Lie By Lie

August 31, 2006 by element115
Chronicle of a War Foretold: August 1990 to March 2003
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FBI Arrests Head of Israeli Security at Atlanta Consulate

August 31, 2006 by element115
Israel National News --> Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in Atlanta have arrested the Israeli security officer at the Israeli consulate in the city.
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Commandos storm Tel Aviv embassy

August 31, 2006 by element115
Israeli police commandos have stormed a British embassy compound in Tel Aviv to capture a man who broke in and demanded asylum in the UK.
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$20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media

August 31, 2006 by element115
...extensive monitoring and analysis of Iraqi, Middle Eastern and American media.

The media outlets would be monitored for how they present coalition or anti-Iraqi force operations.

The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide "public relations products" that would improve coverage of the military command's performance.
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Deception as a Way of Life

August 31, 2006 by element115
Israeli leaders deceive as much in "peace" as they do in war, which is why it is worth examining the slow trickle of disinformation coming from Tel Aviv and reflecting on where it is leading.
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Behind the plan to bomb Iran

August 31, 2006 by element115
It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration's plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
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Brian Williams Interviews a pretty incoherent Bush

August 31, 2006 by element115
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For someone who does not like how the public perceives him, Bush does not help his case any in this interview.

...mangles the English language, and speaks nonsensically about the war in Iraq, America?s standing in the world, his relationship with his father, and Albert Camus.

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Nicotine Up Sharply In Many Cigarettes

August 31, 2006 by element115
The amount of nicotine in most cigarettes rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands most popular with young people and minorities registering the biggest increases and highest nicotine content, according to a new study.
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Can you really not see?

August 31, 2006 by element115
Haaretz --> A MUST READ
Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners.

But there are others. Historians and mathematicians, senior editors, media stars, psychologists and family doctors, lawyers who do not support Gush Emunim and Kadima, teachers and educators, lovers of hiking trails and sing-alongs, high-tech wizards. Where are you?

Could it be that you are all in favor of a racist Citizenship Law that forbids an Israeli Arab from living with his family in his own home? That you side with further expropriation of lands and the demolishing of additional orchards, for another settler neighborhood and another exclusively Jewish road? That you all back the shelling and missile fire killing the old and the young in the Gaza Strip?
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U.S. Drafting Sanctions

August 31, 2006 by element115
But it is unclear whether Russia or China will sign on to sanctions.
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D.O.A.P -- a must see

August 31, 2006 by element115
"Death Of A President" at the Toronto International Film Festival...

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Israel can't be destroyed, ex-Mossad director says

August 31, 2006 by element115
"Israel can't be eradicated. Whenever Israel has identified a threat [to its existence], Israel has been able to take care of it."
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The Katrina Video Congress Didn't Want You To See

August 30, 2006 by element115
If you've only heard the news from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is wrong.
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Rabbis: Israel Too Worried Over Civilian Deaths

August 30, 2006 by element115
America?s main organization of Modern Orthodox rabbis is calling on the Israeli military to be less concerned with avoiding civilian casualties on the opposing side when carrying out future operations.
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From Hype To Hysteria:

August 30, 2006 by element115
Fox News Selling Preemptive War Against Iran
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Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech

August 30, 2006 by element115
During CNN?s live coverage of President Bush?s remarks from New Orleans, Phillips was unaware that her microphone was on and picked up portions of a conversation she was having with another woman, apparently in a CNN restroom.
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The Profits of War

August 29, 2006 by element115
Why capitalists aren't eager to stop the Middle East wars.

Radio interview with Jonathan Nitzan (Duration: 25 minutes)
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Who's trying to stop the government from telling its citizens where their tax dollars are being spent?

August 29, 2006 by element115
Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill introduced by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) that would create a public, searchable database of all federal grants and contracts. Envisioned as a Google-like website, it would provide free, immediate access the information, which can be alarmingly difficult to obtain.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed the measure July 27th, and S.2590 seemed to be speeding on its way to full Senate passage when, in the dark of night, an unknown Senator placed a "secret hold" on the bill. According to Senate courtesies, the bill will never come to a vote as long as the hold continues.

So who's the culprit?
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Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies

August 29, 2006 by element115
...fallacies to which our top leaders (political, corporate, academic) have subscribed and from which they cannot seem to free themselves?and alas, keep passing down to the younger generation.
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Settlers assaulting American citizens

August 29, 2006 by element115
Americans are unsafe in the Gaza Strip, and those in the Palestinian area should leave immediately, the US State Department said Tuesday.

"In recent months, citizens of Western nations, including Americans, involved in pro-Palestinian volunteer efforts were assaulted and injured in the Occupied Territories by Israeli settlers and harassed by the Israeli army.

Those taking part in demonstrations, nonviolent resistance, and direct action are advised to cease such activity for their own safety."
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Mexico Left to Create Parallel Gov't

August 29, 2006 by element115
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon.
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5 year old shot in the back by IDF in Gaza

August 29, 2006 by element115
A five year old boy sustained moderate to severe injuried from IDF fire in a neighborhood east of Gaza City.
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Capitalism and War

August 29, 2006 by element115
The recent flurry of wars - from Afghanistan and Iraq to Gaza and Lebanon - has revived talk of imperialism, military Keynesianism and the military-industrial Complex. Capitalism, many radicals have long argued, needs war. It needs it to expand its geographical reach; it needs it to open up new markets; it needs it to access cheap raw materials; and it needs it to placate opposition at home and pacify rebellious populations abroad.
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Iranian President: US, Britain Act Like 'Owners of the World'

August 29, 2006 by element115
"The political situation of World War II has been kept alive by the [super] powers. They have embarked on [an] arms race...in order to safeguard superiority over other nations."

"The U.S. and Britain are using such a privilege as if they were the owners of the world. How many years should they enjoy this privilege?"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged President Bush to an uncensored debate on world issues during a televised press conference on Tuesday.
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Two scholars say pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy

August 29, 2006 by element115
John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political science professor, and Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University's Kennedy School, said the U.S. government's unstinting support for Israel's recent war in Lebanon once again placed the agenda of what they call the Israel lobby ahead of U.S. strategic interests.
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Israel responsible for most of violations

August 29, 2006 by element115
Annan, who spoke after meeting with Defense Minister Amir Peretz, said Israel was responsible for most of the violations of the fragile cease-fire that ended the 34-days of fighting between Israel and Hizbullah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.

He also called on Israel to lift its blockade of Lebanon.
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Senate moves to give Bush more power to wiretap

August 29, 2006 by element115
A bill that expands President Bush's ability to wiretap American phones and conduct other forms of domestic surveillance will likely appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Thursday.
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Lawyers Will Subpeona Bush White House in Phone Company Spying Case

August 29, 2006 by element115
Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush Administration, Verizon and ATT for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen will announce today that they are serving subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.
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Rumsfeld lashes out at Bush's critics

August 29, 2006 by element115
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces "a new type of fascism" and likened critics of the U.S. war strategy to those who tried to appease the Nazis.

In unusually explicit terms, Rumsfeld portrayed the Bush administration's critics as suffering from "moral or intellectual confusion" about what threatens the nation's security. His remarks amounted to one of his most pointed defenses of President Bush' war policies and was among his toughest attacks on the president's critics.
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Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to TV debate

August 29, 2006 by element115
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to a televised debate.

"Peaceful nuclear energy is the right of the Iranian nation. The Iranian nation has chosen that based upon international regulations, it wants to use it and no one can stop it," he told a news conference.
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Googlebombing 'failure'

August 29, 2006 by element115
If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House?s official biographical page for President Bush.
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Fascist State Eats Israelis Alive

August 28, 2006 by element115
"Defense officials are seeking NIS 30 billion, mostly in fiscal 2007 and 2008, for resupplying, reacquiring weapons systems damaged during the war and preparing for the next war based on the lessons of recent hostilities, including developing new arms. The defense establishment is working under the assumption the Israel Defense Forces needs to be prepared quickly," reports Haaretz. "However, according to a senior defense establishment official, cabinet compliance to the demand would subjugate the entire civilian establishment to military demands and constitute a mortal blow to civil budgets, including infrastructure and education."
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Cancer cell 'executioner' found

August 28, 2006 by element115
Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells.

The University of Illinois team created a synthetic molecule which caused cancer cells to self-destruct.
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The NeoClowns Are at it Again

August 28, 2006 by element115
...it isn't about the weapons. That's just a convenient excuse used to scare the American people. Iraq didn't have any weapons and we're still in there three and half years later. It was never about the weapons. One of the main neoclown architects, Paul Wolfowitz, pretty much admitted it after the Iraq War started.
Now, they're shamelessly bringing that old dead horse out again.
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Is this Bush's secret bunker?

August 28, 2006 by element115
Mount Weather is a top-security underground installation an hour's drive from Washington DC. It has its own leaders, police, fire department - and laws. A cold war relic, it has been given a new lease of life since 9/11. And no one who's been inside has ever talked.
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Brown says White House wanted him to lie

August 28, 2006 by element115
The ousted head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency says the White House wanted him to lie about the response to Hurricane Katrina.
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The Americanization of Canada by Harper

August 28, 2006 by element115
Harper's assertion that the Israeli actions in Lebanon were a measured response to the provocations of Hezbollah was only the start of his reading from the American script.

