New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action

May 28, 2007 by element115
The CIA Gulfstream V jet touched down at a small airport west of here just before 9 p.m. on a subfreezing night in December 2001. A half-dozen agents wearing hoods that covered their faces stepped down from the aircraft and hurried across the tarmac to take custody of two prisoners, suspected Islamic radicals from Egypt.

Inside an airport police station, Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners' clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness statements. They probed inside the men's mouths and ears and examined their hair before dressing the pair in sweat suits and draping hoods over their heads. The suspects were then marched in chains to the plane, where they were strapped to mattresses on the floor in the back of the cabin.
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Charlie Sheen Responds To New York Post Hit Piece

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"My views and convictions regarding the events of 9/11 have not wavered. I still firmly believe the citizens of this great country, especially the family members of those tragically lost, deserve a much more accurate and thorough investigation surrounding the horrific events."
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Another Top Bush Aide Makes an Exit

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As the Bush administration inches closer to its concluding months, more top aides are headed out to the private sector. Sara M. Taylor, the White House political director and microtargeting guru who has been with George W. Bush from the outset of his first presidential campaign, is the latest staff member to leave the president's employ.
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What Military Service Qualifies Bush To Lead Iraq War

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This country is now paying a heavy price for Bush's lack of military experience, and his taunting invitation of "bring it on," that has resulted in a never ending stream of challengers traveling to Iraq to teach our loudmouth President a lesson.
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Television's role in the coup against Chávez

May 27, 2007 by element115
RCTV has used its access to the public airwaves to repeatedly call for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chávez. RCTV gave vital practical support to the overthrow of Venezuela's elected government in April 2002 in which at least 13 people were killed. In the 47 hours that the coup plotters held power, they overturned much of Venezuela's democratic constitution - closing down the elected national assembly, the supreme court and other state institutions.
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How Can Bush Free Iraq When He Brings Tyranny To America?

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Paul Craig Roberts --> Now that the Democrats have betrayed their mandate of last November to end Bush's war against Iraq and given Bush carte blanche to continue the gratuitous bloodshed, the neoconservative plan, spearheaded by Vice President Cheney, to initiate aggression against Iran, is back on the front burner.
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Dissent spreads through U.S. military ranks

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Growing anger over the U.S. war in Iraq and growing understanding that the occupation is a complete failure are spreading through all ranks of the U.S. military. This dissidence shows itself in different ways among the rank-and-file troops and among the lifers and officers. But from an increase of angry letters to anti-war publications like GI Special to an increase of courts-martial, the signs of resistance are growing.
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Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security

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Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.

"The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," said David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman. "Either there's no terrorism, or they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us."
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall

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The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful.
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Medical experiments to be done without patients' consent

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The federal government is undertaking the most ambitious set of studies ever mounted under a controversial arrangement that allows researchers to conduct some kinds of medical experiments without first getting the patients' permission.
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Rapid-fire Israeli air strikes kill five Gaza Palestinians

May 26, 2007 by element115
At least five Palestinian militants were killed yesterday in eight rapid-fire Israeli air strikes and the military detained the second Hamas cabinet minister within 48 hours in the West Bank.
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Fears of civil war in Ukraine

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SPECIAL forces loyal to Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko have been blocked by police from reaching the capital as the feud between the ex-Soviet state's president and prime minister deepens.
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Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal

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A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.

The declaration by Theodor Meron, the Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser at the time and today one of the world's leading international jurists, is a serious blow to Israel's persistent argument that the settlements do not violate international law, particularly as Israel prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the war in June 1967.
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No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval

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US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week.
Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law.
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Protesters Barred From Cheney’s West Point Speech

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A federal appeals court on Friday denied an organization permission to stage an antiwar demonstration on Saturday on the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where Vice President Dick Cheney is to deliver the commencement address.
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What Congress Really Approved

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Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies...
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Rosie's Left 'The View,' Won't Be Back

May 25, 2007 by element115
Rosi O'Donnell said, "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"

Conservative critics said O'Donnell was calling U.S. troops terrorists.
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Powerful Israeli lobby threatens U.S. security: US paper

