Ritter warns that another U.S. invasion in Mideast is imminent

February 7, 2006 by element115

The former U.N. weapons inspector who said Iraq disarmed long before the U.S. invasion in 2003 is warning Americans to prepare for a war with Iran.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, "will deliver a speech that has already been written. It says America cannot allow Iran to threaten the United States and we must unilaterally defend ourselves."

"How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter," Ritter said.

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We are moving ever closer to the era of mind control

by element115

The military interest in new brain-scanning technology is beginning to show a sinister side...

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Is CIA Leak Probe a 'Witch Hunt'?

by element115

The director of the CIA has launched a major internal probe into media leaks about covert operations. In an agencywide e-mail, Porter Goss blamed "a very small number of people" for leaks about secret CIA operations that, in his words, "do damage to the credibility of the agency."

...the CIA director warned that any CIA officer deemed suspect by the agency's Office of Security and its Counter Intelligence Center (which handles internal affairs) could be subjected to an unscheduled lie detector test.

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Israeli PM Discloses Separation Plan

by element115

"We will disengage from most of the Palestinian population that lives in Judea and Samaria," Olmert told Israel's Channel 2 TV, using the biblical names for the West Bank. "That will obligate us to leave territories under Israeli control today."

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Who Will Save America?

February 6, 2006 by element115

The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself. The "liberal press" has been co-opted.
Anyone who depends on print, TV, or right-wing talk radio media is totally misinformed.

The years of illegal spying have given the Bush administration power over the media and the opposition. Journalists and Democratic politicians don't want to have their adulterous affairs broadcast over television or to see their favorite online porn sites revealed in headlines in the local press with their names attached. Only people willing to risk such disclosures can stand up for the country.

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Prof. Strauss and the neocon takeover

by element115

The Project for a New American Century think tank springs directly from this authoritarian power cult. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Abrams, Libby, Perle, and others signed PNAC documents in 1997 advocating aggressive, militaristic world domination, domination of space, control of cyberspace, permanent bases in the Middle East, and employing troops in constabulatory (police) duties to enforce U.S. world empire, Pax Americana.

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Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria

by element115

During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem.
Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology.

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Will Israel Strike Iran?

by element115

Newsweek ---> As scary as the idea may sound, the Israelis may not be bluffing. Their defense experts display no doubt whatsoever that Israel's Air Force can cripple Iran's nuclear program if necessary. The trick, they say, is to go after the system's weak spots.

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A requiem for the USA

by element115

Kurt Vonnegut is dwelling on the apocalypse...

"What makes us the most powerful nation on Earth is our willingness to kill people in their thousands with remote-controlled missiles, the fact that we're prepared to set off nuclear explosions in the middle of unarmed people ? men, women and children."

"lethal injection and warfare are forms of entertainment" and Americans are "as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis once were".

"the country is terribly at risk, because his (Bush') stupidities have terrible consequences, leading to deaths of many people, rotten schools, rotten healthcare."

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World's Largest Solar Project to be Built in Nevada

by element115

Powered by Renewables and SunEdison will develop a total of 36 MWs of PV projects in Nevada, enough energy to power 36,000 homes.
The proposed project will be privately owned and operated.
The military intends to purchase electricity from the project.

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Senators Question Gonzales on NSA Wiretaps

by element115

Senators raised doubts about the legal rationale for the Bush administration's eavesdropping program Monday, forcing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to provide a lengthy defense of the operations he called a vital "early warning system" for terrorists.

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Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons

by element115

Iran's largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

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Danish paper rejected Jesus cartoons

by element115

Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today.

The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.

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Bush's $2.77 Trillion Budget Boosts Defense

by element115

President Bush sent Congress a $2.77 trillion budget plan on Monday that would boost spending in the war against terror but squeeze a wide swath of other government programs to deal with exploding budget deficits.

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Russia Warns Against Conflict With Iran

by element115

Russia's foreign minister warned against threatening Iran over its nuclear program Monday after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly agreed with a German interviewer that all options, including military response, remained on the table.

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Worlds apart

by element115

Guardian's special report ---> ...even within Israel itself, accusations persist that the web of controls affecting every aspect of Palestinian life bears a disturbing resemblance to apartheid.

