Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with... Another Rumsfeld

November 8, 2006 by element115
Because who but another "Rummy" would stay the course in Iraq with the Bush administration?
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Rumsfeld resigns

by element115
He survived the Abu Ghraib scandal and a chorus of top-brass criticism over Iraq, but Donald Rumsfeld couldn't survive the Democrats.

...just hours after a Republican drubbing at the polls Bush turned to his father's foreign policy team for a replacement - his father's CIA chief, Robert Gates.
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Bush Admits He Lied About Rumsfeld For Political Purposes

by element115
Bush unequivocally told a group of reporters that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney would ?remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.? Bush said, ?Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.?

Today, he announced Rumsfeld is resigning and being replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates
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Bush diminished as world leader

by element115
One should not underestimate George Bush's determination. He has said proudly that he will stay the course in Iraq even if his wife and dog end up as his only supporters.
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Hamas: truce ended

by element115
The Hamas chief declared Wednesday that a truce with Israel is over after an Israeli tank attack that killed 18 Palestinians earlier that day.

"People were torn to pieces," a woman named Oyama told CTV News. She described people trying to flee the carnage as shells continued falling.

Another resident, Omar, lost at least 13 relatives. "Why did they want to destroy my family?" he asked.

Dozens were wounded in the attack, prompting three days of official mourning in the Gaza Strip.
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Libertarians emerge as a force

by element115
Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain.
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Israel Ambushes Beit Hanoun as Palestinians Sleep

by element115
Israeli tank shells and rockets fired from Israeli helicopters suddenly crashed into Beit Hanoun early Wednesday.

...offensive left at least 18 dead, including children and women, and many others injured.
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Massacre in Gaza

by element115
The Israeli occupation army on Wednesday killed at least 25 Palestinian, mostly women and children in northern Gaza and the West Bank , apparently taking advantage of international media preoccupation with the mid-term American elections.

Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli tanks fired artillery shells on densely populated residential neighborhoods in northern Gaza, killing and maiming ?dozens? of innocent men, women and children.
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Democrats win House

November 7, 2006 by element115
Democrats swept Republicans out of power in the U.S. House of Representatives and made gains in the Senate on Tuesday, riding to victory on a wave of public discontent with the Iraq war, corruption and President George W. Bush's leadership.
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Want Fascism In Your Country?

by element115
Have you become convinced that the only way to improve the moral and/or physical status of your country is to get the State to whip everyone into line? Do the defenses of individual rights and individual freedoms leave you feeling both bored and resentful? Are you daring enough to contemplate a nation where no-one does anything except what he or she is told by government officials, and find it to your liking? Are you inclined to dismiss defenses of freedom as mere apologetics for license and/or anarchy?

If you got through the above series of questions with all "okay"s, then you may very well be a fascist.
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Punishment Without Conviction And Prisons Without Sentence

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Did YOU Vote For That?
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...how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen

by element115
We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps -->
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Canada kept list of dissidents to lock up in time of crisis

by element115
...uncovered plan to detain as many as 2,500 in camps.

The federal government had detailed lists of political activists and subversives it planned to arrest in the aftermath of a nuclear war or other national emergency.

Anywhere from 700 to 2,500 people, including babies, would have been held in internment camps, including one in Gatineau Park, before being shipped off to more permanent detention facilities.
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2006 Antarctic Ozone Hole Largest on Record

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United Nations Environment Programme, Ozone Secretariat --> Assessment Reports
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White House Caught Doctoring "Mission Accomplished" Video

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Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs

by element115
...cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated; proctors will monitor the doors; and for the next five hours, these experts will pore over exit-poll data from across the country.

If all goes well, only when they emerge from their cloisters will the legions of ravenous political bloggers have any chance of getting their hands on the earliest indication of which party will end up controlling Congress.
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Bush finally admits: Iraq war is about the oil

by element115
washingtonpost --> During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his aides sternly dismissed suggestions that the war was all about oil.
"Nonsense," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared.
"This is not about that," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

Now, more than 3 1/2 years later, someone else is asserting that the war is about oil -- President Bush.
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Vote Different

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Dead cast their votes

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The new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer-assisted analysis.
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Lawyers poised as US vote hit by technical glitches

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More than a third of the electorate used new electronic machinery to vote, and anxiety over the experiment was raised from the beginning as reports came in of glitches across the country. In Florida, there were complaints that touchscreen computers had wrongly recorded voters choices and state Democrats called for the machines to be impounded.

