US 'licence to snoop' on EU air travellers

December 31, 2006 by element115
...their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington.

...the demands were disclosed in "undertakings" given by the US Department of Homeland Security to the European Union and published by the Department for Transport after a Freedom of Information request.
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World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming

December 31, 2006 by element115
A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned.

...the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge.
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U.S. suffers 3,000th casualty

December 31, 2006 by element115
U.S. troops began the New Year with news their 3,000th comrade had died since a 2003 invasion.

Bush's spokesman Scott Stanzel said the president "grieves for each one that is lost".

"He will ensure their sacrifice was not made in vain."
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Dissecting the Big Lie

December 31, 2006 by element115
Despite the deeply hypocritical show of reverence for one so maleficent, it is fitting that a military escort will deliver Ford?s casket to the Capitol?s Rotunda for viewing. Why wouldn?t soldiers bear the body of the former leader of a fascist state replete with rampant corporatism, militarism, and pathological nationalism? And why wouldn?t he lie in state in the Capitol?s Rotunda? After all, Congress has been deeply complicit in creating and preserving the nightmare some refer to as Pax Americana.
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Hold These Grotesque Executioners To Account

December 31, 2006 by element115
SundayHerald --> Who will try Bush and Blair, the authors of an invasion which was almost certainly illegal under international law and which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians? Shouldn't they be in the dock?
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Former Longtime Confidant Accuses Ariel Sharon of Assassinating Yasser Arafat

December 31, 2006 by element115
Longtime and now recently deceased confidant to former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Uri Dan, published a book in France that may have been his 2006 one titled Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait in which he accused the former prime minister of assassinating Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat by poisoning him. Dan claimed Sharon got approval from George Bush by phone early in 2004 to proceed with his plan after he told the US president he was no longer committed to "not" liquidating the Palestinian leader who then was under siege and practically incarcerated in what remained of his Ramallah compound, most of which had already been destroyed by the Israelis in a lawless act of retribution against him.
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Free State Project

December 31, 2006 by element115
The Free State Project has finally reached the goal of its First 1000 Pledge, with less than a day left to the deadline. The pledge was led by Ian Bernard, a long time supporter of the FSP and host of the libertarian radio show Free Talk Live, who promised to move for liberty to New Hampshire by the end of 2008.
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Riot in California' prison

December 31, 2006 by element115
As many as 1,000 inmates at the Chino state prison rioted for 90 minutes Saturday as guards struggled to stop the violence by firing pepper spray and gas grenades into several barracks, officials said.

Fifty-one inmates were treated for moderate to serious injuries, including one with stab wounds and head trauma, a prison spokesman said. No guards were hurt.
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Europeans denounce Hussein's execution

December 31, 2006 by element115
...opposition to the execution of Saddam Hussein was nearly unanimous among its leaders.
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Six bomb blasts rock Bangkok

December 31, 2006 by element115
...killing at least two people and prompting the city to disperse thousands of people who had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve.
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Romania, Bulgaria join European Union

December 31, 2006 by element115
Blue-and-gold European Union flags fluttered across the Romanian capital and celebratory fireworks thundered through the sky at midnight as Romania, along with southern neighbour Bulgaria, became the latest countries to join the European Union.
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Neuronet

December 31, 2006 by element115
International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies --> ...announced the formation of a first generation network created specifically for the transmission of real-time, virtual reality.
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'Saddam Hussein's execution violates all international laws'

December 31, 2006 by element115
Barhum accused the United States of "having crossed all red lines" and denounced Saddam?s trial as an ?unjust? process.

He also criticised the day chosen for Saddam?s execution, just hours before the start of the feast of Eid Al-Adha.

"The hanging took place on the day of the Eid and this is a message to the Arab street ? the Americans have launched threats to all the Arabs,? he said.
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...objected to American foreign policy in the Middle East

December 31, 2006 by element115
Woman turned away by doctor - for being American

...in Sweden, doctor waved the patient's papers and shouted "she doesn't have strep throat, she doesn't have strep throat". He then added that he would not treat her.

"He said he didn't like Americans," said Johansson.

He also disliked hearing English spoken in his treatment room and soon walked out.
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A dictator created then destroyed by America

December 31, 2006 by element115
Robert Fisk --> And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this...
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Ramsey Clark reacts to the execution of Saddam Hussein

December 31, 2006 by element115
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He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him

December 31, 2006 by element115
The moment Saddam's hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington's secrets were safe.
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Video of Saddam Hussein being executed

December 30, 2006 by element115
WARNING: GRAPHIC!!!


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Silencing Saddam

December 30, 2006 by element115
The fact is that Saddam Hussein knew a great deal about the United States' role in Iraq, including deals made with Bush's father.
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Saddam Hussein buried in his hometown

December 30, 2006 by element115
Saddam Hussein was buried early Sunday in his home village of Ouja near Tikrit.

US forces reportedly delivered his remains late Saturday to local Sunni Arab tribal leaders in Tikrit
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It looked like a hit instead of a state execution

December 30, 2006 by element115
"The guards were dancing in front of him. When Saddam tried to sleep, they were going in, every 30 minutes. They said, 'We didn't let him sleep. We destroyed his personality'."

...three punks in leather jackets and balaclavas take care of business instead of the Iraqi army.
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He kilt the man who tried to kill his daddy

December 30, 2006 by element115
...to George W. Bush
The Lord's Chosen
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The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006

December 30, 2006 by element115
The top 10 civil liberties nightmares of the year
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Bush signing statement claims he can search our mail without a warrant

December 30, 2006 by element115
Bush signed the H.R. 6407, the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In doing so he added a few signing statements. One of them is particularly alarming -->
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Experiments that claim to 'cure' homosexual rams spark anger

December 30, 2006 by element115
...a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.

the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the ?straightening? procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.
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Madrid bomb shatters ETA cease-fire

December 30, 2006 by element115
Spain has blamed a powerful bomb explosion Saturday at the country's busiest airport on Basque separatist group ETA, declaring it a violation of a nine-month cease-fire.
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Saddam Hussein executed

December 29, 2006 by element115
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad.

Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).
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Video

December 29, 2006 by element115


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Saddam lawyers ask US court to stop execution

December 29, 2006 by element115
In a last-minute filing to the U.S. District Court of Washington, Hussein's lawyers asked for a temporary stay of execution because Saddam is a defendant in a civil case in the same court and he has been prevented from being able to defend himself.
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Bush Sheltered During Tornado Alert

December 29, 2006 by element115
President And First Lady Were Moved To Armored Vehicle On Their Ranch During Weather Alert.
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A Look Back and Ahead In an Age of Neocon Rule

December 29, 2006 by element115
At the end of the sixth horrific year under the reign of the Bush modern-day extremist Jacobin-neocons, we can now look ahead, but to what. We have an administration in charge for another two years one longtime analyst characterizes as "a bunch of crooks, incompetents and perverts" with the president's approval rating plunging as low as 28% in some independent polls and a growing number of people in the country demanding his impeachment and removal from office.
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Palestinians taken to Israeli prison hospital are not given medical treatment

December 29, 2006 by element115
Mandela Institute -->
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The 'untouchables' of US science

December 29, 2006 by element115
When George Bush banned funding he effectively put researchers into quarantine...
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TV plans tasteful coverage of Saddam execution

December 29, 2006 by element115
The operative word: taste.
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GOP Rep. sees Arab conspiracy in OK City bombing

December 29, 2006 by element115
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Journalists say free press threatened by Army subpoena

December 29, 2006 by element115
In a move which threatens the First Amendment rights of journalists, the U.S. Army has subpoenaed journalist Sarah Olson to testify at the January 4 pre-trial hearing in the court-martial of Lt. Ehren Watada. The Army placed another journalist, Dahr Jamail, on the prosecution witness list.
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Israel admits it may have hit ambulance

December 29, 2006 by element115
The Israeli army has admitted its soldiers may have fired on a Red Cross ambulance during the war in Lebanon.
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Olmert's Connection to 9/11

December 29, 2006 by element115
Olmert's relationship with Atzmon and his responsibility for Boston's airport security on 9/11 is a conspicuous tip ? completely ignored by the controlled press ? of the Israeli and Zionist criminal network involved in the terror attacks that started the so-called "War on Terror."
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This is where George Bush gets dangerous

December 29, 2006 by element115
One Thousand Reasons --> We now have six years of evidence that George Bush is not all there. The occupant of the White House has consistently demonstrated an extraordinary ability to evade reality and a reckless proclivity to steer the nation by a distorted compass made up of cocaine-induced delusions and two decades of insobriety. Add to this mix a little religious fanaticism and a gigantic ego that serves to accentuate an acute case of intellectual dwarfism.
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Bush Gets Outpolled By Satan

December 29, 2006 by element115
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Silence of the Lambs

December 29, 2006 by element115
...it is the Palestinian people that are still being sacrificed today, every day.... and no one seems to care. The west is silent, the Arab world is silent, Palestine stands alone...
Below is a report from the Palestinian Centre on Human Rights..... can you honestly remain silent after reading this?.....Keep in mind... these incidents are from this week alone....
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End of Another Year...

