82 inmates cleared but still held at Guantanamo

April 30, 2007 by element115
More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them, according to Bush administration officials and defense lawyers.
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Corporate Media Ignores Durbin’s Admission Iraq Invasion was Predicated on Lies

April 30, 2007 by element115
Majority Whip Richard Durbin, number two Democrat in Congress, "knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee."
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Buying the War

April 30, 2007 by element115
PBS --> Bill Moyers Video
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Media Priorities Assure that Real Crises Will Not Be Covered

April 30, 2007 by element115
Our media remains fixated on misdemeanors, while ignoring felonies.
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EU warns of worsening situation in Palestinian territories

April 30, 2007 by element115
The EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid warned on Thursday that conditions were worsening in the Palestinian territories, and asked Israel to ease restrictions on movement.
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Bill Maher Psychologically Analyzes President Bush

April 30, 2007 by element115
Bill Maher may not be a doctor, but his diagnosis of President Bush is pretty damn accurate.
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The technologies from 'above'

April 30, 2007 by element115
Philip Corso, who was a high ranked army officer with the highest level of top secret security clearance and in the 50's joined the white house staff.
He tells what he knows about the origin and developoment of many technologies, he claims to be coming from from other worlds.

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How Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture

April 30, 2007 by element115
Close command and control of far away events from the Pentagon were not limited to the targeting of bombs and missiles. Thanks to breakthroughs in communications, the interrogation and torture of prisoners could be monitored on a real time basis also.
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Bush Has Destroyed Iraq and America

April 30, 2007 by element115
Paul Craig Roberts --> The evil that America brought to Iraq transcends the tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed and maimed in the conflict. The evil goes beyond the destruction of ancient historical artifacts and the civilian infrastructure of a secular state and the decimation of the lives, careers, and families of millions of Iraqis.
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Retired Gen.: Bush should sign Iraq bill

April 30, 2007 by element115
"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place," he said.
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Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind

April 30, 2007 by element115
By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
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Arctic melt faster than forecast

April 30, 2007 by element115
The latest observations indicate that Arctic summers could be ice-free by the middle of the century.
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911: Can You Handle The Truth?

April 30, 2007 by element115
...the most personal, insightful, and powerful pieces ever written about 911 truth.
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Another top Rice aide quits

April 30, 2007 by element115
A top human rights adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced his resignation Monday, the latest in a string of senior State Department officials to quit as the administration of President George W. Bush winds to a close.
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ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers

April 29, 2007 by element115
"There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers," Ross said. "And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list." Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, "include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers."
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Is Canada's defence minister a war criminal?

April 29, 2007 by element115
Political and military leadership has been playing fast and loose with torture.
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Tensions hit peak over Gaza clashes

April 29, 2007 by element115
Israeli tanks were massing at the border, fresh from a huge exercise to practise reoccupying the strip, while the Palestinians were making preparations of their own.
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Olmert denies remarks on hitting Iran nuclear sites

April 29, 2007 by element115
The Prime Minister's Office on Saturday denied that Ehud Olmert had told a German magazine Iran's disputed nuclear program could be severely harmed by firing 1,000 cruise missiles during a 10-day attack.
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Wolfowitz faces new claims of breaches

April 29, 2007 by element115
Through his lawyer, Dr Wolfowitz vowed to continue the fight to keep his job. "He will not resign under this cloud," said his lawyer, Robert Bennett, on Saturday. "He's not going to give in to these coercive tactics."
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One million Turks rally against govt

April 29, 2007 by element115
As many as one million people rallied in a sea of red Turkish flags in Istanbul, accusing the government of planning an Islamist state and demanding it withdraw its presidential candidate.
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Israel, awaiting report on war, wonders if Olmert can hold on

April 29, 2007 by element115
On the eve of the publication of an official report on the Israeli government's failings during the war last summer against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the biggest question on the minds of Israelis is whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be able to hang onto power.
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Students Heckle Gonzales at Harvard

April 29, 2007 by element115
"When the photographer was getting everybody set up and having people say 'cheese,' the protesters yelled: 'say torture, instead,"resign' and 'I don't recall,'" said Nate Ela, a protester and third-year student.
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Iran will attend Iraq security meeting

April 29, 2007 by element115
The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran agreed Sunday to attend a regional conference about Iraq later this week, ending weeks of uncertainty about Tehran's participation.
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Estonia Blames Russia for Provoking Clashes

April 29, 2007 by element115
Estonia has blamed Russia for planning and provoking the clashes in the past two nights in Tallinn after the removal of the Soviet war memorial in the centre of the capital, international media reported.
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Bomb kills more than 60 worshipers near Shi'ite shrines

April 29, 2007 by element115
A car bomb exploded yesterday in Karbala, near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, killing more than 60 worshipers headed to evening prayers and injuring about 100. It was the second attack near the shrines this month.
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Pakistan bombing kills 26, wounds minister

April 29, 2007 by element115
A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people in Pakistan today and wounded dozens more, including Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, a senior security official said.
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Chechen rebels down helicopter, 18 Russians killed

April 28, 2007 by element115
Eighteen people were killed when a Russian utility helicopter carrying troops was downed in southern Chechnya during a special operation, a source in the Russian military said Friday.
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Russia cries blasphemy as statue to war dead is taken down-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline

April 28, 2007 by element115
Russia threatened to punish Estonia yesterday for the "blasphemous and inhuman" removal of a monument to the Red Army after deadly rioting took over Tallinn, the capital.
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Israel's lab in Palestine

April 27, 2007 by element115
Disturbing reports allege that Israel is using Gaza as a field to experiment its new lethal weapons.

Doctors in Gaza have been reporting strange wounds on the bodies of innocent bystanders and those targeted by drones. These wounds consist of many small holes, often invisible to X-rays, and burns caused by heat so intense that many cases have required amputation because of the extensive burning.
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Tenet: CIA warned of 'anarchy' in Iraq

April 27, 2007 by element115
CIA analysts wrote the warning at the start of August 2002 and inserted it into a briefing book distributed at an early September meeting of
President Bush's national security team at Camp David, he writes.
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U.S. Officer Charged With Aiding Enemy in Iraq

April 26, 2007 by element115
A U.S. Army commander in Iraq was charged with nine offenses, including aiding the enemy by allowing prisoners to use a mobile phone, having relationships with a detainee's daughter and an interpreter, mishandling classified data and possessing pornographic videos.
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EU demands Wolfowitz resignation

April 26, 2007 by element115
The demand from the European Union's legislature comes as a special panel at the bank is investigating whether Wolfowitz violated any bank rules in his handling of the promotion Shaha Riza to a high-paying job at the State Department in 2005.
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Diplomats see progress in Iranian nuclear talks

April 26, 2007 by element115
"We have not made miracles, but we have tried to move the dossier forward a little bit," Javier Solana, foreign policy chief for the European Union, said at a news conference. "We have tried to understand each other and each other's positions better.

