Please smile while under the boot

March 5, 2006 by element115
Martin Luther King Jr, who knew a thing or two about the topic, said that riots are the voice of the voiceless. There is no powerful Muslim lobby to flex its muscles, to choreograph an organised protest, to corral advertisers, to threaten any given newspaper with financial ruin, much less to use the levers of government to demand the world's vigilance against the grave danger of anti-Islamism (the phrase anti-Semitism cannot be used by other Semites; it is occupied lexical territory).
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World in peril, Chomsky tells overflow crowd

by element115
There are dire consequences to the current direction of the U.S. foreign policy, said Noam Chomsky in a speech Saturday at Binghamton University. Among those consequences, he said, is a nuclear Armageddon.

"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable."

Chomsky cited nuclear proliferation and environmental collapse as the two greatest crises that "literally threaten survival."
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Military denies withdrawal plan

by element115
The U.S. military in Iraq said on Sunday media reports that America and Britain planned to pull all troops out of Iraq by spring 2007 were "completely false," reiterating that there was no timetable for withdrawal.
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'V' for very careful

by element115
In these edgy, post-9/11 times, how does a studio handle a movie featuring a terrorist-like hero who blows up the British Parliament building?
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UK, US to withdraw Iraq forces by early '07

March 4, 2006 by element115
The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two British newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defense ministry sources.
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We Will Not Be Silenced

by element115
Flash --> "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men"
- Abraham Lincoln
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What's the probability that we're living in the Matrix?

by element115
...what allows you to have conscious experiences is not the fact that your brain is made of squishy, biological matter but rather that it implements a certain computational architecture.
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Hands Off My Internet!

by element115
Telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress for the right to control where you go on the Internet, how fast you get there, and how much you pay for the service.
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The Democratic Republic of Hamas

by element115
Occupation is a form of violence directed at people to prevent them from controlling their own destiny. It is very similar to a vicious mugging where one party completely dominates the other. It is an attack on the fundamental principles of statehood, sovereignty and self-determination.

The election of Hamas demonstrates the collective will of the Palestinian people to rid themselves of a corrupt regime and stand up to Israeli occupation.

What?s wrong with that?
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U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban

by element115
Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.
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United Nuclear

by element115
...an end to hobbies such as model rocketry, pyrotechnics and of course chemistry. One by one, our freedoms are slowly being taken away from us.
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Tooth Implanted ID System

by element115
...it has advantages over a simple identity card.
We want to store it in the tooth because it's the strongest and longest lived body part."
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Military to continue to pay Iraqi media: Casey

by element115
The U.S. military will continue to pay Iraqi media to publish reports favorable to American forces following an investigation into the controversial practice, the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Friday.

...Unbelievable!
...why? someone should shape our reality?
...why? our 'choices' are pre-designed?
...why? people feel powerless and unable to say STOP to 'their insanity'?
...why? we have to accept war and pain and injustice
...why? we are ignorant, scared, brainwashed
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CIA used A-bomb plan as bait

by element115
Toronto Star --> the CIA had arranged for the Russian to become an American citizen and had kept him on the payroll, to the tune of $5,000 (U.S.) a month. It really did seem like easy money, with few strings attached. Life was good. He was happy to be on the CIA gravy train.

The Russian's assignment from the CIA was to pose as an unemployed and greedy scientist who was willing to sell his soul - and the secrets of the atomic bomb - to the highest bidder. By hook or by crook, the CIA told him, he was to get the nuclear blueprints to the Iranians. They would quickly recognize their value and rush them back to their superiors in Tehran.
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Bush U-turn on Iranian pipeline

by element115
President George W Bush has indicated the US has dropped its staunch opposition to a proposed gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan.
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Condoleezza displeaza Spike

by element115
"Condi, stop smoking that crack!"
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US would make it 'enormously difficult' for Hamas to govern

by element115
The United States wants to isolate Hamas financially and politically to make it "enormously difficult" for the radical Palestinian group to govern, the US envoy for the Middle East said.
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Top US General confirms militias assisted US

by element115
A top US commander in Iraq conceded Friday that in the immediate aftermath of recent violence in Iraq, US and Iraqi forces worked with militias to assist in suppressing attacks.

