US rejects Russia's proposal for crisis talks on Iran

March 11, 2006 by element115
"The next talks are going to be at the Security Council early next week," US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters when asked about Moscow's call for crisis talks with China, the European Union and United States to reach a consensus on managing the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions without taking action at the council.
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Milosevic feared he was being poisoned: lawyer

by element115
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic feared he was being poisoned in his detention cell in The Hague, his lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic said on Saturday hours after the tribunal announced Milosevic's death.

"Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail," Tomanovic told reporters in The Hague.

I still haven't received any reply and that's all I have to say at this time," the lawyer said.
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How Islamic inventors changed the world

by element115
From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life.
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Retired Supreme Court Justice hits attacks on courts and warns of dictatorship

March 10, 2006 by element115
It gets worse, she said, noting that death threats against judges are increasing.

...interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O?Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies.
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Iran Shock & Awe Spin Moves into Hyperdrive

by element115
Kurt Nimmo --> As the shock and awe campaign against Iran unfolds before our eyes, such details are irrelevant. However, it appears the United Nations is no longer irrelevant, as Bush claimed it was in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, and Europe is eager to put to rest its stigmatization as a passel of wimps, irresolute in the face of Islamic terrorism, never mind that much of this terrorism was created by the United States, Britain, and their various clients.
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Bush Is Going Down

by element115
Bush is at 34% approval rating (Cheney is at 18!), and their scandals are blowing up in their faces: Katrina lies and incompetence; Iraq lies and incompetence; the Dubai Ports deal and incompetence; GOP bribery and corruption; Libby under indictment and Rove apparently about to be; Bush claiming authority to authorize torture, spy on millions of American citizens and violate the law whenever he incants the magic words "national security"; Congress rebelling at being frozen out of decision-making, etc. etc.
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The setup to destroy America

by element115
Failure to recognize what's really happening and who is really behind current events is going to cost us our lives, our country and our planet.
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No Evidence al-Qaida Planned Madrid Attacks

by element115
A two-year probe into the Madrid train bombings concludes the Islamic terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, two senior intelligence officials said.
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Thieves hit Democrats' office

by element115
Thieves ignored computer equipment and other valuables, and took the party's financial records and voter data, said Lyndia Bradley, Lee County's Democratic chairwoman.

"This was a very targeted, purposeful break-in," she said Wednesday. "They were obviously interested in certain things, not things you sell on the street for money."
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The Coming Resource Wars

by element115
It's official: the era of resource wars is upon us. In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over land, water and energy. Climate change, he indicated, "will make scarce resources, clean water, viable agricultural land even scarcer" - and this will "make the emergence of violent conflict more rather than less likely."
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'Mental typewriter' controlled by thought alone

by element115
A computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at a major trade fair in Germany.

"It's a very strange sensation," says Gabriel Curio at Charité. "And you can understand from the crowds watching that the potential is huge."
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New world relationships

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Noam Chomsky --> THE prospect that Europe and Asia might move toward greater independence has troubled US planners since World War II. The concerns have only risen as the ?tripolar order? ? Europe, North America and Asia ? has continued to evolve. Every day, Latin America, too, is becoming more independent. Now Asia and the Americas are strengthening their ties while the reigning superpower, the odd man out, consumes itself in misadventures in the Middle East.
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How Britain Secretly Helped Israel Build Its Nuclear Arsenal

by element115
...an extended conversation with Tony Benn, one of Britain?s most distinguished politicians and the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour party. Benn discusses the new revelations the British government helped Israel build the atom bomb. Benn also speaks about U.S. and U.K. relations, extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo Bay, torture, religion, and the state of the media.
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Iranian University Holds "Holocaust Myth" Conference

by element115
The conference, reported by Iran's official IRIB radio, was held at Isfahan University. It was entitled Holocaust: myth or reality, and was attended by students and faculty.
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Israel: 'US not doing enough to stop Iran'

by element115
"America needs to get its act together," the official said. "Until now the US administration has just been talking tough but the time has come for the Americans to begin to take tough action."
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Italy bid for PM corruption trial

by element115
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the husband of a UK minister could face trial in Italy, following a request from prosecutors.

