A Second Big Bang In Geneva?

March 31, 2010 by element115
After 16 years—and an accident that crippled the machine a year and a half ago—the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed two beams of protons at the astounding energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece. This act produced temperatures not seen since the Big Bang occurred 13.7 billions years ago.
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Chechen rebel says he ordered Moscow Metro attacks

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Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has said his group was behind Monday's double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, which left 39 people dead.

In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, he said he had personally ordered the attacks.

He said they were carried out to avenge the killings of "poor Chechens" by Russian security forces in February and warned Russia to prepare for more.
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CIA can withhold records on Oklahoma City bombing

by element115
A federal judge in Utah says the Central Intelligence Agency can withhold documents on the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and prosecution, agreeing that the records were properly withheld for national security and other reasons.
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Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'

by element115
Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet.
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New twin suicide blasts rock southern Russia

by element115
Two blasts rocked Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan Wednesday morning, just two days after 39 people were killed in two subway explosions in Moscow, the region's Interior Ministry said.
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Children of Gaza

March 30, 2010 by element115
A moving, must-see video that first aired on Channel 4 (UK)’s Dispatches on 15 March.


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UN chief says Israeli settlement activities illegal

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end.
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Canada out of Afghan war in 2011

by element115
Though the United States and Britain want Canadian soldiers to stay in Afghanistan past 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is holding firm to a Parliamentary resolution that all soldiers will leave in 2011 to be replaced by Canadian aid and diplomatic workers.
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Suicide bombers kill at least 38 in bomb attacks on Moscow trains

March 29, 2010 by element115
* Two bombs, 40mins apart, detonated during morning rush hour
* At least 37 people dead, 65 injured
* No group claims responsibility so far. Rouble falls
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Female suicide bombers blamed in Moscow subway attacks

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"We consider this the most likely scenario, based on investigations conducted at the site of the blast," Bortnikov said. "Fragments of the suicide bombers' body found at the blast, according to preliminary findings, indicate that the bombers were from the North Caucasus region."

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the "terrorists" responsible for the Moscow subway attacks Monday "will be destroyed."
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North Korea vows 'nuclear strikes' in latest threat

March 26, 2010 by element115
"Those who seek to bring down the system in the (North), whether they play a main role or a passive role, will fall victim to the unprecedented nuclear strikes of the invincible army," North Korea's military said in comments carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
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Israeli tanks have entered the Gaza Strip

by element115
Five tanks and two armoured bulldozers entered Gaza shelling targets near the town of Khan Younis, in the centre of the narrow coastal enclave.
Palestinian sources confirmed more casualties in the fresh fighting while Israeli helicopters and unmanned military drones circled above.
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Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran

by element115
...a respected Washington think tank has said that low-radioactive yield "tactical" nuclear warheads would be one way for the Israelis to destroy Iranian uranium enrichment plants in remote, dug-in fortifications.
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Obama squeezed between Israel and Iran

by element115
The AIPAC 2010 show predictably was yet one more "bomb Iran" special; but it was also a call to arms against the Barack Obama administration, as far as the turbo-charging of the illegal colonization of East Jerusalem is concerned.
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Israeli intelligence, our constant companion

by element115
...judging by once sensitive FBI documents making the rounds in recent days, the Israelis have been at this task in Washington for a very long time.
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Covering up American War Crimes, From Baghdad to New York

by element115
The US and Iraqi governments are blocking an investigation that would prove one way or another that White Phosphorous did any harm to Iraqi mothers and their children. It’s unlikely they’ll receive a cent for the next fifty years, if ever.
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South Korean navy ship sinking, North Korea suspected

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A South Korean naval ship was sinking on Friday after possibly being hit by a North Korean torpedo and several sailors were killed, South Korean media reported.
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Israel’s Provocation at al-Aqsa

by element115
The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks triggering a third intifada.
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Conspiracy Theory - Reason vs. the Crowd

by element115
" A conspiracy theory is the belief that historical or current events are the result of manipulations by one or more secretive powers or conspiracies."

Where on Earth might one hear of such a paranoid idea? How about from President John F. Kennedy?
Or how about President Eisenhower?
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Russian oil major pulls out of Iran

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Russia's largest private oil major said it was suspending an oil project in Iran because of U.S. pressure.
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Israel told to pay Gaza damages

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The UN Human Rights Council urged Tel Aviv on Wednesday to pay reparations to the Palestinian people for the loss and damage it inflicted on them during last year's bloody invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Pakistan tabled the motion, which also suggested that the Red Cross should investigate Israel's use of incendiary white phosphorus weapons during Operation Cast Lead.

It passed by a majority of 29 to five at the UNHRC heaquarters in Geneva, with 11 abstentions.

The resolution was opposed by the US, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia.

Britain, Belgium and France were among the countries that abstained.
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UN Human Rights Council adopts 5 resolutions against Israel

by element115
Five resolutions have been adopted against Israel, amounting to the greatest number of condemnatory resolutions on a single country:

* Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan
* The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination
* Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan
* The grave human rights violations by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
* Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
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Have a nice world war, folks

by element115
John Pilger describes the increasing American war front across the world: from Afghanistan to Africa and Latin America. This is the Third World War in all but name, waged by the only aggressive "ism" that denies it is an ideology and threatened not by introverted tribesmen in faraway places but by the anti-war instincts of its own citizens.
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To rob a country, own a bank

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Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him for dinner'

March 25, 2010 by element115
For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.
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The Enemy Amongst Us

by element115
...don’t think of AIPAC as an official Political Action Committee or PAC, subject to the same US federal laws and regulations a PAC is. Think of AIPAC as an unofficial political action committee not subject to these laws and regulations. Think of it as the single most powerful and influential political lobby group in existence in the United States. Understand that this was born out of the American Zionist Council which in 1951 was registered as a foreign agent for Israel. It spawned the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs before being crunched into the obscure acronym it is now. Understand also that if you want to be elected to any federal position of relevance in the country, you will need its blessing. All of the major politicians in the US government have courted AIPAC and the interests that group represents.
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Hand Shake

