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Hate. Killing in France Seen as 'Wake-Up Call' Anti-Semitism Blamed in Kidnapping, Torture of 23-Year-Old Salesman By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 25, 2006; Page A10 PARIS, Feb. 24 -- One day last month, a young woman entered the Paris mobile phone shop where Ilan Halimi worked. She had no interest in a new phone, according to Paris police. She wanted to flirt with the 23-year-old salesman. She left the shop with Halimi's cell phone number, and soon after, the two arranged a date. Last week, French police found Halimi -- the son of Jewish Moroccan immigrants -- near a railroad track in a southern Parisian suburb.…
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The fur industry is one of the world's cruelest, and China is the source of most of the world's fur products. In the absence of any legislation or government control, animals in the Chinese fur industry are subject to the most extreme forms of abuse. Investigations of fur farms in China have exposed shocking methods of trapping, transportation, confinement and killing. The species being used include not only typical sources of fur such as rabbits, foxes, minks and raccoons, but also domestic dogs and cats, whose furs are often being deliberately mislabeled and exported as fur from other species. More than 40 million animals are killed each year for their fur. For mo…
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Klein to premiers: butt out Klein blames 'frustration' over health debate after throwing Liberal book at legislature page Kelly Cryderman, The Edmonton Journal Published: Thursday, March 02, 2006 EDMONTON - Premier Ralph Klein formally apologized in the legislature Wednesday for hurling a Liberal policy book at a young legislature page in "frustration" over the health-care issue. Jennifer Huygen, 17, had delivered the health-care policy document to the premier at the request of a Liberal MLA during a heated question period focused on Klein's controversial Health Policy Framework. Upon realizing what it was, Klein threw the soft-cover booklet overhan…
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The government of the Western Canadian province of Alberta is proposing changes to its public health care system that some opponents say may expand private health care and violate federal law. Iris Evans, health and wellness minister in Alberta's Progressive Conservative government, introduced a 10-point package of planned reforms in the provincial legislature on Tuesday that she said would protect the current system of government-paid health care, while allowing patients to pay for items such as knee and hip replacements or cataract surgery if they wish to skip waiting lists. Doctors would also be allowed to practice privately while…
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JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved an immediate freeze on the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money to the Palestinians in its first response to the takeover of the Palestinian parliament by the militant group Hamas. But the Israeli government held off on adopting even more drastic measures recommended by security officials, mindful of possible international reaction. The decision came a day after a new Hamas-dominated Palestinian legislature was sworn into office and tapped to form the next government. Israel had promised that relations with the Palestinians would suffer the moment that happened. The Palestinian Aut…
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I'm avoiding recommeding one source over another, so feel free to pick and choose: http://www.buzztracker.org/2006/02/07/Tehran.html Source of following article: Pakistani Daily Times http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p...7-2-2006_pg4_14 R E G I O N: Russia ready for N-venture if Iran resumes U-freeze * French FM says int’l community not seeking confrontation with Iran MOSCOW/PARIS: A top Russian diplomat said on Monday it would be possible to create a joint venture to enrich uranium for Iran in Russia only if Tehran resumed its moratorium on enrichment activities, the Interfax news agency reported. “Our proposal on creating a join…
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Taiwan defies China by axing unity body By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 28/02/2006) Taiwan's president risked confrontation with Beijing and Washington yesterday by scrapping the body dedicated to reuniting the island with the Chinese mainland. President Chen Shui-bian's decision to "terminate" the National Reunification Council is certain to outrage Beijing, which regards him as a troublemaker intent on declaring independence. China claims that Taiwan is an integral part of the nation even though it has been ruled separately since the Communists took power on the mainland in 1949. Beijing says it will invade Taiwan if it declares independence. …
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Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Upheld
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/17/assisted...e.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Bush administration's attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, protecting Oregon's one-of-a-kind assisted-suicide law. It was the first loss for Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined the court's most conservative members -- Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas -- in a long but restrained dissent. The administration improperly tried to use a federal drug law to pursue Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal doses of prescription medicines, the court said in a rebuke to former Attorney General John Ashcroft. The 6-3 ruli…
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Four Charged in Body Parts Theft Ring Prosecutor Compares It to 'Something Out of a Cheap Horror Movie' By TOM HAYS, AP NEW YORK (Feb. 24) - The christian owner of a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts for use in transplants in a scheme a district attorney called "something out of a cheap horror movie." Prosecutors said Thursday the christian defendants made millions of dollars obtaining bodies from funeral parlors in three states and forging death certificates and organ donor consent forms to make it look as if the bones, skin, tendons, heart valves and other tissue were legally removed. The indictment was t…
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"SAMARRA, Iraq - Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecendented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds thronged the streets, militiamen attacked Sunni mosques, and at least 19 people were killed. With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, some Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame. The violence — many of the 90 attacks on Sunni mosques were carried out by Shiite militias — seemed to push Iraq closer to all-out civil war than at any point in the three years since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Husse…
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Yea, so he shot some guy in the woods while hunting. Anyways what I find funny is on the news they keep saying the word "accidentally" over and over and over again...