Casey admitted that there were a few Iraqi forces that allowed militias to attack mosques, but said that overall the Iraqi security teams performed "generally well," although "not uniformly well."
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Rumsfeld denies claims of torture at Guantanamo

by element115
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, has dismissed claims of torture by Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects, describing them as a calculated attempt to manipulate the western media.

Rumsfeld suggested that the media were playing al-Qa'eda's game.

"Prisoners were taught [with] the an al-Qa'eda training manual. They're taught to lie, they're taught to allege that they have been tortured, and that's part of the training that they received."
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Man dies from bird flu in China

by element115
A man has reportedly died of suspected H5N1 bird flu in southern China, just over the border from Hong Kong.
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A bill to force online identification

by element115
* The operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider shall establish, maintain and enforce a policy to require any information content provider who posts written messages on a public forum website either to be identified by a legal name and address, or to register a legal name and address with the operator of the interactive computer service or the Internet service provider through which the information content provider gains access to the interactive computer service or Internet, as appropriate.
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Altruism 'in-built' in humans

by element115
Infants as young as 18 months show altruistic behaviour, suggesting humans have a natural tendency to be helpful, German researchers have discovered.
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The Man Who Wasn't There on 9/11

by element115
Zacarias Moussaoui was sitting in jail when the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. Now, the government wants him executed for that day of terror because he did nothing to stop it.
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Peering into the Future

by element115
Why P2P Is the Future of Media Distribution Even If ISPs Have Yet to Figure That Out...
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Bill Frist threatens to re-structure the Intelligence Committee in order to block NSA hearings

by element115
Glenn Greenwald --> Due to the urgency of ensuring that our country has nonpartisan and non-politicized oversight over the Government's intelligence activities, the Intelligence Committee is structured so that -- unlike every other Senate Committee -- the majority is unable to dominate the Committee's operation and agenda, and the minority has much greater powers than it does on any other Senate Committee.

The whole purpose of the Senate Intelligence Committee - the only reason why it exists - is to exercise oversight over controversial intelligence activities.
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Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung

by element115
Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted .042 ounces of gasoline from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.
About 551,155 tons of cattle dung are produced each year in Japan, he said.
...the technology can be used commercially within five years.
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Armed airplanes used in Vietnam War secretly moved to Iraqi base

by element115
The U.S. Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 airplanes - the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War - to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to counter the Iraqi resistance.
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Cellphone SMS Messaging Encryption Software

by element115
...protect your SMS communication against unauthorized access.
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Blair under fire for evoking God in Iraq war decision

by element115
Tony Blair triggered strong reactions from parents of soldiers killed in Iraq and the political opposition, after the British prime minister evoked God in his decision to go to war.
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BigDog

by element115
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth...
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'Trial' of Bush at Parsippany High School is drawing national attention

by element115
The school board's president, Robert Perlett, said the 8:30 a.m. meeting was called by mutual agreement on Thursday as the uproar surrounding the mock tribunal escalated on the Internet and talk radio.
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How the Economic News is Spun

March 3, 2006 by element115
When You Can't Obscure the News, Buy It.
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Spinning a web for India

by element115
Underneath fuzzy talk of shared values, President Bush's real concern is to hobble a potential rival...
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Palestinian teen killed in raid

by element115
Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded a second person during an early morning raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
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Pentagon Releases Names of Gitmo Inmates

by element115
After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon released documents Friday that contain the names of detainees held at a U.S. military prison. The release resulted from a victory by The Associated Press in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Hamas visits Russia

by element115
A HAMAS delegation arrived in Moscow today for three days of talks aimed at denting the militant Palestinian group's international isolation.
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UAE buys British firm that runs U.S. military facilities

by element115
The Bush administration has informed Congress of a review of the UAE acquisition of a British manufacturer of engine components for U.S. military aircraft and main battle tanks. The British firm operates nine factories, including military production facilities in Connecticut and Georgia.
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Chertoff Has 'Few Days Left,' Sources Say

by element115
In the aftermath of the public revelation of the presidential "teleconference" and mounting criticism of the performance of Michael Chertoff, Administration sources told today that the secretary of Homeland Security has "only a few days left" in the Bush Cabinet.
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Top CIA Official Under Investigation

by element115
A stunning investigation of bribery and corruption in Congress has spread to the CIA.
Number Three Official at CIA Is Subject of Investigation Related to Bribery Probe.
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"20th Hijacker" Claims That Torture Made Him Lie

by element115
Mohammad al-Qahtani, held in Guantanamo and touted by the U.S. as a major informant, is taking it all back, his lawyer says.
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Carter Seeks Vote in U.N. Against U.S.