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Israeli soldiers 'used child to check for booby-traps'

by element115
One of the defendants, who have not been identified, said in an army radio interview he felt he and his comrade were being made scapegoats in the face of international criticism of Israel's offensive, in which about 1,400 Palestinians were killed, among them 400 children.
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Purported Bin Laden message hints at retaliation

by element115
...if you're silly enough to believe it

An audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened retaliation against Americans if alleged 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed is executed.
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Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis

by element115
by Juan Cole, President of the Global Americana Institute
Here are the reasons that Netanyahu is profoundly wrong, and East Jerusalem does not belong to him -->
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Poll: 73% of Russians view US as aggressor

by element115
Almost three-quarters of Russians view the US as an "aggressor" seeking world domination, according to an opinion poll released by Levada Center polling agency.
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Marijuana legalization officially on California ballot

by element115
If approved, the initiative would allow those 21 years and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana, enough to roll several marijuana cigarettes. Residents also could cultivate the plant in limited quantities.
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NATO rejects Russian call for Afghan poppy spraying

by element115
NATO Wednesday rejected Russian calls for it to eradicate opium poppy fields in Afghanistan, saying the best way for Moscow to help control the drug would be to give more assistance against the insurgency.
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Sinead O'Connor: 'There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope'

by element115
Years after her controversial 'Saturday Night Live' appearance, the Irish singer is still at odds with the Catholic Church, saying it must come clean about sexual-abuse allegations.
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Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal

by element115
According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, is worth roughly a quarter billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million.
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Netanyahu heads home with US-Israeli spat unresolved

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on a brave face as he flew home to a storm of derision on Thursday having failed to resolve a bitter row with Washington over settlement building.
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Airport device follows fliers' phones

March 24, 2010 by element115
Civil-liberties experts worry that such a system enables the government to track people's whereabouts. "It's serious business when the government begins to get near people's personal-communication devices," said American Civil Liberties Union privacy expert Jay Stanley.
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U.S. aviation security pick favors Israeli model

by element115
President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee security at U.S. airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in a bid to thwart terrorism plots.
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Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Take Own Lives

by element115
The foreclosure crisis in Philadelphia is now becoming a matter of life and death. Eyewitness News has learned that in the past month, two homeowners took their own lives before sheriff's deputies arrived to tell them that they were being evicted.
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The US' choreographed "outrage" at Israel

by element115
The US hopes that this pretended outrage will lend its role as "honest broker" enough credibility to keep the "peace process" moving, itself merely a PR facade that shields Israeli crimes from public scrutiny. If it does not, the US will undoubtedly pay little mind to the harsh words spoken this week and do as it has done before: blame the Palestinians for its failure and support Israeli repression.
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NATO covering up, lying about civilian killings

by element115
A British reporter who reported on an apparent cover-up of the killing of an Afghan family says the NATO-led forces in that country habitually lie about innocent civilians' deaths.
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Scary new GOP poll

by element115
On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say "he may be the Antichrist."
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Anti-Semitism – What is it?

by element115
Several of us among the incurably curious asked ourselves a simple question: what is anti-Semitism? That it must be written with a capital “S” says a lot.
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Israel Gives The Finger To The USA

by element115
It is a case of the dog biting the hand that feeds it. After years of protection by Big Brother USA, covering up for its having nuclear warheads when Iran cannot even have a nuclear program, looking the other way when shocking war crimes and massacres of civilians are committed, when pregnant Palestinian mothers are left to die in the streets, Israel sticks up the middle finger in a classic display of pig-headed arrogance by Netanyahu at AIPAC.
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The Crime of Empire

by element115
Rogue Superpower and World Domination
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Coulter's circus comes to town, but can't perform

by element115
About 200 demonstrators turned out to shut down Coulter's talk.

And they succeeded.
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Israel to replace 'Mossad officer' expelled by UK

by element115
The Israeli diplomat who is to be expelled from Britain over the alleged forgery of British passports connected to the killing of a top Hamas militant, is a Mossad officer who will be replaced by the Jewish state, Israeli media reports said on Wednesday.

Public radio and other Israeli media said the diplomat was an officer in the Mossad spy agency and would be replaced "soon" by another intelligence officer.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he was "very disappointed" by the expulsion, but a senior official said the Jewish state would not retaliate.
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Saudi Arabia: arrogant Israel challenges the world

by element115
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies in Jerusalem which it says are denying the rights of Arabs and Muslims in the holy city.

A government statement Wednesday criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying in Washington his government would not stop construction in Jerusalem, calling it the capital of Israel.
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Israel Continues Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem

by element115
The announcement was made late Tuesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House to resolve the dispute over Israel's construction plans in East Jerusalem.
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How Sovereign is Europe?

by element115
Washington has Murdered Privacy Rights at Home And Abroad
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What are the Naked Body Scanners really for?

by element115
In light of recent news that Naked Body scanners are to to be installed at more airports the question comes to mind - Why?
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Israeli Politician Compares British To “Dogs” For Israeli Diplomat Expulsion

by element115
Britain’s expulsion of an Israeli ‘diplomat’ because of the Mossad murder of a Palestinian official in Dubai has created outrage in the Israeli Knesset(parliament). Politicians there are comparing the British to “dogs”.

“I think [the] British are behaving hypocritically and I don’t want to offend dogs on this issue, since some dogs are utterly loyal,” said Aryeh Eldad, National Religious Party lawmaker in the Israeli Knesset who was quoted by Sky News channel.

