?
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Media Refuses to Hold Surveillance Story

by element115
The Bush administration and The New York Times are again at odds over national security, this time with new reports of a broad government effort to track global financial transfers.

Treasury Department officials spent 90 minutes Thursday meeting with the newspaper's reporters, stressing the legality of the program and urging the paper to not publish a story on the program, McManus said in a telephone interview.

...declined a White House request not to publish a story about the government's inspection of monies flowing in and out of the country.

"We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data is a matter of public interest."
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US not prepared for Internet outage

by element115
The US is unprepared to deal with a major cyber emergency. That's the conclusion of a new report from the Business Roundtable, a group of 160 CEOs from the nation's largest companies.
Their concern about the issue is largely economic, since the Internet is now a key element of so much business activity. The group spent the last year looking at Internet safety and disaster recovery and concluded that a major strike (involving hackers, malicious software, natural disaster, or physical attack) on the basic fabric of the Internet could bring the US economy to a halt.
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Israeli forces expelling Palestinian cancer patient

by element115
Israeli security forces and police intend to evict a Palestinian cancer patient. Mustafa Al Hilo is Palestinian. Because of that fact, he is required to pay for Israeli forces to guard him during his cancer treatment at Ikhlov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
Al Hilo cannot afford to pay Israeli guards for their "services" 1,700 shekels per day, which is approximately 380 USD.
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Democracy in chains

by element115
Greg Palast --> US Republicans are planning to change the law to stop black, Hispanic and Native American voters going to the polls in 2008.
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Americans Don't, and Shouldn't, Care About the War on Terror

by element115
Do Americans worry about terrorism? Seventy-nine percent of Americans told the most recent CNN survey of national concerns that they did. They considered the fight against terrorists "very important" - more so than
Iraq, the economy, immigration or gas prices.
But it isn't true.
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More Than One-Third of Iraq Troops Suffering Migraines

by element115
The debilitating headaches are affecting more than one-third of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, or about twice that in the general U.S. population, according to a study being presented at the annual American Headache Society (AHS) meeting now underway in Los Angeles.
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An American icon

by element115
Gore Vidal on why he hates George Bush...
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Smithsonian removes electric-car exhibit

by element115
Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.
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Bush Administration Strangling EEOC - Workers' Best Recourse Against Discrimination

by element115
Workers across the nation are in danger of losing the federal agency charged with protecting employees and job applicants from workplace discrimination, union and civil rights activists say.
Unless the Bush administration is stopped, it will strip the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to the bones and make it totally ineffective.
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Mondale: Force an option for stopping North Korea

by element115
Former Vice President Walter Mondale says he supports a pre-emptive U.S. strike against a North Korean missile that is raising nuclear fears around the globe.
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The Alchemists

by element115
Chris Floyd --> Turning Blood Into Gold
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Gaza homemade rockets fired into Israel

by element115
The Israeli army said there were no injuries or damage. But the attack prompted one Israeli lawmaker to call for the army to launch a military offensive into the densely populated Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apologized twice Thursday for civilian deaths in recent airstrikes in Gaza. But he added, "Israel will continue to carry out targeted attacks against terrorists and those who try to harm Israeli citizens."
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Iraqis calls state of emergency in Baghdad

by element115
Iraq's government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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Why Gaza attacks are deadlier

by element115
After three botched military strikes in Gaza in just over a week, in which 13 Palestinian civilians were killed, the Israeli army is facing an internal investigation into why guided missile strikes that in the past have been called "targeted," "efficient," and even "surgical" have gone so badly, fueling the fires of resentment and sparking international calls for restraint.
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No Iran nuclear suspension even after talks

by element115
Iran is not considering a halt to its nuclear fuel programme even after any negotiations with major powers, a senior Iranian official said on Friday.
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Large-Scale, Cheap Solar Electricity

by element115
A well-financed California startup is promising to build a solar-cell factory that could finally make solar power affordable.
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Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror

June 22, 2006 by element115
NYT --> Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials.

Viewed by the Bush administration as a vital tool, the program has played a hidden role in domestic and foreign terrorism investigations since 2001.