There are few places in the world where governments construct a web of nationality and residency laws designed for use by one section of the population against another. Apartheid South Africa was one. So is Israel.

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Seeing Only Evil

by element115

An Interview with Retired CIA Agent Robert Baer...

"It's sort of like if you took a Ku Klux Klan colony and placed it in Detroit and you paid for it."

"...you'll never see a Hollywood movie that portrays the fact that Gaza has been a prison since 1967. And it is a prison. All you have to do is go there and watch people lining up trying to get into Israel?for heart operations. They can't. They don't have medical care. There are no modern hospitals. You can't get a heart bypass in Gaza. And you also can't get out. You've got 1.2 million people in prison, but you'd never see that reality?whether they're terrorists or not?being portrayed that way. It's guilt by association."

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Researches start to unlock the deep secrets of dark matter

by element115

Cambridge University researchers have creaked open the door to one of the greatest mysteries in science. For the first time they can describe some physical properties of "dark matter", the mysterious substance that outweighs all the stars and galaxies that can be seen in the universe.

...dark matter moves at 5.6 miles a second and the smallest chunks it could exist in measured 1,000 light years across and had 30m times the mass of the Sun.

...the universe appeared to be built out of these invisible 1,000 light-year-wide bricks of dark matter.

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Standards for Biometric Federal ID Cards Published

by element115

In October, the government will start issuing Personal Identity Verification cards to all federal employees and contractors. This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the final guidelines defining how biometrics should be stored on these identity cards.

...the guidelines state that two fingerprints must be stored on the card as "minutia templates," mathematical representations of fingerprint images. [...] Guidelines require that all biometric data to be embedded in the CBEFF (Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework) structure. This ensures that all biometric data will be digitally signed and uniformly encapsulated. This format will apply not only to PIV cards, but also to any other biometric records kept by federal government agencies.'"

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Wi-Fi sharing about to get investment

by element115

Aiming to increase access to the Internet, particularly for people away from home, Google, Skype and other leading Internet investors Sunday announced a $21.5 million investment in an innovative new Internet access network called Fon.

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Silencing dissent a growing trend

February 5, 2006 by element115

This trend has a chilling effect on those who disagree with people in power, analysts say.

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George Bush's Ministry of Truth

by element115

During the State of the Union address this week, he said:
"We seek the end of tyranny in our world."
"If we were to leave these vicious attackers alone, they would not leave us alone. They would simply move the battlefield to our own shores."
"There is no peace in retreat. And there is no honor in retreat."
"We are on the offensive in Iraq, with a clear plan for victory."
"However we feel about the decisions and debates of the past, our nation has only one option."

...statements that are intended to manipulate the American people into believing the words coming out of his mouth more than the evidence they can see with their own eyes.

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The problem is Israel, not Hamas

by element115

Hamas's rise to power is only a problem if Israel remains wedded to its colonial policy of stealing Palestinian lands and terrorising its people

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The hidden stakes in the Iran crisis

by element115

Already the US have military control of part of the Caspian basin and of a corridor enabling them to link this area with the Indian Ocean (Afghanistan and Pakistan). They have also taken control of the key areas of the Gulf (Saudi Arabia and Iraq). At the end of this operation, Washington should have complete control over the world?s main hydrocarbon production and reserves. It will control the world economy without the need to share power.

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Will Iran's 'petroEuro' threat lead to war?

by element115

How close is Iran to opening the Iranian Oil Bourse? The Iranian Oil Bourse is scheduled to be opened in March. Curiously, that is the same month Israel has quietly set as a deadline for a diplomatic resolution of the Iranian nuclear crisis.

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Clash of civilisations

by element115

...manipulation by the media.

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Danish embassy in Beirut torched

by element115

Lebanese demonstrators have set the Danish embassy in Beirut on fire in protest at the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 3 Palestinians

by element115

Three Palestinian men were killed in a Gaza City attack while Israeli aircraft and artillery also targeted areas near the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Israel launched the strikes Sunday after Palestinians fired rockets from Gaza into southern Israel on Friday.

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Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?

by element115

Newsweek ---> In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States.

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"You have mail!"...if you pay

by element115

Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.