December 29, 2006 by element115
Baghdad Burning --> Al Qaeda? That's laughable. Bush has effectively created more terrorists in Iraq these last 4 years than Osama could have created in 10 different terrorist camps in the distant hills of Afghanistan. Our children now play games of 'sniper' and 'jihadi', pretending that one hit an American soldier between the eyes and this one overturned a Humvee.
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Unabomber's Secret Code Cracked

December 29, 2006 by element115
Schneier described the code as so complicated that "it would not surprise me if this was the most complex cipher the FBI has seen since World War II."
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Saddam's execution will be videotaped

December 29, 2006 by element115
"We will video everything... All documentation will be videoed. Taking him [Saddam Hussein] from his cell to the execution is going to be videoed, and the actual execution will be documented and videoed."
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Police officers indicted in New Orleans

December 29, 2006 by element115
Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

"We cannot allow our police officers to shoot and kill our citizens without justification like rabid dogs," District Attorney Eddie Jordan said.
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Israel not to free Palestinians yet

December 29, 2006 by element115
"It does not look as though there will be anything before Shalit is out," said one political source.
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Many soldiers say troop surge a bad idea

December 29, 2006 by element115
Many of the American soldiers trying to quell sectarian killings in Baghdad don't appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in troop levels some people are calling for is a bad idea.
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US body backs sale of cloned food

December 29, 2006 by element115
Meat and milk from cloned animals is safe for human consumption, the US food regulator said in a draft ruling.
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Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic

December 29, 2006 by element115
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

...was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.
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Martial law for Somalia

December 29, 2006 by element115
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi said parliament will declare a period of martial law to maintain control of the country after Ethiopian and government troops wrested the capital from rival Islamists.
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Passengers and crew foil would-be Russian hijacker

December 28, 2006 by element115
Crew members and passengers overpowered a Russian man who tried to hijack an Aeroflot plane on Thursday and the aircraft safely made an emergency landing in Prague, airline officials said.
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Nuclear Disarmament Gets Critical

December 28, 2006 by element115
If prospects for nuclear weapons reduction took a turn for the worse in 2006 the New Year holds out little hope for containing proliferation.
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Israel's "existence" is in danger. Blame Rachel Corrie.

December 28, 2006 by element115
The idea that anything Rachel Corrie ever said or wrote was anti-Semitic is offensive in the extreme.
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Largest Wind Energy Contract in U.S. Renewable Industry History

December 28, 2006 by element115
...will supply SCE customers with equivalent of two major power plants.
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China Says Climate Change is Real, and Really Scary

December 28, 2006 by element115
China's Climate Change Report
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Ford: Bush made 'big mistake' on Iraq justifications

December 28, 2006 by element115
"- In an interview never before published, former President Gerald Ford said President Bush and his chief advisers "made a big mistake" with their justifications for the Iraq war. Ford made the comments in a four-hour interview in 2004 with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward." - CNN
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U.S. backs Ethiopian attacks in Somalia

December 28, 2006 by element115
The State Department signaled support Tuesday for Ethiopian military operations against Somalia, noting that Ethiopia has had "genuine security concerns" stemming from the rise of Islamist forces in its eastern neighbor.
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Activist, anti-Bush lawyer "falls to death" at hotel

December 28, 2006 by element115
A Monterey Bay journalist/activist -- and the first reporter to question Scott McLellan about Karl Rove's leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity -- has apparently jumped from a tall building. His family, friends, and coworkers all say he was in good spirits and was not depressed, and he had recently decided to open a law office.
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Fans Honor 'Godfather of Soul'

December 28, 2006 by element115
A white, horse-drawn carriage carried the body of music legend James Brown through the streets of Harlem on Thursday to the Apollo Theater, where a sea of people waited to say farewell to the "Godfather of Soul."

Friends and fans walked behind the caisson in the street, singing the chorus of Brown's anthem, "Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud."
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Saddam to be hanged by Sunday

December 28, 2006 by element115
. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins this Sunday.
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Israel Transfers Weapons to Abbas' Security Forces

December 28, 2006 by element115
Egypt has sent a large shipment of weapons through Israeli territory to strengthen the security forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza. Israeli security sources say Israel approved the transfer of 2,000 automatic rifles, 20,000 ammunition clips and two million bullets.
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Pope Gets Letter From Ahmadinejad

December 27, 2006 by element115
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter was delivered by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki after the pontiff's general audience at the Vatican's Paul VI hall, the Vatican said.

The Vatican did not release details of the content of Ahmadinejad's letter.
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Big Brother Surveillance Snags Innocent Man

December 27, 2006 by element115
Allan Dunne was filmed, featured on TV as a criminal, arrested and questioned, suspended and threatened with the sack, all within two days and all thanks to modern CCTV surveillance technology.

His crime? To take £20 out of his own account from a cash machine.
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Prince Harry is to be sent to Iraq next year as a troop commander

December 27, 2006 by element115
The third in line to the throne will join the Army's 1st Mechanised Brigade, which will be deployed to Basra in May 2007.
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UN-believable -- Sex crimes by UN peacekeepers worldwide

December 27, 2006 by element115
Children raped. Girls forced to trade sex for food. Women assaulted at gunpoint. Is this the behavior one would expect from the United Nations peacekeeping missions?
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BBC: Photos of the year 2006

December 27, 2006 by element115
...some of the most striking images from around the world.
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Private group buys Star Tribune

December 27, 2006 by element115
The McClatchy Co. capped a year of dramatic changes in the newspaper industry Tuesday by announcing the surprise sale of the Star Tribune, its largest newspaper, to a private investment group.
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50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn't Know This Time Last Year)

December 27, 2006 by element115
2006 Edition
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Crazy weather across Israel

December 27, 2006 by element115
Extreme weather conditions continued to sweep across Israel on Wednesday, causing havoc throughout the country.

Following snowstorms in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Hebron the previous night, on Wednesday morning snow fell in the Negev desert and later reached the central hills and Jerusalem.
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Germany Prepares to Take Helm of EU and G8

December 27, 2006 by element115
On Jan. 1, Germany will assume the presidency of the G8 organization of the largest industrial powers. In addition, Berlin will also chair the European Union Council.
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Blair's plane slides off runway

December 27, 2006 by element115
A British Airways commercial flight carrying Prime Minister Tony Blair has overshot runway at Miami International Airport but no one was hurt.
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Russia links ex-oil tycoon to spy poisoning

December 27, 2006 by element115
Nevzlin, living in Israel in self-imposed exile, was second-in-command to former billionaire oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

...the people behind Litvinenko's poisoning "could be the same people who are on an international wanted list for serious and very serious crimes..."
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Expert rejects talk of Castro cancer

December 27, 2006 by element115
A SPANISH surgeon has curbed months of speculation on the health of Fidel Castro, announcing that the Cuban leader does not have cancer and is in "fantastic" spirits as he slowly recovers from surgery.
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Saddam: Don't Hate The Invaders

December 27, 2006 by element115
Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a website Wednesday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator's death sentence and ordered him to be hanged within one month.

