Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq From Iran

December 14, 2005 by element115
New York Times ---> Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said.

...suuuuuuuuure, Iran did it.
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Putin Calls Russia Defender of Islamic World

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Putin said that "member countries of the Organization of Islamic Conference have unanimously passed a decision that Russia will begin working as an observer on a permanent basis".
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Iran's president says Holocaust a myth

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"They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves," he told a crowd in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Wednesday
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Text of Bush Speech on Iraq War

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"We removed Saddam Hussein from power because he was a threat to our security. He had pursued and used weapons of mass destruction. He sponsored terrorists. He ordered his military to shoot at American and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones. He invaded his neighbors. He fought a war against the United States and a broad coalition. He had declared that the United States of America was his enemy."
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Deadly gunbattles erupt in West Bank city

December 13, 2005 by element115
Fierce gunbattles erupted during an army incursion in the largest West Bank city, leaving one Palestinian dead and 25 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers wounded.
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Baby Bush

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Toys
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Australian police expect more violence in coming days

by element115
...authorities were investigating whether a fire in the early hours Wednesday at a Protestant church hall in a Sydney neighbourhood with a large Middle Eastern population was linked to the recent unrest.

...more telephone text messages inciting violence were circulating in Sydney and other cities in Australia.

Asked if more trouble is anticipated this weekend, he said: "We expect further problems."
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U.S. Activists Rebuffed at Guantanamo

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U.S. activists camping at a Cuban military checkpoint outside the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay were rebuffed Tuesday in their attempt to gain access to terror suspects held at the facility.
Members of the Christian-oriented Witness Against Torture began a hunger strike at the checkpoint on Monday.
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China jails most journalists

by element115
China, Cuba, Eritrea, and Ethiopia are the world's leading jailers of journalists in 2005, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The United States, which is holding journalists in detention centers in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rose to sixth among countries jailing journalists, just behind Uzbekistan and tied with Burma.
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Trade -- the real issue

by element115
The real battle is between the poor and the less poor, and the rich countries are astutely exploiting this division.
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New drug acts as marijuana in the brain

by element115
The study suggests the new drug, called URB597, might represent a safer alternative to use of marijuana for treatment of pain and depression, and open the door to new and improved treatments for clinical depression.
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Strange new object found at edge of Solar System

by element115
A large object has been found beyond Pluto travelling in an orbit tilted by 47 degrees to most other bodies in the solar system. Astronomers are at a loss to explain why the object's orbit is so off-kilter while being almost circular.
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Spaceport to be built in New Mexico

by element115
The new Space Age of private travel to the stars is one step closer to reality.

Virgin Galactic has agreed to locate its world's headquarters and Mission Control in New Mexico.

The company revealed today that 38,000 people from all over the world have paid deposits for seats on the spacecraft.
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Hong Kong Police Use Pepper Spray to Halt WTO Protest

by element115
"We are warning the Hong Kong authorities: we won't let you hinder our peaceful demonstration plan," Park Min Woong, secretary general of the Korean Peasants' League, said at a rally before the march. "If you block us we'll take other measures to achieve our goals."
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CIA Prisons Moved To North Africa?

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Marty told a news conference he believed the United States was no longer holding prisoners clandestinely in Europe and he believed they were moved to North Africa in early November, when reports about secret U.S. prisons first emerged in The Washington Post.
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'No public inquiry' into 7 July

by element115
The government is likely to reject calls for a public inquiry into the 7 July bomb attacks on London.

Ministers will instead publish a definitive account of what happened.
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Asian nations seek to chart new directions - without US

by element115
An unusual attempt to hammer out a "shared vision for Asia" begins Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur. The meeting, which brings together 16 Pacific nations and was essentially sponsored by China, does not include the United States. Washington was not invited to the East Asian summit.
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Gonzalez pushes for Patriot Act renewal

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"The tools in the reauthorization of the Patriot Act are very important to the success of the Department of Justice in protecting this country," Gonzales told reporters.

Meanwhile, a civil liberties group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, called for postponing votes on the law's renewal.
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What is the Bush legacy after half a decade?