Bush stalled a ceasefire. So did Harper.

Bush said no to American troops in a multinational force. Harper said no to Canadian participation.

Bush cast the Israeli offensive as a "struggle between the forces of freedom and the force of terror." So did Harper.

Bush tied Lebanon to the larger (failed) war on terrorism. So did Harper.
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Israeli general plots war with Iran

August 28, 2006 by element115
Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, Israel's air force chief, will be overall commander for the "Iran front," military sources told the London Sunday Telegraph.
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The Man Who Said Too Much

August 28, 2006 by element115
A book coauthored by Michael Isikoff details Richard Armitage's central role in the Valerie Plame leak.
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IDF troops in Jenin kill 64-year-old man holding a flashlight

August 28, 2006 by element115
Palestinian sources said Monday that Sabri Khalil worked as a night watchman at a local school. After he shined his flashlight on a passing car, soldiers patrolling the city shot him in the chest, killing him.

Four Palestinian militants were killed early Monday in an Israel Air Force strike on central Gaza, Palestinian doctors said.
Later on Monday, Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead a civilian in the southern Gaza Strip, medics reported.
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In order to make peace you must first respect your foe

August 28, 2006 by element115
Gilad Atzmon --> Israel is a racist national state. It is supremacist to the bone. The Israelis are not capable of regarding their neighbours as equal human beings. This is exactly why Israel has never been and never will be a partner for peace. In order to make peace you must first respect your foe.
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Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth

August 28, 2006 by element115
Is Iran's President Really a Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying Islamo-fascist who has threatened to "wipe Israel off the map"?
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US vs. Iran - Is An Attack Inevitable?

August 28, 2006 by element115
"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

(Hermann Goering)
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Olmert rejects state inquiry into war

August 28, 2006 by element115
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday rejected a state inquiry into the government?s handling of the war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, despite widespread calls for a broad, independent investigation.

In a speech in the northern city of Haifa, Olmert said the government doesn?t have the "luxury" to spend long periods of time investigating the past.
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So wrong that it re-defines "wrongness"

August 27, 2006 by element115
Glenn Greenwald --> Steyn is the person whom Bush followers think is a visionary and prophet whom we should also listen to now with regard to what we should do about Iran and the broader Middle East. Allegiance to the Cause of Good is paramount, and there is thus no price paid by True Believers for fundamental error, grave misjudgment, or just outright deceit. Steyn -- and the long list of Bush loving comrades who mouthed these same pieties -- was painfully, disastrously wrong about the most profound political and military question of our generation. He ought to be too ashamed to continue pontificating and too shunned to be able to do so -- at the very least without his admitting error, recanting and apologizing.

But the opposite is true. The same people who were wrong about everything -- literally -- and who viciously mocked those who were right, now want to use the same mindset and assumptions to guide us into our next war.
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Annan to visit a defiant Tehran

August 27, 2006 by element115
Secretary General Kofi Annan is scheduled to visit Iran next Saturday, two days after the deadline, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also said Sunday. A ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, said Annan would discuss several issues with Iranian officials.
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Michael Moore' 'Slacker' at Toronto film festival

August 27, 2006 by element115
...hush-hush project called "The Great '04 Slacker Uprising," screening portions of the work for the first time at the Toronto Film Festival next month.

Little is known about the pic, for which the director shot his 60-city student tour to college campuses and other venues ahead of the 2004 presidential election, documenting what fest literature calls the "the birth of a new political generation."

Fest will also be the first place the public can see footage of "Sicko," Moore's expose of the health-care industry.
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Wrong War, Wrong Word

August 27, 2006 by element115
If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush Administration's Middle Eastern policy sinks ever deeper into bloody incoherence, the "war on terror" has been getting a quiet linguistic makeover. It's becoming the "war on Islamic fascism."

"Islamo-fascism" looks like an analytic term, but really it's an emotional one, intended to get us to think less and fear more. It presents the bewildering politics of the Muslim world as a simple matter of Us versus Them, with war to the end the only answer.
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Clueless and Catastrophic

August 27, 2006 by element115
...by what right do the United States and the Europeans tell Iran it cannot enrich uranium? Other nations enrich uranium. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it grants the right to enrich uranium. Where does the United States get off telling the Iranians they can't do it?

What you see is that the United States and some of the European states are still trying to run the world to suit them, even though formal colonialism has been a long time dead. President Bush seems to think that he has the right to engineer regime change in any country he chooses.
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Grenade hits Serb cafe in Kosovo

August 27, 2006 by element115
A grenade attack on a Serb cafe in the ethnically divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica has injured nine people including a British UN policeman.
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The men who can produce limitless amounts of clean, free energy

August 27, 2006 by element115
Sean McCarthy and Richard Walshe, two men making the claim that they are about to change the world - for ever.

These dynamic and personable businessmen from Dublin insist that they have found a way of producing free, clean and limitless energy out of thin air. And they are so confident that they have thrown down the gauntlet to the scientific community in a bid to prove that they have rewritten the laws of physics.
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Hamas militant killed in Gaza

August 27, 2006 by element115
A Hamas militant was targeted and killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City Sunday morning.
The previous day, Waleed al-Harazi, a Hamas militant, was killed in Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian sources said. Thirteen others, including two journalists, were wounded.
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Hitchens Gives the Finger to Maher's Audience for 'Frivolous' Jeering of Bush

August 27, 2006 by element115
Writer/author Christopher Hitchens on Friday night gave the finger to the Los Angeles studio audience of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. As he laid out the case for how it's Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who wants World War Three, not George W. Bush, Hitchens cited how Ahmadinejad "says the Messiah is about to come back." Maher quipped: "So does George Bush, by the way." That caused a loud eruption of audience applause and cheering, which led Maher to clarify: "That's not facetious." The crowd continued to applaud as Hitchens remarked, about those in attendance who had earlier cheered and laughed as Maher called Bush an "idiot" repeatedly: "That's not facetious. Your audience, which will clap at apparently anything, is frivolous." Loud oohs and groans emanated from the audience, prompting Hitchens to give them the finger as he castigated them, "Fuck you, fuck you," while the groans continued.
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The Cheney presidency

August 27, 2006 by element115
When historians look back on the multiple assaults on our constitutional system of government in this era, Cheney's unprecedented role will come in for overdue notice. Cheney's shotgun mishap, when he accidentally sprayed his host with birdshot, has gotten more media attention than has his control of the government.

...if the man actually running the government is out of the spotlight, the administration and its policies are far less accountable.
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Cooking intelligence - again

August 27, 2006 by element115
when Bush says "all options are on the table," he's telling the Iranians that our no-nuking pledge won't keep him from nuking them because he has it on authority ? God Almighty, apparently ? that the Iranians have nukes.
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Another miserable milestone for Bush's war

August 27, 2006 by element115
A miserable milestone was passed the other day. America's (and Britain's) disastrous war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the US involvement in the Second World War. Yes, this conflict has outlasted a war that ended with total victory over Nazi Germany. Hitler declared war on the US on 11 December 1941. Exactly 1,244 days later, on 7 May 1945, Germany surrendered. The US invaded Iraq on 19 March 2003, and this weekend it is 1,267 days later, with no end in sight.
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British director Ken Loach backs Palestinian call for boycott on Israel

August 27, 2006 by element115
Loach, who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival three months ago for his film about the Irish war of independence, The Wind the Shakes the Barley, has announced his support for the appeal to boycott Israeli institutions and even said that he urges others to do the same.

"Palestinians are driven to call for this boycott after forty years of the occupation of their land, destruction of their homes and the kidnapping and murder of their civilians," said Loach in a statement.

"They have no immediate hope that this oppression will end. As British citizens we have to acknowledge our own responsibility. We must condemn the British and U.S. governments for supporting and arming Israel."
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George W Bush Speechwriter

August 27, 2006 by element115
...you write it, Bush speaks it.
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How Paranoid Can We Get?

August 27, 2006 by element115
Behavior Detection Squads! America is emulating the fine tradition of Israel, which has been using them since Yasser Arafat first said "hey! We live here too"!
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U.S. may bypass U.N. on Iran

August 27, 2006 by element115
With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, Bush administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition.
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Empire, and resistance to it, is the central issue of our time

August 27, 2006 by element115
From Iraq and Lebanon to Afghanistan, the Anglo-American attempt to remake the world by force is failing.
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What a Moronic Presidential Press Conference!

