Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'

December 8, 2006 by element115
Sturdy and durable plastic does not bio-degrade, it only breaks down physically, and so persists in the environment for possibly hundreds of years.
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Litvinenko business associate poisoned

by element115
There's been another startling development in the spy poisoning case in London. Two weeks ago Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with a radioactive substance, called polonium 210. Now Russian prosecutors have announced that a business associate of the dead man has also fallen ill from radiation poisoning.
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New Guantanamo jail

by element115
In pictures -->
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Israel frets over Iraq report, dispatches FM to Washington

by element115
Tzipi Livni will meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials during her visit, which will focus on the repercussions of a report released Wednesday by the Iraq Study Group, her office said.
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Panel: U.S. underreported Iraq violence

December 7, 2006 by element115
U.S. military and intelligence officials have systematically underreported the violence in Iraq in order to suit the Bush administration's policy goals, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said.
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Bush: victory still important in Iraq

by element115
A defiant George Bush today said he and Tony Blair agreed that "victory" in Iraq was important, just one day after the Iraq Study Group delivered a withering critique of his current policy.
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Olmert rejects Syria talks

by element115
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said he has no intention of opening peace talks with Syria, despite the recommendations of a top-level US panel.
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The reasons and background to why we are at war in the Middle East

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The Roman Empire is falling - so it turns to Iran and Syria

by element115
Robert Fisk --> The Roman Empire is falling. That, in a phrase, is what the Baker report says. The legions cannot impose their rule on Mesopotamia.
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UN appeals for Palestinian funds

by element115
The United Nations has launched an appeal to raise $450m (£229m) in humanitarian relief funds for the Palestinian territories next year.

Two-thirds of Palestinians live in poverty, a UN spokesman said.
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Missing Trillions Found

by element115
During the Reagan Administration, trillions were sent to Russia in a cold war plot to destabilize their currency. These trillions have been off-the-books and accumulating interest all these years, some 27.5 trillion. Greg Szymanski has been following this story directly and consistently, yet the mainstream media refuses to cover any aspect of Leo Wanta - the Trillion Dollar Man.
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David Lynch Goes Public With 9/11 Questions

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What the Barrage of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in the US Can Lead To

by element115
Kyle A. Thurber, 32, was arrested on Friday outside the Brattleboro business owned by the family, which lives in Dummerston. Police say he had a loaded rifle when he was taken into custody.

Guilford man has pleaded not guilty to stalking and threatening to kill a Muslim family that he believed were terrorists.
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St Paul's tomb unearthed in Rome

by element115
Archaeologists working for the Vatican have unearthed a sarcophagus containing what they believe are the remains of St Paul the Apostle.

The tomb dates back to at least AD390 and was found in a crypt under a basilica in Rome.
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Follow God or vanish, Ahmadinejad tells West

December 6, 2006 by element115
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the earth".
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Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week

by element115
Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.

The horror.
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Ten Verses Never Preached On

by element115
Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV

"No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord."

2Kings 2:23-24 NKJV

"So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths."

...and more -->
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Lebanese fear Muslim civil war

by element115
Was the shot that killed Mahmoud the first shot in a new civil war between Lebanon's Sunnis and Shiites, who have never fought before?

Orchestrated, premeditated and executed!
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New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology

by element115
...recently achieved a world-record conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent, establishing a new milestone in sunlight-to-electricity performance. This breakthrough may lead to systems with an installation cost of only $3 per watt, producing electricity at a cost of 8-10 cents per kilowatt/hour, making solar electricity a more cost-competitive and integral part of our nation?s energy mix.
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French version of CNN-style channel premieres on internet

by element115
Chirac said France 'has its view of the world and should broadcast this view.'

France 24 went on air via live streaming at www.france24.com. At 1929 GMT station president Alain de Pouzilhac ceremoniously pushed a button on a computer console to begin the broadcast.
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Radiation traces found in UK embassy in Moscow

by element115
A foreign office spokeswoman declined to say what had caused the radiation or where the contamination had been found.