America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered.

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US eavesdropping finds few suspects

by element115

According to the Washington Post, hundreds of thousands of telephone conversations, e-mails and faxes are sifted by computer-controlled systems to determine when intelligence officers will take a hand. Most of the leads were dismissed within days or weeks.

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Frist says military action a posssibility against Iran

by element115

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Saturday night that the United States must be prepared to take military action against Iran if nonviolent means don't deter the country from building nuclear weapons.

Asked whether Congress had the political will to use military force against Iran if necessary, First said: "The answer is yes, absolutely."

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The State of the Union's Mystery Suspect

by element115

An anti-war activist and a congressman's wife weren't the only ones detained by the Capitol Police...

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We must show our opposition to Islam, says Danish queen

by element115

"We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance."

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Chavez says Bush worse than Hitler

by element115

"The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush," Chavez said.

Washington has repeatedly dismissed Chavez's threats and charges as inflammatory rhetoric aimed at stirring up nationalist sentiment among his poor supporters.

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Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry

by element115

...a physicist at Stanford has just recently published a peer review website for several physics lectures focusing on a single underlying idea that "time is not a single dimension of spacetime but rather a local geometric distinction in spacetime."

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Living Without Television

by element115

...consider some recent poll data. Forty-seven per cent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein helped plan 9/11 and 44 per cent believed that the hijackers were Iraqi; 61 per cent thought that Saddam had been a serious threat to the U.S., and 76 per cent said the Iraqis are now better off. None of this is true, but it is understandable when so many in the electorate depend on television to be informed.

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Doug Thompson steps down

by element115

Doug Thompson, the founder and publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, the Internet's oldest continually-published political news site, is stepping down, effective immediately.

"I've been writing about the foibles, corruption and misdeeds of politicians for more than 40 years but the system we have today is worse than ever," Thompson says. "I'm no longer sure that trying to educate a deaf audience through journalism is worth the time or the effort."

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A New Member of the Bush Family

by element115

Not really new...

You see, Bill Clinton's relationship with George Bush goes back at least to the mid 1980s.

Clinton got to play president for a couple of terms: A) as a reward; or, B) because he was in a position to take the Bush dynasty down with what he knew.

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These cartoons don't defend free speech, they threaten it

February 4, 2006 by element115

Despite Britons? robust attitude to religion, no newspaper would let a cartoonist depict Jesus Christ dropping cluster bombs, or lampoon the Holocaust. Pictures of bodies are not carried if they are likely to be seen by family members. Privacy and dignity are respected, even if such restraint is usually unknown to readers. Over every page hovers a censor, even if he is graced with the title of editor.

To imply that some great issue of censorship is raised by the Danish cartoons is nonsense. They were offensive and inflammatory. The best policy would have been to apologise and shut up.

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Destabilizing Missiles?

by element115

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has given the Navy go ahead to develop a conventionally armed Trident missile. Two dozen existing nuclear-armed submarine-launched missiles will be converted to carry conventional warheads. The missiles will then be assigned "global strike" missions to allow quicker preemptive attacks.

For the first time since intercontinental ballistic missiles were "captured" in arms control treaties 40 years ago as unique and potentially destabilizing weapons, the United States will muddy the waters by modifying an existing nuclear weapon for use in day-to-day warfare.

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Brutalized & Arrested in Cleveland for Posting "Bush Step Down" Posters

by element115

Carol Fisher ---> They lift me up and shove me onto a parkbench and shackle my legs. One of the cops says to me, "Shut up or I will kill you!", "I am sick of this anti-Bush shit!" "You are definitely going to the psyche ward."

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Asshole

by element115

Film Strip International

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Senate intelligence chair endorses domestic spying

by element115

The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee on Friday endorsed President George W. Bush's domestic surveillance program and said the White House was right to inform only a handful of lawmakers about its existence.

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Homeland Security Warns 8-To-12-Year-Olds to Prepare for Terror Attacks

by element115

The kid-friendly program features an adventurous mountain lion mascot named Rex and classroom teaching materials being sent to 135,000 middle school teachers in the nation's 25 largest metropolitan areas.

"We all have to learn how to plan for the unexpected."

