Ancient Computer Was Unexpectedly Complex

November 30, 2006 by element115
a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C.

The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes called the world's first computer, has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography. A team of British, Greek and American researchers was able to decipher many inscriptions and reconstruct the gear functions, revealing, they said, "an unexpected degree of technical sophistication for the period."
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Wars wearing down military gear at cost of about $2 billion a month

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That's equal to about a quarter of the $8 billion per month in military war costs.
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Homeland Security assigns terror scores to travelers

by element115
Without their knowledge, millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assigned scores generated by U.S. government computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals.

The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years.

The government calls the system critical to national security following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some privacy advocates call it one of the most intrusive and risky schemes yet mounted in the name of anti-terrorism efforts.
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Britain had secret plan to cut flow of Nile River

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Britain drew up secret plans to cut off the flow of the River Nile in 1956 to try to force Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser to give up the Suez Canal, according to official files published for the first time Friday.
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Polonium-210? ...it's yours for $69, no questions asked

by element115
A company in the US claims to supply polonium-210 to anyone for just $69 plus postage and packing.
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Correlation between mental illness and GW Bush voters

November 29, 2006 by element115
...a social work master?s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.
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The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force

by element115
Our homes are supposed to be our castles. The police shouldn?t treat them like enemy camps.
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Judge Strikes Down Bush on Terror Groups

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"Even in fighting terrorism the president cannot be given a blank check to blacklist anyone he considers a bad guy or a bad group and you can't imply guilt by association."
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Radioactive traces on British Airways planes

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The BBC's Richard Galpin said the traces could be there from anyone who had been in contact with Mr Litvinenko, or could have come from someone bringing the substance to the UK.

Initial results of the forensic tests had shown very low traces of a radioactive substance onboard two of the three aircraft, said BA.
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The Five Fatal Mistakes of Bush's Mideast Policy

by element115
TIME --> ...his administration's policies have helped push the region toward catastrophe
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Scientists Levitate Small Animals

by element115
...an ultrasound emitter and reflector that generated a sound pressure field between them. The emitter produced roughly 20-millimeter-wavelength sounds, meaning it could in theory levitate objects half that wavelength or less.
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Iran leader appeals to US people

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made an unprecedented and direct appeal to the US people, urging them to reject US foreign policy.
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Jimmy Carter: "Iraq Invasion...One Of The Greatest Blunders That American Presidents Have Ever Made"

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Ten Fallacies About the Violence in Iraq

November 28, 2006 by element115
The distortions about the violence in Iraq persist even as the mayhem increases. Here are ten of the worst myths being spread in the media.
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Israeli forces kill woman as she attempts to save man bleeding at her doorstep

by element115
Fatima died trying to pull the young man, Mahmoud, to safety. Medical sources in Dr. Khalid Suleiman Memorial Hospital in Jenin said that she died from blood loss, not from the gunshots. Israeli forces kept the area under siege for hours. No one could leave their homes and ambulances could not reach the victims.
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Blowing Up Scientific Equipment in the Name of Security

by element115
Yes airline security is important, but all this paranoia, and rote following of draconian procedures means no flexibility, no common sense, and second chances. Looks like another win for the real terriorists.
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Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit

by element115
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.
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US Soldiers kill 5 Little Girls (6 months to 10 years) with Tank Fire

by element115
A US military statement said militants on the roof of a house had fired on its forces, who responded with tank fire.

It said soldiers searching the building found the bodies of one man and the five girls, one of whom was an infant.
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UN Security Council gives US-led force in Iraq until end-2007

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The UN Security Council unanimously approved an Iraqi request for extending the mandate of the US-led multinational force in war-torn Iraq until the end of 2007 amid a flurry of diplomacy to end the bloodshed.
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The Demolition Wave that caused the collapse of the WTC South Tower

by element115
This footage was shown by the BBC in a programme "9/11:The Twin Towers", broadcast in the UK on 7 September 2006. The sound of the ... all » demolition charges used to bring down the WTC South Tower can clearly be heard. The sound has not been enhanced in any way and accords precisely with the eye witness testimony on 9/11, including that of the FDNY fire-fighters. The building had 114 floors, but took only 10 seconds to collapse. Fourteen of the explosions can be heard in a period of 5 seconds, so the blasts cannot have been generated by collapsing floors (the so-called 'pancake' effect), or the collapse of the entire building would have required more than 40 seconds!

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EU nations 'knew about CIA jails'

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Many EU nations were aware that the CIA used their territory for the transfer or detention of terror suspects, a draft European parliament report says.

The report follows months of investigation by a special committee of MEPs led by an Italian, Claudio Fava.
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'Civil' Disobedience Spreads -- 'NYT' Adjusts Terms on Iraq

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"After consulting with our reporters in the field and the editors who directly oversee this coverage, we have agreed that Times correspondents may describe the conflict in Iraq as a civil war when they and their editors believe it is appropriate," Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, revealed in a statement. "It's hard to argue that this war does not fit the generally accepted definition of civil war."
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White House on defensive as US media breaks taboo to declare conflict 'civil war'

by element115
The Bush administration appeared yesterday to be losing its fight to stop the US media calling the escalating violence in Iraq a civil war after one of the main television networks formally announced it would break the taboo.
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...signs of our times

by element115
What value, if any, does culture place on modesty today?
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Bush: No pullout from Iraq until 'mission is complete'

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"We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren."
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Hail to the chief

November 27, 2006 by element115
Dick Cheney's mission to expand -- or 'restore' --the powers of the presidency.
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'Anti-Jewish' Turkish film pulled from US theaters

by element115
A Turkish film featuring a venal, bloodstained Jewish doctor has been withdrawn from screening in the United States.
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Memory Drug

by element115
If you experienced a painful or traumatic event, would you want a pill which could lessen the bad memories of what happened? That option might soon be here because of a drug called propranolol.
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Iraqi Kid Runs For Water

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...the "american" way

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How Americans Are Living Dangerously

November 26, 2006 by element115
TIME --> We worry too much about overhyped threats, and ignore the things that really put us at risk.
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A licence to kill indiscriminately

by element115
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi urged India on Sunday to revoke a controversial law giving sweeping powers to security forces.

"It is the duty of the armed forces to provide security to the people and not kill innocent people," the lawyer said.
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Withdrawal from Iraq now will be less painful than years from now

by element115
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES --> The U.S. mission in Iraq has now lasted longer than America's involvement in World War II. That should be an occasion for sober reflection.

Those who helped get America into the Iraq quagmire denounce any proposal for withdrawal as "cut and run." Now that we have passed the World War II milestone, we must demand that the hawks be specific about their strategy. Vacuous statements such as "we will stand down when the Iraqis can stand up" or "we must stay until the job is done" will not suffice.
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Lebanon teeters on brink of repeating past

by element115
Lebanon's seeming slide toward civil conflict is not just a symbol of unfortunate historic symmetry. This country is a barometer for the region, a canary in the Middle Eastern mineshaft, serving as a measure of tensions and rivalries.
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Store 256GB on an A4 sheet

by element115
New "rainbow technology", devised by Sainul Abideen who has just completed an MCA degree in Kerala, data can be encoded into coloured geometric shapes and stored in dense patterns on paper.

