Gunmen Hijack Bus in Northern Italy

May 15, 2007 by element115
Three armed men hijacked a regional bus Tuesday in northern Italy and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off- duty police officer was injured and two of the three hijackers were apprehended.
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TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73

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The founder of the Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse at Liberty University and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later.
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Rove was Mastermind Behind the Fired US Attorneys

May 14, 2007 by element115
Nearly half of the US attorneys slated for removal were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax in prosecuting voter fraud, "including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions of election- law violations, according to new documents and interviews."
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Travolta spearheads Scientologists' attack on BBC

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The Panorama programme, to be shown tonight, investigates whether the Church of Scientology has moved away from its past as a brainwashing cult.
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'The scariest man in Washington'

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In an interview in his office overlooking Congress, he said his main concern is to discover why Mr Bush took the country to war. The issue has been churned over by journalists, by books from insiders and in reports but Mr Waxman does not feel anyone has yet got to the heart of the matter.
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New Russian gas deal bad news for Europe: US

by element115
European officials have voiced mounting concern over the power that Moscow wields because of its massive oil and gas reserves, as well as its control of energy supply transportation from Central Asia.
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Iran detains US academic after claims she is a spy

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accused her of being a spy for the US and Israel. "She has been one of the main elements of Mossad in driving a velvet revolution strategy in Iran," the newspaper wrote. "She formed two networks, including Iranian activists, in the US and Dubai for toppling down (the Islamic government)."
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Rice denies new 'Cold War' as she arrives in Moscow

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"It is not an easy time in the relationship," Ms Rice conceded on her way to the Russian capital. "But it is also not, I think, a time in which cataclysmic things are affecting the relationship or catastrophic things are happening in the relationship." Russia and the West are at crisis point over a wide range of issues, from planned US missile defence systems in eastern Europe to the future of Kosovo.
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Trial Opens for Former 'Enemy Combatant' Padilla

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Opening statements began Monday in the trial of Jose Padilla and two co-defendants whom federal prosecutors allege were part of a terrorism-support network in Miami.
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Senator Mike Gravel Offers A Plan Guaranteed To End The War In Iraq

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"When the presidency falls into the hands of a messianic true-believer like Bush the result is a morally questionable foreign policy and a domestic disaster threatening the nation's safety."

"In the face of a President oblivious to human suffering and death, the voting public is the only power that can stop the war."
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Fresh fighting breaks Gaza truce

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Two people are reported to have been killed and at least 10 wounded as Fatah and Hamas gunmen exchanged fire.
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Active-Duty Generals Will ‘Revolt’ Against Bush If He Maintains Escalation Into 2008

May 13, 2007 by element115
Appearing on NBC’s Chris Matthews Show this morning, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker revealed that sources within the military are warning of “a revolt from active-duty generals if September rolls around and the president is sticking with the surge into ‘08.”
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For Giuliani, 9/11 Led to Riches

by element115
On Dec. 7, 2001, nearly three months after the terrorist attack that had made him a national hero and a little over three weeks before he would leave office, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani took the first official step toward making himself rich.
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U.S. Aims to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Statement

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A draft proposal dated April 2007 that is being debated in Bonn, Germany, this weekend by senior officials of the Group of Eight includes a pledge to limit the global temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as an agreement to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

The United States is seeking to strike that section, the documents show.
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Officials: Taliban Commander Killed

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Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and NATO troops, officials said Sunday.
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Man Throws a Burning Object At a Portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square

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A man threw a burning object at a portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, slightly damaging it and prompting police to close the nearby imperial palace, a news report said Sunday.

