Two US soldiers charged with murder of Iraqi

July 19, 2007 by element115
Sergeant 1st Class Trey Corrales and Specialist Christopher Shore were charged after reports of "alleged wrongdoing made by fellow soldiers to military authorities," the military said in a statement. No more details of the alleged murder were revealed.
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Meat is murder on the environment

by element115
A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.
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Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine

by element115
Israeli leaders are crystal clear about what they expect from their Palestinian servants.
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The Militarization and Annexation of North America

by element115
Stephen Lendman --> Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and justice for all" we used to believe in when, as kids, we recited our "Pledge of Allegiance." They now have a whole new meaning. They're just words drummed into young minds hoping they'll still believe them when they're old enough to know better.
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Overcoming Zionism

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Joel Kovel has given us an impressive important book. The first printing of OVERCOMING ZIONISM sold out without a single review, major or otherwise. The Library of Congress, which has copies of nearly everything, still doesn't have it on its shelves. Neither does the library at Bard College, where he teaches.
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Henry Kissinger's Secret Meeting With Putin

by element115
When a political heavyweight, like Henry Kissinger, jets-off on a secret mission to Moscow; it usually shows up in the news.

Not this time.

This time the media completely ignored—or should we say censored—Kissinger’s trip to Russia and his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, apart from a few short blurps in the Moscow Times and one measly article in the UK Guardian, no major news organization even covered the story. There hasn’t been as much as a peep out of anyone in the American media.

Nothing. That means the meetings were probably arranged by Dick Cheney. The secretive Veep doesn’t like anyone knowing what he’s up to.
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Cooking the intelligence, again

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Salon --> The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war.
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...what are you going to do about it?

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Christian Zionists: Ahmadinejad is new Hitler

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Christians United for Israel call on US to attack Iran immediately, move US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as sign of support.

The group's founder, the Reverend John Hagee, declared, "We support Israel because we are Bible-believing Christians," and said the world needs to see that "the sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awakened."
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Neocons on a Cruise

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What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening -->
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Russia Matches U.K. Diplomat Expulsions

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Russia said Thursday it was expelling four British diplomats in retaliation for a similar move by Britain, as a confrontation mounted between Moscow and London over the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Iran's president leaves Tehran for visit to Syria

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During his day-long visit, the two presidents will discuss issues of mutual interest, including ways to expand mutual cooperation in bilateral, regional and international issues, the report said.
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'Slain' al-Qaida target in Iraq was fictional

by element115
In March, he was declared captured. In May, he was declared killed, and his purported corpse was displayed on state-run TV. But Wednesday, Omar al-Baghdadi, the supposed leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq, was declared nonexistent by U.S. military officials, who say he is a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-run terror group.
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U.S. Intel Officer: Al Qaeda Leadership Allowed To Operate Freely

July 18, 2007 by element115
A U.S. intelligence official last week testified to Congress that he believes the Bush administration is allowing the leadership of Al Qaeda to operate freely in Pakistan and is choosing not to disrupt its activities.
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Absurd Terrorism Theories Invade the Homeland

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It is a busy news day, with the absurd propaganda coming fast and furious.
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'Big Brother' plan for police to use new road cameras

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"Big Brother" plans to automatically hand the police details of the daily journeys of millions of motorists tracked by road pricing cameras across the country were inadvertently disclosed by the Home Office last night.
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UN warns of economic collapse in Gaza

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UN officials issued new warnings today about the dire collapse of Gaza's economy and called on the international community to open crossing points for trade.
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Democrats fail to force vote in U.S. Senate on Iraq pullout

by element115
Senate Democrats fell short this morning, after a rare all-night session, in their attempt to force President George W. Bush to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq.
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US Military --> Most Senior Iraqi al-Qaida Member in Iraq Captured

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The U.S. military says it has captured the top Iraqi member of al-Qaida in Iraq. Officials say Khaled al-Mashhadani was an intermediary among top al-Qaida leaders including Osama bin Laden.
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America the Beautiful's Germ Warfare Rash

by element115
Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has spent at least $44 billion on biological "defense" without ever making made a true needs assessment.
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US Preparing Domestic Clampdown?

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...because of "growing popular unrest in the United States, caused by the prolonged war in Iraq .coupled with obvious Congressional inaction," the U.S. military has drawn up plans for combating domestic U.S. civil insurrections. This is not a theoretical study but a very specific one. Units to be used domestically are listed in detail as are detention centers, etc.
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One in four Israeli men dodges the draft

by element115
Figures released yesterday by the Israeli Army showed that in the 2006 intake, just 75 per cent of eligible men joined up.

"Israeli society has to condemn draft dodgers," an unnamed officer said. "This is not just a military matter, but a social issue as well. Those who do not shoulder their share of the burden have to be made to feel ashamed."
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Abbas plans Palestinian elections

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he will order early parliamentary and presidential elections in response to what he called last month's "coup" by Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
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Attorney For New Black Panther Party: Bush had 9/11 Foreknowledge

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Appearing on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes yesterday, Malik Shabazz, the attorney for the New Black Panther Party, compared 9/11 to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. The building was burned down by the Nazis and blamed on Communist infiltrators in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.
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'We Are CHANGE' confronts John McCain

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Proof Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage

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Why did IntelCenter, the middleman between "Al-Qaeda" and the media, a group that has government and Pentagon ties, re-release old footage and why did the media report it as new when it had already aired twice before?
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Former Reagan Official: Bush May Stage False Flag Events To Reinstate Draft

July 17, 2007 by element115
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts has gone further than ever before, warning that the Bush administration could be about to stage false flag events and terror attacks in order to reinstate the draft, announce a dictatorship and attack Iran.
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Marine says officers ordered to 'crank up' violence in Iraq

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A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level."
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Israel preparing for war with Syria, confirms general

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A senior Israeli general on Monday confirmed that the army is preparing for a full-scale war with Syria in the very near future.
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Meet the Pentagon’s New Spin Unit

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Bush Administration hacks bloggers, talk radio.
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Impeach Now Or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy

by element115
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
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UK expels four Russian diplomats

July 16, 2007 by element115
The UK is to expel four Russian diplomats in response to Moscow's refusal to extradite the prime suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
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World's largest nuclear plant leaks radioactive water after a strong quake

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Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant -- the world's largest -- leaked water containing radioactive materials from a reactor after a strong quake struck northwest Japan on Monday, a company spokesman said.
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Another Dubious Osama Tape Appears When The Neo-Cons Need It Most

by element115
If Osama Bin Laden really is still alive then the CIA owe him a pay rise for his continued sterling efforts to bail out USS Bush every time the administration is about to capsize, but the reality is that this is just another crude propaganda ploy and the latest installment in a series of hoax terror tapes edited and released by the Neo-Cons at the most politically expedient time.
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Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran

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· Military solution back in favour as Rice loses out
· President 'not prepared to leave conflict unresolved'
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The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age

July 15, 2007 by element115
Only twice before over the last century has 5 percent of the national income gone to families in the upper one-one-hundredth of a percent of the income distribution — currently, the almost 15,000 families with incomes of $9.5 million or more a year, according to an analysis of tax returns by the economists Emmanuel Saez at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics.
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Iraq-Bound Soldier Hires Hitman To Shoot Him

July 14, 2007 by element115
The death and destruction of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq seems to have become so rampant to one local soldier that he actually staged an attack on himself -- allegedly hiring a hitman to non-fatally shoot him -- so he wouldn't be sent back for another tour of duty.
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Sudan once again bombing civilian targets in Darfur

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Sudan has been bombing civilian targets in Darfur in violation of its earlier agreements with rebels based in the war-torn region, American envoy Andrew Natsios told reporters today in Khartoum.
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Reward on Osama bin Laden doubled

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The US Senate has voted 87-1 to double the reward for the death or capture of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden to $50 million.
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U.K.-U.S. Relations May See Changes

by element115
Britain's 'special relationship' with the United States could be cooling, as a senior government official said that new Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Bush would not be 'joined at the hip.'
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Lebanese Army Bombards Militants in Camp