The program, run out of the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the Treasury Department, "has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal and proper use of our authorities," Stuart Levey, an under secretary at the Treasury Department, said in an interview on Thursday.
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7 arrested in alleged plot to attack buildings

by element115
At least seven people were arrested in Miami Thursday in an investigation of an alleged plot to attack Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower, the nation's tallest skyscraper, and other U.S. buildings, according to media reports.
The people in custody, who weren't identified, were said to be mostly Americans with no apparent links to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations, according to the reports, which cited federal officials in Miami and Washington, D.C.
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Device Burns Fuel with Almost Zero Emissions

by element115
Simple design makes ultra-low emission combustion more efficient, affordable and stable...
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The Future of Fusion

by element115
After years as a purely experimental science, a decade-long international effort will make nuclear fusion a reality.
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"White House Ordered Pirate Bay Closure"

by element115
Swedish Television says it has documents that show the U.S. threatened to go to the World Trade Organization to impose economic sanctions against Sweden if the site was not stopped.
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"America: from Freedom to Fascism" in US' theatres

by element115
Here is the announcement we have all been waiting for...
the release of AARON RUSSO'S AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM is set for JULY 28th

...Finally!
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The disorder of these times, neophilia

by element115
Neophiliacs are people who love everything new or novel. While most people have some element of this trait in their personality, there are some folks who have an almost unstoppable draw to every whizzy new electronic gizmo. Or maybe they just have to have the latest combination of strappy sandals and hip-hugging jeans.

These neophiliacs are, in effect, every marketer's dream.

And now a team of researchers have provided these consumers with just about the greatest excuse ever for justifying their expensive compulsion to buy the newest and coolest. They can't help themselves.

It turns out some people may, in fact, be more genetically predisposed than others to wanting the newest toys, gadgets and fashions.
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The Homeless Guy

by element115
Thank you for caring enough to learn about homelessness.
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AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours

by element115
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday.

The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."

The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.

Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service -- a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers' recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others.
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Scientific Analysis Proves Towers Brought Down By Incendiaries

by element115
The material that was first brought into question on the back of photos and video clips of the twin towers showing a dripping molten substance and floating white ash can now be confirmed as being thermate, combining thermite which is used as an incendiary device to bring down structures and sulfur, which cuts through steel quicker and leaves a yellow residue.

Scientific analysis on WTC steel debris undertaken by BYU Professor Steven Jones proves that the twin towers were demolished by means of incendiary devices and the release of the conclusive evidence is imminent.
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Netanyahu: IDF has operational capability to wipe out all of Gaza

by element115
Opposition leader and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told the 35th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Thursday that the Israel Defense Forces has the operational capability to wipe out the Gaza Strip, but chose not to do so.

...what a nice person.
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Controlled Media Unable to Contain Truth about American Union Superstate Agenda

by element115
The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union networked by a NAFTA Super Highway has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets.
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Mummified Brachylophosaurus holds secrets millions of years old

by element115
...mummified duck-billed brachylophosauruses so well preserved that much of its skin and soft tissue parts remained along with its skeleton.

"This specimen could be as important to the field of paleontology as the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon," said Nate Murphy, curator of paleontology at the Judith River Dinosaur Institute.

His stomach was filled with the fossilized pollen from 33 types of plants, enabling the paleontologists to recreate the world 77 million years ago.
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Their Barbarism, and Ours

by element115
Based on the available evidence from Abu Ghraib to Afghanistan to Guantanamo, anyone who claims that U.S. foreign policy does not include torture is disingenuous or deluded.

Reporters for the New York Times and other big U.S. media outlets would not dream of publicly describing what American firepower does to Iraqi civilians as "barbaric."
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The Surveillance State Unveiled

by element115
"Do you really think the federal government monitoring 200 million calls from children to their parents is really going to help stop terrorism?"
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San Francisco unveils universal coverage

by element115
The mayor of San Francisco unveiled a plan Tuesday that would make it the first U.S. city with universal healthcare coverage.
Members would pay a small monthly premium granting them access to primary and preventative treatment from public and private providers - but only within the city limits.
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Climbdown as Hamas agrees to Israeli state

by element115
Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders.
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America's Bad Rep in Europe

by element115
Bush's Austria trip has underscored just how much Europeans dislike the U.S. president.
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We don't need no occupation

by element115


Pink Floyd front-man Roger Waters, who inspired the rock band's iconic album "The Wall," has scrawled "tear down the wall" on the concrete panels of Israel's security fence on Wednesday.
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Saddam on hunger strike to protest lawyer's death