by element115
President Carter personally called Secretary of State Rice to try to convince her to reverse her U.N. ambassador's position on changes to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, the former president recalled yesterday in a talk in which he also criticized President Bush's Christian bona fides and misstated past American policies on Israel.
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Anti-FEMA T-shirts = $75 ticket

by element115
Barisich, 49, says he didn't sell the shirt, which said: "Flooded by Katrina! Forgotten by FEMA! What's Next, Mr. Bush?" He says he gave it away.
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Dubai funds Neil Bush's company

by element115
Investors from the United Arab Emirates helped fund the $23 million Neil Bush raised for Ignite!, the learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child Left Behind Act contracts in Florida and Texas.
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Break Down That Wall

by element115
Uri Avnery --> Every time when I am in Bil'in and other places in occupied Palestine, I can't help thinking what a paradise this country would be if there were peace, peace based on justice and mutual respect.
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Reality and Revisionism in Iran

by element115
Chris Floyd --> Iran is far more open than, say, Saudi Arabia or China, just to name two countries where the Bush Family and friends have long engorged their bellies through insider connections with the ruling cliques.
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly

by element115
The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly.
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Scum-sucking traitors to their country

by element115
Doug Thompson --> The next time some loudmouth partisan puke Democrat gets in my face and starts yapping about how much better things would be if his party were running the government in Washington, I'm going to pull out the vote tally sheet for the USA Patriot Act in Thursday's Senate session and ram it down his lying throat.
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Gag Ordered' Former Translator Seeks to Tell Congress and the American People What She Knows

by element115
FBI WHISTLEBLOWER SIBEL EDMONDS IS READY TO TALK!
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Who Will Tell Our Stories?

by element115
A delegation of Iraqi women who lost family members during the invasion want to visit the U.S.
The State Department says no way.
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Fireworks Are Thrown Into Church in Israel

by element115
A distraught Israeli couple, joined by another woman, entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Friday and set off explosions, police said, sparking a large riot in this biblical town in northern Israel.
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Guantanamo prisoner claims torture when force fed

by element115
U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay strapped Mohammed Bawazir's legs, arms, head and midsection into a chair for as long as two hours each time they force fed him during his hunger strike, the Yemeni said.
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Bush Family Ties To United Arab Emirates

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Watch Video --->
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Mass Starvation and Democracy Prevention

March 2, 2006 by element115
Since the elections, Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) has killed at least twenty Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, including a disabled teenager in the West Bank and a Palestinian woman tending her sheep in the Gaza Strip. On 19 February 2006, Israeli snipers killed children and injured another thirty in Nablus and the Balata refugee camp. On 20 February 2006, the IOF killed Ahmad Mohammad Nayef Abu Sharkh, 29, in a cold blood as he was confronting the IOF incursion into the refugees' camp. Who is the terrorist?
The IOF also imposed severe restrictions on the movement of civilians.
There has been no Israeli death by Palestinians.

The Palestinian people are the most brutalised and terrorised community on earth. As Jennifer Loewenstein, a scholar at Oxford University, wrote recently; "While [Palestinians] are being stomped, shot, beaten, demolished, assassinated, intimidated, robbed, despoiled, starved, uprooted, dispossessed, harassed, insulted and killed with bullets, missiles, armoured bulldozers, tanks, helicopter gun-ships, cluster-bombs, fleshettes, fighter-bombers, semi-automatic submachine guns, sonic booms, tear gas, electrified fences, blockades, closures and walls, they must renounce violence so that the hoodlums won't get hurt. If they defend themselves they lose". Israel's genocidal policy of systematic control and imprisonment of the Palestinian people can only be compared with Nazi concentration camps.
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Burying The Lancet Report

by element115
Allowing for 16 months of the air war and other deaths since the completion of the survey, we have to estimate that somewhere between 185,000 and 700,000 people have died as a direct result of the war. Coalition forces have killed anywhere from 70,000 to 500,000 of them, including 30,000 to 275,000 children under the age of 15.
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The Silence of Bush

by element115
Slate --> ...this footage is fascinating because it is the first video I can recall of the president at work in private. It's our chance to see how the image of the president painted by his allies compares with the actual man. And the result is somewhat alarming.
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Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas

by element115
...via electrical probes in the shark's brain...engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely, controlling the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding what it is feeling.