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More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on Iraq WMD

by element115

A new Gallup Poll, conducted in late January, reveals that just 39% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling Iraq, with 58% disapproving.

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More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed

by element115

The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case alleged that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame, according to court records released yesterday.

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Taps found clues, not Al Qaeda, FBI chief says

by element115

The National Security Agency's secret domestic spying hasn't nabbed any Al Qaeda agents in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress yesterday.

His assessment of the controversial NSA snooping appeared to undercut a key claim by President Bush. As recently as Wednesday, Bush defended bypassing courts in domestic spying by insisting that "one of the people making the call has to be Al Qaeda, suspected Al Qaeda and/or affiliate."

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Similar Wiretap Debate 30 Years Ago

by element115

An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president's powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence, according to newly disclosed government documents. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and
Dick Cheney are cited in the documents.

...the cast of characters in this national debate remained largely unchanged over 30 years.

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Rumsfeld: Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism

by element115

"The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism," Rumsfeld told an annual security conference in Munich where talk of Iran's nuclear program was at the top of the agenda.

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Syrian protesters set Danish embassy ablaze over cartoon

by element115

Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish embassy on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad spread and oil giant Iran said it was reviewing trade ties with countries that have published such caricatures.

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IAEA Reports Iran to U.N. Security Council

by element115

The U.N. nuclear watchdog Saturday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council in a resolution expressing concern that Tehran's nuclear program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes." Iran retaliated immediately, saying it would resume uranium enrichment at its main plant instead of in Russia.

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Mapping veins as a human 'bar code'

by element115

The technology is based on an infrared scan of the blood cells running through veins, which is then analyzed by a computer.

Biometrics experts in the United States and Europe are trying to develop standards that can help unify a fast-changing industry.

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Rumours mount over Google's internet plan

by element115

Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company.

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Pentagon to keep civilians under surveillance

February 3, 2006 by element115

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed on Thursday that civilians in the United States are under surveillance in a program to protect military personnel and bases.

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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

by element115

Is History Repeating Itself?

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Bush 'plotted to lureSaddam into war with fake UN plane'

by element115

George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein's regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.

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Russian MP: US-Israeli anti-Iranian moves, premeditated assassination of Iranian nation

by element115

Russian Duma representative Alexi Mitrafanov Friday called the harmonized plot hatched by some EU members, United States, and Israel against Iran's nuclear program "premeditated assassination" of the Iranian nation."

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Ugly phrase conceals an uglier truth

by element115

Behind the US Government's corruption of language lies a far greater perversion, writes Salman Rushdie.

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Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan

by element115

The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.

Rumsfeld, who laid out broad strategies for what the military and the Bush administration are now calling the "long war," likened al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin while urging Americans not to give in on the battle of wills that could stretch for years.

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Iraq, Niger, And The CIA

by element115

Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according to government records and interviews with current and former officials.

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Bush rejects U.S. isolationism

by element115

"If we were to withdraw from the world it would be a missed opportunity to lay the foundation of peace for generations to come by spreading liberty and freedom."

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Pentagon eyes new long-range "strike" weapon

by element115

The Pentagon is speeding up the development of new weapons designed to knock out targets anywhere in the world in short order.
The terms "long-range strike" and "bombers" were once synonymous. But such 21st-century systems could be manned or unmanned and could involve a mix of missiles, rockets, lasers and other munitions, defense experts said.

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Rumsfeld Likens Chavez's Rise to Hitler's

by element115

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government.

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FBI Agents Back Down When Librarian Refuses to Let Them Seize 30 Computers Without a Warrant

by element115

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents tried to seize 30 of the library's computers without a warrant, saying someone had used the library's Internet connection to send the threat to Brandeis. But the library director, Kathy Glick-Weil, told the agents they could not take the machines unless they got a warrant first.

Late that evening, the FBI received a warrant to cart away the three computers. According to Mayor Cohen, the warrant allows the FBI to view only the threatening e-mail message and the messages sent immediately before and after that message.

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Magnitude 6.0

by element115

A strong earthquake occurred at 20:34:10 (UTC) on Friday, February 3, 2006. The magnitude 6.0 event has been located in the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION.