by element115
Saddam Hussein has gone on a hunger strike to protest the killing of one of his main lawyers, the U.S. military said on Thursday, and defense counsel said they were considering boycotting the trial.
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U.S. begins rare war games off Guam

by element115
As tensions with North Korea rise, three U.S. aircraft carriers filled the skies with fighters Tuesday for one of the largest U.S. military exercises in decades off this small island in the Pacific.
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Iran seriously considering offer: Annan

by element115
"They are considering the package very, very seriously," Annan told a news conference in Geneva after a nearly hour-long meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
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New video from al-Zawahri

by element115
"I am calling upon the Muslims in Kabul in particular and in all Afghanistan in general, and for the sake of God, to stand up in an honest stand in the face of the infidel forces that are invading Muslim lands," he said in the tape.
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Olmert in Jordan to meet with Abbas

by element115
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Petra, Jordan on Thursday to meet with Palestinian leader Mohammad Abbas at a breakfast hosted by Jordan's King Abdullah II.

Attending the meeting are around 25 Nobel laureates and 30 international figures.
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A Big Budget Anti-Suicide Bombing PSA

June 21, 2006 by element115
A Hollywood-budget public service announcement aims at discouraging suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere.
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"President O'Reilly" would run Iraq "just like Saddam ran it"

by element115
On the June 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly declared that if he were the president of Iraq, he would run the country "just like Saddam [Hussein] ran it," by establishing curfews and shooting violators "right between the eyes."

"The curfews work. You shoot on sight. That's it. And if the Italian press doesn't like it, tough. The New York Times doesn't like it? Too bad. War is a performance business."
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House Judiciary Committee passes resolution demanding NSA telecom requests

by element115
The House Judiciary Committee unexpectedly passed a Democratic resolution Wednesday morning calling on the Justice Department to turn over all requests made by the National Security Agency and other federal agencies to telephone service providers to obtain information without a warrant.
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Bid to increase minimum wage nixed

by element115
The Republican-controlled Senate refused Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, rejecting an election-year proposal from Democrats for the first increase in nearly a decade.
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The Wages of Sin

by element115
Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday accepted a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.
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Government tries to reintroduce censorship about the security situation in Afghanistan

by element115
Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today at recent government initiatives aimed at imposing censorship and self-censorship about the security situation and the presence of foreign troops. News media editors and executives were summoned by intelligence officials and given instructions. Then a list of banned subjects was sent out to editors.
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AT&T may be hiding a second NSA domestic spying operation in St. Louis

by element115
In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center.

In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T's facility in Bridgeton. The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former workers say company supervisors told them that employees working inside the room were "monitoring network traffic" and that the room was being used by "a government agency."
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Gov. Bush vetoes public records bill

by element115
Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday vetoed a public records bill that was crafted in response to questions surrounding his office's handling of public records.
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9/11 Vendetta

by element115
A 9/11 Truth video, drawing parallels to the movie "V for Vendetta".
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U.N. again urges Israel to cease targeted killings

by element115
Thirteen Palestinian civilians, most of them children, have been killed by recent Israeli missiles aimed at rocket crews in Gaza.

A senior U.N. official renewed a plea to Israel on Wednesday to cease targeted assassinations.
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No cash? No card? Just stick in finger

by element115
A Tampa Coast to Coast convenience store has installed a device that scans your fingerprint to process payment through a debit account.
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Southern San Andreas fault waiting to explode: report

by element115
The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has been still for more than two centuries, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake at any moment, a scientist said on Wednesday.
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Palestinian woman killed, 14 wounded in Gaza air strike

by element115
A Palestinian woman was killed and 14 other people, including children, were wounded on Wednesday in a fresh Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, local medical sources and witnesses said.
Medics said children aged one, two and four were also among the wounded.
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Bush Says Iran Too Slow Responding on its Nuke Program

by element115
VIENNA, Austria: President Bush responded angrily today to differences with Europe over the war in Iraq and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After Iran said it would take nearly three months to respond to a proposal presented at the beginning of June, Bush said, "It shouldn't take the Iranians that long to analyze what is a reasonable deal."
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Saddam's No 2 lawyer killed

by element115
One of Saddam Hussein's chief defense lawyers has been murdered in Baghdad, the third defense attorney killed since the start of the trial eight months ago.
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BluegrassReport.org Being BLOCKED By State Government

by element115
BluegrassReport.org, an Unfiltered and Candid Look at Politics, Politicians and the Media in Kentucky, and Wonkette has been blocked on state computers.