"I call on you not to hate because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking," the letter said.
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Israel vows 'pinpoint' attacks

December 27, 2006 by element115
"Although Israel has agreed to cease fire over the last month, under these circumstances the guidance to the security forces is to take pinpoint action against rocket firing cells," Olmert's statement said. "Israel will also continue to uphold the ceasefire and work with The PA to take immediate steps to stop the Qassam firing."
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Taiwan tremors cripple internet, phone service

December 27, 2006 by element115
Tremors from Tuesday's earthquake near the southern tip of Taiwan damaged undersea cables, disrupting internet and telephone communications across Southeast Asia.
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The War for the Horn of Africa

December 27, 2006 by element115
TIME --> Ethiopian troops are closing in on Somalia's capital in a proxy battle in the war between the West and Islamist extremists.
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Gerald R. Ford, 38th U.S. President, Dies at Age 93

December 27, 2006 by element115
Ford, in declining health, was hospitalized several times in the past year and most recently in October for tests at the Eisenhower Medical Center in California. He was the longest-lived former U.S. president, overtaking Ronald Reagan on Nov. 12.
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MDI wins $1.3 million contract to secure top-secret government facility

December 26, 2006 by element115
...have been selected to secure a large, high-security government agency in Washington, D.C.

MDI Security Systems and Global Systems Solutions will provide the government facility with a unified access control, intrusion detection management and integrated security management system.
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The Illuminati

December 26, 2006 by element115
Part 1


Part 2
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Indications of World Leaders in Satanic Rituals

December 26, 2006 by element115
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Israel's Olmert Eases Conditions for Palestinians

December 26, 2006 by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved a plan to ease conditions for Palestinians, including removal of some military roadblocks in the West Bank.
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U.S. military deaths in Iraq pass 9/11 toll

December 26, 2006 by element115
The deaths of six more American soldiers in Iraq pushed the U.S. death toll to at least 2,978 -- five more than the number killed in the September 11 attacks.
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U.S. Detains Two Iranians In Iraq

December 26, 2006 by element115
U.S. troops in Iraq detained at least two Iranians and released two others who had diplomatic immunity in an exercise the White House says may support its charge that Iran is helping fuel the insurgency there.
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Military considers recruiting foreigners

December 26, 2006 by element115
The armed forces, already struggling to meet recruiting goals, are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks -- including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer -- according to Pentagon officials.
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Covert Actions Against American Citizens Living in America

December 26, 2006 by element115
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'Corrie' canceled in Canada

December 26, 2006 by element115
Play, about the 23-year-old American activist who died under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, was originally produced at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2005.

CanStage, the country's largest not-for-profit theater, has changed its opinion and decided not to present the show as part of its 2007-2008 season.
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Quake sets off Asian tsunami alert

December 26, 2006 by element115
An undersea quake reportedly hit at 8:26 pm (1226 GMT) just off the southern tip of Taiwan, where authorities reported that two more earthquakes, measuring 6.4 and 5.2 in magnitude respectively, followed shortly after the first one.
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Iraqi court: Saddam death sentence must be carried out in 30 days

December 26, 2006 by element115
"The appeal court has approved the death sentence. [The government] has the right to choose the date starting from tomorrow up to 30 days. After 30 days it will be an obligation to implement the sentence," the head of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Aref Abdul-Razzaq al-Shahin, told a news conference.
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Cities on the Sea

December 26, 2006 by element115
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Study Takes Rare Look At How Materialism Develops In The Young

December 26, 2006 by element115
...the heightened materialistic values of early adolescents were directly related to "a severe drop in self-esteem that occurs around 12-13 years of age."
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December 25, 2006 by element115


__________ Happy Holidays __________
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Misinformer of the Year: ABC

December 25, 2006 by element115
This year saw ABC air The Path to 9/11, a two-part miniseries that placed the blame for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Clinton administration and whitewashed some of the Bush administration's failures leading up to the attacks. Additionally, the network's news coverage frequently reported Republican spin as fact, passed on falsehoods propagated by conservatives, and missed numerous opportunities to challenge or question the administration's actions during solo interviews with Bush and key members of his administration.
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Report: Japan looked into developing nuclear warhead

December 25, 2006 by element115
The Japanese government recently looked into the possibility of developing nuclear warhead, a news report said Monday, citing an internal government document.
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New York Times op-ed article censored by the CIA

December 24, 2006 by element115
What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran

Here is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central Intelligence Agency?s Publication Review Board after the White House intervened in the normal prepublication review process and demanded substantial deletions. Agency officials told us that they had concluded on their own that the original draft included no classified material, but that they had to bow to the White House.
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Putin Forever

December 24, 2006 by element115
Putin to remain leader after leaving Kremlin says senior politician.
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Impending police state in America

December 24, 2006 by element115
Esteemed Professor and Law Expert Warns Of Police State

Francis A Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration camps are in place and US citizens are the targets.
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9/11 Mysteries

December 24, 2006 by element115
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George Orwell Was Right: Spy Cameras See Britons' Every Move

December 24, 2006 by element115
During the past decade, the government has spent 500 million pounds ($1 billion) on spy cameras and now has one for every 14 citizens.
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'Che' Guevara CD Case Pulled From Shelves

December 24, 2006 by element115
Target Corp said on Friday it had pulled a CD carrying case bearing Ernesto "Che" Guevara's image after an outcry by critics who label the Marxist revolutionary a murderer and totalitarian symbol.
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Bill O'Reilly vs the "coolest 8 year old girl"

December 24, 2006 by element115
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Could this be the beginning of the Big Mess?

December 23, 2006 by element115
Security Council Slaps Sanctions on Iran
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Iran Vows to Defy U.N. Nuclear Sanctions

December 23, 2006 by element115
The Iranian government immediately rejected the resolution, vowing in a statement from Tehran to continue enriching uranium, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel for civilian purposes or for a nuclear bomb. The government said it "has not delegated its destiny to the invalid decisions of the U.N. Security Council."
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Brazilian berry destroys cancer cells in lab, UF study shows

December 23, 2006 by element115
A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit?s purported benefits.

Published today in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the study showed extracts from acai (ah-SAH?-ee) berries triggered a self-destruct response in up to 86 percent of leukemia cells tested.
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Most outrageous comments of 2006

December 23, 2006 by element115
# Coulter responding to Hardball host Chris Matthews' question, "How do you know that Bill Clinton's gay?": "I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag."

# Limbaugh on the Middle East: "Fine, just blow the place up."

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AllofMp3.com Sued for $1.65 Trillion

December 23, 2006 by element115
The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music.
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US tests call-up system

December 23, 2006 by element115
The Bush administration is planning a test run of America's emergency military call-up, stoking speculation about a return to a draft at a time when the White House is considering sending more troops to Iraq.
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Security Council to vote on Iran sanctions

December 23, 2006 by element115
The Security Council is expected to approve a slightly amended European draft resolution mandating nuclear-related UN sanctions against Iran.
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Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google

December 23, 2006 by element115
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
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Target Iran

December 22, 2006 by element115
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change...
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U.S., British warships to head for gulf

December 22, 2006 by element115
The United States and Britain will begin moving additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region in a display of military resolve toward Iran that would come as the United Nations debates possible sanctions against the country.
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Israeli think tank says only military strike will stop Iran

December 22, 2006 by element115
"There is no longer a possibility for effective sanctions to stop Iran," retired Brig.-Gen. Zvi Shtauber, of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, told The Jerusalem Post.

"Our conclusion is that without military action you won't be able to stop Iran," Shtauber said.
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Hamas puts together plan for 5-year truce with Israel

December 22, 2006 by element115
It calls for a cessation of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, a release of prisoners, a resumption of economic ties and an Israeli withdrawal to an agreed-upon line in the West Bank.
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The Bush Administration's 9/11 Story is a Conspiracy Theory

December 22, 2006 by element115
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Scientists discover nanoorganisms

December 22, 2006 by element115
...virtually invisible under a microscope, and belonged to a totally new phylum of Archaea, microorganisms that have been around for billions of years.
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Iran turns from dollar to euro in oil sales

December 22, 2006 by element115
The world?s fourth-biggest oil exporter has inserted a clause in its oil contracts allowing it to request payment in alternative currencies.
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Provoking Civil War in the Occupied Territories

December 22, 2006 by element115
So it's official. Britain is no longer simply boycotting a democratically elected Palestinian government. Following Tony Blair's visit, it is committing millions of pounds to Fatah militias that wish to overthrow it. Naturally enough, Blair's foreign policy initiative came two weeks after the US reportedly did the same thing, sending a shipment of 6,000 assault rifles to Fatah's elite Force 17 unit.
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Expert: The West will turn Turkmenistan into base for pressure upon Iran

December 22, 2006 by element115
Saparmurat Niyazov was one of key factors of stability in Central Asia. With his death, the USA will have an opportunity to play the ?Turkmen card? to exert pressure upon Iran and Afghanistan.
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Israel 'poisoning the Palestinians'

December 22, 2006 by element115
"Analyses carried out in laboratories outside Palestine have shown that Israel has had recourse to banned chemical weapons and depleted uranium" in the territories, said environment minister Yussef Abu Sofia in Algiers, on the sidelines of a conference of Arab environment ministers.