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Six top US commentators deliver their verdict...
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Environment and Cancer: The Links Are Elusive

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"All it takes is the political will to ban them or impose regulations to minimize exposure, and the cancers are gone," Dr. Hoover said.
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Gerhard Schroeder's Sellout

by element115
The chancellor of Germany -- one of the world's largest economies -- leaves his job and goes to work for a company controlled by the Russian government that is helping to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline that he championed while in office. To make the decision even more unpalatable, it turns out that the chief executive of the pipeline consortium is none other than a former East German secret police officer who was friendly with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, back when Mr. Putin was a KGB agent in East Germany.
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The Grinch Who Doctored Photos

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The RNC's fraudulent new ad.
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Prosecutor Issues Subpoenas in DeLay Case

by element115
A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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EU wants to regulate "moving images" on the Internet

by element115
The European Commission proposed new rules to oversee the content of programmes screened on television and over the Web on Tuesday.
"It would be a distortion of competition if we were to just regulate one and not all," EU Information Commissioner Viviane Reding told reporters.
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Police lock down Sydney suburbs

by element115
Hundreds of police officers patrolled some Sydney suburbs trying to prevent a third night of violence that began with a gathering of "white Australians."
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Canada shrugs off U.S. warning to back off

by element115
The United States made an unprecedented foray into Canada's election campaign on Tuesday, warning politicians not to bash Washington in their bid to win the January 23 election.

But an unapologetic Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin responded immediately by saying "c'est la vie" -- that's life -- if the United States did not like his remarks, and he would not accept anyone telling him he cannot defend his country.
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The United States is a psychopath

by element115
One of the many benefits of the Bush Administration is that it demonstrates, over and over again, just how big a bunch of hypocrites Americans are. The United States has always been involved in attacking sovereign countries. Iraq is novel only in the fact that it was done out in the open, in blatant contravention of international law (rather than covert contravention of international law). Americans, in particular, the CIA and the Pentagon, have always been involved in torture. The School of the Americas is, amongst other things, a school for torture (and see also here and here). The only difference between the Bush Administration and other previous administrations, including those with Democrat Presidents, is that the Bush Administration is proud of what it is doing, and no longer attempts to hide it (plus we have photos). Americans are like the racist suburbanite who doesn't want 'those people' living in his neighborhood, but finds the Ku Klux Klan offensive. It's not the racism, its the in-your-face celebration of racism that is the problem. Similarly, its not the torture, its the pleasure that officials like Rice and Cheney seem to have in advocating it.
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U.S. Facing Credibility Issues

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Secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Illegal detentions. Suspects snatched off the streets and shipped without extradition to other countries for harsh interrogation. Government directives cloaked in secrecy.
A flashback to Stalin's Soviet Union?
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Trade battle starts in Hong Kong

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Six days of world trade talks have begun in Hong Kong amid violent clashes between police and protesters.
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Rumor of levee dynamite persists

by element115
On this much, there is general agreement: The destruction of the Lower 9th Ward started with a series of earthshaking explosions.
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Class Action suit has been filed against Diebold, Inc.

by element115
Class Action Suit Alleges Fraud, Insider Trading, Manipulation of Stock Prices, Concealment of Known Flaws in Voting Machines and Company Structural Problems.
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High-Level Officials Warn of Fake Terror

by element115
A variety of current and former high-level officials have recently warned that the Bush administration is attempting to instill a dictatorship in America, and will itself carry out a fake terrorist attack in order to obtain one.
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9/11 Evidence Ignored By Apathetic American Public

by element115
Four years after 9/11, numerous people have come forward with damaging evidence but the government has never even blinked an eye.
Worse yet, the state sponsored media and the American people have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, a sign of cover-up by the media and apathy on the part of the people.
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Two countries, one booming, one struggling: which one followed the free-trade route?