A judge has been asked to indict Mr Berlusconi and lawyer David Mills on corruption charges, say reports.
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United Arab Emirates: Bush no longer has control in Washington

March 9, 2006 by element115
The decision by the United Arab Emirates on Thursday to order state-controlled Dubai Ports World to end its control over US port facilities marks the lowest point yet in the relationship between President George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress.
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Dubai Firm Backs Out of U.S. Ports Deal

by element115
A Dubai-owned company abruptly abandoned its plan for managing operations at six U.S. ports Thursday, defusing an election-year showdown between President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress over an issue that had become a political land mine for the GOP.
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China to issue 1.3 billion RFID identification cards

by element115
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS), which oversees the country's police force, plans to issue more than 1.3 billion second-generation resident identification cards based on RFID (radio frequency identification) chips.

MPS has so far issued 102 million new cards, and plans to issue more than 300 million new cards per year for the next several years, the ministry said this week.
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Saturn moon may have water

by element115
A spacecraft orbiting Saturn may have made a stunning, textbook-altering discovery: liquid water spewing from the surface of one of the planet's frigid moons.
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Iran rejects Western "bullying"

by element115
Iran vowed on Thursday not to compromise in its nuclear dispute with the West, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran would not be bullied.
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Senior officers: we knew wrong man was shot

by element115
An official inquiry into the Stockwell tube station shooting has received evidence from senior police officers raising questions about Sir Ian Blair's account of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and its aftermath, the Guardian has learned.
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Who Is Responsible For This Terror

by element115
- 30 000 people die of hunger daily and it's 100 000 people if we include the deaths due to malnutrition (hunger)-related diseases.
- Of the 4.5 billion people in developing countries almost one-third of them have no access to drinking water.
- Three billion people - half of the planet live on less than $2 a day.
- There are more than 1 billion unemployed people around the world.

What are we, we who live in the "prosperous" and "democratic" countries, in the "civilized" (white) world doing about it?
What have we done about it?
What are we going to do about it?
Start a war on misery?
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See Dick Loot

by element115
Dahr Jamail --> Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. It is, of course, no coincidence that the man sitting as vice president played a key role with his influence in obtaining the lion's share of contracts in Iraq for the company he was CEO of prior to his self-appointed position. Yet none of this is news.

Cheney had much more at stake than pure altruism in making sure Halliburton/KBR obtained so many no-bid contracts in occupied Iraq. Despite his claims of not having any financial ties to Halliburton, the fact is that in both 2001 and 2002 he earned twice as much from a deferred salary from his "old" company as when he was CEO.
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Elite Troops Get Expanded Role On Intelligence

by element115
The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops in a growing number of American embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them.
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Eleven suspected human bird flu cases in Azerbaijan

by element115
Eleven suspected human cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, three of them fatal, are under investigation in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed.
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U.S. to Close Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq Within Three Months

by element115
A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, said that operations will be transferred to a new prison facility, Camp Cropper, once construction is completed there. "The plan is to accomplish this within the next three months," he said.
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Science Under Attack

by element115
...an article in a recent edition of Nature again confirms the widespread frustration of scientists at the Bush-Cheney Administration for meddling in science policy based purely on ideological and financial priorities.
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The New Media Monopoly

by element115
The race is on to control the future of American media. Unfortunately, those vying for the prize are a limited cadre of corporations hostile to the public interest.
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Satan is Resting Easy

by element115
One of the boldest and most insidious lies propagated by the leadership of the Zionists, the Dominionists, the Religious Right, and by their whores in Washington is that the Middle East is populated primarily by Islamic extremists with an insatiable thirst for the blood of "innocent American Christians" and who are hell bent on eliminating "those poor chronic victims" illegally occupying the land of the Palestinians and committing genocide against them.
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THE BIG, BIG LIE

by element115
Now that it is obvious that the Cheney/Bush administration has been guilty of countless lies and deceptions - the stage is set to deal with perhaps the most colossal distortion of truth in our nation's history - the 9/11 coverup.
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World's first cloned dog confirmed

by element115
His creator has been discredited and controversy has long surrounded him but scientists confirmed yesterday that an Afghan hound named Snuppy is the world?s first cloned dog
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Don't worry, Tony, it's only a film (for now)

by element115
What, for example, if the police were to be given extraordinary powers of arrest, the right to enforce curfews, monitor everyone through CCTV and lock people up for speaking out of turn?