"Armed police are guarding the area and visitors are forbidden to enter the Forbidden City."
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Cheney Impeachment Picks Up Steam

May 12, 2007 by element115
Congressman Albert Wynn of Maryland joins representatives William Lacy Clay, Jr. of Missouri and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois as a co-sponsor of the articles of impeachment filed against Cheney on April 24. Wynn calls Cheney "the architect of the Administration's deception about the war".
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Michael Moore Responds to Treasury Secretary's Investigation Threat

by element115
Under investigation by the Bush administration for taking ill 9/11 clean up workers to Cuba for better treatment than they received in America, Moore answers, "I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide."
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Impeach Bush or Get Rid of the Impeachment Clause

by element115
If this president is not to be impeached, Congress may as well amend the Constitution to remove the impeachment clause. It will, in that case, have become as much an anachronism as prohibition.
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Canadians lining up to join spy agency

by element115
Maybe it was the shock of 9/11. Maybe it is the reality of Canadians dying in the "war on terror" or charges against so-called "home-grown" terrorists.

Or maybe it's stronger recruiting efforts by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), including outreach in ethnic communities.
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Former Powell Aide: Bush, Cheney Guilty Of “High Crimes”

May 11, 2007 by element115
..."it's high crimes and misdemeanors. You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors or Dick Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance."
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Nebraska Teacher Taken Out Of Classroom For Showing Iraq Documentary

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Michael Baker worked for the Lincoln, Nebraska, public schools since 1981.

But after he showed the documentary “Baghdad ER” to his geography class on April 18, his career there was over.
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This perfect storm will finally destroy the neocon project

by element115
Americans are sick of the unrepentant arrogance of this elite. But the realisation has come at a very heavy cost.
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Congratulations! You May Already Be A Terrorist

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Only an insensate clod – someone as dim as Mr. Dull Normal, the current occupant of the Oval Office – could miss the fact that the Regime systematically violates the “principles laid out by the U.S. Constitution. And only a hypocrite or a State-employed sociopath could believe that the Regime is not transgressing God's law.
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Cheney Warns Iran

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Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop today to warn the country that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting off oil routes or “gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.”
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Outsourcing the War

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""What happens here today, stays here today." That should be chilling to everyone who believes that warfare, above all government functions, must be subject to transparency, accountability and the rule of law". A cogent review of why allowing mercenariness to roam free n Iraq is wrong.
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Iraqi lawmakers push for U.S. withdrawal

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A majority of Iraq's parliament has signed a proposed bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels, a sign of a growing division between Iraqi legislators and the prime minister that mirrors the widening gulf between the Bush administration and its critics in Congress.
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Bush changes plan for emergency shadow government

May 10, 2007 by element115
President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise, "decapitating" attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility for coordinating such plans to the White House.

Administration, Not DHS, Would Run Shadow Government.
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Documents show US had propaganda campaign plan two months before invasion

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Months before the US invaded Iraq, Pentagon planners were developing an elaborate propaganda campaign to ensure US government-"approved" information was broadcast to the Iraqi public, according to a previously classified White Paper released Tuesday by the independent National Security Archives.
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Noah's Ark project

by element115
Over the next 10 years, researchers will gather every scrap of information that exists on the planet's 1.8 million known species of animals, plants and other organisms to build up an enormous Encyclopedia of Life. When completed, it will be made available freely to anyone with an internet connection, as the most comprehensive repository of life as we know it.
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Israelis plan more homes on occupied land

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...three new Jewish settlements on land it occupied in 1967, in contravention of international law, it was announced yesterday. The estates will be built on land that has been earmarked for a future Palestinian state, close to Bethlehem and Ramallah.
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House Approves Iraq War Funding Bill

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"The president has brought us to this point by vetoing the first Iraq Accountability Act and refusing to pay for this war responsibly," declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "He has grown accustomed to the free hand on Iraq he had before January 4. Those days are over."

"He's come off his pedestal," said Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funds defense.
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Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation

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More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country.
The U.S. media ignored the story.
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Olmert defends Lebanon war, blames army for setbacks

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defended his decision to go to war with Hezbollah last year before a probe panel into the conflict, but blamed the army commanders for setbacks, according to testimony unveiled on Thursday which led to renewed calls for his resignation.
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Putin likens U.S. foreign policy to that of Third Reich

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President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.
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Tony Blair Announces He'll Resign In June

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who a little more than 10 years ago became the youngest prime minister of the 20th century at age 43, announced on Thursday his plans to step down as the country's leader next month. He'll resign on June 27, making way for Treasury chief Gordon Brown to take his place.
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21 Afghan Civilians Killed by U.S.