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The Israeli lobby is a loose but disciplined coalition of individuals and organizations who work to influence U.S. policy in Israel's favor. A major player is the hard-line America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). With a $50 million budget, AIPAC is the second-most-powerful lobby in America, behind only the AARP. The lobby also includes several prominent Christian evangelicals, leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and neoconservatives such as Vice President Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Donald Rumsfeld and Scooter Libby. All support the Iraq war and a pro-Israel, anti-Iran, anti-Syria agenda.
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House, Senate pass war funding bill

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Congress sent a $120 billion war spending bill to the White House late Thursday, abandoning a call for most U.S. troops to leave Iraq after an earlier veto by President Bush.
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Google Video Caught Censoring 'Loose Change'?

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Google video appears to be censoring the online version of Loose Change as it is not appearing in the top 100 despite having many more views than most other videos in the top 10.
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Why Bush hasn't been impeached

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The Bush presidency is a lot of things. It's a secretive cabal, a cavalcade of incompetence, a blood-stained Church Militant, a bad rerun of "The Godfather" in which scary men in suits pay ominous visits to hospital rooms. But seen from the point of view of the American people, what it increasingly resembles is a bad marriage. America finds itself married to a guy who has turned out to be a complete dud. Divorce -- which in our nonparliamentary system means impeachment -- is the logical solution. But even though Bush cheated on us, lied, besmirched our family's name and spent all our money, we the people, not to mention our elected representatives and the media, seem content to stick it out to the bitter end.
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Cheney aide clearing path to bomb Iran

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Vice President Dick Cheney believes the US should not be pursuing a diplomatic path with Iran, and a senior aide to the vice president has been meeting with national security think tanks and consultants in Washington to "help establish the policy and political pathway to bombing Iran."
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Feith Referenced Fake Company As Evidence Of Pre-War Ties Between Iraq And Bin Laden

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...the Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen explained that Feith had apparently invented the company, saying “Vlemmo is unknown to the Netherlands“
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Turkey's leader backs attack on Kurds

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The prime minister said he would back Turkey's generals if they decide to retaliate for a suicide bombing in the capital by striking Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

The PKK denied responsibility for the blast, which killed six people and wounded dozens at a busy shopping mall.
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Israeli air strike near Palestinian PM's home

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Israel has carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, but insisted he was not the target.
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Fighting erupts anew in Lebanon

May 24, 2007 by element115
Fighting erupted anew Thursday night between Islamist guerrillas entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp and Lebanese troops besieging them, ending a tenuous truce in a battle that has already seen at least 69 people killed.
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Israel, US, and Egypt back Fatah's fight against Hamas

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The Bush administration has spent most of its $84 million in aid to Palestinians to train an elite corps of Fatah-loyal fighters.
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Virtual human puts doctors inside their patients

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Researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.

Called CAVEman, the larger-than-life computer image emcompasses more than 3,000 distinct body parts, all viewed in a booth that gives the image height, width and depth. It also plots the passage of time - the fourth 'dimension.'
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Iran to Israel: Don't Attack Lebanon

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"If you think that by bombing and assassinating Palestinian leaders you are preparing ground for new attacks on Lebanon in the summer, I am telling you that you are seriously wrong," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally in the city of Isfahan.
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Amnesty condemns Israeli strikes

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Israeli troops killed more than 650 Palestinians, including 120 children, last year, a threefold increase on 2005, the human rights group Amnesty International said yesterday.

Israel was criticised for air and artillery strikes on Gaza, continuing to build the West Bank barrier and restricting the movement of Palestinians with checkpoints. "Israeli soldiers and settlers committed serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, against Palestinians, mostly with impunity," the annual report said.
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10 Disturbing Trends in Subliminal Advertising

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Subliminal advertising has gone mainstream - fake news, mind control scripts, propaganda and stealth voicemail are in wide use by corporations, government bodies and industry groups.
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The FBI May Have the Inside Scoop on You

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Think surveillance is for terrorists? Think again. Under the terms of the Patriot Act, a ton of your personal and financial information may already be in the FBI's database.
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German TV interview with Shanksville Mayor

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No plane. Nothing but a hole.
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Gunfire Erupts at Lebanon Refugee Camp

