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News Link • Foreign Policy
Ethiopia goes all out to defeat bill in US Congress (LINK IS BROKEN... Article not there)
08-01-2007
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www.americanchronicle.com
The current regime has retained the services of a high power lobbying firm in an effort to defeat a bill that takes the current internal climate in Ethiopia under scrutiny
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News Link • Communications
FCC approves rules for spectrum auction
08-01-2007
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tech.monstersandcritics.com
The Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously Tuesday toward creating a more open national wireless broadband network, handing a partial victory to Google, which was pushing for more competition in cellphone services.
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News Link • Eugenics
Diebold e-voting flaws could compromise elections (Iowa Straw Poll on these machines also)
08-01-2007
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ComputerWorld.com
Optical scan voting devices slated to be used in presidential primary elections in Florida next year are significantly flawed and could compromise the outcome of the contest, according to a report released yesterday by Secretary of State Kurt Brownin
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Rumsfeld, Myers Deny Covering Up Tillman's Death
08-01-2007
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Bloomberg.com
Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John P. Abizaid, former head of U.S. forces in the Middle East, and former Special Operations commander General Bryan Douglas Brown testified today under oath with Rumsfeld.
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News Link • Police State
Giving Gonzo cover, by admitting domestic spying worse than stated
7-31-2007
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Reuters
The Bush administration's top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition.
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News Link • Eugenics
Candidates urged to sign anti-torture pledge
7-31-2007
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Reuters
A coalition of civil rights groups launched a campaign urging presidential candidates to sign an "American Freedom Pledge" rejecting torture, detention without trial and warrantless wire-tapping.
Around 130,000 people have signed a petit
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News Link • Housing
California: Golden dream or foreclosures by the sea?
7-31-2007
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Reuters
"The golden dream by the sea" is how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has fancifully described California. Yet for thousands who bought homes during the Golden State's latest housing boom, foreclosures have turned recent months into a nightma
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
One Speech Two Interpretations
7-31-2007
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by Michael Shedlock
The Fed's Poole gave a speech. The differences in reporting on that speech are remarkable. But the bottom line is the same no
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News Link • Conspiracies
Who owns you? George Carlin - 3 Minute Video
7-31-2007
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ICH
The game is rigged! Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Leaving your friends in the dark
07-31-2007
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Raw Story
Staff for a top Democratic advocate of a US-India nuclear cooperation agreement admitted to Raw Story on Tuesday morning that the Bush adminstration had not yet showed him the text of the deal it announced last Friday.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Four million Iraqis on the run
07-31-2007
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Counterpunch
Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War.
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News Link • Propaganda
Murdoch clinches deal for publisher of Journal
07-31-2007
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MSNBC
"The Wall Street Journal should be owned by a company dedicated to maintaining its integrity, not one grasping to find content for a yet-to-be-launched cable channel." By David Sweet - MSNBC contributor
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News Link • Military
Pentagon announces 20,000 troops will rotate into Iraq
07-31-2007
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Raw Story
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it will rotate 20,000 troops into Iraq at the end of this year but denied the troops would extend President Bush's troop "surge" through next spring. The AP reported Tuesday. CNN Pentagon correspond
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News Link • WAR: About that War
How to win in Iraq
07-31-2007
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American Conservative(William Lind)
Among the bits of lore of the US Senate is a story that dates back to before I arrived there in 1973 as a staffer to Sen. Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio. A senator - from New York, perhaps - known for depending wholly on his staff while treating it with con
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Voting Machines Breached in 'top-to-bottom' Review - Allowed by Sec. of State in California
07-31-2007
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WorldNetDaily
'The veneer of security has evaporated': Hackers given shot at California devices
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News Link • Technology: Software
Open DNS
07-31-2007
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Open DNS
Open DNS is a safer, faster, and smarter and more reliable way to navigate the Internet. Our service is free and requires nothing to download.
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News Link • Sexuality
Sex for the motherland
07-31-2007
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Daily Mail
Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia." Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormito
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News Link • History
On this day in history: July 31,1970
07-31-2007
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Farm Runoff
"Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to destablilize their country." GWB. Here's the story of Dan Mitrione, policeman, ex-FBI, and trainer in "advanced counterinsurgency techniques". No wonde
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News Link • Eugenics
It's a Worldwide RonPaulRevolution
07-31-2007
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via LewRockwell.com
German Video explains how Ron Paul's message of peace and freedom has worldwide support.
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News Link • Israel
A newspaper with an agenda
07-31-2007
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Haaretz
With an exclusive article about a new plan by Accountant General Yaron Zelekha to contain corruption and an adjacent article by Dan Margalit about the war waged by the sons of light, headed by Zelekha and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, agent
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News Link • Eugenics
PajamasMedia Presidential Straw Poll brings Ron Paul back :)
07-31-2007
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PajamaMedia
(C'mon guys... make up your mind.)
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iran and US Jiu-Jitsu in the Middle East
07-31-2007
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ICGA Blogspot
This strikes me as a marvelous example of political jiu jitsu. The US made possible an emergent Iran by eliminating its Taliban rivals to the east and its Baathist rivals to the west and then installing a Shia government in Baghdad for the first tim
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Middle East hypocrisy
07-31-2007
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Antiwar(Jim Lobe)
"For 60 years, my country - the US - pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Mid East," Rice declared in June 2005 at the American University in Cairo, in a widely noted speech that encouraged democracy act
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US
07-31-2007
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Independent
Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the US. After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US president at his Camp David
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News Link • WAR: About that War
A new escapade
07-31-2007
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Human Events(Robert Novak)
The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush adminstration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. At a high level, US officials are working with the Turkish counterparts
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News Link • World News
Pakistani Premier 'disappointed' by US pressure
07-31-2007
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Washington Post
Pakistan will do what it takes to eliminate extremists operating in the country for its own sake, not because of rising pressure from the US, according to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. Aziz said in an interview this week that efforts to force Pakista
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News Link • World News
Iraqi parliament misses key deadline
07-31-2007
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Financial Times
Iraq's government has missed its deadline to compile a list of people eligible to vote in a December referendum that will determine the fate of a large, oil-rich and bitterly disputed swathe of the country, officials of northern Iraq's Kurdis
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News Link • Corruption
CREW cleaning the GOP's House
07-31-2007
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Black and Right
I must admit to having an initial gut response to CREW(Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics) and their current attempts to root out nepotism in DC. According to Josephine Hearn at The Politico, "House members are complaining that their spouse
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US should boost debt limit
07-31-2007
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AP
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday said the US maybe unable to pay its bills this fall unless Congress raises the government's borrowing authority, now capped at $8.965 trillion. (Hey, I know, lets raise it to 100 gazillion, that should s
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News Link • Impeachment
Censure and Impeachment: Take 2
7-31-2007
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New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey is easily the most dogged critic of Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives, and Hinchey has not exactly been soft on President Bush. So it comes as no surprise that Hinchey, a passionate progre
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