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"Jei" |
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22 Feb 2004 05:43:37 PM |
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Bush Plans More Wars |
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294 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ.
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Uganda rebels kill nearly 200 in raid:
Ugandan rebels shot and burnt to death 192 people in a camp for displaced civilians in their bloodiest attack in years, a local official said on Sunday.
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4409362
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Suicide bomber identified:
Sunday's suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus that left seven other people dead was carried out by a 23-year-old building labourer who left a toddler and wife behind, devastated relatives said before the Israeli army moved in to arrest them.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1487659,00.html
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Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us :
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5732.htm
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Key findings of the Pentagon :
Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5733.htm
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Haiti Rebels Seize Second-Largest City :
Rebels captured Haiti's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, after just a few hours of fighting Sunday, claiming their biggest prize in a two-week uprising that has driven government forces from most of the country's north.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3777689,00.html
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New Poll: Haitian Americans Say Aristide Should Stay:
A poll of Haitian Americans, likely the first ever, finds most believe Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide should remain in office, though many are disillusioned with his leadership.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=6ac41af3bf7e2293e3f8228089a31cbc
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Kurds Reject Key Parts of Proposed Iraq Constitution :
Kurdish leaders are demanding far broader autonomy, including the right to control military forces in Kurdish areas and the freedom to reject laws passed by the national government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5729.htm
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Start-up Company With Connections:
U.S. authorities in Iraq have awarded more than $400 million in contracts to a start-up company that has extensive family and, according to court documents, business ties to Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon favorite on the Iraqi Governing Council.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5731.htm
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A Secret Hunt Unravels in Afghanistan :
Mission to Capture or Kill al Qaeda Leader Frustrated by Near Misses, Political Disputes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5730.htm
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Bin Laden 'surrounded':
A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is surrounded by US special forces in an area of land bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5728.htm
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Australian helicopter pilot killed in Afghanistan: reports:
The helicopter was reportedly preparing to transport workers from an American construction company when it came under fire while on the ground near Kandahar.
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=79429®ion=7
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Former President Carter:
Americans generally oblivious to suffering elsewhere in the world: Jimmy Carter, condemning the American people as much as their leaders for what he called their indifference to the disease and despair that prevail in much of the developing world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5738.htm
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A Soldier's Story: 'Keep Your Conscience Clean':
If you kill somebody, it's because they were going to kill you. And that's why people say, 'All those f---in' 'Raq heads' (slang for Iraqis). You dehumanize them so when you kill them, you're just killing a 'Raq head. 'Don't worry about it. It's no big deal.' We were supposed to kill them."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5742.htm
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US soldier on frontline in battle for refugee status:
Family moved to Canada after private refused to fight in 'dehumanising' Iraq war
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5739.htm
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Special forces quitting to cash in on Iraq :
BRITAIN’S elite special forces are facing an imminent crisis because record numbers of men are asking to leave their units early, lured by high wages on offer in a growing security industry in Iraq.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=205892004
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Officials: U.S. still paying millions to group that provided false Iraqi intelligence:
The Department of Defense is continuing to pay millions of dollars for information from the former Iraqi opposition group that produced some of the exaggerated and fabricated intelligence President Bush used to argue his case for war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5741.htm
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Is this the face of the man who gave Blair the cue for 45-minute WMD claim?:
A former Iraqi general who disappeared from Denmark three days before the beginning of the war to oust Saddam Hussein is thought to be the man who passed on the notorious "45-minute" claim to British intelligence.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=493879
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Kerry Decries Bush Over Attacks on Record :
John Kerry accused President Bush of using surrogates to attack his military service in Vietnam and his subsequent activism against that war.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/20040222/ap_on_el_pr/kerry
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America as a One-Party State :
Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html
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Zogby Poll Cautions Against Entangling Institutions, Politicking from the Pulpit:
Three in five American adults (59%) say it is important (combined “4” and “5”) to maintain a separation of church and state. Close to half overall (47%) rate it very important.