May 9, 2007 by element115
Airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Wednesday. One coalition soldier was also killed.
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Giuliani: Freedom Means Submitting to Authority

by element115
Excerpts from Giuliani speech: "We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority."
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Bruce Willis Says JFK Killers Still In Power

by element115
In a new magazine interview, Bruce Willis spills the beans on his skepticism that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK, and suggests that the some of the same criminals who killed Kennedy are still in power today.
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State Department erases all references to escort-linked Bush official

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The State Department and the US Agency for International Development have instructed employees to remove all references in publications and other materials to a top official who resigned after his name turned up as a former client of "DC Madam" Deborah Jean Palfrey.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates Contradicts Bush

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During today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he doesn’t know whether the 2002 resolution authorizing force in Iraq is still valid, acknowledging that his view differs with that of President Bush.
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Cost of Our War

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What does $456 billion buy?
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British Royal Navy's newest class of submarine

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...the most extraordinary feature of the British-built sub is that it will never need to be refuelled throughout its 25-year lifespan.
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The Legacy of Agent Orange

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During the Vietnam War, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed across regions of the country.

This gallery contains disturbing images -->
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Bush Would Veto Democrats' New Iraq Bill

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President Bush would veto any bill drafted by House Democratic leaders that would fund the Iraq war only into summer, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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NASA's Return to the Moon trailer

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Pelosi threat to sue Bush over Iraq bill

by element115
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill.
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Cheney overheard in Iraq: ‘Kick the press out.’

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Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions.
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Anti-Sarkozy protests in Paris, students strike

by element115
Shouting slogans like "Sarko fascist! The people will have your hide!" and "Police everywhere, justice nowhere!", the demonstrators were cornered by hundreds of police close to the nearby Luxembourg Gardens.
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Raids across Germany on G-8 fears

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Hundreds of police on Wednesday raided the offices and apartments of left-wing activists suspected of planning to disrupt next month's Group of Eight summit, and security officials tightened border controls ahead of the gathering.
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Brown about to take over in Britain

by element115
With Prime Minister Tony Blair expected to announce Thursday his plans to step down as leader of the Labour Party, Britons seem set to trade the Great Communicator for the Great Puzzle - Blair's most likely successor, James Gordon Brown.
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Widow of July 7 bomber arrested

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Police arrested the widow of one of the London suicide bombers of July 7, 2005, along with three other suspects on Wednesday, a source familiar with the operation said.
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Cheney in Baghdad to put pressure on Maliki

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Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise trip to Iraq. The visit was part of the Bush administration's campaign to keep pressure on Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government to forge ahead with legislation to mend sectarian rifts.
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Palestinian group claims to have BBC correspondent

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"We demand from Britain that it release our prisoners and particularly Sheik Abu Qatada the Palestinian and in this regard we do not forget our prisoners in other infidel countries," the statement said, according to Al Jazeera's English-language website.
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39% of Americans support impeachment

May 8, 2007 by element115
A poll published Tuesday shows that close to 40% of Americans favor the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Retired U.S. Army generals to make TV commercials criticizing Bush's handling of Iraq war

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Two retired Army major generals with experience in Iraq will appear in television commercials critical of President George W. Bush's handling of the war. The ads, to begin airing Wednesday, take aim at key Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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China orders resettlement of thousands of Tibetans

by element115
In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth of the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent.
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REAL ID Action Required Now

by element115
The Department of Homeland Security as published draft rules regarding REAL ID, and are requesting comments.
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Cheney "X'd" off the DC Madam's list

by element115
WMR has confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton during the time of his liaisons with the Pamela Martin & Associates escort firm. Palfrey's phone invoices extend back to 1996 and include calls to and from Cheney.