“Who are they to judge us on the war on terror,” he added.
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Emergency response exercises simulate explosions on Metrorail and Metrobus

by element115
The drills will test the integrated response and incident coordination of the Metro emergency management, police and operations personnel, along with local and federal law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services agencies throughout the region. As multiple agencies would respond simultaneously to a large-scale crisis occurring on Metro, the transit agency, and local and federal area emergency responders need to be ready to work together to mitigate an incident.
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Putin, China's Xi vow 'strategic' support in first meeting

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, tipped to become China's president, hailed the strength of bilateral ties Tuesday as they looked to forge a counterbalance to the power of the US.
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High-profile resignation in Irish church abuse scandal

by element115
An Irish Catholic bishop who served as personal secretary to three popes on Wednesday became the latest and biggest casualty in the child sex abuse scandal that is convulsing the Church in Europe.
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An Apartheid State

March 23, 2010 by element115
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Closing Time: An Historic Confirmation of Corporate Power

by element115
If the plan was to reform the health care system for the benefit of the people, then we would have, like, reformed the health care system for the benefit of the people. You follow? The plan was, is, and will always be to appear to be reforming the system -- to make the rubes believe that something is being done to alleviate their pain -- precisely to avoid really reforming the system, which is just too good and greasy for too many of us at the top of the imperial pyramid.
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Nimrud's Lamentations, Nimrud's Wrath. 2

by element115
The crimes have been too many - uncountable, the destruction - indescribable in words, the lies too intricate to unravel, and the pillaging, plundering, looting beyond anyone's imagination...

A nation of looters, thieves, bandits, rapists, torturers, liars, profiteers, exploiters, criminals, killers -- a nation of gluttony, concupiscence, envy, covetousness and greed...
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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

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France's public workers on strike

by element115
Public-sector workers across France went on strike Tuesday to protest the country's economic woes and the government's unpopular reforms.
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University to Ann Coulter: Please watch your mouth

by element115
Coulter catapulted to international notoriety two days after the 9/11 attacks with a column in the National Review in which she advocated conquering Muslim countries and converting the people to Christianity. But as the columnist prepares to visit Canada this week to speak at three universities, a senior University of Ottawa administrator has warned her to use "restraint, respect and consideration" when speaking at the school.
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Coulter tells Ont. Muslim student to 'take a camel'

by element115
It didn't take long for firebrand U.S. conservative Ann Coulter to live up to her reputation on her Canadian tour, telling a University of Western Ontario Muslim student to "take a camel" as an alternative to flying.
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Israel to triple West Bank settlements

by element115
The leader of Israeli settlers' council has said the regime plans to triple Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite international pressures to halt settlement expansions on Palestinian lands.
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Obama, Netanyahu to meet at White House

by element115
U.S. President Barack Obama will meet privately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday at the White House, the first meeting between the two leaders since Israel announced its plan to build new housing in east Jerusalem.
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Expulsion of diplomat sends a strong signal to Israel

by element115
Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband has taken the decision to expel an Israeli diplomat after the UK's serious organised crime agency turned up evidence that Israel cloned British passports.
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Obama to sign U.S. health-care overhaul into law

by element115
President Barack Obama will sign into law Tuesday landmark health-care legislation, a hard-fought victory that will help shape his legacy and the Democrats’ chances of holding power in the U.S. Congress.
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America’s Secret Prisons

by element115
The pattern is predictable. US/NATO convoys are attacked or reports of Taliban forces are received. Americans respond accordingly, rounding up suspects, mostly innocent civilians, and detaining them for interrogations, torture, abuse and degrading treatment – not just in Afghanistan but in secret black sites globally, according to a January 26 UN Human Rights Council (HRC) report detailing practices engaged in by various countries including America, by far the world’s worst offender in its war on terror – one waged against humanity for unchallengeable power and total global dominance.
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Soldiers on Sale... Who’s In Charge of These Hired Killers?

by element115
A fascinating scandal has erupted in Washington over the use of mercenaries (‘private contractors’ in US terminology) that is exposing the dark underbelly of America’s foreign wars. It has been that the Pentagon and other US intelligence agencies secretly fielded mercenaries in Afghanistan, Pakistan (aka “Af-Pak”), and Iraq to assassinate tribal militants.

US law forbids murder or using mercenaries. But, as the Roman jurist Cicero said, “laws are silent in times of war.”
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Preparations for a Hit against Iran: Stopping Israel’s Next War

March 22, 2010 by element115
“A new war in the region is inevitable.” This is the pronouncement made by Mohammad Seyyed Selim, political scientist and professor at the universities of Cairo and Kuwait. Prof. Selim delivered his forecast on February 13, in a program on Nile TV’s “Cairo Watch,” in which I also participated. The moderator, Mohamed Abdel-Rahim, started off by asking what crisis situations in the region were most acute; Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict were the obvious answers.
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Bank For International Settlements

by element115
How The Rothschilds Control And Dictate To The World
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Clinton vows 'rock solid' commitment to Israel

by element115
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday both her and President Barack Obama's support for Israeli security were "rock solid," adding in her case it is personal.
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Zero Point of Systemic Collapse

March 19, 2010 by element115
All resistance must recognize that the body politic and global capitalism are dead. We should stop wasting energy trying to reform or appeal to it. This does not mean the end of resistance, but it does mean very different forms of resistance. It means turning our energies toward building sustainable communities to weather the coming crisis, since we will be unable to survive and resist without a cooperative effort.

We stand on the cusp of one of the bleakest periods in human history when the bright lights of a civilization blink out and we will descend for decades, if not centuries, into barbarity. The elites have successfully convinced us that we no longer have the capacity to understand the revealed truths presented before us or to fight back against the chaos caused by economic and environmental catastrophe. As long as the mass of bewildered and frightened people, fed images that permit them to perpetually hallucinate, exist in this state of barbarism, they may periodically strike out with a blind fury against increased state repression, widespread poverty and food shortages. But they will lack the ability and self-confidence to challenge in big and small ways the structures of control. The fantasy of widespread popular revolts and mass movements breaking the hegemony of the corporate state is just that – a fantasy.
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Rupert Cornwell: Obama won't restrain Israel - he can't

by element115
All you can say is, we've been here before.
"Who the **** does he think he is? Who's the ******* superpower here?" Bill Clinton spluttered in fury to his aides back in 1996. The "he" in question was Benjamin Netanyahu, then as now the Prime Minister of Israel.