...what's interesting is there's no problem allowing state workers to access the Republican Party of Kentucky or Fox News or Drudge Report or at least one conservative Kentucky blog.
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UltraViolet Secrets

June 20, 2006 by element115
There are secret messages on your credit cards and driver's licence that are visible only with ultraviolet light.
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Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculator

by element115
Federation of American Scientists --> This interactive tool is intended to give an idea of the devastating blast effects of ground-level, shallow subsurface, and low-altitude nuclear weapon detonations.
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Police got phone data from brokers

by element115
Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans' personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers.
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Hamas ponders sacrificing ideology for political gain

by element115
This week could turn out to be a vital one for the Palestinian Authority as the ruling Hamas movement ponders whether to sacrifice some of its ideology in exchange for safeguarding political gains it made in last January?s elections.
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Two Minutes to Midnight: The Nuclear Peril

by element115
Primarily because of the ignorant power-hungry actions of the Bush administration, the doomsday clock is closer to two minutes to midnight in the last six years since the beginning of his presidency.
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The National Entertainment State, 2006

by element115
Where do Americans get their news and who controls what they consume?
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Kicked out of Gitmo

by element115
Los Angeles Times --> A Times reporter's struggle to get the truth about America's island prison just got tougher.
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Protecting reporters from what?

by element115
Staffers trying to visit Peacefire.org get a message saying:"Proxy Avoidance" is Blocked by Los Angeles Times Internet Usage Policy.

...the Times uses Websense to block newsroom access to offending websites.
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The New World Order, by conquest or consent?

by element115
"The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government."
Chester Ward, Rear Admiral and former Navy Judge Advocate 1956-1960 and a CFR member for 15 years.
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Two children killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza

by element115
An Israeli air strike targeting a car carrying Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed two child bystanders and wounded eight children and two adults, witnesses and medics said.

...the dead were a 5-year-old boy and a girl under the age of 7.
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Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder

by element115
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
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"Bush Go Home" in Vienna

by element115
...will take to the streets of Vienna Wednesday to protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush.

"The name George Bush, the name of the American president, has become a symbol for war crimes, for Abu Ghraib, for Guantanamo, for Jenin, said organizer Michael Proebsting, a member of the Austrian faction of the League for the Fifth International.
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13 Iraqis killed by alleged US gunfire at farm

by element115
The workers had been sleeping in the fields of Bushaheen village in an area known as Al-Salam - which means peace - some 90km north-east of Baghdad, said an Iraqi police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He said that in addition to the 13 killed, four others were wounded and 10 people arrested.
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Secret Service quiet about man arrested near Cheney

by element115
The U.S. Secret Service is offering no details about the arrest of Steven Howards, who they allege acted strangely around Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday during an economic summit in Beaver Creek.
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RFK Jr. plans suit over 2004 election

by element115
Robert Kennedy Junior told PR Week that he is considering litigation against people responsible for what he says was a stolen 2004 election.
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Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples

by element115
Based on chemical analysis of WTC structural steel residue, a Brigham Young University physics professor has identified the material as Thermate. Thermate is the controlled demolition explosive thermite plus sulfur.
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Bush to keep up pressure on Iran in Europe

by element115
Buoyed by a wave of good news after months of grim headlines that damaged him politically, Bush goes to Vienna for an annual U.S.-European Union summit and then to Budapest to mark the 50th anniversary of Hungary's uprising against Soviet rule.
In Vienna, he plans to stress that the United States and Europe must stand firm in pressing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program in order to qualify for an incentives package aimed at containing Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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The dark side

by element115
PBS, FRONTLINE PRESENTS -->

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq. But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.
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IDF rejects as 'lie' new report linking shelling, Gaza beach deaths

by element115
The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office has rejected as a "falsehood" a Channel 10 television report that a piece of shrapnel removed from a Palestinian injured in last week's deadly explosion on a Gaza beach almost certainly came from Israeli artillery.
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Canada: A Galloping Police State?

by element115
After five years of what can only be described as intense "terrorism envy" by our security establishment - with their repeated predictions of terrorist acts in Canada - the country has moved up a notch, to terrorism frenzy.
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What does a thinking, ethical person do with the nightmare facts of 911?

