White House Says Some Leaks Are Good

April 7, 2006 by element115
McClellan did not bother to deny the claim that the president had approved the leak. Instead, he argued there was nothing wrong about it.
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Did Bush misuse presidential powers?

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The news that President Bush authorized the disclosure of classified information to certain reporters has set off a debate on whether or not Mr. Bush misused his national security powers.
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Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills 6, including girl

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An Israeli air strike killed six Palestinians including a senior militant commander and his young daughter at a militant training base in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, witnesses and medics said.

The Israeli army said a car carrying several "terrorists" was struck as it left the base near the town of Rafah on the border with Egypt.
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Palestinian PM says US, EU decisions to cut aid "hasty"

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"They are not punishing the (Palestinian) government, but they are punishing the Palestinian people for their democratic choice, "the prime minister said.
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US blueprint for 125 nuclear bombs a year

April 6, 2006 by element115
THE Bush Administration has unveiled a blueprint for rebuilding the US's decrepit nuclear weapons complex, including restoration of a large-scale bomb manufacturing facility.

The plan calls for the most sweeping realignment and modernisation of laboratories and factories involved in building nuclear bombs since the Cold War.
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Airline passengers face lie detector tests

by element115
Millions of airline passengers travelling through Russia will soon have to take a lie detector test as part of new security measures.

Passengers will pick up the handset of a "truth verifier" machine while they are asked questions. Apparently the machine, developed by an Israeli company, can even establish whether answers come from the memory or the imagination.

"We know that this could be uncomfortable for some passengers but it is a necessary step."
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Report: Israel gave China anti-missile tech from U.S.

by element115
China covertly obtained Patriot anti-missile system technology from Israel during the 1990s, according to U.S. officials.
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Libby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak

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A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that President George W. Bush authorized him to leak information from a classified intelligence report to a New York Times reporter.
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Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak

by element115
Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors that President Bush authorized a leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.

The filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also describes Cheney involvement in I. Lewis Libby's communications with the press.

There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Valerie Plame's CIA identity. But it points to Cheney as one of the originators of the idea that Plame could be used to discredit her husband.
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Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House

by element115
Washington Post --> Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.
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Critic tells Bush he should be 'ashamed of yourself'

by element115
Bush faced a rare display of hostility from the public at a forum, when a man said he should be "ashamed of yourself".

"I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself," the man said.

"...would I apologize for that? The answer ... is, absolutely not," Bush said.
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Google aims to track users with wi-fi

by element115
Google says users linking up with wi-fi transmitters placed around cities can be located to within a couple of blocks. This would open up a new level of advertising opportunities for the company, allowing it to serve tightly focused ads on its web pages from small businesses in the immediate area.
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Speculations on the future of science

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Kevin Kelly --> Science will create new levels of meaning. The Internet already is made of one quintillion transistors, a trillion links, a million emails per second, 20 exabytes of memory. It is approaching the level of the human brain and is doubling every year, while the brain is not. It is all becoming effectively one machine. And we are the machine.
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The War Is Bad for the Economy

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SPIEGEL --> Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, 63, discusses the true $1 trillion cost of the Iraq conflict, its impact on the oil market and the questions of whether the West can afford to impose sanctions on Iran.
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Could anyone feel safe?

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This advertisement appeared in UK edition of the Financial Times
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If one side in a conflict goes nuclear, the other is bound to follow suit

by element115
The Iranian crisis can only be understood as the inevitable result of Israel's US-backed WMD monopoly in the region.

There is widespread international agreement that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons is an alarming prospect, but very little attention is paid to the most obvious, immediate reason why: that there is already a Middle Eastern nuclear power, Israel, insistent on preserving its monopoly.
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Film crew 'begged Israeli soldiers to save colleague'

by element115
A television producer has told an inquest into the death of a British cameraman killed in Gaza how he begged the Israeli soldiers who shot his colleague to help save his life.
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Israel stages two air strikes in Gaza

by element115
Israel warplanes struck twice in Gaza City early on Friday, in one instance bombing and destroying a headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, witnesses and security sources said.
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Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism

by element115
Two grandmothers from Yorkshire face up to a year in prison after becoming the first people to be arrested under the Government's latest anti-terror legislation.
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'The war is illegal. I can't pay for a government killing machine'

by element115
A man has vowed to go to prison rather than pay taxes which he believes would fund a "blatantly illegal war" in Iraq.
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Professor Predicts Human Time Travel by 2016

