UK prime minister Brown : World owes US a debt!

We sure owe him a big one, for destroying the world, to make our life a living hell, to have increased the availability of Heroin in Asia and world wide by 6000%, by destroying a country and directly or indirectly causing the death of 100s of thousands of people. For making 4 million Iraqis refugees, to make 1/3rd of Iraq in desperate need of food and medicine.Yes Mr. Brown, we owe him a big for all the good that could have happened after 9/11 and it didn’t and it became the exact opposite.

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Gonzales Helped Bush Hide His Drunk Driving Conviction

Nick Juliano: The Washington Post explores Gonzales' "decades of dishonesty", and explores his long relationship as Bush's human shield."Whether Gonzales has deliberately told untruths or is merely hampered by his memory has been the subject of intense debate among members of Congress, legal scholars and others who have watched him over the years,"

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Bush Covers Up Pat Tillman's Murder

Jon Soltz: Unfortunately, the Tillman case just extends the pattern from this President of being unwilling or unable to step up and fix problems.

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“Punishment Park” the video-A must see for all Americans

This movie came out in 1971, it was banned from all TV broadcasting in the US. Do you think this is what is going to happen to the US in a few weeks or months? Is bush the one who will put an end to the US democracy and make it a theocracy with his army of believers?

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It is far easier to fight for principals than live up to them!

How sadly true! How many of us are living up to the principals we fight for? Really?

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Iraq won the Asian cup!

Congratulations to the Iraqi people and the football team of Iraq. This is a great achievement and you should be proud of it.Your football team brings happiness and pride back to your country, in time you need unity and peace more than anything and hope this victory will open the road to both of those.

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Patriot missile found in scrapyard

A Patriot surface-to-air missile has been found in a Florida scrapyard.Workers at the yard, in Ybor City, Tampa, called police to say they’d found a “torpedo”, reports Metro News.Experts were drafted in from the nearby MacDill Air Force Base, who quickly identified the object as a Patriot.

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Andy Worthington: The Guantánamo Whistleblower, A Libyan Shopkeeper, Some C

Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, the Guantánamo whistleblower, is in the news again. The civilian lawyer, who worked as a military intelligence officer for 26 years in the Army reserves and was decorated for his support of counter-terrorism efforts following 9/11. first came to prominence last month, when he became the first military insider to criticize, in public, the tribunals - known as Combatant Status Review Tribunals - which were held at Guantánamo to determine whether the detainees had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants." In a declaration submitted in the case of a Kuwaiti detainee, Fawzi al-Odah, Abraham delivered a damning verdict on the tribunal process, which he described as severely flawed, relying on intelligence "of a generalized nature - often outdated, often 'generic,' rarely specifically relating to the individual subjects of the CSRTs or to the circumstances related to those individuals' status." Additionally, he averred that the process was designed to rubber-stamp the detainees' prior designation as "enemy combatants."

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Ron Paul teams up with Dennis Kucinich to end war

Can it be the start of a new 3rd party alternative in the US? With honest democrats and republicans who are tired of pimping for the neoconst and other Israeli stooges?"The Texas Congressman has co-sponsored a bill with another presidential contender, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, that would repeal President Bush's authority to use force in Iraq within the next sixth months. Besides Kucinich, 18 other Democrats have signed on."

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US to keep Blair out of Middle East

The dumb ass poodle really thought he had some authorities here? He is a used card and they are just dropping him a bone to make him feel good, but sometimes the puppet forgets he is part of a show and has no power of his own. "Tony Blair was told by the United States yesterday that he had no authority to tackle political negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians as he spent his first full day as special envoy to the Middle East."

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US is preparing to leave Iraq?