August 27, 2006 by element115
It's clear Bush doesn't understand Iraq, or Lebanon, or Gaza, or...
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King George Now and Then

August 27, 2006 by element115
...a lot of what American patriot Tom Paine wrote in 1775 about the British Crown seems to apply to President Bush today.
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Carter slams 'subservient' Blair

August 27, 2006 by element115
Former US president Jimmy Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday for being "so compliant and subservient" to the Bush administration in Washington.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
"I think that, more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington, and he has not."
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Iran test-fires 'long-range' naval missile

August 27, 2006 by element115
Iran has successfully test-fired a "long-range radar-evading" sea-to-air missile in military maneuvers in southern Persian Gulf waters, a top military official told state television Sunday.
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Journalists kidnapped in Gaza are freed

August 27, 2006 by element115
Two Fox News journalists were released Sunday afternoon, nearly two weeks after being seized by militants, ending the longest-running drama involving foreign hostages in the Gaza Strip.
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If Americans Knew

August 26, 2006 by element115
Video --> Captured Prisoners
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Israel strikes Reuters car

August 26, 2006 by element115
Two missiles fired by Israeli aircraft early Sunday morning hit an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, moderately wounding two television cameramen and three bystanders, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.
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More media, less news

August 26, 2006 by element115
The newspaper industry
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An outrageous incident at JFK

August 26, 2006 by element115
..."people are feeling offended because of your t-shirt"
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I AM NOT A TERRORIST

August 26, 2006 by element115
...roactively pissed off
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Racial profiling in the 'good ole USA'

August 26, 2006 by element115
The United States is starting to follow the example of Apartheid states like Israel and is considering the introduction of racial profiling at airports. This is specifically aimed at citizens of Middle Eastern decent, specifically Muslims.

That's today... your guess is as good as mine who the target will be in the future. We are not talking about foreign nationals here, we are talking about citizens of the United States, in many cases native born ones.
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Israel rejects Amnesty International report

August 26, 2006 by element115
Jews sans frontieres --> Well fancy that! Israel has rejected the idea that it committed war crimes in Lebanon.
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Those opposed to nuclear annihilation are appeasers and guilty of "handwringing"

August 26, 2006 by element115
Those who think we ought not to vaporize Syria and Iran off the face of the earth are, to Williams, weak, appeasing losers who can't stop their annoying "handwringing" over all this "innocent life" garbage.
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The Liquid Bomb Hoax - The Larger Implications

August 26, 2006 by element115
According to top security officials in England, Bush and Blair were ?knowledgeable? about the investigation into a possible ?liquid bomb? plot. We know that Blair gave the go-ahead for the arrests, even as the authorities must have told him they lacked the evidence and at best it was premature. Some reports from British police insiders claim that the Bush Administration pushed Blair for early arrests and the announcement of the ?liquid bomb? plot. Security officials then launched a massive, all-out ?terror propaganda? campaign designed to capture the attention and support of the public with the total support of the mass media. The security-mass media campaign served its objective -- Bush?s popularity increased, Blair avoided censure and both continued on their vacations.
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Majority of Israelis Call for Olmert's Resignation

August 26, 2006 by element115
Sixty three percent of Israelis think Olmert should resign from his post, and 74 percent of Israelis think Defense Minister Amir Peretz should resign from his post, the survey revealed.

...not because they are murderers, but because they have not finished the job in Lebanon.
...CRAZY.
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Iran opens nuke plant

August 26, 2006 by element115
Iran opened a heavy-water nuclear plant on Saturday, defying increasing international pressure on Tehran to suspend its nuclear activities.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hard-line president, inaugurated the plant Saturday.
Iran contends that the plant is for peaceful purposes and poses no threat to other countries, not even its "enemy" Israel, according to media reports.
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Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor

August 25, 2006 by element115
A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein.
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Are Americans a Nation of Cowards?

August 25, 2006 by element115
Everyone experiences fear, this is normal. But a coward, a coward lets his fear take over his reason, the higher functions of the brain shut down and he/she reverts to his base animal instincts of "fight, flight or freeze" A person of courage is capable of holding on to their ability to reason, of conquering their fear. Fear or Anger will do nothing but cause you to make mistakes. Judge Taylor, is no coward, she upheld the law of the land, and is now under attack by those who believe, being safe from harm is more important then putting your life on the line to defend America and the Constitution. Without the Constitution America is just another piece of land with people on it.
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I can't go to Iraq. I can't kill those children' - Suicide soldier's dying words to his mother

August 25, 2006 by element115
Within 48 hours of confessing his concerns to his family, Pte Chelsea was dead after taking an overdose of painkillers and slashing his wrists.
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An Israeli War Crime Goes Septic

August 25, 2006 by element115
The Israeli Zionist dream for Palestine is coming true. Deprived of food, water, electricity, money, medical care, safety, leadership, and official outside help, the Palestinians are turning on each other as they struggle to survive. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made it clear that this is only the beginning. "Nobody dies from not having electricity," Olmert is said to have told his cabinet, and "no one in Gaza should sleep". Emphasizing that last point, low-flying IDF jets break the sound barrier over Gaza virtually every night.
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Silence breeds impunity - investigations are needed

August 25, 2006 by element115
First there were allegations of illegal tactics. Now it is the illegal use of certain weapons. Such allegations are hardly new. Israel has for years been accused of both in its systematic dispossession, oppression and killing of Palestinians. However, the continued silence on the part of the international community has sent a dangerous message to Israel that it need not feel restrained in either the methods or weapons it uses in its military operations, and so it has set the bar of violence ever higher.
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Rules of Transition to the New World Order

August 25, 2006 by element115
It is no more a secret that a select group of powerful men of a certain Western Judeo-Christian strain (Anglo-U$raeli henceforth), and their regional touts, are indeed busy carving a new world for us all, a world where we all will be 'equal' at last.
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Portugal allowed CIA to use its airfields

August 25, 2006 by element115
Europe's central air traffic control authority Eurocontrol, confirmed that Portugal had allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States to use its airports for 17 flights, which may have carried terror suspects, the Portuguese press reported on Thursday.

Eurocontrol said 17 CIA flights had touched down in Portugal, and the Portuguese government said a total of 21 CIA flights had made stopovers.
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The terrorism theory Bush refuses to hear

August 25, 2006 by element115
Mr Bush's execution of the "war on terror" has been exactly the wrong way to go about it.
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Psst! Iran Helped Plan September 11

August 25, 2006 by element115
As today's page-one stories in both the New York Times and the Washington Post make clear, the Bush administration has begun to apply pressure on the U.S. intelligence agencies to pump up the threat that Iran poses.
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"Folks, We Are Being Set Up Again!"

August 25, 2006 by element115
Juan Cole --> Iran's Nuclear "Threat"
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Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff names officer to prepare for possible war with Iran

August 25, 2006 by element115
In an effort to upgrade Israel's preparedness for a possible confrontation with Iran, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz has appointed Israel Air Force Commander Major General Elyezer Shkedy as the IDF's "campaign manager" against countries that do not border on Israel - primarily Iran.
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Russia rejects UN sanctions against Iran

August 25, 2006 by element115
Russia rejected on Friday any talk for now of sanctions against Iran and France warned against conflict with Tehran, raising doubts whether it will face swift penalties for not halting nuclear work by an August 31 deadline.
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Airport ban on carrying liquids is permanent

August 25, 2006 by element115
The 200 million passengers who pass through British airports each year will face high levels of security "permanently", senior government officials say.

Passengers will be ban-ned from taking liquids bought outside the security screening zone on an "enduring basis", security experts at the Department for Transport (DfT) said.
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UK and US companies sold mobile phone tapping equipment to Vietnam

August 24, 2006 by element115
a British company, Silver Bullet, and a US company, Verint Systems (a subsidiary of Comverse Technology), sold equipment for intercepting mobile phone calls to the Vietnamese intelligence services. The source of this information, the UK-based Jane?s Defence Weekly, said a subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries acted as intermediary in some of the sales.
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Shocking election-theft testimony

August 24, 2006 by element115
Computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testifies under oath before the U.S. House Judiciary Members in Ohio.

Vote-rigging software written for Republican...

"I wrote a prototype..."

Q: It would rig an election?

A: It would flip the vote, 51-49. Whoever you wanted it to go to and whichever race you wanted to win.

Q: And would that program that you designed, be something that elections officials... could detect?

A: They'd never see it.
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Masters of propaganda at The Jerusalem Post

August 24, 2006 by element115
--> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he ever became the supreme decision maker in his country, would "sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel," Giora Eiland, Israel's former national security adviser.

Eiland said the United States had three possible courses of action, "all of them bad," and that a decision could not be postponed for too long, "since delay, too, is a decision of sorts."

Six months or 12 months from now would be too late, he said.
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What do they know about you?

August 24, 2006 by element115
America's top four Internet companies -- Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft -- promise they will protect the personal information of people who use their online services to search, shop and socialize.

But a close read of their privacy policies reveals as much exposure as protection.

...records of the searches you make, the health problems you research and the investments you monitor -- can be requested by government investigators and subpoenaed by your legal adversaries.

But this same information is generally not available to you.
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What's For Dinner? Cloned Beef

August 24, 2006 by element115
Chief embryologist at ViaGen, a livestock-cloning lab in Austin, Texas, aims to bring cloned beef to the American dinner table within the next few years.
Since 2005, ViaGen has cloned half a dozen cows from strips of beef.