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Attitudes towards Countries

by element115

A major BBC World Service poll exploring how people in 33 countries view various countries...

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Eavesdropping 101

by element115

NSA Watch

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Open Letter: 'Just Be Fair With Us'

February 2, 2006 by element115

Newsweek ---> My message to the West-to America, to Europe, to everybody-is this: Hamas wants peace. We hate bloodshed and killing. We don't want to fight. There is a verse in the Qur'an that says whoever kills one soul kills all souls. And whoever brings life to people brings life to a nation.
Our problem is with the Israeli occupation. Israelis are killing our children. The West has been oppressive, too. You are biased toward Israel. You support Israel. You are capable of telling Israel, "Enough." You are capable of telling Israel to withdraw. Why is the West concerned about the security of Israel and not concerned about our security?

Stop your support for Israel. Stop calling us terrorists. This policy creates a feeling of oppression. The feeling of oppression can lead to disaster. I don't want to reach that stage. If the United States were occupied, would the people put up with such a situation? In World War II, when the Japanese planes hit Pearl Harbor, America was not quiet. It reciprocated by hitting Japan with a nuclear bomb. Just be fair with us.

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Translating the Emperor's Speech

by element115

Although not quite as slickly eloquent as Willy before him, Dubya, like his predecessor, is proficient and experienced in the art of speaking one thing and meaning another.
...here are highlights from his State of the Union speech, translated into clear and candid English.

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14 US House Reps Want Bush Impeach Probe

by element115

Call for Bush to Resign, Be Impeached, or Face Probe

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Iran's real crime?

by element115

If Iran starts its own euro-denominated oil bourse and it takes off, the US dollar - already an ailing currency due to huge deficits in the US economy - will be marginalised as the global currency.

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It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both

by element115

Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change

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Shell posts $23bn record profit

by element115

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell today announced record profits for a British company of $22.9bn ( £12.9bn) on the back of soaring oil prices.

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The Pestilent Presidency

by element115

The continued dismantling of America?s very essence, the decimation of its founding core and its evolving surface, has been a product of both purposeful malevolence as well as incompetent ignorance. While the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans continue to deteriorate, each day losing more knowledge, freedom, democracy and economic survivability ? though with many remaining ignorant or blinded to their actual plight ? the other America, that of the elite and the corporate world, has risen in exponential fashion to take the complete reigns of power away from the rest of us. As a result, the America of times past, where the People still ruled, has given way to the America of tomorrow, a corporatist ruled land where citizens are pawns and corporations kings.

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Hellfire and Damnation: The Washington Consensus for Murder

by element115

Chris Floyd ---> Last month, President George W. Bush murdered four children. This is not a controversial statement. There is no dispute about the facts. Indeed, Bush's own minions fully acknowledge ? even celebrate ? the deed. Nor has the political opposition or the national media offered the slightest objection to the principle of presidential murder.

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The Next Act

by element115

In Washington, the same brilliant crowd who said invading Iraq would be a cakewalk is still in power. While a few prominent neo-cons have left the limelight, others remain highly influential behind the scenes. For them, the question is not whether to attack Iran (and Syria), but when.

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Iran and the jaws of a trap

by element115

The character of this war will be completely different from the Iraq war. No show-casing of democracy, no "nation-building", no journalists, no Red Cross...

And Israel will use the opportunity to deal with Syria and South Lebanon, and possibly with its Palestinian problem.

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Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals

by element115

A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the invasion - reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second UN resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.

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The End of the Internet?

by element115

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

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Secret Service Investigates Essay By Seventh-Grader

by element115

A seventh-grader who wrote an essay saying his perfect day would involve doing violence to President George W. Bush is being investigated by the Secret Service.

The unidentified boy from West Warwick turned in the essay on Tuesday, and his teacher alerted school officials. The assignment was to write about what he would do on a perfect day.

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Protests Over Muhammad Cartoons Escalate

by element115

Outrage over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad escalated in the Arab and Islamic world Thursday, with Palestinian gunmen briefly kidnapping a German citizen and protesters in Pakistan chanting "death to France" and "death to Denmark."