Is the US government starting to plan to leave Iraq? To avoid disasters like this to repeat?Envoy Urges Visas For Iraqis Aiding U.S.Targets of Violence Are Seeking RefugeBy Spencer S. HsuWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, July 22, 2007; Page A01The American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, has asked the Bush administration to take the unusual step of granting immigrant visas to all Iraqis employed by the U.S. government in Iraq because of growing concern that they will quit and flee the country if they cannot be assured eventual safe passage to the United States.Crocker's request comes as the administration is struggling to respond to the flood of Iraqis who have sought refuge in neighboring countries since sectarian fighting escalated early last year. The United States has admitted 133 Iraqi refugees since October, despite predicting that it would process 7,000 by the end of September."Our [Iraqi staff members] work under extremely difficult conditions, and are targets for violence including murder and kidnapping," Crocker wrote Undersecretary of State Henrietta H. Fore. "Unless they know that there is some hope of an [immigrant visa] in the future, many will continue to seek asylum, leaving our Mission lacking in one of our most valuable assets."

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Fool me once, twice, three times - but enough is enough already!

Everything is tanking for our president and what’s left of his homeboys. His war in Iraq is going from bad to worse, and support for it has cratered. Afghanistan is crawling with bad guys. Pakistan, our trusty ally in the so-called war against terrorism, is proving to be a haven for the worst evildoers of all.

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Persian translation of ‘Harry Potter

A group of translators in Iran have been assigned with the task of translating ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ in a matter of few days as the latest and last copy of Harry Potter’s series hit the UK markets early Saturday morning in Tehran time.

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‘Why Do They Hate Us?’

Mohsin Hamid, a writer who was born in Pakistan, but grew up in the U.S., writes that “there is another major reason [besides envy] for anti-Americanism: the accreted residue of many years of U.S. foreign policies.” He describes how Reagan’s policies transformed Pakistan from a “relatively liberal country” to a conservative Islamic state with a growing heroin problem. He argues that Americans must abandon their naivety, and “educate themselves… about what their country has done abroad.”

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Bush: al Qaeda safe haven in Pakistan ‘troubling’

We have an expression in Farsi that says: The soup is so salt that even the cook realized it.Almost 6 years after the fall of the Taliban’s regime, for the first time the idiot in charge of the US is admitting that the trouble area is not Iran or any other countries of axis of evil, but it is actually Pakistan!

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Iraq’s Medical Meltdown

The bombings are only the beginning of the story. What comes next for Iraq’s wounded is a frightening descent into a rapidly crumbling health-care system. Comfort care involves primarily pain management, hydration, and little else. Patients are expected to die.

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Theocrats Deny ‘End Times’ Theology Is Cause of Their Push for War with Ira

At the Christians United for Israel Summit, Joe Lieberman embraces the Christian nation, Jewish journalists get expelled, and attendees fret about the Iranian president's "12th Imam." Lieberman said "America is a faith-based initiative, We are not endowed by the great thinkers of the Enlightenment but endowed by our Creator ... Anyone who tries to separate American government from faith, is doing something profoundly unnatural."

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After Reporting in Iraq, America Feels Like a Bizarre Disneyland

After years of witnessing the apocalyptic violence in Iraq first hand, life in America is "nothing short of a schizophrenic experience" for veteran reporter Dahr Jamail."In violence we forget who we are" -- Mary McCarthy, novelist and critic

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Vision Fixed In Bed

The Ortho K lens is a rigid plastic disc that flattens the front of the eyeball, restoring normal vision. Users take them out when they wake up and the eyes retain their new shape for the rest of the day.

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Melting Glaciers Raise Sea Levels More than Polar Ice Sheets

Contrary to common belief, glaciers melting with global warming are contributing more to the rising sea level than the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Scientists have found that the ebb and flow of glaciers, where they meet the water, causes them to speed up and deliver more ice into the world's oceans than previously estimated.

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this is it, the tipping point for Bush

I've heard others say that various things would be the tipping point —the point at which the American people irreversibly realize the administration's corruption and refuse to take any more—and I've always thought, "No, not yet; he can survive this." And maybe he can survive this, too, but I doubt it.