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The Lebanese army bombarded Islamic militant positions in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon Saturday.
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Pope: Other Christians not true churches

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Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released this week that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and that Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.
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Pope remark kicks up storm

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"Since many years now, the Catholic Church has been engaged in an ecumenical dialogue with other Christian churches. The Pope’s position is a setback to the dialogue process," says Orthodox theologian and member of the World Council of Churches Father KM George. Agreeing with him is Church of North India (CNI) general secretary Enos Pradhan, "We don’t owe allegiance to the Pope. CNI, which is autonomous, expresses shock at the Pope’s observations. All churches are the body of Christ. We are all guided by his teachings, and what the Pope has said is a great blow to the unity movement within the churches."
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Hamas rejects Abbas's new government as illegal

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Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the caretaker government was illegal. He said the Islamist group "will not deal with it in any way or form, and we call upon our people not to deal with it."
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Republican senators seek Iraq withdrawal plan

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Two of President George W. Bush's fellow Republicans in the Senate who seek a change of course in the war in Iraq urged him on Friday to draft plans to begin a possible troop withdrawal by the end of the year.
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Australia charges doctor in UK bomb plot

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Australian Federal Police charged a 27-year-old Indian doctor on Saturday over his "reckless" links with the alleged perpetrators of the attempted car bomb attacks in Britain on June 29 and 30.
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North Korea Gets Oil for Closing Reactor

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After years of tortuous negotiations and delays during which the North argued its nuclear program was needed for self-defense the reclusive communist regime said earlier this month that once it received the oil shipment, it would consider halting its reactor.
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Russia Suspends Participation in Treaty

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Russia suspended participation in a key European arms control treaty Saturday, saying it will halt NATO inspections of its military sites and no longer limit the numbers of its tanks and other heavy conventional weapons.
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Ron Paul: U.S. In "Great Danger" Of Staged Terror

July 13, 2007 by element115
Presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is in "great danger" of a staged terror attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation while also warning that a major collapse of the American economy is on the horizon and could be precipitated by the bombing of Iran and the closure of the Persian Gulf.
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U.S. Treasury Holds Disaster Drill in Tampa Bay

by element115
The post-disaster exercise received very little media coverage but has now been confirmed to have taken place.
The Department of the Treasury holding a post-disaster exercise of any sort is in fact extremely significant considering the current problems with the U.S. Dollar.
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US report : Al-Qaeda strongest since 2001

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'We actually see the al-Qaeda central being resurgent in their role in planning operations,' John Kringen, head of the CIA's intelligence directorate, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. 'They seem to be fairly well settled into the safe haven in the ungoverned spaces of Pakistan ... We see more training. We see more money. We see more communications.'
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Kurdish Region Feels Threat Of Turkish Invasion

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In recent weeks, Turkey has massed tens of thousands of soldiers on its border with Iraq and repeatedly threatened to launch a cross-border operation to pursue Kurdish militants.
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Made in Israel: The Crisis in Gaza

by element115
The old dream of Ariel Sharon is becoming a reality: Palestinians are killing Palestinians, and Israel is counting the number of victims with great satisfaction. The tears of Israeli leaders are crocodile tears, and their claims that they are sorry for the tragic developments in Gaza are mere hypocrisy. The bloody confrontations were predictable, and the Israeli-US responsibility and active involvement are crystal clear.
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Iran allows reactor inspection

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The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says the visit to the heavy-water reactor being built at Arak is among a number of measures agreed during a visit to Tehran earlier this week.
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Advertisements That Watch You Smile

by element115
German researchers have developed a new tool to recognize emotions as they flicker across the human face. Rapid facial analysis has huge potential for advertisers, but some are concerned about protecting privacy.
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House OKs Plan to Withdraw US Troops

July 12, 2007 by element115
The House voted to withdraw U.S. troops by spring.
The House measure passed 223-201 in the Democratic-controlled chamber despite a veto threat from President Bush, who has ruled out any change in war policy before September.
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Clone-farmed meat on yor table within two years

by element115
The U.S. expects to be eating clone-farmed burgers, pork and bacon within two years, and supporters of the method say Europe must follow suit.
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US shot or killed 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints

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US soldiers in Iraq killed or wounded 429 Iraqi civilians at checkpoints or near patrols just in the last year -- according to military statistics leaked to a McClatchy Newspaper reporter.
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Sheehan: Distinct Chance Of Staged Attack, Martial Law

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Cindy Sheehan, the famous Peace Mom who recently expressed her intention to run against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, says there's a "distinct possibility" that America will be hit with another staged terror attack that will allow Bush to enact the martial law provisions he recently signed into law.
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Honored by Hatred: Elite Propaganda and U.S. Policy in the Middle East

by element115
A recent op-ed in the Washington Post offers an instructive example of elite opinion towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the kind of logic, or lack thereof, which guides U.S. policy.
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Bush admits administration leaked CIA name

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President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has "run its course."

"And now we're going to move on," Bush said in a White House news conference.
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Neocon Bill Kristol expects Bush to attack Pakistan

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"I think the president's going to have to take military action there over the next few weeks or months. ... Bush has to disrupt that sanctuary."
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UK Police to get 'head-cams'

by element115
Police officers in the UK are to be given head-mouted video cameras to film incidents and arrests, the footage of which can then be used in evidence.

The 'head-cams' can store up to 400 hours of footage with soundtrack on their hard drive.
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Firefighters Rip Giuliani, Call Him 'Urban Legend'

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The International Association of Firefighters has gone on the offensive against "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, releasing a 13-minute video that viciously rips into the former New York mayor, who has been using his leadership demonstrated on September 11th to urge people around the country to support him in his quest to become President of the United States.
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US can still win in Iraq: Bush

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President George W. Bush insisted Thursday America could still win the war in Iraq, despite a bleak picture of progress in the war-wracked nation painted by a White House report.
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A year later, Olmert says war in Lebanon was a success

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert toured Israel's northern border with Lebanon on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the war against Hezbollah guerrillas, declaring the much-criticized military campaign a success that made Israel safer.
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21/7 bomb plotters sentenced to life

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The four men who tried to carry out mass murder in a suicide bomb attack in London on July 21 two years ago were clearly controlled and directed by al-Qaida, the judge who sentenced them to life imprisonment said yesterday.
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Israeli soldier killed during Gaza incursion

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One Israeli soldier was killed and two were wounded on Thursday in a clash with Palestinian militants in Hamas-controlled Gaza, the first Israeli death in the coastal strip in nine months, an army spokesman said.
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Terrorists are Coming!

by element115
Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, told the Chicago Tribune editorial board he had a "gut feeling" al Qaeda might try to attack the United States this summer. The paper highlighted the comment, and a regulation-issue media frenzy ensued.
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Canada to give Palestinians $8M in aid

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper will announce an immediate $8 million in funding for the Palestinian Authority today, but the lifting of a financing freeze will also come with a private exhortation to the Palestinians to do something about corruption that has sapped public confidence, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Nobel laureate calls for removal of Bush

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"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."

About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush's removal from power.
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Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use

July 11, 2007 by element115
Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled.
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Lieberman: US will back Israeli strike on Iran

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Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that he received the tacit blessing of Europe and the United States for an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity Partnership

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The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.
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Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad

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The robbery, of $282 million from the Dar Es Salaam bank, a private financial institution, raised more questions than it answered, and officials were tight-lipped about the crime. The local police said two guards engineered the robbery, but an official at the Interior Ministry said three guards were involved.

Both confirmed that the stolen money was in American dollars, not Iraqi dinars. It was unclear why the bank had that much money on hand in dollars, or how the robbers managed to move such a large amount without being detected.
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Was there a US/UK UFO cover-up?