The intensity of the battle was reflected in the widespread claims of dirty tricks. The FBI's special election unit was called to Virginia to investigate last night after allegations that Democratic party supporters in eight counties had been targeted by telephone calls threatening them with legal scrutiny if they went to the polls and giving misleading information about the location of polling stations. In Kentucky, a poll worker was arrested for trying to throttle a voter.
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Freedom

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Election mix

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Election Protection

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» NBC News 26 (AP): SC Gov. turned away at polls
» New York Times: On technical bugs
» CNN: Exit polls say corruption dominates
» Washington Post: Glitches frustrating voters
» AP: Poll workers struggle with e-ballots
» Roll Call: Latinos alleged target of discrimination
» Cinci. Enquirer: Without ID, Rep. turned away at polls
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2600: The Hacker Quarterly --> inspect voting machines for something "the average person might miss"

by element115
'As part of our continuing look at the technology behind voting machines, we'd like to ask each of you who goes to the polls to spend an extra minute or two behind the curtain to thoroughly check out the machine you're using. We'll be accepting calls Wednesday evening on "Off The Hook" at +1 212 209 2900 between 7 and 8 pm ET for you to give us your observations. We'd like you to look for such things as the exact model of the machine you're using, anything that looks odd or out of place, confusing or misleading directions or buttons, unused areas, potential ways of resetting the machine, and so on. In other words, we would like the hacker perspective on the voting machine you encounter.'
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Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years

by element115
Australia's blistering summer has only just begun but reservoir levels are dropping fast, crop forecasts have been slashed, and great swaths of the continent are entering what scientists yesterday called a "one in a thousand years drought".
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Jack Cafferty on CNN Calls Rumsfeld a War Criminal

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NICE Systems

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Israel-based tech firm NICE Systems has developed software that records calls and "listens" for emotional signals...
Using algorithms, the 'emotion detection' system evaluates volume, pitch change, and trigger words.
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Ortega wins Nicaraguan presidential vote

by element115
Former US-Cold War foe Daniel Ortega won Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua, the electoral council said.
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Disc-Shaped Object Sighted above O?Hare Airport Chicago

by element115
On November 7th 2006 at approximately 4:30pm (Central US Time) Federal authorities at O?Hare Airport in Chicago Illinois received a report that a dozen witnesses were observing a small, round disc-shaped object which was metallic in appearance hovering above Gate C17.
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Bush: America is at war, Vote Republican

November 6, 2006 by element115
President George W. Bush made his final plea to voters ahead of knife-edge congressional elections, telling them to vote Republican if they want America's full protection.

"As you go the the polls, remember we are at war and if you want this country to do everything in its power to protect you and at the same time lay the foundation of peace for generations to come, vote Republican."
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Veek the Vote 2006

by element115
Protect Democracy on Election Day

Show the world where you stand and what you experience on Election Day by shooting videos and photos with your mobile phone.

Send your videos and photos from your phone

The world will see what you send just 15 - 60 seconds later
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Red Cross: IDF hit clearly marked ambulance workers

by element115
Haaretz --> The paramedics of the Palestine Red Crescent Society were wearing clearly marked fluorescent jackets and the flashing lights of their ambulance were visible from a great distance when they were hit by Israeli fire after dark on Friday evening, said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Hacking Democracy

by element115
HBO Special --> The timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system (1hr21min)

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Bill O'Reilly in trouble after obtaining details of Kansas abortions

by element115
An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O'Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records.
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Disgraced Haggard: I am a "deceiver and a liar"

by element115
In a letter of apology read to the congregation of New Life Church Sunday morning, Ted Haggard confessed to sexual immorality and described himself as "a deceiver and a liar." But in baring his soul to an outside investigative board, Haggard claimed he is not gay and did not engage in homosexual conduct.
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Republicans sending out annoying robo-calls pretending to be Democrats

by element115
n at least 53 competitive House races, the National Republican Campaign Committee has launched hundreds of thousands of automated telephone calls.

Political Marketing International will make about 200,000 such phone calls each hour for mostly Democratic candidates.

...messages tailored to frustrate voters.
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Cheney going hunting on Election Day

by element115
The vice president, after working at the White House on Monday morning, will head to South Dakota to spend several days at a private hunting lodge near Pierre.
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Gore Vidal: 'The Most Important Election in My Lifetime'

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Red Cross demands action on cluster bombs

by element115
The International Committee of the Red Cross called on all states to ban immediately the use of "inaccurate and unreliable" cluster bombs, responsible for killing and maiming countless civilians.