Files such as text, images, sounds and video clips are encoded in "rainbow format" as coloured circles, triangles, squares and so on, and printed as dense graphics on paper at a density of 2.7GB per square inch. The paper can then be read through a specially developed scanner and the contents decoded into their original digital format and viewed or played.
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Rare 9/11 Interviews

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Survey: Israel worst brand name in the world

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The study, called the National Brands Index, conducted by government advisor Simon Anholt and powered by global market intelligence solutions provider GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), shows that Israel is at the bottom of the list by a considerable margin in the public?s perception of its image.

"Israel's brand is by a considerable margin the most negative we have ever measured in the NBI, and comes at the bottom of the ranking on almost every question," states report author Simon Anholt.
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Cheney and Neo-Cons Plotting More Wars

by element115
They are now preparing to survive the fall of the House of Bush, and are already making plans for the next confrontations: against Iran and Russia, to name the top two targets du jour.
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Unusual Evacuations

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9/11 Truth

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US carried out madrasah bombing

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The bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted.

"We thought it would be less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US," said a key aide to President Pervez Musharraf.
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Word on the street...they're listening

by element115
Police and councils in UK are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras.

The equipment can pick up aggressive tones on the basis of 12 factors, including decibel level, pitch and the speed at which words are spoken. Background noise is filtered out, enabling the camera to focus on specific conversations in public places.
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Suspect Nation

by element115
...our movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before.

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West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance

by element115
Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned.
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The cruel reality of Disney's world

by element115
A new book strips away the last illusions about kind Uncle Walt to reveal an uncaring husband, bullying boss and rabid anti-communist witch-hunter.
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Ahmadinejad: Iran will help U.S. in Iraq if it stops 'bullying' policy

by element115
"The Iranian nation is ready to help you to get out of the quagmire - on condition that you resume behaving in a just manner and avoid bullying and invading."

But Washington was unimpressed by the Iranian president's offer.
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The Federal Reserve

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Poisoned spy passed documents to former Yukos CEO in Israel months before his death

November 25, 2006 by element115
Leonid Nevzlin, former CEO of the oil giant and current chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, says the former Russian spy came to Israel with classified documents on Yukos which may be damaging to Russian leaders. Nevzliln estimates that Litvinenko?s death was connected with this information, which he has handed to London police investigators of the murder.
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America and the Third World War

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Ordinary Iraqis speak

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'In Saddam's time I never saw a friend killed in front of my eyes. I never saw neighbours driven out of their homes just for their sect. And I never saw entire families being slaughtered and killed'
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The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism

by element115
Howard Zinn --> They've taken over the country. They've taken over the policy. They've driven us into two disastrous wars, disastrous for our country and even more disastrous for people in the Middle East. And they have sucked up the wealth of this country and given it to the rich, and given it to the multinationals, given it to Halliburton, given it to the makers of weapons. They're ruining the environment. And they're holding on to 10,000 nuclear weapons, while they want us to worry about the fact that Iran may, in ten years, get one nuclear weapon.
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Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general

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Karpinski, who ran the prison until early 2004, said she saw a memorandum signed by Rumsfeld detailing the use of harsh interrogation methods.

"The handwritten signature was above his printed name and in the same handwriting in the margin was written: "Make sure this is accomplished,"" she told Saturday's El Pais.
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Cheney meets with Saudi king in Riyadh

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Vice President Dick Cheney sought Saudi help on Saturday in dealing with Iraq's spiraling violence and other regional trouble spots where U.S. policy is on the line: Iran, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
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The Kremlin's revenge?

by element115
"You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed. You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilised value. You have shown yourself to be unworthy of your office, to be unworthy of the trust of civilised men and women."
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Israel, Palestinians agree to ceasefire in Gaza Strip

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Abbas telephoned Olmert late Saturday to tell him he had arrived at an agreement with all Palestinian factions to stop firing rockets into Israel from the coastal strip, Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisin said.

"The Israeli prime minister has agreed and it is going to start tomorrow morning."
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S. African Jewish paper causes storm

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The South African Jewish Report, published weekly in Johannesburg, is engaged in a heated public spat with the country's Jewish minister of intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, and the South African Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), over the newspaper's refusal to publish a letter by Kasrils that, the paper's editor says, compares Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories to those of the Nazis during WWII.
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Ex-employee says FAA warned before 9/11

by element115
USATODAY --> The team repeatedly warned the FAA of the potential for security breaches and hijackings but was told to cover up its findings, Dzakovic says.
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The Great Firewall of Canada

November 24, 2006 by element115
* The list of blocked website will remain secret.
* There will be no way for a site to find out if they're on the list.
* There will be no way for a user to find out they've encountered the list.
* There won't be watchdogs in place to check what is added to the list.
* Sites will be added to the list without a proper investigation.
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How many more were poisoned?

by element115
The 43-year-old former KGB officer was the victim of polonium 210, a radioactive element used as a trigger in nuclear weapons.

It is so powerful that a lethal dose can be passed on through the body in sweat or saliva.

...up to 100 contacts will be tested among hospital staff, family members and restaurant workers who came into contact with him.
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Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter's ASVAB Scam

by element115
On a Friday afternoon the 17th of November, 17-year-old high school seniors Robert Day and Samuel Parker decided to act after Day overheard some teachers at Pepperell High School saying that first thing Monday morning the school's juniors would be made to take the ASVAB military aptitude test.

Often administered under the guise of a career aptitude test, the ASVAB's purpose is to better equip the State to prey on young people tricked or pressured into taking the test.
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14 articles of Impeachment against Bush and Cheney

by element115
...we must simultaneously impeach both of them so that the 3rd person in succession, Nancy Pelosi, would become the next President of the United States.
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Hamas cameraman killed by Israeli troops

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Israeli troops killed a Hamas militant Friday who was filming the group's operations in Gaza, Palestinian medical officials said.
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France okays firing at IAF over Lebanon

November 23, 2006 by element115
French soldiers in Lebanon who feel threatened by aggressive Israeli overflights are permitted to shoot at IAF fighter jets, a high-ranking French military officer told The Jerusalem Post.

Wednesday, several days after meeting with an IDF general in Paris to discuss what he said was a "blatant violation of the cease-fire."
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Poisoned Ex-Russian spy dies

by element115
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and defector allegedly poisoned three weeks ago in London, died today.
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Proof of West Bank Theft

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washingtonpost blog --> The Israeli colonizing movement in the occupied West Bank is practically thievery, wrapped in false "security" arguments. The report published this week, by the Israeli left wing organization "Peace Now" provides the statistical and legal infrastructure and the basic database for what we -- journalists, human rights organizations, liberal minded Israelis, and every Israeli with a grain of moral and ethical values -- have known for many years.
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Blair is wildly exaggerating the threat posed by terrorism

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Guardian Unlimited --> On Monday morning the prime minister stood on the Afghan sand and said: "Here in this extraordinary piece of desert is where the fate of world security in the early 21st century is going to be decided."
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10 lessons

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...from the toilet presidency of George W. Bush
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Bush's Defeated Foe - US Civil Liberty

by element115
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the President and Vice President were the basis for a foreign policy of war and aggression, and in which indefinite detention without charges, torture, and spying on citizens without warrants have displaced the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution?
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Look Who's Cutting and Running Now

by element115
James Baker is the last guy we should listen to about Iraq
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Criticizing Israeli Policies Is Not the Same Thing as Anti-Semitism

by element115
The stance that most Americans have taken with regards to the Arab-Israeli conflict can be summed up in a sentence: "Israel is God?s Land and anybody who disagrees with it deserves to be obliterated."
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Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning

by element115
Let us remember, the Indian is and was just as human as the white man. The Indian feels pain, gets hurt, and becomes defensive, has dreams, bears tragedy and failure, suffers from loneliness, needs to cry as well as laugh. He, too, is often misunderstood.
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Why Is The World Turning Fascist?