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Video --> More4 News looks into whether the British and American governments routinely covered up information about UFOs.
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CNN Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore

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Mike demands an apology from CNN for Dr. Sanjay Gupta's biased reporting on 'SiCKO' and for helping the Bush administration lie us into a pointless war.
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Bogus company gets radioactives license

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Congressional investigators set up a bogus company with only a postal box and within a month obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that allowed them to buy enough radioactive material for a small "dirty bomb."
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New Laws Of Physics Noted In WTC Fires And Ignored

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Dr Cahill's Discovery of Anaerobic Chlorine Fueled Combustion.
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Saving Al Qaeda: Collective Punishment and Curious Policy in the "Surge"

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The Bush Administration's hideously named military offensive in Iraq's Diyala province ("Arrowhead Ripper" — there's a real hearts-and-minds moniker for you) is having the same effect we've seen in all the other many pushes and surges and crackdowns during the botched conquest: killing innocent people, alienating the locals, strengthening the insurgency — and allowing the ostensible targets of the operation to escape long before the action begins.
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U.S. Navy sends carrier to Gulf

July 10, 2007 by element115
A U.S. aircraft carrier is heading to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes the Gulf, but the Pentagon said on Tuesday there had been no decision to increase naval power in the region.
U.S. defence officials said the deployment of the USS Enterprise was a routine measure to replace one of two U.S. Navy carriers now in the Fifth Fleet area.
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Data on Americans mined for terror risk

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The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
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9/11 Truth Invades Live Earth

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Banner confiscated, truthers briefly detained by security, but a potential audience of billions get the message.
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Live Earth 9/11 bannering

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New York City to get London-style "surveillance veil"

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It looks like New York City will soon be seeing a slew of new ever-watchful eyes, as The New York Times reports that the city is set to get a London-style "surveillance veil" that would eventually consist of thousands of cameras monitoring vehicles and individuals alike.
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What the ‘DC Madam’ was doing on 9/11

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An immediate question about those phone records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called ‘DC madam,’ was what if any interruption of business they would show for September 11, 2001. Results, judging from a quick search, predictable: little activity on 9/11 itself, then business roaring back to full steam ahead by the following week, then on to super revived activity the second weekend afterward, after the Stock Market had reopened, military and security contractors were ginning up, and we’re open for war, I mean business.
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UK MPs renew 28-day pre-charge detention rule

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The 28-day pre-charge detention period was brought in under the Terrorism Act 2006 but must be renewed annually.
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Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy

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Only attacks on scale of 9/11, 7/7 can bolster resolve according to war studies head.
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Bush denies Congress access to aides

July 9, 2007 by element115
President Bush directed former aides to defy congressional subpoenas on Monday, claiming executive privilege and prodding lawmakers closer to their first contempt citations against administration officials since Ronald Reagan was president.
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Turkey has 140,000 troops on Iraq border

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Turkey has massed 140,000 soldiers on its border with northern Iraq but so far there has been no violations, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday.
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US Turns Down Russia’s Missile Shield Offer

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...turned down Moscow’s offer of a joint missile shield in Europe and confirmed intentions to pursue its own plans to put a missile defense in Eastern Europe. This has become the first official rejection of President Vladimir Putin’s offer to deploy joint missile facilities in Azerbaijan and southern Russia.
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'Use children as medicine guinea pigs' expert says

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Children should be used as guinea pigs in clinical research to speed up medical breakthroughs and improve treatment for them, a leading expert says.
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Unholy Alliance

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Military and police technology sharing sends shivers up civil libertarians’ spines.
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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

by element115
The full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people.

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Arab League To Make Historic Visit To Israel

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For the first time ever, the 22-nation Arab League is set to send a delegation to Israel. Its mission: to discuss a sweeping peace initiative with the Jewish state, as well as the threat posed by Hamas and other Islamic extremist movements.
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Von Braun Was At Roswell

July 8, 2007 by element115
Clark C. McClelland, Former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet Kennedy Space Center --> Dr. von Braun explained how he and his (unnamed, for now) associates had been taken to the crash site after most of the military were pulled back. They did a quick analysis of what they found. He told me the craft did not appear to be made of metal as we know metal on earth. He said it seemed to be created from something biological, like skin. I was lost as to what he indicated, other than thinking perhaps the craft was "alive." The recovered bodies were temporarily being kept in a nearby medical tent. They were small, very frail and had large heads. Their eyes were large. Their skin was grayish and reptilian in texture. He said it looked similar to the skin texture of rattle snakes he'd seen several times at White Sands. His inspection of the debris had even him puzzled: very thin, aluminum colored, like silvery chewing gum wrappers. Very light and extremely strong. The interior of the craft was nearly bare of equipment, as if the creatures and craft were part of a single unit.
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Bush justice is a national disgrace

by element115
As a longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, I can honestly say that I have never been as ashamed of the department and government that I serve as I am at this time.

In the course of its tenure since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has turned the entire government (and the DOJ in particular) into a veritable Augean stable on issues such as civil rights, civil liberties, international law and basic human rights, as well as criminal prosecution and federal employment and contracting practices. It has systematically undermined the rule of law in the name of fighting terrorism, and it has sought to insulate its actions from legislative or judicial scrutiny and accountability by invoking national security at every turn, engaging in persistent fearmongering, routinely impugning the integrity and/or patriotism of its critics, and protecting its own lawbreakers. This is neither normal government conduct nor "politics as usual," but a national disgrace of a magnitude unseen since the days of Watergate - which, in fact, I believe it eclipses.
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Israel pledges to free 250 jailed Palestinians

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srael announced Sunday that it would release 250 Palestinian prisoners, a move intended to bolster the administration of President Mahmoud Abbas, a government spokesman said.
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U.S. allows visit to Iranian captives

July 7, 2007 by element115
The U.S. military has said the five belong to the Quds Force, an elite covert unit of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard. Iran has denied the charge.
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British identify 2 suspects in foiled attacks

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Investigators have identified two "principal protagonists" in the botched terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow and are trying to establish how the other detained suspects fit in
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French official suggested Bush was behind September 11

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A senior French politician, now a minister in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, suggested last year that U.S. President George W. Bush might have been behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a website.
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The Mess They Made

July 6, 2007 by element115
America is going home from Iraq bloodied, but the sky won't fall unless George W. Bush bombs Iran.

"To do that, you would, of course, have to be insane", says geopolitical commentator Gwynne Dyer, whose book, The Mess They Made, examines the likely shape of the Middle East after the United States pulls out.
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China Urges Diplomacy on Iran

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China's top envoy at the United Nations says his country is against additional measures being taken against Iran for not complying with previous Security Council.
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Sadr bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law

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Sadr's supporters said they would not support any law that would allow firms "whose governments are occupying Iraq" -- a reference to the United States, Britain and their coalition allies -- to sign Iraqi oil deals.
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The World Turned Upside-Down

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Justin Raimondo --> Bizarro Bush thinks he's George Washington, but he's really George III.
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Silencing Scooter

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Sparing his confidant jail time helps president keep war rationale secret.
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Gaza economy on the brink

by element115
Gaza’s industry is in a state of collapse because imports and exports to the Strip have been blocked by Israel.
85 per cent of Gaza residents are now dependent on humanitarian aid.
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Oil a factor in Australian role in Iraq: minister

July 5, 2007 by element115
Oil is a key factor keeping Australian troops in the US-led war in Iraq, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday, before his boss Prime Minister John Howard sharply contradicted him.
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Take the revolutionary road

by element115
The US has been the world's principal anti-revolutionary force for almost a century. As Thomas Jefferson would have said, it's time to rebel.
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Israel Planning Fence on Egypt Border

by element115
The 135-mile border fence would have sensors to pick up attempts to cross and would include obstacles to stop infiltrations.
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Libby a Long-Time Mossad Agent

by element115
Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to WMR on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.
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Russia won't extradite Litvinenko murder suspect

by element115
Russia on Thursday officially refused a request from Britain to extradite the chief suspect in the murder last year of a former Russian agent in London, the Russian prosecutor general's office said.
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Israeli attacks in Gaza kill seven militants

by element115
Israeli soldiers backed by tanks and air support launched fresh raids inside the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least seven Palestinian militants.
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Al-Qaeda In Iraq Bush's Creation

by element115
President George W. Bush's political capital is about as low as it can go, with only dead-end Bushists clinging to his failed regime. The erosion of support, however, can actually make the madman even more isolated from reality, arrogant and impetuous.

