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The American Gigolo: Brits are so weak-kneed!
1-10-2006
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Daily Telegraph
Paul Bremer turned his fire on the British Government and Armed Forces, the CIA, the US Marine Corps and the US chiefs of staff, who were berated for their "weak kneed" and displayed "cold feet" timidity in refusing to arrest Moqt
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Ignoring Protests, Iran Resumes Nuclear Program (Power generation or Defense?)
01-10-2006
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By ELAINE SCIOLINO and JOHN O'NEIL
Iran had agreed in November 2004 to freeze most of its nuclear activities, including nuclear research, in exchange for a broad package of political and economic incentives. It had earlier admitted that it had deceived nuclear inspectors for years, al
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Abramoff's Big-Screen Potential
01-09-2006
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By Jabari Asim - Washington Post
For "Syriana," Clooney packed on the pounds to portray a bloated, world-weary CIA operative who's done things he shouldn't have. Therefore it would be no stretch for him to depict Abramoff, a bloated, corrupt palm-greaser who's
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I was just a gigolo: The Paul Bremer Memoirs
1-10-2006
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Financial Times
In a memoir that broke a more than year-long silence, Paul Bremer portrays himself in a constant struggle with Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, and military leaders who were determined to reduce the US troop presence as quickly as possible in
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NSA warrentless wiretaps of,... everything, even baby monitors. The Echelon program was detailed on
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Mike Frost spent 20 years as a spy for the CSE,
the Canadian equivalent of the National Security Agency, and he is
the only high-ranking former intelligence agent to speak publicly
about the Echelon program. Frost even showed us one of the
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Techno Gadgets
FSU Researcher's "buckypaper" is stronger than steel at a fraction of the weight
10-20-2005
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Barry Ray
Working with a material 10 times lighter than steelâ€"but 250 times strongerâ€"would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of heat and electricity, it would start to sound like
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Spending could outstrip income; not seen since the Depression
1-9-2006
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San Francisco Chronical
When the Commerce Department recently tallied up consumer finances for November, it found that Americans shelled out more money than they took in. The nation's personal savings rate could well be negative for all of 2005.
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Illegal to be anonymous on Internet
1-9-2006
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cNET
President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting "annoying" Web messages or sending "annoying" e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. It's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as yo
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Stern arrives,
satellite audience rising
01-09-2006
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By DAVID HINCKLEY - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The biggest gamble in the short life of satellite radio hits the table at 6 a.m. today, as Howard Stern starts what he calls his creative rebirth at Sirius.
The most prominent morning host on commercial radio for 20 years, Stern joined Sirius becaus
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Feingold won't rule out Bush impeachment
01-08-2006
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By Shay Totten & Kathryn Casa - Vermont Guardian
"What the current administration is scared of," said Sanders, is losing GOP control of either the House, the Senate or both. Because, if that happens, he predicted, "there will be hearings to ask some of the fundamental questions about
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Spacecraft to Bring Home Comet Dust and Clues
01-09-2006
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By Guy Gugliotta
NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew two years ago through the halo of gas, dust and debris, or "coma," enveloping comet Wild 2, and before dawn on Sunday it will send a capsule containing the samples on a parachute descent into the U.S. Arm
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Bombing Will Not Settle the Iranian Nuclear Issue
01-08-2006
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by Michael S. Rozeff
The United States is walking at the edge of a cliff. If it bombs Iran to stem Iranian development of nuclear weapons, it fatally poisons U.S. relationships with the entire world of Islam. If it uses nuclear weapons in the assault, it further seals th
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Abramoff Only "The Middle Guy"... 13 FBI Field Offices Involved, Two Dozen Agents Full Tim
01-08-2006
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Time - KAREN TUMULTY
The FBI has 13 field offices across the country working on the case, with two dozen agents assigned to it full time and roughly the same number working part time. "We are going to chase down every lead," Chris Swecker, head of the FBI's
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...a list of all the times Abramoff entered the White House.
