Republicans sending out annoying robo-calls pretending to be Democrats

November 6, 2006 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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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