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"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." - Frederick Douglass
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Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein
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"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-01 20:46:20 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
By Aaron Glantz
"Americans are bred deep into their psyches to think of America as a good country and, I think, much harder than just the hurdle of getting troops out of Iraq is to get...
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Quotes
I implore you to recognize the Church as a lady and in the name of the Pope take the King as lord of this land and obey his mandates. If you do not do it, I tell you that with the help of God I...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 08:36:33 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Holocaust In Gaza
Abbas: Gaza Attacks 'a Holocaust'
By Al Jazeera - Video and Text
The total death toll over four days to 86 people, at least a third of which have been children, according to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:48:20 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Gaza
Slaughtering Children In Gaza
2 Minute Video
Six-month-old baby killed by Israel attacks:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19447.htm
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:49:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 14 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran Nuke Laptop Data
Came from Terror Group
By Gareth Porter
Charges based on those documents pose the only remaining obstacles to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declaring that Iran has...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:50:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Cry 'God for Harry, England and St George'
By George Galloway
As the peerless John Pilger put it, the invasion of Iraq would have been impossible without the supine connivance of the British media. The BBC was as much a part of...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:52:02 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Is John McCain a Liar?
By Robert Parry.
One of the pressing questions for American voters as they look toward the formal nomination of McCain as the Republican presidential candidate is whether he is a phony...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:53:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israel vs. Gaza
Israel kills 60 Palestinians in Gaza :
At least 30 of the dead were civilians, among them women and children, said Palestinian doctors working round the clock....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:55:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Saudis urged to leave Lebanon :
The Saudi Arabian embassy in Beirut has called on its nationals to leave Lebanon a day after a US warship was positioned off the country's coast.
http://tinyurl.com/3camox
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:56:47 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iraq civilian casualties rise 36% in February :
A total of 633 civilians died violently in February, compared with 466 in January, according to figures released by Iraq's interior, defence and health ministries
http://tinyurl.com/2x3qau...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:57:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Bush:
No Promises On Troop Withdrawals:
Declines To Repeat Administration Promises Of Bringing U.S Troops From Iraq Before Term's End...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:58:48 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ahmadinejad's trip to Iraq
highlights Iran's rising influence :
President Bush's last trip to Iraq was kept secret until he arrived at a U.S. military base. Eight hours later he left, after Iraq's leaders traveled to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 20:59:47 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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'Stop exporting terror
,' Bush tells Ahmadinejad:
US President George W. Bush on Saturday told his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he must "stop exporting terror" on the eve of the Iranian...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:00:41 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran shifts oil sales away from dollar :
In an interview with The Financial Times, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard said that over the past three months, Iran has received 75 percent of the proceeds from its oil sales in euros and the remaining...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:01:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Afghanistan has slid since U.S. arrived :
A report Friday on drugs — it said Afghanistan now produces 93 percent of the world's opium poppy — comes hand in hand with the resurgence of Taliban militants despite U.S....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:02:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Top commander unveils new Taliban tactics:
A top Taliban commander has said suicide attacks and roadside bombs would spearhead its new strategy against foreign troops, and hinted the movement could work with Afghanistan's...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:03:58 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Kremlin accused of fixing presidential poll:
The Kremlin is planning to falsify the results of tomorrow's presidential election by compelling millions of public-sector workers to vote and by fraudulently boosting the official turnout, the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:05:14 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Armenia set to declare emergency :
Armenia has warned it will declare a state of emergency if protests against last month's presidential poll continue.