The final 18 months of his presidency will be an increasingly dangerous time for the world. Bush is wrapping himself in his messianic blanket, still bound to convince the infidels at home and abroad that he is a gifted visionary who can reshape the Middle East.

Vice President Dick Cheney makes Dr. Strangelove seem like Gandhi. Cheney operates above the Congress, the Constitution, the law and human decency -- at times, above the presidency. He does as he pleases and is answerable to no one.
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Olbermann Calls on Bush to Resign

by element115
The “Countdown” host compares Bush to Richard Nixon, who, he says, at least had the decency to resign once his abuse of power was exposed.
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The High Cost of Libby’s Silence

by element115
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” says the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Unless, of course, you are a friend of the president. By commuting “Scooter” Libby’s sentence, President Bush is also protecting himself and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Dead ‘Mossad spy’ was writing exposé

July 4, 2007 by element115
An Egyptian millionaire who mysteriously fell to his death from the balcony of his London flat after being named as a Mossad spy was writing a book that threatened to expose the murky world of Arab-Israeli espionage.
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Questions which continue to torment the American soul

by element115
Only by OPENLY and continuously networking about these "answers" can we hope to save ourselves.
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Spain intercepts arms shipment from Israel to Nicaragua

by element115
The Spanish customs service found 1,085 guns and pistols on a ship making its way from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine inspection of the ship while it was docking in Algeciras in southern Spain.
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Fed Up With War, Some Won't Pay Taxes

by element115
8,000 to 10,000 Americans refuse to pay some or all of their federal taxes over war objections.
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'Loose Change 9/11' heading for UK cinemas

by element115
Online film phenomenon 'Loose Change 9/11' has been picked up for theatrical release in the UK.
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Abuse of power

by element115
Scooter Libby’s medal of freedom must be waiting for him on President Bush’s desk.
The award will complete the latest circle of hell in this administration’s boundless penchant for abusing power and bailing out disgraced henchmen.
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Why impeachment of Cheney and Bush is imperative

by element115
Impeaching, convicting and removing Dick Cheney and George W. Bush from office goes beyond punishing them for their crimes. It goes to sending a message to their successors, assuming there will be successors come January 20, 2009, that no one is above the law and failure to "preserve, protect and defend" the US Constitution, criminality and corruption will not be tolerated.
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Canada loses six more soldiers in Afghanistan

by element115
The Canadian military casualty count in southern Afghanistan reached 66 early Wednesday after six soldiers died when their armoured vehicle was demolished by an improvised explosive device planted in a gravel road, killing everyone on-board.
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Al Qaeda No. 2 appears in new video

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Al Qaeda's No. 2 commander appeared on Wednesday in a new video on a Web site used by Islamist militant groups, urging unity in jihad and calling for the overthrow of "corrupt" Muslim governments in the region.

The English version of the title posted on the site was "The Advice of One Concerned" and the video showed the Egyptian cleric Ayman al-Zawahri wearing a white robe, speaking in Arabic with English sub-titles.
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Oswald 'had no time to fire all Kennedy bullets'

by element115
Lee Harvey Oswald could not have acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy, according to a new study by Italian weapons experts of the type of rifle Oswald used in the shootings.
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'Free' energy technology goes on display

by element115
Technology developed by an Irish firm that allegedly defies basic laws of physics to produce free power today goes on public display for the first time.

Steorn is challenging worldwide cynicism over its claims to have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery that creates clean, constant energy and could end the global fuel crisis.
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How Cheney abused his power in war on terror

July 3, 2007 by element115
Telegraph --> Vice-President Dick Cheney was personally responsible for American policies that subjected terrorist suspects to cruelty and denied them the right to a fair trial, according to revelations from senior US government officials.
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Insanely Useful Websites

by element115
The following sites and resources are “insanely useful Web sites” for government transparency. They provide a broad range of information available to track government and legislative information, campaign contributions and the role of money in politics.
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NYC man held for reciting 1st Amendment

by element115
The performance artist — a cross between a street-corner preacher and an Elvis impersonator (but blond) — was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square.
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Tony Snow’s Libby Presser: A web of lies

by element115
Bush and Cheney are laughing at you. They are laughing at the press that was wrapped up in this case from the beginning and they are laughing at the legal system of the country.
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Holocaust Survivor Leaving US

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"I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it"
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US judges serve orders on Google to BAN articles on US legal corruption

by element115
In a new, and very significant, legal development with Bush family friend and famous author Patricia Cornwell, Cornwell has just served US federal court orders upon Google, to BAN a set of popular journalism articles on United States legal corruption which had been hosted on Google blog sites.

Though the "court orders" served by Bush's friend Patricia Cornwell upon Google are technically illegal, and null and void due to fraud, Google immediately complied with the Patricia Cornwell "orders", without any challenge, or attempt to verify their legality or compliance with US laws and the US Constitution.
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Origin of British terror plot still unclear

by element115
officials still have not determined whether a foreign terror group sent them to Britain or they were recruited here.
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Venezuela sells petrol to Iran to reinforce front against US

by element115
"The two countries will, united, defeat the imperialism of North America," Chávez told reporters. With a smile he added: "When I come to Iran, Washington gets upset."
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Bush Wipes Away Libby's Prison Sentence

by element115
Just when things looked darkest for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, when prison seemed all but certain, President Bush wiped away the former White House aide's 2 1/2-year sentence in the CIA leak case.
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Putin makes new offer to Bush on missile plan

by element115
After talks at the Bush family compound, Bush called Putin's offer "very innovative" and worthy of study, but insisted the anti-missile system must still be based in eastern Europe despite Russia's bitter objections.
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Bush and Putin fish but don't make any deals

by element115
It's never a good sign when the biggest success of a seaside summit between the leaders of Russia and the U.S. comes when one of them catches a fish.
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UK bomb plot suspect detained in Australia

by element115
All eight are linked to a plot to detonate two car bombs left in central London early on Friday and an attack on Glasgow airport in Scotland on Saturday using a fuel-laden Jeep Cherokee.
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Doctors questioned over British bomb plot

by element115
British police questioned eight people on Tuesday, at least four of them doctors, over a suspected al Qaeda plot to detonate car bombs in London and Scotland after the investigation spread as far as Australia.
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US President Declares: 'Impeach Bush!'

July 2, 2007 by element115
...written and released by the Judiciary Committee in 1974 in the aftermath of the Watergate crisis.
"[I]f the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds [to] believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty..."
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Scotland Yard: Bombers 'laughable', likely not 'al Qaeda

by element115
"So incompetent as to be almost laughable." That's how former Scotland Yard detective John O'Connor described the botched UK bombings this morning on CNN. He also noted that it's probably wrong to refer to these guys as 'al Qaeda'.
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Israel Transfers Taxes to Palestinians

by element115
Israel transferred millions of dollars worth of tax funds to the new Palestinian government, allowing it to pay its workers in full for the first time in a year - while skipping the ones who work for the Islamic Hamas in Gaza.
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Palestinians to get first full wages in 17 months

by element115
The payments will go to nearly 140,000 Palestinian Authority workers, including tens of thousands in Gaza.
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Suicide Car Bomber Kills At Least 9 in Yemen

by element115
The attack targeted a convoy of tourists at an ancient temple.