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War in Iraq: No End In Sight [VIDEO]

A new documentary about the lack of pre-war planning and the disastrous occupation of Iraq gives more of an inside story and has more incendiary interviews than any previous film.

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After Reporting in Iraq, America Feels Like a Bizarre Disneyland

After years of witnessing the apocalyptic violence in Iraq first hand, life in America is "nothing short of a schizophrenic experience" for veteran reporter Dahr Jamail."In violence we forget who we are" -- Mary McCarthy, novelist and critic

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One Republican Senator's Sexual Hypocrisy Shocks Even Larry Flynt

Howie Klein: Flynt says he's got the goods on 30 more members of Congress and the Bush Regime.Larry Craig (R-ID), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) must be crapping their pants. Maybe they should go borrow some diapers from Lieberman or from David Vitter, who liked wearing them while hookers in stiletto heels walked on his ass. Today the FBI released a lurid account of GOP slimeballs in paradise, with Republican briber Brent Wilkes and Republican bribee, former Congressman Randy "The Wrong Stuff" Cunningham (R-CA) bartering tax dollars for prostitutes in Hawaii.

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After College Ends, So Does Activism

This is so true, many activists just forget about everything they stood for as soon as they leave the college. "Selling out is a depressingly rational choice for many college graduates."

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Fox guest claims CIA 'sabotaging our own War on Terror'

Fox News on Tuesday interviewed veteran Pentagon reporter Rowan Scarborough about his "startling allegation" that "elements within the CIA are sabotaging our own War on Terror." Scarborough, a former columnist for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times, is the author of Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA,

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FEW FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN IRAQ; MANY ARE SAUDI ARABIA

Which country is providing a lot of foreign suicide bombers? U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Has any general or Bush administration official called a press conference to denounce Saudi Arabia? No. Has Joe Lieberman threatened it with a war? No. Everything is being blamed on Iran because powerful American special interests want to get Iran, regardless of the facts.

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How would you feel if you had five botfly larvae crawling under your scalp?

This is one of the few stories that actually made me feel creeped out and feel sick. Aaron Dallas spend some time with his wife in Belize in their own rental beach house and when he came home, he had "things crawling under his scalp, was in pain and bleeding"! But he waited 5 weeks before he went to see a doctor!

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David Corn : 'Talk to Me': A Political Movie that Lacks Politics

Don Cheadle's new film, Talk to Me, about Petey Greene forgets Greene's most important accomplishment: He was a community activist who railed against poverty and racism.There are two straight-to-the-gut scenes in Talk To Me, the new biopic in which Don Cheadle slam-dunks his portrayal of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, the ex-con, street-sassy, Afro'ed-out deejay who brought black power to the radio in Washington, DC, in the 1960s.The first occurs the night Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. Greene, who had fast-talked himself into an on-air job at WOL-AM, goes into the studio to try to calm down the city, which is in flames, as blacks are rioting and destroying their own neighborhoods. "I don't know if I'm more sad or angry," Greene tells his audience. And Greene is walking a line. He pleads with his listeners to resist the urge to strike: "That's your city ... That's not what Dr. King would've wanted." Then he says, "The truth is, if they can do it to him, don't think for a minute they can't cut you down like a dog." But he counsels, "Put away your anger."When he walks out of the studio, the other African-American employees embrace him. They all looked stunned and exhausted. Then they spot in the corridor the white station owner (played by Martin Sheen) sobbing. Greene and the other blacks are each processing this cataclysmic event, calculating the right proportion of outrage and sorrow. But for the white guy, it's simple: he's pegged the needle at tragedy. This awful event has not brought the two sides of the racial divide together. It has illuminated the gulf between black and white. The station owner has the luxury to feel only grief. Greene and the rest have a more complicated emotional and psychological task. They walk past the station owner, shrug, and go home for the night.