http://www.interfaithalliance.org/Election2004/Election2004.cfm?ID=5283&c=99
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US Christian Right torments Palestinian Christians:
Why are Palestinian Christians abandoning their homeland? We have lost hope, that’s why. We are treated as non-people. Few outside the Middle East even know we exist, and those who do, conveniently forget.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5735.htm
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Uri Avnery: The dancing bear: How Israel's Sharon plays George Bush
http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery74.htm
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America is complicit in illegal wall...:
WHEN THE International Court of Justice at The Hague meets on Monday about Israel's "security fence" in the West Bank, it should find that the wall constitutes a violation of both fundamental human rights and international law.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/21/america_is_complicit_in_illegal_wall?mode=PF
http://tinyurl.com/2ns7w
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Historic Supreme Court ruling looms:
The Supreme Court agreed to make a ruling that will lead to the most important pronouncements in more than 50 years on the war powers of the executive in our system of government
http://www.ufppc.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=235&Itemid=2
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Bush Policies Leading to State Crises:
State governments are facing the third year of their worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, according to a new AFT report. The primary cause is President George W. Bush’s economic policies, the report says. While workers struggle to find jobs, states are slashing government programs, increasing taxes and laying off workers.
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/education/ns02132004.cfm
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Tobacco and the GOP:
According to a new quarterly report, tobacco interests have given more than $27.2 million in political donations to federal candidates, national parties and non-party political action committees since 1997. Republican candidates and committees have received 80 percent of the tobacco industry's contributions ($21,910,250) and Democratic candidates and committees have received 19 percent of the industry's contributions ($5,087,078).
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/contributions/
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John Pilger: Australia's Enduring Shame:
Once again, the neat, placid surface of white Australia is disturbed by those who owned and cared for this country and remain its internal exiles.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5734.htm
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Green Berets take on spy duties:
The new spy training will enable more Green Berets to enter countries undercover to survey urban or rural settings and set up networks of informants, missions normally executed by CIA paramilitaries.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040219-123000-1473r.htm
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House votes for ignition interlocks on every vehicle :
The House has approved a measure that would require ignition interlocks on every vehicle sold in New Mexico. It would require the devices on new vehicles by 2008 and on used vehicles offered for sale by 2009.
http://www.kobtv.com/html/8646.html
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UK: Sweeping new powers in UK war on terror :
Terror suspects could be convicted on the evidence of 'electronic eavesdropping' of phone calls and emails under sweeping moves to combat the threat of an al-Qaeda atrocity.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,1153576,00.html
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UK: MI5 recruits to meet terror threat :
Home Secretary David Blunkett, will unveil plans for an increase of up to 50% in MI5 staff numbers, taking the total to around 3,000 - back to the levels seen during the Second World War.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3775062,00.html
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Looking for recruits: National Guard Recruiting Methods Raise Eyebrows:
National Guardsmen set up camouflaged tents, fired field artillery and gave students the opportunity to fire automatic weapons during a recruitment drive at Wahtonka High School Wednesday, Feb. 18.
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/local/localnewssub2.shtml
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Truth Or Fiction?:
US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005:
The current agenda of the US federal government is to reinstate the draft in order to staff up for a protracted war on "terrorism." Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR 163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election!
http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/105146.php
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Nuclear expert tells AP Yucca Mt. unsafe:
The nation's nuclear waste dump proposed for Nevada is poorly designed and could leak highly radioactive waste, a scientist who recently resigned from a federal panel of experts on Yucca Mountain
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/02/18/nuclear_expert_tells_ap_yucca_mt_unsafe/
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves:
Since January 1, 2004, the following companies have announced staff reductions and mass layoffs:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5740.htm
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Jobless rate reflects discouragement:
Officially, 8.3 million active job seekers were unemployed last month in the United States, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the federal agency that keeps track of the nation's payrolls also estimated there were 4.9 million more who'd like to work but were so frustrated in their search that they've given up.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2413856
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George W. Bush is persona non grata:
Much of the world sees President George W. Bush as a persona non grata. Unilateral actions, false intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and scandals from Halliburton to the president's National Guard service are giving America and its president a bad name.
http://www.americaspolicy.org/columns/amprog/2004/0402bush.html
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Greenspan warns against U.S. job protectionism:
U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan warned yesterday that "protectionist cures" being advanced to deal with the country's job insecurities would make the situation worse.
http://tinyurl.com/3xt7l
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