"The fact that we are again together, I think it's in itself a very important development."
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Russia suspends arms treaty over US missile dispute

April 26, 2007 by element115
Russia withdrew from Europe’s main arms control treaty today in a furious retaliation against American plans to deploy a missile defence system in two former Warsaw Pact countries.
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Putin attacks US foreign policy

April 26, 2007 by element115
President Vladimir Putin attacked US foreign policy and urged a revival of traditional values in a hawkish speech that laid out a route for Russia to follow long after he steps down next year.
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Congress approves Iraq war withdrawal plan

April 26, 2007 by element115
In an unprecedented slap at President George W. Bush's war policy, the U.S. Congress on Thursday approved legislation that links withdrawal of combat troops to paying for the war, ensuring a certain veto.
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Gaza Militants Fire 2 Rockets at Israel

April 26, 2007 by element115
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets toward Israel on Thursday.
One rocket landed in the Mediterranean Sea and the second in an open area in southern Israel, the army said. There were no injuries.
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Kucinich announces impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney

April 24, 2007 by element115
The first concerned manipulation of intelligence about Iraq's threat to the US. The second concerned manipulation of intelligence on the Iraq-Al-Qaida relationship. The last concerned what he called having "openly threatened aggression against the Republican of Iran."
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Condi Rice subpoenaed tomorrow?

April 24, 2007 by element115
In a congressional investigation into the intelligence (or lack thereof) leading to the Iraq invasion, subpoenas may be issued tomorrow to force Condi to testify.
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Powers Consider Iran Nuclear Proposal

April 24, 2007 by element115
The United States and other world powers may be ready to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program intact instead of demanding its complete dismantling, foreign government officials said Tuesday.
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Bush Won't Accept Iraq War Timetable

April 24, 2007 by element115
President Bush, standing firmly against a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, said Tuesday that he will veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress.
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Escalation in Gaza

April 24, 2007 by element115
The inevitable war
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Hamas wing declares Israel truce over

April 24, 2007 by element115
Hamas said it was abandoning the November 26 truce after Israeli raids killed nine Palestinians at the weekend.

"The truce no longer exists," Abu Obaida, a spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, told AFP. "It's the Israeli enemy that has not respected it and now it's the turn of Palestinian groups."
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Israel Shoots Irish Peace Prize Winner With Rubber Bullets

April 23, 2007 by element115
In a Gandhi-like protest, a completely unarmed and peaceful gathering of peace activists who were walking to the Bil'in Wall were tear-gassed and then shot with rubber bullets.
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BBC Conspiracy Files 9/11

April 23, 2007 by element115
BBC investigation into the events of September 11th 2001 points to the conclusion that there was complicity in the attacks reaching to the very highest levels of the US administration.

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Office of Fear and Misinformation presents

April 23, 2007 by element115
Al-Qaeda 'planning big British attack'

Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in an attempt to "shake the Roman throne", a reference to the West.
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Iraq PM orders halt to Baghdad wall

April 23, 2007 by element115
Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has ordered a halt to the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from Shia areas in Baghdad.
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From an Angry Soldier

April 23, 2007 by element115
How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit?

I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several.
He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box.

You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.

We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda.

Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.
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Bush Administration Awash in Scandals

April 23, 2007 by element115
Forbes --> ...with fewer than two years left of his second term, the Bush administration is embroiled in multiple scandals and ethics investigations. The war in Iraq still rages. Bush's approval ratings are hovering in the mid-30s.
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John Kerry: WTC Building 7 Was a Controlled Demolition

April 23, 2007 by element115
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The Evidence is in

April 23, 2007 by element115
Professor Steven Jones presenting his X-ray spectrometry evidence from samples taken at the WTC site. They dramatically show a PERFECT MATCH for the highly specialized compound "thermate" (used for cutting through steel) found in the WTC debris. (And no, thermate was NOT used during the clean up operation...this stuff was in the building, and ignited, prior to collapse.)
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Ahmadinejad offers to hold direct talks with U.S. President Bush

April 23, 2007 by element115
"Last year, I announced readiness for a televised debate over global issues with his Excellency Mr. Bush. And now we announce that I am ready to negotiate with him about bilateral issues as well as regional and international issues," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on the Web site of Al-Alam.
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Two teenagers among dead as Israelis raid Gaza, West Bank

April 23, 2007 by element115
Haniyya: Israel's killings "reveal the political deception which is being practiced on the Palestinian people through the political meetings and the meetings of leaders" with Israelis.
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Gay marriage evil, abortion terrorism says Vatican

April 23, 2007 by element115
The Vatican's second-highest ranking doctrinal official has forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a human face".
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Bomb threat forces Greek plane to land

April 23, 2007 by element115
An Olympic Airlines flight carrying Greek European parliamentarians to Strasbourg made an emergency landing in Munich on Monday morning after a bomb threat, officials said.
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Former Russian President Yeltsin Dies

April 23, 2007 by element115
Boris Yeltsin, who kicked the props out from under the tottering Soviet empire and then struggled to build a nation from its wreckage, died Monday after seeing many of his democratic reforms rolled back. The former Russian president was 76.
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Cheney: Iraq pullout would hurt Israel

April 23, 2007 by element115
A U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq would be damaging to Israel, Dick Cheney said.
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"Impeachment Should Be on the Table": Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)

April 23, 2007 by element115
Ellison said that the most important thing he and his fellow members of Congress need from constituents is that they "keep the drumbeat up" for impeachment.
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Daily pill to beat genetic diseases

April 22, 2007 by element115
A pill that can correct a wide range of faulty genes which cause crippling illnesses should be available within three years, promising a revolution in the treatment of thousands of conditions.
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Noble Resolve 07

April 22, 2007 by element115
From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of "simulated" terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a "loose" ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a "foreign nation."

The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.

The US Marines are also running "Emerald Express 07" in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.
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Soldier: I Was Deployed To Iraq With Traumatic Brain Injury

April 22, 2007 by element115
As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.
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Olmert says polite 'no' to Musharraf Mideast mediation offer

April 22, 2007 by element115
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday politely turned down an offer by Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf to serve as a go-between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israeli minister steps down amid fraud probe

April 22, 2007 by element115
The move was expected since Hirchson had been under investigation for months and was under heavy pressure to quit, and had no negative effect on financial markets.
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50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio

April 22, 2007 by element115
At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia's largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be "positive."

In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.
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Egyptian-Canadian sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage

April 22, 2007 by element115
A Cairo court found Mohamed el-Attar, 31, guilty of belonging to a spy ring that worked for Israel, operating in Turkey and Canada. Three other alleged Israeli intelligence officers, Daniel Levy, Kamal Kochba and Tongai Bobai, were tried in absentia, and received the same sentence.
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US Government: Global Warming is a $900 billion risk

April 22, 2007 by element115
The U.S. government, insurer of last resort, faces a potential payout of at least $919 billion under a worst-case scenario of flood and crop losses due to global warming, congressional investigators say.
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Israeli Troops Kill 8 Palestinians

April 22, 2007 by element115
Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians, including a 17-year-old girl, in a two-day surge of fighting across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Sunday.
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Hamas calls for new attacks on Israel after surge in fighting

April 22, 2007 by element115
"The blood of our people is not cheap," he said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Therefore we are calling on ... (Hamas' armed wing) and the Palestinian resistance groups to be united in the trench of resistance and to use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."
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Denver Police Arrest 78 People At Marijuana Rally

April 22, 2007 by element115
"This park should be enjoyed by all citizens alike, and not have to be interfered with those who are breaking state law," said Virginia Quinoes with the Denver Police Department.
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Nation’s marijuana laws were founded in bigotry

April 22, 2007 by element115
President Jimmy Carter once told Congress that "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this clearer than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."