by element115
A look at Vietnam and Mexico exposes the myth of market liberalisation...
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Telecoms want a two-tiered Internet

by element115
AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently than those of their competitors.
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Iraq: 1,000 days of war

by element115
From Shock and Awe to a country torn between insurrection and democracy.
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Refusal to question US over 'torture flights' may be illegal

by element115
The government may be breaking the law by refusing to question the US about "torture flights", senior MPs said yesterday, as it admitted for the first time that CIA aircraft had landed at British airports.
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The Plague Upon Eden

by element115
Incapable of understanding the long term, only managing to comprehend the present, short term, preferring to try and manage problems only when they arose, thereby failing to preempt them before materializing, human beings spread to all corners of the planet, growing exponentially in numbers, in short time beginning to place tremendous stress on nature and the environment.
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Brazilians to 'Try' Bush for Crimes Against Humanity

by element115
...mock trials of U.S. President George W. Bush are to be held as a way of educating young people about the 'crimes' and abuse of power by the Bush Administration.
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A Fusion of Like Minds

by element115
A word is missing from our current political lexicon. We need a term that describes the creature that is emerging out of the pool of resources being formed by the U.S. and Israel--especially under the twin administrations of George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. I've thought about this carefully, and I think I have the answer: "Busharon". Busharon is a unitary being created by the fusion of formerly distinct minds and bodies, that rises from the muck to scourge the earth.
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CIA could have abducted people in Europe: Council of Europe

by element115
The CIA appears to have abducted people in Europe and illegally transferred them to other countries, according to the results of a Council of Europe investigation.
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The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers

December 12, 2005 by element115
Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account. Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers.
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How free speech was quietly abolished

by element115
First, they arrest a woman for reciting the names of British troops killed in Iraq in an otherwise peaceful protest near the Cenotaph. Maya Evans, who had fallen foul of a clause in the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act, was duly convicted last week, given a conditional discharge and left with a criminal record.
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'Bomb blast' rocks Athens square

by element115
The blast occurred at about 0600 (0400 GMT), near a post office in Syntagma Square, close to the Greek finance ministry building.

Nearby cars, cafes and shops were damaged by the explosion.
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Iraq Prison Raid Finds a New Case of Mistreatment

by element115
American and Iraqi forces raiding an Iraqi government detention center last Thursday in Baghdad discovered more than 600 prisoners packed into a cramped space, 13 of them mistreated so badly they had to be taken to a hospital.
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Rumsfeld caught dining with another war criminal

by element115
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and erstwhile Nixon Secretary of State and Vietnam War architect Henry Kissinger were caught dining together last Thursday at Washington's Bistro.
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Bush Estimates That 30,000 Iraqis Killed

by element115
"There's still a lot of difficult work to be done in Iraq," the president said, "but thanks to the courage of the Iraqi people, the year 2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq, the history of the Middle East and the history of freedom."
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Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

by element115
Add another creation to the strange scientific menagerie where animal species are being mixed together in ever more exotic combinations. Scientists announced Monday that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
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'Daily Show' halts production following suicide

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An employee of the Comedy Central program "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" has committed suicide, leading the network to suspend production of Monday night's episode of the program, a spokesman confirmed.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Won't Halt Execution

by element115
"Is Williams' redemption complete and sincere, or is it just a hollow promise?" Schwarzenegger wrote less than 12 hours before the execution. "Without an apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings, there can be no redemption."

Tookie Williams, 51, was set to die by injection at San Quentin Prison early Tuesday.
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Republicans practice "Social Darwinism"

by element115
Republicans controlling the federal government practice Social Darwinism, a discredited philosophy that in economics and politics calls for survival of the fittest, according to a Democratic U.S. senator.
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Beirut bomb kills anti-Syria MP

by element115
Prominent Lebanese anti-Syrian MP and journalist Gibran Tueni has been killed in a massive car bomb attack in Beirut.
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Suppose Israel were to give up nuclear weapons

by element115
To avert Iran's apparent drive for nuclear weapons, concludes Henry Sokolski, a co-editor of Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran, Israel should freeze and begin to dismantle its nuclear capability.
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Syrians fearful of becoming next Iraq

by element115
Ask everyday Syrians where their country is headed and you immediately sense the bleakness of the moment. The most hopeful answer is "nowhere." The alternatives, they say, are worse. Catastrophically worse.
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Fresh violence rocks Sydney

by element115
Sydney's southern beaches were rocked by another outbreak of racially-fuelled riots late last night, with gangs of youths rampaging through Cronulla and nearby suburbs, smashing cars and damaging shops.
There were also unconfirmed reports of gunshots.
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Israeli consul attacks Spielberg's Munich as 'problematic'

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Israel's consul-general in Los Angeles has lambasted Steven Spielberg's film about the 1972 Olympic massacre in Munich as a "superficial", "pretentious" and "problematic" work that draws an incorrect moral equation between Mossad agents and Palestinian terrorists.