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Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Liste

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth and Guantanamo Bay is practically a holiday camp. The annual cruise organized by the 'National Review,' mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.I am standing waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean, both chilling and burning, indulging in the polite chit-chat beloved by vacationing Americans. A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. "Is he your only child?" I ask. "Yes," she says. "Do you have a child back in England?" she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. "You'd better start," she says. "The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the whole of Europe."I am getting used to these moments - when gentle holiday geniality bleeds into… what? I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, " Of course, we need to execute some of these people," I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. "A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country," she says. "Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that's what you'll get." She squints at the sun and smiles. " Then things'll change."I am travelling on a bright white cruise ship with two restaurants, five bars, a casino - and 500 readers of the National Review. Here, the Iraq war has been "an amazing success". Global warming is not happening. The solitary black person claims, "If the Ku Klux Klan supports equal rights, then God bless them." And I have nowhere to run.From time to time, National Review - the bible of American conservatism - organises a cruise for its readers. I paid $1,200 to join them. The rules I imposed on myself were simple: If any of the conservative cruisers asked who I was, I answered honestly, telling them I was a journalist. Mostly, I just tried to blend in - and find out what American conservatives say when they think the rest of us aren't listening.From sweet to suicide bomberI arrive at the dockside in San Diego on Saturday afternoon and stare up at the Oosterdam, our home for the next seven days. Filipino boat hands are loading trunks into the hull and wealthy white folk are gliding onto its polished boards with pale sun parasols dangling off their arms.The Reviewers have been told to gather for a cocktail reception on the Lido, near the very top of the ship. I arrive to find a tableau from Gone With the Wind, washed in a thousand shades of grey. Southern belles - aged and pinched - are flirting with old conservative warriors. The etiquette here is different from anything I have ever seen. It takes me 15 minutes to realise what is wrong with this scene. There are no big hugs, no warm kisses. This is a place of starchy handshakes. Men approach each other with stiffened spines, puffed-out chests and crunching handshakes. Women are greeted with a single kiss on the cheek. Anything more would be French.I adjust and stiffly greet the first man I see. He is a judge, with the craggy self-important charm that slowly consumes any judge. He is from Canada, he declares (a little more apologetically), and is the founding president of "Canadians Against Suicide Bombing". Would there be many members of "Canadians for Suicide Bombing?" I ask. Dismayed, he suggests that yes, there would.A bell rings somewhere, and we are all beckoned to dinner. We have been assigned random seats, which will change each night. We will, the publicity pack promises, each dine with at least one National Review speaker during our trip.To my left, I find a middle-aged Floridian with a neat beard. To my right are two elderly New Yorkers who look and sound like late-era Dorothy Parkers, minus the alcohol poisoning. They live on Park Avenue, they explain in precise Northern tones. "You must live near the UN building," the Floridian says to one of the New York ladies after the entree is served. Yes, she responds, shaking her head wearily. "They should suicide-bomb that place," he says. They all chuckle gently. How did that happen? How do you go from sweet to suicide-bomb in six seconds?The conversation ebbs back to friendly chit-chat. So, you're a European, one of the Park Avenue ladies says, before offering witty commentaries on the cities she's visited. Her companion adds, "I went to Paris, and it was so lovely." Her face darkens: "But then you think - it's surrounded by Muslims." The first lady nods: "They're out there, and they're coming." Emboldened, the bearded Floridian wags a finger and says, "Down the line, we're not going to bail out the French again." He mimes picking up a phone and shouts into it, "I can't hear you, Jacques! What's that? The Muslims are doing what to you? I can't hear you!"Now that this barrier has been broken - everyone agrees the Muslims are devouring the French, and everyone agrees it's funny - the usual suspects are quickly rounded up. Jimmy Carter is "almost a traitor". John McCain is "crazy" because of "all that torture". One of the Park Avenue ladies declares that she gets on her knees every day to " thank God for Fox News". As the wine reaches the Floridian, he announces, "This cruise is the best money I ever spent."They rush through the Rush-list of liberals who hate America, who want her to fail, and I ask them - why are liberals like this? What's their motivation? They stutter to a halt and there is a long, puzzled silence. " It's a good question," one of them, Martha, says finally. I have asked them to peer into the minds of cartoons and they are suddenly, reluctantly confronted with the hollowness of their creation. "There have always been intellectuals who want to tell people how to live," Martha adds, to an almost visible sense of relief. That's it - the intellectuals! They are not like us. Dave changes the subject, to wash away this moment of cognitive dissonance. "The liberals don't believe in the constitution. They don't believe in what the founders wanted - a strong executive," he announces, to nods. A Filipino waiter offers him a top-up of his wine, and he mock-whispers to me, "They all look the same! Can you tell them apart?" I stare out to sea. How long would it take me to drown?