To understand why marijuana should be decriminalized, we must first understand why it was made illegal -->
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Atheists split on how to not believe

April 22, 2007 by element115
Atheists are under attack these days for being too militant, for not just disbelieving in religious faith but for trying to eradicate it. And who’s leveling these accusations? Other atheists, it turns out.
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9/11's free speech casualties

April 20, 2007 by element115
Los Angeles Times --> Two journalists who questioned Bush's leadership weeks after the attacks lost their jobs and faced threats.
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Gonzales Testifies Disastrously With No Support from Republicans

April 20, 2007 by element115
"It sounds like he walked into a firing squad without a gun," said Charlie Black, a strategist close to the White House, after discussing the testimony with several other Republicans. Of the Republican senators, Mr. Black said, "They just think this was amateur hour, and they should not be expected to defend it."
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Vermont votes to Impeach Bush

April 20, 2007 by element115
...approved by 16 votes to nine and followed a public rally this week in the state capital Montpelier calling for Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to go.
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World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80%, report

April 20, 2007 by element115
The world will have to axe greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050, more deeply than planned, to have an even chance of curbing global warming in line with European Union goals, researchers said on Thursday.
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Republicans still want to block Global Warming legislation

April 20, 2007 by element115
..."why global warming has suddenly become an issue of national defense" and afterward accused politicians and pundits of stoking children's fears.
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36 California schools under lockdown

April 20, 2007 by element115
Authorities put all 36 schools in 12 Northern California school districts under lockdown Thursday as police searched for a man who claimed he was planning an armed attack that would "make Virginia Tech look mild."
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Pushing the limits of human vision and imagination

April 20, 2007 by element115
Computer simulations and visualizations are performing the thought experiments of the 21st century --> VIDEO
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Scholars debate 9/11 findings

April 20, 2007 by element115
Edmonton Sun --> ...scholars are calling for an independent, preferably international investigation into 9/11.
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Q: What to do about Iran, Senator McCain?

April 20, 2007 by element115
A: As the Beach Boys said: bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb
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US builds Baghdad security wall

April 20, 2007 by element115
The US military is building a three-mile concrete wall in the centre of Baghdad.
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Musharraf: Willing to visit Israel to promote peace

April 20, 2007 by element115
Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf made a surprise offer Friday to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an interview with the pan-Arab satellite Television Al-Arabiya.
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Kasparov Summoned by Russian Prosecutor

April 20, 2007 by element115
Garry Kasparov, a chess superstar locked in the political match of his life with President Vladimir Putin, was called in for four hours of questioning by Russian security agents Friday and ordered to see prosecutors Saturday.
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Virginia Tech shooter was autistic

April 20, 2007 by element115
...the family had constant worries about Cho.

"He didn't talk. Normally sons and mothers talk. There was none of that for them. He was very cold."
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Pope abolishes limbo

April 20, 2007 by element115
The Vatican has determined that limbo does not exist, opening the gates of heaven to babies who die unbaptised, a member of a high-level theological commission.
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Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader --> “this war is lost,”

April 20, 2007 by element115
"...this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq,” Mr. Reid said.

But the president said that any timetable for a troop redeployment, even a goal, would face a veto.
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FOX says that lying is "GOOD"

April 20, 2007 by element115
Muzzle for Reid?

Reid sends the wrong message to U.S. troops fighting in Iraq, Republicans say.
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Gunman prompts lockdown at NASA

April 20, 2007 by element115
Gunman kills hostage, then himself at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Happy 420

April 20, 2007 by element115
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The true massacre is the one we are living

April 18, 2007 by element115
Every bit as grotesque as the Virginia Tech massacre was the spectacle of George W. Bush grandstanding for a photo-op at the convocation for the victims of the tragedy.

Bush -- the world’s premier mass murderer and war criminal, a man responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of people; whose family has been responsible for generations of death all over the world -- should not have been permitted to speak.
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Neo-Cons To Spin VA Massacre As Terrorist Attack

April 18, 2007 by element115
Neo-Con media cheerleaders for the Bush administration's war on terror are set to connect killer Cho Seung-Hui with militant Islam as an excuse to propagandize the notion that Monday's VA Tech Massacre was a terrorist attack.

Reports state that Seung-Hui wrote two words on his arm in red ink before carrying out the bloodbath - "Ismail Ax."
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EU to criminalise Holocaust denial

April 18, 2007 by element115
Laws that make denying or trivialising the Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced across the European Union, according to a proposal expecting to win backing from ministers Thursday.
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Diplomatic rift as Russia says: give us Berezovsky

April 18, 2007 by element115
Relations between London and Moscow threatened to plummet to a post-cold war low yesterday amid renewed Russian demands for action against Boris Berezovsky over the tycoon's claim that he is plotting to overthrow Vladimir Putin.
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Russia toughens penalties for extremism

April 18, 2007 by element115
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed new restrictions on political extremism that will toughen punishments and could make it easier for the Kremlin to apply the rules to its opponents.
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Egypt, Jordan take the lead to contact Israel on Arab peace initiative

April 18, 2007 by element115
Arab countries on Wednesday chose Egypt and Jordan to take the lead to persuade Israel to accept an Arab peace initiative in an effort to activate the peace offer with the Jewish state, expressing Arab countries' commitment to the peace plan.
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Olmert: Prisoner swap demands create 'expectations we cannot meet'

April 18, 2007 by element115
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel today that the list of prisoners the Palestinians want freed in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier "creates expectations we cannot meet," a meeting participant said.
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Wolfowitz deputy urges him to quit

April 18, 2007 by element115
Graeme Wheeler, managing director, made his call in front of all the bank’s top officials at an extraordinary session of their regular weekly meeting.
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Iraq troops to take over security

April 18, 2007 by element115
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said Iraqi forces will take over control of the country's security from foreign forces by the end of the year.
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Three killed in attack on publisher of bibles in Turkey

April 18, 2007 by element115
The victims were found yesterday with their throats slit and their hands and legs bound at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a city in eastern central Turkey. One was alive when found but died later in hospital, said the local governor.
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U.S. Court Backs Ban on Abortion Procedure

April 18, 2007 by element115
The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.
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Russia trains seals for submarine defence

April 18, 2007 by element115
Russian marine biologists are training seals to defend the country's fleet of nuclear submarines, the Izvestia newspaper reported.
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Saudi Arabia Agrees to Write Off 80 Percent of Iraqi Debt

April 18, 2007 by element115
Saudi Arabia has agreed to forgive 80 percent of the more than $15 billion that Iraq owes the kingdom, Iraqi and Saudi officials said yesterday, a major step given Saudi reluctance to provide financial assistance to the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.
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In Rare Joint Interview, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn

April 16, 2007 by element115
...on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History.
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Is Depleted Uranium Killing our Troops?