http://tinyurl.com/3588mp
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:06:18 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 24 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Cuba signs human rights accords :
Cuba has signed two human-rights treaties that were first ratified by the UN more than 40 years ago and which Fidel Castro, the country's long-time president, refused to sign....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:07:12 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Oil money is coming
- and there is little the west can do about it:
Washington, which has launched talks with funds in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, has concerns over Russia's one-time rival communist superpower...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-02 21:08:25 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 24 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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quotes
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.: Gilbert Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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A PERSONAL CREED
I would be a friend to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:29:07 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US economy
a '$3 trillion' casualty of war in Iraq:
Stiglitz and Bilmes argue the true cost is at least US$3 trillion, under what they call an ultraconservative estimate. They say it , which they...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:30:46 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Truce or Bloodbath
By Azzam Tamimi
A recent poll published in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz suggested that 64% of Israelis favoured a negotiated truce with Hamas. But in the past few days, a military onslaught...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:31:55 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Why Isn't Iraq in the 2008 Election?
By Noam Chomsky
The highly regarded British polling agency, Oxford Research Bureau, has just updated its estimate of deaths. Their new estimate a couple of days ago is 1.3 million. That's...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:33:44 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Uribe's Illegal Cross-Border Raid
Colombian Deaths in Ecuador
By Richard Gott
By all accounts, the midnight attack on the camp of the Farc leaders, a mile inside Ecuadorean territory in the jungle region south of the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:34:55 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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MP for Hire?
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Joseph Joubert said: “Imagination is the eye of the soul”. It therefore comes as no surprise that with terrorists lending their imagination to Lord...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:36:15 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran calls on US to quit Iraq :
The Iranian president, on a landmark visit to neighbouring Iraq, has called for US troops' withdrawal from the war-torn nation, saying that the country will "live in peace" without...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:37:27 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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IsraelI Rights Group
: More than 50% of Gaza casualties were innocent bystanders :
According to data gathered by B'Tselem, 106 Palestinians were killed between February 27 and march 3. Fifty four of them were...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:38:27 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israel Kills More Children :
Three other Palestinian children were killed in an air strike. The following day, four Palestinian children were killed near the Jabaliya refugee camp while playing soccer. Two of the boys, all...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:39:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Amnesty rips IDF
for 'reckless disregard of life' in Gaza:
The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International has condemned Israel's attacks on Gaza, claiming they are "being carried out...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:40:45 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israel
Anti-Zionist Jews condemn Gaza massacres:
A worldwide organization representing anti-Zionist Jews has strongly condemned the ongoing mass killing and maiming by the Israeli occupation army of...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:41:46 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israel
Israeli terror continues to stalk Gaza :
The artillery shelling never ends. The airstrikes never stop. The bloodbath never comes to a conclusion. For the Palestinians in Gaza, daily living is...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:43:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran
Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran:
Long-range rockets fired from Gaza are Iranian: Israel army: The Israeli army on Monday said that all the long-range rockets fired by Gaza militants...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:44:56 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Afghanistan
Iran Official: Iran Will Expel 1.5 Million Illegal Afghans:
Tehran intends to expel all 1.5 million Afghans within its borders illegally, a visiting Iranian official said in Kabul Monday,...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:46:46 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Pakistan
13 killed as rival Sunni groups clash in Pakistan :
At least 13 people were killed and 15 injured Monday during heavy fighting between rival Sunni Islamic groups in Pakistan's tribal areas...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:47:54 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 24 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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South America
Venezuela & Colombia On Brink Of War:
President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops yesterday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:49:38 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Russia
Medvedev elected Russian president :
Medvedev, who was backed by Vladimir Putin to succeed him as president, won 70.23 per cent of Sunday's vote, official results from the Central Election...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:51:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US Immigration officials
detaining, deporting American citizens:
Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:52:06 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Economy
The Federal Reserve's rescue has failed:
he verdict is in. The Fed's emergency rate cuts in January have failed to halt the downward spiral towards a full-blown debt deflation. Much more...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:53:32 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Al Jazeera Video Report From Gaza:
Anger explodes in West Bank over Israeli raids
http://tinyurl.com/2gqw4n
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:54:38 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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EU presidency condemns attacks on Gaza:
