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News Link • WAR: About that War
The man behind the Lincoln Group
12-24-2005
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London Times
IT WAS astounding enough for Washington’s political elite: they discovered that the man at the heart of a scandal over the planting of US propaganda in Iraqi newspapers was a unknown 30-year-old Oxford graduate who had somehow managed to land a $100
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Crucial phase in Iraq debt restructuring completed
12-24-2005
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Finacial Times
The transitional government in Baghdad â€" last week’s election will see a new administration take charge in the new year â€" inherited about $120bn of debt and is also negotiating debt reductions with other government lenders, including its Gulf state n
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Iraq faces obstacles to oil investment
12-24-2005
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Associated Press
To entice foreign companies to develop Iraq's oil sector, the nation's next government will not only have to tackle violence that has scared away investors, it will also have to determine who controls the country's lucrative oil fields.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Remember the Polish investigation into secret CIA prisons: Report Classified
12-24-2005
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ABC News
The Polish Government has decided not to make public the results of an inquiry into the possible existence of US CIA prisons on Polish soil. "All the members of the commission said they were satisfied with his explanations and considered the mat
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Only five civilians killed for every two insurgents in bombardment
12-24-2005
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Washington Post
"I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of civilians are killed by the insurgency," particularly by improvised bombs, said Col. Michael Denning, the top air officer for the 2nd Marine Division, which is leading the fight against insurge
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News Link • Police State
Illinois AG involved in shakedown of gas station owners
12-23-2005
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WREG-TV
Several Illinois gas stations are being given a choice by the state attorney general's office: donate $1,000 to the American Red Cross or risk being sued for price gouging after Hurricane Katrina. The options were spelled out in letters sent to
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Alaska braces for possible volcanic eruption
12-23-2005
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Reuters
A restless volcano near Alaska's most populated region is being watched by scientist and officials, who warned of the risk of clouds of ash and a tsunami from a possible eruption.
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Task force seeks vote on Puerto Rico's status ... yet again
12-23-2005
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Reuters
A presidential task force said in a report that the people of Puerto Rico should decide in a series of votes whether the island should become the 51st U.S. state or an independent nation. "It's a wasted opportunity. It offers nothing to the
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News Link • Media: Television
Broadcaster Alistair Cooke's bones stolen
12-23-2005
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Reuters
The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures. Cooke's bones were snatched before his cremation and sold for more than $7,000 to two tissue processi
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Former Goldman head says NY Attorney General made threats
12-23-2005
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Reuters
Former Goldman Sachs Chairman John Whitehead said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threatened him during an April phone call for writing an opinion piece critical of Spitzer and his attacks against prominent insurance executive Maurice "H
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Judge Halts Calif. Violent Video Game Law
12-23-2005
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Associated Press
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying a lawsuit challenging the measure was likely to prevail on grounds of free speech.
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News Link • TAXES: State
Latest tax tool: 'Internet shaming'
12-23-2005
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USA Today
Tax scofflaws, beware. State governments are combining new technology with old-fashioned shame to goad delinquent taxpayers to pay up. Advocates of Internet shaming say it's an inexpensive way to capture millions of dollars and seek politically v
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Predict What You'll Think of Next
12-23-2005
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LifeScinces.com
To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you'll think of next.
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Cuba offers to play baseball for Katrina victims
12-23-2005
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Reuters
Cuba said it would donate its revenues from a world baseball tournament to Hurricane Katrina victims if the Bush administration reverses a controversial decision to bar Cuba's participation.
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News Link • World News
China to try NY Times journalist for revealing state secrets
12-23-2005
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Reuters
China is to put on trial a Chinese journalist charged with exposing state secrets while working for the New York Times. Zhao was charged with telling the NY Times details about rivalry between China's outgoing Communist Party leader, Jiang Zemin,
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Want to stop snoring? Try the didgeridoo
12-23-2005
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Reuters
Kept awake at night by a snoring partner? The answer to your woes could lie -- believe it or not -- with the Australian didgeridoo.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Italy issues worldwide arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents
12-23-2005
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Reuters
A Milan court has issued a European arrest warrant for 22
CIA agents suspected of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from Italy's financial capital in 2003, Prosecutor Armando Spataro said
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Press does its part to prep the public for more gambling laws
12-23-2005
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USA Today
"The word, conservatively, is 'epidemic,' " says Edward Looney, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. He attributes poker's surge to its glamorization on TV shows such as Bravo's Celebrity P
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News Link • Immigration
Mexico seeks anti-fence alliance
12-23-2005
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BBC News
Mexico is trying to form a united front in Latin American against a US plan to build a fence along hundreds of miles of its southern border.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Chalabi's vote percentage worse than a libertarian's!
12-23-2005
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MSNBC
Preliminary results in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad indicate that our boy Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress scored a minuscule 0.36 percent of the votes. Out of almost 2.5 million voters in Baghdad, only 8,645 voted for Chalabi.
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News Link • Police State
Surveillance Nation: UK, only the beginning
12-23-2005
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The Independent
The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. Already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer introducing Orwellian stree
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Government failed in Katrina as private sector responded
12-23-2005
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USA Today
Peterson and his wife couldn't afford to pay a contractor several thousand dollars to gut the one-story house, which sat in water for weeks after Hurricane Katrina inundated them. Then the Mennonites came by and offered a hand. "I can't
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News Link • Internet
Nothing like the modern printing press to spook a government
12-23-2005
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Washington Post
Lawyer Mohammed Abou wrote sharply about politics in a country where criticism of the government is generally dulled. His outlet was the Internet, the only venue available to politically combative Tunisians, provided they can get around electronic ce
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Lawsuit drawing attention to US mercenary use in Iraq
12-23-2005
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The News International
An unprecedented lawsuit stemming from the gruesome killing of four American civilians in Iraq is slowly making its way through the US legal system, closely watched by companies estimated to field up to 100,000 contractors alongside the US military.
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News Link • Police State
California ACLU asks state if it is spying on locals for FBI
12-23-2005
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San Francisco Chronicle
The ACLU asked the state to reveal whether law enforcement agents were gathering information on California activists, in light of revelations that the federal government monitored a conference on Iraq at Stanford Univ. and an anti-war protest at UC S
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Nun Who Defaced Missile Silo Released from Prison
12-23-2005
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Common Dreams
Some of Platte's fellow prisoners worried that, if she kept protesting, she would die in prison. But Platte said she won't stop working, even though that might mean a longer sentence next time. And she's not worried about dying behind bar
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Executive branch violates 4th Amendment all the time
12-23-2005
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Washington Times
Previous administrations, as well as the court that oversees national security cases, agreed with President Bush's position that a president legally may authorize searches without warrants in pursuit of foreign intelligence.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
What do you do when you have singled out the innocent for death?
12-23-2005
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Washington Post
A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that the continued detention of two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is "unlawful," but he decided he had no authority to order their release.
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Iraqi Court Upset Over U.S. Release of Prisoners
12-23-2005
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Los Angeles Times
The Iraqi High Tribunal, the special court trying Saddam Hussein, disagreed with a US decision to release a group of high-profile prisoners. The court said the tribunal did not free the accused, the court said it would hunt them down and continue tak
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US Soldier Investigated in Italian's Death
12-23-2005
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Associated Press
A U.S. soldier is being investigated for his alleged role in the March killing in Baghdad of an Italian secret service agent, who had just secured the release of a journalist held hostage, a prosecutor and news reports said
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