Barack Obama, a cooler character than the last Democrat to be president, may not have used quite such salty language about the behaviour of the current Netanyahu government that has so incensed the US. One thing though may safely be predicted. Mr Netanyahu will get away with it.
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Anti-Defamation League Goes After Gen. Petraeus

by element115
The Anti-Defamation League takes the unexpected step of criticizing Gen. David Petraeus, the widely respected commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, for his recent comments to the Senate Armed Services Committee that lack of progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace sets the “strategic context” for U.S. security fortunes in the region. “Gen. Petraeus has simply erred in linking the challenges faced by the U.S. and coalition forces in the region to a solution of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and blaming extremist activities on the absence of peace and the perceived U.S. favoritism for Israel...
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Architect Ron Avery Discusses Evidence of 9/11 Being an Inside Job

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Putin: Iran's nuclear plant launch set for summer

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Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power plant is set to be launched this summer, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Russia to delay the launch, but Russia's foreign minister responded that Moscow will put the reactor online.

"The first reactor at Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr is to be launched already in the summer," Putin said.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER HINTS AT BIN LADEN DEATH

by element115
Last month I was briefed by the highest sources of the Pakistani military. One of our more private discussions was on bin Laden. I know, we know and they know he is dead. Nobody has seen nor heard from bin Laden since he announced HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11. However, a series of sadly phony videos and audio tapes have been released, all tracked down to sources tied directly to Israeli intelligence services, have been presented by the media without any verification, a media, frankly, also tied directly as with FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS or as with CNN, through Wolf Blitzer, also to Israeli intelligence services.

Now, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced, in his own sly way that “bin Laden won’t face trial.” Holder knows something. He knows what they know in Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, France, Britain, Germany, Canada, Iran, India and so many other countries, something America has been afraid to admit.
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Hezbollah: Iran strike to ignite Mideast

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"Israel or the United States cannot just bomb Iran and (expect) things to continue normally," Sheikh Naim Qassem told Reuters. "Any attack on Iran could ignite the whole region and the assailant will pay a heavy price whether it's Israel or the United States."
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Obama, Israel Agree to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy on East Jerusalem Settlements

by element115
Now, Israel has reportedly reached an agreement with the Obama Administration on something called a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In short, Israel would continue to expand settlements in occupied East Jerusalem with impunity, but they wouldn’t make a big deal of announcing those expansions in the press.
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'Israeli spy planes flew over Budapest'

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Two Israeli aircraft appearing to be spy planes flew near Budapest's international airport last week but did not land there, Hungarian media reported Thursday.
According to the reports, the planes were on a "spy mission" that may be connected to the assassination of a Syrian national in his vehicle Wednesday in the Hungarian capital.
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A Prosthetic Leg at the Palestinian Auschwitz

March 18, 2010 by element115
Monday 14 March 2010 at quarter past nine in the morning at the Zionist Qalandiya checkpoint towards entry into Jerusalem, the gate of Auschwitz 2. A female Israeli Nazi soldier orders an invalid Palestinian girl to take off her pants in front of the crowd of Palestinians waiting at the checkpoint, thousands of waiting men and women. The girl had a prosthetic leg which was fixed with metal screw.
...the soldier turned into a fury and shouted into the face of the girl, who took off her shoes and put them into the electronic checking machine. However, the soldier continued screaming at girl and ordered it her to take off her pants. The female soldier did not allow the girl to take her pants off inside the check room of this second Auschwitz. Out of pure sadism, to satisfy her deep content, for the fun of demeaning and humiliating the girl, this woman insisted that the girl take off her pants in front of thousands of men and a women, instead of allowing the girl into the room which exists exactly for this purpose.
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Israel Is Boss

by element115
Corporate media pretend U.S.-Israeli relations are in “crisis,” just as they have many times in the past. It’s all a charade, a play for national and international audiences. In real crises, relationships are called into question. But there has never been any question about who is in charge of this “partnership”: Israel. And don’t you dare forget it.

“The Obama administration, like every other presidential administration in the last sixty years, does what Israel wants it to do.”
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11 Years Later: NATO Powers Prepare Final Solution In Kosovo

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“I witnessed many Albanians chasing out Gypsy families and then looting their homes before burning them down. This happened in front of NATO troops.”

“Fearing independence, all minorities are still leaving Kosovo….After eight years of UN administration, there is still no freedom of movement for minorities outside their own villages.”

“The German government acknowledges that there are more than 35,000 Kosovo Gypsies living today in Germany. Germany hopes to deport them when Kosovo has independence….”
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Wilkerson: We can bomb Iran for 70 days around the clock

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Israeli fighter jets pound Gaza Strip

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Israeli fighter jets have bombarded at least two sites in the Gaza Strip shortly after a Thai agricultural worker was killed when a rocket fired from the besieged coastal enclave struck the northern Negev.
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The Twin Towers' “Chief Engineer” Hyman Brown

March 17, 2010 by element115
While introducing an interview that appeared on NBC-TV on September 11, 2001, Tom Brokaw referred to Hyman Brown as the “architect” of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.

Hyman Brown was not the Twin Towers chief engineer.

Hyman Brown, in various books, articles, lectures, and television interviews has been referred to as the “architect . . . chief engineer . . . project engineer . . . construction manager . . . fifth in command ” of the Twin Towers.

None of it is true.
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Jerusalem: A City Under Siege

by element115
For five days and in the context of the opening of the Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish quarter, the Old City has been turned into a city under siege. Israeli authorities have maintained a heavy military and police presence.
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Capitalism Is Dying a Natural Death

by element115
The long-time descent into totalitarian capitalism and neglect for anything but corporate profit has just about finished its course. The party is over. Bankruptcy is next. What we don’t know yet is how far-reaching this economic freefall is going to be.
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Israel has nukes, but Iran is pressured: Erdogan

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Iran's nuclear rights should be respected and it is only a rumor that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons.

He added that countries with nuclear weapons "are not in a position to turn to another country and to say: 'Oh, you are not supposed to produce nuclear weapons.'"