The White House saw to it that ABC/Disney killed the DC Madam's story before yet another scandal swamped the Bush administration.
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Former Israeli PM asks Olmert to resign

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has asked current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign his post for mishandling of the Second Lebanon War.
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Castro blames US for plane hijack bid

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Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused the United States on Monday of inspiring two Cuban military deserters who killed an officer during their failed attempt to hijack a plane to escape from Cuba.
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Archaeologist Finds Tomb of King Herod

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Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer said the tomb was found at Herodium, where he has been exploring since the 1970s. The site has long been believed to be Herod's burial ground.
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Six Men Arrested in Plot to Attack US Army Base in New Jersey

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The men are to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Camden, New Jersey, to face charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. servicemen. Authorities say the six were planning to enter the army base and kill as many soldiers as possible.
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New Media: This Ain’t Your Corporate Media Anymore!

by element115
The resounding moment of truth during Thursday’s Reagan-raptured debate came when Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul said he preferred Internet reporting to mainstream media, and then strongly defended the need for Internet freedom and independence.
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Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people

by element115
The research confirms the "Out Of Africa" hypothesis that all modern humans stem from a single group of Homo sapiens who emigrated from Africa 2,000 generations ago and spread throughout Eurasia over thousands of years. These settlers replaced other early humans (such as Neanderthals), rather than interbreeding with them.
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US and Saudis Sponsoring Covert Action Against Iran

May 7, 2007 by element115
The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.
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Hundreds Are Arrested in Post-Election Riots Across France

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Many people fear that the violence is just a taste of what is to come if Mr. Sarkozy makes good on his campaign promises to push through divisive legislation during his first 100 days in office.
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Jews and Freemasons controlled war on Iraq, says Blair' adviser

May 6, 2007 by element115
Telegraph, UK --> Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, Ahmad Thomson who advises the Prime Minister has claimed.

Mr Thomson said: "Pressure was put on Tony Blair before the invasion. The way it works is that pressure is put on people to arrive at certain decisions. It is part of the Zionist plan and it is shaping events."
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Obama Carefully Courts Jewish Vote

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Presidential Candidate Has Recalibrated His Words On Israel And Middle East Peace Process.
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Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Government's 9/11 Story is Crazy

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The following psychiatrists and psychologists have concluded that the official version of 9/11 is false. Moreover, many of these mental health experts have concluded that the government's account is so obviously false that people who believe the government's version are in psychological denial.
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Bush Is Now A Lame Duck

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CBS --> George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office.
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Clash at U.N.-Run Gaza School Kills One and Wounds 6

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Protesters threw stones at the lawmaker’s car, and his bodyguards opened fire.
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Hamas rejects timeline proposed by U.S.

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The Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, said Israel is planning a military operation against the Palestinians.

"We in Hamas are also preparing ourselves for battle, and we expect hot months," he said. He urged all Palestinian groups to "seriously prepare themselves for battle."
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Olmert congratulates French people on election of Nicolas Sarkozy

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Olmert expressed his confidence that Israel's relations with France will strengthen during Sarkozy's term in office.
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Sarkozy takes French presidency

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Riot police have fired tear gas at a small group of demonstrators who were protesting in central Paris against Mr Sarkozy's victory.

According to the French news agency AFP, a few hundred stone-throwing rioters charged the police in the Place de la Bastille, where 5,000 supporters of Segolene Royal had earlier gathered to hear the results.
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Riots in France following election results

by element115
The disturbances happened at the Place de la Bastille, a popular hub for demonstrations and strikes.

Thousands of police have been deployed in the capital and its suburbs.
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Bush: "I'm The Commander Guy"

May 5, 2007 by element115
VIDEO --> "And that’s what we do. We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear — I’m the commander guy."
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Tragedy in Kansas

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Aerial footage of the devastation
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Greensburg Tornado Damage

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Pictures
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People Powered Impeachment

May 4, 2007 by element115
Thousands of people have called Speaker Pelosi’s office today asking that Bush and Cheney be impeached. Now is your chance to make a difference! Pick up your phone and call other leading Democrats in Congress and fill up their voicemail with a simple message: "I Support the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney."
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Bush Plays the Qaeda Card Again

by element115
President Bush is at odds with the American public and a restive congressional majority over the Iraq war, and even some Republicans talk about imposing new requirements that could trigger a troop withdrawal.