EU president Slovenia today condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as disproportionate and violating international law, as a top EU foreign policy official left for the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:55:29 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Olmert: Don't preach morals to Israel :
"No one has the right to preach morals to Israel"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3513585,00.html
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:56:20 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 27 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Israeli Protests: End Gaza war crimes:
Hundreds of Israeli "leftist" activists join calls made by Arab states, EU; Tel Aviv protestor says 'child-killing government has no moral right to exist'...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:57:10 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 29 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran leader
calls on Muslims to hit Israel 'in face' over Gaza :
Iran's supreme leader on Sunday called on Muslims to rise up and their leaders to hit Israel "in the face with their nations'...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:58:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 26 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ahmadinejad takes swipe at Bush, during Iraq visit
Ahmadinejad takes swipe at Bush, during Iraq visit:
The Americans have to understand the facts of the region. Iraqi people do not like America," he said....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 06:59:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 23 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Chavez speaks
of war after Colombian raid on Ecuador :
President Hugo Chavez has warned of war if the Colombian military crosses into Venezuelan territory, after Bogota launched a strike against FARC...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-04 07:00:14 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 25 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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quotes
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-05 06:36:42 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 31 | # Comments: 1 | Tags:
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Quotes
“What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-06 07:19:18 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 37 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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Quotes
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." — H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
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"We have come out of the time when obedience, the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-06 20:28:10 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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War is Hell,
But What the Hell Does it Cost?
One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion
By William D. Hartung
War is hell -- deadly, dangerous, and expensive. But just how...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:37:36 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Patience Is the Best Iran Policy
By Scott Ritter
The current U.S. policy on Iran, as articulated by the Bush administration, centers its goals on the issue of regime change in Tehran; the nuclear dispute is simply used as...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:39:31 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Democracy is ill served
by its self-appointed guardians
By Simon Jenkins
Our sonorous moralising lies behind so much bloodshed in the past 50 years. A sense of history surely counsels humility....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:41:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The attack on Ecuador
Underestimating Rafael Correa
By Fidel Castro Ruz
Imperialism has just committed a monstrous crime in Ecuador. Deadly bombs were dropped in the early morning hours on a group of men...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:43:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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U.S. working on two agreements
on future Iraq ties:
David Satterfield, the State Department's coordinator for Iraq, told Congress the administration planned a "status of forces" agreement with Iraq similar to...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:44:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iraqi cabinet OKs deals with oil giants:
Speaking to reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, al-Shahristani said the Oil Ministry was still working on the compensation details with...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:46:11 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iraq:
Iranians Arrive for a Fourth Round of Talks With U.S. Officials:
An Iranian delegation arrived in Baghdad on March 5 for a new round of talks with U.S. officials on the security situation in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:47:35 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran:
Iran may be biggest threat to Iraq - U.S. general:
Odierno also said he was not surprised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was able to move around without security problems during his...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:49:00 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Here we go again:
EU, US say onus on Iran to disprove nuclear allegations:
The European Union and the United States challenged Iran today to prove that allegations it was involved in nuclear weapons work...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:50:39 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ahmadinejad
calls UN Security Council a political tool of big powers, dismisses sanctions:
Ahmadinejad said Iran will only talk to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency over...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:51:45 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran minister says
no new nuclear talks after sanctions :
Iran will not hold new talks on its nuclear programme after the imposition of fresh sanctions by the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Manouchehr...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:53:31 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran sanctions vote signals a global rift:
Some developing nations may be starting to sour on push by world powers to control lucrative nuclear technology.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0305/p01s08-wogi.html
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:54:41 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran: UN must investigate Israel's nukes:
Iran has demanded that the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigate "how Israel became a nuclear superpower," Army Radio reported Wednesday....
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Israel
answers Rice's peace push with tanks in Gaza:
Israeli forces backed by helicopters clashed with Hamas resistance fighters after several tanks entered the Gaza Strip east of the city of Khan...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 05:58:02 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Abbas agrees
to resume talks despite earlier truce demand :
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed Wednesday to resume peace talks with Israel, only hours after he conditioned talks on a cease-fire...