By remotely guiding the sharks' movements, they hope to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps capable of following vessels without being spotted. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), based in Arlington, Virginia, was presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week.
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The Next Net

by element115
We are in the early stages of what might be better thought of as the Next Net. The Next Net will encompass all digital devices, from PC to cell phone to television. Its defining characteristics include the ability to interact instantaneously with any of the more than 1 billion Web users across the globe -- not by, say, instant messaging, but by evolving instant-voice-messaging and instant-video-messaging apps that will make today's e-mail and IM seem crude.

The Next Net is deeply collaborative: People from across the planet can work together on the same task, and products or tools can be rapidly tweaked and improved by the collective wisdom of the entire online world.
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Israeli 'ruler-in-waiting' plans to starve Hamas

by element115
She is already being spoken of as an Israeli leader in waiting. Today the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni brings to London the campaign to destabilise the incoming Hamas Palestinian government by starving it of cash.
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Iran Says U.S. Sabotaging Nuke Deal

by element115
"America is lying, trying to destroy the Russian proposal," Ali Larijani said at a news conference. "The Americans' insistence on handing over the Iranian nuclear dossier to the U.N. Security Council means the destruction of the Russian proposal."
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IAEA says no evidence of Iranian N-weapons plan

by element115
As the countdown for a crucial meeting on Iran on March 6 gets under way, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that it has not found any evidence that Teheran had diverted material towards making atomic weapons.

In its report which has been circulated to its 35 board members, the IAEA said that its three years of investigations had not shown "any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices", the Associated Press reported.
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Robert Fisk shares his Middle East knowledge

by element115
...somebody at the moment is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq. Someone wants a civil war. Some form of militias and death squads want a civil war. There never has been a civil war in Iraq. The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war? Now the Americans will say it's Al Qaeda, it's the Sunni insurgents. It is the death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do, the occupation authorities. I'd like to know what the Americans are doing to get at the people who are trying to provoke the civil war. It seems to me not very much. We don't hear of any suicide bombers being stopped before they blow themselves up. We don't hear of anybody stopping a mosque getting blown up. We're not hearing of death squads all being arrested. Something is going very, very wrong in Baghdad. Something is going wrong with the Administration.
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Patriot Act wins final congressional approval

by element115
...the Patriot Act expanded the power of the U.S. government to obtain private records, conduct wiretaps and searches and share information.

With 16 provisions of the act set to expire next week, the bill would make 14 of them permanent and extend two others by four years.
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"Lunar Power" comes to New York

by element115
...you can predict the tide 1,000 years from now." "It's local, reliable, renewable, and clean. Plus, it's out of sight," says Trey Taylor, president of Verdant Power LLC.
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Silver Tops $10 for 1st Time in 22 Years

by element115
"The mint has sold half a million ounces in just eight months and interest is increasing," Pan American Chairman Ross Beaty said in the January statement. "Silver has always been important as a hedge against inflation and devaluation of paper currencies."
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The NSA scandal now clearly includes interception of domestic communications, perjury and presidential lying

by element115
Glenn Greenwald --> As was discussed yesterday and reported by The Washington Post, all evidence points to the fact that the Administration ? contrary to the clear and unambiguous assurances given by the President to the country ? has been engaged in warrantless eavesdropping beyond merely "international calls".
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Oscar nominee: People hate Israelis for a reason

by element115
Hany Abu-Assad, Israeli-born director of Oscar-nominated film ?Paradise Now,? which has stirred controversy for its depiction of two young Palestinian suicide bombers, says in interview with Yedioth Ahronoth terror derives from another terror and that suicide bombings are a reaction to Israel's terror.
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How did the Washington Post miss the levees in their new story about the Katrina video?