"Take Israel. Israel possesses nuclear weapons. Why aren't other countries warning Israel to dispose of her nuclear weapons but they're doing the same to Iran?" he asked.
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Government Warned 9/11 Commission ‘Not To Cross The Line’

by element115
Documents recently obtained by the ACLU show that the government warned the 9/11 Commission against getting to the bottom of the September 11 terror attacks in a letter signed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet.
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HR 645 --> U.S. Preparing For Civil Unrest

by element115
In their quest for the truth ~ over 60,000 infuriated Greek citizens take to the streets in central Athens because the cash strapped government faces a financial reckoning. The Obama administration has prepared itself for eventually the same demands for the truth with HR 645 which is, in essence, militarized FEMA internment camps.
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Tensions Rise As Israel Announces New Homes

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Israel is being accused of deepening the crisis with the US by announcing it is set to build 426 new settler homes - in addition to the 1,600 announced last week.
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US may be seeking Israel 'regime change'

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The Obama administration's row with Israel over settlements has prompted some analysts to wonder whether it seeks "regime change," a new government that can make peace with the Palestinians.

However, the analysts doubt that President Barack Obama's administration, which has made Arab-Israeli peace a national security priority, will achieve anything if it has indeed adopted such a strategy.
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Israel vs. America: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

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The brouhaha over what Hillary Clinton said was Israel’s calculated "insult" to the United States is escalating into what many characterize as a "crisis" in US-Israeli relations, a turning point in which the terms of the "special relationship" are about to undergo a major change.
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Lords pass controversial internet piracy bill

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Legislation to tackle internet piracy, including bans for illegal file-sharers, has been passed by the Lords.

The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to be rushed through the Commons before the general election.
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Final destination Iran?

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Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.
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Obesity: The killer combination of salt, fat and sugar

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Our favourite foods are making us fat, yet we can't resist, because eating them is changing our minds as well as bodies
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U.S. air travelers complain about body scans

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Hundreds of U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed.
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George Bush adviser Karl Rove: I am 'proud' of waterboarding

March 12, 2010 by element115
He said: "I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots. I am proud that we kept the world safer than it was by the use of these techniques. They are appropriate, they are in conformity with our international requirements and with US law."
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Russia dismisses U.S. human rights report

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Russia indignantly dismissed U.S. criticism of its human rights record on Friday, saying the United States was guilty of its own abuses from Afghanistan to "the streets of America."
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Arab MK: U.S. beginning to question Israeli policy on Palestinians

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Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi has lashed out over the treatment of American lawmakers brought to Israel by the J Street organization, warning that unconditional U.S. support for Israel is on the wane.
"The visiting members of Congress, though staunch supporters of Israel not yet questioning American aid, are beginning to raise questions about Israel's actions against the Palestinians."
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The Nuclear Double Standard

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It’s almost hard to know where to begin in terms of irony and hypocrisy.
...why does the United States not hold Israel to the same nuclear standard as it holds, for example, Iran?
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Leaked Zionist strategy Paper to counter BDS

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MUST READ! --> Here is a leaked copy of the Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment Campaign Against Israel's Occupation and to strategy to shut down the debate on the Palestinian issue and to shift it discussion of anti-Semitism and not Israel's illegal Occuption and illegal settlements and human rights violations.
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa

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20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.
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Cud and Complicity: Burying the Alternatives to Empire's Dominion

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Our ruling class does not want the citizenry to know there are any alternatives to the grand bipartisan consensus on the true aims of government: servicing the needs of Militarism and Money. And so what cannot be ignored entirely is buried "certain fathoms in the earth ... deeper than did ever plummet sound."
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Dubai Investigation Exposes Israeli Ops in USA

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An ongoing investigation by the Dubai Police force into the assassination of a high-level Hamas official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in January has drawn back the curtains of secrecy and deception to reveal yet again the contours of Israel’s massive and ever-expanding espionage operations in the United States.
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Israel imposes West Bank closure

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Israeli forces imposed a general closure on the West Bank beginning Friday morning, the army said.
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Decoding The Language Of Social Control

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The management of today’s masses in the United States evolved out of the mechanisms for managing the natives that began with Christopher Columbus and the European Conquest of the Americas. Native and slave management in early colonial times evolved into race management after the Civil War, and then to the economic and social class management of the present day. The entire mentality of social control is that of colonialism.
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The Rogue Nation

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In spite of the fact that the United States faces no enemy anywhere in the world capable of opposing it on a battlefield, the Defense budget for 2011 will go up 7.1 percent from current levels. A lot of the new spending will be on drones, America’s latest contribution to western civilization, capable of surveilling large areas on the ground and delivering death from the skies. It is a peculiarly American vision of warfare, with a "pilot" sitting at a desk half a world away and pressing a button that can kill a target far below. Hygienic and mechanical, it is a bit like a video game with no messy cleanup afterwards. The recently released United States Quadrennial Defense Review reports how the Pentagon will be developing a new generation of super drones that can stay airborne for long periods of time and can strike anywhere in the world and at any time to kill America’s enemies.
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Israeli Historian: Israel Could Find Itself Forced To Wipe Out Europe

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“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and missiles that can reach different targets in the heart of the European continent, including beyond the borders of Rome, the Italian capital,” Karfeld said, adding that most of the European capitals would become preferred targets for the Israeli air force.

The Israeli historian reiterated Israel’s ability to destroy the whole world whenever it felt its existence would be doomed to extinction.
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“Palestinians Should Now Declare Their Independence”

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There is very little the Palestinians can do to change their situation alone. They are virtually disarmed, with a few rockets and some stone-throwing kids, against the fourth most powerful army on earth. But international pressure – applied intelligently, without hyperbole – can strengthen their hand, and the Palestinians are considering a move that would catalyse it. They are considering a unilateral declaration of independence, and an appeal for the world to recognise them as a state. It wouldn’t cause the occupation to vanish – but it would make the situation plain for all to see. They are a people; they deserve a state, as much as the British or the Israelis. Netanyahu talks about the dangers of Israel being wiped from the map, yet Palestine is being wiped from the map every day by his tanks and his guns. Why should they have to “earn” their right to their own land by proving obedience to an abusive foreign power?
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Expecting a Third Intifada

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The next Intifada could see the Palestinian people in struggle not only against Israel but also against the Palestinian Authority.
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The Obama Administration Asked for the East Jerusalem Fiasco