He also accused Israel of having "transported major quantities of dangerous chemical products into the interior of the Palestinian territories thereby seriously polluting the water table."
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Bush, Asleep In The Bunker

December 22, 2006 by element115
the two people in charge of this country are not living in denial but detachment. They must realize that Iraq is a mess perhaps beyond remedy. But that doesn't seem to affect them. How can that be?
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Bush signs executive order on pay raises

December 22, 2006 by element115
President Bush signed an executive order Thursday to raise the pay of federal workers, members of Congress and Vice President Dick Cheney in the new year.
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20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States

December 22, 2006 by element115
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
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Blackmail fear after Russia doubles the price of its gas

December 22, 2006 by element115
Fears that Russia is using energy supplies as a political weapon increased last night after Moscow forced Georgia to accept a doubling of gas prices.
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'We are facing the hardest Christmas yet'

December 21, 2006 by element115
Israeli road obstacles rise by 40% in a year, strangling the Palestinians, says UN.
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Bush 'brainwashed' Blair over Iraq

December 21, 2006 by element115
Tony Blair was in favour of announcing a timetable to pull troops out of Iraq, but was "brainwashed" out of it by US President George W. Bush, Iraq's Vice President said in a speech in New York.
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Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons"

December 21, 2006 by element115
In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.
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Turkmenistan's 'iron ruler' dies

December 21, 2006 by element115
Niyazov, who named cities and airports after himself in a personality cult, left no designated successor.
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U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time

December 21, 2006 by element115
Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.
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Jakarta airport debuts iris scanner

December 21, 2006 by element115
Under the "Saphire" program, frequent flyers register with the immigration authorities, pay the annual fee, and submit to scans of their left and right eyes, which authorities say are as individual as prints of the fingers or palm.

On arrival, users scan one eye and are cleared for entry, a process expected to take about 10 seconds.
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X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile

December 20, 2006 by element115
The Pentagon's Prompt Global Strike Weapon Plan
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Biometric data to be demanded from foreign visitors

December 20, 2006 by element115
...fingerprints and iris scans from 2008.
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Worse Than Apartheid

December 20, 2006 by element115
Israel has spent the last five months unleashing missiles, attack helicopters and jet fighters over the densely packed concrete hovels in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has made numerous deadly incursions, and some 500 people, nearly all civilians, have been killed and 1,600 more wounded. Israel has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza?s infrastructure, including its electrical power system and key roads and bridges, carried out huge land confiscations, demolished homes and plunged families into a crisis that has caused widespread poverty and malnutrition.
Palestinians in Gaza live encased in a squalid, overcrowded ghetto, surrounded by the Israeli military and a massive electric fence, unable to leave or enter the strip and under daily assault.
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The $2 Trillion Dollar War

December 20, 2006 by element115
Rolling Stone --> A leading economist says the true cost of Iraq is far higher than President Bush claims -- and America will pay the price for decades to come.
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American Inquisition

December 20, 2006 by element115
American Inquisition traces the origins of policies that gave rise to the use of torture. Interviews with journalists, psychologists and legal scholars attempt to peel away the layers of denial and secrecy that obscure the truth about a practice that is widespread, illegal, and ongoing.

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BBC moves to file-sharing sites

December 20, 2006 by element115
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.

...in contrast to most video sharing sites, Zudeo offers high definition videos.
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Ahmadinejad: Britain, Israel, US to 'vanish like the pharaohs'

December 20, 2006 by element115
"Today, it is the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime which are doomed to disappear as they have moved far away from the teachings of God," he said.
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Is the dollar doomed?

December 20, 2006 by element115
The really crucial question for 2007 is whether it is the year when there is a run on the dollar.

...the US currency is going to take a beating over the next 12 months.
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Media Takes on AT&T in Spy Case

December 20, 2006 by element115
News organizations will argue Thursday that documents under seal in a high-profile lawsuit against AT&T for its alleged participation in warrantless surveillance of Americans' phone calls and e-mails should be made public.
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Iran demands UN act on Israeli nuclear weapons

December 20, 2006 by element115
...unlike Iran, Israel is not a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Revealed at last...

December 20, 2006 by element115
...how FBI tried to nail John Lennon.
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Building starts on 9/11 Freedom Tower

December 20, 2006 by element115
The first steel columns of a new Freedom Tower were raised at the World Trade Center site today.

The 1,776-foot (541-metre) Freedom Tower is due to be completed in 2011.
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Canadians, Americans have something in common - stress

December 20, 2006 by element115
...jobs and finances as the most stressful aspects of their lives.
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The Bottom Line

December 20, 2006 by element115
Be warned; the images contain gore, nudity, and mucho human suffering.

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Hamas, Fatah sign cease-fire

December 20, 2006 by element115
The leaders of the two main Palestinian factions called for an end to fighting that killed six more people Tuesday and forced Palestinians to wonder whether their society was hurtling toward civil war.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, signed a fresh cease-fire agreement aimed at stopping nearly a week of back-and-forth clashes.
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Bush: More troops needed for 'long struggle'

December 20, 2006 by element115
The White House is considering an expansion of the U.S. Army and Marines for "the long struggle against radicals and extremists," President Bush said during a Wednesday news conference.

President Bush says insurgents and terrorists "can't intimidate America"
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UK report says robots will have rights

December 20, 2006 by element115
Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.
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Where's the Accountability for the Dead and Wounded?

December 20, 2006 by element115
Sean Penn --> Sean Penn received the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from the Creative Coalition on December 18, 2006, in New York City, where he delivered the following speech.
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Blair to urge Middle East states to rein in Iran

December 19, 2006 by element115
"Our response should be to expose what they are doing, build the alliances to prevent it and pin them back across the whole of the region."
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Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in West Bank

December 19, 2006 by element115
Israeli troops Tuesday killed three Palestinians, including a 14-year-old girl.
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Christians plan 'night to honor Israel'

December 19, 2006 by element115
A leading Evangelical US pastor has announced plans to hold a "night to honor Israel" in every major American city as part of an Evangelical political campaign.
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9/11 Flight 93 Rare Footage

December 19, 2006 by element115
Ultra-rare news footage from the crash site of United Flight 93 which has never been seen again since 9/11

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Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment

December 19, 2006 by element115
"The fluorescent lights in his cell were never turned off, he said. At most hours, heavy metal or country music blared in the corridor. He said he was rousted at random times without explanation and made to stand in his cell. Even lying down, he said, he was kept from covering his face to block out the light, noise and cold."
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The Denial Machine

December 19, 2006 by element115
If the misinformation being flung around by the Global Warming Deniers sounds similar to the denials about the cancer risks from smoking, it's no co-incidence. The same gang of PR firms and scientists-for-hire are now shilling for the fossil fuel industry, trying to "refute" the validity of global warming.

CBC documentary on Global Warming Deniers -->
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Bush Illegally Silences Critic of Iran Policy

December 19, 2006 by element115
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Top 20% of Canadians now own 75% of all national wealth

December 19, 2006 by element115
The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever.
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War in Iraq: A Mercenary's Tale

December 19, 2006 by element115
Nearly 50,000 mercenaries are in Iraq. This is the story of one Englishman who went to war for profit.
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Japan rolls back pacifist pillars

December 19, 2006 by element115
- Japan upgrades Defense Agency to ministry for first time since World War II
- Schools will also have to teach patriotism to children
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Annan: It would be 'disastrous' to take military action against Iran

December 19, 2006 by element115
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a farewell news conference, urged the Security Council on Tuesday to push for a negotiated end to the Iranian nuclear crisis, saying military action would be a disaster.
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The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow

December 19, 2006 by element115
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Potential Skype worm propagating.

