Algerian children hang 12-year-old after watching Saddam executionA group of Algerian schoolchildren hanged a 12-year-old classmate in a game imitating the execution of Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Monday, in the latest of a series of copycat hangings. The Algerian boy died two days after the ousted Iraqi leader was hanged on December 30, in the village of Oued Rihou in western Algeria, l'Authentique newspaper reported.
"Oued Rihou is in shock," the newspaper said, without giving details of the hanging.
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The Fed's role in the Housing Crash of '07This is the biggest housing slump in the last 4 or 5 decades: every housing indicator is in free fall, including now housing prices.” - Economist Roubini Nouriel, Dow Jones, 23 August 2006
“The Fed, in effect, has become a serial bubble blower.” - Stephen Roach, chief economist, Morgan Stanley
The American people appear to be oblivious to the economic hurricane which is expected to touchdown in late 2007. That’s when $1 tr... (more)
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Claiming the Prize: Bush Surge Aimed at Securing Iraqi OilI. The Twin Engines of Bush's War
The reason that George W. Bush insists that "victory" is achievable in Iraq is not because he is deluded or isolated or ignorant or detached from reality or ill-advised. No, it's that his definition of "victory" is different from those bruited about in his own rhetoric and in the ever-earnest disquisitions of the chattering classes in print and on-line. For Bush, victory is indeed at hand. It could come at any moment now, could already have been a... (more)
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Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed NEW YORK--Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer.
Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.'
But the freshly unco... (more)
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Focus: Mission IranIsrael will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme. Is Israel bluffing or might it really push the button?
In an Israeli air force bunker in Tel Aviv, near the concert hall for the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Major General Eliezer Shkedi might one day conduct operations of a perilous kind. Should the order come from the Israeli prime minister, it will be Shkedi’s job as air force com... (more)
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Israel Divulges Plan to Nuke IranNot to worry. The “mini-nukes” Israel will use against Iran’s Natanz facility and the heavy water reactor at Arak “would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb,” thus we should not worry about the downwinders, mostly Iranians.
“Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear ‘bunker-busters,’ according to several Israeli military sources,” report... (more)
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Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious commodityThe 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil? That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 years
So was this what the Iraq war was fought for, after all? As the number of US soldiers killed since the invasion rises past the 3,000 mark, and Presid... (more)
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Future of Iraq: The spoils of war Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.
The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-sc... (more)
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CIA kidnap victim offered $2 million In hush moneyALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- According to Abu Omar's wife, a few months ago two Egyptian officials visited her husband in his Cairo prison cell and made him an offer they hoped he wouldn't refuse.
The offer was $2 million cash, according to the radical cleric's wife Nabila Ghali. All Abu Omar needed to do was sign a paper saying he had come to Egypt of his own accord on Feb. 17, 2003, and to repeat that statement to the news media.
Feb. 17, 2003, is when Abu Omar vanished w... (more)
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Hoyer and Dems Set Stage for Iran AttackIt only took Steny Hoyer a few hours to please his masters.
“Iran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position. The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party, rejecting assertions that the Democrats would be weaker than the Republica... (more)
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Democrats: Nuclear Iran unacceptableIran with nuclear weapons is unacceptable, new House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told The Jerusalem Post hours after entering the party leadership position.
The Maryland Democrat said the view is shared by his party, rejecting assertions that the Democrats would be weaker than the Republicans on Iran.
He also said that the use of force against Teheran remained an option.
Hoyer, second only in the hierarchy of the House of Representatives to Speaker Na... (more)
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Pelosi: Dems will not cut off Iraq fundingHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday Democrats will not cut off funding for the war in Iraq, despite indicating earlier that she will not give President Bush a "blank check" to fund a U.S. troop surge in the war-torn country.
"I'm going to be very clear: Democrats will not cut off funding for our troops," Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill. "But the president needs to know -- and that's what I was telling him yesterday -- ... that congressional oversi... (more)
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Many more sons will die while the Democrats do nothing to stop the warOnly the squeaking of the boots of the military pallbearers could be heard in the Calvary church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday as Chad Vollmer's coffin was wheeled to the front. By the time the service was over their steps were inaudible amid the chorus of sobs and sniffles. Vollmer died two weeks ago when a makeshift bomb exploded near his vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq. His funeral was a profoundly patriotic affair. Family members and fellow soldiers praised the 24-year-old as a young ma... (more)
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Lords consider mental health laws The House of Lords is to begin detailed consideration of proposals to introduce tougher mental health laws.
The new government bill would allow the enforced detention of people who are mentally ill, even if they have not committed any crime.
It also suggests strengthening powers established in 1983 to ensure patients have therapy once they are released back into the community.
Critics of the bill say it would fail to safeguard the rights of patients.... (more)
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Five years of Camp X-Ray: Why are two British residents still in Guantanamo Bay? Two British residents left languishing for years in Guantanamo Bay despite being charged with no offence are suffering such serious health problems their lawyers warn they may never recover.