April 16, 2007 by element115
Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor — made with a byproduct of enriched uranium — have been the cause?
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Fifty percent of CIA has been hired since 9/11

April 16, 2007 by element115
"Right now, my biggest challenge is absorbing the growth we've had inside the agency and putting these new resources to work in an efficient and effective way," Hayden said.
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Secretary of State Rice may face subpoena threat Wednesday

April 16, 2007 by element115
Depending on the State Department's response to a request for information prior to a Wednesday meeting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could face a subpoena from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Technology is constantly keeping tabs on you

April 16, 2007 by element115
...tracked, catalogued, archived and selectively inspected for insider information. Every detail is mined.
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Al-Sadr followers quit cabinet over US presence

April 16, 2007 by element115
Six cabinet ministers loyal to the anti-American Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled out of Iraq's national unity government yesterday.
Accusing Mr Maliki of "ignoring the will of the people" after last week's huge protest rally in Najaf calling for US forces to leave, the ministers told a press conference in Baghdad they were giving up their cabinet posts to free their powerful parliamentary bloc to campaign for a firm date for withdrawal.
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Report: France told CIA about plans to hijack planes prior to 9/11

April 16, 2007 by element115
Le Monde said the French report of January 2001 had been handed over to a CIA operative in Paris, but that no mention of it had ever been made in the official U.S. Sept. 11 Commission.
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Bush administration pushes for expansion and deepening of police state

April 16, 2007 by element115
The deepening of the war and security state continues unabated and relatively unopposed, in spite of meager posturing of (largely complicit) congressional Democrats. Nothing has been done to stop, reverse or undo the Bush administration’s boundless criminality, its wide open corruption, or the absolute and systematic rape of law itself.
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Iran frees 2 Swedes held for spying

April 16, 2007 by element115
Two Swedish construction workers who had been convicted of espionage and imprisoned in Iran for taking photographs of military installations were released Monday after being pardoned, a Swedish lawmaker in Tehran said.
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Gunman kills 32, self, in worst U.S. college massacre

April 16, 2007 by element115
gunman killed 32 people at a Virginia university, many of them students attending class, and then shot himself dead on Monday in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
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Former Bush Speechwriter Hints at 9/11 Inside Job

April 15, 2007 by element115
A GOP insider, former Bush 41 speechwriter and close friend of the Bush family writes in his new book that before 9/11, the Neo-Cons in control of the Bush administration were eager to seize upon a manufactured provocation to go to war - just as LBJ had done with the Gulf Of Tonkin in 1965, and questions the official 9/11 story.
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Presidential candidate says US going bankrupt

April 15, 2007 by element115
He said that our entitlements programs, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our monetary policy are causing such a drain on the country's finances that in the very near future our trading partners abroad will lose confidence in the dollar and then there will be a very severe financial crisis, possibly worse than the Great Depression of the 30's.
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White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection

April 15, 2007 by element115
The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
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Billboard ban in São Paulo

April 15, 2007 by element115
City planners, architects and environmental advocates have argued enthusiastically that the prohibition, through a new "clean city" law, brings São Paulo a welcome step closer to an imagined urban ideal.
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Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

April 15, 2007 by element115
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
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KGB ghost stirs JFK mystery

April 15, 2007 by element115
A book to be published this month by a veteran American spy is raising startling new questions about Yuri Nosenko, the Russian defector who played a key part in the inquiry into the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
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US troops in Afghan rampage

April 15, 2007 by element115
A PLATOON of US marine special forces went on a shooting rampage in Afghanistan last month, killing 12 civilians - including a four-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy - and wounding at least 33 others, according to a US military inquiry and a report by the Afghan human rights commission.
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German army 'depicted blacks as target practice'

April 15, 2007 by element115
A German army instructor has been shown on television ordering a soldier to fire his machine gun while imagining he was in the Bronx facing hostile African Americans.
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U.S. consulate in Casablanca closed after bombing

April 15, 2007 by element115
The U.S. consulate in Casablanca has shut down temporarily to beef up security a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up about 60 metres (yards) from the already fortified building, U.S. officials said on Sunday.
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11 hurt as quake shakes central Japan

April 15, 2007 by element115
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted a wide area in central Japan on Sunday, injuring at least 11 people and damaging a 400-year-old castle's stone wall in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture.
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Israel, Palestinians Report Progress

April 15, 2007 by element115
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday discussed the outlines of Palestinian statehood for the first time in six years, taking a modest step toward breaking the long paralysis in peacemaking.
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Riot Police Beat Anti-Kremlin Marchers

April 15, 2007 by element115
About 120 people were arrested. Witnesses report seeing a number of dazed and bleeding demonstrators, both young and old, sitting in the street.
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Chess champion, Garry Kasparov arrested at Moscow rally

April 15, 2007 by element115
Russian opposition activist Garry Kasparov was among about 170 people arrested as police moved against a banned anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow.
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Wolfowitz Vows to Stay at World Bank

April 15, 2007 by element115
"The bank has important work to do and I will continue to do it," he said at a news conference winding up a meeting of the steering committee for the bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Israeli troops use Palestinians as shields

April 13, 2007 by element115
The video, taken by a foreign activist, showed Israeli soldiers apparently forcing two Palestinian civilians to stand in front of an armoured military jeep to shield them from stones.
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E. Howard Hunt reveals who killed JFK

April 12, 2007 by element115
Rolling Stone --> He was the ultimate keeper of secrets, lurking in the shadows of American history. He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion and led the Watergate break-in. Now he would reveal what he'd always kept hidden: who killed JFK -->

Lyndon B. Johnson and a handful of CIA spooks.
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Blair blames spate of murders on black culture

April 12, 2007 by element115
Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture.

He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped "by pretending it is not young black kids doing it".
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CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur

April 12, 2007 by element115
CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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Who Can Say What?

April 12, 2007 by element115
TIME --> ...our culture has experienced an almost psychotic outburst of -isms in the past year. Michael Richards and "nigger." Isaiah Washington and "faggot." Senator George Allen and "macaca." Mel Gibson and "f__ing Jews."
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

April 12, 2007 by element115
Lee Iacocca --> Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."

I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies.

You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
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"New 9/11 crisis catalyst to merge U.S., Mexico and Canada"

April 12, 2007 by element115
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community --> "What I'm saying is that a crisis is an event which can force democratic governments to make difficult decisions like those that will be required to create a North American Community," he said. "It's not that I want another 9/11 crisis, but having a crisis would force decisions that otherwise might not get made."
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School children in U.K. to be fingerprinted in Big Brother-style

April 12, 2007 by element115
Up to 5.9million children face having their fingerprints taken by schools in another move towards a 'Big Brother' society.

