O'Reilly: U.S. may have to "level cities like Tehran"On the December 5 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly asserted that "we may have to" "level cities like Tehran, kill hundreds of thousands of people," which, he explained, the United States has "already done in Germany and Japan." O'Reilly then argued that such a move would be necessary, for example, "[i]f Iran takes over Iraq and then fosters a revolution inside Saudi Arabia ... and gets control of all the oil and says we're not selling to the USA, we are going to lev... (more)
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The Baker Boys: Stay Half the CourseThey’re kidding, right?
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.
Baker’s Two Big Ideas are:
1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys’ idea: cut the disaster in half — leave 70,000 troops there.
But here’s where dumb gets dumber: the Bakerites wa... (more)
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Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'Microscopic particles of plastic could be poisoning the oceans, according to a British team of researchers.
They report that small plastic pellets called "mermaids' tears", which are the result of industry and domestic waste, have spread across the world's seas.
The scientists had previously found the debris on UK beaches and in European waters; now they have replicated the finding on four continents.
Scientists are worried that these fragments can ge... (more)
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Conspiracies Behind Haim Saban’s Closed Doors As if to finally dispel the myth there is a difference between Israel First neocons and Democrats, consider the upcoming “closed session” at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, a “think tank” bankrolled by Israeli-American millionaire Haim Saban.
“Among the many officials attending are Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; David Welch, the current top U.S. envoy to the region; Shimon Peres, Israelâ€&... (more)
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Iraqi insurgents blog up their bombingsA purported insurgent group in Iraq appears to have launched a weblog with regular updates of its attacks on Shi'ite and coalition forces in the country, RAW STORY has learned.
A post at the blog of journalist Eric Umansky pointed to a website for the "Islamic Army in Iraq." One terrorism database describes the group as "a significant Iraqi terrorist entity," which "has initiated a brutally violent campaign against ... (more)
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Setting the Limits of Invasion Journalism On 14 November, Bridget Ash wrote to the BBC’s Today program asking why the invasion of Iraq was described merely as "a conflict." She could not recall other bloody invasions reduced to "a conflict." She received this reply: Dear Bridget,
You may well disagree, but I think there’s a big difference between the aggressive "invasions" of dictators like Hitler and Saddam and the "occupation," however ba ... (more)
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Oil for Sale: Iraq Study Group Recommends PrivatizationIn its heavily anticipated report released on Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group made at least four truly radical proposals.
The report calls for the United States to assist in privatizing Iraq's national oil industry, opening Iraq to private foreign oil and energy companies, providing direct technical assistance for the "drafting" of a new national oil law for Iraq, and assuring that all of Iraq's oil revenues accrue to the central government.
President Bush hired an... (more)
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Student suspended for refusing to narc on classmatesKids across America are warned to stay away from “nose candy” in anti-drug campaigns. But a Kanawha County student is fighting his suspension for pretending to put actual candy up his nose.
According to a lawsuit filed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday, a student-athlete at Sissonville High School was given Smarties candy as a reward for good academic performance. In front of his teacher and fellow classmates, the student pretended to put one of the small candy discs up ... (more)
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Citizens will face fine rather than sign up to ID card registerHundreds of thousands of people will refuse to sign up to the UK Government's planned identity register, according to just-published research. Around eight per cent of those surveyed said they would refuse to sign up to the database even if they are fined. The survey was carried out by polling firm YouGov on behalf of the Daily Telegraph newspaper and in a sample of 1,979 people found that a significant proportion were prepared to defy the government over the database.... (more)
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Jeweler Was Told To Lie In Princess Diana Case A key witness in the inquiry into the death of Britain's Princess Diana recently claimed police threatened him to change his evidence. Jeweler Alberto Repossi - who claims he sold Diana's lover Dodi Al Fayed an engagement ring the day before the couple were killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 - alleges he was put under pressure by investigators to retract the statement he gave to Lord Stevens, who is leading the inquiry.
There is speculation th... (more)
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Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high The question is why. Under Taliban rule, which began in the late 1990s, Afghanistan just about kicked the growing habit by 2001. After five years the Taliban is slipping back in, but poppy production has grown by leaps and bounds.
According to the Washington Post, “Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all reco... (more)
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US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? Part 3 of 3: The DIME bomb, yet another genotoxic weapon The human genome: target or innocent bystander?
Since early July, Israeli forces have been using a new weapon in the Gaza Strip that inflicts strange and deadly wounds. Doctors and medics say the unidentified device has significantly increased fatalities from Israel’s attacks. [1] [2]
In the first two parts of this article, we reviewed evidence that Israel’s new weapon may be Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), a “low collateral damage” ... (more)
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Bipartisan panel urges agencies to order civilians to IraqWith the situation in Iraq "grave and deteriorating," the United States must begin the process of shifting troops out of the country, members of a bipartisan panel said Wednesday. But at the same time, the group recommended, the Bush administration must make sure that it has sufficient civilian personnel in Iraq -- if necessary, by ordering some employees to serve there.