It's time to play the Qaeda card.

In a speech about Iraq yesterday morning at the Willard Hotel, the president mentioned Osama bin Laden's group -- 27 times. "For America, the decision we face in Iraq is not whether we ought to take sides in a civil war, it's whether we stay in the fight against the same international terrorist network that attacked us on 9/11."
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We have the technology to tackle global warming

by element115
In the third in a series of reports, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that keeping the rise in temperatures to within 2C would cost only 0.12 per cent of annual gross domestic product if governments exploited new technologies to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

"It's a low premium to pay to reduce the risk of major climate damage."
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Bush Expected to Veto 'Hate Crimes' Bill

May 3, 2007 by element115
This bill would be the first bill to extend hate crimes protection to homosexuals - Bush says he plans to veto it because it infringes on free speech.
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The impeachment train is starting to roll

by element115
The two co-sponsors signing on to the bill give it a much stronger chance of being taken seriously in the House Judiciary Committee headed by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and follow a week of intense impeachment activities across the country.
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The Elephant in the Room

by element115
George W. Bush has the lowest presidential approval rating in a generation.

28 percent
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Hate Crimes Made Legal

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Canada unveils C$1 million coin

by element115
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of C$1 million (455,000 pounds) that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin.
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Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination

May 2, 2007 by element115
Bobby Kennedy constructed the outlines of the crime that day -- a crime, he immediately concluded, that went far beyond Lee Harvey Oswald.

...privately he derided the Warren Report as nothing more than a public relations exercise designed to reassure the public.

Robert Kennedy did not live long enough to solve his brother's assassination. But nearly 40 years after his own murder, a growing body of evidence suggests that Kennedy was on the right trail before he too was cut down.
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World is walking 10% faster

by element115
The pace at which city dwellers walk has increased by 10 per cent in the last decade, a new study has shown.
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Vatican calls verbal attack on Pope "terrorism"

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"This, too, is terrorism. It's terrorism to launch attacks on the Church."
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Israeli Foreign Minister to ask Olmert to resign

by element115
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is expected to ask beleaguered Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign during a meeting later on Wednesday, a senior official in her office said.

Polls show vast majority of Israelis want Olmert to resign over mishandling of Lebanon war.
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Bush exercises veto on Iraq funding

by element115
George Bush has vetoed a Democrat bill that tied an additional $124bn funding for the Iraq war with troop withdrawal.
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Brown to be PM 'in weeks' - Blair

May 1, 2007 by element115
Tony Blair has said he expects "in all probability" that Chancellor Gordon Brown will succeed him as prime minister "in the next few weeks".

Mr Blair says he will announce his resignation next week.
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Ex-CIA analyst: Forged 'yellowcake' memo 'leads right back to' Cheney

by element115
A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Rage Against The Machine Anti-Bush Rant

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Rice Rebuts Tenet’s Assertion That ’01 Warning Was Ignored

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In his new book, “At the Center of the Storm,” to be published on Monday, Mr. Tenet wrote that there had been no “serious debate” within the Bush administration about whether Iraq posed an imminent threat or on how a long American military presence in Iraq might play out; and that his early efforts to warn Ms. Rice and others of Al Qaeda’s threats were treated too lightly.
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US report points terrorism finger at Iran

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The review has also highlighted Iran as a key player in the attacks.
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Wolfowitz hints he may be prepared to resign

by element115
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz attempted to fight his way out of trouble last night – but hinted that he may be prepared to resign if the charges against him of breaking the bank's rules were dropped.
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Pressure builds in Israel for Olmert to step down

by element115
Report finds prime minister responsible for 'severe failures' in war.
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Venezuela to quit World Bank, IMF

by element115
President Hugo Chavez has announced that he would formally pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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