by element115
Fascism can only continue as long as The People from whom all Soverign States derive their power consent to it, even grudgingly. As long as we want to be "safe", we will never be "free".
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Israeli raids kill eight in Gaza

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Israeli forces have killed eight Palestinians including six armed men in raids in the Gaza Strip.
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Thanksgiving prayer by William S. Burroughs

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Using Logic To Counter 911 Non-Thinkers

by element115
Most folks don't think, not logically, about 9-11. Most people prefer that others-so-called experts--do the thinking for them.
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Iran offers UN new nuclear access

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Iran will give inspectors access to records and equipment from two of its nuclear sites, the head of the UN's atomic agency, the IAEA, has said.
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68-year-old female bomber attacks Israeli troops on northern Gaza

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As Israeli forces were moving through the Jebaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, they spotted a woman acting suspiciously, the military said. Soldiers threw a stun grenade, a weapon that makes a loud noise but causes no damage. Then the woman set off explosives she was carrying, killing herself and slightly wounding two of the soldiers.
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No Peace, No Place For Palestine

November 22, 2006 by element115
Everybody is angry, including Palestine, and everybody has a right to be angry -- except Palestine. Everybody has a right to exist on their own land -- except Palestine.
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Who killed Pierre Gemayel?

by element115
The Israeli spy rings in Lebanon are certainly capable of the assassination, and Israel, unlike Syria, has a good motive.
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Police Watch Towers in Harlem

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NPR Obtains U.S. Military Tapes

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First Glimpse of Secret Gitmo Tribunals...
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Israel decides to continue military raids, assassinations in Gaza

by element115
A government statement said the security forces had been told to prepare and present a plan for a broader operation.
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Pierre Gemayel Assassinated. Cui Bono?

by element115
The likelihood that Syria was involved in the assassination is zilch. One can hardly imagine a greater disaster for poor Syria who has been scrambling to avoid the American bludgeon for the last four years.
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A brutal taste of the future

by element115
The initiation of Avigdor Lieberman ? widely regarded as an outright racist ? into Ehud Olmert's Israeli government seems to have already brought a taste of things to come. For the past week, the Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun has been made a ground zero by the Israeli army. By yesterday, more than 260 Palestinians lay dead and injured, with 53 fatalities ? women, children and ambulance drivers among them.
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Civil war in Lebanon

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Robert Fisk --> Civil war - the words on all our lips yesterday. Pierre Gemayel's murder - in broad daylight, in a Christian suburb of Beirut, his car blocked mafia-style by another vehicle while his killer fired through the driver's window into the head of Lebanon's minister of industry - was a message for all of us who live in this tragic land.
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Police road-test hand-held fingerprint scanner

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"This trial represents an important step forward in our commitment to ensuring we have an effective and efficient police service fully equipped for the challenges of modern policing," said police minister Tony McNulty on Wednesday.
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Genetic breakthrough that reveals the differences between humans

by element115
Scientists have discovered a dramatic variation in the genetic make-up of humans that could lead to a fundamental reappraisal of what causes incurable diseases and could provide a greater understanding of mankind.
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Judge Rejects Request for NSA Wiretapping Documents

November 21, 2006 by element115
The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday.
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A predatory capitalist who stifles competition and delivers mediocrity

by element115
The Guardian --> Our politicians pay court to Rupert Murdoch like Roman vassals. He is a threat to democracy and it is time we took him on...
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Olmert: New European peace plan impeding regional progress

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Italian counterpart on Tuesday that the new European initiative for Middle East peace was interfering in political progress between Israel and Palestinians.
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...tell me a story

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We will have war with Iran and North Korea

by element115
Hippies still trying to ruin the country...

...consider their continued belief that America's armed forces are neo-Nazi stormtroopers who delight in burning babies to further the aims of imperialistic corporations.

It undermines the war effort, insults the dead and the survivors of battle and their families, and supports the aims of the enemy.

...lefty loonies deny that terrorists have declared war on America.

Whose life is more important: the 12-year-old Iraqi firing an Uzi or a soldier from Kentucky?

Hating a military-industrial complex is safer and less tiring. It's less complicated -- and less dangerous.


Absolutely blind and uninformed war and hate mongering.
Laughable.
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Italy changes spy boss amid CIA scandal

by element115
The Italian government has replaced the heads of the country's embattled secret services, including one at the center of allegations of involvement in a CIA kidnap of a terrorism suspect.
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Iraq: The Hidden War

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39% of Israeli settlements 'on private Palestinian land'

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An Israeli human rights group produced figures yesterday showing that 39% of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are built on private Palestinian land.

The claim by Settlement Watch, part of the Peace Now organisation, represents a potentially serious challenge to the Israeli government because Israeli courts have ruled that settlements must not be built on confiscated private Palestinian land.
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Bush' daughter Barbara Robbed in Argentina

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First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents.
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Teen creates fusion in his home

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In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren't privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build -- a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
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6 Muslim imams removed from plane

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...fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam.

A passenger raised concerns about the imams...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called Tuesday for an investigation into the behavior of airline staff and airport security in the removal of six Muslim scholars from a US Airways flight.
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Fox News Preps 'Daily Show' Knockoff for Right Wing

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'The Daily Show' for conservatives," due to air in primetime on Saturdays in January.
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Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

by element115
The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition.
Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009.

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...you have to kill the king to win the game

by element115
A spate of new discoveries about the basic biology of cancer is pushing researchers toward an astonishing conclusion: For decades, efforts to cure the disease may have targeted the wrong cells.

"This is the most promising advance in thinking about cancer in a very long time. This opens up brand new targets," said the CIHR's Dr. Bernstein, even if, he acknowledged, "All of our thinking about how to treat cancer needs to be rethought."
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US Students Dropping Out of High School Reaches Epidemic Levels

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A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate.
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A Meal With Poisoned Spy

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Sky News --> "I was in London to meet Mr Litvinenko because I wanted to discuss with him some alarming news. The information I had received was very disturbing and contained details of plots against Russians both in Italy and Great Britain."

"The information was a list of people - it was a hit list and on that list was his name, my name and Paolo Guzzanti (head of the Italian commission investigating KGB activities in Italy)."
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Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law

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Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system.
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UN official: Israel should review its 'entire' military policy in Gaza

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Israel should review its "entire policy" of military action against Palestinians since violence was bound to cause civilian casualties and destroy prospects for peace, a senior United Nations official said on Tuesday.
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Fusor Research Consortium

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...a global discussion of fusion energy.
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2 Red Cross Workers Released In Gaza

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Two Italian Red Cross workers kidnapped at gunpoint in Gaza Tuesday afternoon were released shortly after midnight, Palestinian security officials said.
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Assassination triggers fresh crisis in Lebanon

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Lebanon lurched closer to a fresh round of sectarian bloodletting yesterday with the assassination of its industry minister, Pierre Gemayel, a member of the country's most powerful Christian family and a leading opponent of Syrian influence.

The killing shook Lebanon's beleaguered government and sent tremors across the Middle East.
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Director Robert Altman dies at 81

by element115
He had lived and worked with the disease for the last 18 months.
"His death was, nevertheless, a surprise: Altman was in pre-production on a film he had planned to start shooting in February."
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Israel shoots at Palestinian women

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Will the French Indict Cheney?