What if a totalitarian government were to control and censor the media, drive out freedom of speech where it didn't accord with state policy and send in security boneheads when someone dared to criticise the head of state at, say, a Party Conference?
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GOP: Ports Deal Doomed in Congress

by element115
Republican congressional leaders told President Bush Thursday the House and Senate both appear ready to block a Dubai-owned company from taking over operations at several U.S. ports faces rejection in Congress, officials said.
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Strictly Speaking

by element115
There is No Iran Crisis
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Documents reveal Labor-Likud plans for West Bank

March 8, 2006 by element115
Highly confidential documents from the Ministry of Justice dating from the early 1990s, copies of which were sent to the ministers of defense, justice and housing as well as the attorney general, confirm the existence of a vast network of ties between Likud and Labor governments, and land dealers and settlers' associations, for the purpose of acquiring land in the West Bank.
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US Cannot Use Gansi Base for Iran

by element115
Kyrgyzstan Minister of Foreign Affairs Alikbek Ceksenkulov said the United States can not use Gansi Military Base for a possible attack on Iran.
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Iran report goes to top UN body

by element115
A UN report on Iran's nuclear programme is being forwarded to the UN Security Council for consideration of possible punitive action.
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The Deadly Delusions of America's Troops

by element115
Chris Floyd --> We have, once again, crossed a dangerous Rubicon. If American soldiers can now be deliberately manipulated into fighting a war based on a transparent and publicly proven lie, in the service of the political ambitions and personal fortunes of a partisan faction, then we are well and truly through the looking-glass. We have reached the same pitch of civic degradation as the late Roman Republic, where the legions became the tools of ruthless warlords, jockeying for dominance, despoiling whole peoples and slaughtering thousands in the process. Once unlimbered, this weapon will be used again and again. With each passing day, the Bush Factionists ? and all their many sycophants and enablers, in both parties, throughout the Establishment ? are sowing a monstrous future for America, and the world.
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Israel: We will act on Iran if UN can't

by element115
If the U.N. Security Council is incapable of taking action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself, Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday.
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Senate Intelligence Committee rejects proposal to investigate eavesdropping

March 7, 2006 by element115
"This committee is basically under control of the White House," Rockefeller told reporters after the two-hour meeting today in Washington. "It's an unprecedented bout of political pressure from the White House."
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S. Arabia to host Israel boycott event

by element115
"Next week, we will hold the ninth annual meeting for the boycott of Israel here in Jidda," Ambassador Salem el-Honi, high commissioner of the Organization for the Islamic Conference's (OIC) Islamic Office for the Boycott of Israel, said in a telephone interview.
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Students create plant that glows when thirsty

by element115
...they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it "lights up" when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.
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Rumsfeld Says Iran Interfering in Iraq

by element115
Raising a new complaint about Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused Tehran of dispatching elements of its Revolutionary Guard to stir trouble inside Iraq.
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8,000 desert during Iraq war

by element115
Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers, 3,454 Navy sailors and 82 Air Force personnel have deserted.
The Marine Corps does not track the number of desertions each year but listed 1,455 Marines in desertion status last September.
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U.S.: Iran Uranium Enrichment Unacceptable

by element115
The Bush administration drew a hard line on Iran Tuesday, warning of "meaningful consequences" if it stays on its present course.

"...we will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
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Another Iraq Story Gets Debunked

by element115
"The story of Saddam training foreign fighters to hijack airplanes was instrumental in building the case to invade Iraq," a detailed report in the March-April issue says. "But it turns out that the Iraqi general who told the story to the New York Times and Frontline' was a complete fake -- a low-ranking former soldier whom Ahmed Chalabi's aides had coached to deceive the media.
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Coca-Cola and Water - An Unsustainable Relationship

by element115
...the company used 283 billion liters of water in 2004.

The Coca-Cola company proudly boasts that it has a water use ratio of 2.7 to 1. That is, for every 2.7 liters of water (freshwater) it takes from the earth, it produces 1 liter of product. What happens to the remaining 1.7 liters (or 63%) of the water? It is used to clean bottles and machinery, and is discarded as wastewater.
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Poland To Withdraw Troops From Iraq

by element115
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in Warsaw today that Polish troops will leave Iraq in 2007 or even late this year.
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Human medical experimentation in the United States

by element115
The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine. But there's a dark side to western medicine that few want to acknowledge: The horrifying medical experiments performed on impoverished people and their children all in the name of scientific progress. Many of these medical experiments were conducted on people without their knowledge, and most were conducted as part of an effort to seek profits from newly approved drugs or medical technologies.
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US Senate Candidate Wants Death Penalty for Homosexuals

by element115
"Just like we have laws against murder, we have laws against stealing, we have laws against taking drugs -- we should have laws against immoral conduct," Keiser says.
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Two operatives suing Defense Department