...killed at least seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni nationals.
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Iran launches English-language satellite TV channel

by element115
Iran launched an English-language satellite television channel on Monday saying it was seeking to redress the balance of world news coverage which was now in the grip of the West.
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Bush Close to Being Criminaly Charged

July 1, 2007 by element115
Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says that a contempt charge is not out of the question if the White House refuses to turn over subpoenaed documents.
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Fear, fear, fear....

by element115
U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned.

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
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Europeans see US as threat to peace

by element115
A survey carried out in June by Harris Research for the Financial Times shows that 32 per cent of respondents in five European countries regard the US as a bigger threat than any other state.
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Lieberman calls for wider use of surveillance cameras

by element115
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said Sunday he wants to “more widely” use surveillance cameras across the country.
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London Heathrow terminal closed over suspect package

by element115
British authorities evacuated part of London's Heathrow airport on Sunday while police investigated a suspect package, airport operator BAA said.
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911 and the British Broadcasting Conspiracy

June 30, 2007 by element115
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Peace Loving Israeli Occupation

by element115
Six videos that will not be screened on American or British televisions. Nor will they be shown in the Cinema Houses there. Six videos that document the horrors of the Israeli Occupation.
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Blazing car crashes into Glasgow airport

by element115
One eyewitness at Glasgow Airport said: "I heard the sound of a car's wheels spinning and smoke coming out.

"I saw a Jeep Cherokee apparently as if it was trying to get right through the doors into the terminal building.

"There were flames coming out from underneath then some men appeared from in amongst the flames.
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The Plan to Disappear Canada

by element115
'Deep integration' comes out of shadows...
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EU agrees to share air passenger data with US

June 29, 2007 by element115
"In practice it's a done deal. It should be formalised in July," said one envoy of the agreement, which is set to replace an interim deal reached in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and which is due to expire next month.
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Greek police confronted by 'videos of shame'

by element115
Greek police are battling accusations of brutality after their own films taken on mobile phones became public.
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Chavez in Russia for arms talks

by element115
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Russia, where he will meet his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for talks on military co-operation.
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A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney

by element115
The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office.

As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration's leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party -- including the presidential nominee -- in next year's elections.
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Bush plays al Qaida card to bolster support for Iraq policy

by element115
Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida "the main enemy" in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts.
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CIA altered mind of a girl aged 4

by element115
"Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects."

Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency's behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.
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9/11 Accountability Conference

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US judge calls for secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance

by element115
A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution.
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Residents Say 17 Killed by U.S. Were Not Insurgents

by element115
The U.S. military is investigating the killings of 17 people in a U.S. helicopter attack north of Baghdad a week ago, after residents of the area complained that the victims were not fighters from the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, as the military originally claimed, but members of a village guard force and ordinary citizens.
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First artificial life 'within months'

by element115
Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacterium into another.

Scientists in the US took the whole genetic makeup - or genome - of a bacterial cell and transplanted it into a closely related species.
This then began to grow and multiply in the lab, turning into the first species in the process.
The team that carried out the first “species transplant” says it plans within months to do the same thing with a synthetic genome made from scratch in the laboratory.
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Court Allows Student's Anti-Bush T-Shirt

by element115
Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.
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Public photography under scrutiny

by element115
Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks.
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Unrest Grows Amid Gas Rationing in Iran

by element115
Unrest spread in Tehran on Thursday, the second day of gasoline rationing in oil-rich Iran, with drivers lining up for miles, gas stations being set on fire and state-run banks and business centers coming under attack.
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Israel kills militant from Abbas's Fatah movement

by element115
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement on Friday on the second day of a large-scale military raid targeting armed loyalists of the Western-backed leader.
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Did the US Frame Libyans for Lockerbie?

by element115
The legal review of the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has re-opened the Lockerbie affair in a dramatic fashion.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav tenders resignation

by element115
Israel's outgoing president tendered his resignation Friday following a plea bargain in which he confessed to sexual harassment to avoid rape charges.

On Thursday, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz reached an agreement with Katsav's lawyers that the two counts of rape would be removed from the indictment. Under Israeli law, the president would have served up to 16 years in prison if convicted of the more serious charges.
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Explosives-Packed Car Defused in London

by element115
Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a bomb made of a lethal mix of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.
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Brown must seize the day - and break with Bush now

June 28, 2007 by element115
The new man in No 10 was a fervent supporter of the war. The only way to signal a fresh start is by taking Britain out of Iraq.
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Blair's Middle East role tainted by associations with Bush

by element115
...reservations continued about his ability to act as an honest broker in the Middle East because of his unequivocal support for George Bush in the war in Iraq, and failing to call for a halt to the Israeli bombing of Lebanon last summer.
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77,000 Die Annually in Asia-Pacific from Climate Change

by element115
A recent WHO study estimated that climate change, directly or indirectly, contributes to about 77,000 deaths annually in Asia and the Pacific - about half of the world total attributed to global warming.
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Survey: US Image Abroad Still Sinking

by element115
U.S. retains great popularity only in Israel and most of sub-Saharan Africa.

But its standing among its western European allies, most of Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, as well as the Islamic world and most of Asia, including China, has continued to fall, particularly compared to five years ago on the eve of its invasion of Iraq, according to the survey.
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U.S. Corporations Keeping Biowarfare Work Secret

by element115
A number of major pharmaceutical corporations and biotech firms are concealing the nature of the biological warfare research work they are doing for the U.S. government.
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Israel angers US Jewish charities

by element115
"In a country with a budget surplus of billions of shekels, this is very hard to understand, especially since the American Jewish community desperately needs to subsidize Jewish education in the US," the official, from an influential New York-based Jewish organization, said angrily. "We need this money, and if Israel doesn't, where do they come off?"
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Kremlin lays claim to huge chunk of oil-rich North Pole

by element115
Russia signalled its intention to get even bigger by announcing an audacious plan to annex a vast 460,000 square mile chunk of the frozen and ice-encrusted Arctic. The territory contained 10bn tonnes of gas and oil deposits, the scientists said.
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White House rejects subpoenas

by element115
President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
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CIA wiretapped scribes and dissidents: Report

by element115
Journalists surveillance; Covert mail opening at JFK airport; Watergate burglar; former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt of Watergate fame requesting a lock picker; investigating foreign support for domestic US dissent; Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba; John Lennon funding anti-war activists; and a CIA counter-intelligence official James J. Angleton and issue of training foreign police in bomb-making, sabotage.
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Israel raids downtown Nablus

by element115
Israeli troops raided downtown Nablus early on Thursday, imposing a curfew that confined tens of thousands of people to their homes as soldiers combed the city's narrow alleyways in search of wanted Palestinian militants.
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Egyptian billionaire ‘who spied for Mossad’ found dead

by element115
Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late President Gamel Abdel Nasser, was found beneath his fourth-floor flat in Carlton House Terrace.

Police were treating his death as suspicious. Friends of Mr Marwan, a former shareholder in Chelsea Football Club, said that he had feared assassination after being named three years ago as an agent during the Yom Kippur war.
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Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians

June 27, 2007 by element115
Israeli forces have killed at least 12 Palestinians, mostly gunmen but also a 12-year-old boy and other civilians, in the deadliest raid in the Gaza Strip since Hamas seized the territory.
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White House, Cheney's Office, Subpoenaed

by element115
The Senate subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, demanding documents and elevating the confrontation with President Bush over the administration's warrant-free eavesdropping on Americans.
Besides issuing the subpoenas, the Senate Judiciary Committee also is summoning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to discuss the program and an array of other matters that have cost a half-dozen top Justice Department officials their jobs.
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Doctors for microchips

by element115
Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation's largest doctors group said in a report.

