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Make Free PC Video Calls With Skype's New Software
12-1-2005
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PC World
Skype Technologies today updated its Internet telephony software, with version 2 adding free integrated video calling to the company's popular Voice over Internet Protocol service.
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Engineers Confirm Levee Shortcomings
12-1-2005
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Associated Press
Government engineers performing sonar tests at the site of a major levee failure confirmed that steel reinforcements barely went more than half as deep as they were supposed to, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said.
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Health and Physical Fitness
Supremes revisit minutia of abortion law
12-1-2005
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Reuters
The
U.S. Supreme Court grappled with its first abortion case in five years on Wednesday, considering whether a parental notification law must provide an exception when the health of an abortion-seeking minor is at risk.
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3 Plead Not Guilty to Supporting Terrorism
12-1-2005
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Associated Press
A Washington, D.C., cab driver, a Florida doctor and a Bronx jazz musician have pleaded not guilty to charges they conspired to help terrorist organizations.
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Flight logs reveal hundreds of CIA flights to Europe: report
12-1-2005
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Agence France Presse
More than 300
CIA flights have landed at European airports, adding a new element to claims that Washington has been transporting terrorist suspects to secret prisons in Europe.
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National security whistle-blowers call for boycott of hearing
12-1-2005
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Christian Science Monitor
Groups representing national security whistle-blowers are calling for a boycott of a congressional hearing to examine "whether US agencies are unjustly revoking or suspending security clearances in retaliation against employees who speak out aga
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Contractor spends big on key lawmakers
12-1-2005
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USA Today
A San Diego businessman under investigation in the bribery case of former congressman "Duke" Cunningham is a well-known GOP fundraiser whose generosity to key members of Congress came at the same time his company saw large increases in its
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Analysis 3: Bush wants to 'Vietnamize' Iraq
12-1-2005
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UPI
Even if the new Iraqi army serving a predominantly Shiite governing majority proves able to crush the Sunni insurgency, it may prove unable to defend its government against an eventual invasion from neighboring fellow-Shiite Iran.
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Analysis 2: An Offering of Detail But No New Substance
12-1-2005
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Washington Post
Thirty-two months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Bush's advisers concluded that his message of "stay the course" has been translated by a weary American public as "stay forever." And so yesterday the president tried
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Analysis 1: Victory, Mr President?
12-1-2005
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The Independent
In a speech aimed squarely at restoring morale on the home front, and to meet the growing clamour for a pull-out, Mr Bush conspicuously failed to deliver: a clear exit strategy from the two-and-a-half-year conflict.
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Why worry about Iran with 600+ lbs. of plutonium missing
12-1-2005
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San Francisco Chronicle
Enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear bombs hasn't been accounted for at the UC-run Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and may be missing.
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Coloradan faces jail for refusal to show ID
12-1-2005
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Washington Times
Deborah Davis' refusal to show her identification to federal police at a bus stop, a 50-year-old Arvada, Colo., grandmother of five, was handcuffed, placed in a police car and ticketed for two petty offenses by Federal Protective Services officer
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U.S. Contractor Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
12-1-2005
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New York Times
The article was one of several in a storyboard, the military's term for a list of articles, that was delivered Tuesday to the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations firm paid by the Pentagon.
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Pelosi does abrupt about face after constituents hound her mercilessly
12-1-2005
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Roll Call (via Raw Story)
Warhawk now dove, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) endorsed Rep. John Murtha’s (D-CA) recent call to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq as soon as possible.
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Honor, Duty, Country means something to the Honorable
12-1-2005
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ABC News
The nation's top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have a duty to intercede and stop abuse of prisoners by Iraqi security personnel. When Defense Secretary Rumsfeld contradicted Pace, the general stood firm.
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Voting: Vote Fraud
Diebold says it may pull out voting machines after software disclosure ruling
RALEIGH, N.C. - One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined Monday to protect it from criminal prosecution should it fail to disclose softwa
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Fascist Nation
Time for the Death Penalty to Die
11-30-2005
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Ray Krone is the 100th person cleanly exonerated and freed from death row over the past 30 years!
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Bush: We won't leave Iraq as long as there are Americans to kill
11-30-2005
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CBS News
"America will not run in the face of car bombers and assassins so long as I am your commander in chief," Bush said, warning there would be violence there "for many years to come." A timetable for withdrawing troops won't occur
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Bush's Deadly Dance with Islamic Theocrats
11-30-2005
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by Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt
American forces in Iraq, he writes below, are now "the Praetorian Guard" for a radical right-wing Iraqi theocratic government in Baghdad, one deeply indebted to that full member of the "axis of evil," Iran.
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Justice Dept. Criticizes Post Article on 'National Security Letters'
11-30-2005
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Washington Post
"The DOJ is committed to protecting civil liberties and to using all investigative tools judiciously and within the bounds of the law. We urge the Congress not to let a distorted and misleading portrayal of the FBI's use of this vital invest
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Justice Dept. Defends FBI on Patriot Act
11-30-2005
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San Francisco Chronicle
The Justice Department issued a broad defense Tuesday of an investigative tool used by the FBI to compel businesses to turn over customer information without a court order or grand jury subpoena.
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Rice defends prisoner tactics
11-30-2005
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USA Today
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects as part of an unprecedented war to prevent massive attacks on civilians.
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The World's Most Dangerous Man
11-30-2005
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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)
As a groggy and very hung-over American hegemon wakes from a dream of imperial dominion and faces the harsh light of morning in war-torn Iraq, the cruel reality of what General Odom calls "the greatest strategic disaster" in our history is
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Cindy Sheehan Photos Falsely Implied Her Book Signing was a Flop
11-30-2005
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Editor & Publisher
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that seemed to deliberately present a false impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas.
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List of Gifts Rep. Cunningham Admitted Receiving
11-30-2005
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Associated Press
Some of the payments accepted by Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as detailed in his plea agreement:
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Hatch refers to Iraq as Vietnam
11-30-2005
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Salt Lake Tribune
"The Democratic Party seems to be taken over by the Michael Moore contingent in their attitude toward Vietnam, and they continually call for a withdrawal of troops at a time when we haven't finished the job," Sen. Hatch said
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Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Would Allow Sharp Objects on Airliners
11-30-2005
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Washington Post
A new plan by the Transportation Security Administration would allow airline passengers to bring scissors and other sharp objects in their carry-on bags because the items no longer pose the greatest threat to airline security.
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Vice-Emperor's New Bunker Flight Free
11-30-2005
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Associated Press
The
FAA has imposed flight restrictions over
Dick Cheney's new Maryland home, angering private pilots who say they can't fly overhead even when the vice president isn't around.
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The Ugly American Gulag
11-30-2005
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New York Times
"It's becoming one of the public issues Sec. Rice is going to have to address on her next trip," said a European official. "The mood in Europe is one of increasing concern over what people call the American 'gulag' and the
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It pays to look good in war
11-30-2005
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Los Angeles Times
As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
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