by element115
Two operatives at the center of the Able Danger controversy have sued the Defense Department for denying them contact with their lawyers during closed congressional hearings and other probes of the covert intelligence program.
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CONFIRMED: Hunter S. Thompson WAS Writing eXpose Articles on 911 WTC Demolitions and Washington DC's Pedophile-Sex-Rings

by element115
He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations.
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The numbers behind the lies

by element115
Economist John Williams says ?real? unemployment and inflation numbers -- figured the old-fashioned way -- may be two or three times what the government admits. Here?s why, and what it means for Social Security.
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Bush Can Be Stopped

by element115
The word incompetence has been used to describe George Bush so often that it?s beginning to have an anesthetic effect. People are being numbed by the frequency of its use and brush it off as ?Bush-bashing,? which it turns out is a convenient and clever expression coined by Bush supporters that allows them to dispense with all criticism of Bush and his policies.
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Gonzales defends U.S. policy on torture

by element115
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended America's treatment of terror suspects against criticism from European leaders and human rights groups, saying Tuesday the United States abhors torture and respects the rights of detainees.

Gonzales also said the United States did not transport terrorism suspects to nations where it was likely they could be tortured, a practice known as extraordinary rendition.
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Hamas PM Could Be Israeli Target

by element115
Israel's acting prime minister vowed on Tuesday that his Kadima Party would shave billions off settlement spending, while his defense minister advised the incoming Palestinian prime minister to fear for his life if Hamas militants start attacking Israel again.
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15 killed as bombs rock India's holiest Hindu city

by element115
"Fifteen people have died and about 60 are injured. The blasts were pretty big, and I do not rule out a terrorist hand behind it," Navneet Sikera, senior superintendent of local police, told Reuters.
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Moscow splits from West over Iran

by element115
The New York Times reported that the proposal prompted US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to telephone International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei to make clear that Washington could not support the Russian plan.

Dr Rice's call came after Dr ElBaradei suggested to reporters that the standoff with Iran could be resolved in a week or so.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Dr Rice in Washington on Monday evening and is scheduled to meet President George W. Bush in the Oval Office overnight.
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DNA Computer

March 6, 2006 by element115
Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.
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World's fastest internet

by element115
Introduced this month, the system will allow 20,000 households to surf the web and download material at speeds up to 2,000 times faster than present services. Users will, for example, be able to download all 32,640 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in less than seven seconds, managers of the government-funded project said.

Most commercially-available broadband connections operate at a speed of 2 megabits per second (2Mb/s), but the Shoreditch project can access internet images and content at a speed of up to 2 billions of bits per second (2Gb/s).
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Toronto to become one giant wireless hotspot

by element115
Toronto joins a growing list of North American cities, including Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco, that have announced plans to bring low-cost, broadband wireless access to their citizens and businesses.
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Those big stars just don't get Jon Stewart

by element115
Stars like it, when humor is safe, easy, and non-confrontational. It does not require the stars to laugh at themselves or their hypocrisy.

Exposing hypocrisy while being self-depreciating is what Stewart does best...
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Cindy Sheehan Arrested After U.N. March

by element115
Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday along with three other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
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Bull in the china shop

by element115
Eric Margolis --> The mood across the Mideast could not be grimmer. Criss-crossing the region and meeting with politicians, intelligence officials and businessmen reveals a pervasive feeling events are fast spinning out of control.

The appearance of Vice President Dick Cheney as keynote speaker before the powerful Israel lobbying group AIPAC - which has been under FBI investigation for passing U.S. secrets to Israel - is being viewed, rightly or wrongly as ultimate proof of who really runs U.S. Mideast policy.
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RFID-Embedded Police Badges Debut In August

by element115
V.H. Blackinton & Co. Inc. has developed a badge for law enforcement and government agencies with an embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chip it plans to launch in August.

The DSVII-SC reader can communicate over wireless LAN or cellular networks, has biometric capabilities, and reads PDF bar codes, magnetic strips and RFID chips. It also can retrieve data from on-board memory or an external database via wireless 802.11 or Bluetooth technology.
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Chirac Opposes Sanctions Against Hamas Government

by element115
French President Jacques Chirac says he is opposed to any international sanctions against a Palestinian government formed by the militant group Hamas.
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Israel army kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank raid

by element115
Israeli troops killed five Palestinians on Thursday during the biggest raid against West Bank militants for months, stoking tension as Hamas Islamists held talks to form a new Palestinian government.