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Sporadic gunfire erupted Thursday inside the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp where Islamic militants are holed up after refusing an ultimatum by Lebanon's defense minister to surrender or face a military onslaught. Lebanon's leader vowed to uproot the fighters.
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World Powers Weigh Options Against Iran

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Experts from the United States and five other powers leading efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear program plan to meet within the week following a U.N. report that Tehran has expanded its uranium enrichment program.
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Israel rounds up Hamas leaders, fires on Gaza

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Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and 32 other officials in the occupied West Bank and launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday, stepping up a campaign against Hamas Islamists.
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The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom

by element115
BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet - except the USA - only because America's news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d'etat that chose our President in 2004.

The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked "Do not forward" to voters' homes. Letters returned ("caged") were used as evidence to block these voters' right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and --- you got to love this --- American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.
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TOP US-ISRAELI NEOCON BEHIND PALESTINIAN UNREST.

May 23, 2007 by element115
Elliot Abrams, a long-standing neoconservative, well-known Greater Israel Zionist and currently Deputy National Security Advisor, is reportedly behind not only the current violence between Hamas and Fatah, particularly the fighting in the Gaza, but also the violence in Lebanon.

To most people who are familiar with Abrams history this assertion will not come as any surprise; his role in the notorious Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s is well known. Abrams is well versed in the art of playing off one set of peoples against another in order to achieve an outcome that ultimately is not in the interests of either but only in the interests of the US and/or Israel. This current situation among Palestinians is no exception.
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Iran most active in countering terror

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A recent statement issued by the UN Security Council (UNSC) says Iran is the most active country in countering terrorism.
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Claims of 9/11 conspiracy have suspect running scared

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A former Federal Emergency Management Agency videographer claims the U.S. government wants him silenced for what he saw in the smoldering ruins of the Twin Towers after 9/11.

"What I saw (at 9/11) leads me to the terrible conclusion that there was foreknowledge of what was going to happen - the precautions that were taken to save certain things that the authorities there considered irreplaceable or invaluable.

"For example, certain things were missing that could only have been removed with a truck. Yet after the first plane hit one of the towers, everything in Manhattan collapsed and no one could have gotten near the towers to do that."
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Nine U.S. warships enter Gulf

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...the largest number of U.S. military vessels to enter the Gulf since 2003, the U.S. military said.

It said the ships were entering the area for training.
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Bomb Hits Lebanese Mountain Resort

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A bomb exploded in one of Lebanon's most important mountain resorts late Wednesday, wounding at least five people, police said.

Police said the bomb was hidden in a bag and placed at the entrance of a building in a narrow street about 200 yards from the main government building in town. Ambulances and police rushed to the area minutes after the blast, which had also caused considerable material damage.
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IAEA Report Contradicts Major Media Narrative On Iran

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ABC Report --> "The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to confirm Iran's rapid progress in advancing its uranium enrichment program in a report due tomorrow."

The only problem is that the report confirms no such thing.
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Bush says Iraq withdrawal would fuel risk of Al Qaeda attack on U.S.

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Having stared down congressional Democrats as they tried to set a date for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq, President George W. Bush pressed his argument Wednesday that the premature departure of coalition forces would make Al Qaeda an even greater threat to the region and to the United States.
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Israeli security forces on high alert due to warnings

May 22, 2007 by element115
Israeli security establishments have imposed closure on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which will not be lifted until defense officials make decision in accordance with security intelligence after the end of the holiday on Wednesday evening.
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Bilderberg To Be Held In Istanbul

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The annual Bilderberg Meeting, which gathers high level officials from the world business, politics and media circles, will be held in Istanbul this year. The main topics of the meeting are Turkey, Iran and energy issue.
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Why the US Government Is Hated All Over the World

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The United States is the most hated country on the planet, followed by, to the extent that there is a distinction, Israel. So far as I know, there are no other contenders. You can say “Who cares?” as many will say, or “Screw’em if they can’t take a joke,” or “I’d ratherh be feared than loved.” All very droll. Still, it is an interesting datum. No country ever lives up to its own PR, but there was a time when America was widely admired. Now, almost universally, it is seen as a rogue state. And is.
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Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran

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The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the ABC News.
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Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon

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Hersh points out that the current situation is much like that during the conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980's – which gave rise to al Qaeda – with the same people involved in both the US and Saudi Arabia and the "same pattern" of the US using jihadists that the Saudis assure us they can control.
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White House says bin Laden ordered Iraq plots

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Mindful of its trouble selling its war strategy to the American public, the White House is trying to put the spotlight on bin Laden's connections to Zarqawi, the head of Iraq's al Qaeda wing who was killed in a U.S. air strike in June 2006.
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Carter blasts Bush

May 20, 2007 by element115
Former President Jimmy Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations.
Carter also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.
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White House Says Carter Criticism of Bush Is ‘Sad’

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...calling his comments “sad” and Mr. Carter himself “irrelevant.”
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Lebanon clashes kill 50

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Lebanese troops battled Islamist militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp today and 50 people were killed in the clashes, Lebanon's bloodiest internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.
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Israeli air strike kills 6 in family

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Israel’s air force fired a missile at a house in Gaza City late Sunday, killing at least eight people, residents and hospital officials said.

Israeli air attacks on militant targets earlier in the day killed an additional three Palestinians.
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Is the Reunited Russian Church Putin's Tool?

May 17, 2007 by element115
...the end of the 86 year-old schism brought about by the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and the ensuing murder of the dethroned Tsar and the forced emigration of hundred thousands Russians defeated in Civil war.

Russian Orthodox Church is increasingly a symbol and projection of Russian nationalism.

...has been emerging as the Putin regime's major ideological resource.
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Multimillionaire Bush's wealth eclipsed by Cheney

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President George W. Bush held assets worth $7.5 million to $20 million last year, but was eclipsed by his vice president's wealth, financial records released on Tuesday showed.

Cheney reported assets valued at $21 million to around $100 million. Cheney gained much of his wealth from his former role heading oil service firm Halliburton Co..
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Collateral Genocide

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Wrecking Iraq: One Million Dead, 2 Million Wounded, 3 Million Displaced.
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Report: Palestinians abandon 1,000 Hebron homes under IDF, settler pressure

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A report by two major Israeli civil rights organizations that was issued Sunday indicates that Palestinians abandoned more than 1,000 homes and at least 1,829 businesses in the center of Hebron due to pressure by the Israel Defense Forces, the police and Jewish settlers.
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Chromium in drinking water causes cancer

by element115
...the U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday.

Environmentalists, who have been fighting for decades for tighter limits on how much chromium can be present in drinking water, said the findings offered a basis for such restrictions.
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The 59-Year Catastrophe

by element115
...despite every international law that recognises their right to return home, despite the universal consensus that has affirmed that right over 130 times in the UN, despite the humanitarian organisations that urge their return, despite the reams of authoritative papers and books documenting their 1948 existence, dispossession and displacement, and despite the global grassroots movements protesting their plight, the Palestinians have been left out in the cold. In fact, they have been living the catastrophe that saw them uprooted from their homes and homeland in 1948 ever since.
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Sole US officer charged over Abu Ghraib to face trial

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The only US military officer charged with tormenting prisoners at Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib jail will stand trial in August, a judge ruled Tuesday, amid claims that the government itself is getting off scot-free.

While the court martial of Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan will go ahead, there is anger that no higher ranking commanders or politicians are in the dock, three years after reports of abuse at Abu Ghraib first emerged.
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Leahy threatens White House with subpoenas

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent a strongly worded letter to President Bush’s counsel Fred Fielding and threatened to issue subpoenas if the White House continues to “stonewall” an investigation into its involvement in the firing of several U.S. attorneys.
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All hail the king

by element115
Loyalty has always been the alpha and omega of George W. Bush's presidency. But all the forms of allegiance that have bound together his administration -- political, ideological and personal -- are being shredded, leaving only blind loyalty. Bush has surrounded himself with loyalists, who fervently pledged their fealty, enforced the loyalty of others and sought to make loyal converts. Now Bush's long downfall is descending into a series of revenge tragedies in which the characters are helpless against the furies of their misplaced loyalties and betrayals.
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World's Biggest U.S. Embassy May Not Be Quite Big Enough