by element115
If the global elite has the plan of creating a robot culture, (which I believe they do) they have succeeded to a very high degree. But they have not won. The scientific facts surrounding 911 in the form of videos, photos, testimonials, published peer reviewed physics papers, insider whistleblowing and proven mass media manipulation of the facts all collectively speak to a Fascist political reality that is spun as Democracy. The bigger the lie, the more people believe it. If somebody reading this is thinking that these words are too strong, I hope you do some quick and deep investigation to the readily available information. This use of the term Fascist is not quaint or metaphorical; it is a hard, sinister, crisis of all crises. It's happening, right in front of our eyes. The fact that Grandfather Bush has such strong ties to supporting the Nazi's and that the story is broke by a mainstream journalist, raises questions of the highest order. Welcome to the new Fourth Reich of Amerika.
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Capitalism Requires a Great Depression.

by element115
Getting Ready for World War III.
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Historians say Bush is sinking fast

by element115
...there is compelling evidence that President Bush may well deserve to be ranked as the "all time worst" by those who are qualified to pass judgment on those who serve as our chief executive.
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The ugly truth about everyday life in Baghdad

by element115
CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
FROM: US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Baghdad
TO: Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
SUBJECT: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE OFFICE SENSITIVE
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Tanker Inquiry Finds Rumsfeld's Attention Was Elsewhere

by element115
Rumsfeld cited poor memory, loose office procedures, and a general distraction with "the wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan to explain why he was unsure how his department came to nearly squander $30 billion leasing several hundred new tanker aircraft that its own experts had decided were not needed.
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Guantanamo desperation 'revealed'

by element115
"These documents are the latest evidence of the desperate and immoral conditions that exist at Guantanamo Bay," American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony Romero said.
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Japan to withdraw troops from Iraq

by element115
Japan announced Tuesday that it would start pulling its ground troops out of Iraq, putting an end to the country's most significant military mission since the end of World War II.
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The Death of News

by element115
The Nation --> Whether it's such tawdry fare as Jeffrey Gannon's many overnights at Bush's house, or graver matters like the Patriot Act, or the persistent questions about 9/11, or the President's imperial "signing statements" or--most staggering of all--the ever-growing evidence of coast-to-coast election fraud by Bush & Co., the press has failed in its constitutional obligation to keep us well informed about the doings of our government.
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New al-Qaida leader killed two U.S. soldiers, according to claim

by element115
The statement, which could not be authenticated, said the two soldiers were "slaughtered," suggesting they had been beheaded by Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. The Arabic word used in the statement, "nahr," is used for the slaughtering of sheep by cutting the throat and has been used in past statements to refer to beheadings.

The claim of responsibility was posted on an Islamic militant Web site where insurgent groups regularly post statements.
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North Korea Insists It Can Test Missiles

by element115
North Korea asserted it has full autonomy to conduct missile tests, and outsiders do not have the right to criticize its plans, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday.
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Microchip pushed to record operating speeds

by element115
A silicon-based microprocessor has been accelerated to a record speed of 500 billion operations per second (500 gigahertz) in an experiment that raises hopes for super-fast, yet cost-effective, electronic devices.

The new speed record of 500GHz is hundreds of times faster than the operating speed of most commercial desktop processors.
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US makes missile defense system operational

by element115
The United States has moved its ground-based interceptor missile defense system from test mode to operational amid concerns over an expected North Korean missile launch, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
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U.S.-led forces kill 15 in Iraq raids

by element115
U.S.-led forces killed 15 terror suspects and detained three others during raids Tuesday in a village northeast of Baghdad, the military said. Residents said 13 civilians also were killed.
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Israeli Weapons