"This is a war crime aimed at continuing the escalation and undermining Hamas efforts to form a government," said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "We are committed to resistance and the occupation will pay the price for these crimes."
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Impeaching George W. Bush

by element115
From discussion to action -- Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers have drafted a call to impeach President Bush.
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'Driller killers' spread a new horror in Iraq

by element115
Times --> Mustafa's right eye had been gouged out and his right leg broken. Other parts of his body appeared to have been penetrated by an electric drill, an increasingly common tool of torture in Iraq.

Mohammed's body bore similar injuries. Both men had been shot in the head.
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Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads

by element115
The exact figure of deaths is unknown; estimates range from about 300 to more than 1,000. According to Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana.

The victims have been Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, Kurds, and Turkomans, and they have held a variety of political views. They have been shot down at work, at home, and in their cars or have simply disappeared.
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Former DEA Agent Wants George H. Bush, Negroponte And Other Higher-Ups Held Accountable For Illegal Drug Smuggling

by element115
Cele Castillo made headlines in the 1980's for exposing illegal government-sponsored cocaine trafficking. Although the responsible parties were never brought to justice, Castillo is still speaking out loud and strong in order to save his country.

"I quickly discovered that the Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling narcotics back into the United States - using the same pilots, planes and hangers that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain their covert supply operation to the Contras."
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Guantánamo detainee told Geneva rights 'irrelevant'

by element115
A senior US military officer at Guantánamo Bay told a detainee that he did not care about international law and that the Geneva conventions did not apply to proceedings at the military prison, according to thousands of Pentagon documents released over the weekend by the US government after a court action by the Associated Press news agency.
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Bush declares war on freedom of the press

by element115
Bush recently directed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to use "whatever means at your disposal" to wiretap, follow, harass and investigate journalists who have published stories about the administration's illegal use of warrantless wiretaps, use of faulty intelligence and anything else he deems "detrimental to the war on terror."
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Another War for Israel

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> The Israelis have been loudly howling for months about the prospect of a nuclear Iran: their amen corner in the U.S. has gone into overdrive, pushing for sanctions and drawing a dire picture of nuke-wielding "mad mullahs."
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14,000 detained without trial in Iraq

by element115
US and UK forces in Iraq have detained thousands of people without charge or trial for long periods and there is growing evidence of Iraqi security forces torturing detainees, Amnesty International said today.
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Bird Flu Found in Three Cats in Austria

by element115
Three cats have tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in Austria's first reported case of the disease spreading to an animal other than a bird, state authorities said Monday.

The sick cats were among 170 living at an animal shelter where the disease was detected in chickens last month, authorities said.
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H5N1 bird flu reaches Poland, experts fear pandemic

by element115
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu swept into Poland, a laboratory confirmed, as world health experts prepared for a feared mutation of the virus that could kill millions.
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Heavy snow in north Africa

by element115
Heavy snow has cut off villages and clogged key arteries leading away from the Algerian capital Algiers for several days, national police said on Sunday.
Djelfa, which had 70cm, was "totally paralysed", the Algerian Press Agency reported.
At least 60cm of snow blanketed villages near Djelfa and Medea, respectively 270km and 80km south of Algiers.
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Expert on Iraq: 'We're In a Civil War'

by element115
U.S. Officials Deny Violence Has Risen to That Level, but ABC News Analysts See a 'Serious Lack of Realism'
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Sun's next 11-year cycle could be 50 % stronger

by element115
Using a new model that takes into account what happens under the sun's surface and data about previous solar cycles, astronomers offered a long-range forecast for solar activity that could start as soon as this year or as late as 2008.
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US envoy hints at strike to stop Iran

March 5, 2006 by element115
The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has told British MPs that military action could bring Iran's nuclear programme to a halt if all diplomatic efforts fail.
"They must know everything is on the table and they must understand what that means. We can hit different points along the line. You only have to take out one part of their nuclear operation to take the whole thing down."
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Priests Purify Shrine After Bush Visit

by element115
Hindu priests who look after the memorial of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi conducted a purification ceremony at the shrine after a visit from President Bush. But it wasn't the president who offended them, it was the sniffer-dogs who scoured the area ahead of his visit.