by element115
...does the Washington Post article entirely miss the point about Bush claiming no one could have imagined the levees breaching, when in fact his own briefing told him it was a possibility? And Bush said no one could have expected the storm to be so large, when in fact the briefing told him it was "the big one."
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Gorbachev Laments U.S. 'Arrogance'

by element115
"Ending the Cold War was given as a gift" to the United States, but it only strengthened its arrogance and unilateralism, he said. "The winner's complex is worse than an inferiority complex, because it's harder to cure."
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Husband of Illegal Child Experimention Victim Fighting U.S. And Canadian Government's Massive Cover-Up

by element115
Rod Vienneau says he will not stop fighting to get justice for his wife and many others who were tortured and abused at the hands of illegally sponsored government mind control and drug programs.
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Katrina Video: New Orleans Mayor Responds

by element115
Mayor Ray Nagin reacts to a video obtained exclusively by The Associated Press of President Bush being briefed hours before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
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Group with White House ties launches ads to bolster war support

by element115
The television commercials feature vivid portraits of smoke pouring from the World Trade Center and the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Madrid and London as veterans of the Iraq war and parents of fallen soldiers make the case for continuing the U.S. military campaign in Iraq.
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Teacher's suspension protested

by element115
Hundreds of students walked out of Overland High School this morning in protest after a controversy involving a geography teacher and his statements about President Bush.

...including one in which he said he could be compared to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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Falwell: Jerusalem Post 'fabricated' story

by element115
Falwell said the story is completely false.

"Dr. Hagee called me today and said he never made these statements to the Jerusalem Post or to anyone else. He assured me that he would immediately contact the Jerusalem Post and request a correction. Before today, I had never heard of Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg or had any communications with him. I therefore am at a total loss as to why he would make such statements about me to the Post, if in fact he did."
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Pay too much and you could raise the alarm

by element115
And all they did was pay down their debt. They didn't call a suspected terrorist on their cell phone. They didn't try to sneak a machine gun through customs.

They just paid a hefty chunk of their credit card balance. And they learned how frighteningly wide the net of suspicion has been cast.
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When the Whole White House is Criminal, How Do You Impeach an Entire Administration?

by element115
The list of criminals is seemingly endless.
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Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence

by element115
A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on September 11, 2001.
They are calling for immediate release of the full Pentagon surveillance tape as well as video tapes seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit; a complete inventory of the plane wreckage and debris from Flights 11, 77, 93, 175 or any other aircraft that crashed or was destroyed on September 11, 2001, including, but not limited to their location (whether warehoused or otherwise), catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any items from the planes, and results of all tests and examinations conducted concerning any of these items.
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RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?

by element115
If the VeriChip becomes a common payment device similar to the "contactless" payment system in the Exxon Mobil Speedpass, all who wish to buy and sell goods will be compelled "to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads," as it says in Revelation, the Spychips Threat authors contend.
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A nation of beggars

March 1, 2006 by element115
Haaretz --> ...it is not natural disasters that have transformed the Palestinians into a nation that lives on handouts from the world; it is Israel's accelerating colonialist process. One facet of this is the continued takeover of Palestinian lands (whether "private" or public lands, it is the same thing), expansion of construction only for Jews, and de facto annexation by Israel of extensive tracts of Palestinian territory, while simultaneously breaking up the West Bank into enclaves and enclosures for Palestinians.

...the economic decline is a product of the Israeli occupation.
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Imagine a world of no more privacy

by element115
How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with Radio Frequency Identification...
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Jews can get to heaven without being converted to Christianity

by element115
This creed, which runs counter to mainstream evangelism, maintains that the Jewish people has a special relationship to God through the revelation at Sinai and therefore does not need "to go through Christ or the Cross" to get to heaven.

Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church and Rodfei Sholom congregations are based in San Antonio, told The Jerusalem Post that Falwell had adopted Hagee's innovative belief in what Christians refer to as "dual covenant" theology.
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Mahatma Bush

by element115
Evidently the president's trip to India created an option too perfect to pass up: The man who has led the world in violence during the first years of the 21st century could pay homage to the world's leading practitioner of nonviolence during the first half of the 20th century. So the White House announced plans for George W. Bush to lay a wreath at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi this week.