01-08-2006
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TIME Magazine - By MATTHEW COOPER, MIKE ALLEN
Bracing for the worst, Administration officials obtained from the Secret Service a list of all the times Abramoff entered the White House complex, and they scrambled to determine the reason for each visit. Bush aides are also trying to identify all t
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My Lai Hero Hugh Thompson Jr. Dies at 62
01-07-2006
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by Jessica Bujol
Early in the morning of March 16, 1968, Thompson, door-gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta came upon U.S. ground troops killing Vietnamese civilians in and around the village of My Lai.
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Iraq War Could Cost US Over $2 Trillion, says Nobel Prize-Winning Economist
01-07-2006
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by Jamie Wilson in Washington
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
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Two Midwestern lawmakers seek to succeed embattled DeLay
01-08-2006
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WASHINGTON - In a race framed by scandal, Republican Reps. Roy Blunt and John Boehner pledged action on a reform agenda Sunday as they launched competing campaigns to succeed Tom DeLay as House majority leader.
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DeLay resigns after Republican mutiny
01-09-2006
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From James Bone in New York
After a party mutiny the Texas congressman said that he would step down as leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
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New Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls
01-03-2006
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By Donna Miles - American Forces Press Service
Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building
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Google Cofounder Talks Video Store and More
The service will allow anyone to sell their video online for a price of their choosing, the justification here being that producing video content is often quite costly and that enabling providers to recoup those costs -- from the college kids who put
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The Government is taking over civilian space travel,... surprise surprise.
By Alan Boyle - MSNBC
New Mexico's plan to build a $225 million spaceport calls for the state Legislature to contribute $100 million in new money. The balance would come from state funding already approved, as well as federal and local funds, said Rick Homans, New Mex
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Un-just Wars
(and the people who wash their hands of them)
Dave Gallagher
When congressional hawks begin to repent should Christian leaders be so far behind ?
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2005: The Farce of Freedom? - By Radley Balko (On the Fox News Site?)
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A favorite standby of pundits and columnists is to predict what developments will transpire over the next 12 months. I've decided to take the reductio ad absurdum approach, and predict what might happen in 2006 should the most disturbing trends o
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IRS Promises to Strip Political Party Info From Its Databases
1-6-2006
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Associated Press
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Internal Revenue Service said it had told a contractor to stop sending the agency information about political party affiliation in databases used to track down delinquent taxpayers.
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Activists upstage Jan Brewer at re-election announcement
1-6-2006
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Arizona Republic
What had been planned as a simple announcement on the Capitol lawn quickly turned chaotic, as a handful of agitators managed to upstage the first-term Republican and her legion of supporters with criticism of the state's use of Diebold Election S
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Paying the price for trying to investigate vote fraud
1-6-2006
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East Valley Tribune
Sen. Bill Brotherton, D-Phoenix, hopes to force an investigation into an agreement between Sen. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, and a Phoenix weekly newspaper violates the Senate’s ethics rules by trying to investigate vote fraud.
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China is so sure of our economy they are dumping the dollar
1-6-2006
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Financial Times
China indicated on Thursday it could begin to diversify its rapidly growing foreign exchange reserves away from the US dollar and government bonds - a potential shift with significant implications for global financial and commodity markets.
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Reid to keep donations from Abramoff clients
1-6-2006
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Reno Gazette-Journal
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has no plans to return about $61,000 in political donations from clients of Jack Abramoff, the super lobbyist who has pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges.
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AZ Sec. of State Calls Transparent Election Advocates 'Anarchists', 'Conspiracy Theorist
1-6-2006
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Brad Blog
Election Transparency Advocates who turned out today at Arizona's Sec. of State Jan Brewer's speech to announce her re-election bid were labeled "anarchists" and "conspiracy theorists" by the woman who recently approved Di
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The Economic Costs of the Iraq War
1-6-2006
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TMP Cafe
Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes plan to present this week a paper estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $1-2 trillion.
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