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Conflict Over Pot Deal Grows Bush threatens veto if Congress tries to stop sale of 6 U.S. ports to United Arab Emirates company. By TED BRIDIS The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Brushing aside objections from Republicans and Democrats alike, President Bush endorsed the takeover of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates. He pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement. The president Tuesday defended his administration's earlier approval of the sale of Londonbased Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to Dubai Ports World, despite concerns in Congress it could i…
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fromwhatisliberalism.com AT 11:00PM ON DECEMBER 26, 2001... Members of the Prentiss, Mississippi police force and the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force conducted a drug raid on the duplex apartment of Jamie Smith. Cory Maye lived in the other apartment that made up the duplex. Maye was not named in the police warrant for the duplex. Smith was arrested for marijuana possession. As the raid on Smith commenced, some officers went around to the other side of the duplex, in search of more contraband. They either thought the other side of the duplex was part of Smith's apartment, or they may have thought it was abandoned. The door was actually a door to Maye's home.…
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Democrats have launched a campaign against television ads featuring U.S. servicemen and families of slain troops who support the war in Iraq, calling the spots false and "un-American." The first of two ads, which are being tested in Minnesota, was rejected by St. Paul station KSTP because it criticizes the mainstream media. It includes Staff Sgt. Marcellus Wilks of Iowa, Capt. Mark Weber of Iowa and Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson of Minnesota. In the 60-second spot, which can be viewed here, Stephenson, a Marine reservist, says: "You'd never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is al-Qaida, the same terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on…
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Washington (AP) -- The Whitehouse is under fire today after rumors of another high profile shooting, and this one was no hunting accident. Reports confirm that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice shot Vice President Dick Cheney in the face late Tuesday night during a heated argument over a cartoon. A source close to the Whitehouse had this to say, "they were both really tired and overworked, I think it was just a case of tempers flaring and an itchy trigger finger." The two were up late into Tuesday night carrying over into Wednesday morning being briefed about the political ramifications of the new Abu Ghraib photos. As an unnamed Muslim Scholar was discuss…
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Mexican Nationals with Explosives Sought January 28, 2006 09:22 AM EST By Sher Zieve – A Department of Homeland Security internal alert is said to have been issued for 5 Mexican nationals who were last known to have been heading to San Francisco. The five are said to have crossed the US-Mexico border. The Daily Bulletin’s Sara A. Carter wrote that the bulletin was issued on 12 January. The quoted memo reads: "The source stated that five individuals would attempt entry by foot with an unknown quantity of plastic explosives hidden in the soles of their shoes. The report indicated the group's final destination is San Francisco. Once in the city, they are t…
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Has anyone seen this cartoon that is causing all the uprage in the Eastern part of the world? I'd really like to see what is causing such an uproar...