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Japanese Yen Gains as Iran Asks Japan to pay for Oil By Yen instead of US$

The yen posted its biggest weekly gain since March against the dollar and advanced versus the euro after Iran asked Japan’s oil refiners to pay for Iranian crude oil in the Japanese currency instead of dollars.The yen rose today versus 15 of the 16 most actively traded currencies on speculation the request by Japan’s third-biggest oil supplier would spur yen buying.“This will create demand for the yen,” said Steven Butler, director of foreign-exchange trading at Scotia Capital Inc. in Toronto. Companies in Japan will “have to sell dollars to raise money to pay for oil.”

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Impeach Now Or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy

Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of “executive orders” that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, “terrorist” events in the near future.Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position with false flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.

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Is Pakistan regime following the footsteps of Shah of Iran?

Is Pakistan on t he same road Iran was in 1978? The fire at the Rex cinema in Abadan in 1978 was the last push to release the chain of reaction that took down Shah’s regime that was “an island of stability in one of the most troubled areas“. 28 years later, the disastrous power grab by Khomeini has converted Iran to the sad state it is today.

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45% of all foreign militants in Iraq are Saudi Nationals

About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq

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3 security guards stole $300 million dollars from their bank in Baghdad

A Baghdad bank was robbed of more than $300 million (£147million) in cash by its own security guards, it was announced today, as the high levels of corruption in the Iraqi capital were once again exposed.In what is believed to be the biggest single theft since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003, the private Dar Es Salaam bank was found with its front doors unlocked and its entire haul of cash missing.

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British blamed for Basra badgers

British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra. Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the area to sow panic.

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Iraqi News Paper Azzaman : Our abnormal government!

Iraqi politicians are revolving in a vicious circle. They are completely out of touch with the reality.And left to themselves are the powerless and hapless Iraqi people who now live under the constant threat of terror, deceit, evacuation, killing, murder and kidnapping at the hands of terrorist gangs and bloody militias.

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Tom Engelhardt : ‘Accidents’ of War

American (and NATO) officials regularly make the point that the enemy’s barbarism – and from car-bombs to a 6-year-old boy sent to attack Afghan soldiers wearing a suicide vest, their acts have indeed been barbarous – is always intentional; the killing of noncombatants by American planes is always an “inadvertent” incident, an “accident,” and so, of course, the regrettable “collateral damage” of modern warfare.Recently, however, in Afghanistan, such isolated incidents from U.S. or NATO (often still U.S.) air attacks have been occurring in startling numbers. They have, in fact, become so commonplace that, in the news, they begin to blur into what looks, more and more, like a single, ongoing airborne slaughter of civilians. Protest over the killings of noncombatants from the air, itself a modest story, is on the rise. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, dubbed “the mayor of Kabul,” has bitterly and repeatedly complained about NATO and U.S. bombing policies. ACBAR, an umbrella organization for Afghan and international relief and human rights organizations, has received attention for claiming that marginally more civilians have died this year at the hands of the Western powers than the Taliban; and, most recently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has made a “’strong’ appeal to military commanders in Afghanistan to avoid civilian casualties.”In all of this, the weakening of the American and NATO position in Afghanistan, and of the American one in Iraq, continue to play crucial roles – while these repeated air-power “incidents” lead into conceptual territory that is simply never touched upon in our mainstream media.