November 20, 2006 by element115
Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.
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Gaza's Reality

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Video --> Living conditions in the Gaza strip.
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Hamas says it is willing to stop Qassam fire at Israel

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The announcement came at a meeting on Monday of Palestinian factions, in which Abbas presented Defense Minister Amir Peretz's proposal for a mutual cease-fire.
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Iraq: Dujail Trial Fundamentally Flawed

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The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven other defendants before the Iraqi High Tribunal for crimes against humanity was marred by so many procedural and substantive flaws that the verdict is unsound, Human Rights Watch said in a 97-page report released today.
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News Corp. Pulls Plug On O.J. Book, Fox Special

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News Corp. has spiked its O.J. Simpson book and TV special in the face of public and professional outrage over the project.
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The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

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It's because national news media have never come to terms with what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for during his final years.

...after passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities.

He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.
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Calif. court says bloggers can't be sued

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"Subjecting Internet service providers and users to defamation liability would tend to chill online speech," today's unanimous ruling said.
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Get ready for 24-hour living

by element115
Modafinil has made it possible to have 48 hours of continuous wakefulness with few, if any, ill effects. New classes of sleeping pills are on the horizon that promise to deliver sleep that is deeper and more refreshing than the real thing. Further down the line are even more radical interventions - wakefulness promoters that can safely abolish sleep for several days at a stretch, and sleeping pills that deliver what feels like 8 hours of sleep in half the time. Nor is it all about drugs: one research team even talks about developing a wearable electrical device that can wake your brain up at the flick of a switch.
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When religion loses its credibility

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For those who have lingering doubts, dust off your Bibles and take a few hours to reacquaint yourself with the teachings of Jesus. You won't find a single reference to homosexuality. There are teachings on money, lust, revenge, divorce, fasting and a thousand other subjects, but there is nothing on homosexuality. Strange, don't you think, if being gay were such a moral threat?
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U.S. Sets Up a Perch in Dubai to Keep an Eye on Iran

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...to hold workshops to train Iranians in techniques of civil disobedience aimed at eventually forcing political change inside Iran.
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Iran Urges Summit With Iraq and Syria

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Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday.
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Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?

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The Guardian --> In 1968, Robert Kennedy seemed likely to follow his brother, John, into the White House. Then, on June 6, he was assassinated - apparently by a lone gunman. But Shane O'Sullivan says he has evidence implicating three CIA agents in the murder.
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Global Orgasm - December 22nd, 2006

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Peace through Global Ecstasy
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We MUST bomb Iran

November 19, 2006 by element115
Joshua Muravchik, the American Enterprise Institute --> ...a show of force is the only answer.
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Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?

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SEYMOUR M. HERSH --> Joshua Muravchik, a prominent neoconservative, argued that the Administration had little choice..."Make no mistake: President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office," he wrote. The President would be bitterly criticized for a preëmptive attack on Iran, Muravchik said, and so neoconservatives "need to pave the way intellectually now and be prepared to defend the action when it comes."
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Vendetta Protest Continues!

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It's working.
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Gonzales blasts surveillance critics

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.
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Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible

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Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
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Blair hit by Saudi 'bribery' threat

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SAUDI ARABIA is threatening to suspend diplomatic ties with Britain unless Downing Street intervenes to block an investigation into a £60m ?slush fund? allegedly set up for some members of its royal family.
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Rep. Rangel Will Seek to Reinstate Draft

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Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 if the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has his way.
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300GB Holographic CDs will be available this week

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Hitachi-Maxell is planning to organize a showcase this week, and present to the open public their new 300GB holographic CD.
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Global Hawk Drone to Fly 1st Mission Over U.S.

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...the Air Force's Global Hawk has never flown a mission over the United States.

That is set to change Monday.

The planes are designed to fly at high altitudes for 40 hour-missions covering as much as 10,000 miles, mostly providing aerial surveillance.
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Republicans plot to bring down Pelosi

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The Republican strategy is not only to undermine Mrs Pelosi's control of the House but also to associate her in voters' minds with Senator Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination.
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Houston Police Violence

November 18, 2006 by element115
Houston police trampled on striking janitors with horses last night.
These people make on average $5.35 an hour. With no health insurance.

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Israeli deputy PM: Send Hamas leaders 'to paradise'

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Leaders of the Hamas militant movement should be assassinated and moderate Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is "irrelevant," Israel's deputy prime minister said Saturday.

He also called for Israel to ignore international pressure efforts to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians, and said his country should abandon earlier agreements.
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Palestinians stop Israeli air raid

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Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of Weil Baroud, a commander of the Popular Resistance Committees in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, after he received a warning from the Israeli army late Saturday giving him 30 minutes to leave the house.

An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the raid had been called off because of the protest.
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Olmert orders targeting of Hamas leadership

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Israeli security officials reported to newspaper that Israel will no longer allow Hamas political leadership in West Bank, Gaza Strip, and abroad to 'escape responsibility'.
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Cyber Command may soon watch over us

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The US appears to be planning to intensify its worldwide surveillance of communications, including the Internet, as part of the War on Terror. This is to be partially achieved through an organisation to be called, at this stage, "Cyber Command".
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Leading Russian critic of Putin's regime is poisoned in London

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He went to meet the woman journalist at Itsu on November 1 after she claimed to have information about the shooting of Miss Politkovskaya, also a fierce critic of President Putin. The next day, Mr Litvinenko complained of feeling unwell and was admitted to hospital.
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Blair accepts 'disaster' in Iraq

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The UK prime minister was responding to a question by Sir David Frost in an interview on the new al-Jazeera English-language Arabic TV channel.

The Liberal Democrats said Mr Blair had finally accepted the enormity of his decision to go to war in Iraq.

But Downing Street insisted his views had been misrepresented and that he had not made "some kind of admission".
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Immortal Technique

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The Cause of Death

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China to curb crime news on TV, radio

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China will restrict broadcast reporting on vicious crimes so the country's young people have a healthier media environment, the Beijing government says.

"We must not let improper crime reporting harm young minds," said Zhang Haitao, vice director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
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Guantánamo plan for legal compound called a "white elephant"

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Amnesty International today derided as a "white elephant" Pentagon plans to build a massive legal compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

"Once again, the Defense Department seems to be operating in -- even constructing -- its own universe," said Larry Cox, executive director of the human rights project's U.S. division.
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Senator Dodd introduces legislation restoring Habeas Corpus!

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Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), an outspoken opponent of the Military Commission Act of 2006, today introduced legislation which would amend existing law in order to have an effective process for bringing terrorists to justice. This is currently not the case under the Military Commission Act, which will be the subject of endless legal challenges. As important, the bill would also seek to ensure that U.S. servicemen and women are afforded the maximum protection of a strong international legal framework guaranteed by respect for such provisions as the Geneva Conventions and other international standards, and to restore America?s moral authority as the leader in the world in advancing the rule of law.
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Whatever you think about the second world war is wrong

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Economist --> Britain's much-praised Dunkirk spirit and suffering during the Blitz is a sideshow compared with the gore and grit of occupied Poland.

The war was not fought to stop the Holocaust.