Pupils will have to hand over their biometric details simply to borrow library books or gain access to school dinners.

A million children's fingerprints are believed to have been taken already, some without parental approval and even by 'con tricks' such as pretend spy games.
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Bush’s Sudan Ambassador: There Is No Genocide in Darfur

April 12, 2007 by element115
In a testy exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the ongoing violence in Darfur as a genocide.
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U.S. Man Accused of Plot to Bomb Resorts

April 12, 2007 by element115
A federal grand jury indicted an Ohio man on charges of joining al-Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas, officials announced Thursday.
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Life for ordinary Iraqis is worse than ever

April 12, 2007 by element115
Life for ordinary Iraqis is getting worse as they try to live with a poor healthcare system, little electricity, a shortage of drinking water and bodies left lying on the streets in unsanitary conditions, according to a report by the Red Cross.
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Dutch cathedral unveils 9/11 attack in stained glass

April 12, 2007 by element115
A new stained glass window in a Dutch cathedral
was blessed on Sunday by a Dutch bishop.

The window, built up of about twenty different panes with representations of heaven and hell, has the WTC pane at the bottom showing "hell on earth", its maker Marc Mulders said.
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Bush wants to create new "War Czar"

April 12, 2007 by element115
The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.
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World Bank staff asks Wolfowitz to resign

April 12, 2007 by element115
"The president must acknowledge that his conduct has compromised the integrity and effectiveness of the World Bank Group and has destroyed the staff's trust in his leadership," the association said Thursday. "He must act honorably and resign."
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U.S. military plans to put Internet router in space

April 12, 2007 by element115
The U.S. military plans to test an Internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications.
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'I am plotting a new Russian revolution'

April 12, 2007 by element115
The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has told the Guardian he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Putin from his base in Britain after forging close contacts with members of Russia's ruling elite.
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Closing AIPAC trial to public may lead to 2nd Dreyfus affair

April 12, 2007 by element115
According to a legal memorandum filed by the Jewish organization AMCHA, the trial of two former AIPAC lobbyists, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, could have an impact similar to that the Dreyfus affair had in 19th century France if it is held behind closed doors.
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German court allows screening of thalidomide drama after cuts

April 12, 2007 by element115
A television drama about the thalidomide scandal which led to thousands of women giving birth to disabled children, has sparked a bitter row between the film-makers and the creators of the drug, 50 years after the anti-morning sickness pill came on to the market.
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Atheist divorce rate is lower than Christian

April 12, 2007 by element115
Christians believe they hold the monopoly on family values and morals, but studies now prove that they divorce rate is significently higher than for other faith groups.
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War on Terror Is Now War on Human Rights

April 11, 2007 by element115
The head of an international human rights group charged that the war against terror had transformed itself into a war against human rights.
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a Sikh American VETERAN was assaulted by the Joliet police

April 11, 2007 by element115
...the officer pulled out his pepper spray and attacked Mr. Nag. As Mr. Nag screamed in agony, the officer removed his baton and violently struck Mr. Nag numerous times until he fell to the ground. While the assault ensued, the officer was reported by both Mr. and Mrs. Nag as saying, “You f****** Arab! You f***** immigrant, go back to you f****** country before I kill you!”
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Right Wing Uses Cropped Photo To Downplay Size Of Iraq Protest

April 11, 2007 by element115
After thousands of demonstrators gathered in Najaf, Iraq, to protest the U.S. occupation, the Bush administration was quick to downplay the size of the gathering.
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Kurt Vonnegut dies

April 11, 2007 by element115
Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan.
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Diabetics cured by stem-cell treatment

April 11, 2007 by element115
Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.

In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.
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Jailed for traffic violation

April 11, 2007 by element115
A 23-year-old Carleton University master's student is outraged and demanding an apology from Georgia officials after spending more than 11 uncomfortable hours in a detention centre for running a stop sign and speeding.

Cheryl Kuehn said she was fingerprinted and had her mugshot taken before being forced to strip naked and shower, don a navy blue jail outfit and sleep in a cell with two other women while other inmates jeered and leered at her from adjoining cells.
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Iraq: Why the media failed

April 11, 2007 by element115
It's no secret that the period of time between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq represents one of the greatest collapses in the history of the American media. Every branch of the media failed, from daily newspapers, magazines and Web sites to television networks, cable channels and radio.
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Doomsday for the Greenback

April 11, 2007 by element115
The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to they’d be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, we go our business like nothing is wrong.

Are we really that stupid?
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Florida Legislature Forces University To Idolize Jeb Bush

April 11, 2007 by element115
...the conservative-controlled House Schools & Learning Council voted yesterday to force the university to rename its education school the "Jeb Bush College of Education."
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Wolfowitz tries to turn spotlight off himself

April 11, 2007 by element115
Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank president, on Wednesday tried to turn the spotlight away from the controversy over a secondment package given to his partner, Shaha Riza, and back to the bank’s formal development agenda.
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Pretext for War

April 11, 2007 by element115
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Antiterrorism Laws Used to Muzzle the Press

April 11, 2007 by element115
The Sri Lankan government is abusing antiterrorism legislation to clamp down on journalists who expose human rights abuses, official corruption, or otherwise question the government's handling of the civil war.
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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities

April 11, 2007 by element115
...when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves.

In an effort to bring more attention to the ongoing crisis in Darfur, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has teamed up with Google's mapping service literally to map out the carnage in the Darfur region.
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Rift splitting Hamas into three factions has Israel concerned

April 11, 2007 by element115
As negotiations over the release of Cpl. Gilad Schalit appeared to enter their final lap this week, grave concern was expressed within the Israeli defense establishment on Wednesday over the growing rift within Hamas, which officials warned could jeopardize the deal and future contacts with the Palestinian Authority.
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Bush's New Spy Chief Wants More Agressive Powers

April 11, 2007 by element115
Surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.
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Moroccan terror suspects blow themselves up

April 11, 2007 by element115
Three suspected terrorists blew themselves up as Moroccan police were closing in and another suspect was shot dead by police while he was preparing to detonate his explosives, authorities said.
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Kidnapped Iranian shows 'torture wounds'

April 11, 2007 by element115
AN Iranian diplomat held in captivity for two months in Iraq appeared in public overnight to display wounds he said were caused by "torture" from US agents who beat him and drilled holes into his legs.
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Iran Giving Arms To Iraq's Sunnis, U.S. Military Says

April 11, 2007 by element115
The chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq asserted on Wednesday that Iranian-made arms, manufactured as recently as last year, have reached Sunni insurgents here, marking, if true, a new development in the four-year-old conflict.
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23 Dead in 2 Bombings in Algeria

April 11, 2007 by element115
Bombs heavily damaged the prime minister's office and a police station Wednesday, killing at least 23 people and wounding about 160, the country's official news agency said.
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Is the suggestion of an attack in Montreal worse than 9/11 a genuine or fabricated scenario?