The report concluded that it is "likely that utilization of RFID devices for medical purposes will expand."
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Brown becomes new British prime minister

by element115
Gordon Brown ended a decade-long wait to become prime minister Wednesday, stepping out of Tony Blair's shadow determined to heal divisions over the unpopular Iraq war as he brings a sober new tone to the government.
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FBI Whistleblower Describes Government Muscle Tactics

by element115
A whistleblower who lost her job and was gagged by the Bush administration after revealing careerism, corruption and widespread incompetence at the FBI detailed her difficult search for justice to an audience on Monday at the American Library Association's annual conference. Sibel Edmonds, hired by the FBI as a translator shortly after 9/11, was fired in 2002 after reporting a range of problems at the bureau.
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The Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference

by element115
...a summary of remarks by as many of the speakers
as possible.

The Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference, 2007 website
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Bolton: Only military intervention to stop Iran

June 26, 2007 by element115
Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington."

While "the regime is more susceptible to overthrow from within than people think," he said, such a process "may take more time than we have."
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Mideast leaders meet after Abbas-Olmert talks

by element115
"The Israeli incursions, and the action it is undertaking as an occupying force, the suffering of the Palestinian people, the events in Gaza, all show that the absence of peace is what has led Palestinians to turn their weapons on each other instead of committing to resisting the occupation," presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad told reporters.
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Israel moves closer to NATO missions

by element115
The aim was to add Israel to NATO's "operational capabilities concept" with the goal of creating better cooperation between the militaries - essentially a unified operational language - that would lay the groundwork for potential Israeli participation in NATO-led missions.
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Documentary 'The Israel lobby'

by element115
The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy.
An episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" - (English version )

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Lockerbie evidence 'was tampered with, destroyed and overlooked'

by element115
Amid claims from his defence team of a "co-ordinated effort to mislead the court", tantamount to a perversion of the course of justice, the SCCRC is studying hundreds of documents and photographs that suggest evidence was deliberately fabricated, manipulated or ignored by police and CIA operatives.
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Marines to train at new Israeli combat center

by element115
In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops — and someday, U.S. Marines and soldiers — are preparing for the wide range of urban scenarios they may confront.

Here, at Israel’s new National Urban Training Center, the Israeli Defense Force’s Ground Forces Command is preparing forces to fight in four theaters: Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria.

Built by the Army Corps of Engineers and funded largely from U.S. military aid, the 7.4-square-mile generic city — balad, in Arabic, means village — consists of 1,100 basic modules that can be reconfigured by mission planners to represent specific towns.
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U.S. to Fingerprint E.U. Visitors

by element115
Visitors from European nations traveling with visas or visa-free to the United States will soon have to give 10 digital fingerprints when entering the country, a senior U.S. Homeland Security official said Monday.

Border checks could also soon include other biometric data, such as facial and eye retina scans, as the U.S. upgrades security at its ports, airports and border crossings, said P.T. Wright, the operations director for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT Program.
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The Ultimate Con (spiracy)

by element115
The 911 Documentary, 1 hr 54 min

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World Bank approves new president

by element115
Robert Zoellick, a former deputy secretary of state and US trade representative in the administration of US President George W Bush, was nominated by Mr Bush on May 30 to succeed Mr Wolfowitz, an ex-US deputy defense secretary and an architect of the Iraq war.
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Israel to bolster Abbas' grip on power

by element115
A chance has emerged for Israel to undermine its arch foe Hamas by bolstering Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' grip on power after a complete political split between Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli prime minister said.
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Blair's new job: World’s Man in the Middle East

by element115
Tony Blair’s nomination for the post of international envoy in the Middle East is likely to be confirmed as early as today despite grumbles from Europe and last-minute wrangles over his job description.

Blair’s nomination has been pushed by Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, and – to a lesser extent – the White House, in behind-the-scenes negotiations over recent months.
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Military experts claim we are at WAR with Iran in all but name

by element115
“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us. “It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.”

Until now, secret units from Iran’s fanatical RGC have restricted themselves to just training and arming Shia rebels in Iraq.
They include the al Quds Brigade — a secretive force tasked to spread Islamic revolution abroad who are the main backers for Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and are also active in Palestine and northern Iraq.
An MoD spokeswoman said: “There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran.

...see, see...what would you do in the president's shoes?
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White House opposes move to declassify report on Iraq's WMDs

June 25, 2007 by element115
The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
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Ariel Sharon's son given seven months in jail for election fraud

by element115
He committed the offences while fundraising for his father's 1999 Likud party primaries campaign and later while defending himself to the state comptroller against accusations that large parts of the donations had been illegal.
He did so by establishing fictitious companies, which received payments for non-existent services.
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Twelve die in Lebanese army raid on militant hideout

by element115
Lebanese troops killed seven militants, most of them foreigners, in a raid on their hideout in the northern city of Tripoli on Sunday, while sporadic battles shook a nearby Palestinian refugee camp.
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Iran Invites IAEA Team to Tehran

by element115
Iran invited an International Atomic Energy Agency team to Tehran to draw up a concrete plan for clearing up suspicions about its nuclear program, an IAEA spokeswoman said Monday.
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NATO admits more civilian deaths

by element115
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan admitted Sunday to killing more civilians, this time in Pakistan, a day after harsh criticism from President Hamid Karzai about military operations.
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Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to hang

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Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", was sentenced on Sunday to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
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Hamas releases tape of captured Israeli soldier

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An Israeli soldier captured a year ago by militants from Gaza asked for medical treatment and urged Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, in an audio tape posted on the Internet on Monday.

"I regret the lack of interest of the Israeli government and military in my case and their failure to meet the demands."
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Bush will use 9.11.2007 to extend surge

June 24, 2007 by element115
The Bush administration has a well established pattern of using the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to hype an often fictional "threat to America" and sell the war in Iraq, writes the New York Times' Frank Rich in his Sunday column. Rich expects this year to be no different.
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Israeli Apartheid is the Core of the Crisis

by element115
When "Israel's right to exist" is used as a litmus test for moderation and pragmatism, the subtext is that it is reasonable for apartheid practices which are at the core of the state as currently constituted to be allowed to continue. Thus, those who mouth this mantra, and those who try to limit the apartheid label to "the occupation", are complicit with the apartheid inside pre-1967 Israel.
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People to Bush, the GOP and the Congress: the Constitution is not Negotiable

by element115
The situation is surreal if not unprecedented. Although Bush enjoys the support of only about 28 percent of the American people, he faces no real Congressional opposition. What gives?
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Hanging Around WTC 7

by element115
Mr. Jennings is still confused as to why Building 7 had to come down at all, and does not accept the official reason that the noises he heard were from a fuel oil tank, "I know what I heard, I heard explosions".
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A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy

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It’s hard to imagine how Dick Cheney could get more dastardly, unless J. K. Rowling has him knock off Harry Potter next month.
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The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming

June 23, 2007 by element115
Rolling Stone --> Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science - especially when it comes from international experts.
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Dr. Bob Bowman reviews 9/11

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FBI's 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released

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A heavily redacted FBI report on the incident begins by describing a private jet that was hired to pick up members of the bin Laden family that were in the US eight days after the 9/11 attacks. "The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian Royal Family or Osama bin Laden," according to the declassified pages of the FBI investigation.
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Only one in six of UK's richest men is paying any income tax

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The super-rich are using loopholes to avoid paying £2billion a year in income tax, official figures have revealed.

Only one in six of those earning more than £10million a year is paying tax on their earnings - with the rest using loopholes to dodge the burden.
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Cheney ordered Secret Service logs destroyed, paper reports

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So clandestine is the Vice President's work that he has created a new secret document designation: "Treated As: Top Secret/SCI."

That's not all: the piece also reveals that Cheney keeps 'man-size' Mosler safes on hand for "workaday business" and has destroyed all Secret Service visitor logs, in addition to already refusing to comply with a national security directive issued by President Bush.
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Canada should stay in Afghanistan past 2009, NATO chief says

June 22, 2007 by element115
Despite mounting Canadian casualties, NATO's secretary general urged Canada to continue its military mission in Afghanistan past its 2009 withdrawal deadline.
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911 Culprits? Why the Towers Really Fell

by element115
We know that a crime was committed on 911. George W. Bush, of course, quashed all investigations before they could begin. Since when are crimes not investigated?