So if a beef inspector says, "Wow, this is a gorgeous piece of meat," he can send a sample to a lab and make a clone?
-- Yes, we can certainly do that. The procedure is basically the same as it is with a live animal, except the tissue sample has to be taken within 48 hours of death.
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Inquiry Opened Into Israeli Use of U.S. Bombs

August 24, 2006 by element115
The State Department is investigating whether Israel?s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons, two officials said.

The investigation by the department?s Office of Defense Trade Controls began this week, after reports that three types of American cluster munitions, anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area, have been found in many areas of southern Lebanon and were responsible for civilian casualties.
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10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed

August 24, 2006 by element115
...the idiocy of our times.

...the fake optimism, superficiality, non-talented celebrities, doped-up athletes, dishonest and illiterate politicians, corporate thieves, wife-beaters and evangelical terrorists.
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"We create editorial for an ADD culture"

August 24, 2006 by element115
Business 2.0: Blogging for Dollars
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Are you ready for the next industrial revolution?

August 24, 2006 by element115
The transformation of the factory from a vast machine into a creative, knowledge-intensive space is a development few could have seen.
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Microsoft puts police link on Messenger

August 24, 2006 by element115
Microsoft will add a "report abuse" icon to Messenger that will link any users worried about their anonymous internet buddies directly to online police services.
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Spin

August 24, 2006 by element115
Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about halcyon -- all presuming they're off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.
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UK 'assisted in acts of terror'

August 24, 2006 by element115
Britain was accused in court on Tuesday of knowingly assisting in "acts of terrorism" by Israel during its month-long conflict with the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Rationality and Israeli violence

August 24, 2006 by element115
As we witness the unfolding spectacle of ferocious, indiscriminate violence, destruction, and brutality in Gaza and Lebanon, it's difficult to resist the conclusion that there is something terribly wrong with the Israeli state and society. It's as though all moral and psychological constraints and boundaries have been breached, deviancy normalised. Not that state terrorism, deliberate aggression, extreme disproportionate force, and massive violations of international humanitarian law are new to the Israeli state: from 1948, the list is long, the evidence widely available.
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Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World's Leading Oil Producer

August 24, 2006 by element115
Statistics recently published by the oil cartel OPEC show that Russia is currently extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia, making it the biggest producer of "black gold" in the world, the British Financial Times reported.
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Dear "Terrorist" Child

August 24, 2006 by element115
Over the last several decades children just like you have had to confront the all-encompassing grip of American domination in the region, some, thankfully, less than others who have not been so lucky. Directly or indirectly, your destiny has in large part been engineered by the claws of American intervention in your country, creating, in large sectors of the population, vicious cycles of endemic poverty, uneducation, misery, bitterness, resentment and a simmering longing to release, sometimes violently, boiling emotions of pent up anger, if not at America directly then at her stooges acting as leaders. It has been you, the children of the region, who have suffered the most at the hands of the Evil Empire, millions upon millions of vibrant human energies ranging in age from the recently born to those teenagers forced by circumstance and tragedy to grow old before youth disappears.
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VeriChip Corp trying to get under soldiers' skin

August 24, 2006 by element115
A microchip company with powerful political connections is lobbying the Pentagon for the right to implant chips under the skins of the nearly 1.4 million U.S. military personnel.

Company officials have touted the chips as versatile, able to be used in a variety of situations such as helping track illegal immigrants or giving doctors immediate access to patient?s medical records.
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Refuse to be Terrorized

August 24, 2006 by element115
It's time we calm down and fight terror with antiterror.
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'Administrative detention' in Israel

August 24, 2006 by element115
Administrative detention, allows security forces to hold citizens in prison without allowing them to meet with a lawyer, stand before a judge or even be informed of the allegations against them. At this time, at least fifteen Jewish activists are being held by the government in such a manner.
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Israel's Deputy UN Ambassador Defends Israel's Attacks on Lebanon

August 24, 2006 by element115
"We Cannot For Sure Prove That All Of The Civilians In Southern Lebanon Were Purely Innocent"

"There is hardly any distinction between Hezbollah and the civilian population," Ambassador Daniel Carmon said.
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Greek passport containing a microchip is scheduled to start on Saturday

August 24, 2006 by element115
The microchip will include a picture of the passport holder and some personal details.

The biometric data will also be able to contain the passport holder's fingerprint or iris scan.
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Twenty-first Century Rome

August 24, 2006 by element115
For those of us who believe history holds valuable lessons, there is instruction to be had from the experience of other great powers. In the particular case of the American Republic it is important to consider the history of other republics.
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Conversations with History

August 24, 2006 by element115
Video --> Occupation and Terrorism...with Israeli journalist Amira Hass, discussion on the Israel occupation, Palestinian terrorism, and the consequences of the conflict for the daily lives of both Israelis and Palestinians.
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The 9/11 Report As a Graphic Novel

August 24, 2006 by element115
...text from The 9/11 Commission Report set to images.
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O'Reilly asks if judge who ruled against NSA wiretaps wants Americans to die

August 24, 2006 by element115
Bill O'Reilly and Tom McArdle of Investor's Business Daily took turns slamming the federal judge who recently ruled against the NSA's domestic eavesdropping program as a "liberal activist" who may want "Americans to die" or "wish ill will on our forces."
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The 'Neoconservative' Sufi Muslim Council

August 24, 2006 by element115
The Washington neo-cons, President Karimov of Uzbekistan and Jack Straw appear to be linked to a newly prominent "Muslim interest group" that supports the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and Israeli action in the Lebanon...

Who and what is the "Sufi Muslim Council"? They seem to have emerged from nowhere ? suddenly their spokesman is interviewed on Radio 4 and Newsnight and a Channel 4 documentary gives their views some weight. They have a new website and a new magazine. But hardly anyone knows who they are or what they stand for?

We wanted to know the answer to these questions so we set about doing some basic research. We have uncovered very worrying links between this new council and the neocons in Washington. There are also links to some of the most brutal regimes in the world e.g. the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. We have also unearthed allegations of dodgy business dealings and vote rigging.
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UN Paints Grim Picture Of Palestinian Situation

August 24, 2006 by element115
...the top United Nations political officer painted a grim picture of developments over the past 12 months, warning that the vision of Israel and Palestine living peacefully side-by-side has slipped ?further away, and stressing the need for a renewed international effort in the region.
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Israel's military chief acknowledges failings in Lebanon war

August 24, 2006 by element115
In a letter to the troops, Israel's military chief acknowledged publicly for the first time Thursday that there were shortcomings in the military's performance during the recent fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
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12 Arrested on U.S. Plane to Be Released

August 24, 2006 by element115
Prosecutors said Thursday they found no evidence of a terrorist threat aboard a Northwest Airlines flight that was diverted to Amsterdam, and are releasing all 12 passengers arrested after the jetliner landed.
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Giuliani aide found dead in apartment

August 24, 2006 by element115
A one-time aide to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been found murdered in his apartment.
Authorities say 49-year-old Martin Barreto was strangled. Before he was found dead, Barreto told his doorman he was expecting a visitor and to let him in.
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New Yorker arrested for broadcasting Hizbollah TV

August 24, 2006 by element115
Javed Iqbal, 42, was arrested on Wednesday because his Brooklyn-based company HDTV Ltd. was providing New York-area customers with the Hizbollah-operated channel, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
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Israel may 'go it alone' against Iran

August 24, 2006 by element115
"The Iranians know the world will do nothing," he said. "This is similar to the world's attempts to appease Hitler in the 1930s - they are trying to feed the beast."

He said there was a need to understand that "when push comes to shove," Israel would have to be prepared to "slow down" the Iranian nuclear threat by itself.
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The Real Terrorism Plot

August 23, 2006 by element115
ZNet --> Those who cautiously attempted to link the terrorist acts of 11 September to America's political, financial and military support of the State of Israel were dismissed, even shunned, whenever they disseminated their logic. Only the drums of war were to be heard. Now, nearly five years later, are we any closer to global peace and tranquillity? How many more lives must be wasted, how much more blood must be shed, and how many more children's shoes must be piled up on Downing Street to realise that cluster bombs don't hold the keys to peace, nor do the torture camps of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay?
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On September 1st, The Internet Goes Black

August 23, 2006 by element115
Starting at noon on September 1 2006, participating websites and blogs will replace their front pages with the single word 'Impeach' in simple white text on a black background.
For 24 hours, web surfers and blog readers will see that word first when they visit their favorite sites. In this way, we hope to get the public talking about the one tool guaranteed by the Founders to restore our Constitutional Democracy.
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Canadian Liberal MP resigns over 'negotiate with Hezbollah'

August 23, 2006 by element115
Embattled Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as deputy foreign affairs critic following the uproar over his comments suggesting Canada should negotiate with Hezbollah.

...one of three opposition MPs on the Mideast mission, said Monday he favoured changing a Canadian law that forbids contact with known terrorist organizations.