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UN Secretary-General
condemns Israeli crimes in Gaza:
He condemned Israeli indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza Strip residential areas. He said that Israel has made "disproportionate and excessive use of...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:00:49 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa :
Arab foreign ministers said they "strongly condemn the barbaric crimes that the Israeli occupation forces committed in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories"....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:02:28 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Rights Group
: More than 50% of Gaza casualtieswere not militants :
The human rights organization B'Tselem on Monday said in a statement that more than half of the Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip...
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Racism in Israel on the rise :
Association for Civil Rights in Israel publishes annual report; reveals country overwhelmed by racism, restriction of personal freedoms, discrimination, especially towards Israeli-Arabs. Report...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:05:07 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Spy chief warns on Afghan insurgency:
The government of President Hamid Karzai controls less than a third of Afghanistan and the insurgency against it has not been contained, the head of US intelligence said on Wednesday....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:06:15 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The ugly truth in Afghanistan:
Most aid organizations quietly withdrew their international staff from Kandahar in recent weeks, the latest sign that the situation here is getting worse.
http://tinyurl.com/26n9pm
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:07:40 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ninety percent of deployed battalions
arrived in border with Colombia :
Defense Minister General Gustavo Rangel Briceño advocated Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's decision to send military troops to the border...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:08:51 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Venezuela's Chavez
says 'we want peace' despite tensions with Colombia:
"It must be said: They, the empire and its lackeys, are war," Chavez said in a televised speech. "We want peace. ... We...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:10:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ecuador President
: Ready To Do What It Takes If Columbia Doesn't Apologize:
http://tinyurl.com/2cm874
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:11:39 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Demonizing Chavez:
Seized Laptop Shows Chavez-Rebel Ties:
A single laptop can reveal much, and so it is with the digital treasure chest that Colombian commandos found in the jungle quarters of slain rebel...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:12:48 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 22 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Failed London bombers say plot 'a hoax':
FOUR men jailed for life for trying to bomb London's transport system in 2005 have launched an appeal, saying their bomb plot was a hoax designed to send a political statement about the war in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:13:55 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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A Wave of the Watch List
, and Speech Disappears :
Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:15:57 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:17:19 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Crude May Rise to $120 in Six Months
, Taqa CEO Says :
Crude oil may rise to $120 a barrel within six months due to the dollar weakness and global political tensions, the chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Energy Co....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-07 06:19:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 30 | # Comments: 2 | Tags:
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison, English poet
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:36:04 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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South American Crises
Sparks Fly at South American Summit
By Al Jazeera
The angry exchanges came as Colombia announced it had killed another top commander from the Farc, the country's biggest rebel movement....
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:38:13 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran
The 1953 CIA Coup in Iran and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Democracy Now Interview With New York Times foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah’s Men: An American...
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Israel
‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Inequality
By Ramzy Baroud
Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of Sderot on...
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Wishful US Thinking
By Geneive Abdo
Afraid to acknowledge the consequences of disastrous US policy, American officials and the media cling to the idea that Islam is only attractive to the poor....
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The 'Rape' of Okinawa
By Chalmers Johnson
As long as Japan remains a satellite of the United States, women and girls in Okinawa will continue to be slugged, beaten and raped by heavily armed young Americans who...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:42:24 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 12 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Sorting Through The Rubble
in Post-Bubble America
By Mike Whitney
No more bubbles. No more phony debt-generated prosperity. No more over-leveraged, complex Ponzi-scams that end in tragedy....
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The Sign Of Things To Come?
Already We Have Riots, Hoarding, Panic
Carl Mortished, World Business Editor
The spectre of food shortages is casting a shadow across the globe, causing riots in Africa, consumer...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:45:08 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 21 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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A Not-So-Simple Twist of Fate
Could Hillary Bequeath Us Our Long-Awaited Third Party?