March 11, 2010 by element115
Don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu for one moment when he says he "never knew." The Jerusalem planning committee is only too aware of what the bosses want, and the government has decided to step up construction in greater Jerusalem. Dispossession and taking possession, kicking out and moving in - that's what it's all about.
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Toronto Restricts Academic Freedom

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‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ Not Permitted to Take Place
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CIA Ordered Visas For 15 of The 19 9/11 Hijackers

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Michael Springman on Alex Jones TV
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Barack Obama gives away $1.4m Nobel prize money

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President Barack Obama will donate the $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families.
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Flu shots futile: study

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A new Canadian-led study has added to a simmering scientific dispute over flu-shot campaigns.
"What we were looking for is proof that influenza ... is decreased.
Didn't find it.
We looked for proof that pneumonia is reduced.
Didn't find it.
We looked for proof deaths from pneumonia are reduced.
Didn't find it."
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Major Aftershock Jolts Chile

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...the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.2, was the strongest to hit the country since it was ravaged by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27.
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Greek general strike sparks riots

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Greece is under intense pressure from the European Union to improve its finances quickly. It announced two weeks ago that it would cut public-sector salaries, freeze hiring and pensions and hike consumer taxes to generate $65.33 billion in savings.
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'US has no better friend than Israel'

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Biden says he accepts PM's stance on Ramat Shlomo building plan.
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House Votes Against Ending Afghan War

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The vote was 65-356, with vast majorities from both parties opposing the resolution to end the war. Rep. Kucinich and his 19 co-sponsors delivered impassioned pleas to end the conflict, but they appear to have ultimately fallen on deaf ears.
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Netanyahu outwits Obama again

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There is almost certainly worse to come.
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Israeli Officials: 50,000 New Settlement Homes Planned

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Israel’s Monday announcement for 112 new settlement units in the West Bank hardly caused a stir, even as the nation’s settlement “freeze” is nominally still active. Yesterday’s announcement of an additional 1,600 settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem garnered quite a bit of attention, however, and has thrown indirect peace talks into serious doubt.
But now even that announcement seems small by comparison, as Israeli planning officials say that they are planning another 50,000 new housing units in settlements, tackling a housing shortage in ultra-Orthodox settlements in and around East Jerusalem.
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Shell stops selling gasoline to Iran

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc said Wednesday it has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the latest company to cease business with a country that is increasingly targeted by US-encouraged sanctions.
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Arab League chief says Palestinians pull of talks

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"The Palestinian president decided he will not enter into those negotiations now ... the Palestinian side is not ready to negotiate under the present circumstances," Moussa told a news conference following an urgent meeting of Arab delegates at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
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Israel tells the PA, suppress protests or we increase incursions

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Reports in the Israeli media claim that the Israeli security forces have threatened to increase their incursions into the West Bank unless the Palestinian Authority (PA) suppresses popular protests against settlements and Judaisation policies.
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Child Rape in Afghanistan?

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Canadian military chaplains and some soldiers have been complaining as far back as 2006 that Afghan security forces have been sexually assaulting young boys on their base. These military whistle-blowers charge that the military brass has been ignoring or burying their complaints, fearing the bad publicity they could generate.
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EU parliament backs Goldstone report

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The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to monitor Israeli and Palestinian investigations into alleged war crimes in Gaza and to support the recommendations of a UN investigation into the matter.
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Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal rights for Arabs

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Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset.

The survey, which was administered to teenagers at various Israeli high schools, also found that close to half of all respondents - 48 percent - said that they would refuse orders to evacuate outposts and settlements in the Palestinian territories.
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Zionism Unmasked: The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism

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Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that "Israel is not like other countries." Oddly enough for him, that time he was telling the truth, and nowhere is that more evident than with Jewish nationalism, whether or not one pins the "Zionist" label on it.
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Work at McDonald's for two weeks and get equivalent of a B grade exam pass

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Youngsters will be offered the 'certificate in work skills' for completing a ten-day programme which includes flipping burgers, serving customers at the tills and cleaning the dining area.
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Humanity versus insanity

March 10, 2010 by element115
Recurring stories about Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons mostly come from an Israeli network of undercover operatives and an intelligence apparatus that reaches deeply into our government. Why does Israel want to hurt Iran and especially Ahmadinejad? Alone among world leaders he has been outspoken in calling for justice in Palestine, highlighting the suffering of its people and the maddening hypocrisy in making Palestinians pay for a European crime. Meanwhile, the USA, still smarting over losing its puppet ruler in the 1979 revolution , continues vindictively attempting to destroy the Islamic regime. It is the threat of imperial collapse more than control of oil that moves America into such easily manipulated desire for destroying Iran’s revolution, but Israel’s hatred is more malevolent and dangerous.
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AIPAC calls for swift action to block U.S. companies supporting Iran

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is calling on the U.S. Congress to take several immediate steps in response to a New York Times report revealing that the federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in grants, contracts and other benefits to foreign and multinational U.S. companies conducting business in Iran.

In a rare move, the pro-Israel lobby has sent a sharply worded letter to every member of Congress calling for an investigation into why three successive administrations have failed under existing law to determine what companies have invested in the Iranian energy sector.
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Riots in Athens as thousands protest against cutbacks

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...more than 7,000 demonstrators gathered in the centre of Athens.
Protesters attacked the leader of Greece's biggest trade union and chased guards away from the country's tomb of the unknown soldier. Youths also fought with police inside the Council of State and tried to break into the labour ministry.
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Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican

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Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as "cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon".

He added: "When one speaks of 'the smoke of Satan' [a phrase coined by Pope Paul VI in 1972] in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia."
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Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel in Dock

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Tom Dale, a British activist who was next to Corrie when she was killed, wrote two days later that she had climbed on top of a mound of earth as activists nearby shouted at the bulldozer driver to stop.