April 5, 2006 by element115
With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein's relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. While his team still needs funding for the project, Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within 10 years.
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Stranger than Fiction Part II

by element115
Who provided protective coverage for 9/11 operation?
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Bush's Unprecedented Arrogance

by element115
Never in history has a president asserted claims to such unchecked power.
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77 stations across U.S. aired fake news over ten months

by element115
Collectively, these 77 stations reach more than half of the U.S. population. The VNRs and SMTs whose broadcast CMD documented were produced by three broadcast PR firms for 49 different clients, including General Motors, Intel, Pfizer and Capital One. In each case, these 77 television stations actively disguised the sponsored content to make it appear to be their own reporting. In almost all cases, stations failed to balance the clients' messages with independently-gathered footage or basic journalistic research. More than one-third of the time, stations aired the pre-packaged VNR in its entirety.
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The Butterfly Effect

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...this tiny glitch been avoided, we'd likely be in an entirely different world.
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Bush stands firm on passports for Canadians

by element115
U.S. President George W. Bush won't change tough new identification requirements for Canadians entering the United States, but says he hopes new technologies can provide an efficient way to deal with the issue.
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Disney offers teen-tracker mobile

by element115
Disney is launching a US service that will enable parents to monitor how their children use their mobile phones.

They will be able to track voice, text, video and picture messages and set limits on their children's calls.

The phone will also allow parents to locate where their children are via a global positioning system.
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Bush Admin. Wants to Bury More Nuke Waste

by element115
The Bush administration wants to bury tens of thousands more tons of nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada than is now allowed.
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9/11 mystery for humankind

by element115
The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
- Joseph Mengele, Nazi scientist
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'Playing The Clash made me a terror suspect'

by element115
Mr Mann, of Hartlepool, Teesside, had boarded the plane at Durham Tees Valley Airport when the flight to Heathrow was stopped and he was arrested by police.

...he was told he was being questioned under the Terrorism Act and his choice of music had aroused suspicions.
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Rice Dismisses Talk of U.S. Bases in Iraq

by element115
"...we're not seeking permanent bases really pretty much anywhere in the world these days. We are, in fact, in the process of removing base structure from a lot of places," Rice said
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Bird flu confirmed in Scotland

by element115
Preliminary tests have confirmed the H5 avian flu virus in a sample from a swan found dead in Fife, health officials have revealed.
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U.S. military: Video of copter crash site 'despicable'

by element115
The U.S. military reported Sunday that an Army AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter went down, likely from enemy fire.
The video shows what appears to be a helicopter ablaze -- and later with no flames -- and insurgents dragging what appears to be "part of" a burning body away from the wreckage.

"We are outraged that anyone would create and publish such a despicable video for public exposure," military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Withington said in a statement. "The terrorists continue to demonstrate their immoral disregard for human dignity and life."
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Discovered: missing link that solves a mystery of evolution

by element115
Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
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Britain urges Geneva Conventions review

April 4, 2006 by element115
Britain's defence secretary called Monday for a review of the Geneva Conventions, saying international rules of war needed to be revamped to reflect the threats of global terrorism.

John Reid said the potential for groups or countries to develop or acquire weapons of mass destruction should lead to a new debate about whether pre-emptive strikes should be allowed under the rules of war.
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Bashing Chavez at The New York Times

by element115
What do you call a nation that provides medical aid to desperately poor people in Mexico, heating assistance to low-income families in the U.S., crucial project financing to some of the poorest countries in Africa, and aid to impoverished Caribbean island nations?

If you're the New York Times, you call it "provocative," and you call the leader of that country "the next Fidel Castro."
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Why pay taxes?

by element115
..."terrorism" is defined, in Webster's, as "the systematic use of terror, esp. as a means of coercion," and provides a long list of examples, past and present, where the U.S. government has done exactly that.
...under the current Patriot Act, it is now illegal to provide money to organizations that practice terrorism.