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This thread is just me asking questions to anyone who's followed the past century of guerilla warfare, or knows where I can find answers. These questions have no basis, I know next to nothing. Can anyone draw similarities and differences between these groups? Why do americans wear Zapatista and Che shirts, but hate middle eastern guerilla movements? Besides their political stand against the west, what else are they doing? Taliban took over when the current Afgan government looked incompetent, had we backed them would the west still have been targeted? Is it in America's future to turn Abdel Aziz Rantisi into a pop figure like Che Gueverra?
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Target sets sights on hard-to-crack cases I got an unusual assignment this week -- Target's crime lab. Yes, I'm talking about that Target, the national "upscale discounter," as they style themselves in the information package the company hands out to reporters. Turns out Target has one of the most advanced crime labs in the country at its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was initially set up to deal with things like theft, fraud, and personal injury cases in their stores. Now, Target also helps law enforcement agencies nationwide solve crimes, even murders. Target has worked with the Secret Service, the ATF, and the FBI, to name a few. Target does th…
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Microsoft has filed 117 lawsuits against "phishers", people who run scams to steal people's credit cards, bank accounts, identities, etc. This is good, because phishing has been a problem for a long, long, time and no major company has ever done anything to try to stop it on this scale. --------- http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/31/technology...dex.htm?cnn=yes Microsoft sues 117 over 'phishing' Software maker files lawsuits in bid to keep swindlers from getting personal, consumer information. March 31, 2005: 2:25 PM EST SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has filed 117 lawsuits against unknown Internet site operators who used "phishing" schemes to …
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Impeachment? 1 2
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SF Bay Guardian link Normally, I'm not too big of a fan of this paper, but the headline caught my attention. What pisses me off is that Nancy Pelosi (top Democrat in the House of Representatives, and from SF no less), who normally seems to have some kind of moral compass, is keeping mum on the issue of whether or not the evidence is strong enough to go ahead with an impeachment hearing. I think the evidence is pretty overwhelming...and this isn't good enough for her? Someone's on the payroll, it seems. And, with that, you would think that SF would get a bigger cut of federal funding...wrong. So, what the hell IS going on? Why are reps from the mo…
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Just wondering what you Canadians thought about this. Bad news? Don't really care? source Canada's Conservative Party wins election Victory pushes Canada to the right for the first time in nearly 13 years Updated: 8:13 a.m. ET Jan. 24, 2006 CALGARY, Alberta - Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won national elections Monday and ended 13 years of Liberal rule, giving Canada a leader who was expected to move the country to the right on social and economic issues and bolster ties with the United States. The Conservatives’ winning margin was too narrow to avoid ruling with a minority government, a situation that will make it difficult to …
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Gitmo Inmate Alleges U.S. Torture SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 9, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (AP) A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay said the U.S. military has taken aggressive new steps to end a hunger strike, from force-feeding detainees in a restraining chair to confiscating their blankets, according to notes released by his lawyer Thursday. Fawzi al-Odah, a Kuwaiti who was interviewed by his attorney last week, said the military announced the harsher measures in late December to pressure detainees to halt the protest at the detention center on a U.S. base in eastern Cuba, the notes said. The note…
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A government scientist claims that his superiors are silencing his public statements on global warming. NASA climate expert James Hansen went public with these accusations in The New York Times and The Washington Post. -Article in New York Times -Article in Washington Post
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WND LAW OF THE LAND Judge gives child-rapist 60-day sentence No longer believes in punishment: 'Anger doesn't solve anything' Posted: January 6, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Claiming he no longer believes in punishment, a Vermont judge issued a 60-day sentence to a man who confessed to repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period, beginning when she was 7 years old. Judge Edward Cashman disagreed with prosecutors who thought Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston, Vt., deserved eight to 20 years in prison, reported WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vt. Cashman said he's more concerned now about rehabilitation. "The one message I w…
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Crossfire booklist 1 2