...the "poisoned spy" story gets bigger and bigger every day.
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Baker panel's mention of Palestinian "right of return" raises eyebrows

by element115
...broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts.
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Top Democrat Wants More Troops

by element115
As the debate over Iraq intensifies, leading Democrat Silvestre Reyes is calling for the deployment of more U.S. troops.
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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows on Mars

by element115
NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
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Mr. Gates' War

by element115
Gates won't have clean hands when he arrives on the path that's already been blazed. He was tied up in some fashion with Saddam in the past, providing Iraq with military intelligence during their battles with Iran. He's not a newbie to the global manipulation game that our government calls foreign policy. Gates may have indeed sacrificed a sweet spot in his life by giving up the presidency of Texas A&M, but, he's already indicated his determination, his ambition, to own Iraq, along with Bush and the other dilatantes we routinely elevate to lord over us; who divide the product of our sacrifices for their own benefit.
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Iraq panel to Bush: dangerous, get out

by element115
Saying "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating," a bipartisan commission on Wednesday urged stepped-up diplomatic and political efforts to stabilise that country.

...urges a commitment by the United States to work with Iran, Syria and other nations to bring stability to the region.
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Iraq Study Group

by element115
United States Institute of Peace ---> Download the report
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Apartheid Israel

December 5, 2006 by element115
The bankruptcy of Mr. Olmert's speech did accomplish one useful task: it highlighted and capped the current state of world paralysis. In fact, no one knows what to do. Daily in the West Bank, land is taken, people are confined, jobs are ruined or lost, families are divided, hopes are crushed. Daily in Gaza, conditions are far worse, as close to a million people face starvation while mortars, bulldozers, and tanks grind up people's lives. Anguished cries from Beit Hanoun ­ "why? why?" - receive no answer from Israel or anyone else. As one commentator noted, no one notices Gaza as long as the Palestinians' daily death toll remains in the single digits. We leave the Palestinians only the job of dying more dramatically to get any attention at all.
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The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War

by element115
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." They have done that, incessantly, and it is the source of the surrealism. Spins, evasions, omissions, jingoisms, distortions, "perception management" (i.e., propaganda), and deliberate lying all contribute to a political discourse adrift from what is honest, true, and reliable.
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Gates Pentagon Quotes

by element115
Quotes from Senate confirmation hearings Tuesday on the nomination of Robert Gates, former CIA director, to be secretary of Defense.
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Alps are warmest in 1,300 years

by element115
"We are currently experiencing the warmest period in the Alpine region in 1,300 years," Reinhard Boehm, a climatologist at Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics said.
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Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data

by element115
...the site allows users to upload data - any data - and display it to other users visually. The number of page views your website generates. Or a stock price over time. Weather data. Commodity prices. The number of Bald Eagles in Washington state. Whatever. Uploaded data can be rated, commented and bookmared by other users, helping to sort the interesting (and accurate) wheat from the chaff. And graphs of data can be embedded into websites. So it is in fact a bit like a YouTube for Data.
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Fair and Open Access to Internet is Crucial to Free Speech

by element115
...several telecom companies and members of Congress are trying to compromise the First Amendment rights of citizens and residents by installing gatekeepers on the Internet. In pending legislation, they propose to cement into law a recent, misguided regulatory decision to scrap the guiding principle maintaining Internet access and fairness since its inception.
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A few filthy rich own half the world: study

by element115
The Economic Times --> The richest two per cent of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth, according to a study released on Tuesday.