Red Cross official Philip Spoerri also called on states "to prohibit the targeting of cluster munitions against military objectives located in a populated area."
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FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary

by element115
The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.
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Plan to create human-cow embryos

by element115
UK scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by fusing human DNA with cow eggs.

The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days.
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The Unbearable Darkness of Being A Palestinian Untermensch

by element115
...since the Zionist onslaught has been ongoing for one hundred plus years now, perhaps comparison to Nazis, who perpetuated evil for a much shorter duration than the Zionists, is not entirely accurate.
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Israeli troops kill two Palestinian women

by element115


The dramatic events came on the third day of an Israeli assault on the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun

...around 50 Palestinian women, all of them veiled, marched towards the mosque en masse.

Israeli forces opened fire towards the mosque and two of the women were killed. Six others were wounded.

Israel said: women were "attempting to act as a human shield" against the Israeli troops.
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Female suicide bomber attacks Israeli troops in Gaza

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Mirvat Massud has blown herself up near Israeli troops in a Gaza town where Israeli forces had killed two women.

The Israeli army, confirming the suicide attack in Beit Hanoun, said one soldier was slightly wounded.
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Doctors: let us kill disabled babies

November 5, 2006 by element115
One of Britain's royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.
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Underground economics in the USA

by element115
A firsthand account of the vast "underground economy"and what an off-the-books mechanic can tell us about the health of our inner cities.
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Iran: The Next War

by element115
Rolling Stone --> Now, unwilling to play by the rules any longer, Franklin was taking the extraordinary-and illegal-step of passing on highly classified information to lobbyists for a foreign state. Unable to win the internal battle over Iran being waged within the administration, a member of Feith's secret unit in the Pentagon was effectively resorting to treason, recruiting AIPAC to use its enormous influence to pressure the president into adopting the draft directive and wage war against Iran.
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U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons

by element115
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
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There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq

by element115
Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address.
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Who is Holding Peace Hostage?

by element115
CNI Foundation --> appeared in the New York Times, today, November 5th, 2006

--> PDF
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Palestinian unity gov't to be announced within 48 hours

by element115
According to the report, all outstanding issues between Hamas and Fatah have been resolved, with the exception of who will be the next Palestinian prime minister.

The prime minister will not be a member of Hamas, although Hamas is demanding that the candidate be affiliated with the group, as first reported in Haaretz. Abbas wants the prime minister to be entirely independent.
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Israeli Cabinet Minister Calls for Separation of Jews and Arabs

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Israeli Cabinet Minister Avigdor Lieberman set off a storm by saying that the Jewish and Arab citizens of the Holy Land should be separated to strengthen the Jewish majority in the State of Israel.

The statement sparked outrage, especially among Israel's Arab citizens, who accused the hawkish minister of promoting an "apartheid" policy.
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Global Warming Rally In London

by element115
More than 20,000 protesters have rallied in London, demanding that world leaders act to curb global warming.
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Power Shortage Leaves Europe in the Dark

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Electricity Shortage Triggers Blackouts Across Europe, Plunges Millions Into Darkness.
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Israeli PM: Gaza Offensive Will Continue

by element115
"This operation has one goal: to decrease the Qassam (rocket) fire at southern Israeli towns and to halt the terror attacks that are trying to get organized and get out to Israel," Olmert said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.
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Saddam sentenced to death by hanging

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Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants were sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for their role in the deaths of 148 villagers from the town of Dujail, where torture and executions followed a failed assassination attempt on Saddam in 1982.

Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti (Saddam's former Intelligence chief) and the former Chief Judge of the Baathist Revolutionary Court, Awad al-Bandar were also condemned.

Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice-president of Iraq was sentenced to life in prison. Three other Baath officials were sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and another official was acquited of all charges.
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Amnesty International Condemns Death Verdict On Saddam

by element115
Human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) on Sunday sharply criticized the verdict served in Baghdad to Saddam Hussein, saying the trial had been "marred by serious flaws."
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The Arms Market and the Arms Race

by element115
The total international arms trade has been increasing rapidly, in 2005 reaching an all-time high in current dollars of $44.2 billion (from $38.9 billion in 2004). The United States is the world?s leading conventional arms exporting nation, accounting for about 29 percent of all international arms trade. Last year, in 2005, it exported $12.8 billion of military gear of all sorts, about half of it ($6.2 billion) going to developing nations. The other main arms exporting nations last year were France (second with $7.9 billion in total arms sales) and Russia (the third exporter, with $7.4 billion in total sales). The United Kingdom and China came in behind, with $2.8 and $2.1 billion in arms exports in 2005. Overall, however, the 25 countries of Western Europe surpass the U.S. in trade of armaments, with about 44 percent of total arms exports. The other two non-Western countries, Russia and China, are responsible respectively for about 17 percent and 5 percent of total world arms exports.
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FOX deprives the word "torture" of any meaning at all

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Video: Steve Harrigan gets waterboarded on Fox.
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Texas Virtual Neighborhood Border Watch Program

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...video surveillance cameras in different environments along the 1240 miles of Texas/Mexico border using the internet to transmit the images.
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How Close to Catastrophe?