He said the law undermines efforts to obtain lasting peace between Israel and Hezbollah fighters.
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Israel's 'Moral High Ground'

August 23, 2006 by element115
Justin Raimondo --> The "narrative" Israel is trying to sell the American public is that the Jewish state is once again being targeted by "terrorists" ? yet the pictures coming out of Lebanon show us who the real terrorists are, no matter how hard CAMERA and its allies, including AIPAC, work to "spin" the story in a more favorable direction.
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On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

August 23, 2006 by element115
Noam Chomsky --> The only meaningful support for Palestinians facing national destruction is from Hezbollah. For this reason alone it follows that Hezbollah must be severely weakened or destroyed.
But Hezbollah is too deeply embedded within Lebanese society to be eradicated, so Lebanon too must be largely destroyed.
An expected benefit for the US and Israel was to enhance the credibility of threats against Iran by eliminating a Lebanese-based deterrent to a possible attack. But none of this turned out as planned.
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Bush: Iraq Had 'Nothing' To Do With 9/11

August 23, 2006 by element115
QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?

BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?

QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center.

BUSH: Nothing.
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To justify the war, Bush informed Congress on March 19, 2003 that acting against Iraq was consistent with "continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."
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The US Empire Is Broke

August 23, 2006 by element115
Telegraph --> ...what prompted George Bush's recent Asian trip was no new political initiative but, crudely, a search for money.
With US net foreign debt of over $4,000 Billion, approaching 40% of GDP the US is seeking financial support from China.
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Bush Ensured Iran Offer Would Be Rejected

August 23, 2006 by element115
Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries (the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) Tuesday, the George W. Bush administration had already begun the process of organising sanctions against Iran.

...the history of that P5+1 proposal shows that the Bush administration was determined from the beginning that it would fail, so that could bring to a halt a multilateral diplomacy on Iran's nuclear programme that the hard-liners in the administration had always found a hindrance to their policy.
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The 'War President's' Latest Fiasco

August 23, 2006 by element115
Eric Margolis --> America was the big loser in the Lebanon war. From Morocco to Indonesia, each night 1.5 billion Muslims watched the carnage in Lebanon on TV and blamed America. Even the poorest shepherd in Uzbekistan heard the US was airlifting the precision bombs and deadly cluster munitions to Israel used against Lebanese civilians.

Any hope of damping down the Islamic World?s surging hatred of the US, Britain, Australia and Israel (now add Canada) was killed in Lebanon. Even the interestingly-timed airport hysteria in London over alleged bomb plots failed to divert attention from the latest US-British Mideast policy disaster.
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CNN: Bush Violated 1st & 4th Amendments, Oath, & Lied

August 23, 2006 by element115
One must ask why the Controllers are letting the dogs out on Bush. Is it to inflame the public to some sort of action that will justify their reaction?
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Why you should care about the RIP Act

August 23, 2006 by element115
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, to give it its full name, gives the police and the security services the right to intercept our communications data.

With police officers poised to get the power to seize encryption keys, how will this affect you and your business?
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Lebanese residents answer your questions

August 23, 2006 by element115
Residents answered your questions in a live laptop link-up.
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New WTC Complex Photos Highlight Bizarre Building 7 Collapse

August 23, 2006 by element115
Previously unseen photos provided to us by an annonymous rescue worker who was at ground zero on 9/11 highlight the implausible implosion of WTC Building 7 in comparison with buildings closer to the towers that sustained significantly more fire and debris damage yet did not collapse.
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Israeli shelling left carpet of bomblets

August 23, 2006 by element115
"This is the worst [cluster- bomb contamination] I have ever seen," says Marc Garlasco, a senior military analyst with the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), who was chief of high-value targeting for the Pentagon during the Iraq invasion of 2003, and took part in several US military battle-damage assessments dating back to 1998.

"We're on the verge of a potential humanitarian crisis if the deminers can't get a handle on this," says Mr. Garlasco. American use of cluster bombs during the 2003 Iraq invasion was "very problematic, but it makes what happened here look like child's play."

"It's everywhere," says Magnus Rundstrom, a MAG demining team leader from Sweden
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Gaza swelters through summer without power

August 23, 2006 by element115
Haaretz --> It's hot, very hot, in the Gaza Strip. But over the last two months, ever since Israel bombed the new power station in the center of the Strip, the heat has become unbearable. The bombing has disrupted the supply of electricity to some 1.5 million residents; food in refrigerators goes bad, the patients in the hospitals groan, industry and work are paralyzed, traffic is gridlocked and there is a severe water shortage.
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Boycott Israel

August 23, 2006 by element115
...to end the Military Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Lebanon

August 23, 2006 by element115
Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of war crimes in its monthlong battle with Hezbollah, saying its bombing campaign amounted to indiscriminate attacks on Lebanon?s civilian infrastructure and population.
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What a planet

August 23, 2006 by element115
1. More than half of the 6.5 billion human souls populating Earth subsist on less than $2 per day. 790 million of the deeply impoverished suffer from chronic malnutrition (while 65% of US Americans are overweight).

2. 20% of the human race does not have access to clean water and 31% of the world?s population has no electricity.

3. Combining the gross domestic products of the 48 poorest nations (representing 25% of global population) yields a figure that is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world.

4. ?Developed nations? account for 80% of the world?s consumption and 20% of the world?s population.

5. The wealth gap between the richest and poorest countries went from 3 to 1 in 1820 to 72 to 1 in 1992.

6. Corporations account for over half of the 100 wealthiest entities in the world.

7. And most tragically:

"According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death."
That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year."
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They Want Your Soul

August 23, 2006 by element115
Video --> The information contained in this video applies to all Americans and humans alike, regards of beleifs or affiliations.
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Dutch arrest 12 on US plane bound for India

August 23, 2006 by element115
ANP said a police spokesman said 12 were arrested, but declined to give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
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Kidnapped Fox journalists appear on video

August 23, 2006 by element115
Two Fox journalists kidnapped in the Gaza Strip last week said they were in "fairly good health" and appealed for help to secure their freedom, a videotape released on Wednesday showed.

A previously unknown militant group, the "Holy Jihad Brigades," earlier claimed responsibility for the kidnapping nine days ago in the Palestinian coastal strip and demanded the United States release "Muslim prisoners" within 72 hours.
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Despotism

August 23, 2006 by element115
1946 Documentary / Propaganda film -->
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9-11 Investigative Journalist Harassed And Beaten By Undercover Cops

August 23, 2006 by element115
Christopher Bollyn --> I noticed a most unusual vehicle approaching my house. It was an unmarked car with three well-armed men wearing body armor. It looked like the kind of car that one might expect to see in occupied Baghdad.

The three men tackled me and used a Taser gun to shock me into submission.
After violently subduing me, one officer knelt on my head and another on my arm, as I was handcuffed.
While I was being held down, my wife went to get a camera. An officer told her that she would be arrested if she dared to take any photos.
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Can't Get No Satisfaction

August 23, 2006 by element115
We all know George W. Bush is a prick, and we know his people are the biggest bunch of peckerwoods since Nixon assembled his cabinet. We know furthermore that this cabal of venomous schweens have wrought more havoc in the world, and done more damage at home in America, than any single American administration since the South decided to secede. Even the commercial media is beginning to take note of these undisputable facts. Pundits are lining up to get on the earliest possible train out of Bushville, but that train left before the World Trade Center fell. Anybody with access to good information knew these people were planning to screw the world, long before they got out the brace & bit. Apparently the media didn't have that access to good information.
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Where Bush's Arrogance Has Taken Us

August 23, 2006 by element115
An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors - all courtesy of the imperial presidency.
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Australian jailed for bomb plots

August 23, 2006 by element115
Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a Pakistan-born architect, was convicted in June of planning various attacks on the city's power grid and military installations.

He was found guilty of three charges relating to terrorism, and faced a maximum sentence of life in jail.

Lodhi, who denies all charges against him, was prosecuted under Australia's strict new anti-terrorism laws.
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7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War

August 23, 2006 by element115
Michael Schwartz --> Before being fully immersed in daily reports of bomb blasts, sectarian violence, and casualties, however, it might be worth considering some of the just-under-the-radar-screen realities of the situation in that country. Here, then, is a little guide to understanding what is likely to be a flood of new Iraqi developments -- a few enduring, but seldom commented upon, patterns central to the dynamics of the Iraq war, as well as to the fate of the American occupation and Iraqi society.
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A Tortured Past

August 23, 2006 by element115
Documents show troops who reported abuse in Vietnam were discredited even as the military was finding evidence of worse.
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Israel suspends review of Lebanon war

August 23, 2006 by element115
Israel's Defense Ministry has suspended a review of the military's performance during the war against Hezbollah.

But his efforts to deflect responsibility haven't dispelled mounting calls for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry with the power to dismiss government officials.
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"Dark matter" is real

August 22, 2006 by element115
A team of U.S. scientists has found the first direct evidence of the existence of "dark matter," a little-understood substance with a huge influence on gravity, the team's leader said on Tuesday.

Scientists still do not know what exactly dark matter is, but have theorized it must exist to account for the amount of gravity needed to hold the universe together.

They estimate that the substance accounts for 80 to 90 percent of the matter in the universe. The more familiar kind of matter, which can be seen and felt, makes up the rest.