June 19, 2006 by element115
...the latest information about Israeli Weapons -->
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Microsoft helped Israeli Police in Vanunu probe

by element115
Amnesty International's British branch chief, Keith Allen, said Microsoft helped Israeli Police interrogate Mordechai Vanunu, who leaked nuclear secrets to the foreign press.
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Darkness and Light

by element115
Centuries of darkness and misery are now called the history of civilization.
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Former Dutch Ambassador Calls for Sanctions if Israel Refuses to Comply with International Law

by element115
Israel is the world's sole remaining occupying colonial power. It systematically sabotages all international efforts to end the occupation. In its capacity of occupying power Israel violates numerous obligations emanating from Security Council Resolutions and the Geneva Conventions. It also breaches the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The USA applies a doctrine and the US-administration labels selected countries as 'Rogue states'. These countries possess weapons of mass destruction illegally, suppress large populations, torture, keep people in detention on a large scale and commit murder outside their national borders. Israel has adopted as a strategy the execution of land and water grabs, the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure (including in education and health), the carrying out of extraterritorial executions, torture, and collective punishments and keeping thousands of Palestinians imprisoned indefinitely without charge or prosecution. On the basis of the definition by the USA, Israel has ever since its establishment been a monumental Rogue state and a highly active member of the Axis of Evil.
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A negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis is within reach

by element115
Noam Chomsky --> The US must take three basic steps to defuse this confrontation. The consequences of not doing so could be grim.
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The Assassins

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda...
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The Win-Win Wars of Bushist Fantasy

by element115
Chris Floyd --> They really are one-trick ponies, these guys. Anytime one of their wars goes wrong - the enemy grows stronger, more civilians die - they claim it's the "last throes," desperation, one last wild toss of the dice, etc. The worse things get, the better they're about to get; this has been the constant refrain throughout the Iraq fiasco, and, as Afghanistan - the forgotten but uncompleted war - heats up further, we'll hear it again and again from there as well. - And of course, if any of their wars ease up - there's a lull in the chaos and bloodshed, a big honcho (real or hyped) is captured or killed, some cosmetic political "milestone" is reached - then that too means that everything is getting better. No matter what happens - more fighting, less fighting; more chaos, less chaos - every day and every way things are getting better and better.
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Big Bad "al-Qaeda" and Zyklon B

by element115
Ah, yes, "al-Qaeda" operatives, acting like Nazi butchers, making sure to use Zyklon B on innocent commuters. It makes your hair stand on end.
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Fatal Inaction

by element115
The world's most powerful military failed to provide the armor that would have saved scores of American lives. One father wouldlike to know why.
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Anything Into Oil

by element115
Turkey guts, junked car parts, and even raw sewage go in one end of this plant, and black gold comes out the other end.
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US rejected Iranian overtures in 2003

by element115
Officials in US President George W. Bush's administration turned down a 2003 Iranian offer to begin talks with the US, recognize Israel, and end support of Palestinian terror organizations, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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Horror show reveals Iraq's descent

by element115
Each corpse tells a different story about the terrors of Iraq. Some bodies are pocked with holes inflicted by torturers with power drills. Some show signs of strangulation; others, with hands tied behind the back, bear bullet wounds. Many are charred and dismembered.
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How US hid the suicide secrets of Guantanamo

by element115
After three inmates killed themselves, the Pentagon declared the suicides an act of 'asymmetric warfare', banned the media and went on a PR offensive. But as despair grows within the camp, so too does outrage mount at its brutal and secretive regime...
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Vitamin C: Cancer cure?

by element115
Is mainstream medical science ignoring an inexpensive, painless, readily available cure for cancer?

The government nutrition researcher has published new evidence that suggests vitamin C can work like chemotherapy - only better.
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The Washington Post Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

by element115
The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says shows that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees."

This cable outlines, the Post reported Sunday, "the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government."

It's actually far worse than that, as the details published below indicate, which include references to abductions, threats to women's rights, and "ethnic cleansing."
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US warns North Korea against 'provocative' missile launch

by element115
"The United States government as a whole has been consulting with allies in the region and has made clear than a North Korean missile launch would be a provocative act."
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

June 18, 2006 by element115
Keeping It Quiet...
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Iraqi detainees held in box-like cells for days

by element115
Iraqi detainees were held with their eyes taped shut in tiny box-like cells for up to seven days at a time while loud music blared at a special operations holding facility, a US military investigation found.

...also found that detainees were fed only bread and water for up to 17 days.
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Bolivia to spend 6.8B to fight poverty

by element115
Bolivian President Evo Morales? leftist government says it will fight poverty, hunger and homelessness in South America?s poorest nation by investing $6.8 billion through 2010.
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War jets level to the ground another important archeological vestige in Iraq!

by element115
Special reports from the city of Ana - west of Iraq, ascertained today that the barbarian US army has bombed and hit a very important archeological vestige belonging to the first Abbassid era west of Baghdad near the city of Al Qaeem.

