Rudy's Web Bio Deep-Sixes Kids From Previous MarriageOn Rudy Giuliani's new exploratory committee website you can find a bio of the former Mayor and current frontrunner for the GOP Presidential nomination. The bio describes his current marriage as follows: "In May of 2003, Rudy married Judith S. Nathan. Mrs. Giuliani is a registered nurse with an extensive medical and scientific background." Yet intriguingly, Rudy's bio makes no mention of... (more)
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Tape contradicts Miami CongresswomanWASHINGTON - An Emmy Award-winning documentarian, angered over Miami Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's charge that a video in which she appears to endorse the assassination of Fidel Castro was altered to make her look more extreme, is circulating another version of the video to make his case.
The uncut version of director Dollan Cannell's video shows Ros-Lehtinen twice welcoming an attempt on Castro's life.
''Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has made a very serious accusation ... (more)
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Daughter of Chinese Human Rights Attorney Beaten Geng Ge, the daughter of Beijing-based human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng who is currently under secret trial, complained that the Chinese state security officers that had been following her family and her beat her up on Saturday, December 16, and caused bruises on her back and thighs. Chinese human rights activists condemn the state security officers' violence on the teen.
After attending an additional class at school at noon on Saturday, December 16, 2006, 13-year-old Geng Ge p... (more)
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Chavez Landslide Tops All In US HistoryWell almost, as explained below. Hugo Chavez Frias' reelection on December 3 stands out when compared to the greatest landslide presidential victories in US history. Except for the close race in 1812 and the electoral deadlock in 1800 decided by the House of Representatives choosing Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr, the very earliest elections here weren't hardly partisan contests at all as the Democrat-Republican party of Jefferson and Madison was dominant and had everything its own way. It was... (more)
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Bush 'brainwashed' Blair on Iraq Iraq's vice-president claims Tony Blair was "brainwashed" by President Bush into not setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Tareq al-Hashemi suggested Mr Blair had supported his idea of announcing a timetable, but then changed his mind after talking to Mr Bush.
The two leaders discussed the issue about three months ago, after which the PM was to raise the issue with Mr Bush.
The US president has so far refused to set a timetable for troo... (more)
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Top general in Mideast to retireWASHINGTON — Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, has submitted plans to retire and will leave his post in March, a step likely to make way for a change in military strategy at a time the Bush administration is seeking a new plan for Iraq.
Abizaid has been the primary architect of U.S. military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan since becoming head of the U.S. Central Command more than three years ago. He has strenuously resisted calls to inc... (more)
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UK ditches single ID database The UK government has ditched plans to put all our identities on one big database, saying that sticking with existing systems will help cut fraud and save money.
But this is not a U-turn. Home Secretary John Reid was very clear about that.
The system will now be built using existing data, with additional information being stored on existing databases.
As it is collected, biometric information will be stored on systems that are used to keep record of ... (more)
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U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.
As he searches for a new strategy for Iraq, Bush has now adopted the formula advanced by his top military adviser to describe the situation. "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Was... (more)
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60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002Tonight on 60 Minutes, Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA's Europe division, revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq's foreign minister -- who agreed to act as a spy for the United States -- had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program. Watch it:
BRADLEY: According to Drumheller, CIA ... (more)
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Report: Pentagon planning Navy buildup as 'warning to Iran' The U.S. military is "planning a major buildup" of its naval forces in the Persian Gulf region "as a warning to Iran," reports CBS News, as quoted by Reuters.
A senior official in the Department of Defense said "the report was 'premature' and appeared to be drawing 'conclusions from assumptions,'" according to Reuters. The Pentagon declined comment, but an additional Defense official described the report as "speculative."
CBS said that "the buildup ... was not aim... (more)
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Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seatA woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a Jerusalem bus last month is now lining up support for her case and may be included in a petition to the High Court of Justice over the legality of sex-segregated buses.
Miriam Shear says she was traveling to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City early on November 24 when a group of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men attacked her for refusing to move to the back of the Egged No. 2 bus. She is now in touc... (more)
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Witness: New Orleans cops shot man in back as he ran awayRonald Madison was shot in the back by New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina, a witness tells CNN.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.
It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-ye... (more)
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Fox Guest Says Joy Behar, Matt Damon & Keith Olbermann Should Be Rounded Up And Put In A Detention Center Because They're TraitorsToday in a segment on Fox On Line with Bill Hemmer he had two guests on to talk about Joy Behar's comparing Rumsfeld to Hitler. One of the guests pulled a Gestapo move on the conversation with his rounding up people to send to detention camps.
The following is my transcription between Bill Hemmer, right wing radio host, Mike Gallagher and left wing radio host, Rob Thompson.