Why do we continue to willingly pay for programs and policies that put ourselves and our country (not to mention countless people in other lands) in greater danger? The bloodshed and corporate welfare in our name and with our money -- and our kids' money, and their kids', and their kids' -- raises an obvious but seldom-asked question: why do so many of us pay our income taxes?
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Senior China official urges cut in US debt holding

by element115
As China is a leading financier of the U.S. current account deficit and holds the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, the comments from Cheng Siwei, a vice chief of the national parliament, sent the dollar and U.S. government bonds lower.
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Israeli Wall in the West Bank

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Post-Occupation Strategy to Deny Sovereignty to the Palestinian State...
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Silence in class

by element115
University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt?
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9/11: a 7-Man Job

by element115
A common objection to the argument that 9/11 was an inside job is that the conspiracy would be too big to keep quiet. In other words, the argument is that it is impossible that so many people could have kept quiet for so long. SOMEONE would have talked or made a mistake, so that the conspiracy would have been discovered.

Is that true? Maybe.

But...
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The USA's National Debt Clock can't keep up with Bush's spending

by element115
The USA?s national debt is increasing by $2.43 billion everyday. People expect the state debt to top the ten trillion dollar mark in the next few years.
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Film-maker's death 'was murder'

by element115
The shooting of a British film maker in Gaza was "cold-blooded murder", a security expert has told an inquest.

James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot by a soldier from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while making a film in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2003.
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Amnesty demands public inquiry on rendition flights

by element115
Amnesty's report - Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and "Disappearance" - shows a pattern of nearly 1,000 flights directly linked to the CIA through "front" companies, most of which, it says, have used European airspace. A further 600 CIA flights were made by planes hired from US aviation companies.

Amnesty says detainees were abducted or handed over to US guards by other law enforcement agencies before being "disappeared". In what it says is the only detailed information to emerge from an Eastern European or Central Asian "black site" prison, detainees had described being prepared for transportation by black-masked "ninjas".
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Is it a radar-resistant flying boat?

by element115
Photo --> During a "war game" started Friday, the Iran military tested a small propeller-driven aircraft that flies low over water surface at up to 100 knots.
"No radar at sea or in the air can locate it. It can lift out of the water. It is wholly domestically built and can launch missiles with precise targeting while moving."
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Police, Protesters Clash in Paris

by element115
Demonstrators opposed to a new jobs law swarmed parts of downtown Paris on Tuesday, throwing stones, tearing down street signs and ripping up park benches. Riot police, firing tear gas canisters and making several charges, carried away protesters in handcuffs.
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More Calls for Rumsfeld to Leave

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New York Times --> For the second time in two weeks, a former general has called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over what both generals described as serious mistakes made in the war in Iraq.
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Intelligence watchdog slow to bite

by element115
When a privacy-rights group requested records to show how many times a secretive presidential oversight board had asked the Justice Department to investigate possible violations of intelligence-gathering laws since 2001, the answer that came back last month was as simple as it was startling.

Zero.
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Media slanders politically-minded stars

by element115
Movie-maker OLIVER STONE has blasted media groups who "slander" celebrities for their political comments - because intelligent stars have every right to question their leaders.
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DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat

by element115
Rep. Tom DeLay, whose iron hold on the House Republicans melted as a lobbying corruption scandal engulfed the Capitol, told TIME that he will not seek reelection and will leave Congress within months.
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A Pretty Good Way to Foil the NSA

by element115
Phil Zimmermann, the man who released the PGP e-mail encryption program to the world in 1991 -- only to face an abortive criminal prosecution from the government -- has been trying for 10 years to give the world easy-to-use software to cloak internet phone calls.

The open-source software manages cryptographic handshakes invisibly, and encrypts and decrypts voice calls as the traffic leaves and enters the computer. Operation is simple, and users don't have to agree in advance on an encryption key or type out long passcodes to make it work.
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Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect

April 3, 2006 by element115
The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.

He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place and were used as tools by the people pulling the strings behind the attack.