...the richest 10 per cent of adults accounted for 85 per cent of the total global assets.
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Gates Says U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Must Stay

by element115
Robert M. Gates, nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, acknowledged the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq and he warned lawmakers that leaving the country in "chaos" risks a "regional conflagration."
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Russia says it will call shots in Litvinenko probe

by element115
"We will do the interviewing and they (the British investigators) can only be present during the questioning ... Of course, they can ask us for permission to conduct interviews, which we may or may not grant."
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How the Press Fails America

by element115
An assistant professor of communication at Virginia Tech has a new book studying the massive corruption in Western mainstream media.
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Russert: Why does Bush keep saying 'al Qaeda, al Qaeda, al Qaeda' while discussing Iraq?

by element115
On NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert asked National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley to explain why President George W. Bush keeps harping on al Qaeda while discussing the insurgency in Iraq.
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Human Trafficking and slavery at all time high

by element115
* 27 million slaves exist in our world today
* The International Labor Office (ILO) projects that the slave trade generates $32 billion annually. It's on a path to overtake drugs and arms trafficking as the biggest criminal enterprise on the globe.
* More slaves are in bondage today than were bartered in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
* Each year 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold, or forced across the world's borders.
* Nearly 200,000 people live enslaved at this moment in the United States, and an additional 17,500 new victims are trafficked into our borders each year.
* Over 30,000 additional slaves are transported through the U.S. on their way to other international destinations.
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9/11 Photos taken from air by Russian pilot

by element115
The author of the photos says he doesn't believe at all that this maneuver could be done by some rookie who just graduated from "Florida Flight School".
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Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon

by element115
Soldiers roll up in a Hummer. Suddenly, the whole right half of your body is screaming in agony. You feel like you've been dipped in molten lava. You almost faint from shock and pain, but instead you stumble backwards -- and then start running. To your surprise, everyone else is running too. In a few seconds, the street is completely empty.

You've just been hit with a new nonlethal weapon that has been certified for use in Iraq.
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Fiji military seizes power in bloodless coup

by element115
Fiji was plunged into its fourth coup in 20 years today, after the military ousted the prime minister, Laisenia Qarese, and took control of the government.
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Israel offers to free 1,000 in exchange for release of Shalit

by element115
The two Hamas leaders were expected to have reached an agreement on the deal that is being negotiated for the release of Shalit in exchange for the freeing of many Palestinian prisoners.
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Iraq worse than civil war: Annan

by element115
"Given the level of violence, the level of killing and bitterness and the way that forces are arranged against each other, a few years ago, when we had the strife in Lebanon and other places, we called that a civil war; this is much worse," Annan said.
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An appeal for an abandoned people

by element115
Maybe they are just conveniently forgetting other periods in Gaza's turbulent and blood-stained history, but most Gazans will tell you that 2006 is the worst year they can remember.
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Russian agents the poisoners: UK spies

by element115
BRITISH intelligence services are convinced the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was authorised by Russia's secret service, the FSB.

Security sources in London say the FSB orchestrated a "highly sophisticated plot" and is likely to have used some of its former agents to carry out the operation on the streets of the city.
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An Inconvenient Truth

by element115
Al Gore's documentary on the dangers of climate change and global warming.
1 hr 36 min 26 sec

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Paralytic Apocalypse.

by element115
An unknown limb lying in the street is not even an object of curiosity. Smashed jaws, teeth, eyes, nails pulled out are nothing but sentences.
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Jose Padilla In Chains

December 4, 2006 by element115
The photos, taken from an unclassified Department of Defense video shot at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., show some of the precautions taken by officers (who are dressed in camouflage and riot gear) when transporting the 36-year-old Padilla.
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US tells banks to shut down Iran operations

by element115
Several of the UK's largest banks fear they could face the full legislative wrath of the US government unless they bow to Washington's pressure to shut their operations in Iran.
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Was ex-spy trying to sell dirty bomb?

by element115
The radiation spy scandal took a sensational twist last night with the revelation that KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko had converted to Islam before he died.

Scotland Yard detectives are now trying to discover if he had any secret links with Islamic extremist terror groups.
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NASA Says It Will Set Up Moon Camp

by element115
NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024.
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The cease-fire will go up in flames

by element115
Gideon Levy, Haaretz --> Here is the forecast: In a few days, there will be a targeted killing operation. The military correspondents will recite: "He was one of the senior operatives of Hamas (or Islamic Jihad), and was responsible for producing and smuggling large amounts of armaments." In response, a barrage of Qassams will fall on Sderot. One of the residents might be injured. In the process of the targeted killing operation, some passersby might also be killed; the correspondents will then recite: "They were armed."