The bulldozer, he wrote, “pushed Rachel, first beneath the scoop, then beneath the blade, then continued till her body was beneath the cockpit. They waited over her for a few seconds, before reversing. They reversed with the blade pressed down, so it scraped over her body a second time.”
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Dr. David Ray Griffin --> 9/11 Hoax

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Palestinians: East Jerusalem construction plan ends Mideast peace talks

March 9, 2010 by element115
The White House says the United States condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem.
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Iraq Postpones Announcing Initial Election Results

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A spokesman for Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission said Tuesday they would make an announcement once they had tabulated 30 percent of the votes. Election officials say they should reach that threshold to present the initial results on Wednesday or Thursday.
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Israel weighing construction of nuclear power plant

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Asked whether IAEA inspectors would supervise the building of an Israeli plant, Landau said: “We take care of our own needs very well and don’t need inspectors.”
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Biden Promises 'Total' US Commitment to Israel's Security

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Israel's first priority for this visit is to ensure continued U.S. support in efforts to contain Iran and its nuclear ambitions.
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Chomsky on Haiti

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...the aid ought to be going to Haitian popular organizations. Not to contractors, not to NGOs-to Haitian popular organizations, and they're the ones that should be deciding what to do with it. Well you know, that's not the agenda of G7. They don't want popular organizations; they don't like popular movements; they don't like democracy for that matter. What they want is for the rich and powerful to run things.
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Amir, ten years old, abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed

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...at 2am, Israeli soldiers would break into the house, snatch Amir from his bed, threaten his parents with death by gunfire if they tried to protect him, and take him downstairs under the stairwell. They would beat him so badly that he would bleed internally into his abdomen, necessitating overnight hospitalization. In complete shock and distress, Amir would not open his mouth to speak for another day and a half.
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Waterboarding for dummies

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Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a "a dunk in the water." But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial "enhanced interrogation" practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney's description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty.
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New suspect named in Dubai assassination

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Yesterday Interpol listed his alias as Joshua Aaron Krycer. Reports today revealed the real Mr Krycer is an Australian who moved to Israel from Melbourne three years ago. He is married with a young child and works as a speech pathologist at a hospital in Jerusalem.
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Calling All Rebels

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There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.
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New Yorkers Against Israeli Apartheid

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“...the government of Israel practices a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies. It’s army has turned every Palestinian village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp.”
Shulamit Aloni, January, 2007
Former Education Minister under Yitzhak Rabin
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Israeli Official: West Has 4-8 Weeks Left for Iran Diplomacy

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Adding to the harsh rhetoric coming out of the nation is recent days, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon today announced that the nation was giving the West another 4-8 weeks to attempt diplomacy with Iran, and that after that they would have to impose crippling sanctions on the nation.
Israel’s threats against Iran are not new, but the growing number of US official visits in recent days are seen as being at least in part based on fear that an Israeli attack could be in the offing.
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Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years

March 8, 2010 by element115
Snowfalls of up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) were forecast for the worst affected areas of the region of Catalonia, prompting the regional government to cancel classes for more than 142,000 students at 476 public schools.

Power was lost in homes throughout the region, with energy company Fecsa-Endesa reporting 200,000 clients without electricity, mostly in the province of Girona.
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Israelis, Palestinians to begin indirect talks

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Israel and the Palestinians agreed to begin indirect, American-brokered talks, the U.S. Mideast envoy announced Monday — ending a 14-month deadlock in peacemaking and representing the Obama administration's first substantive diplomatic achievement here.
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Biden in Israel after pledging U.S. support on Iran

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Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank on Monday, assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion

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This article is excerpted from Norman Finkelstein’s important new book about the Gaza conflict, “This Time We Went Too Far” published this month by OR Books.
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Japanese Have Washington Post Running Scared over 9/11

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The issue, as framed by the U.S. ruling elite’s hometown house organ is very simple; a top insider in Japan’s new government has lost his marbles.
The Washington Post’s apoplexy over the fact that Councilor Yukihisa Fujita isn’t buying the official version of what happened on September 11, 2001, is well reflected in the two headlines it gave to its March 8, 2010 editorial -->
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There has never been an Israeli peace camp

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The Israeli peace camp didn't die. It was never born in the first place. While it's true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation - all worthy of recognition - a large, influential peace camp has never existed here.
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Adm. Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran

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Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran.
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An earthquake in Eastern Turkey killed more than 50 people Monday

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Monday's tremor was unrelated to the recent quakes in Haiti, Chile and Kyrgyzstan, said Professor Dogan Kalafat, director of the Kandilli center's research institute. But it came as a reminder of the threat to Istanbul. A report submitted to the country's parliament last week by the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers criticized continued substandard construction. It also noted that an often-cited fatality forecast—that a major quake could kill some 90,000 people in Istanbul—is now out of date for the rapidly growing city.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls Sept 11 "big fabrication"

March 6, 2010 by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a "big fabrication" that was used to justify the U.S. war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Israel Is an Apartheid State and That is Why They Are Losing Legitimacy

March 5, 2010 by element115
If Israel is becoming a pariah in the world it is not because of anti-Semitism, it is because they are practicing a form of apartheid even more egregious than that practiced in South Africa.
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Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House

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It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.
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Fury as EU approves GM potato

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The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics.
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My Plan for a Freedom President

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by Ron Paul - "How I would put the Constitution back in the Oval Office"
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UN to produce bullion coins as world currency

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The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo.

In its wide-ranging report this fall, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that the system of currencies and international banking practices within today’s economies were inadequate, and responsible for the present economic crisis.
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As Predicted, Pentagon Shooting Blamed On 9/11 Truth

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The debunkers and the establishment can now have a field day with the Pentagon shooting and use it to make the case that 9/11 truthers are violent and should be silenced.
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Pentagon security officers shot near rail station

March 4, 2010 by element115
Two Pentagon security officers were wounded on Thursday when a gunman shot them at the entrance to the giant Defense Department headquarters beside a commuter rail station, officials said.
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Israeli Pride....

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Can you think of people who proudly walk around with T-shirts praising killing squads?
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US: Concern over Iran deepening

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US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice told the Security Council Thursday that her country's "concerns about Iran’s nuclear program have only deepened".