Stalin's death camps killed more people than Hitler's. America's army in 1939 was smaller than Poland's. The casualties of the 1944 Warsaw uprising were the equivalent of the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre, every day for two months.
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57,000 U.S. troops headed for Iraq in early 2007

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The force levels in the country have been fluctuating between roughly 140,000 and 150,000.
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Watered-down UN resolution calls for Beit Hanun 'fact finding'

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Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman walked out of the session in protest.

The United States ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, warned member states against approving the proposal, saying it would undermine the organization's relevance.

Bolton called the resolution "one-sided" and said its adoption would only "increase tension and serve the interests of those hostile to Israel and that do not accept Israel's right to exist."
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What's Going On

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...this tune keeps the devil away! no kidding!

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Abbas and Haniyeh meet leading candidate for Palestinian PM

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Palestinian leaders met a key candidate for prime minister in Gaza on Saturday, suggesting progress was being made toward naming a unity government that could overcome a Western aid blockade, officials said.

It was the first time Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the ruling Hamas faction had met together with Mohammed Shabir since he agreed last week to be nominated to head a joint government.
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UK RFID passports cracked

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Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?
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Violent clashes at meeting of world economic chiefs

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Anti-globalisation protesters clashed violently with police in the streets of Melbourne Saturday as the world's most powerful economic leaders launched a summit behind a massive security cordon.

The U2 frontman and fellow band member The Edge teamed up with Pearl Jam to perform Neil Young's "Rockin' In The Free World" before a 14,000 audience at the open-air concert.
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We

November 17, 2006 by element115
...an endless struggle between the powerful and the powerless, with the latter always suffering from the ruthlessness of the former.
At the heart of that ruthlessness is not racism alone, but racism coupled with merciless supremacism.

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For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is "God's Foreign Policy"

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New York Times --> Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president?s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming.
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The Highjacking the Nation

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Sibel Edmonds --> Part 1: The Foreign Agent Factor
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No one is guilty in Israel

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Haaretz --> it takes considerable gall and cynicism to dare to claim that the Israel Defense Forces did not intend to kill inhabitants of Beit Hanun. Even if there was a glitch in the balancing of the aiming mechanism or in a component of the radar, a mistake in the input of the data or a human error, the overwhelming, crucial, shocking fact is that the IDF bombards helpless civilians. Even shells that are supposedly aimed 200 meters from houses, into "open areas," are intended to kill, and they do kill. In this respect, nothing new happened on Wednesday morning in Gaza: The IDF has been behaving like this for months now.
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Israel developing anti-militant "bionic hornet"

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Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
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Israeli ambassador: Bush will not hesitate to use force in Iran

November 16, 2006 by element115
"I have been priviledged to know him well, he will not hesitate to go all the way if there is no choice," said Ayalon.
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Israel rejects Franco-Spanish peace initiative

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Foreign Ministry officials rejected the initiative proposed by France and Spain to resuscitate the peace process and renew negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Israel prefers direct dialogue with the Palestinians over mediation by foreign elements "that will only complicate matters."
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Iraq rape soldier jailed for life

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A US soldier has been jailed for 90 years after pleading guilty to his part in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family in Iraq.
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Brilliant Minds on the Next 50 Years

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In coming decades will we: discover that we are not alone in the universe? Unravel the physiological basis for consciousness? Routinely have false memories implanted in our minds? Begin to evolve in new directions? And will physicists finally hit upon a universal theory of everything? In fact, if the revelations of the last 50 years are anything to go on - the internet and the human genome for example - we probably have not even thought up the exciting advances that lay ahead of us.
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Beit Hanoun Massacre, Nov 8, 2006

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Violence in Iraq at almost satanic levels, says CIA director

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General Michael Hayden, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, gave a grim assessment of the security outlook in Iraq during an appearance before a key Senate committee in Washington.

But while he's worried about the big increase in killings, General Hayden says the situation will get much worse if US troops start leaving the country.
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Into the breach again: US looks to Filipinos

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When the United States moves to downsize its military facilities in Okinawa, Japan, and begin construction on new military bases designed to house 8,000 marines and their families on the Pacific island of Guam, Filipino construction workers will likely do most of the heavy lifting.
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UCLA Police Taser Student

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"...according to a study published in the Lancet Medical Journal in 2001, a charge of three to five seconds can result in immobilization for five to 15 minutes, which would mean that Tabatabainejad could have been physically unable to stand when the officers demanded that he do so. "

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Community responds to Taser use

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During the altercation between Tabatabainejad and the officers, bystanders can be heard in the video repeatedly asking the officers to stop and requesting their names and identification numbers. The video showed one officer responding to a student by threatening that the student would "get Tased too."
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'No One Who Works Should Live in Poverty?

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When voters decided it was time to change the nation?s direction and give Democrats the majority in the Senate and House, they also paved the way for the first increase in the federal minimum wage in a decade.
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Air Force develops adaptive software

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The program's objective is to create cognitive coordination managers to assist soldiers and tactical teams in the field to adapt their mission plans online in response to situational changes. The distributed systems will rapidly adapt mission plans by making timely changes to task assignments and selecting from pre-planned contingencies.
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Wanted: man to land on killer asteroid and gently nudge it from path to Earth

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To save the day, Nasa now plans to go where only Bruce Willis has gone before. The US space agency is drawing up plans to land an astronaut on an asteroid hurtling through space at more than 30,000 mph. It wants to know whether humans could master techniques needed to deflect such a doomsday object when it is eventually identified. The proposals are at an early stage, and a spacecraft needed just to send an astronaut that far into space exists only on the drawing board, but they are deadly serious. A smallish asteroid called Apophis has already been identified as a possible threat to Earth in 2036.
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Free market economist Milton Friedman dead at 94

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Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the past century and winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize, died on Thursday morning of heart failure at a San Francisco area hospital, a spokeswoman for his family said. He was 94.
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Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel

November 15, 2006 by element115
United States President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security.
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WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

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At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of labor" for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa's free trade with the West.
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Physics promises wireless power

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Plugs and wires could soon become a thing of the past...

US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to devices such as laptop computers or MP3 players without wires.
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U.S. city to ban all smoking

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The Belmont City Council voted unanimously last night to pursue a strict law that will prohibit smoking anywhere in the city except for single-family detached residences. Smoking on the street, in a park and even in one?s car will become illegal and police would have the option of handing out tickets if they catch someone.
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Official says U.S. may mull pre-emptive Iran strike

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"We, the United States, and others who might be threatened by these developments will have to look at how to respond and inevitably I think people will have to look at the question of pre-emption," the official told reporters.

"I think it's inevitable that any American administration, not just this administration but future administrations, will have to look at pre-emptive strategies," he said.
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Larry King Admits He's Never Used The Internet

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KING: I've never done it, never gone searching.
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Fair and Balanced

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FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: "Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress"

Huffington Post has obtained an internal Fox News memo written by the network's Vice President of news. The memo details Fox's game plan the day Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House.
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Israel raids Gaza Strip after rocket death

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Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip overnight hours after an Israeli woman was killed by Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza, with the Jewish state vowing to retaliate against militants who would "pay a heavy price".
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EFF Asks Supreme Court to Tackle Secret Law

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of non-profit organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to hear a case challenging a secret law governing travelers in American airports.
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Protesters storm Wal-Mart in Mexico City

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Demonstrators stormed a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of Mexico City on Tuesday, accusing the U.S.-based retailer of selling low-cost goods at the expense of workers, farmers and public markets.
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Al Jazeera Launches Global Broadcast Operation

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With the launch of its new channel, Al Jazeera hopes to expand the reach of its network from an Arabic and Middle Eastern audience to a global, English-speaking one.
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Homeless facing more physical violence

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Nearly one homeless person in five has been the victim of physical violence in the United States and Canada in the past 12 months, a survey found.
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Bush Administration: Detainees have no rights

November 14, 2006 by element115
Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday.
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Rights groups file war crimes suit against Rumsfeld

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Civil rights groups filed a suit with German prosecutors on Tuesday seeking war crimes charges against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of detainee at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons.
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Plutonium Found in Iran Waste Facility

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International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an IAEA report said Tuesday.
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Shin Bet chief warns of large-scale confrontation in Gaza

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Speaking at a Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: "If all fails and it become impossible to strengthen Fatah, Israel needs to prepare for a military option in Gaza."
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Big Brother, Big Business

by element115
When the government can't get the information on you that it wants because of the Privacy Act, it can always turn to a commercial data broker.