April 11, 2007 by element115
Are Quebecers being psychologically “prepared” to blame Muslim immigrant groups, for an even worst attack in Montreal than 9/11, in relation to the World Trade Center in the United States?
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Princeton Law Prof Added to Terrorist Watch List after Criticizing Bush

April 9, 2007 by element115
A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a speech that slammed Bush's executive overreach has been added to the TSA's terrorist watch list.

"I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list," he said. When he asked why, the clerk asked if he had been at any peace marches. We ban a lot of those people.
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A grim vision of the future

April 9, 2007 by element115
Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.

This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces.
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The true story of free speech in America

April 9, 2007 by element115
Robert Fisk --> This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools.
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‘Millions to rebel’ over ID cards

April 9, 2007 by element115
The government is predicting that some 15m people will revolt against Tony Blair’s controversial ID card scheme by refusing to produce the new cards or provide personal data on demand.

The first cards are due in 2009, alongside new passports. Labour has said it will make the scheme compulsory if it wins the next election.
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Liberals push to impeach Bush

April 9, 2007 by element115
"I get one call after another saying, 'Impeach the president,' " said Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat and one of Mr. Bush's most relentless critics on the Iraq war.
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The Complicity of Congress in a Criminal War

April 9, 2007 by element115
The US Congress has gone beyond compliance with George Bush’s illegal war, and is now technically an accomplice-it is assisting with full knowledge in the perpetration of a crime. Congress has attained this status through two grave errors, one of omission and one of commission.
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The Architecture of the Prison Planet

April 9, 2007 by element115
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Foxman & Crew Pressured Media To Suppress Israeli 9-11 Connection

April 9, 2007 by element115
The "stuff" that was causing Foxman so much indigestion that day was a damning, four-part investigative series Fox News had been airing after Sept. 11 dealing with the arrests of several hundred Israeli nationals as well as some of the incriminating circumstances surrounding their activities in the United States.
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Iraqi details 'shocking' U.S. missteps

April 9, 2007 by element115
"The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of
Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press.
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Houston Freeway Protest Against Israel

April 9, 2007 by element115
The average American doesn't know the extent of the suffering of the Palestinians and that this oppression is a predominant cause of radical Muslim terrorists, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.
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Egypt Said to Ban American World History Book

April 9, 2007 by element115
Egypt's Education Ministry has allegedly banned the use of an American book on world history in an American school in Cairo because the book contained material viewed as offensive to Egypt.

...the decision was taken because the books were "eliminating Palestine from the map and any sort of thing about Palestine."
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Half India's kids are abused

April 9, 2007 by element115
More than half of India’s child population has been scarred by sexual abuse. The nauseating statistic, indicating that 53 per cent of the country’s children are sexually assaulted, was revealed by the Government of India’s first survey on child abuse.
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Iran announces "industrial" nuclear fuel work

April 9, 2007 by element115
"I proudly announce that as of today Iran is among the countries which produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a gathering at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran.
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President Carter: Bush Ordered Me Not to Go to Damascus

April 8, 2007 by element115
Harper's Magazine --> More evidence of the White House's partisan manipulation of relations with Syria emerged yesterday, as President Jimmy Carter told a gathering in New York about his recent request to visit Syrian President Assad.

“I have known President Bashar al-Assad since he was a college student, and I thought it might be helpful if I went and urged him to support the peace process in the Middle East. But for the only time in my life as a former president, I was ordered by the White House not to go.”
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'We were torturing people for no reason'

April 8, 2007 by element115
The results of the hangings, shacklings and prolonged stress positions - sometimes for hours - were devastating. "You take a healthy guy and you turn him into a cripple, at least for a period of time."

Lagouranis is one of the few individuals to have spoken publicly about his experiences as an interrogator who used or saw harsh techniques inflicted on prisoners in the war.
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Television and the Hive Mind

April 8, 2007 by element115
Sixty-four years ago this month, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare.
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3 Israelis accused of training hitmen

April 8, 2007 by element115
Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for three Israelis accused of training private armies of Colombian drug cartels and right-wing death squads, authorities said.
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Reflecting Pool

April 8, 2007 by element115
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When an Anti-Semite is Not an Anti-Semite

April 8, 2007 by element115
Etymology and the Israel Lobby
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April 9

April 8, 2007 by element115
What you saw wasn’t real. Saddam’s statue was not torn down by Iraqis. The event was staged and well-rehearsed by the U.S. military.
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Mossad in Iraq

April 8, 2007 by element115
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Giuliani Says Nation at War Requires Him

April 8, 2007 by element115
“What they say in Washington is not going to affect the fact that there are terrorists around the world that are planning to come here and kill us,” he said in Iowa, in the most spirited part of his newly honed stump speech.

Giuliani promoted his vision of a forceful foreign policy that calls for the United States to continue slugging it out in Iraq.
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Space agency wants 'Mars' volunteers

April 8, 2007 by element115
...looking for volunteers to take part in a simulated 500-day journey to Mars. Two of the six volunteers will be Europeans and the experiment will take place in Moscow starting next year.
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Israel doesn't want peace

April 8, 2007 by element115
Haaretz --> The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that "there is no partner" for peace and that "the time isn't right" to deal with our enemies. Today, the new reality before our eyes leaves no room for doubt and the tired refrain that "Israel supports peace" has been left shattered.
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North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents

April 8, 2007 by element115
Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.
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Cheney's Chance

April 8, 2007 by element115
The neoconservative NYSun makes the case.
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Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?'

April 8, 2007 by element115
It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon.

In speech after speech, in statement after statement, Bush insists that “this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here.”

But is it true?
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Palestinians Seek Swap For Hostage

April 8, 2007 by element115
Hamas has handed over the names of Palestinian prisoners it demands Israel release in exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza gunmen 10 months ago, the Islamist group said.
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Furore over sailors' media deals

April 8, 2007 by element115
...the defence ministry defended the highly unusual decision to relax its ban on service personnel striking financial deals with media organisations and said there were "exceptional circumstances".
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The Collapse of the Bush Administration

April 7, 2007 by element115
Time Magazine --> ...why the ship is sinking on the Bush administration.
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Israel fires into Gaza

April 7, 2007 by element115
The escalation came after Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz authorised limited strikes just inside Gaza.
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A grim outlook on world climate

April 7, 2007 by element115
A global warming report issued yesterday by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of Earth's future: more than a billion people in need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa, a landscape ravaged by floods and millions of species sentenced to extinction.
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What the hell is wrong with CNN?

April 7, 2007 by element115
Screenshots CNN's ridiculous coverage of Pelosi's trip to Syria.
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George W. Bush: A Failure Once Again, According To Google

April 7, 2007 by element115
...and the White House has only itself to blame.
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Bush administration manipulates intelligence to tie Al Queda to Iraq

April 7, 2007 by element115
"We don't seem to be making much progress pulling together intelligence on links between Iraq and al-Qaida," Wolfowitz wrote in the Jan. 22, 2002, memo to Douglas J. Feith, the department's No. 3 official.