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At Least 3 Killed in Green Zone Barrage

Extremists unleashed a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets into the Green Zone on Tuesday, killing at least three people - including an American - and wounding 18 in an area once considered the safest in the Iraqi capital.

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DC Madam Exposes GOP Senator as Hypocritical Whoremonger

Howie Klein: While Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was busy defending the sanctity of marriage against gays and the "Hollywood left" publicly, he was busy denigrating it behind closed doors with prostitutes.

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Watch some of your favorite TV shows online - Like Friends or 24

I am not sure how long this site will survive, but it is a nice place to find some oldies like the first year of the Friends.Here you have the first episode of Friends as an example.

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Iraq Comes Home: Soldiers Share the Devastating Tales of War

Three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan share the nightmare experiences that war has brought into their lives.Statistics are one way to tell the story of the approximately 1.4 million servicemen and women who've been to Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2004, 86 percent of soldiers in Iraq reported knowing someone who was seriously injured or killed there. Some 77 percent reported shooting at the enemy; 75 percent reported seeing women or children in imminent peril and being unable to help. Fifty-one percent reported handling or uncovering human remains; 28 percent were responsible for the death of a noncombatant. One in five Iraq veterans return home seriously impaired by post-traumatic stress disorder.Words are another way. Below are the stories of three veterans of this war, told in their voices, edited for flow and efficiency but otherwise unchanged. They bear out the statistics and suggest that even those who are not diagnosably impaired return burdened by experiences they can neither forget nor integrate into their postwar lives. They speak of the inadequacy of what the military calls reintegration counseling, of the immediacy of their worst memories, of their helplessness in battle, of the struggle to rejoin a society that seems unwilling or unable to comprehend the price of their service. Strangers to one another and to me, they nevertheless tried, sometimes through tears, to communicate what the intensity of an ambiguous war has done to them.One veteran, Sue Randolph, put it this way: "People walk up to me and say, 'Thank you for your service.' And I know they mean well, but I want to ask, 'Do you know what you're thanking me for?'" She, Rocky, and Michael Goss offer their stories here in the hope that citizens will begin to know.

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Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is "Robbery"

The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversial oil law, we speak with Faleh Abood Umara, the general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq. He calls on Iraqi lawmakers to reject the legislation. We also speak with Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national union in Iraq.

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All the rats are jumping ship: Colin Powell says he tried to stop the war

Colin Powell who in February 2001 said that Saddam had been crippled by sanctions and was no threat to the United States (as I mentioned in the introduction of my book) and made “made the case for the war” two years later during a speech at the UN Security Council in February 2003, now says he never thought a war was necessary.Powell knew there were no WMDs in Iraq long before the war was launched. He then went before the UN Security Council to make the case for war. Who cares if he spent 2.5 hours trying to convince the president not to launch the war. He lied to the world.More than 3,000 American troops have been killed and more than 500.000 Iraqis are dead. Powell expects us to feel sorry for him because he spent 2.5 hours trying to convince Bush not to go to war? Sorry, he gets no sympathy from me. I’m angry as hell.Let’s hold Powell and the others accountable. Their hands are covered in the blood of innocent people.

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Libby and Vanunu : one goes free, one goes to jail on the same day!

On the day that Scooter Libby’s prison sentence was lifted by President Bush, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison, again, in Israel. In both cases, the underlying offense was the same: speaking to journalists. In each case, the nominal charges were otherwise. For Libby, lying under oath about the circumstances, thereby obstructing justice.

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US declares killing Al-Qaida leader for the second time

The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.A military spokesman acknowledged the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing significant kills.