"...we have lost Hollywood, and we have lost Spielberg.
Spielberg is no friend of Israel. Spielberg is no friend of truth. His Munich may just as well have been scripted by George Galloway."
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Hong Kong on high alert as thousands of protesters fly in

by element115
Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week.

To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in Seattle and Cancún, 9,000 police have been drafted in to man the barricades around the harbourside convention centre, where the talks will take place, and patrol shopping and financial districts.
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Video Released from Site of Massacre, Dongzhou Village

December 11, 2005 by element115
Today Chinese officials came out and defended firing on innocent protesters in Dongzhou Village last Tuesday, December 6, 2005 where (they claim) three protesters were killed. Dongzhou villagers, however, claim that the death toll is much higher with as many as 70 protesters shot dead by authorities. China reported today that authorities have arrested the local official who ordered governmnet forces to shoot and kill the land reform protesters last week.

* WARNING * - This video is extremely violent! There are gunshots throughout the 3:38 minutes of film. You see and here what sound and look like bomb blasts at 5:18:13 of the video clip.

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Race riots spread to suburbs

by element115
RACIAL violence erupted in several Sydney suburbs last night in retaliation for a rampage by thousands of young residents through Cronulla that turned the seaside suburb into a battlefield.
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Iran Offers U.S. Share in Nuclear Plants

by element115
Iran opened the door Sunday for U.S. help in building a nuclear power plant - a move designed to ease American suspicions that Tehran is using its nuclear program as a cover to build atomic weapons.

The offer, which did not seem likely to win acceptance in Washington, was issued as Israel said it had not ruled out a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

In Washington, neither the State Department nor the White House issued any comment on the proposal.
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Ciao, CIA

by element115
The spy agency is damaged beyond repair.
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Death of an American City

by element115
We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan to let the city rot until no one is willing to move back or honest paralysis over difficult questions, the moment is upon us when a major American city will die, leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum.
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Saddam Hussein hearings: a show trial orchestrated in Washington

by element115
There is mounting evidence that the US and its Iraqi allies have established death squads to systematically round up, torture and murder opponents of the American occupation. Each month the number of bodies in Baghdad?s main morgue showing signs of torture and execution-style killing is in the hundreds. Along with journalists, clerics and politicians critical of the US presence, two of Hussein?s defence lawyers have been murdered in circumstances that point to the involvement of pro-government forces.
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French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence

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More than a year before President Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union speech that Iraq had tried to buy nuclear weapons material in Africa, the French spy service began repeatedly warning the CIA in secret communications that there was no evidence to support the allegation.
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Noam Chomsky podcast

by element115
Irene McGee talks with Noam Chomsky about fake news and other societal woes...
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Earthquake east of Papua New Guinea

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An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rocked the seas east of Papua New Guinea at 10:29 p.m.
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Iran announces new talks with EU

by element115
Iran announced on Sunday that the stranded bilateral negotiations with the European Union (EU) over the country's nuclear program would be reopened on Dec. 21 in Vienna.
Iran expects to secure its legal rights on peaceful nuclear technology which are enshrined by related international conventions.
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Israeli defense minister quits Likud to join Sharon

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Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz joined Ariel Sharon's Kadima faction on Sunday, dealing another blow to the right-wing Likud Party the prime minister abandoned in the run-up to a March general election.
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Sydney race riots

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Racial violence erupted in Sydney beachside suburbs on Sunday after thousands of white youths, many chanting racial slurs, clashed with police and attacked people of Middle Eastern origin.
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MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured'

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An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies.

Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA's network of 'black sites'. In Morocco he claims he underwent the strappado torture of being hung for hours from his wrists, and scalpel cuts to his chest and penis and that a CIA officer was a regular interrogator.
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Huge Explosion Near London

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A huge explosion at a fuel depot which injured 43 people has been described as the "largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe".

The cause of the explosion is not yet known but no third party - a plane or a terrorist - was involved.
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Elbaradei warns Israel on attacking Iran

by element115
Following his recent Noble Peace Prize and speaking to an Oslo daily Afetnposten he said "There can be no success in thwarting any nation' access on nuclear program by attacking their facilities because military forays will merely delay their programs, but they will come back after a while and want to take revenge."

He further called for nuclear states to set a good example for other nations.
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Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran

by element115
Israel's armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.
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Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness

by element115
Mental health practitioners say they regularly confront extreme forms of racism, homophobia and other prejudice in the course of therapy, and that some patients are disabled by these beliefs. As doctors increasingly weigh the effects of race and culture on mental illness, some are asking whether pathological bias ought to be an official psychiatric diagnosis.
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Information Battleground

by element115
Across a range of unusual battle-spaces - global computer networks, human psychology, and electronic systems - the Air Force has become fully engaged in information warfare (IW), now deemed a critical element in the worldwide conflict with terrorists.
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Israel Threatens Trade Sanctions Against Palestinians

December 10, 2005 by element115
Israel has frozen a Gaza border security agreement with the Palestinian Authority and is warning of tougher action.
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Kyoto Protocol extended

by element115
Delegates from 157 countries wound up a tense, all-night negotiating session by agreeing Saturday to draft a new, long-range plan to combat climate change.

The United States remained almost alone outside the new Kyoto deal.
The U.S. would only agree to informal talks that will not "open to any discussion leading to new commitments."

Critics said the commitment was so empty as to be meaningless.
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Netanyahu: Pre-emptive Strike on Iran

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If he succeeds in becoming Israel's next prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu indicated Monday he will not hesitate to order a military strike against Iran's nuclear program in order to safeguard his nation from annihilation.

"I believe that this is what Israel has to do" in the face of the growing Iranian threat, Netanyahu told Israel's Maariv daily.
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Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive

by element115
The center is not part of a news organization, but a military operation, and those writers and producers are soldiers. The 1,200-strong psychological operations unit based at Fort Bragg turns out what its officers call "truthful messages" to support the United States government's objectives, though its commander acknowledges that those stories are one-sided and their American sponsorship is hidden.
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ElBaradei says nuclear arms should be taboo as slavery

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The world should work to make nuclear weapons as universally condemned as slavery or genocide, UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday after receiving the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Richard Pryor Dead

by element115
Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest black stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65.
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Beyond Spin

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The propaganda presidency of George W. Bush.
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Treat Us Like Human Beings, Saudi Reporter Tells US Ambassador

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"One of the employees told my colleague and me while we were waiting in line to enter the embassy grounds, 'The animals go back,' referring to Saudi citizens," Al-Zubaidi said. "Thank you Mr. Ambassador. We do not want your visa," he said, before he ripped the papers in two. "I can do my business elsewhere. I can go to Europe; I do not need to go to the US."
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Let's See Some I.D.

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What happens if you refuse to surrender identification when authorities demand it?
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The Iron Fist of Jesus

by element115
One of the rationalizations for the illegal occupation of Iraq (and the murders of over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians) is that the United States is engaged in a struggle of "good versus evil". In spite of repeated heinous acts committed for years by the United States in the Middle East, including state terrorism resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, installation and/or support of ruthless dictators (i.e. Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran), and enabling the Israelis to commit genocide against the Palestinians, these pseudo-Christians have managed to convince many Americans that the US is "good" and the "terrorists" (i.e. the Resistance to US occupation in Iraq) are "evil". As the US government continues to rape the Middle East, Christo-Fascists slap "God Bless America" bumper stickers on their gas-guzzling SUV's actually believing that the Father, the Son, and/or the Holy Spirit would bless a nation governed by murderers, thieves and thugs.
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Hidden in Plane Sight: U.S. Media Dodging Air War in Iraq