December 19, 2006 by element115
here are the details so far -->
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EU to Israel: Stop violating int'l law

December 18, 2006 by element115
The Council said in a statement: "Israel must put an end to all activities which are contrary to international law, including settlement activities and construction of barrier on Palestinian land."
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Europe's Muslims face rising 'Islamophobia,' new EU report warns

December 18, 2006 by element115
...acts of "Islamophobia" are on the rise across Europe, where many Muslims are menaced and misunderstood - some on a daily basis - the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia warned Monday in a new report.
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Canadians, British Read Blogs More Than Americans Do

December 18, 2006 by element115
Comscore Media Metrix conducted an analysis of the percentage of the online population that reads blogs. They covered Canada, France, Spain, the US, the Netherlands, the UK, Italy and Germany. Guess what? The US ranks fifth in terms of the percentage blog readers among us.
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Democrats leave Bono disappointed

December 18, 2006 by element115
Anti-poverty activist gets no promise of funds...
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Iran to replace dollar with euro

December 18, 2006 by element115
The Iranian central bank is to convert the state's foreign dollar assets into euros and use the euro for foreign transactions.
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Last Warning!

December 18, 2006 by element115
...a financial crisis of major proportions is about to strike.

Three-Pronged Collapse ... Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate.
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The United States is Insolvent

December 18, 2006 by element115
The US is insolvent. There is simply no way for our national bills to be paid under current levels of taxation and promised benefits. Our federal deficits alone now total more than 400% of GDP.
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NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth

December 18, 2006 by element115
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces.
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South Korean team produces three cloned dogs

December 18, 2006 by element115
The same team at Seoul National University last year produced Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, also an Afghan hound.
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Skype team turns its attention to television

December 18, 2006 by element115
Internet protocol television, or IPTV, is a term that still elicits blank looks from most viewers but has become a focus of media and telecoms companies? attention in much the same way as voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, was in the early days of Skype.
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Castro not dying, US envoys told

December 17, 2006 by element115
Cuban officials have told visiting US lawmakers that Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, does not have cancer or any other terminal illness.

The US delegation chief said he was told Mr Castro would be back, although no details about his health were given.
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Being a celebrity is the 'best thing in the world' say children

December 17, 2006 by element115
The poll of just under 1,500 youngsters ranked "God" as their tenth favourite thing in the world, with celebrity, "good looks" and being rich at one, two and three respectively.
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U.S. forces 'losing' in Iraq, Powell says

December 17, 2006 by element115
The former secretary of state Colin Powell said Sunday that badly overstretched U.S. forces in Iraq were losing the war there and that a temporary U.S. troop surge probably would not help.
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"Litvinenko was killed because of dossier on Kremlin official"

December 17, 2006 by element115
The former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital last month after mysteriously ingesting a deadly radioactive substance, was murdered because he had a damaging dossier on a senior Kremlin official, a U.S.-based business partner of Litvinenko is reported to have told the British police investigating the case.
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Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal

December 17, 2006 by element115
For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition Congress to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
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Ex-Rep. Barr Quits GOP for Libertarians

December 17, 2006 by element115
"It's something that's been bothering me for quite some time, the direction in which the party has been going more and more toward big government and disregard toward privacy and civil liberties," said Barr, 58, a lawyer and consultant living in Atlanta.
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Most Gitmo detainees freed elsewhere

December 16, 2006 by element115
The Pentagon called them "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth," sweeping them up after Sept. 11 and hauling them in chains to a U.S. military prison in southeastern Cuba.

Decisions by more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe and South Asia to release the former detainees raise questions about whether they were really as dangerous as the United States claimed, or whether some of America's staunchest allies have set terrorists and militants free.
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High IQ link to being vegetarian

December 16, 2006 by element115
Men who were vegetarian had an IQ score of 106, compared with 101 for non-vegetarians; while female vegetarians averaged 104, compared with 99 for non-vegetarians.
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Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach

December 16, 2006 by element115
Europeans Told of Plans for Abductions...
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Abbas calls for election

December 16, 2006 by element115
Abbas announced Saturday that he has decided to call fresh elections as soon as possible.

The Palestinian government's ruling Hamas party on Saturday dismissed Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas' call for early election, calling it a bid by Abbas to overthrow the government
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Person of the Year: You

December 16, 2006 by element115
TIME magazine --> Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.
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Israel boycott may be the way to peace

December 15, 2006 by element115
Guardian --> This call has been endorsed internationally by university teachers in many European countries, by film-makers and architects, and by some brave Israeli dissidents.
It is now time for others to join the campaign - as Primo Levi asked: "If not now, when?"
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David Horowitz slams Jimmy Carter

December 15, 2006 by element115
Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar
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Hillary Clinton: I join Israel against Ahmadinejad

December 15, 2006 by element115
Senator and possible presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton sent a letter to former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dr. Dori Gold, expressing her support of the protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Clinton called him a serious threat on Israel and her allies and continued to say that Iran must not be allowed to obtain and develop nuclear weapons.
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Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report

December 15, 2006 by element115
The ISG report ignores this history and the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place.
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Putin reported 'furious' over US payment for Lebanon war

December 15, 2006 by element115
Reports from the Kremlin today are portraying President Putin as being 'furious' with the American War Leader Bush over his breaking of a promise to the Russian President to not provide US funding to the Israelis for their Lebanese War. Less than 3 weeks after making this promise the United States used a little known provision in their security agreements with Israel to fully pay for the war.
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Hamas and Fatah trade fire in power struggle

December 15, 2006 by element115
Violence between rival Palestinian groups edged closer towards civil war today as security forces loyal to the ruling Fatah organisation fired on Hamas supporters rallying in the West Bank.
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Iran: 'Shameful' that world is ignoring PM's comment on Israeli nukes

December 15, 2006 by element115
"This week the prime minister of Israel has announced that they are possessing nuclear weapons ... and now you see the officials, the governments of the whole world, the Europeans, are not talking, they're silent," said Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. "This is very shameful. Very, very shameful."
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FBI Issues Warning

December 15, 2006 by element115
Although the FBI said there is no credible indication that a plan for retribution is in place, the agency sent the warning as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman was treated in Missouri for bleeding.
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Jonah Goldberg --> Iraq needs a Pinochet

December 15, 2006 by element115
Pinochet's abuses helped create a civil society.

An Iraqi Pinochet would provide order and put the country on the path toward liberalism, democracy and the rule of law.
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What the hell happened to Christianity?

December 15, 2006 by element115
Where did we go wrong? How was Christianity co-opted by a political party? Why are Christians supporting laws that force others to live by their standards? The answers to these questions are integral to the survival of Christianity.
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Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war

December 15, 2006 by element115
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.
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Castro is near death: U.S. intelligence chief

December 15, 2006 by element115
Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, U.S. Intelligence chief John Negroponte said in an interview published Friday.
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New face of the United Nations

December 15, 2006 by element115
Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea?s former foreign minister, will become the UN Secretary-General, following Kofi Annan?s ten-year tenure.
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Blair quizzed by police in cash-for-honours inquiry

December 15, 2006 by element115
Tony Blair yesterday became the first serving prime minister to be quizzed in a criminal inquiry.

The extraordinary humiliation came at 11am when detectives from Scotland Yard arrived at Downing Street to question him over claims that No 10 used honours to reward cash backers of the Labour Party.
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Diabetes breakthrough

December 15, 2006 by element115
Toronto scientists cure disease in mice.
Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.
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Death and Taxes

December 14, 2006 by element115
A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go
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True deficit: $3.5 trillion

December 14, 2006 by element115
A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported.
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ACLU: Government seeks 'secret' document

December 14, 2006 by element115
The government is demanding that the ACLU turn over a classified document that the civil rights group said would be embarrassing to the government and pertains to the war against terrorism.

"This is the first time in our 86-year history we've been asked to make a document disappear from our files." - The American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero.
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Iraqis can't be blamed for the chaos unleashed by invasion

December 14, 2006 by element115
Only those who live there can solve Iraq's problems, but Bush and Blair must bear prime responsibility for igniting them.
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Federal judge upholds Bush terrorism law

December 14, 2006 by element115
A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
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Rabbi Aharon Cohen speech to Holocaust Conference

December 14, 2006 by element115
Zionism right from its inception completely ignored the fact that there was an indigenous population in Palestine comprising mostly Palestinians, and the Zionists have followed a policy of depriving the Palestinians of their hope for self determination on the land they had occupied for centuries. Depriving the Palestinians of their homes, livelihoods and lives. So committing a shocking contravention of religion based humanitarian justice.