Using Pentagon jargon for then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, he added: "We owe SecDef some analysis of this subject. Please give me a recommendation on how best to proceed. Appreciate the short turn-around."
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Anger as hostages sell stories to highest bidders

April 7, 2007 by element115
The 15 British military hostages released by Iran were accused last night of cashing in on the ordeal by selling their stories in a string of lucrative media deals.
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Court hearing for 7 July suspects

April 7, 2007 by element115
The three men - who are the first to be charged in connection with the bombings - appeared before Westminster Magistrates Court.
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Released Iranian diplomat accuses CIA of torture

April 7, 2007 by element115
An Iranian diplomat abducted in Baghdad in early February and released earlier this week claims he has been interrogated and tortured by the CIA agents.

...the interrogators tortured him after they had become dissatisfied with his answers. He showed the signs of torture on his body to journalists, the news agency said.
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Bush again threatens to veto war-spending bills

April 7, 2007 by element115
"The Democrats who passed these bills know that I will veto either version if it reaches my desk, and they know my veto will be sustained," he said. "Yet they continue to pursue the legislation.
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Cheney Sticks to His Delusions

April 7, 2007 by element115
Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

But Vice President Cheney, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, continued to stick to his delusional guns.
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Army's Hallucinogenic Weapons Unveiled

April 7, 2007 by element115
So much conspiracy and disinformation surrounds the military's past work on LSD and other chemical agents that it's been difficult to separate fact from fiction. That's starting to change, however.
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How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War

April 4, 2007 by element115
Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim.
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AU Students Protest After Karl Rove Speech

April 4, 2007 by element115
White House advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night.

"Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students began throwing things at him and at his car, an American University spokesperson said.
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Talking CCTV gives Big Brother a voice

April 4, 2007 by element115
Britain is already one of the most watched nations on earth and now "talking" CCTV cameras are to be installed in 20 areas across the country.
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Capitalism

April 4, 2007 by element115
Perhaps in some enlightened future time, we will look back on our times as barbaric, when we deliberately tormented the economically disadvantaged.
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U.S. steps up missile system push in Eastern Europe

April 4, 2007 by element115
The Bush administration has begun to step up its efforts to build a controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe, launching a public push in recent weeks to counter bitter opposition in Russia and overcome fears of a new arms race.
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Pope's book accuses rich nations of robbery

April 4, 2007 by element115
Pope Benedict appeared to reach out to the anti-globalisation movement yesterday, attacking rich nations for having "plundered and sacked" Africa and other poor regions of the world.

An extract published from his first book since being elected pope highlighted the passionately anti-materialistic and anti-capitalist aspects of his thinking. Unexpectedly, the Pope also approvingly cited Karl Marx and his analysis of contemporary man as a victim of alienation.
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Israeli, Palestinian shooting kills 1

April 4, 2007 by element115
Palestinian security officials said troops entered the northern Gaza Strip and killed a Palestinian gunman, injured another, and arrested a third.
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CIA 'secretly detaining' al-Qa'eda suspects

April 4, 2007 by element115
American intelligence agents are interrogating hundreds of al-Qa'eda suspects secretly imprisoned in Ethiopia, human rights organisations said yesterday.

The detainees, from 19 different countries, have allegedly been "illegally" deported to Ethiopia where they are being held in horrific conditions in crowded jails, notorious for torture and abuse.
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The War On Consciousness

April 4, 2007 by element115
We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself.
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Palestinians say Israel stalling on Arab peace bid

April 4, 2007 by element115
The Palestinian foreign minister said on Wednesday that Israel's call for a conference with Arabs sidestepping their land-for-peace offer suggested the Jewish state wanted normal ties without giving up anything in return.
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Pelosi Meets With Syrian Leader

April 4, 2007 by element115
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, met in Damascus today with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and discussed a variety of Middle Eastern issues, including the situations in Iraq and Lebanon and the prospect of peace talks between Syria and Israel.
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Iran to release 15 British sailors

April 4, 2007 by element115
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew's thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.
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Freed British to arrive home from Iran Thursday

April 4, 2007 by element115
Blair expresses 'profound relief’ at release of Britons held by Iran.
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Controversial historian to quit Israel for UK

April 3, 2007 by element115
Ilan Pappe, a senior lecturer in the University of Haifa's Department of Political Science, says he is moving to the UK because it is "increasingly difficult to live in Israel" with his "unwelcome views and convictions."
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US ready to strike Iran within days

April 3, 2007 by element115
The Guardian -->Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said.
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Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests

April 3, 2007 by element115
A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs, newly uncovered documents and interviews show.
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Talks with Iran lift hopes of deal

April 3, 2007 by element115
British officials last night held direct talks for the first time with Iran's influential chief international negotiator on the 15 military personnel seized in the Gulf, raising hopes of breaking a 12-day stalemate.
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Israel should withdraw from Arab land as condition for recognition, Saudis say

April 3, 2007 by element115
Israel should withdraw from Arab territory and allow the creation of a Palestinian state before Arabs recognize it, a Saudi official said yesterday in the kingdom's first comment since Israel's prime minister invited Arab leaders to discuss their ideas for peace with him.
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Putin accused over death of Litvinenko

April 3, 2007 by element115
State-sponsored terrorism blamed for murder. Family and friends launch new justice foundation.
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Ukrainians protest president's bid to dissolve Parliament

April 3, 2007 by element115
Thousands of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's supporters streamed into the Ukrainian capital Tuesday to protest President Viktor Yushchenko's order to dissolve Parliament and call early elections.
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Pelosi Arrives in Damascus for Syria Talks

April 3, 2007 by element115
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, arrived today in Damascus, the capital of Syria, for a controversial visit that is seen as part of an attempt to sway the Bush administration’s policy on Iraq and the larger Middle East.
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Bush calls Nancy Pelosi's Syria visit 'counterproductive'

April 3, 2007 by element115
Bush voiced displeasure on Tuesday with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria, calling it counterproductive and saying it sends mixed signals to the government of President Bashar Assad.
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UK pilots asked to consider “kamikaze” scenario

April 3, 2007 by element115
Royal Air Force pilots were asked by a senior RAF official to consider flying so-called "kamikaze" flights as part of the war on terror, the British defence ministry confirmed on Tuesday.

"These are decisions which, however unlikely and dreadful, service people may have to make and it is one of many reasons why the British people hold them in such high esteem."
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Quantum spirituality trumps Newtonian politics

April 2, 2007 by element115
Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself. Interestingly, that prescription is now being confirmed by quantum physics and cellular biology.

...we have now reached a population and activity threshold on this planet where in order to thrive (or even survive), we need to evolve to a more efficient level of organization.
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BYU campus protests Dick Cheney speech

April 2, 2007 by element115
The university has "a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do," said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school.

"Cheney just doesn't measure up," he said.
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McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market...