November 4, 2006 by element115
Lovelock has predicted that about 200 million people, or about one thirtieth of the current world population, will survive if competent leaders make a new home for us near the present-day Arctic. There may also be other survivable spots, like the British Isles, though he notes that rising sea levels will render them more an archipelago. In any event, he predicts that "teeming billions" will perish.
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US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA

by element115
Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States.
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"They shoot at anything that moves"

by element115
Beit Hanoun, with 30,000 inhabitants, has been the target of daily aggressions and air strikes since June 25. It is now besieged by Israeli troops. We have seen the tanks advance and take up their positions. We are now encircled by about 70 tanks and at least 450 soldiers who announce that the city is a "closed military zone". That means that no one can leave. No one can flee. It is an offensive based on those carried out in the West Bank in 2002.

We have no water, no electricity. We hide in the remote corners of our houses. Ambulances are not authorized to enter into this occupied and closed zone. The soldiers have circled the houses they want to invade. They occupied the houses and they shut up the families in one room. Now they are using then as forts. They use explosives to pierce holes in the walls, they blow off doors, and the people are terrified. They shoot anyone that moves.
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Israeli military offensive kills nine in Gaza

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Nine people, including a 12-year-old girl and five gunmen, were killed in the Gaza Strip as Israel pressed an offensive on militants that has left 44 Palestinians and one soldier dead in four days.
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Flight 77 did NOT hit the Pentagon

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US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud

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...shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD.
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Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear

by element115
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.
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Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

by element115
In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome.
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Call for Rumsfeld to quit

by element115
President George Bush faces a damaging political firestorm on the eve of the vital mid-term elections after it emerged yesterday that an influential military newspaper is to call for the resignation of his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
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Saddam faces hanging after Baghdad verdict

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...would fuel conflict in Iraq for decades.
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Curfew as Iraq braces for verdict on Saddam

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The Iraqi government has announced an indefinite and total curfew, covering wide areas of the country and including the capital, Baghdad, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he hoped Saddam Hussein would get 'what he deserved' when the verdict of the first of the two trials that the former dictator is facing was announced today.
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Pentagon Launches Pre-Emptive Strike on Media

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...the Pentagon has recently formed a rapid-response team that will target "new media" like the internet.

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19 things republican's want you to forget

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When you go to the polls on November 7th, 2006, don?t forget what the Republicans have been doing to you and your family for the past six years.
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FOX News rearranging weekend line-up to air terror film, scare jaded voters to polls

November 3, 2006 by element115
FOX News Channel has announced that it will air "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West".

The film, which is actually a year old, will be shown four (4) times this weekend to help Republicans scare their base to the polls. Along with plenty of footage accusing Democrats of not getting it (an O'Reilly favorite) and Dick Morris' sickening new anti-Democrat smear commercial, FOX is pulling out all the stops to support their party.
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Neo Culpa

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As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target No. 1: the president himself.
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Haggard Admits Buying Meth

by element115
"I called him to buy some meth, but I threw it away. I bought it for myself but never used it," the Rev. Ted Haggard said today to a reporter for KUSA who interviewed him as he was leaving his Colorado Springs, Colo., home. "I was tempted, but I never used it."
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Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist

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"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.

"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.

"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
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U.S. Map of Hate Groups

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Active U.S. Hate Groups
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U.S. speeds attack plans for North Korea

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The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process.
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Dick Cheney on Iraq

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Priest burns himself to death over Islam

by element115
A retired priest committed suicide by setting himself on fire in a German monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protestant Church?s inability to contain it.
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US closes 'bomb secrets' website

by element115
The US government has closed one of its websites that contained documents found during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Weapons experts had complained that the site contained details on making nuclear bombs, the New York Times said.
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2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!

November 2, 2006 by element115
Aiysha's mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her mother is still being detained under "Administrative Detention," in other words, no charge, no trial, nothing?just a unilateral Israeli decision to detain her for 6 months at a time, already renewed 4 times!