Judaism however, preaches compassion and consideration for the property and certainly the lives of every fellow man.

The Zionists do not represent the Jewish People as a whole, and furthermore that anti-Zionism is to be applauded and not to be confused with the ancient bigotry of anti-Semitism. Something which we know is very well appreciated here in the Islamic Republic of Iran where the Jewish community lives peacefully with full civil rights and has done so for thousands of years.
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Support for Israel in Congress is Based on Fear

December 14, 2006 by element115
James Abourezk, Council for the National Interest --> I can tell you from personal experience that the support Israel has in the Congress is based completely on political fear -- fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done. I can also tell you that very few members of Congress -- at least when I served there -- have any affection for Israel or for its Lobby. What they have is contempt, but it is silenced by fear of being found out exactly how they feel. I've heard too many cloakroom conversations in which members of the Senate will voice their bitter feelings about how they're pushed around by the Lobby to think otherwise. In private one hears the dislike of Israel and the tactics of the Lobby, but not one of them is willing to risk the Lobby's animosity by making their feelings public.
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Mint bans melting coins

December 14, 2006 by element115
Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the government worried.
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Haniya crosses into Gaza without money

December 14, 2006 by element115
Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, crossed into Gaza, leaving behind money donated by Muslim states, hours after Israel blocked the Hamas leader from returning from a fundraising tour with $35 million.

Israel had closed the Rafah border crossing from Egypt shortly after Haniya arrived at an airport near the border.
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Death of the Dollar

December 14, 2006 by element115
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Banned for a George Bush T-shirt

December 14, 2006 by element115
An Australian was barred from a London-Melbourne flight unless he removed a T-shirt depicting George Bush as the world's number one terrorist.
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Israelis accused of vandalising airport

December 14, 2006 by element115
The Israeli army has been accused of mindlessly destroying the terminal building at Gaza International Airport. A once pristine modern structure, which had come to symbolise Palestinian statehood, has been wrecked.

Before Israeli troops occupied the terminal this summer, its luggage carousel, restaurants, bank, duty free shops and other amenities were all maintained perfectly, ready for the day when the airport, which has been closed for five years, reopens.
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Operation Hollywood

December 14, 2006 by element115
The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon

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Abusive Interrogations

December 14, 2006 by element115
Ever since the United States government decided to deviate from accepted international and American standards of treatment of prisoners of war and other detainees in its Global War on Terror, the participation of health professionals in coercive interrogations of detainees has posed a fundamental moral issue for these, supposedly "helping," professions.
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Still Jews only

December 14, 2006 by element115
Recognising Israel's "right to exist" is in practice bowing to paranoid state racism.
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Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job

December 14, 2006 by element115
A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets.
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Bush takes the 'War on Terror' to space

December 14, 2006 by element115
"We reserve the right to defend ourselves against hostile attacks and interference with our space assets."

"A number of countries are exploring and acquiring capabilities to counter, attack, and defeat U.S. space systems."
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America's Brutal Prisons

December 14, 2006 by element115
A shocking documentary showing the corruption within the US Prison system

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Bush has created a comprehensive catastrophe across the Middle East

December 14, 2006 by element115
In every vital area, from Afghanistan to Egypt, his policies have made the situation worse than it was before.
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Ahmadinejad says Zionists are criminals

December 14, 2006 by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran called Thursday on world powers to end the "fake Zionist regime" of Israel.

Ahmadinejad said not all Jews are Zionists, and called for "a referendum in order to determine the type of regime the Palestinians prefer, with the participation of all Palestinians -- including Jews, Christians and Muslims."
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UK 'plot' terror charge dropped

December 13, 2006 by element115
...police evidence amounts only to bottles of hydrogen peroxide found in his possession.

Several commentators said the threat was deliberately exaggerated to bolster the anti-terror credentials.

The August arrests led to increased airport security around the world, causing major disruption.

Passengers on many flights were forbidden to take liquids aboard aircraft.
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"These people should be court-martialed"

December 13, 2006 by element115
Former Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein says evangelicals are trying to turn his beloved military into a "frickin' faith-based initiative."
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General foresees 'generational war' against terrorism

December 13, 2006 by element115
50 to 100 years

"We're in a generational war. You can try and fight the enemy where they are and where they're attacking you, or prevent them and defend your own homeland," said Gen. Schissler, deputy director for the war on terrorism within the strategic plans office of the Pentagon's Joint Staff.
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Security cameras raise rights worry in NYC

December 13, 2006 by element115
Security cameras have increased fivefold in parts of New York City and have become so pervasive that they threaten the rights of privacy, speech and association, the New York Civil Liberties Union, or NYCLU, said in a report.

Moreover, there was no evidence the cameras deterred crime, the group said.
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Dems plan overhaul of Real ID Act

December 13, 2006 by element115
"Given the shortsightedness of the law (the Department of Homeland Security) was given by Congress, it may be the case that a complete replacement of the Real ID Act is necessary."
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WorldNetDaily --->

December 13, 2006 by element115
James Rutz, chairman of Megashift Ministries -->
Soy is making kids 'gay'...

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality.
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Letting Citizens Make Legislation

December 13, 2006 by element115
Citizens using the Internet to monitor their representatives and the legislation that they draft is nothing novel. But a new Sunlight Foundation project aimed at allowing citizen legislatures to collaboratively script their own legislation, challenging what representative democracy means, certainly is.
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Gene mutation that blocks pain identified

December 13, 2006 by element115
...a gene called SCN9A, disrupts the flow of sodium ions in specific nerve fibres that sense damage. The results of the research are published today in the journal Nature.

"The mutation means that the very first stage of that electrical signal is lost, so the pain signal doesn't reach the brain."
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KGB influence 'soars under Putin'

December 13, 2006 by element115
Four out of five political leaders and state administrators in Russia either have been or still are members of the security services, a study suggests.
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Rumors abound: Fidel Castro is dead

December 13, 2006 by element115
...the rumors of Fidel Castro's actual demise may be premature at this moment, but reports of his lack of inhalation have some skeptics convinced that he is in fact, technically not breathing in a respiratory sense, which leads to conclude that yes, Castro is in fact, at least, respiratorily dead.

...until there's an official Cuban Government announcement we will not know with absolute certainty.
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US scientists reject interference

December 13, 2006 by element115
Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
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Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth

December 13, 2006 by element115
"We're looking for very strong, severe geomagnetic storming" to begin probably around mid-day Thursday, Joe Kunches, Lead Forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, told SPACE.com this afternoon.

...threatening damage to communication systems and power grids.
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Israeli TV catches Olmert "coaching" Italy's Prodi

December 13, 2006 by element115
An Israeli television station broadcast candid footage on Thursday that appeared to show Olmert, during his first official visit to Rome, coaching Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on what to say during their joint press conference.
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Litvinenko Contact Says He Was Contaminated by Ex-Spy

December 13, 2006 by element115
A Russian linked to a probe into the radiation poisoning of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko said he had been contaminated by the former agent in London weeks before the latter fell fatally ill.
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Peres: Israel should remain ambiguous on nukes

December 13, 2006 by element115
Speaking at Tel Aviv conference, vice premier says, 'They think we have a bomb, let them think.'

Peres calls for campaign against Iran's 'insane' leadership, says US can't win in Iraq.
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Pentagon pushes for more troops in Iraq

December 13, 2006 by element115
Strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind a military plan to "double down" in Iraq with many more U.S. troops, an increase in industrial aid and a major combat offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite leader undermining Iraq's government.
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Bush to seek $100 bln more war funds

December 13, 2006 by element115
President George W. Bush will soon seek about $100 billion in additional emergency funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report on Wednesday by Democratic staffers for two key panels in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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U.S. Government officials cover up murder to save political careers

December 13, 2006 by element115
...the amazing story of DEA Special Agent Sandalio Gonzalez who--after discovering that the ICE kept using an informant after he committed dozens of murders--was threatened with bad performance evaluations if he didn't retire.
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Israel, Alone

December 13, 2006 by element115
The nuclear cat is out of the bag - and Olmert issues a warning...
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Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video

December 11, 2006 by element115
A military watchdog group is asking the Defense Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers violated regulations by appearing in uniform in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization.