Now researchers led by University of Arizona astronomer Doug Clowe say they have evidence to back up their theories.
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Israel to buy 2 new submarines from Germany

August 22, 2006 by element115
...two Dolphin-class submarines that will, according to foreign reports, provide superior second-strike nuclear capabilities.

The navy already has three Dolphin-class submarines. They are the most expensive weapon platforms in the IDF's arsenal.
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Middle School teacher burns U.S. flags in class

August 22, 2006 by element115
A Stuart Middle School teacher has been removed from the classroom after he burned two American flags in class during a lesson on freedom of speech, Jefferson County Public Schools officials said.

Dan Holden, who teaches seventh-grade social studies, burned small flags in two different classes Friday and asked students to write an opinion paper about it, district spokeswoman Lauren Roberts said.
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Amnesty urges UN to probe Israel strategy

August 22, 2006 by element115
Amnesty International says attacks on civilian targets by Israeli military forces during the recently ended fighting in Lebanon look like deliberate war crimes.

In a report released on Wednesday, the London-based human rights organisation argues that the destruction of Lebanese homes and basic infrastructure "was an integral part of the military strategy".
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An American Turning Point

August 22, 2006 by element115
If and when President Bush is impeached and removed from office, the next step should be to arrest him and the other architects of the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq.

If Americans ever find the will to do this, as we once did to German aggressors, history will remember it as a turning point in international relations. It will go down as one of the most spectacular and complete affirmations of the very best of American ideals.
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Are You Proud to be an American and a Supporter of Fascism?

August 22, 2006 by element115
Confessions of an American Ex-Patriot...
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AIPAC, the Religious Right and American Foreign Policy

August 22, 2006 by element115
Nobody can understand what's going on politically in the United States without being aware that a political coalition of major pro-Likud groups, pro-Israel neoconservative intellectuals and Christian Zionists is exerting a tremendously powerful influence on the American government and its policies. Over time, this large pro-Israel Lobby, spearheaded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has extended its comprehensive grasp over large segments of the U.S. government, including the Vice President's office, the Pentagon and the State Department, besides controlling the legislative apparatus of Congress. It is being assisted in this task by powerful allies in the two main political parties, in major corporate media and by some richly financed so-called "think-tanks", such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, or the Washington Institute for Near East Policy .
AIPAC is the centerpiece of this co-ordinated system.
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Who Started Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict?

August 22, 2006 by element115
...for documentation, consult The Arab Women's Information Committee and The Institute for Palestine Studies, , Who Are the Terrorists? Aspects of Zionist and Israeli Terrorism.
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NATO's 21st-century task: going from 'Europe' to 'global'

August 22, 2006 by element115
Ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union, NATO has been working to transform itself from a cold-war, Europe-focused bulwark against a communist threat to a military and political alliance relevant to the world of the 21st century.
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The Campaign for Accountability for U.S./Israeli War Crimes

August 22, 2006 by element115
Ramsey Clark --> On August 30, 2006 the International Action Center will launch a major campaign to require accountability by the United States and Israel for their wars of aggression and assaults on the equal sovereignty of nations, which are crimes against peace, and their war crimes which include excessive force, indiscriminate bombing, targeting civilians and civilian facilities and collective punishments of entire populations.
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Ethnic Cleansing as Benefaction

August 22, 2006 by element115
According to Ralph Peters, writing for the Armed Forces Journal, there is a "dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works," never mind this technique, offered by Peters as a panacea for ethnic division in the Middle East, falls under the definitions for genocide or crimes against humanity.
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Bush: 'We're not leaving so long as I'm president'

August 22, 2006 by element115
"Either you say, 'Yes it?s important we stay there and get it done,' or we leave," Bush argued. "We?re not leaving so long as I?m the president. That would be a huge mistake."

At a news conference today, Bush also conceded that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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Former Mossad boss steels West for 'third world war'

August 22, 2006 by element115
theglobeandmail --> "This is a third world war," Efraim Halevy, Mossad director from 1998 to 2002, told The Globe and Mail in an interview yesterday. "International Islamic terror has made its objectives and aims very clear."

Mr. Halevy lamented that not enough is being done to fight al-Qaeda-style terrorism. Sooner or later, he said, Western democracies will have to realize that.
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The logic of war

August 22, 2006 by element115
Asia Times --> There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States.

In his May 23 summit with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush offered full US support for Israel to attack Lebanon as soon as possible.

...the attack on Hezbollah was only the first stage of what the Bush administration apparently hopes will be a joint redrawing of the Middle East map.
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Israeli forces storm eastern Gaza

August 22, 2006 by element115
At least 10 Israeli army tanks and armored vehicles backed by helicopters and unmanned drones stormed the eastern Gaza Strip on early Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said.

At least three Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli military move, according to the sources.
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Iran Responds to UN Incentives

August 22, 2006 by element115
Larijani delivered Tehran's answer to the Swiss embassy in Tehran Tuesday, as the world anxiously awaits Tehran's response. Supposedly, Iran refuses to halt its nuclear fuel program but is showing signs of willingness to talk openly about Iran's nuclear program without ultimatums from the U.S. or its allies.

Fearing information leaks and criticism, Iran gagged local newspapers from criticizing Tehran's decisions. Iran's government has urged the judiciary to clamp down on newspapers which spread "lies", a government official wrote in a letter to Tehran's prosecutor Saturday.
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CIA's secret UK bank trawl may be illegal

August 21, 2006 by element115
A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge of the government may breach both British and European law.
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Canadian delegation used the term "crimes against humanity" to describe what they saw in Lebanon

August 21, 2006 by element115
A delegation of Canadian opposition parliamentarians toured the devastation of southern Lebanon yesterday and slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper for supporting what two MPs called "crimes against humanity."

"As we drove, kilometre after kilometre, house after house, apartment after apartment, village after village was destroyed," a visibly upset Mr. Wrzesnewskyj said afterward. The delegation met with Human Rights Watch representatives, who presented evidence that Israeli forces used cluster bombs in civilian areas.
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Uncomfortable Truths about Israel

August 21, 2006 by element115
What would we be saying if Hizbullah kidnapped the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and launched a daring raid inside Israel to disrupt a U.S. effort to resupply the Israeli Defense Force?

Hell, we'd probably have the National Security Council in session and be ready to dispatch U.S. military forces to help Israel.
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'Spot' teams to spy on passengers

August 21, 2006 by element115
The "behaviour detection squads" will patrol terminals to monitor the gestures, conversations and facial expressions of passengers. One of their aims will be to spot those who may be concealing fear or anxiety.
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Fade to Black: Another Terror Plot Unravels

August 21, 2006 by element115
...guilty of what George Orwell, in 1984, called "thoughtcrimes".
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Chomsky: UN Security Council acts within constraints set by great powers

August 21, 2006 by element115
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 came very late and posed a fragile ceasefire, yet there will be another war as long as the Bush-backed Israel has the pretext of "safer borders," and Bush himself is insisting on going further in his war against terrorism.
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The world's biggest medical experiment

August 21, 2006 by element115
A project to collect DNA samples from half a million Britons to unpick the genetic basis of killer diseases including cancer got the go-ahead on Tuesday, marking the start of the world's biggest medical experiment.

...to help scientists unravel the genetic foundations of common diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia and joint problems.
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Senior IDF officers: Hezbollah hostilities liable to restart soon

August 21, 2006 by element115
Members of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff say that "round two" between Israel and Hezbollah could begin within months or even weeks.
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Germany plans surveillance boost

August 21, 2006 by element115
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany needs more video surveillance and a national database of terror suspects after a bomb plot was foiled.
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Israeli tanks enter Gaza

August 21, 2006 by element115
Witnesses said several Israeli tanks, supported by unmanned drones in the sky, entered Gaza near the Karni crossing, the main terminal for goods entering and leaving the densely populated strip.
Clashes ensued and three militants were wounded, Palestinian sources said.

Earlier separate Israeli air strikes targeted houses in Jabalya, a district of Gaza City, in the northern part of the strip, and the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
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Italy to lead UN force in Lebanon

August 21, 2006 by element115
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Monday his country was ready to lead a U.N. force in southern Lebanon, where the fragility of a week-old truce was underlined when Israeli forces fired at Hizbollah guerrillas.

Italy's right-wing opposition warned the deployment could prove a "kamikaze" mission.
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Israeli Warplanes Roar Over Lebanon

August 21, 2006 by element115
Israeli warplanes roared over Lebanon's northern Mediterranean coast and along its border with Syria on Monday.
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Israel Rules Out Syrian Negotiations

August 21, 2006 by element115
Ehud Olmert on Monday ruled out a resumption of negotiations with Syria, saying Damascus must first end its support for militant groups. Mr. Olmert spoke just hours after a minister in his cabinet urged a resumption of negotiations and said Israel should give back the Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria.
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Israel mulling fresh offensive

August 21, 2006 by element115
Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz said at a recent Cabinet meeting, "We will examine the issues that have been pointed out as failures." He added that Israel was duty bound "to prepare for the next round."
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Finland introduces new biometric passports

August 21, 2006 by element115
Finland is introducing new biometric passports today - August 21st.
The first applications were filed today at 8.00 a.m.
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Iran to continue nuclear energy work: leader

August 21, 2006 by element115
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has decided to continue its path powerfully regarding the nuclear energy issue," Khamenei was quoted by the state television as saying.

