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

by element115
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

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> Bizarro Bush thinks he's George Washington, but he's really George III.
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Silencing Scooter

by element115
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

by element115
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

by element115
"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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