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How can 59,054,087 people be so wrong.


An interesting perspecitve of events - nice picture of GWB.
http://www.hermes-press.com/germany1930.htm
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Another reason to feel paranoid


DHS demand for DNS master key alarms nations.
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2007%2F3%2F31%2F1828%2F16663
… When other nations are worried, Americans, too, should be concerned. The Bush administration has demonstrated that it is unable to wield power responsibly. Therefore, its demand for Internet control should be viewed as an opportunity to abuse its authority to control a medium that has played a [...]

Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US Forces against Iran planned


Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US Forces against Iran planned, Russian Military sources war
The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov [...]

Bush ignoring urgent warning about Qaeda ‘comeback’


‘Surge’ debate is same kind of ’sideshow’ as Britney’s scalp; Bush ignoring urgent warning about Qaeda ‘comeback’
…Who lost Iraq? is but a distraction from the more damning question, Who is losing the war on terrorism? …
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Rich_Surge_debate_same_kind_of_0224.html
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When God sanctions killing, the people listen


New research published in the March issue of Psychological Science may help elucidate the relationship between religious indoctrination and violence, a topic that has gained renewed notoriety in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. In the article, University of Michigan psychologist Brad Bushman and his colleagues suggest that scriptural violence sanctioned by God [...]

Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000303,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
Boasts of a nuclear programme are just propaganda, say insiders, but the PR could be enough to provoke Israel into war
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday January 28, 2007
The Observer
Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country [...]

Washington ’snubbed Iran offer’


Why negotiate when war is an option?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6274147.stm
Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion.
Offers, including making its nuclear programme more [...]

Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.


Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
The [...]

Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran


If this doesn’t open up the gates of hell, I don’t know what will.
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Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Uzi Mahnaimi, New York and Sarah Baxter, Washington
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using [...]

Another nail in the coffin of the Bill of Rights


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From The Raw Story
Your Mail Is Officially Not Safe
By Justin Gardner
The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the Act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the [...]