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The massive New Embassy Compound in Baghdad, the biggest U.S. embassy on earth.
It appears it's not going to have enough housing for all the employees who'll be moving to the 27-building complex on a 104-acre tract of land -- about the size of the Vatican.
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FDA acquiring new powers to suppress alternative health

by element115
Your right to have free access to safe and highly effective dietary supplements is under an intense multi-pronged FDA attack.
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A Very Bleak New Report on Iraq

by element115
The much vaunted surge has not reduced violence and deaths. If anything, the number of killings across the country has only increased.
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Wolfowitz to resign from World Bank

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AFTER six weeks of combating efforts to oust him as president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz has begun to negotiate the terms under which he would resign.

In return, the bank would drop or soften the charge that he had engaged in misconduct.

Mr Wolfowitz was said to be adamant that he be cleared of wrongdoing before he resigns.
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Israeli Tanks Enter Gaza, Air Force Strikes at Hamas

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Israel moved tanks into the Gaza Strip and staged three air-strikes against Hamas.
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Michigan GOP leader wants Ron Paul barred from future debates for 9/11 remarks

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The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar presidential candidate Ron Paul from future GOP debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were the fault of U.S. foreign policy.
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Black activist stopped at border

May 16, 2007 by element115
Black youth activists in Toronto are blaming the "Jewish lobby" for the decision yesterday morning by border guards to deny entry into Canada to Malik Zulu Shabazz, a controversial black American lawyer and activist, who had been scheduled to address an afternoon protest rally at the Ontario legislature.
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"It Takes an Enormous Amount of Courage to Speak the Truth When No One Else is Out There"

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The battle over political science professor Norman Finkelstein to receive tenure at DePaul University is heating up. Finkelstein - one of the country’s foremost critics of Israeli policy - has taught at DePaul for the past six years.

Interview with Raul Hilberg, considered the founder of Holocaust studies, and Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University and an expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Shlaim calls Finkelstein a “very impressive, learned and careful scholar”, while Hilberg praises Finkelstein’s “acuity of vision and analytical power.”
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The Counterfeit President

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George Walker Bush is a counterfeit – everything. He is a coward who wants desperately to be a war hero. He was born to old money, but he is rude, crude, and even sober, he is an embarrassment whenever he is thrown onto his own resources; he has the wit of a drunken stevedore with the intellect of a slow eight year old. Even when he is given the words of others to speak, they come out mispronounced and disordered; he doesn’t understand all of them, and fails completely to understand what they taken all mean together. He’s a silver–spoon city boy who, if he had to saddle his own horse – if he can ride at all – would end up riding as Odysseus did the sheep of Polyphemus: underneath. Nor would he, with his bought and paid for University degree (they wouldn’t have dared fail a legacy like him anyway), understand the reference.
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Inciting a New Cold War

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Hypocritical U.S. Views about Russia's Democracy.

Paper to be presented at the 16th Annual Russian-American Seminar, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 15-22, 2007.
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Israel Soldiers Hurt In Secret Anthrax Experiment

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Dozens of Israeli soldiers are today suffering from a wide range of illnesses, some incurable, after participating in a secret experiment to develop an anthrax vaccine.

Israel's Channel 2 News reported that the soldiers have developed skin tumors, severe lung infections, serious migraine headaches, bronchitis and even epilepsy.
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The Hippies Were Right

by element115
You know it's true. All this hot enthusiasm for healing the planet and eating whole foods and avoiding chemicals and working with nature and developing the self? Came from the hippies. Alternative health? Hippies. Green cotton? Hippies. Reclaimed wood? Recycling? Humane treatment of animals? Medical pot? Alternative energy? Natural childbirth? Non-GMO seeds? It came from the granola types (who, of course, absorbed much of it from ancient cultures), from the alternative worldviews, from the underground and the sidelines and from far off the goddamn grid and it's about time the media, the politicians, the culture as a whole sent out a big, wet, hemp-covered apology.
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BBC's Jane Standley - Audio cuts-out when asked about WTC7

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Bush selects general for 'war czar'