by element115
Mainstream news outlets in the United States haven't yet acknowledged a possibility that is both counterintuitive and probable: The U.S. military could end up killing more Iraqi people when there are fewer Americans in Iraq. "Lowering the number of U.S. troops in conjunction with a more violent air war and creation of an Iraqi client military, as some are suggesting, will likely increase the number of Iraqis killed," says Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee. "This would in effect be 'changing the color of the corpses' in order to make the continuing war more palatable to the U.S. public."
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The Best Secret Tellers in Washington

by element115
Washington is a city of secrets. Some old; some new. There are few institutions devoted to the mission of prying these secrets from the filing cabinets of assorted government agencies. Some media outfits periodically pick the locks and obtain scoops. Journalists occasionally receive well- or not-so-well-intentioned leaks about past or present official misdeeds. Once in a while--less so these days--a congressional investigation or a commission unearths long-buried truths about government-gone-bad. But when it comes to consistently forcing important secrets out of the US government no journalist or investigator rivals the National Security Archive, a nonprofit outfit based at George Washington University.
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Reporter sues NASA, alleges UFO cover-up

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Witnesses claim a UFO landed 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Kean charges NASA is trying to cover-up what happened and wants the space agency to release documents about the incident.
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The Torture Administration

by element115
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 and proceeded to carry out their savagery, many in the outside world asked how this could have happened in the land of Goethe and Beethoven. Would the people of other societies as readily accept tyranny? Sinclair Lewis, in 1935, imagined Americans turning to dictatorship under the pressures of economic distress in the Depression. He called his novel, ironically, It Can't Happen Here.
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The US has used torture for decades

by element115
According to declassified training manuals, SOA students - military and police officers from across the hemisphere - were instructed in many of the same "coercive interrogation" techniques that have since gone to Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib: early morning capture to maximise shock, immediate hooding and blindfolding, forced nudity, sensory deprivation, sensory overload, sleep and food "manipulation", humiliation, extreme temperatures, isolation, stress positions - and worse.
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The Arrogance of Power

by element115
Being American is like living in the Land of Oz. The American people are held in such contempt by those in power and by their servants in the corporate media that they are constantly spoon fed the most blatant lies. Those in power not only loathe ordinary working people, they loathe truth; and they loathe democracy. The rich and powerful see the unworthy masses as their servants and play things. They see them as canon fodder.
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The Dance of Polarization

by element115
How a Culture Breaks Down into Warring Half-Truths.
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Israel expands war arsenal to deal with Iran

by element115
Israel is expanding its military arsenal to deal with what it views as the greatest threat to its existence: a nuclear attack by Iran.

It has acquired dozens of warplanes with long-range fuel tanks to allow them to reach Iran and signed a deal with Germany for two submarines reportedly capable of firing nuclear missiles.
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Able Danger and Unaccountability

by element115
How do the 9/11 Commissioners account for their intelligence failures? They don?t. Instead they simply deny them, as Thomas Kean, Lee Hamilton, Tim Roemer and Slade Gorton have done repeatedly ever since the Able Danger story first broke in August. Why? Because ? like Paul Wolfowitz and his former boss Donald Rumsfeld ? they don?t have to. Not yet at least.
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911 - Too Hot To Handle?

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"If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us." -- George HW Bush
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German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices

by element115
...she publicly welcomed the assurance by Secretary of State Rice that the US acted in accordance with its international obligations and abided by national and international law in its fight against terrorism?an assertion that completely defies reality.
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Pentagon sticks with 2-war plan

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The Pentagon, in a major four-year decision, has decided to stick with having the capability of being able to fight two major conflicts at once.
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Poland was main CIA European detention base

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"Poland was the main base for CIA interrogations in Europe, while Romania played more of a role in the transfer of detained prisoners," Marc Garlasco, a leading analyst at Human Rights Watch.

Polish authorities have repeatedly denied the existence of secret jails on Polish territory.
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Live Tracking of Mobile Phones

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Most Americans carry cellphones, but many may not know that government agencies can track their movements through the signals emanating from the handset.
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Earth's Magnetic Pole Drifting Quickly

by element115
..studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 685 miles out into the Arctic, according to a new analysis.
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