Bisher al-Rawi, who is locked in solitary confinement in a 6ft by 8ft cell, is gradually "losing his mind" and is in danger of irreparable damage to his mental state after five years of incarceration and torture.
On the fifth anniversary of the opening o... (more)
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Vermont: Snow Parking Tickets Issued -- Without SnowAs many as 323 motorists were ticketed for parking in designated snow removal areas in Rutland, Vermont in December. The ticketing continues even though the city has not seen even a snowflake during this unusually warm winter. Meter maids have collected up to $28,800 in snow tickets. To make matters worse for motorists, the snow tickets recently quintupled in cost from $10 to $50.
Other Vermont towns do not use snow ticketing when there is no snow. In Burlington, a system of light... (more)
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Parents block plans to vaccinate nine-year-olds against sex virusWORRIED parents have blocked government plans to vaccinate girls as young as nine against a sexually-transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Health chiefs have abandoned proposals to offer the jab against human papilloma virus (HPV) to primary school children after parents complained that it was inappropriate for girls of such a young age.
Scotland on Sunday revealed last summer that ministers were considering offering the ja... (more)
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'Precocious Puberty' Is on the RiseHormone-mimicking chemicals found in food, water, and many consumer goods may well be the cause of why children as young as eight are showing signs of sexual development.
Kids these days are growing up too fast -- in more ways than one. American girls are reaching puberty up to a year earlier than in previous generations, with some children showing signs of sexual development as young as age 3. In extreme cases, girls are budding breasts before they’ve even learned to read.<... (more)
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Genetic Engineering of Foods: Is Fish Protein In Your Ice Cream?The fat and calories in ice cream have many of us doing without the double dips, but scientists are looking to a little-known fish to pull your diet out of the deep freeze.
You may have seen it on store shelves: new low-fat ice cream with all the flavor of the real stuff.
But a University of Cincinnati researcher says to stay away from the sweet treat- that flavor may bring with it some unintended consequences.
As manufacturers strive for that rich an... (more)
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Is Bush's War Winding Down or Heating Up?Most Americans believe that Bush’s Iraqi misadventure is over. The occupation has lost the support of the electorate, the Congress, the generals and the troops. The Democrats are sitting back waiting for Bush to come to terms with reality. They don’t want to be accused of losing the war by forcing Bush out of Iraq. There are no more troops to commit, and when the "surge" fails, Bush will have no recourse but to withdraw. A little longer, everyone figures, and the senseless killing wi... (more)
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George Bush should come under the same scrutiny as Saddam HusseinSo Saddam has been executed. He was no hero or humanitarian, but a despot and butcher. However, he is the same man who received U.S. military backing (including chemical weapons) when Iraq fought Iran. He was accused of killing thousands, and his sentence is apt.
My question is this, since there are no weapons of mass destruction and more than 600,000 Iraqi civilian deaths post the U.S. invasion, when will George W. Bush face the same scrutiny? Will he walk the 13 steps?
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Local Governments in Britain to Spy on Muslims British Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly, the architect of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s so-called diversity and integration policy, is set to unveil a controversial plan later his month whereby thousands of council (municipal) workers across the UK will effectively be asked to spy on Muslim radicals and extremist organizations in their midst.
The Daily Mirror, one of Britain’s top tabloids and a staunch supporter of the ruling Labour Party, yesterday confirmed in a rep... (more)
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Marines' Photos Provide Graphic Evidence in Haditha ProbeCapturing images of war on their digital cameras, as many troops in Iraq have done, Marines took dozens of gruesome photographs of the 24 civilians who were killed in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.
The images -- which investigators tracked down on several laptop computers and digital media drives, some in the United States -- provide visual evidence of a series of shootings outside a taxi and inside three homes that military criminal investigators have alleged were murders.
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Full Steam Ahead For "The Invasion" & The American Union Recent disturbing incidents on the US/Mexico border, coupled with mainstream news reports concerning government aiding of illegal immigration serves to once again remind US citizens that the sovereign borders are systematically being broken down and the country is being quietly amalgamated into a Pan American Union.
Last week it was reported that a U.S. Border Patrol entry Identifica... (more)
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Drug mafia, CIA blamed for sacking of Afghan governorKABUL: In a country flooded with narcotics traffickers and corrupt government officials, one of Afghanistan's few remaining 'clean' governors, Mohammed Daud, has been removed from his position, and many are blaming the drug mafia and the CIA for his abrupt dismissal.
Daud was appointed at the request of the British government in order to oversee Helmand province, the country's largest opium producing region.
The former governor of Helmand, Sher Muhammad Akhunzada, w... (more)
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Texas Prison Camp Future American Gulag? A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency.
The privatized Hutto jail, which is also administered by Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), currently interns political asylum seekers who ca... (more)
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