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Senate to investigate rendition abuses

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Abuses carried out under the CIA's secret programme of extraordinary rendition are to be investigated by one of the Senate's most powerful committees, it emerged today.
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"Iraq Is Not Winnable"

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What happens next in the Middle East?
SPIEGEL interview with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations...
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The Dangerous Lame Duck

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A lame duck session doesn't sound like anything to worry about, but this lame duck may be a lot more dangerous than people think.
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Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot

by element115
It is equipped with two cameras with zooming capabilities one for day time and one for infrared night vision. It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun.

The robots will go on sale by 2007 for $ 200,000.
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Manufacturing the Enemy

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Western intelligence officials say --> Iran is trying to form an unholy alliance with al-Qa'eda by grooming a new generation of leaders to take over from Osama bin Laden.
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...more fear

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Al-Qaida plotting nuclear attack on UK, officials warn.

British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday.
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CIA acknowledges existence of presidential order authorizing it to detain, interrogate terror suspects overseas

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In response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the CIA has finally acknowledged the existence of a presidential order authorizing the agency to detain and interrogate terror suspects overseas.

...the CIA wouldn't release the documents.
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A painkiller six times more powerful than morphine, found in human saliva

by element115
The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve pain as well as morphine but without the addictive and psychological side effects of the traditional drug.
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Netanyahu: Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust

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"It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times, like a chorus, during his address. "Believe him and stop him," the opposition leader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this."

Netanyahu said, "he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state."
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Iran says nuke program is near complete

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that
Iran would soon celebrate completion of its nuclear fuel program and claimed the international community was ready to accept it as a nuclear state.
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Calls increase for cluster bomb ban

November 13, 2006 by element115
Focus is on an international law requiring countries to clear unexploded ordnance as United Nations delegates meet in Geneva to discuss banning cluster bombs.
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Baghdad's morgues working overtime

by element115
With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries. Men fearful of an anonymous burial are tattooing their thighs with names and phone numbers.
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Chinese Sub Penetrated US Flee

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A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.
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Islamic hip-hop artists are accused of indoctrinating young against the West

November 12, 2006 by element115
"There is a lot of anger out there, especially about the Iraq war. Our challenge is to channel that frustration and anger into political activism."

Madeleine Gruen, an American intelligence analyst, highlighted the lyrics of a British group called Blakstone as a possible gateway to extremist politics.
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We're in a very dark place right now

by element115
...deep in the bowels of the Pentagon there are strategists wargaming for the big showdown with China circa 2030/2040.

...if the Great Satan can't win in Vietnam or Iraq, where can it win? That's how China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Venezuela and a whole lot of others look at it. "These Colors Don't Run" is a fine T-shirt slogan, but in reality these colors have spent 40 years running from the jungles of Southeast Asia, the helicopters in the Persian desert, the streets of Mogadishu.
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Let freedom 'Sing'

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"It's so hard in this day and age for people to speak out," Kopple said. "I feel it's important, no matter how you feel politically on anything, to have that voice. Once that voice is silenced, we're all in deep trouble."

Dixie Chicks' strength of character...
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Abbas weakened by Israel offensives

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Lethal Israeli operations merely radicalize ordinary Palestinians and weaken moderates like president Mahmud Abbas who advocates a negotiated solution to the conflict, analysts believe.

Abbas on Wednesday slammed Israel's "terrible massacres" and accused the Jewish state of single handedly destroying "all chances of peace".
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Government Crisis in Lebanon

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The five ministers connected with Hezbollah and the Syrian-allied Amal Party said, "The so-called ruling party does not want any other parties to really participate in the decision-making process," and resigned from their posts.
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Teenager killed by Israeli fire

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A PALESTINIAN teenager was killed and three other people were wounded today by Israeli fire near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.
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The 'Designer baby'

by element115
Controversy has erupted over a new technique offered on the NHS which screens embryos for over 200 inherited diseases.

Doctors are heralding the test as 'revolutionary' for the diagnosis of genetic disorders.

But critics warn the ground-breaking technique is another step towards the creation of the 'designer baby'.
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Israel Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in Lebanon

by element115
What kind of weapon leaves traces of radiation & produces such lethal & circumscribed consequences?
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"V" Meets The Secret Service

by element115
On Monday, November 6, 2006, "V" visited security check points at the White House, the main Treasury, IRS and Justice Department Buildings and the Capitol. "V's" purpose was to deliver the People's Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Government's violations of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution, and to inform key Government officials that at least 100 more "Vs" would be at their doorstep on November 14th expecting a response to the Petitions.
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National Movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney

by element115
...plans to mobilize a national movement to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Groups backing the effort include Progressive Democrats of America, CodePink, Gold Star Families for Peace and Veterans for Peace.

While the pro-impeachment movement has received little media attention, polls show growing numbers support for Congress to take such action.

A recent Newsweek poll found 51 percent of all Americans - including 20 percent of Republicans - feel impeachment should be on the table.
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How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line

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Israeli military commanders drastically reduced the 'safety' margins that separate artillery targets from the built-up civilian areas of Gaza earlier this year, despite being warned that the new policy risked increasing Palestinian civilian deaths and injuries.
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Olmert arrives in U.S.

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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A Web Guided by Common Sense

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Web 3.0

...a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide ? and even provide the foundation for systems that can reason in a human fashion. That level of artificial intelligence, with machines doing the thinking instead of simply following commands, has eluded researchers for more than half a century.
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"I got arrested this week at a checkpoint!"

by element115
...it could happen to ANY of you.
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Can Bush Sr. and His Team Save Son's Presidency?

by element115
Newsweek --> George Herbert Walker Bush is a proud father; tears easily come to his eyes when he thinks of his children, all of them, and there is gracious deference in his tone when he talks about the son he calls, with emphasis, "The President."
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Elton John says religion encourages hate

by element115
"From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
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Fighting empire

November 11, 2006 by element115
George W Bush is not a true patriot, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark tells Ian Douglas in New York.
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Palestinian PM 'ready to step down'

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Prime Minister Ismail Haniya today reaffirmed his readiness to step down to ease the economic siege imposed on his Hamas-led Government.
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Iranian nuclear negotiator meets Putin

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for "good will" on all sides as President Vladimir Putin met Iran's top nuclear negotiator for talks on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
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Netherlands moves toward total ban on Muslim veils

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The Netherlands may become the first European country to ban Muslim face veils after its government pledged yesterday to outlaw the wearing in public spaces of the niqab, or veil, and the burka, or full-length cloak covering the head.
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Hamas: U.S. veto of UN draft resolution backs further 'massacres'

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"a signal that the U.S. had given legitimacy to the massacres and a green light to (Israel) to...carry out more massacres."
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Dirty water kills 5,000 children a day

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Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation.