"Bullying powers and the United States have imposed huge pressure on Iran while they know that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons," he added.
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'Bomb plot' suspects due in court

August 21, 2006 by element115
Eleven people are due to appear in court in connection with an alleged bomb plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners.

Eight of those have been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism.

Two are accused of failing to disclose information and a 17-year-old faces a charge of possessing articles useful to a person preparing acts of terrorism.
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Bush seeks support for sanctions against Iran

August 21, 2006 by element115
U.S. President George W. Bush pushed Monday for international support for swift "consequences" to punish Iran, which said it will today reject demands that it suspend its controversial nuclear energy program.
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Overexposure: When media coverage blocks out the sun

August 21, 2006 by element115
...the real issue is the amount of coverage lavished upon the story. In that sheer volume of stories, there's a lesson for consumers in how the media work - and it's not really about JonBenet.

The fact is, when the US news media really turn their attention to a topic, they do a very thorough job.

...when the media, particularly television news shows and especially the 24-hour cable networks, turn their focus on an issue, most everything else disappears. That means the issue is much larger than the JonBenet saga.
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To preserve Canada's credibility?

August 21, 2006 by element115
Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day rejected the notion that dropping Hezbollah from the terror list would aid in negotiating peace in the Middle East.

...a bipartisan committee currently on fact-finding mission in Lebanon suggested that dropping Hezbollah from Canada's list of terrorist organizations would help in negotiating peace.

The bipartisan committee includes members of the three opposition parties, but no Tory delegates.

"We spoke to leaders of the [Lebanon's] oppositions parties who said they felt it was important that Hezbollah be drawn into the democratic process and they supported continuing that process. I think that's important. I'm not here to say whether Hezbollah should or shouldn't be a terrorist organization; our government has made that decision. It's not the point of the mission."
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ABC: Is Tomorrow Doomsday?

August 21, 2006 by element115
...conjecture, hype, and total fear mongering.
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What Does Israel Want?

August 21, 2006 by element115
Justin Raimondo --> Is anyone really surprised that Israel violated the cease-fire? Here, after all, is a nation that has defied the United Nations on 321 different occasions, refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and proudly proclaims its own lawlessness. Only a fool, or a masochist, would count on Tel Aviv to keep its agreements. Apart from that, however, this latest raid underscores the real objective of what the American media insists on calling the Israeli "incursion" (never "invasion") into Lebanon: it's all about Syria and Iran.
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Groundhog Day

August 20, 2006 by element115
The Nation --> Arrests were made at night, catching the culprits at home. Houses have been raided, and are being searched. So far as we know at this point, no bombs have been found. No chemicals. No equipment. No labs. No testing ground. Maybe this will come out later, but it hasn't so far.
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Obey your government

August 20, 2006 by element115
As people obediently lined up at airports across the country to throw away killer lip gloss, expensive perfume and even bottles of fine wine, an irreverent question came to mind: Is there anything the government could order the American people to do in the name of fighting terrorism that would be so ridiculous they would refuse to do it?
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Who are you calling a fascist?

August 20, 2006 by element115
It wasn't the first time President Bush had described the United States as at war with "Islamic fascists." But coming in his remarks about the arrests of two dozen terror suspects in Britain last week, the phrase signaled that the administration was shopping for new language to defend its policies at a time when the evocations of the "war on terror" don't seem to stem rising doubts about the wisdom of "staying the course" in Iraq.
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Hitting a Nerve

August 20, 2006 by element115
Craig Murray --> In the UK, at least, the more serious wing of the mainstream media is beginning to catch up with the idea that all is not well here.

...after eight days of detention, nobody has been charged with any crime. For there to be no clear evidence yet on something that was "imminent" and "Mass murder on an unbelievable scale" is, to say the least, rather peculiar.
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NSA Ruling versus JonBenet Ramsey in Mainstream Media

August 20, 2006 by element115
NETWORK RAMSEY SEGMENT NSA SEGMENT
NBC 7:39 0:27
CBS 3:23 0:25
ABC 4:03 2:00
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Spinning Truth into Lies

August 20, 2006 by element115
...we don't know anything for sure about the reality of the conspiracy to blow up airplanes. Worse, we quite likely never will know. What we do know is that until this recent spate of highly questionable arrests, the Bush administration's anti-terrorist campaign has done far more damage to the Constitution than to any terrorist network, real or imagined.
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Pardons are forever

August 20, 2006 by element115
Before leaving office, President Bush will issue a shockingly large number of presidential pardons to operatives who, with the administration?s blessing, ventured far outside the law to wage Bush's "war on terror." Bush may even owe some of his underlings use of the pardon pen, since they relied in good faith on radical legal opinions crafted by White House lawyers to justify an "anything goes" response to enemies real and imagined.
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Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round'

August 20, 2006 by element115
Israel warned that it would keep up raids against Hezbollah to prevent the Shiite militia from getting weapons from abroad and said it would prepare for the "next round" of war.

Israel also said that it would not allow the Lebanese army to fully deploy along the volatile Israeli-Lebanese border until the arrival of an international force in the area.
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Amateur warlords

August 20, 2006 by element115
Eric Margolis --> Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs.
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Israel and the US are still focused on the wrong issues

August 20, 2006 by element115
Israel and the US are obsessed with disarming Hizbullah and confronting Iran. But a quarter of a century ago neither of these issues existed. How Hizbullah and Iran became so problematic is worth recalling.
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What Next?

August 20, 2006 by element115
The debate is over: By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war.
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IDF troops arrest senior Hamas lawmaker in West Bank

August 20, 2006 by element115
Troops surrounded the Al-Bira home of Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, secretary-general of the parliament, in broad daylight and detained him, said his sister.
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Rex 84 Program

August 20, 2006 by element115
FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America...
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Chavez: Lebanon destroyed by genocidal hand of Israel

August 20, 2006 by element115
Venezuelan president announces nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for Palestinians; calls Lebanese 'heroic people'
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Israel Committed to Block Arms and Kill Nasrallah

August 20, 2006 by element115
Despite a cease-fire agreement, Israel intends to do its best to keep Iran and Syria from rearming Hezbollah and to kill the militia?s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, says a senior Israeli commander.
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'War on terror' could last 50 yrs

August 20, 2006 by element115
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has said Australians must steel themselves for the fact the "war on terror" could continue for longer than the Cold War.
Speaking at a Liberal Party conference in Melbourne, he said it could last more than 50 years.
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Terror Alerts based on Fabricated Intelligence

August 20, 2006 by element115
The objective is to galvanize public opinion in favor of a military solution, while temporarily boosting the fragile image of main political and military actors.
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No evidence against 'airline terror mastermind'

August 20, 2006 by element115
The Briton alleged to be the ?mastermind? behind the airline terror plot could be innocent of any significant involvement, sources close to the investigation claim.

Rashid Rauf, whose detention in Pakistan was the trigger for the arrest of 23 suspects in Britain, has been accused of taking orders from Al Qaeda?s ?No3? in Afghanistan and sending money back to the UK to allow the alleged bombers to buy plane tickets.

But after two weeks of interrogation, an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, officials are now saying that his extradition is 'a way down the track' if it happens at all.

It comes amid wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed.
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Mutiny on Flight 613

August 19, 2006 by element115
Two men were forced off a UK-bound flight after fellow passengers feared they may be terrorists, an airline has said.

Holidaymakers on board flight ZB 613 from Malaga to Manchester demanded that air staff remove them from the plane.

...the men were taken off the Monarch Airlines flight and quizzed by police.

Authorities allowed them to fly back to the UK later in the week.
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Annan: Israeli Raid Violates Cease-Fire

August 19, 2006 by element115
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday that an early-morning Israeli raid against Hezbollah in eastern Lebanon violated the 6-day-old cease-fire brokered by the United Nations.
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Ceasefire broken

August 19, 2006 by element115
Israeli commandos raided a Hezbollah stronghold deep in Lebanon today, engaging in a fierce gunbattle, and the Lebanese government threatened to halt further troop deployments in protest as the 6-day-old UN-brokered cease-fire was put to a critical test.
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Take your time

August 19, 2006 by element115
Ralph Nader --> An Open Letter to George W. Bush on Lebanon...
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Public Contempt for Palestinians and Lebanese

August 19, 2006 by element115
ZNet --> Israeli aggression receives official Canadian endorsement.
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The New Normal

August 19, 2006 by element115
Screening at airports. Police with sub-machine guns, bulletproof vests and riot gear patrolling public transportation junctions. How long before they are at every public transit facility and outside of corporate buildings along with private security and secret service?

What was it they called them in Nazi Germany? Oh yeah, the S.S (secret service). And what was it they did? Oh yeah, "May I see your papers".