Bowman outlined how the drills on the morning of 9/11 that simulated planes crashing into buildings on the east coast were used as a cover to dupe unwitting air defense personnel into not responding quickly enough to stop the attack.
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New Christian pro-Israel lobby aims to be stronger than AIPAC

by element115
Televangelist John Hagee told Jewish community leaders over the weekend that the 40 million evangelical Christians in the United States support Israel and that he plans to utilize this power to help Israel by launching a Christian pro-Israel lobby.
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Disinfo Pro - Death Of A Once-Great Blogger

by element115
He was once among the mighty. Now he has fallen. A blogger and editor of Capitol Hill Blue, his name is Doug Thompson. You might know him if you have ever read "The Rant." Powerful stuff once but apparently no longer.

The other day Doug Thompson wrote a column entitled: 9/11 conspiracy theories don't pass the smell test. That rant received over 400 responses, the great majority of them in disagreement, before being shut down.

"After reading your articles for years, I'm convinced you wrote this with a Homeland Security gun to your head."
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Baghdad by Night

by element115
"Death is the simplest thing now in Iraq. A bullet in the head is nothing, especially against journalists. So crying and sadness are the norm."

...war can shatter a society and what it becomes as it puts itself back together can become a warped malefic grotesquerie -- a social organism that eagerly eats itself alive.
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Israel and Moral Blackmail

by element115
Justin Raimondo --> "The Lobby," as the authors call it, effectively works to control the debate over our Israel-centric policy in the Middle East by ensuring that there is no debate.

The controversy has certainly been as instructive as it's been ugly. Not only has the Lobby revealed itself by such a visible and vocal baring of its very pointed teeth, but we have also seen some remarkable alliances forged in its defense.
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Criticism of U.S ties to Israel draws fire

by element115
Harvard Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "These are two serious scholars and you need to expose what they have done as ignorant propaganda."
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"The Jewish lobby is powerful, very powerful."

by element115
...on March 26, The New York Daily News, owned by Mort Zuckerman, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations - a major force in the Israeli lobby - featured a commentarymaking the claim that "there is no Israel 'lobby.' "

Zuckerman's tabloid repeated the old saw that Congress and American presidents have been friends of Israel "out of humanitarian concerns" and that the policies have nothing to do with any powerful "lobby."
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New device allows a woman without eyes to see

by element115
Cheri Robertson is blind, but this device allows her to see, not with her eyes but with her brain! Fifteen years ago, she lost both of her eyes in a car accident.
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The full story of Israeli bulldozers burying a Palestinian alive in Hebron

by element115
All week long Hasham Mohammad Mousa Asamahain waits for Friday to come.
His reasoning, in short, is that on that day the 41 year old has a chance to go and earn a living. That is why Asamahain readied himself to travel to Beit Shemish, in the extreme north, west of Hebron. He was not in the southern West Bank to look for treasure or expensive ruins, but to find whatever he can to raise enough money to buy bread or pay the school fees for his six children. Asamahain?s punishment for this was to be buried alive in a garbage dump.
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The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden

by element115
For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files. Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme cold, were considered too shocking to be seen.
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A Visit with the UN's Torture Cop

by element115
Manfred Nowak, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, travels the world to expose human rights violations in so-called "rogue states." Now he is directing his attention at the United States.
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How the US 'lost' Latin America

by element115
There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble.
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Palestinian leader Raed Obayat was shot 'execution-style' by Israeli forces

by element115
In the Monday morning assassination of resistance leader Raed Obayat by Israeli special forces, eyewitnesses describe a scene of a badly beaten Obayat, and his companion Ra'ed Sulaiman Abu Joura, being dragged down four flights of stairs while crying out "I am injured! I am injured!", after which Israeli forces shot the two in an 'execution-style' assassination.
Palestinian Parliament member Issa Qaraqie issued a strong condemnation of the assassination, and demanded a full immediate international investigation.
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Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb

by element115
Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement.