The United Nations Development Programme, in its annual Human Development report, argues that 1.1 billion people do not have safe water and 2.6 billion suffer from inadequate sewerage. This is not because of water scarcity but poverty, inequality and government failure.
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Israel Official: Strike on Iran Possible

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The deputy defense minister suggested Friday that Israel might be forced to launch a military strike against Iran's disputed nuclear program - the clearest statement yet of such a possibility from a high-ranking official.
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BBC Panorama

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...a bunch of neocons explaining who they are and what they want to do.

The fact of this film is representative of the entire Luciferian system we have built around us - it is part of their religion that they must tell us everything they are doing.

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Bush: Terror Fight Unchanged by Election Results

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"The elections will bring changes to Washington. But one thing has not changed: America faces brutal enemies who have attacked us before and want to attack us again," said Mr. Bush. "I have a message for these enemies: Do not confuse the workings of American democracy with a lack of American will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice, and we will prevail."
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Ahead of US trip, Olmert says 'Iran must start to fear'

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The only situation in which Iran will agree to compromise on the continuation of its nuclear program if it sees genuine reasons to fear reprisals, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Newsweek on Saturday ahead of his trip to Washington to meet with US President George W. Bush.
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Israeli gay rights parade called off

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For days, Israeli television aired images of ultra-Orthodox Jews in black suits and hats, pelting police with stones and setting cars afire in a crusade against a planned gay pride march through Jerusalem.
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US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza

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The United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations that would have condemned Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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The villagers have angrily accused the comedian of exploiting them

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When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod, Romania.

"They conned us into doing all these things and never told us anything about what was going on. They made us look like primitives, like uncivilised savages. Now they,re making millions but have only paid us 15 lei [around £3]."
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Biometric ID cards an insecure menace

November 10, 2006 by element115
The EU-funded FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) project has warned that implementation of the current generation of biometric travel ID will dramatically decrease security and privacy, and increase the risk of identity theft. In the Budapest Declaration, which derives from FIDIS' September meeting in Budapest, FIDIS calls for short-term damage control measures to be taken (because biometric ID is already being rolled out), and for "a new convincing and integrated security concept" to be developed within the next three years.
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Constant fear

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Al Qaeda may plan Europe transit attacks...
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People Want Limited Government

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The Club for Growth released new survey data...
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Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case

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Donald Rumsfeld may be out of sight, but he will not be out of mind. The chickens have come home to roost.
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Students at Calif college ban Pledge of Allegiance

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Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.
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Chávez attacks Bush as a 'genocidal' leader

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Venezuela's president continued his criticism of President Bush after the pro-Chávez legislature declared that the 9/11 attacks were `self-inflicted.'
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Bush's plans for concentration camps and martial law

November 9, 2006 by element115
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE HAS JUST BEGUN
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'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former head of the UK Ministry of Defence

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Mr Pope decided to speak out about his worries after resigning from his post at the Directorate of Defence Security at the MoD this week.

Pope was, between 1991 and 1994, head of the UFO project .

When he began his job, he too was sceptical about UFOs but access to classified files on the subject and investigation of a series of spectacular UFO sightings gradually changed his mind.
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France demands independent probe of Beit Hanoun massacre

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United States expected to veto Security Council decision against Israel regarding recent IDF operations in Gaza.
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Gates of Hell

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Another Constitution-Betraying Bushist in the Pentagon.
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War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld

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The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay.
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Shrapnel marked 'Made in USA'

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Gazan doctor Mona Elfaraa reports from Al Awda hospital, Jabalya on clearly marked American-made shrapnel found in a Palestinian now in critical condition during the current Israeli attacks on northern Gaza.
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Controversial 'Jesus Camp' Closed

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Organizers of an evangelical summer camp for children featured in the documentary "Jesus Camp" are discontinuing the camp because of negative reaction sparked by the film and recent vandalism at the camp site in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
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Olmert warns against hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed in public the possibility that the United States may withdraw its forces from Iraq following the victory of the Democratic Party in the mid-term congressional elections.

Olmert warned against a hasty withdrawal that may undermine the balance of power in the Middle East and endanger the moderate regimes in the region.
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Google Accidentally Sends Out Kama Sutra Worm

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Google accidentally sent out e-mail containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of an e-mail discussion list.
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The Cheney-Gates Cabal

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Gates is the one most responsible for institutionalizing the politicization of intelligence analysis by setting the example and promoting malleable managers more interested in career advancement than the ethos of speaking truth to power. In 2002, it was those managers who then-CIA Director George Tenet ordered to prepare what has become known as the ?Whore of Babylon??the October 1 National Intelligence Mis-Estimate on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He instructed them to adhere to the guidelines set by Vice President Dick Cheney in his infamous, preemptive speech of August 26, 2002, and complete it in three weeks?in order to force a congressional vote before the mid-term election. To their discredit, the managers complied and issued the worst NIE in the history of American intelligence.
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Jews take root in Capitol Hill

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Democrats may have conquered both houses of Congress, and so have Jewish politicians. Number of Jewish senators rises from 11 to 13 and number of Jewish representatives jumps to 30 thanks to six new faces creating all-time high of Jewish politicians in Congress.
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The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation

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Chris Floyd --> Bush's policies are only slightly more radical, slightly more brazen versions of the bloodsoaked arrogance, aggression and impositions of the glorious bipartisan past.
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60 Minutes' Ed Bradley Dead At 65

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Veteran CBS News Correspondent Succumbs To Leukemia.
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The First 100 Days

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Poll: What Changes Should Democrats Make in the First 100 Days?
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Thank you, America

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For six years, latterly with the backing of both houses of a markedly conservative Republican Congress, George Bush has led an American administration that has played an unprecedentedly negative and polarising role in the world's affairs.
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Israel's massacre in Gaza slammed worldwide

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The international community and humanitarian aid groups strongly condemned Israel's deadly attack on Gaza which killed more than 18 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children.
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'Borat' barred from Russian movie theaters

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"The film contains material that some viewers may consider offensive to certain nationalities and religions," the paper quoted Yury Vasyuchkov, the head of the agency that licenses films for theater distribution, as saying on Thursday.
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Israeli warplanes again fly over southern and eastern Lebanon

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Israeli warplanes again flew over towns and villages of southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday, Lebanese security officials said. The move came despite repeated calls by the United Nations for Israel to cease such flights over Lebanese territory.
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France test-fires unarmed nuclear weapon

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France successfully shot its new M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile over the Atlantic on Thursday in its first experimental test flight, the Defense Ministry said.
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This marks the beginning of an end

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Time is up for Bush's foreign policy. The US must now try to forge a bipartisan, multilateral approach.
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Marx's 'Das Kapital' on stage

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...the seemingly impossible: bringing the huge classic on economic theory to the stage.
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Cindy Sheehan arrested in Washington

November 8, 2006 by element115
Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.
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Pelosi set to become first woman to lead House

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Under U.S. law, the speaker is second in the line of succession to the presidency, behind only the vice president.
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Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with... Another Rumsfeld

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Because who but another "Rummy" would stay the course in Iraq with the Bush administration?
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Rumsfeld resigns

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He survived the Abu Ghraib scandal and a chorus of top-brass criticism over Iraq, but Donald Rumsfeld couldn't survive the Democrats.