...probable cause that George W. Bush committed a crime is NOT a "theory" of any sort. It is what it is: probable cause, a minimum legal standard that must be met before an arrest and charge.

It's time for Bush to put up or shut up or, better, give himself up to Federal Marshalls! If Bush and his PNAC buds are innocent, then Investigate 911!
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From Warsaw to Gaza

by element115
Now we watch helplessly the equal courage of the innocent inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, that open-air prison in a comparatively tiny scrap of Palestine surrounded and bombarded by today's successors to the Nazis, while the infamous Quartet waits patiently, again at a safe distance, for the invaders to continue their ravages until the victims are all annihilated. Those of us who remember the Warsaw Ghetto should have the same hope and make the same prayers for the brave resisters as we did all those years ago.
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Israeli Air Force openly training for attacking Iran

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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been training on long-range flights, including refueling in mid-flight, in preparation for potential strikes against Iranian nuclear [civilian power plants] targets, the Ma'ariv daily reported.

The training program has been taking place for some time but has only been released for publication Friday.
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Acclaimed Palestinian Actor Mohammad Bakri Faces Trial in Israel for Documentary “Jenin, Jenin”

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Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri is one Israel’s most well-known citizens. But since producing a documentary on Israel’s 2002 assault on the West Bank town of Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually blacklisted in Israeli cinema, and now, he even faces possible jail time for making the film.
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Gaza on brink of humanitarian crisis

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The United Nations warned of a crisis within a month if Israel didn't open its commercial crossing with Gaza. The U.N. World Food Program said flour prices have soared 40 percent as residents stockpile food and water.
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US, Israeli Air Forces Upgrade Cooperation

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The Israel Air Force has significantly upgraded the level of its cooperation with the United States Air Force and now receives regular updates on American procurement decisions.
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Pentagon's Investment in the Future

by element115
Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.

This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion — about half of all government research and development dollars — on a variety of projects, according to the American Association for the Advancement for Science. The federal government is spending taxpayer money on war technology at a pace of about $50,000 per second.
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Army sees spike in accidents, suicides

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The acting secretary of the U.S. Army says he is seeing a troubling spike in key morale indicators among soldiers -- suicide, divorces and accidents.
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Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him

by element115
Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies.
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The CIA's torture teachers

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Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
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Pentagon confirms email system hacked

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"About one third of the computer users here in the Pentagon that work for Defense Secretary Robert Gates had their email system penetrated."

Gates said the Pentagon sees hundreds of attacks a day, and this one had no adverse impact on department operations.

"When asked if his own e-mail account was affected, Gates revealed, 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person,'"
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No offense, but isn't it about time for the Catholic Church to put up or shut up?

by element115
The Catholic Church (Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, etc.) have been playing it INFINITELY safe. Dear God (see, we can talk about God too), the silence has been deafening. Sure a few candyass denunciations here and there about the horror show in Iraq. And even a few murmurs about the Israeli/Palestinian "conflict". Yeah, conflict is the word since that insane asylum of mutually righteous blood letting is the core cancer that has metastasized to the entire planet. But do you hear Rome making any comments about even pouring oil on troubled waters. Silentio.
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New Study from Pilots for 9/11 Truth

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A study of the black box data provided by the government to Pilots for 9/11 Truth has confirmed the previous findings of Scholars for 9/11 Truth that no Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon on 9/11. "We have had four lines of proof that no Boeing 757 hit the building," said James Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. "This new study by Pilots drives another nail into a coffin of lies told the American people by The 9/11 Commission".
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Agency Is Target in Cheney Fight on Secrecy Data

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For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested abolishing the oversight unit, according to documents released yesterday by a Democratic congressman.
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Jewish "bomber" seized before Jerusalem gay parade

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Israeli police detained an Orthodox Jewish man carrying a small homemade bomb in Jerusalem on Thursday, as thousands of Israelis marched in support of gay rights in defiance of religious protesters.
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Women and children killed in Afghan strike

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Nine women and three young children from one family have been killed in a Nato air strike. A total of 25 civilians.

A spokesman for the US military said that he had no immediate comment on the incident.
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The CIA's Family Jewels

by element115
The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
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'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

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One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands.
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Syria: U.S. is blocking renewal of peace talks

June 21, 2007 by element115
In the first official Syrian comments on the matter, Shara said in Damascus: "We are not optimistic. The American president does not want peace between Israel and Syria."
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Putin creates arms exporting giant

by element115
Putin is expected to sign a decree incorporating Russia's main arms exporter and its powerful subsidiaries into a single company within the next few days.
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A 'Secret' Weapon in the War Against Terror?

by element115
Are U.S. forces employing a new weapon in the war against terrorism? And if so, why are they keeping it a secret?
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Fatah's last stand: collapse or conspiracy?

by element115
Fatah has long been on the defensive, accused of incompetence, inattention and corruption. Disciplined Hamas forces were fighting for a cause in Gaza; Fatah gunmen were mostly fighting for regular paychecks that stopped coming last year when Hamas won control of the Palestinian Authority.
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U.S. Refuses to Free 5 Captured Iranians

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The United States will not release five Iranians detained in a U.S. military raid in northern Iraq until at least October, despite entreaties from the Iraqi government and pressure from Iran, U.S. officials said. The delay is as much due to a communication and procedural foul-up within the U.S. government as a policy decision, they added.
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230 Afghan civilians killed in 2007

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A group representing 94 foreign and Afghan aid agencies — including Oxfam, Save the Children, and CARE International — laid much of the blame on U.S. actions, alleging that indiscriminate use of force had resulted in the death of innocents.
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Bush pledges to increase US funding to Israel

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US to bolster economic aid to Israel in new 10-year agreement, says US President Bush after meeting with Prime Minister Olmert.
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Laws send 'greasers' into a spin

by element115
A small but growing number of drivers are starting to convert their diesel cars to run on vegetable oil. Yet, many states are cracking down on these gasoline refuseniks with special taxes and penalties.
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Police Seize Huge Cache Of Explosives From Colorado Home, But Say It's Not Enough For An Act Of Terrorism

by element115
How much nitroglycerin does one need to commit an act of terrorism? Or does that depend on one's religion or the color of one's skin?

And why has this case attracted so little national attention? Or does that depend on religion and skin color, too?
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D is for Dominance, Debt & Depression

by element115
THE CAUSE OF THE COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.
It is what you cannot see that explains what you don’t understand.
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Mideast Peace Summit to Open Monday

by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet on Monday with Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

June 20, 2007 by element115
The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America's color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD's real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.
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Should Bush\ Cheney be....

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Daily Kos' Poll
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Blair feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan

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BRITAIN joined the US in ousting the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the sh-t" out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington has reportedly said on a TV documentary.
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Bush denies prior knowledge of Abu Ghraib abuse - gets info from media

by element115
THE White House this week insisted that President George W. Bush learned about abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison from media reports.
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Bloomberg severs ties with Republicans

by element115
Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York and America's 44th richest man, has sparked speculation that he is planning to make a third-party bid for the White House next year by severing his ties with the Republicans and declaring himself a "political independent".
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UN Human Rights Council makes Israel permanent agenda item

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The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday voted in favor of making Israel's actions a permanent item on the council's agenda.

Several American Jewish organizations condemned the council's decision.
The American Jewish Committee released a harsh statement that expressed deep disappointment with the council's performance.
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A 40-year-old CIA memo

by element115
What happens when you take a 40-year-old CIA memo on losing a war and replace the word “Vietnam” with the word “Iraq”?
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US, Israel finalise Iran strike plan

by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington yesterday and met with US President George W. Bush to finalise plans for a joint US-Israel strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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ZEITGEIST, The Movie

by element115
What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common? This is the full Zeitgeist production. Please note it is an experiential work; the opening 3 min has no video - just audio.