"But there is a chance that the U.S. will use bombs or missiles against several sites in Iran," Blix said "...the reactions would be strong, and would contribute to increased terrorism."
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Robert Fisk at Sydney Ideas 2006

by element115
Fisk is more determined than ever to prosecute a case against the injustices of the west against the Arab and Muslim world. Agree with him or not, his presentations are suffused with passionate belief in change for the better. This talk was recorded recently in Sydney, as part of the Sydney Ideas 2006 public lecture series organised by the University of Sydney.
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Moussaoui may be executed

by element115
A U.S. jury on Monday found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty, and the convicted September 11 conspirator shouted as he was led out of the court: "You'll never get my blood. God curse you all."
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Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal

by element115
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an "enemy combatant."

The decision was a victory for the Bush Administration in one significant sense: by not finding the case to be moot, the Court leaves intact a sweeping Fourth Circuit Court decision upholding the president's wartime power to seize an American inside the U.S. and detain him or her as a terrorist enemy, without charges and -- for an extended period -- without a lawyer.
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US will Find Another Excuse to Target Iran

by element115
The United States is firm in its plans to launch a military operation against Iran, said Kazim Jalali, a spokesman for the Iranian Parliament?s Commission of Foreign Affairs, adding the United States would find another reason for its military operation even if the nuclear plants were immediately shut down.
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Canada scraps plan to decriminalize marijuana use

by element115
Canada's new Conservative government will scrap draft legislation which would have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.

Under the Liberal bill, people found with small amounts of marijuana would have been fined but would not have received a criminal record.
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The Pirate Party in Sweden intends to reform the copyright laws

April 2, 2006 by element115
We have three goals: reform copyright, abolish patents, and strengthen the right to privacy.
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Iran test-fires high-speed underwater missile

by element115
A top Iranian officer said on Sunday that Iran successfully test-fired a high-speed underwater missile earlier in the day, the state television reported.

The underwater missile with the highest speed of 360 km perhour can hit any warship as no warship can take enough time to escape from the attack even though it detects the missile.
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Confrontation in Hebron

by element115
Students should have been on their way to school, but the Israeli occupation forces had other ideas.
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Is it All in My Imagination?

by element115
Why isn?t anyone in congress or even foreign governments and the foreign press coming out and saying what is obviously true? There really seems to be a very effective suppressive force at work. It seems to me that the governments and religions of the world are all in the wrong hands as far as any greater benefits for the human race.
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The Prostitution of John McCain

by element115
In case you missed it, this past week completed the transformation of John McCain from GOP maverick to Republican prostitute. In his no-holds barred pursuit of the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, the Arizona Senator has exchanged his seething hatred of George W. Bush for a fawning courtship and high-profile bootlicking of the Bush political machine.
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Eliminating the Impossible

by element115
"Of course it was an inside job," Bernie snorted. "Anyone who can connect even two dots without ramming one up his nose and the other into his forehead knows that.

George Bush never shuts up about 9-11. He's obsessed with it. No matter what anybody asks him, he spouts September the 11th.

Americans are waking up. They have been told one -- or one hundred -- too many lies. They instinctively know there are only three areas of questions about 9-11 whose answers, however improbable, reveal the truth.
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911 Loose Change 2nd Edition

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a MUST watch video -->
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The media heat up over global warming

by element115
Jewish World Review --> The Earth is always experiencing either warming or cooling.

Americans got their anxiety from journalism calculated to produce it.

...perhaps the "problem" is not big oil or big coal, both of which have discovered there is big money to be made from tax breaks and other subsidies justified in the name of combating carbon.

...perhaps the problem is big crusading journalism.
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Insulating Bush

by element115
Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration.

As the 2004 election loomed, the White House was determined to keep the wraps on a potentially damaging memo about Iraq.
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God's Own Party

by element115
Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
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US and UK forces establish 'enduring bases' in Iraq

by element115
Despite talk of withdrawal 'when the job is done', there are signs that coalition troops will be there for the long term.
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America's war on the web

by element115
Imagine a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.

