Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.Despite claims to the contrary, a planned Midwest "inland port" with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic, according to internal documents obtained by WorldNetDaily.
As WND has reported, Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.
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Millions of votes still in question in Mexican raceMEXICO CITY ? Presidential candidate Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador demanded a complete ballot-by-ballot recount yesterday, alleging that 3.5 million votes in Sunday's election had not been counted and raising serious questions about the closest presidential contest in Mexico's history.
With just 1 percentage point separating leftist L?pez Obrador from his conservative rival, Felipe Calder?n, the revelation that votes from 13,000 polling places had not been included in the preliminar... (more)
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Mexico Presidential Election Ballots Found in DumpAs the apparent victor in Mexico's presidential election switched back and forth Thursday morning, ballots were found in two garbage dumps, RAW STORY has learned. The news was accompanied by various wire reports showing that left wing candidate Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador had rejected findings that his opponent Felipe Calder?n was the winner.
Although official tallies indicated a victory for Calder?n of 0.3%, the Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that 10 ballot boxes and a p... (more)
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Test firings linked to closure of foreign banking channelsYESTERDAY'S North Korean missile launches could be linked to successful moves by Washington to shut off Pyongyang's access to Macau-based foreign currency accounts, according to one of Australia's leading experts on the Stalinist state.
Ron Huisken, senior fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra, said he understood the US had put pressure on Macau-based banks to enforce due diligence aimed at tightening disclosure requir... (more)
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Ministry admits 'blacklist' of Palestinians who left W. BankThe government maintains a "blacklist" of Palestinians who left the territories during the 1967 Six Day War, and have since been barred from coming back, lest they sue for the return of their land, the Defense Ministry admitted for the first time Tuesday.
The property has been used to establish settlements and military bases in the Jordan Valley.
The blacklist began with 100 people, but swelled to over 2,000 by late 2004, when Brigadier General Ilan Paz, then-comman... (more)
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CIA break-in at top security locationNEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies and the Delhi police are investigating yet another spy break-in at a high security location in the capital, and this time around it involves the US intelligence agencies. The investigations got underway even as the euphoria over the Indo-US nuclear deal progression was bubbling over, early this week.
SS Paul, a senior system analyst working with the National Security Council Secretariat, is being interrogated by the police and intelligence agencies... (more)
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Italian Prosecutors Seek Arrest of C.I.A. OperativesMILAN, July 5 ? Italian prosecutors today sought the arrest and extradition of four Americans, three of them Central Intelligence Agency operatives, for their role in the 2003 kidnapping in Milan of a radical Egyptian cleric. Two officials of the Italian secret service were arrested in the case today.
The investigation into the abduction, which prosecutors say was done at the behest of American officials, has already implicated another 22 C.I.A. agents.
The arrest o... (more)
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Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project.
Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained e-mails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by neces... (more)
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Putin goes online to take people?s challenges: Out of 21,357 questions over 11,000 of them want him to explain why he kissed little boy's stomachPresident Putin is to communicate with people over the Internet during his online conference tomorrow, July 6, at 5 p.m. Moscow time. Putin?s first public appearance on the world wide web took place five years ago on March 6 2001. Lat time the president answered only 32 from 21,357 questions from Internet users. A certain part of the questions was selected as a result of special competitions held in various regions of the Russian Federation.
Five years ago Russian web surfers were... (more)
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Iran threatens action over U.S. artifact rulingTEHRAN (AFP) - Iran is to take action against a U.S. court ruling that could see a U.S. museum forced to sell off ancient Persian artifacts to compensate victims of a bombing in Jerusalem, the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday.
"(Iran) is going to hire a lawyer and defend its cultural rights through the foreign ministry and Iran's ambassador to the United Nations," Omid Ghanami, head of legal affairs in the Cultural Heritage Organization told IRNA.
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Russia Puts Number of N Korean Missile Launches at 10North Korea launched a total of 10 missiles, the head of Russia?s General Staff was quoted as saying on Wednesday, but he could not confirm how many of them were intercontinental weapons.
?Our control systems can confirm that the rockets were launched,? he told reporters in the town of Chita, near the Mongolian border, the Reuters news agency quoted the Russian miliatry official as saying.
?Ten rockets were launched. According to one set of data, they were rockets o... (more)
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CFR Making Moves on American SovereigntyPresident Bush’s publicity stunt pretending to protect our borders is worse than a transparent ploy.
Washington bureaucrats, backed by prominent think tanks, are now proposing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which will give you “a safer and more prosperous North America” with “freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions.” That’s what the neo-cons promised they’d do to Iraq.
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Visiting US official evades querieson Mossad-backed terror networkBEIRUT: The US House of Representatives Democratic Assistance Committee arrived in Lebanon Monday with the intention of "exchanging expertise" with Lebanese lawmakers, but the visit merely highlighted the US delegation's unwillingness to waiver from the official agenda to answer specific questions on the Lebanese case.
Committee chairman David Drier pointedly ignored repeated questions from reporters about the recently uncovered Mossad-linked terrorist group while speaking to the ... (more)
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U.S. officials: North Korea tests long-range missile: "Test failed within a minute"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets early Wednesday, but the closely watched long-range test failed within a minute, U.S. officials said.
The tests began shortly after 3:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. Tuesday ET) and lasted for about five hours.
The Taepodong-2 missile, which some analysts believed capable of hitting the western United States, failed after about 40 seconds, U.S. officials said.
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Mex Election - Stealing It In Front Of Your EyesGore v. Bush.
Kerry v Bush.
Lopez Obrador v Calderon.
As in Florida in 2000, as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate, but the race is “officially” too close to call.
But they will call it — after they steal it. Reuters News agency reports that, as of 8pm Eastern time, as voting concluded in Mexico, exit polls show Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the “left-wing” Party of the Dem... (more)
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Justice Ministry drafts civil marriage law for 'refuseniks'The Justice Ministry is drafting a bill that would institute a type of civil marriage for couples who cannot marry in Israel according to Jewish law. Justice Minister Haim Ramon intends to introduce the bill during the Knesset's winter session.
The law is aimed at solving a problem faced by 300,000 Israelis who cannot marry because one of the partners is not Jewish, or his or her Jewishness cannot be determined. Ramon's proposal is more restrictive than the civil marriage (or "mat... (more)
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Gov't sources: IDF has 'no idea' where kidnapped soldier heldThe defense establishment has "no idea" where kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit is being held by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, government sources in Jerusalem said Sunday night.
This lack of critical information is preventing an IDF rescue operation from being carried out.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will consult on Monday with Defense Minister Amir Peretz and senior commanders in the IDF and Shin Bet domestic security service.
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US Will Pay $48M to Repair Gaza Power Station That Israel BombedIn the wake of international pressure, the government was to vote Sunday on a plan to supply electricity from Israel to the Gaza Strip, in order to resume the power supply, which was halted following an Israel Air Force strike on a major Palestinian power station there.
If approved, the Israel Electric Corporation will erect special electrical lines stretching from Israel into Gaza.
Government sources said that Israel had been forced to provide power to Gaza through... (more)
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Iranian Jews oppose Gaza operationIranian worshippers protest against Israel over weekend (Photo: Reuters)
Heads of Jewish congregation in Iran: No good reason for IDF's 'campaign of death' to kidnap Palestinian government members, bomb population centers; call on Jewish leaders to speak out against policy that 'tramples upon humane tenets of Jewish tradition'
A statement published Sunday in the formal internet website of the Jewish community in Iran said that "the Jewish congregation in Ira... (more)
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