"The nature of the mission in Iraq is unfamiliar and dangerous, and the United States has had great difficulty ... (more)
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Medical records mashup would span a lifetimeFive major companies have joined forces and invested in what appears to be the ultimate personal medical-records database.
Applied Materials, BP America, Intel, Pitney Bowes and Wal-Mart Stores have sunk an undisclosed amount of money into the Omnimedix Institute, a nonprofit organization that developed and will manage the database, called "Dossia."
Dossia, which in 2007 will be made available to the companies' 2.5 million U.S. employees, dependents and retirees, wi... (more)
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Flu vaccines -- open season For all the frantic, unvaccinated citizens fearing the “upcoming” peak of flu season rest assured that coming down with a flu infection is the least of your worries.
Despite the government's statements urging individuals to vaccinate their children, the threat of an infantile influenza fatality is just about as serious as the dreaded hangnail.
Nonetheless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently declared November 27 to December ... (more)
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Homeland Security reports massive abuse by government employees A semi-annual report filed this week by Homeland Security Inspector General Richard L. Skinner showed a marked increase in arrests of department and other government employees, but contained no recommendations for security improvements, RAW STORY has learned. Media spokeswoman Tamara Faulkner of the Inspector General's office told RAW STORY that many of the arrests associated with the report, "were due to oversight associated with the inter-departmental oversight invol... (more)
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Former Russian PM Gaidar Says Enemies of Kremlin Poisoned HimFormer Russian premier Yegor Gaidar thinks the strange illness he caught while in Dublin last month may be a try by enemies of the Kremlin to kill him, Reuters news agency reported Thursday. The symptoms of a mysterious illness that maid him bleeding from the nose and mouth pointed to poisoning, he said.
He collapsed at an Irish university conference on Nov. 24, the day after former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, a Kremlin critic, died in a Lon... (more)
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The Pavlovian State (You're the Dog)There's been much talk about the Rumsfeld memo written before his departure, the one that recommended change in the Bush administration's Iraq war policy. But there's been little talk of the strange specifics in the memo, specifics which provide profound insight into the workings of the imperial state. For the naïve among us, here is your education.
In particular, I'm thinking of the following chilling passage:
Stop rewarding bad behavior, as was done in Fa ... (more)
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Man's anti-Bush Christmas light creates furor A New Mexico man is drawing the ire of neighbors--and his homeowners association--after putting up a politically-charged, lighted sign on his house to go with his holiday decorations. Roberto Vasquez of Albuquerque said his sign, showing George Bush's name crossed over by a red bar as though banning it, has caused people to shoot at the projector, try to pull out its bulb, and even threaten to "blow up the house," he tells local TV station KOAT.
Vasquez says ... (more)
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Legislators may reconsider suspending habeas corpus for detaineesPresident Bush's victory in getting the rules he wanted to try suspected terrorists could be diminished. The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled this week that he'll join prominent Democrats in seeking to restore legal rights to hundreds of suspected terrorists confined at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.
While the measure to restore the right of habeas corpus has almost no chance of passing before Congress adjourns later this week... (more)
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Iran replaces dollar with euro in most oil dealingsTEHRAN, Dec. 5 (MNA) — Iran has started replacing dollar with euro in majority of its crude oil exchanges in the last several months, an informed source with Iran’s Oil Ministry said here on Tuesday.
Oil Ministry has taken the policy to substitute dollar with euro, and begun to implement it for most of its oil dealings, the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Mehr News Agency.
“This can maintain the real value of Iranian oil,&rd... (more)
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The Peasant Who Stood Up to HitlerWhen a leader allows himself to break the rules of humanity, it is the duty of every citizen to break the leader's rules.
So wrote Franz Jagerstatter.
Chances are that you haven’t heard of him. If you’ve seen or heard his name, it more than likely wasn’t in a textbook or classroom. I learned of his courage and integrity in a seemingly unlikely place: the introduction to an anthology of poetry.
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High school in Irvine drops plan to scan fingerprintsA plan to scan the fingerprints of 2,200 Irvine high school students to ease lunch lines was scrapped this week after angry parents argued it would violate teens' privacy rights.
A spokesman for the Irvine Unified School District said district administrators had been unaware of University High School's proposal and had halted its implementation.
"This is not something we will be using at our schools," said Ian Hanigan, district spokesman. "It's sa... (more)
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