...of course, it's dogs that are evil
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Why Jon Bombed

by element115
He didn't lay a glove on Bush, and what's up with that? Isn't that why we tuned in, to see Mr. Liberal get himself in trouble with the Red State Right?
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Red rain could prove that aliens have landed

by element115
Guardian --> There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers.
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House mulls bill on food label removal

by element115
Worried about arsenic in your bottled water, mercury in your fish or pesticides in your vegetables? These are among hundreds of different warnings required by states -- warnings that could disappear under a measure moving toward House approval.
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Twilight's Last Gleaming

by element115
Who are these people? These people who line their pockets with the lives of our loved ones? These gray men who lurk in shadows and kill the sunshine of democracy? These people who wear morality like a cheap suit pilfered from the collection plate of decency? Who are these people who have turned America into their own personal ATM machine? These are the people of the lie - Republicans.

Who are these people? These people who sit in spineless silence unable to speak in defense of America? These people who mime the words of our founders, afraid to act with independence? Who utter the words "We concede," instead of "We the People?" These are the people who lie down - Democrats.

Newspapers no longer serve the public, only their corporate masters. They have wedged themselves firmly between the cheeks of power, a tissue to sanitize the bullshit. The media has finally achieved the ultimate self-delusion; broadcasting sitcom politics, and talking points of the throne, it has become the court jester with tinkling bells and curly pointed shoes: useless, untrustworthy, and fused in falsehoods and facades.

This is twilight's last gleaming. Attention must be paid. Democracy is dying.
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The 9/11 signs point to a conspiracy

by element115
the quick removal of the steel after the collapses had nothing to do with the desire to restore things to normalcy in New York City. The quick removal of the steel without examination was obviously done because analysis of the steel would have shown controlled demolition was the cause.
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America's Glorious Empire of Debt

by element115
stands not as a solid pyramid of trust, authority, and power relationships, but as a rickety slum of delusion, fraud, and misapprehension.
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Pure War, Pure Crime

by element115
The Iraq War is a pure war, a war for the sake of war. Congress is debating whether to spend another fortune on it, another fortune that could completely remake this nation if spent on useful projects, and Congress has no reason for the war. The reason is purely that the media won't like you if you vote against a war, but there's no actual reason for the war - not the weapons of mass destruction that Bush always knew weren't there, not the ties to 9-11 that Bush always knew did not exist on behalf of a ruler who, anyway, is no longer in power, not reducing terrorism which has been increased by this war, not improving global relations when this war has driven global opinion of the US to a record low, not preventing a civil war which the US attack and occupation have created, not supporting the troops when most of the troops want to come home - and almost half of them openly admit to pollsters that they don't know why they're there.
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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust

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"What Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust was in our bosoms", the former German chancellor was quoted as saying. "For years we wanted to say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out".
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Olmert to Putin: Russia-Hamas talks harm effort to isolate group

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Russia's talks with Hamas leaders in Moscow have harmed world efforts to isolate the militant group that is setting up a new Palestinian government, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday.

Olmert said it was a "mistake" to invite Hamas leaders for talks before the group changes its policies and accepts the basic international demands of recognition of Israel and renunciation of violence.
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Cheney daughter leads 'cold war' on mullahs

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The war in Iraq is her father?s business but Elizabeth Cheney, the American vice-president?s daughter, has been given responsibility for bringing about a different type of regime change in Iran.
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Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London

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Times --> Jewish terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel.
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The New World Order Story

by element115
...the realization that we can?t conclude this story until we have done more investigation into the outrageous conspiracy theories slapped together in the official version of what happened on 9-11, and a bold (if frightening) willingness to ask what really happened ? and consider the evidence that 9-11 may indeed have been an inside job done by our own government to stage the ?new Pearl Harbor? that would at last let the bold and brazen plan for a certain kind of New World Order begin to take its bloody, terrible, shape.
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How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state

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The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary democracy.
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And the Great Game Goes On

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Uri Avnery --> Russia's gambit of genius in talking to Hamas...
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Pro-Israel Lobbying Group Roiled by Prosecution of Two Ex-Officials

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The annual gathering of the nation's top pro-Israel lobbying group, which starts here on Sunday, will be addressed by Vice President Dick Cheney and United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton. Politicians are lined up to warn of the threat from Iran and Hamas. Workshops will offer advice on winning the legislative game on Capitol Hill.

But the official program omits a topic likely to be a major theme of corridor chatter: the explosive Justice Department prosecution of two former officials of the group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that is ticking toward an April trial date.
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Bush nukes legal and ethical constraints

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How does U.S. go after Iran after sweet deal with India.
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Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran

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Tüttelmann?s comments revealed that the military alliance could play a supporting role if America launches airstrikes against Iranian nuclear targets.

A former senior Israeli defence official said he believed all Nato members had contingency plans.
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