In the video, much of which was filmed inside the Pentagon, four generals and three colonels praise the Christian Embassy, a group that evangelizes among military leaders, politicians and diplomats in Washington. Some of the officers describe their efforts to spread their faith within the military.
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"Road to Peace"

December 11, 2006 by element115
Tom Waits ---> listen MP3
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Weinsteins & MGM To Release Xmas Crap

December 11, 2006 by element115
..."a holiday-themed" slasher movie 'Black Christmas' from Dimension/MGM is opening on Christmas Day.
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Christmas terror attack warning

December 11, 2006 by element115
The terrorist threat facing the UK is "very high indeed", Home Secretary John Reid has said.

He told the GMTV Sunday Programme the chances of an attempted attack over the Christmas period were "highly likely".
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Israel Refused Visas to Fact-finding Mission to Gaza Strip

December 11, 2006 by element115
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said Monday that the Israeli government's failure to allow a UN fact-finding mission to investigate Israeli-Arab violence in the Gaza Strip was "very distressing."
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UNICEF: Gender inequality deals blow to mothers and children

December 11, 2006 by element115
"Gender equality and the well-being of children are inextricably linked," said Anne Veneman, UNICEF's executive director. "When women are empowered to lead full and productive lives, children and families prosper."
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South Park Libertarians

December 11, 2006 by element115
Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion.
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Patriot Act: Hate Crimes Made Legal

December 11, 2006 by element115
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Olmert puts Israel on nuclear list for first time

December 11, 2006 by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared to list his country for the first time among states which have the nuclear bomb, before his official spokeswoman issued a denial.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, considered the father of his country's nuclear programme, said Israel would remain mum on whether it has atomic weapons.

"Israel will not say or not say whether we have nuclear weapons," he told public radio. "It suffices that one fears that we have them and that fear in itself constitutes an element of dissuasion."
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Filmmaker Aaron Russo Says 9/11 Was A Fraud

December 11, 2006 by element115
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90 Million Americans Believe Government Behind 9/11

December 11, 2006 by element115
The Nation --> This is at once alarming and unsurprising. Alarming, because if tens of millions of Americans really believe their government was complicit in the murder of 3,000 of their fellow citizens, they seem remarkably sanguine about this fact. By and large, life continues as before, even though tens of millions of people apparently believe they are being governed by mass murderers. Unsurprising, because the government these Americans suspect of complicity in 9/11 has acquired a justified reputation for deception: weapons of mass destruction, secret prisons, illegal wiretapping. What else are they hiding?
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Fatah official's 3 sons shot dead in Gaza

December 11, 2006 by element115
Palestinian gunmen killed the three young sons of a senior intelligence official close to President Mahmoud Abbas in the Gaza Strip on Monday, reigniting fears of an escalation in factional clashes.
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Holocaust Deniers and Skeptics Gather in Iran

December 11, 2006 by element115
In a speech opening the two-day conference, Rasoul Mousavi, head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry?s Institute for Political and International Studies, which organized the event, said it was an opportunity for scholars to discuss the subject ?away from Western taboos and the restriction imposed on them in Europe.?
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U.N. secretary-general criticizes Bush polices in farewell speech

December 11, 2006 by element115
In his farewell address Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan criticized the leadership of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration on the global stage, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war.

"Human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity," Annan told a packed audience at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library.
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France deploys drones to stop Israeli flights over Lebanon

December 10, 2006 by element115
In an effort to put a stop to Israeli overflights in Lebanon, the French Armed Forces has deployed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) squadron in southern Lebanon to conduct intelligence-gathering missions in place of the IDF.
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Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat

December 10, 2006 by element115
Blaming starvation?s victims for populating the planet beyond its capacity may assuage many people?s guilt, but this heartless conclusion is based on pernicious myths.

Humanity produces more than enough food to sustain the entire world population.

The United States alone wastes a shocking 96 billion pounds of food each year even as we experience an epidemic of obesity.
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Pinochet dead

December 10, 2006 by element115
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died at 91, one week after suffering a heart attack.
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Anti-Net Neutrality Bill Dies

December 10, 2006 by element115
The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms ? and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet.

The fate of Net Neutrality has now been passed to what appears to be a more Web-friendly Congress.
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U.S. has most prisoners in world

December 10, 2006 by element115
Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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Confidential report speaks of 'serious tensions' in the coalition over strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan

December 10, 2006 by element115
American commanders in the country are believed to oppose the British strategy for handing over Maysan and Basra provinces to Iraqi control as part of an exit strategy.

American commanders want the British to be far more robust in confronting Shia militias in the south.
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UN downgrades man's impact on the climate

December 10, 2006 by element115
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.
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Secret American talks with insurgents break down

December 10, 2006 by element115
Secret talks in which senior American officials came face-to-face with some of their most bitter enemies in the Iraqi insurgency broke down after two months of meetings, rebel commanders have disclosed.
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SNL Recuts Mel's 'Apocalypto' Trailer

December 10, 2006 by element115
Saturday Night Live took on Mel Gibson last night, recutting his Apocalypto movie trailer so that all those Mayans are now yelling "The Jews Are Coming. Run for your lives."
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Former Repulican Secretary of State says Bush was drunk in the morning

December 10, 2006 by element115
Minutes after the Iraq Study Group placed an improvised explosive device beneath the Bush administration's Iraq policy yesterday, panel member Lawrence Eagleburger was asked how President Bush reacted to the recommendations.

"His reaction was, 'Where's my drink?' " the former secretary of state cracked after the commission's White House visit and Capitol Hill news conference. Reaching for his own cola, Eagleburger continued: "He was a little loaded. It was early in the morning, too, you know."
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Saudi king: Arab world waiting to explode

December 9, 2006 by element115
King Abdullah opens annual summit of Gulf leaders with warning regarding situation in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon.
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Saddam's Nephew Escaped From Prison in Northern Iraq

December 9, 2006 by element115
Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf confirmed the escape but declined to elaborate.
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Ahmadinejad to Haniyeh: Do not recognize Israel, continue fighting it

December 9, 2006 by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged visiting Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday not to bow to pressure to recognize Israel and to keep fighting it, local media reported.
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US bugged Diana's phone on night of death crash

December 9, 2006 by element115
The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana's telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death.
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Houston suburb objects to mosque plans

December 9, 2006 by element115
A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims.
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Congress OKs U.S.-Indian Nuke Fuel Bill

December 9, 2006 by element115
The U.S. Congress approved legislation Saturday allowing U.S. shipments of civilian nuclear fuel to India, handing President Bush a victory on a top initiative and setting up a major shift in U.S. policy. Critics said the measure would spark a nuclear arms race in Asia by boosting India's atomic arsenal.
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Abbas decides to dismiss Palestinian parliament

December 9, 2006 by element115
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said he would dismiss the parliament and call early elections to end a political crisis with Hamas, but left open the possibility of a compromise with the ruling party, PLO officials said.
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Lebanese PM accuses Nasrallah of threatening gov't with 'coup'

December 9, 2006 by element115
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora accused Hezbollah's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Friday of threatening a coup in an unusually harsh exchange between the two rivals as the Shi'ite guerrilla group escalated its attempts to oust the Lebanese government.
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Lend to beggars, Nobel laureate urges banks

December 9, 2006 by element115
World poverty could be consigned to museums if banks and governments stimulate the creative energies of millions of poor people, Mohammad Yunus, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, said on Saturday.

"If you continue to do that we will create a world which will be a poverty-free world and we will have a global poverty museum to say 'goodbye to poverty on this planet'.

"It's possible, and I believe in it," he said.
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Rumsfeld makes secret farewell trip to Iraq

December 9, 2006 by element115
Rumsfeld's trip, his 13th unannounced visit to the country, came one day after he gave a farewell address at the Pentagon and nine days before he is replaced by Robert Gates. CNN also confirmed the Iraq visit.
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Traces of radiation linked to Litvinenko case found in Germany

December 9, 2006 by element115
Police in the German city of Hamburg on Saturday reported finding traces of radiation in places visited by a key witness in the murder case of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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Renowned cancer scientist was paid by chemical firm for 20 years

December 9, 2006 by element115
A world-famous British scientist failed to disclose that he held a paid consultancy with a chemical company for more than 20 years while investigating cancer risks in the industry.