Bill Hemmer: They talk about Godwins Law, internet junkies, as discussions grow longer someon... (more)
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US bans Hicks psychiatrist The US military has prevented a senior Melbourne psychiatrist from visiting David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay to provide an independent mental health assessment for his legal team.
Professor Paul Mullen - who The Age has discovered visited Hicks in February last year - said he was concerned at the psychological damage done to the Australian after five years of indefinite detention.
"No one is going to survive unharmed for this length of time," Professor Mullen said. "He... (more)
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Bush accused of gagging critic of Iran policyThe White House yesterday faced fresh accusations of tailoring intelligence to suit its political viewpoint from a former CIA analyst barred from publishing a critical newspaper commentary on American policy towards Iran.
Flynt Leverett, a former Middle East analyst at the CIA and the National Security Council who has criticised the Bush administration for going to war with Iraq and for its handling of Iran, accuses the White House of pressing the CIA to demand sweeping cuts to an... (more)
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UCF rules fuel debate on freedom of speech One minute, members of Students for a Democratic Society were sitting in a breezeway, holding signs asking other students to discuss a possible war in Iran.
The next, the University of Central Florida police were accusing the campus activists of trespassing and were threatening them with arrest if they didn't move to a designated "free-assembly area."
That event in April launched an ongoing dispute over free speech at UCF that echoes similar struggles between unive... (more)
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North American Union would supplant U.S. sovereignty I just returned from a week in Washington, D.C., with a group of concerned women where we learned about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, also known as "The North American Union."
This partnership was agreed upon at a private meeting held in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, among then-president of Mexico Vicente Fox, U.S. President George Bush and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada.
The SPP is an agreement to merge our United Sta... (more)
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He didn't have to do it. That's one reason he's still admiredWhen the Dixie Chicks told an audience in London in 2003 that "We're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas", they set off a political storm in the US that echoed the treatment meted out to John Lennon 30 years earlier. They were talking about the Iraq war, while Lennon had been campaigning against the Vietnam war.
The Dixie Chicks got in trouble with rightwing talk radio. Boycotts followed, and lead singer Natalie Maines ended up publicly apologising to Presiden... (more)
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Lennon's Conviction: You Can Change The World The U.S. vs John Lennon is an ultimately uplifting story of how one man put his hard earned fame, fortune and adulation on the line, neutralized the nagging voice of ego and gave up everything including eventually his life to affect change and take on the behemoth of the criminal Nixon administration.
The newly released documentary film charts Lennon's progression from outspoken Beatle to iconic rallying figurehead for the Vietnam peace movement of the la... (more)
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Cops Caught Stealing Protestors' Cameras In the latest attack on the first amendment, a shocking video has emerged of the NYPD attacking a protestor and stealing his camera and footage at a demonstration demanding justice for an independent video journalist who was shot and killed earlier this year.
The filmmaker, Flux Rostrum, was filming the interaction between protestors ... (more)
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Esteemed Professor and Law Expert Warns Of Police State Alex Jones was joined on air this week by a leading American professor, practitioner of and expert on international law to discuss his detailed knowledge of the cover up of the 2001 anthrax attacks, which he is adamant were perpetrated by criminal elements of the US government in an attempt to foment a police state by killing off opposition to hardline post 9/11 legislation.
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The Greatest Threat To Our Standard Of LivingThe greatest current threat to our standard of living is the current account deficit, which now stands at a whopping $225.6 billion in just the third quarter of 2006. This is the equivalent of 6.8 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP). Current account deficits above 5 percent flash a threat level of “red” to economists.
The current account is the broadest measure of our international transacti... (more)
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No 10 investigated for perversion of justice# Loans for honours cover-up suspected
# Aides to be questioned about hampering
Downing Street aides and Labour officials involved in the cash-for-honours inquiry are being investigated on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, The Times has learnt.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has advised detectives to look into suspected attempts to hamper the nine-month investigation. Some e-mails and documents have yet to be handed over to the police while... (more)
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Genetically-Modified Mosquitos to Fight Disease Without mosquitoes, epidemics of dengue fever and malaria could not plague this planet.
The skin-piercing insects infect one person after another while dining on a favorite meal: human blood.
Eliminating the pests appears impossible. But scientists are attempting to re-engineer them so they cannot carry disease. If they manage that, they must create enough mutants to mate with wild insects and one day to outnumber them.
Researchers chasing this dream,... (more)
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End of the strongmen The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well and truly over. His power is being replaced with rule by civil war, apparently now the American Administration’s favoured model across the region.
Fratricidal fighting is threatening to engulf, or already engulfing, the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Iraq. Both Syria and Iran could soon be next, torn apart by attacks Israel is reportedly planning on behalf of the U... (more)
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