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Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the operations director for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, will fill the job, which is part of the White House's National Security Council, administration officials said. He is to be an assistant to the president, empowered by Bush to secure cooperation, support and personnel for the wars from across the federal government.
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US Senate votes against March Iraq war withdrawal

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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly against withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
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Israeli Aircraft Fires on Hamas Targets

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The attack would be the second airstrike of the day on a Hamas target in response to rocket attacks on southern Israel carried out by the Islamic militant group.
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Bolton: We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb

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A nuclear Iran would be as dangerous as “Hitler marching into the Rhineland” in 1936 and should be prevented by Western military strikes if necessary, according to a leading hawk who recently left the Bush administration.
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$2.9 Trillion Budget

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"We've been placed in a deep hole," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D. "This plan will begin to dig us out."
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Amsterdam Upgrades Airport Security

by element115
...uses low energy radio waves, rather than high-energy X-rays, to create a dim outline of a passenger's body.
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Two jailed for trying to leak details of Blair's talks with Bush

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Tony Blair's ill-fated war with Iraq claimed two more victims when a civil servant and an MP's researcher were convicted of disclosing details of a secret conversation between the Prime Minister and President George Bush.
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Silverstein family were all "running late" on 9/11

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"We talked to their private security staff, we talked to people who were there with Larry on 9/11 - they said he got a phone call telling him not to show up to work and he called his daughter up and his daughter also never showed up to work," Rudkowski told a radio show this past weekend.
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The Matt Drudge primary

May 15, 2007 by element115
How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign. Hint: It involves the Drudge Report.
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US conservatives block cancer vaccine

by element115
Plans to vaccinate young girls against the sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer have been blocked in several US states by conservative groups, who say that doing so would encourage promiscuity.

Advocates of the vaccine point out that the jabs work against human papillomavirus (HPV) - which causes virtually all cases of cervical cancer - and are safe.
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Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign

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Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys.
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The View to Host Segment on WTC 7

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After many back-and-forth arguments during the Hot Topics segments about what happened to World Trade Center building #7 on September 11, 2001, it looks like The View is finally going to bring some experts in on the subject.
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Bloomberg ready to spend $1 billion to run for president

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New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.5 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign.
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High School Suspends Students for Silent Protest

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...for participating in a silent demonstration to raise awareness about anti-gay violence.
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US 'cannot strike Iran'

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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the United States on Monday that Tehran would retaliate severely to any possible attack over its controversial nuclear programme.
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World should adapt to Iran atom advances says ElBaradei

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Speaking a week before an IAEA report on Iran to the Security Council, ElBaradei said it would be more sensible to cap Iranian enrichment short of industrial scale rather than try to freeze it altogether.
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US says Russia cannot veto missile defence

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today Russia could not veto American plans to build a missile defence shield in Europe but added that the two countries had agreed to tone down their rhetoric.
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World Mayors Hold Climate Summit in NYC

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Mayors and local leaders from more than 30 cities kicked off the conference, known as the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, which first met in 2005 in London. Organizers say cities bear a significant responsibility to address climate change because they cover less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface but generate 80 percent of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
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24 killed in Pakistan blast

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The blast happened in a crowded area of downtown Peshawar close to the centuries-old Mahabat Khan mosque and near a hotel and a cinema.
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Bono attacks world's rich on Africa

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G8 members in 2004/06 contributed less than half the amount needed to make good their promises to double Africa.
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BBC Scientology documentary

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U.S. troops searching for missing soldiers

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We are working with the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police in searching for our missing soldiers. We're also communicating with the local population for information, for support and the local population continues to be helpful in providing tips," Garver said.
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Fighting spirals in Gaza

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Eight Palestinians were killed when gunmen ambushed a rival force in Gaza on Tuesday as spiralling factional fighting claimed 16 lives, jeopardising the future of a fledgling unity government.
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White House Shifts Wolfowitz Stance

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“The fact is that he made mistakes,” Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said of Mr. Wolfowitz as he presented this approach today. “They are not, in our view, firing offenses.”

Wolfowitz was “tired of people” who were “attacking him,” and added, “You should tell your friends to stop it.”
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