If the timing of these bogus, thwarted, terrorist attacks doesn't already have you questioning the validity of their intentions just think about what the result suggests. The result being the erosion of, no, the dismantling of civil rights in the name of protecting them.
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Another Spy Story Suppressed to Save Israel

August 19, 2006 by element115
...the United States government has done it again, they?ve hidden another Jewish spy from the American public, but this time the cats out of the bag, someone leaked the details and now we find that another Jewish American, this time a Navy Petty Officer by the name of Ariel J. Weinmann has been arrested for passing along Top Secret information related to National Security to the Israeli government.

In Weinmann?s case, one can bet the information he stole was of a highly classified nature, you see Weinmann was stationed on an American nuclear submarine, the USS Albuquerque.
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Israel launches fresh raid

August 19, 2006 by element115
Israel launched a raid deep inside Lebanon overnight, in what the Lebanese Prime Minister called a 'flagrant violation' of the UN-brokered ceasefire between the sides.
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Bush blasts court ruling on surveillance

August 19, 2006 by element115
President Bush on Friday criticized a federal court ruling that said his warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional, declaring that opponents "do not understand the nature of the world in which we live."

"I strongly disagree with that decision, strongly disagree," Bush said, striking his finger on a podium to underscore his point. "That's why I instructed the Justice Department to appeal immediately, and I believe our appeals will be upheld."
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Mubarak says Hezbollah 'part of the Lebanese national fabric'

August 19, 2006 by element115
"Resisting the occupier is a legitimate right under the condition that it springs from free will and in accordance to the supreme national interest," said Mubarak.
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Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal

August 19, 2006 by element115
European investigators are tracking the mysterious deaths of two security experts who had uncovered extensive spyware in their telecommunications firms.
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On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

August 19, 2006 by element115
The outcome of crimes committed by IOF since 25 June 2006:

o 207 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 46 children and 10 women, have been killed by IOF.

o At least 815 Palestinian civilians, including 232 children and 27 women, have been wounded by the IOF gunfire.

o At least 217 air-to-surface missiles and hundreds of artillery shells have been fired at Palestinian civilian and military targets in the Gaza Strip.

o Buildings of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National economy, the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister and a number of educational institutions have been destroyed.

o The electricity generation plant, providing 45% of the electricity of the Gaza Strip, was destroyed, and electricity networks and transmitters have been repeatedly attacked.

o 6 bridges linking Gaza City with the central Gaza Strip and a number of roads have been destroyed.

o Hundreds of donums[1] of agricultural land and dozens of houses have been destroyed.

o Hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including 8 ministers and 27 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), including the Speaker and Deputy Speaker have been arrested. Minster of Prisoners? Affairs, Minister of Labor and Deputy Speaker of the PLC were released.

o The Palestinian governmental compound in Nablus has been destroyed.

o Many families in Rafah, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia have been forced to leave their houses.

o IOF intelligence has warned some Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by phone to evacuate their houses, which would be attacked.

o 25 houses belonging to activists of Palestinian factions were destroyed by IOF warplanes.

o IOF have imposed a strict siege on the OPT, and have isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
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Bush: World will accept war was a Hizbullah loss

August 19, 2006 by element115
"Sometimes it takes people awhile to come to the sober realization of what forces create stability and what don't," he said. "Hizbullah is a force of instability."
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Don't forget Gaza

August 19, 2006 by element115
On the back of Israel's military defeat in Lebanon, Palestinians fear that their blood will be used to bolster public confidence in Olmert's government.
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White House war-makers masquerading as peacemakers

August 19, 2006 by element115
A message from Lebanon from Ramsey Clark
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Israeli 'war tourists'

August 19, 2006 by element115
They snapped souvenir photos or made home videos. They picnicked on scenic sites overlooking Lebanese villages.
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"More Propaganda Than Plot"

August 19, 2006 by element115
Interview --> Former British Ambassador on Alleged UK Terror Plot...
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Hollywood Supports Israeli Mass Murder

August 19, 2006 by element115
"...caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas" the ad reads.

"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.

We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."

Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt signed the ad, as did directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi.
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Letter From Airstrip One: Fear Over Facts

August 19, 2006 by element115
Chris Floyd --> Swift action by British intelligence services foil an imminent terrorist strike by religious extremists that would have resulted in mass death and social upheaval on an unprecedented scale. Government ministers heatedly denounce the plotters as the evil agents of a worldwide sectarian conspiracy seeking to impose its totalitarian ideology on free nations everywhere.

The country goes on high alert, with raids on private homes and places of worship. Native adherents of the suspect faith fall under a cloud of suspicion as "the enemy within"; neighborhoods are riven with distrust. Any attempts at exploring the grievances that so radicalized the plotters are dismissed as treasonous coddling of a monstrous foe impervious to reason.

The year, of course, is 1605.
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Israel arrests Palestinian deputy PM

August 19, 2006 by element115
Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister Saturday, the highest-ranking Hamas official rounded up in a seven-week-old crackdown against the ruling party.

Troops burst into the home of Nasser Shaer around 4:30 a.m. and took him away, said the deputy prime minister's wife.
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The State without Shame

August 19, 2006 by element115
William A. Cook --> Embedded in Gillerman's prose resides the "idea" that gives justification to the wanton and illegal slaughter inflicted upon the Lebanese, the idea of superiority in intellect, morality and military might that comes with the efficiency of Capitalistic enlightenment. Condescendingly, Gillerman creates a dehumanized scenario of insane Arabs from Teheran, Damascus, Gaza and "parts of Lebanon" dancing in joy as planes fall from the sky, the result of "terror" tactics planted in London, a rejoicing comparable to that witnessed when the Twin Towers fell. He does not mention the five Israelis dancing on the panel truck in a Jersey parking lot as they filmed the planes slamming into the Towers. There is much that Gillerman does not mention.
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Israeli officer killed, 2 others injured, in unsuccessful commando operation in Lebanon

August 19, 2006 by element115
Israeli army acknowledged Saturday that an Israeli officer was killed and two others seriously injured in an unsuccessful landing, west of Ba'albek, in Lebanon. They were involved in a confrontation with Hezbollah fighters, during which three Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli officer were killed.

Lebanese security sources reported earlier that Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a Hezbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Canada looks for 'instant' soldiers

August 19, 2006 by element115
Doctors' notes instead of physicals could fast-track new recruits.
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Media-Terrorists

August 19, 2006 by element115
International Institute of Peace --> ...the mass media is the primary tool for state-terrorists to give justification for their crimes. It is complicit in the heinous crime of killing civilians, because it conceals the much larger crimes of the state-terrorists. The media remains quiet on the causes, while the retaliation from the victim is projected in isolation as a crime.
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Lebanese man detained in Germany over bomb plot

August 19, 2006 by element115
A terror suspect has been arrested by German police probing what they believe was a plot to blow up makeshift bombs on the national rail network.

The arrest took place at Kiel station, in the north of the country, which was closed for five hours as security checks took place.

It is believed a simultaneous attack was planned but neither device exploded. if they had, police say, many people would have died.
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911 Cover Up

August 19, 2006 by element115
911 Cover Up --> Video
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Bush Job Approval - 34%

August 18, 2006 by element115
Zogby International --> Rating down despite foiled terror plot and Lebanon cease fire.
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Corporate war machine gathers speed

August 18, 2006 by element115
Asia Times --> There is strong evidence that as the Bush administration is mulling over plans to bomb Iran, the simmering conflict between high-ranking military professionals and militaristic civilian leaders is bursting into the open.

Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, are said to have drawn plans to bomb Iran, senior commanders are openly questioning the wisdom of such plans.
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What we know and don't know about 9/11

August 18, 2006 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts --> Holding the Bush regime accountable for its obvious & documented lies...
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Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'

August 18, 2006 by element115
BIOMETRIC testing is set to be introduced at European airports under plans for stringent new security measures revealed yesterday in the wake of last week's alleged terror plot.

Passengers would have their fingerprint or iris scanned under the measures proposed by EU interior ministers, which would also use passenger profiling to try to identify potential terrorists.
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Privacy groups slam use of CIA-backed software to index Canadian health files

August 18, 2006 by element115
Privacy advocates are raising questions about Canadian use of the Initiate Systems indexing program given its creator's financial connection to In-Q-Tel - a private firm that helps the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency zero in on promising technology.

"There's a smell test that happens here, and it doesn't smell right," said David Fewer, general counsel for the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.
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Presidential law-breaking

August 18, 2006 by element115
Glenn Greenwald --> For the last four years, the Bush administration has deliberately violated multiple laws because it has adopted radical theories which vest law-breaking powers in the President. It also happens to be well on its way to obtaining the power to criminally prosecute journalists for articles they publish about the administration's conduct. And while all of that has been happening, the Washington Post Editorial Board has said virtually nothing about any of it, sitting idly by while the President vests himself with what George Will calls "monarchical" powers that (at least) rival terrorism as a threat to our country, and while Attorney General Alberto Gonzales casually speculates about putting Jim Risen and New York Times editors (and perhaps even the Post's own Dana Priest) into a federal prison, just as his most prominent supporters have been urging.
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