...a consultancy fee of $1,500 a day.
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Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion

December 9, 2006 by element115
...the quashing of cold fusion projects in the late '80s was due to certain agencies not wishing to undermine the position of U.S. energy corporations.

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An Interview With Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief

December 9, 2006 by element115
Oh really? If the Israelis made such mistakes only once or twice a year, I would agree with you and say that it didn't happen intentionally. But such mistakes happen every week. There are three possible explanations for this: either the military equipment is not up to date or the soldiers are badly trained and do not know how to use their weapons or they do it intentionally. Now, we know that the Israelis get the best weaponry from the American arsenal and that the soldiers are well trained. That leaves, then, only one conclusion: they do it intentionally.
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Saudi Arabia: Israeli nuclear arsenal biggest threat to region

December 9, 2006 by element115
Saudi Arabia's top intelligence chief said late on Friday that Israel?s nuclear arsenal was the biggest threat to the region?s short-term and medium-term security.
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McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush

December 9, 2006 by element115
In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.
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Bush Job Approval: 30%

December 8, 2006 by element115
Zogby International
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Washington D.C. Argues That The 2nd Amendment Doesn't Apply to Individuals

December 8, 2006 by element115
In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.
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Spies sent 'to seize cash from Yukos exiles'

December 8, 2006 by element115
In his last investigation before he was murdered, Alexander Litvinenko claimed to have uncovered a plan by the Russian Federal Security Service to claw back millions of pounds from wealthy Russians who fled to London and other Western capitals.

Most of the exiled executives are said to have worked for Yukos, the $10 billion energy giant seized by the Kremlin.
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Rumsfeld Wants Torture Case Dismissed

December 8, 2006 by element115
Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that would hold him personally responsible for allegations of torture in oversees military prisons.
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Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'

December 8, 2006 by element115
Sturdy and durable plastic does not bio-degrade, it only breaks down physically, and so persists in the environment for possibly hundreds of years.
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Litvinenko business associate poisoned

December 8, 2006 by element115
There's been another startling development in the spy poisoning case in London. Two weeks ago Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with a radioactive substance, called polonium 210. Now Russian prosecutors have announced that a business associate of the dead man has also fallen ill from radiation poisoning.
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New Guantanamo jail

December 8, 2006 by element115
In pictures -->
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Israel frets over Iraq report, dispatches FM to Washington

December 8, 2006 by element115
Tzipi Livni will meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials during her visit, which will focus on the repercussions of a report released Wednesday by the Iraq Study Group, her office said.
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Panel: U.S. underreported Iraq violence

December 7, 2006 by element115
U.S. military and intelligence officials have systematically underreported the violence in Iraq in order to suit the Bush administration's policy goals, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said.
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Bush: victory still important in Iraq

December 7, 2006 by element115
A defiant George Bush today said he and Tony Blair agreed that "victory" in Iraq was important, just one day after the Iraq Study Group delivered a withering critique of his current policy.
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Olmert rejects Syria talks

December 7, 2006 by element115
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said he has no intention of opening peace talks with Syria, despite the recommendations of a top-level US panel.
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The reasons and background to why we are at war in the Middle East

December 7, 2006 by element115
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The Roman Empire is falling - so it turns to Iran and Syria

December 7, 2006 by element115
Robert Fisk --> The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on Mesopotamia.
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UN appeals for Palestinian funds

December 7, 2006 by element115
The United Nations has launched an appeal to raise $450m (£229m) in humanitarian relief funds for the Palestinian territories next year.

Two-thirds of Palestinians live in poverty, a UN spokesman said.
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Missing Trillions Found

December 7, 2006 by element115
During the Reagan Administration, trillions were sent to Russia in a cold war plot to destabilize their currency. These trillions have been off-the-books and accumulating interest all these years, some 27.5 trillion. Greg Szymanski has been following this story directly and consistently, yet the mainstream media refuses to cover any aspect of Leo Wanta - the Trillion Dollar Man.
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David Lynch Goes Public With 9/11 Questions

December 7, 2006 by element115
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What the Barrage of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in the US Can Lead To

December 7, 2006 by element115
Kyle A. Thurber, 32, was arrested on Friday outside the Brattleboro business owned by the family, which lives in Dummerston. Police say he had a loaded rifle when he was taken into custody.

Guilford man has pleaded not guilty to stalking and threatening to kill a Muslim family that he believed were terrorists.
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St Paul's tomb unearthed in Rome

December 7, 2006 by element115
Archaeologists working for the Vatican have unearthed a sarcophagus containing what they believe are the remains of St Paul the Apostle.

The tomb dates back to at least AD390 and was found in a crypt under a basilica in Rome.
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Follow God or vanish, Ahmadinejad tells West

December 6, 2006 by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth".
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Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week

December 6, 2006 by element115
Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.

The horror.
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Ten Verses Never Preached On

December 6, 2006 by element115
Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV

"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord."

2Kings 2:23-24 NKJV

"So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths."

...and more -->
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Lebanese fear Muslim civil war

December 6, 2006 by element115
Was the shot that killed Mahmoud the first shot in a new civil war between Lebanon's Sunnis and Shiites, who have never fought before?

Orchestrated, premeditated and executed!
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New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology

December 6, 2006 by element115
...recently achieved a world-record conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent, establishing a new milestone in sunlight-to-electricity performance. This breakthrough may lead to systems with an installation cost of only $3 per watt, producing electricity at a cost of 8-10 cents per kilowatt/hour, making solar electricity a more cost-competitive and integral part of our nation?s energy mix.
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French version of CNN-style channel premieres on internet

December 6, 2006 by element115
Chirac said France 'has its view of the world and should broadcast this view.'

France 24 went on air via live streaming at www.france24.com. At 1929 GMT station president Alain de Pouzilhac ceremoniously pushed a button on a computer console to begin the broadcast.
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Radiation traces found in UK embassy in Moscow

December 6, 2006 by element115
A foreign office spokeswoman declined to say what had caused the radiation or where the contamination had been found.

...the "poisoned spy" story gets bigger and bigger every day.
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Baker panel's mention of Palestinian "right of return" raises eyebrows

December 6, 2006 by element115
...broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts.
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Top Democrat Wants More Troops

December 6, 2006 by element115
As the debate over Iraq intensifies, leading Democrat Silvestre Reyes is calling for the deployment of more U.S. troops.
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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows on Mars

December 6, 2006 by element115
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
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Mr. Gates' War

December 6, 2006 by element115
Gates won't have clean hands when he arrives on the path that's already been blazed. He was tied up in some fashion with Saddam in the past, providing Iraq with military intelligence during their battles with Iran. He's not a newbie to the global manipulation game that our government calls foreign policy. Gates may have indeed sacrificed a sweet spot in his life by giving up the presidency of Texas A&M, but, he's already indicated his determination, his ambition, to own Iraq, along with Bush and the other dilatantes we routinely elevate to lord over us; who divide the product of our sacrifices for their own benefit.
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Iraq panel to Bush: dangerous, get out

December 6, 2006 by element115
Saying "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating," a bipartisan commission on Wednesday urged stepped-up diplomatic and political efforts to stabilise that country.

...urges a commitment by the United States to work with Iran, Syria and other nations to bring stability to the region.
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Iraq Study Group

December 6, 2006 by element115
United States Institute of Peace ---> Download the report
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Apartheid Israel

December 5, 2006 by element115
The bankruptcy of Mr. Olmert's speech did accomplish one useful task: it highlighted and capped the current state of world paralysis. In fact, no one knows what to do. Daily in the West Bank, land is taken, people are confined, jobs are ruined or lost, families are divided, hopes are crushed. Daily in Gaza, conditions are far worse, as close to a million people face starvation while mortars, bulldozers, and tanks grind up people's lives. Anguished cries from Beit Hanoun ­ "why? why?" - receive no answer from Israel or anyone else. As one commentator noted, no one notices Gaza as long as the Palestinians' daily death toll remains in the single digits. We leave the Palestinians only the job of dying more dramatically to get any attention at all.
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The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War

December 5, 2006 by element115
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." They have done that, incessantly, and it is the source of the surrealism. Spins, evasions, omissions, jingoisms, distortions, "perception management" (i.e., propaganda), and deliberate lying all contribute to a political discourse adrift from what is honest, true, and reliable.
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