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Third 3500-Years-Old Site Discovered Behind Galabar Dam in central Iran

This is the third Iron Age site which has ever been discovered behind Galabar Dam. Prior to this one a historic site and a cemetery both belonging to the Iron Age were discovered in the area.In addition to these Iron Age sites, a historic site belonging to Copper Age (end of 5th millennium to the 3rd millennium BC) have been also identified behind Galabar Dam, where a number of 6000-year-old residential settlements as well as children graves have been discovered.

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EVER WONDER, WHO IS JACK SCHITT?

EVER WONDER, WHO IS JACK SCHITT?For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, ‘You don’t know Jack Schitt!’Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.

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Now that the BBQ is over…(a look at the US constitution & Bush's actions)

It’s nice to celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks and BBQs.

Now that the day has passed, let’s pause to remember what the 4th of July — Independence Day — really means.

Below you will find a portion of the Declaration of Independence that outlines the reasons our founding father’s decided to break away from Great Britian.

Think about it in the context of what we have allowed our country to become and consider ways to take America back. Perhaps then next Independence Day we will have something to truly celebrate.

Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.

Happy Independence Day.

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Ancient “Salt Cured” Man Found in Iranian Mine

This is interesting, the amazing part is that his hair is blond. I am not sure if this is the result of the mummification in the salt mine or it is as the old books used to say about the Persians being tall and blond before they mixed with people from the south. This is very exciting indeed. I will follow up on this in the future.

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Charles Karel Bouley: Paris Hilton Is Now A Martyr

It's official: Paris Hilton has served more jail time at the hands of an overzealous judge, seen more of the inside of a jail cell, eaten more prison food than Lewis Libby ever will. The Dictator In Chief again has proved that you don't mess with his boys, and if you do, he'll ride in and rescue them; they can do no wrong. And if they do, so what, they're the ruling class and nothing bad can happen to them.

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Jayne Lyn Stahl: Charmed Lives

President Bush has just commuted the 30 month sentence of former White House aide, I. Scooter Libby, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.In a previous post that dealt with Paris Hilton, I predicted that she would spend more time behind bars than Scooter Libby, and I was right.

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Micheal Moore’s Sicko

I watched the movie last night. It is an interesting movie, much much better than his previous ones.First of all I have to say that I am not a fan of Micheal Moore.I believe he is a pig, nothing personal but he is. You should watch the movie, it is an eye opener for many, both Americans and Europeans, if you love America or hate it.

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Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence

George W. Bush showed today to the whole world that the US justice system is a JOKE!

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Iraq hikes prices of fuel, troubles reported

The report does not mention the previous price of fuel and how much was the percentage of this hikes. But one thing is for sure, you will not see any pictures of interviews with Iraqis complaining about these hikes or the riots in Al-Kut.This is the big difference between the “US friendly” Iraq and the”US enemy” Iran. One devastating increase of fuel that affects the life of ordinary people is reported and covered worldwide with reports on a daily basis, the other is not even mentioned in international news.

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Crater Could Solve 1908 Tunguska Meteor Mystery

In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered. Now think they've found a smoking gun: The 164-foot-deep Lake Cheko,

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Awesome Picture Of Victoria Crater Rim On Mars Taken By Rover "Opportunity"

What can I say? Title says it all.

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Sweden : Confiscated Booze Becomes Alternative Fuel

Sweden's strategy even helps cut global warming emissions...Almost all of the 185,000 gallons of smuggled alcohol seized by the customs service last year was turned into alternative fuel and used to power buses, trucks and other vehicles. A quart of pure alcohol is enough to make about a tenth of a gallon of biogas. And it is good business

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Gasoline Rationing Causes Chaos in Tehran-Iran

The country who is supposedly helping Venezuela build oil refinery can not make enough petrol for local consumption and has to increase the prices as well as rationalize the usage.

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