...just hours after a Republican drubbing at the polls Bush turned to his father's foreign policy team for a replacement - his father's CIA chief, Robert Gates.
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Bush Admits He Lied About Rumsfeld For Political Purposes

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Bush unequivocally told a group of reporters that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney would ?remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.? Bush said, ?Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.?

Today, he announced Rumsfeld is resigning and being replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates
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Bush diminished as world leader

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One should not underestimate George Bush's determination. He has said proudly that he will stay the course in Iraq even if his wife and dog end up as his only supporters.
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Hamas: truce ended

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The Hamas chief declared Wednesday that a truce with Israel is over after an Israeli tank attack that killed 18 Palestinians earlier that day.

"People were torn to pieces," a woman named Oyama told CTV News. She described people trying to flee the carnage as shells continued falling.

Another resident, Omar, lost at least 13 relatives. "Why did they want to destroy my family?" he asked.

Dozens were wounded in the attack, prompting three days of official mourning in the Gaza Strip.
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Libertarians emerge as a force

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Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain.
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Israel Ambushes Beit Hanoun as Palestinians Sleep

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Israeli tank shells and rockets fired from Israeli helicopters suddenly crashed into Beit Hanoun early Wednesday.

...offensive left at least 18 dead, including children and women, and many others injured.
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Massacre in Gaza

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The Israeli occupation army on Wednesday killed at least 25 Palestinian, mostly women and children in northern Gaza and the West Bank , apparently taking advantage of international media preoccupation with the mid-term American elections.

Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli tanks fired artillery shells on densely populated residential neighborhoods in northern Gaza, killing and maiming ?dozens? of innocent men, women and children.
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Democrats win House

November 7, 2006 by element115
Democrats swept Republicans out of power in the U.S. House of Representatives and made gains in the Senate on Tuesday, riding to victory on a wave of public discontent with the Iraq war, corruption and President George W. Bush's leadership.
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Want Fascism In Your Country?

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Have you become convinced that the only way to improve the moral and/or physical status of your country is to get the State to whip everyone into line? Do the defenses of individual rights and individual freedoms leave you feeling both bored and resentful? Are you daring enough to contemplate a nation where no-one does anything except what he or she is told by government officials, and find it to your liking? Are you inclined to dismiss defenses of freedom as mere apologetics for license and/or anarchy?

If you got through the above series of questions with all "okay"s, then you may very well be a fascist.
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Punishment Without Conviction And Prisons Without Sentence

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Did YOU Vote For That?
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...how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen

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We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps -->
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Canada kept list of dissidents to lock up in time of crisis

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...uncovered plan to detain as many as 2,500 in camps.

The federal government had detailed lists of political activists and subversives it planned to arrest in the aftermath of a nuclear war or other national emergency.

Anywhere from 700 to 2,500 people, including babies, would have been held in internment camps, including one in Gatineau Park, before being shipped off to more permanent detention facilities.
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2006 Antarctic Ozone Hole Largest on Record

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United Nations Environment Programme, Ozone Secretariat --> Assessment Reports
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White House Caught Doctoring "Mission Accomplished" Video

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Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs

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...cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country.

If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.
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Bush finally admits: Iraq war is about the oil

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washingtonpost --> During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil.
"Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared.
"This is not about that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush.
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Vote Different

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Dead cast their votes

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The new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer-assisted analysis.
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Lawyers poised as US vote hit by technical glitches

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More than a third of the electorate used new electronic machinery to vote, and anxiety over the experiment was raised from the beginning as reports came in of glitches across the country. In Florida, there were complaints that touchscreen computers had wrongly recorded voters choices and state Democrats called for the machines to be impounded.

The intensity of the battle was reflected in the widespread claims of dirty tricks. The FBI's special election unit was called to Virginia to investigate last night after allegations that Democratic party supporters in eight counties had been targeted by telephone calls threatening them with legal scrutiny if they went to the polls and giving misleading information about the location of polling stations. In Kentucky, a poll worker was arrested for trying to throttle a voter.
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Freedom

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Election mix

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Election Protection

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» NBC News 26 (AP): SC Gov. turned away at polls
» New York Times: On technical bugs
» CNN: Exit polls say corruption dominates
» Washington Post: Glitches frustrating voters
» AP: Poll workers struggle with e-ballots
» Roll Call: Latinos alleged target of discrimination
» Cinci. Enquirer: Without ID, Rep. turned away at polls
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2600: The Hacker Quarterly --> inspect voting machines for something "the average person might miss"

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'As part of our continuing look at the technology behind voting machines, we'd like to ask each of you who goes to the polls to spend an extra minute or two behind the curtain to thoroughly check out the machine you're using. We'll be accepting calls Wednesday evening on "Off The Hook" at +1 212 209 2900 between 7 and 8 pm ET for you to give us your observations. We'd like you to look for such things as the exact model of the machine you're using, anything that looks odd or out of place, confusing or misleading directions or buttons, unused areas, potential ways of resetting the machine, and so on. In other words, we would like the hacker perspective on the voting machine you encounter.'
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Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years

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Australia's blistering summer has only just begun but reservoir levels are dropping fast, crop forecasts have been slashed, and great swaths of the continent are entering what scientists yesterday called a "one in a thousand years drought".
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Jack Cafferty on CNN Calls Rumsfeld a War Criminal

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NICE Systems

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Israel-based tech firm NICE Systems has developed software that records calls and "listens" for emotional signals...
Using algorithms, the 'emotion detection' system evaluates volume, pitch change, and trigger words.
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Ortega wins Nicaraguan presidential vote

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Former US-Cold War foe Daniel Ortega won Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua, the electoral council said.
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Disc-Shaped Object Sighted above O?Hare Airport Chicago

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On November 7th 2006 at approximately 4:30pm (Central US Time) Federal authorities at O?Hare Airport in Chicago Illinois received a report that a dozen witnesses were observing a small, round disc-shaped object which was metallic in appearance hovering above Gate C17.
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Bush: America is at war, Vote Republican

November 6, 2006 by element115
President George W. Bush made his final plea to voters ahead of knife-edge congressional elections, telling them to vote Republican if they want America's full protection.

"As you go the the polls, remember we are at war and if you want this country to do everything in its power to protect you and at the same time lay the foundation of peace for generations to come, vote Republican."
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Veek the Vote 2006

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Protect Democracy on Election Day

Show the world where you stand and what you experience on Election Day by shooting videos and photos with your mobile phone.

Send your videos and photos from your phone

The world will see what you send just 15 - 60 seconds later
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Red Cross: IDF hit clearly marked ambulance workers

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Haaretz --> The paramedics of the Palestine Red Crescent Society were wearing clearly marked fluorescent jackets and the flashing lights of their ambulance were visible from a great distance when they were hit by Israeli fire after dark on Friday evening, said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Hacking Democracy

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HBO Special --> The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system (1hr21min)

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Bill O'Reilly in trouble after obtaining details of Kansas abortions

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An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O'Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records.
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Disgraced Haggard: I am a "deceiver and a liar"

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In a letter of apology read to the congregation of New Life Church Sunday morning, Ted Haggard confessed to sexual immorality and described himself as "a deceiver and a liar." But in baring his soul to an outside investigative board, Haggard claimed he is not gay and did not engage in homosexual conduct.
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