In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.
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Keeping It Quiet

by element115
The Israel Lobby's Crushing of Dissent...
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Former PM says Russia is turning into dictatorship

by element115
"An atmosphere of fear is being created and a sense that everyone is under the state's control. These are the first steps towards a totalitarian system.
"There is practically no press freedom, the judiciary is no longer independent and public opinion is manipulated."
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A Dark Day Revisited

by element115
"United 93" is the first feature film to deal explicitly with the events of September 11, 2001, and is certain to ignite an emotional debate before and after it opens on April 28. Is it too soon? Should the film have been made at all? More to the point, will anyone want to see it? Other 9/11 projects are on the way as the fifth anniversary of the attacks approaches, most notably Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," starring Nicolas Cage, opening Aug. 9. But as the harbinger, "United 93" will take most of the heat, whether it deserves it or not.
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Meeting Doctor Doom

by element115
...a world-renowned ecologist, advocates for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner.

AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years.
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UK Government in secret talks about strike against Iran

April 1, 2006 by element115
A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.

It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment programme.
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Why US Can't Buy Dissent in Iran

by element115
Flood of dollars only taints regime's opponents.
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Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation

by element115
Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into 9/11.
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Boston Archdiocese fires photographer who caught Scalia's obscene gesture

by element115
The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church -- especially the Archdiocese of Boston -- knows no bounds. When they're not defending child abusers, they're bashing gays. Now, they're defending and protecting Antonin Scalia. By now, everyone know Scalia made an obscene gesture and swore right in one of their churches. But, they are firing the photographer who busted Scalia.
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Scenarios of an American strike

by element115
The risks are great if Washington's neo-cons choose military options to prevent Iran from blocking US imperial designs for the Middle East.
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Old hat that calls out for open debate

by element115
Daily Star -->Why do so few prominent people in the United States publicly criticize Israel or its American supporters? Because - modern history suggests - this is a sure, speedy route to political and professional oblivion, especially for politicians, academics, writers and others who work in the public realm.
An example before our eyes today is worth considering, both for the issues and the personalities involved.
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Nuking Innocence

by element115
Professing to be the greater civilization, the intellect is deliberately disassociated, sanity is interned so that greed may proceed and allow the savagery of the greater to prey upon the less. While mankind strives for nobility, there are some among us who contemplate such base decisions that would threaten the existence of another nation. Those same powers who would refute that man is born under one law, and so they bound him by another, targeting him with nuclear weapons.
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The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

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Noam Chomsky on Failed States...

...examines how the United States is beginning to resemble a failed state that cannot protect its citizens from violence and has a government that regards itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international law.
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9/11 Revisited

by element115
Video --> Were explosives used?
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Corporate profits surge to 40-year high

by element115
MarketWatch --> U.S. corporate profits have increased 21.3% in the past year and now account for the largest share of national income in 40 years, the Commerce Department said.

When will corporations spend some of their hoard?

"It's a big puzzle," said Josh Bivens, an economist for the Economic Policy Institute. "If this is a knowledge economy, how come the brains aren't being compensated? Instead, the owners of physical capital are getting the rewards."

...before-tax profits totaled $1.35 trillion, up from $1.16 trillion in 2004 and just $767 billion in 2001.
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ABC Suspends Producer Over Bush-Bashing E-Mail

by element115
ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of "Good Morning America" yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.

"Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke."

...should not be booked on the show because "Albright has Jew shame."
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Over 200 Palestinian children arrested in two months

by element115
Israeli occupation forces are arresting scores of Palestinian children each week, bringing the number of juveniles currently held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention centres and prisons to new record levels.
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Iranian militiamen were brought in by Britain

by element115
MILITIAMEN from an Iranian-backed force were deliberately recruited by Britain to join the new Iraqi security services after Saddam Hussein was overthrown, the Government has admitted.
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War Against Iran, April 2006

by element115
Jorge Hirsch --> H istory repeats itself, but always with new twists. We are back to the good old days when a Declaration of War preceded the start of a war. Such declaration occurred on March 16th, 2006. Reversing the old order, we are now in the "Sitzkrieg", to be followed shortly by an aerial "Blitzkrieg" in the coming days.

In the old days, Congress declared war, and directed the Executive to take action. In the new millenium, the Executive declared war last March 16th, then Congress will pass H.R. 282, "To hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to support a transition to democracy in Iran." This bill and previous ones like it are in direct violation of the legally binding Algiers Accords[pdf] signed by the United States and Iran on January 19, 1981, that states "The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs"; however, this is clearly of no interest to the 353 policymakers sponsoring the bill.
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