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Iran's Larijani to meet IAEA chief Friday

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Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will have talks with the U.N. atomic watchdog chief on Friday but will not discuss big powers' demands for an Iranian nuclear halt, an Iranian official said on Wednesday.
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Australia spending $11B on navy

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Australia is beefing up its navy with a fleet of advanced destroyers and warships. But this latest expenditure, amounting to nearly $10 billion, has caused neighbouring countries to warn of a regional arms race.
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Foreigners begin leaving Gaza Strip

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Israel is allowing all foreign nationals to leave Hamas-controlled Gaza and enter Israel, an IDF spokesman said.
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The Police State Road Map

by element115
However, through the internet, it is becoming much easier to demonstrate and communicate both the existence of the cartel and the cumulative toxicity of its various activities.
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Having fun, you bastard?

by element115
Look at these bastards - getting drunk and laughing their asses off while the troops they sent to Iraq are getting blown to smithereens.
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Hitler 1938...Cheney 2007?

by element115
Do the lessons of World War II have any bearing on today's ongoing showdown in the Persian Gulf? Is the "War Party" inside the Bush Administration, headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, borrowing a page from Hitler's 1936-39 playbook, carefully orchestrating a near- term war with Iran? Recent events, when viewed through the lens of history, suggest that this may be precisely what is going on.
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Welcome to America. Now Get Your Hands Up

by element115
...treated; with disdain, belligerence, rudeness and condescension. Wow! Fulbright scholar, PhD. Assistant professor, lecturer and guest speaker to the U.S. State Department, traveling all over the world working on behalf of American pride.
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Israel, 'Zionist ghetto' not state‎ says Avraham Burg

by element115
"It [Israel] can't work anymore. It's explosive. It's dynamite." said Burg, Israel's parliamentary speaker from 1999 to 2003.

Burg has newly written a book, Defeating Hitler in which Ha'aretz says he describes Israel as a "Zionist ghetto" and compares Israeli behavior in the occupied Palestinian territories against Palestinians to that of Nazi Germany. "The law of return is the mirror image of Hitler. I don't want Hitler to define my identity," he said.
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Italian judge suspends CIA trial

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The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program was suspended by a judge Monday until the country's highest court rules on an Italian government challenge that the case was built on classified evidence.

The Italian government asked the Constitutional Court to throw out the indictments against the 26 American defendants.
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Blackberry ban for French elite

by element115
French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them, reports say.
France's SGDN security service is worried because Blackberries use US- and UK-based servers.
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Neo-conning the media

by element115
...how the conservative movement has moved in to the Bush administration.
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Ron Paul Introduces Legislation to Abolish the Federal Reserve

by element115
Rep. Paul introduced H.R. 2755 To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes.
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War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 11

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9/11 Bombshell

by element115
WTC7 Security Official Details Explosions Inside Building. Says bombs were going off in 7 before either tower collpased.
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Presidential Stone Walls

by element115
The template for the Bush administration’s mania for secrecy was signed by the president six years ago — Executive Order 13233, reversing the presumption of right of public access to presidential papers. This basic right of taxpayers and historians alike was embedded in the 1978 laws enacted after the Nixon administration. The reforms established a reasonable 12-year waiting period for access. But Mr. Bush’s reversal lets presidents or vice presidents (guess who?) keep their records sealed in perpetuity unless they or their heirs approve access.
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Investigation Uncovers ‘Extensive Destruction’ Of RNC Emails, Violations Of Records Act

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House investigators have learned that the Bush administration’s use of Republican National Committee email accounts is far greater than previously disclosed — 140,216 emails sent or received by Karl Rove alone — and that the RNC has overseen “extensive destruction” of many of the emails, including all email records for 51 White House officials.
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Biggest Cheney Scandal Yet

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U.S. To Open Investigation of BAE Corruption.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney, and former British Ministry of Defense procurement officer Baroness Liz Symons are tied up in the biggest bribery scandal in memory, involving at least $2 billion in payoffs to Saudi Prince Bandar over a 22-year period to secure weapons deals, and billions more in slush funds paid out elsewhere.
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A Culture of Atrocity

by element115
All troops, when they occupy and battle insurgent forces, as in Iraq, or Gaza or Vietnam, are swiftly placed in what the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton terms “atrocity-producing situations.”

The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder. There is very little killing. American Marines and soldiers have become, after four years of war, acclimated to atrocity.
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Kasparov attacks Putin's Kremlin

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Former chess champ labels Russia `a police state masquerading as a democracy'.
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Muslims hold new protests against Rushdie knighthood

by element115
Anger mounted in the Muslim world Wednesday over Britain’s knighthood for novelist Salman Rushdie, with protests spreading to Malaysia for the first time and fresh demonstrations in Pakistan.
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Carter Blasts U.S. on Palestine

by element115
Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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Israel attacks Gaza; contacts new Abbas govt

by element115
Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the occupied West Bank.
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Israel Allows in Ailing Gazans

by element115
...it let in a few seriously ill Palestinians who had been holed up for days at a fetid border crossing.
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The Gaza Goulag

by element115
How many more prisoners in the Gaza Goulag have to die before the "International Community" reacts? Happily, some of them have access to the internet and have sufficient knowledge of one of our "western" languages to tell us what is going on in this hell on earth deliberately created by their Zionist tormentors.

It is enough to make any genuine human being weep, howver strong we may consider ourselves to be, to contemplate the suffering so viciously caused, without any feeling for their fellow human beings, by the invaders of the Holy Land.

What does Mr George W. Bush, the figurehead of the worshippers of Mammon, do to right the many wrongs suffered?
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If You Think Bush Is Evil Now, Wait Until He Nukes Iran

June 8, 2007 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts --> The war in Iraq is lost.
But they have not given up. They have a last desperate plan: Bomb Iran.
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Bush mantra: Be afraid, be very afraid

by element115
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the darkest days of the Depression, declared that the American people had nothing to fear but fear itself. The only thing George W. Bush apparently fears is the absence of fear.
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Marine says he erased photos of Haditha victims

by element115
A staff sergeant testified Thursday that he was ordered to destroy grisly pictures of women and children killed by Marines so that the images would not be part of a statement being prepared for an investigative officer and a magazine reporter.
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Pentagon appeals against Guantanamo ruling

by element115
The Pentagon has decided to ask United State's military judges to reconsider their decision to dismiss charges against two terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, a spokesperson said on Friday.
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Police deflate G8 balloon protest

by element115
Police helicopters enforcing a no-fly zone around the summit in the Baltic resort of Heiligendamm swiftly circled the balloon, creating turbulence and forcing it to land in a field some 20km from the venue.
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Report claims US ran secret prisons in Europe

by element115
The CIA ran secret prisons in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 where terrorism suspects could be interrogated free of US legal restraints, a Council of Europe investigation concluded today.
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Putin turns tables on Bush with new missile plan

by element115
Russian President Vladimir Putin turned the tables on Washington on Thursday by suggesting the United States use a Russian-controlled radar instead of U.S. anti-missile hardware in central Europe.

At a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush during a Group of Eight summit, Putin proposed that the United States and Russia jointly use a radar in Azerbaijan as part of an anti-missile shield that would protect all of Europe.
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G8 announces $60 billion aid deal for Africa

by element115
The leaders of the world's richest countries were accused today of falling short of their own ambitious plans to help Africa despite announcing an eye-catching $60 billion to fight Aids and other diseases in the developing world.
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Palestinian civilian shot dead in raid on family home

June 7, 2007 by element115
"My father pushed some of the soldiers," said Salih al-Jabari, 19. "Then one of the soldiers pulled the trigger and shot him in the jaw." His father fell to the floor, bleeding heavily. Moments later, the mother, Fatima al-Jabari, 60, appeared and began screaming at the soldiers.

"My mother tried to get them outside, but they said to her: 'Get away, get away.' And then they shot her in the head. None of us had fired one bullet." She was later taken to the city's al-Ahli hospital, where she was in a critical condition.
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