While audacious in its shameless and extreme hypocrisy, this PR gambit is in character for the world's only superpower. One of the main purposes of the Bush regime's media spin is to depict reality as its opposite. And Karl Rove obviously figured that mainstream US media outlets, with few exceptions, wouldn't react with anywhere near the appropriate levels of derision or outrage.
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File sharing is not theft

by element115
BBC --> File sharing is not theft. It has never been theft. Anyone who says it is theft is wrong.
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Police state USA

by element115
In a fascist police state, the dictator secures his power with support from private corporations which are given special privileges and, thus, benefit from doing business with dictators. Continuously bribed by 28,000 corporate lobbyists in D.C.,4 Congress is doing its part to build a fascist state in America.
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Where Are the Good Americans?

by element115
Anyone who sees the photographs of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps must wonder how human beings could ever have allowed such things to happen. They must wonder how people of good will could have stood by while their government committed atrocities in their name. In the wake of that nightmarish era, people often asked, "Where were the good Germans?"

The Bush Administration has condemned the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos and has rejected the UN report as "fundamentally flawed." But Americans should be grateful that people in the rest of the world are helping us discover what the Administration is trying to conceal from its own citizens: It is conducting war crimes in our name.
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Negroponte: Iraqi Balkanization on Schedule

by element115
...the Straussian neocons who run U.S. foreign policy imagined long ago what the "political outcomes" would be?an easily manipulated Middle East, broken down into ethnically and religiously divided and antagonist components, led by dictators and monarchs answering to the United States and Israel, and acquiescing to harsh diktat and economic "medicine" passed down from international bankers and venal neolibs determined to suck up all natural resources and impoverish millions of people in the process.
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Bombs in Karachi before Bush visit

by element115
Two blasts in quick succession killed at least two people near the US consulate in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, ahead of an upcoming visit by US President George W Bush.
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Bush arrives to Indian protests

by element115
...about 100,000 protesters gathered in the heart of Delhi in the first of many planned demonstrations against the US president.
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The Askariya Mosque job and the coming war on Iran

by element115
So who really did have a motive for the very professional demolition job on Samarra?s Golden Dome Mosque?
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British defence secretary offers a rationalisation for war crimes

by element115
In an extraordinary speech given February 20 at Kings College, London, Defence Secretary John Reid attacked opponents of the Iraq war for criticising human rights abuses by the British military and suggested that media outlets that reported on such abuses were aiding and abetting the terrorists.
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Play About Demonstrator's Death Is Delayed

by element115
A potential Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," an acclaimed solo show about an American demonstrator killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, has been postponed because of concerns about the show's political content.
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Surely Americans will not put up with this censorship

by element115
The decision by a New York theatre to cave in to pressure over our play shows how the scope for free debate has narrowed...
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Rickman slams 'censorship' of play about US Gaza activist

by element115
"I can only guess at the pressures of funding an independent theatre company in New York, but calling this production "postponed" does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled," Mr Rickman said in a statement.

"This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences - all of us are the losers."
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FDA approves first patch to treat the blues

by element115
The once a day patch works by delivering selegiline, a monoamine oxidase inhibitor or MAOI, through the skin and into the bloodstream. At its lowest strength, Emsam can be used without the dietary restrictions that are needed for all oral MAO inhibitors that are approved for treating major depression.
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New paint blocks out cell phone signals

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A Rochester, N.Y., company has developed paint that can switch between blocking cell phone signals and allowing them through.
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Bioweapons - The US government's Nuremburg Crime

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A criminal biological weapons programme that is a threat to the entire planet!
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'Liberator' Bush makes un-scheduled trip to Kabul

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...at a press conference interrupted by the roar of military aircraft, Mr Bush struggled to explain why the Taliban were still a force in Afghanistan and why Osama bin Laden, famously "want-ed dead or alive", was still on the loose.
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More Americans know Simpsons than Constitution

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1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.
22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members.
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Tape: Bush, Chertoff warned before Katrina

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In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
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Soft drinks found to have high levels of cancer chemical

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Tests conducted on 230 drinks on sale in Britain and France have identified high levels of benzene, a compound known to cause cancer, according to the Food Standards Agency. There is a legal limit of one part per billion of benzene in British drinking water. The latest tests revealed levels of up to eight parts per billion in some soft drinks.

Benzene has been linked to leukaemia and other cancers of the blood. Traces found in Perrier water 15 years ago led to the withdrawal of more than 160 million bottles worldwide. The disclosure has prompted food safety campaigners to demand that the Government reveal which products contain benzene. At present, the drinks? identities have not been revealed.
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Baghdad official who exposed executions flees

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Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months.
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