April 2, 2007 by element115
...accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships
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Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush

April 2, 2007 by element115
...new fronts against the president when they return from their spring recess, including politically risky efforts to quickly close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; reinstate legal rights for terrorism suspects; and rein in what Democrats see as unwarranted encroachments on privacy and civil liberties allowed by the USA Patriot Act.
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Court rules against Bush in global warming case

April 2, 2007 by element115
In a stinging defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that U.S. environmental officials have the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.
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Iran pulls sailors video as Britain changes its 'stance'

April 2, 2007 by element115
"It seems that Britain has shifted a little bit from its stance in the last one or two days over the undeniable facts and from some of its clamor," said the announcer, according to a Reuters translation. "If this path continues, one can hope that the issue would be resolved in a bilateral process and faraway from fuss and clamor and with achieving Iran's logical demands."
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Iran outlines conditions for release of UK sailors

April 2, 2007 by element115
Iran's most senior diplomat, Ali Larijani, called for a "delegation" to rule on whether a British naval patrol entered Iranian waters last month before his government would release the 15 marines and sailors it is holding captive.

Laying out what appeared to be a vague road map for the freeing of the British personnel, Mr Larijani said that, if it was found they had crossed into Iranian territory, there should be an apology and they would then be released.
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Department of Homeland and Security wants master key for DNS

April 2, 2007 by element115
This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet.
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In the service of the Jewish state

April 2, 2007 by element115
Haaretz --> In the late 1940s, Walther (Walter) Rauff, an SS officer who was responsible for the murder of at least 100,000 people and was wanted by the Allies as a war criminal, was employed by the Israeli secret service. Instead of bringing him to justice it paid him for his services and helped him escape to South America. Documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that have been released over the past several years show that the Americans were aware that Rauff's case was not exceptional.
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The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don't Count on It

April 2, 2007 by element115
...how could Congress have intended the general AUMF language to override FISA's specific prohibition?
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Israel tops the world in rate of malicious Internet activity

April 1, 2007 by element115
From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to a report issued in March by security software giant Symantec, based in Cupertino, California.
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O'Reilly turns Colonel Wright's mic off

April 1, 2007 by element115
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Massive earthquake triggers tsunami in Solomon Islands

April 1, 2007 by element115
A powerful earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Monday, sending a tsunami wave crashing into villages on the country's west coast.
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Controversial chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled

April 1, 2007 by element115
A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday amid complaints from Catholics, including Cardinal Edward Egan.
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Why Homeland Security Isn't

April 1, 2007 by element115
All employees (contractors as well as civil servants) will be required to submit to an extensive background check and investigation called the National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI), using OPM’s Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) to collect the information.

With the launch of HSPD-12, Homeland Security is actually taking away my security, and making my homeland a very ugly place.
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Geoge Orwell's Home Surrounded By Surveillance Cameras

April 1, 2007 by element115
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.

It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here.
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Fighting for air

April 1, 2007 by element115
"We only see the sun for a few days each year," said Zhou Huocun, a doctor in the outlying village of Liucunzhen. "The colour of our village is black. It is so dirty that nobody airs their quilts outside any more so we are getting more parasites. I have seen a steady increase in respiratory diseases as the air quality gets worse and worse."
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Fresh Footage Shown

April 1, 2007 by element115
Captain Air points at the map and says: "At approximately about 10 o'clock in the morning we were seized apparently at this point here...and on the GPS, which is inside Iranian territorial waters.
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Briton tells of his four-year 'nightmare' at Guantanamo

April 1, 2007 by element115
"There is no trial, no fair legal process. I was alleged to have participated in terrorist training in Bosnia and Afghanistan. I’ve never been to Bosnia and the only time I visited Afghanistan was thanks to the hospitality of the CIA in an underground prison – the Dark Prison – outside Kabul."

"The hopelessness you feel can hardly be described.
You are asked the same questions hundreds of times. Allegations are made against you that are laughably untrue but you have no chance to prove them wrong."
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Olmert hiding behind hollow words

April 1, 2007 by element115
Politicians show little faith in Olmert's invitation to Arab leaders to meet with him. Peace Now calls his statements 'cheap populism'.
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Israeli Army Seals West Bank

April 1, 2007 by element115
The Israeli army sealed off the West Bank early Sunday ahead of the weeklong Passover holiday, restricting the movement of Palestinians into Israel.
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Olmert calls Haniyeh a 'terrorist'

April 1, 2007 by element115
Prime minister tells Time Magazine Palestinian prime minister Haniyeh transferred $1 million to gunmen to carry out attacks against Israel.

...and how much has Israel spend, Mr. Olmert and your predecessors, on murdering Arab population?
...how many transfers of killFunds has Israel initiated, and globally, in the last 60 years?
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Palestinian spokesman calls Olmert "terrorist"

April 1, 2007 by element115
Ghazi Hamad in a statement on Saturday said Olmert and his army who "kill children, destroy homes, raid towns and cities, and assassinate" are terrorists.

"...how bewildered the Israeli government has become after the successful formation of the Palestinian unity government and the support it has received from both Arab and international communities."

He called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to "stop the aggression against Palestinians" and comply with international law.

...and the World's Mass Media and Western Governments will make us see that Israel is right and Palestinians are murderers and terrorists.
Brainwashed and blinded - what a state of mind!
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Killing of Mad Max signals the return of Ukraine's gang wars

April 1, 2007 by element115
Yanukovich's detractors say that he has halted the clean-up of Ukraine's notoriously corrupt Interior Ministry, which began after the revolution, and reinstated key figures from Kuchma's discredited regime. Opposition leader Yulia Timoshenko said: 'The killing of businessmen and shady suicides gives every ground to say that Ukraine has returned to the early 1990s when a majority of conflicts in business were solved with guns.'
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Taliban Hang Three Accused NATO Spies

April 1, 2007 by element115
The Taliban on Sunday executed three men accused of spying for NATO and government forces in southern Afghanistan, a local militant commander and villager said.
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Sydney Turns Off Lights for 'Earth Hour'

April 1, 2007 by element115
Parts of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, plunged into near darkness for an hour to raise awareness of global warming. The local government, environmental groups and businesses united in support of "Earth Hour" - when the city turned off the lights to save power and cut emissions that contribute to global warming.
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Israel under US, Egyptian pressure over Arab talks

April 1, 2007 by element115
The United States and Egypt are urging Israel to agree to quickly start talks with a committee of Arab states on how to move the peace process forward, diplomats involved in the matter said on Sunday.

While generally welcoming the peace initiative endorsed by Arab leaders at a summit last week in Saudi Arabia, Israel has called several key components problematic and has been noncommital about how to proceed.
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Merkel and Pelosi in Mideast promoting peace

April 1, 2007 by element115
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem. The Chancellor is visiting the Middle East to add Berlin's weight to renewed international efforts to shore up the peace process.
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Geraldo Spanks Bill O'Reilly

April 1, 2007 by element115
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Iranian Students Attack U.K. Embassy

April 1, 2007 by element115
Protestors Toss Rocks, Firecrackers At Compound, Demand British Ambassador Be Expelled.
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