By David Michael Green
This is probably the year when the country could come closest in a long time to seeing the birth of a...
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Iraq
Iraqi cleric Sadr explains long absence to followers :
"The continued presence of the occupiers ... pushed me to take this isolation. It is a way to express my protest at what is going...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:47:29 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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China
China Jumps Off the Iran Sanctions Merry-Go-Round:
China’s response to the new UN Security Council sanctions on Iran provide a useful perspective on Chinese policy and its movement...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:48:38 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Congress demands testimony
from Nato commander in Afghanistan:
The US Congress is demanding the senior Nato commander in Afghanistan appear to explain the worsening situation in the country following a series of...
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Clinton
Says She Would Commit More U.S. Troops to Afghanistan :
Clinton, used a news conference in Washington today to release a plan for Afghanistan. Surrounded by current and retired military...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 08:51:19 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Question for Barack Obama
Why is Afghanistan the 'Right War'? :
Barack Obama should reconsider his posture on the US mission in Afghanistan as fighting the right war while Iraq has been the wrong war....
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Pakistan
As president Clinton would increase Pakistan development aid:
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said if elected she would support assistance for the South Asian country...
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Images of horror in yeshiva
to be distributed worldwide:
Israel has decided to take advantage of Thursday's bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch an aggressive campaign against Hamas....
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Report:
Hamas radio backtracks on claim of responsibility for Jerusalem attack :
Ibrahim Daher, head of Hamas' al-Aqsa radio, said his station put out an earlier claim of responsibility...
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Zionist rabbis
says Torah permits killing Palestinian civilians:
The association of rabbis for the people and land of Israel headed by extremist rabbi Dov Lior issued on Wednesday a religious ruling...
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Bush tells Olmert
US 'firmly with Israel' after attack :
US President George W. Bush on Thursday assured Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the United States stands with Israel after the "barbaric...
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Silent regarding Israeli war crimes:
US House of Representatives condemns rocket attacks on Israel :
House members endorse resolution condemning rocket fire from Gaza by sweeping majority, saying attacks constitute...
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Ron Paul: Statement on Gaza Bill :
I believe it is appalling that Palestinians are firing rockets that harm innocent Israelis, just as I believe it is appalling that Israel fires missiles into Palestinian areas where...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:06:58 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 19 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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US puts ships from Syria on watchlist
by Lachlan Carmichael :
The United States has put ships making port calls in Syria on a watchlist, an official said Thursday, as Washington ratcheted up the pressure on Damascus over its...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:08:23 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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South American Crises
Uribe says, military incursions into Ecuador or Venezuela possible:
Uribe refused to rule out more military incursions into Ecuador or Venezuela, saying he first needs assurances from...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:11:30 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 13 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Iran-Sudan
sign defence cooperation agreement:
In the meeting, the two sides underlined development and consolidation of defensive ties between Iran and Sudan and called it an important step toward...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:12:43 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 18 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Belarus expels U.S. ambassador
, recalls its envoy in Washington :
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said Friday it has demanded that the U.S. ambassador leave the country and recalled its ambassador in the U.S. over...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:13:57 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 17 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Whistle-Blower
: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress Reacts:
A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems,...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:15:17 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 16 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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Ex-US navy sailor guilty of spying :
Hassan Abu-Jihaad, formerly known as Paul Hall, was also convicted in a Connecticut court of providing material support to "terrorists" and disclosing classified national defence...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:16:16 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 15 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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U.S. Economy
US job numbers support recession fears:
The United States suffered a bigger-than-expected decline in jobs numbers last month, data showed today, which prompted analysts to say the world's...
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thehughman1 on 2008-03-09 09:18:17 Average Rating: No Rating | Views: 20 | # Comments: 0 | Tags:
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The Most Important Video on the internet
http://dedroidify.blogspot.com/2008/01/international-strike-april-15th-2008.html
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