Several days later, there might be a terror attack. The leaders of the right-wing parties and the Labor Party will be interviewed on television and will recite: "Abu Mazen has once again demonstrated that he is incapable and unwilling to fight terror. There is no one to talk to." Public Security Minister Avi Dichter will propose turning Beit Hanun into a ghost town. Eli Yishai will suggest bombing from the air. The next day, Qassams will fall again, and the IDF will enter the northern Gaza Strip. The cease-fire will go up in flames.
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The dollar melts as Iraq burns

by element115
The demise of the dollar has clear links to the Iraq war and the world's loss of confidence in America's elites.

We have to ask: is the American financial empire on the brink?
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From the Frying Pan into the Red Mud

by element115
We are under siege by a system gone mad, an economic system gone berserk, unaccountable to anyone and responsible to nothing because this system has no rules. It can do anything it wants to anyone, any living organism.
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Bolton quits as U.N. ambassador

by element115
President accepts resignation; envoy to step down when appointment ends.
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The Putin bodyguard riddle

by element115
A former bodyguard to President Vladimir Putin was murdered with a poison that produced symptoms remarkably similar to those of Alexander Litvinenko it emerged yesterday.
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Israel creates new ministry to deal with Iran threat

by element115
The Israeli government has approved the creation of a new ministry for strategic affairs, to be headed by a controversial ultra-nationalist, Avigdor Lieberman.
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George Bush: The Voices In His Head

by element115
Far from being the first time, the question arises about our President - what is wrong with this guy?
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Global Dimming

by element115
...a documentary that deals with a climatic phenomenon that has been seriously underestimated and how this should force us to recognise that global warming is a far greater threath than has previously been assumed. It's from the BBC so it's very good, clear and to the point.

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Bush's Meeting With A Murderer

by element115
President George W. Bush meets today with Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shiite fundamentalist party that is strongly tied to Iran. In so doing, the president is meeting with someone who, perhaps more than anyone else in Iraq, is responsible for trying to destroy Iraqi national unity, prevent national reconciliation among Iraq?s ethnic and sectarian mix, and push Iraq into civil war. Al-Hakim, who was virtually Fed-Ex?d into Iraq by the Pentagon in March 2003, was a mainstay of the Iraqi National Congress, led by neoconservative darling Ahmed Chalabi throughout the 1990s. And today al-Hakim controls the SCIRI militia, the Badr Brigade, the Iraqi interior ministry and many of Iraq?s feared death squads. Not to put too fine a point on it, Hakim is a mass murderer.
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"Do I Have a Terrorist Score on File With Homeland Security?"

by element115
...if you travel internationally, you probably have a "terrorist score" that rates how risky you are.
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The Withering of the Bush Dynasty

by element115
The Bush family considers itself among the special chosen ones if based only on its royal heritage. The family is connected by blood to every European monarch on and off the throne including every member of the British House of Windsor. That relationship is more than familial and extends to the president's father having close business dealings with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip who themselves are connected to the notorious Carlyle Group that also employs GHW Bush as a "senior consultant" and master-rainmaker/fixer-arranger at a very high price for his services.
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U.S. funding Somali warlords

by element115
The United States has been funnelling more than $100,000 a month to warlords battling Islamist militia in Somalia.