This poor baby. She knows nothing in life but the walls of her mother?s prison cell. She only knows her father from visits, when they were possible. She has never seen a road, a city, grass, trees, a real bed, her own bedroom, a park, a real meal, friends, real toys, etc, etc.
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A crime against humanity

by element115
"By illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq, Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the whole world"
Dr. Chris Busby, the British radiation expert and UK representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk.
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Soldiers of Christ

by element115
Pastor Ted, who talks to President George W. Bush or his advisers every Monday, is a handsome forty-eight-year-old. He likes to say that his only disagreement with the President is automotive; Bush drives a Ford pickup, whereas Pastor Ted loves his Chevy.

In addition to New Life, Pastor Ted presides over the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), whose 45,000 churches and 30 million believers make up the nation's most powerful religious lobbying group.

No pastor in America holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism than does Pastor Ted.
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Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel

by element115
The meeting was defined as a preparatory session on urgent geopolitical issues and their impact on the fate of the Jewish people.

The meeting was attended by leaders of several major U.S. Jewish organizations, including David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, AIPAC's Howard Kohr, Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Morley Levine from Hadassah.

It was also attended Dennis Ross, the former Clinton administration special envoy to the Middle East; former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler; Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz; Israeli Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon, representing the Israeli government; Yitzhak Molcho, who was formerly Benjamin Netanyahu's political advisor.
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Iran tests fires longer range missile

by element115
The show of strength came as Iran remains locked in dispute with the West over its nuclear program, which Washington says is geared to producing atomic weapons but Tehran says is only for generating electricity. The maneuvers came three days after U.S.-led warships finished naval exercises in the Gulf that Iran branded as "adventurist."
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British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il

by element115
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today.

British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Extreme Makeover, Israel Edition

by element115
If the State of Israel were a brand like Nike or McDonald?s, what images would it evoke among the average American?
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The NAFTA Superhighway

by element115
Ron Paul --> The proposed highway is part of a broader plan advanced by a quasi-government organization called the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," or SPP.

The SPP was not created by a treaty between the nations involved, nor was Congress involved in any way. Instead, the SPP is an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments.

The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union ? complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union.
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Pentagon Looking Into Leak of Classified Intel to New York Times

by element115
The Pentagon is looking into how classified information indicating Iraq is moving closer to chaos wound up on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, and is not ruling out an investigation that could lead to criminal charges.
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Mystery of disintegrating German euro notes

by element115
...police in Berlin and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate have opened probes after about 1,000 notes self-destructed. 'This is unprecedented,' a spokeswoman for the Bundesbank central bank said.

The case surfaced in June in Berlin when a ?20 note crumbled on contact. Police first suspected a fluke but the number of 'broken notes', as investigators have dubbed the bills, continued to rise in August.
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'We are waking up to a surveillance society all around us'

November 1, 2006 by element115
Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.

New technology and "invisible" techniques are being used to gather a growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas.
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One Soldier Against the Empire

by element115
As a tactical interrogator assigned to question detainees at the scene of infantry raids, Ricky did not witness the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. What he did witness, however, was hardly less horrifying: American soldiers indoctrinated to view Iraqis as less than human, as "ragheads" or worse; American soldiers out on the streets of the Iraqi capital ramming the cars of Iraqi civilians for sport; American soldiers laughing as they slaughtered the livestock of local farmers; and American soldiers shooting an Iraqi teenager who had simply made a wrong turn.
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Al-Jazeera' English channel starts Nov.15

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Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television announced Tuesday that it would launch its long-awaited English language channel Al-Jazeera International on Nov. 15.
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Demand for inquiry after 80 killed in air strike

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Human Rights Watch has called for an independent investigation into a missile strike on a madrassa in Pakistan in which at least 80 people died.

...there have been consistent claims from local people that children as young as seven were among the dead.
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eBay building bombed

by element115
Firefighters rushed to eBay's San Jose headquarters last night after an explosion in a four-story eBay building. First thought to be a transformer, the cause is now being reported as a bomb.
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Russian FM: Draft UN Resolution on Iran Unacceptable

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A draft UN Security Council resolution on Iran proposed by the European troika does not comply with agreements reached earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Six Palestinians killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

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Israeli troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, killed at least six Palestinian militants early Wednesday in one of the military's largest strikes since re-entering the Gaza Strip over the summer.
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Alarm as innocent people fill DNA database

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Sir Alan Jeffries is concerned the National Database is being extended further than it had been designed for.
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Kerry makes direct apology to troops

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"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended," Kerry said in a statement.

...he was sorry for a "botched joke" about Bush.
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