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U.S. agencies find no proof of looming al Qaeda attack

by element115

Despite statements by senior al Qaeda leaders, U.S. intelligence agencies do not have information indicating the group is ready to conduct a major attack, U.S. counterterrorism officials said.

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Homeland Security Tries New 3-D Technology At Super Bowl

by element115

Hidden from public view at Super Bowl XL, live-action 3-D holograms created from signals streaming in from networks of electronic eyes will help Homeland Security Agency officials detect people and objects suspected of endangering the 65 thousand ticket holders crowding into Ford Field, and the thousands more celebrating in downtown Detroit.

Viewing 3-D holographic displays hidden in a security van, security officials will, for the first time ever, view three-dimensional holography that can reveal shadows, angles, depths and details unseen by conventional imaging.

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In Turkish Movie, Americans Kill Innocents

by element115

In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother.

"Valley of the Wolves Iraq" - set to open in Turkey on Friday - feeds off the increasingly negative feelings many Turks harbor toward their longtime NATO allies: Americans.

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NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis

by element115

Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens."

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9/11 - Avoiding the hard questions

February 1, 2006 by element115

MiamiHerald ---> Since Kennedy's assassination, Americans have lurched between demanding to know and plugging their ears: The Pentagon Papers, My Lai, the King assassination, Watergate, Iran-contra, the savings-and-loan debacle, Monicagate. Lately, however, it would seem the public's verdict is in: Don't tell us. Keep us in the dark. We don't want to know.

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An end to free internet

by element115

Virtually since the Internet's creation, its most devoted protectors have been wondering how long it would take for the forces of unrestrained commerce to throttle its freedom and innovation.

Now they have a date: Some people believe the breakpoint will come as early as Jan. 6, 2008.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad says Bush should face 'people's tribunal'

by element115

"You who support the Zionist puppet regime, you who support the destruction of Palestinian homes, you have no right to talk about liberty or human rights," Ahmadinejad said in comments directed at the US president.

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Official: Army Has Authority to Spy on Americans

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75% of Hamas voters oppose destruction of Israel

by element115

Three-quarters of Palestinians that voted for the Hamas say they are opposed to calls for the destruction of Israel, according to a poll published on Tuesday.

The Palestinian Authority's Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda daily survey stated that 84% of Palestinians support a peace deal with Israel.

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Russian Expert: Iran Incapable of Building Nuclear Bomb

by element115

"In reality, the U.S. is provoking Iran, accusing it of aiming, along with the implementation of its peaceful nuclear programs, to create its own nuclear weapons."

"Iran is in no state to create a nuclear bomb secretly."

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The New Geopolitics

by element115

The war in Iraq has reconfigured the global geopolitical landscape in many ways, some of which may not be apparent for years or even decades to come. It has certainly altered the U.S. relationship with Europe and the Middle East. But its impact goes well beyond this.

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Israel halts tax payments to Palestinians

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Israel on Wednesday halted tax payments to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority over Hamas's election victory, prompting the Palestinians to turn to Saudi Arabia and Qatar for extra cash to cushion the economic shock.

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Cindy Sheehan: What Really Happened

by element115

As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night.
I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.
There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press (shocker). So this is what really happened --->

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The Farcical Definition at the Heart of the War on Terrorism

by element115

More people died as a result of the U.S.-backed invasion of East Timor than were killed by international terrorists in the subsequent 30 years.

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Bush lays out terms for US engagement with Hamas

by element115

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday Hamas must change its platform, its attitude toward Israel and get rid of its armed group for the United States to support a Palestinian government run by Hamas.

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Paper reprints Islam row cartoons

by element115

A French newspaper on Wednesday republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused uproar in the Muslim world when they were printed in a Danish daily, saying that religious dogma has no place in a secular society.

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Standard & Poor's specialists predict global economic Armageddon

by element115

Experts of Standard & Poor's forecast a global economic collapse. The collapse will be caused with the demise of the US dollar rate against the European currency by more than 30 percent. The dollar, specialists say, may lose almost 45 percent of its current value against the euro.

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U.S. troops fire on Cdn diplomats' car

January 31, 2006 by element115

Four Canadian diplomats, including the charge d'affaires to Iraq, escaped injury Tuesday when their vehicle was shot at in Baghdad by U.S. soldiers.

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