U.S. government officials refused to discuss any possible secret U.S. involvement in the strategically placed Horn of Africa state, which has been wrecked by years of fighting.
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Murderous army

by element115
There is no doubt that the Israeli occupation army is trying very hard to kill the de facto ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. (The term 'ceasefire' is itself misleading to a large extent since it implies a false impression of parity between the Israeli occupiers and the Palestinian victims of occupation). And the chief means to do so is by continuing to murder Palestinian civilians, raid Palestinian homes, abduct Palestinian political activists and officials and terrorize ordinary people in the West Bank.
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Bush Crime Family Crony Robert Gates a Shoo-In

by element115
Gates was at the core of the so-called Iran-Contra affair, but then it is business as usual in Washington, as the Bush administration is packed like a sardine tin with Iran-Contra criminals. Lawrence E. Walsh, the independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation, knew Gates was lying about his collaboration with fellow criminal, now respected Fox News talking head, Oliver North, the guy who wanted to suspend the Constitution and throw demonstrators in gulags under Rex-84. In 1984, as understudy and protégé of then CIA director-ghoul, William Casey, Gates wanted to bomb the dickens out of Nicaragua.
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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss says pro-US government follows orders from Washington

by element115
Lebanese former Prime Minister Salim Hoss said that the current government of Fouad Saniora will not seek to find a solution to the political crisis in the country, because its decision to stay or to leave lies in the hands of the US administration.
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Media Cranks Up Hard Sell of Biometric and RFID Microchipped Future

December 3, 2006 by element115
Biometric authentication, according to the MSNBC talking head, will save us.
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Apocalypse now?

by element115
Toronto Star --> "There's not just frustration, there is now fear in the West..."
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Boeing Accused of Running Torture Travel Agency

by element115
Since 2003, human-rights investigators and news media reports have described a Boeing Business Jet as one of the most-dreaded planes in the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine air force.
The modified 737 - a model rolled out in Renton in 2001 - was built for executive fun and comfort. But it is alleged to be the flagship of the CIA's "extreme rendition" squadron, ferrying suspected terrorists to secret agency prisons or countries where the U.S. is said to outsource torture.
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Dustin Hoffman Says Bush Manipulates 9-11

by element115
"I think that the administration manipulated the grief of 9/11. They did it then and they do it now."

"Everybody knows why they wanted to go into Iraq and it had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction."

"I'm an American and it's not a good feeling. When Americans say, 'I don't know why they hate us so much,' that's an uneducated response. There are lots of reasons why we're hated."
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War is more likely if Siniora quits

by element115
Chances of another war in Lebanon would increase should Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora choose to resign, according to former chief of Israel Defense Forces Army Intelligence Corps, Major General (res.) Aharon Ze'evi Farkash.
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Putin wanted Blair to gag poisoned spy

by element115
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has expressed his anger at Britain?s failure to gag Alexander Litvinenko in the final hours of his life, the cabinet has been told.

This weekend a potential suspect ? Andrei Lugovoi ? admitted he had been contaminated with the radioactive poison polonium-210 but insisted: "I've been framed."
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The House of Death

by element115
When 12 bodies were found buried in the garden of a Mexican house, it seemed like a case of drug-linked killings. But the trail led to Washington and a cover-up that went right to the top.
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An 'Enemy' Interrogation On Tape

by element115
Lawyers for "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla claim he is so disoriented from three years of isolation and aggressive interrogations that he is now mentally ill.

In new court filings, Padilla's lawyers also assert for the first time that Padilla's interrogations were taped, thereby providing a potentially extensive video record of how the government treated a man once considered a dangerous Qaeda operative.
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Bush's Shrinking Options

by element115
The notion bruited about Washington that James A. Baker is a deus ex machina imposed by President Bush to resolve the entangled Iraqi plot is nonsense.
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Saddam's lawyers file appeal against death sentence

by element115
The defense lawyers of Saddam officially appealed to the higher court today against the death penalty imposed on Saddam and another two co-defendants, said the official.
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Probe of ex-spy's death widening beyond Britain

by element115
Yuri Shvets told the AP he gave investigators the name of the person he believed was behind Litvinenko's death.
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Venezuelan President Chavez Wins Re-Election

by element115
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won re-election, giving him six more years to use the country's oil wealth to help the poor and stir up anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America.
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Malaysia mulls Internet laws against bloggers

by element115
Malaysia may introduce tough Internet laws to control bloggers and prevent them from spreading "disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies" on their websites, a report has said.
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'The Times' Continues to Understate the Influence of Feith's "Gestapo Office" in the Run-up to War

by element115
Mr. Risen also fails to mention the five legitimate Intelligence Community (IC) reports, dating from September 2001 to January 2003, which found no significant operational Iraq-al Qaeda links. Knowledge of these reports requires us to ask why the PCEG's erroneous briefings trumped the ultimately correct IC reports, which Vice President Cheney dismissed as "crap." Presumably a congress controlled by Democrats will ask why.
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Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils

by element115
"Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory," the bishop said.
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Rumsfeld's Memo of Options for Iraq War