The sources added the rogue US war jets bombed with four high tech liberation and civilization missiles and leveled to the ground an old Abbassid palace dating from the 8th century.
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Zarqawi Dog and Pony Show Rolls On

by element115
Kurt Nimmo -->Once again, the intel op known as ?al-Qaeda? has posted an internet communiqué, this time threatening to ?avenge? the killing of the al-Zarqawi stand-in patsy. It?s simply amazing the corporate media reports this nonsense without critical comment, or laughing out loud, as they reported without comment the professed fact two 500lb bombs dropped on al-Zarqawi?s ?hideout? vaporized walls, produced a large crater, flattened a palm grove, and yet his body was essentially unscathed.

Obviously, Allah works in mysterious ways.
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US military airforce strikes at residential quarters in Ramadi

by element115
Hundreds of US occupation forces, aided by Iraqi armed forces, are on rampage in Ramadi. The troops are controlling all access points to the city which has been cordoned off since 10 June, deprived of water and electricity. US military airforce is repeatedly striking at residential areas, while ground forces roam through the streets calling on the residents to evacuate the city.
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Drugs firm blocks cheap blindness cure

June 17, 2006 by element115
A major drug company is blocking access to a medicine that is cheaply and effectively saving thousands of people from going blind because it wants to launch a more expensive product on the market.
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The Corruptibles

by element115
Hollywood wants Congress to give it new super powers over your TV, radio, and computer. Find out more in this animation, and write to stop the Broadcast Flag, Audio Flag, and Analog Hole laws.
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Extortr: online blackmail for the masses

by element115
"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"

This isn't actually a genuine web site. It's just a joke.
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Fear is the best tool to control you

by element115
TIME --> How an Al-Qaeda Cell Planned a Poison-gas Attack on the N.Y. Subway...

...the U.S. learned of the plot from a CIA mole inside al-Qaeda.
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America's problem is again a usurping king called George

by element115
Guardian --> Bush's determination to impose his own reading of new laws amounts to a power grab and subverts the US constitution...
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Iran's nuclear-energy rights

by element115
Iran entered into a Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 1974.

Under that agreement (contrary to what the neo-crazy sycophantic media has told you) Iran is not required to inform the IAEA about the existence of facilities ? such as the uncompleted nuclear power plant at Bushehr, for example? until 180 days before "special fissionable or other materials" are actually introduced into the facility.

Iran notified the IAEA about Bushehr, the Uranium Conversion Facility at Estefan and the Uranium Enrichment Facility at Natanz ? and subjected them to IAEA Safeguards ? years before being required to do so.
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Heavy sea and air battle in Sri Lanka leaves 52 dead

by element115
Sri Lankan troops pounded Tamil tiger positions using helicopter gunships and artillery in fierce land and sea battles in the northwest that killed at least 52 people on Saturday, leading the rebels to give a strong warning of "possible retaliation."
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The Power of the Israel Lobby

by element115
Its Origins and Growth...
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Telling Lies about Ahmadinejad

by element115
Kurt Nimmo --> Buried in the Week in Review section of the New York Times is an admission that Iran?s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be ?wiped off the map,? a reference to a mistranslated phrase bandied about the corporate media over the last several weeks as an example of Iran?s intention to attack Israel, especially after it develops nukes, either next week or a decade out, depending on the level of fanaticism of the neocon making the claim.
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Austria's Haider says Bush is a war criminal

by element115
ustrian right-wing populist Joerg Haider called President Bush a war criminal on Saturday, days before Austria's government hosts Bush and European leaders in Vienna.

"He is a war criminal. He brought about the war against Iraq deliberately, with lies and falsehoods," Haider said in an interview with Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse.

"The Iraqi population is suffering terribly. Bush took the risk of an enormous number of victims," said Haider.
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Jews for Palestine

by element115
Avnery, a German Jew, and the son of committed Zionists, immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and joined the Irgun before becoming a commando with the Israeli Defence Forces. But somewhere along the road, he changed ideological course and began to work for peace and the rights of Palestinians.

...former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to shout from the Knesset rostrum: "I am ready to mount the barricades in order to expel Avnery from the Knesset".

Another Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion considered Avnery "Public Enemy Number One", while many politicians have labeled him "a traitor" or a "self-hating Jew".
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