...Russia, China opt for more diplomacy.
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Peace talks between Israel and Palestine imminent

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Israel and the Palestinians are poised to resume peace talks as early as next week, ending a year-long moratorium, after Arab leaders agreed to allow the US to act as a go-between.
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UN official: Israel siege on Gaza encourages Hamas smuggling

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According to Holmes, the blockade was working against Israel's interest and has proven to be ineffective in its goal.
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Muslim woman refuses body scan at airport

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She was warned that she would be stopped from boarding the plane but she decided to forfeit her ticket to Pakistan rather than submit to the scan. Her female travelling companion also declined to step into the scanner, citing “medical reasons” for her refusal.
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Germany --> Greece should sell islands

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'We give you cash, you give us Corfu,' the Bild commented.
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The Murderous Mossad and 9-11

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The Mossad has been at it again: The recent assassination of a Hamas military leader in Dubai looks conclusively like the Israelis' handiwork. No doubt, they hoped for a little more anonymity in the aftermath--they likely didn't expect the Dubai authorities to be quite so technologically competent...Either we are complicit or we are not--there's no ethical halfway zone in the matter of targeted assassinations.
- Melik Kaylan, "Mossad Madness", Forbes, February 26, 2010
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Zionists getting blood stained red carpet ready to "welcome" Rachel Corries parents

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Apparently, the zionists cannot live with this situation….
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U.S. will determine who can board some Canadian flights

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...will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.

Secure Flight, the newest weapon in the U.S. war on terrorism, gives the United States unprecedented power over who can board planes that fly over U.S. airspace.

The program, which is set to take effect globally in December 2010, was created as part of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act.
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Blair warned in 2000 Iraq war was illegal

March 3, 2010 by element115
Secret papers withheld by Chilcot inquiry reveal Foreign Office fears over invasion.
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The Video The USA Army Doesn't Want You To See

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Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

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The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy for his own ends, while coming off like a straight shooter to those who are not in the know.
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Iran, Russia to sign major oil deal

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Iran is to sign a contract with Russia's Gazprom this month for the development of Azar oilfield in western Iran, says an official at the National Iranian Oil Company.
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Israel passports probe 'a waste of money'

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A former officer with Israel's National Fraud Unit who worked closely with Interpol, deputy commander Boaz Guttman, predicted the Australian Federal Police team had "zero chance" of making any significant progress in its inquiry into the misuse of the passports of three Australians who now live in Israel.

"Without belittling their capabilities, all of this is a show put on for domestic consumption by Britain and Australia, to show that they are doing something.
It's a waste of Australian and British taxpayers' money."
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'Mossad agents fled to US' after killing in Dubai of Hamas leader

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Police have now cast their net wider in their investigation of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s killing, which officials in the Gulf state are now certain was carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad.
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Dubai: Israeli premier faces arrest

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The head of the Dubai police is planning to seek the arrest of the prime minister of Israel and the head of the country's secret service, Mossad, over the killing of a Hamas leader.
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Did they know? Israel-U.S. startup linked to Dubai hit

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Police claim 13 suspects in the assassination of Hamas use cards issued by Tel Aviv-based firm.
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Millions of tonnes of water found on moon

March 2, 2010 by element115
Dr. Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston told the BBC that this amount of water, if harnessed as fuel for a rocket, would be enough to launch one space shuttle per day for 2,200 years.

He also told media that it could provide for “a sustainable human presence” on the moon.
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Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation

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From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it's a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It's belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world peace and security because US administrations since Lyndon Johnson supported a nation of 5.6 million Jews in an area the size of New Jersey, partnering in its worst crimes and abuses.
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Palestine is full of heroes

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Although people in our modern times have been educated to believe that having the 'right' ideas, methods or ideologies is what causes revolutions, history teaches us that drastic changes usually happen when the majority of the people rally behind a certain leader, more than behind an ideology. While Palestinian society continues to be torn apart by factional strife, and people increasingly see each other as adversaries based on differences of opinion or conviction, what they really need is not a new philosophy, but simply a truly charismatic leader.
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Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week

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In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was happening in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip at the time of the second Palestinian intifada. On the other hand, it aimed to situate direct military violence against Palestinians within the broader context of Israel's apartheid policies. Focusing on the broader system of Israeli apartheid allowed activists to link the construction of the Apartheid Wall in the occupied West Bank, settler violence and home demolitions to a broader system which systematically discriminated against the civil and political rights of Palestinian citizens in Israel, or 1948 Palestinians, and denied the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland.
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Two Suspects Entered U.S. After Killing in Dubai

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At least two suspects in the killing of a Hamas official in a hotel here in January traveled to the United States afterward, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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Jerusalem mayor unveils demolition plan

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Jerusalem's mayor today unveiled a sweeping plan for an area of East Jerusalem that would see at least 22 Palestinian homes demolished to make way for a public park and tourist site.
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Iran says new UN nuclear chief biased

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Iran's atomic chief on Tuesday accused the new UN nuclear watchdog head, Yukiya Amano, of taking sides against Tehran's atomic programme but said he hoped the Japanese official would modify his stand.
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Russia says still room for diplomacy with Iran

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday there was still room for diplomacy rather than sanctions to produce a solution to the dispute with Iran over its nuclear program.
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Dubai to screen Israeli arrivals

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Dubai will use stricter screening measures before admitting Israeli dual citizenship holders into the country, its police chief said.
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Film-maker Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran

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The Iranian director Jafar Panahi has reportedly been detained by security forces in his homeland. Panahi, 49, is a vocal supporter of the opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and has long been regarded as a pariah by the Iranian establishment. He is currently believed to be being held at an undisclosed location.
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America's Permanent War Agenda

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America glorifies wars in the name of peace, what historian Charles Beard (1874 - 1948) called "perpetual war for perpetual peace" in describing the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' foreign policies - what concerned the Federation of American Scientists when it catalogued about 200 post-1945 conflicts in which America was, and still is, the aggressor.

..."our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own."
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Dubai: “All Suspects In Mabhouh Murder Hiding Out In Israel

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Dubai’s police chief said on Monday he is sure that all the suspects in the killing of a Hamas chief in a hotel room of the emirate are now hiding out in Israel to avoid arrest.
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Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis

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The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
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