December 2, 2006 by element115
Following is the text of a classified Nov. 6 memorandum that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent to the White House suggesting new options in Iraq. The memorandum was sent one day before the midterm Congressional elections and two days before Mr. Rumsfeld resigned.
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IDF soldier gets two weeks for shooting Palestinian

by element115
An Israel Defense Forces soldier who shot and seriously injured a Palestinian at a roadblock, was sentenced to 14 days in a military prison.
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Bob Gates & Locking You Up Forever

by element115
As the next Defense Secretary, Robert M. Gates will be in charge of a new star-chamber legal system that can lock up indefinitely ?unlawful enemy combatants? and ?any person? accused of aiding them. Yet, despite these extraordinary new powers, his confirmation is being treated more like a coronation than a time for tough questions.
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North Korea offers Uranium in exchange for Russian support

by element115
North Korea has offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for open support at the six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons.
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He's The Worst Ever

by element115
washingtonpost --> Ever since 1948, when Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked 55 historians to rank U.S. presidents on a scale from "great" to "failure," such polls have been a favorite pastime for those of us who study the American past.
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Litvinenko affair

by element115
'Potentially fatal' level of polonium found in Italian.

Dose in Litvinenko would have cost £20m - expert.
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Huge protest brings Beirut to a standstill

by element115
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians waving Lebanese flags poured into central Beirut yesterday as opposition leaders gave impassioned speeches calling for the resignation of the cabinet and the formation of a new, more inclusive government.

A tent city was set up for the thousands who vowed to stay outside the government offices where the prime minister, Fouad Siniora, and most of his ministers were holed up behind barbed wire and barriers until the cabinet stepped down.
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UN human rights inquiry: Israel should compensate Lebanon

by element115
Israel denounced the UN investigation.
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FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

by element115
The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
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Beirut protestors call on PM to resign

by element115
Hundreds of thousands of opponents of Lebanon?s western-backed government took over the centre of the capital on Friday, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the formation of a government of national unity.
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Spy's friend tests positive for polonium 210

December 1, 2006 by element115
The Italian academic who met former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he was allegedly poisoned has tested positive for radiation, it was disclosed today.
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How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech

by element115
...with the principle of hate speech enshrined in American law, it will be open season on positions contrary to those of the positioned.
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In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep

by element115
"...ship them out of this country...they are here to kill us."

"I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland.
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Airport X-ray screening

by element115


The federal government plans this month to launch the nation's first airport screening system that takes potentially revealing X-ray photos of travelers.
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New Rules Make Firms Track E-Mails, IMs

by element115
U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into effect Friday, legal experts say.
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Ancient Egyptians built Pyramids with concrete blocks, scientists say

by element115
The Ancient Egyptians built their great Pyramids by pouring concrete into blocks high on the site rather than hauling up giant stones, according to a new Franco-American study.
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Doctors suspect ex-PM was poisoned

by element115
Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who is gravely ill, believe he was poisoned.
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Like Hitler and Brezhnev, Bush is in denial

by element115
Robert Fisk --> History's "deniers" are many - and all subject to the same folly: faced with overwhelming evidence of catastrophe, they take refuge in fantasy, dismissing evidence of collapse as a symptom of some short-term setback, clinging to the idea that as long as their generals promise victory - or because they have themselves so often promised victory - that fate will be kind. George W Bush - or Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara for that matter - need not feel alone. The Middle East has produced these fantasists by the bucketful over past decades.
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