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I saw us throwing out a few good books lately so I thought I'd thread this one into its own. You can rename books if you've got something else to say about it. This might become a test to see if we're all getting our information from different sources or not. -See No Evil By Robert Baer The book goes from CIA recruitment, to the Farm and CIA training, to Field agents, pitching sources, CIA buocracy, the effect washington has on intelligence, and follows Baer as he romps around India, Libia, Syria, Soviet non-Soviet Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and tons of other shit. It's a real life clancy novel, it's good shit. -Sleeping with the devil by Robert Baer …
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bill gates
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did u know bill gates could give 18p to everyone in te wourld and still be the ritches man in the wourld shame hes a fucking geek
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You will be pleased to know that the last few years for the BNP have been years of great success and achievement. The BNP has moved from the political fringes to becoming a party capable of winning elections and the party now has 17 elected councillors, working hard on behalf of the beleagured British majority. Moreover, just as important as this electoral success, is the fact that the BNP over the past few years has been transformed into a dynamic, professional, modern political organisation that in the coming years can mount a serious challenge to the old political parties. As the winds of change have begun to blow in Britain more and more people - who once would have s…
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i thought people might want to see this... Fallujah massacre
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Quit smoking with **********- Get it pending participation - "worth a try - I think - goto smoking with ************ and enter info to get *********
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No More Gym Passes: Participate Now and Get a **** or ****** - "with participation in their promo at ************** you can get **** or *****. I think I am going to go through to see if it works - anyone else tried this before?"
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trust me, just read it.... "The late-night program hosted by David Letterman is the toughest interview show on television. That's because Mr. Letterman is a smart guy who can spot a phony with telescopic accuracy and expects his guests to bring something to the table. If a guest begins to sink on this show, the bottom is a long way down. A big part of doing well on the Letterman show is the audience. A guest not only has to win over the host, but also the people who are sitting a few yards away. It is not a tough crowd, most are happy to be seeing Dave in person, but they are listening. And you better have something to say. Because of the success of…
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AS some of you may know... SUNNIS and foreigners make up the insurgency. But why would the Sunnis be fighting us? Simple. When saddam was in power many of his hench men were on gov salaries and they were rich... living in many of the troubled towns. Then we invade, no more payments... they start fighting us. Simple. Shittes fought us too... until they got the power that they wanted. This just goes to show you that all this jihad horseshit is all politically as well as economically motivated. The Sheiks use the dumb fucks who have been brainwahsed enough to line their pockets.... Your opinions welcome just don't turn this into another "Geroge bush started the war to make h…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4610006.stm
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Source http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3603559.html U.S. POLICY ON BOLIVIA QUESTIONED As Evo Morales takes S. American nation's reins today, analysts push warmer ties By JOHN OTIS South America Bureau LA PAZ, BOLIVIA - During a recent whirlwind tour around the globe, Evo Morales, who will be sworn in today as Bolivia's president, received a hero's welcome from Cuba's Fidel Castro as well as millions in aid and an honorary sword from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. But Morales did not visit the United States, the No. 1 financial aid donor and trading partner of Bolivia. The leftist coca grower, who won by a landslide last month, lacked a …
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Secret CIA Prisons? 1 2
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...422.html?sub=AR U.S. Faces Scrutiny Over Secret Prisons Officials in Eastern Europe Deny Role By Craig Whitlock / Washington Post THE HAGUE, Nov. 3 The International Committee of the Red Cross, the European Union and human rights groups said Thursday they would press the U.S. and European governments for information about the reported existence of secret prisons in Eastern Europe, where the CIA has detained top al Qaeda captives. Government officials across that region issued denials Thursday that their countries hosted the prisons, which some European officials contend would violate local human r…
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(sorry i put this into the wrong forum) -Declining housing market -Investment of wealth into non productive assets (war) -Net debtor Nation -Rising costs of fuel -10 Year high of Gold "Risks to the global economy, for example a record current account deficit in the U.S. that could prompt currency traders to drive down the value of the dollar and make European goods more expensive to buyers overseas, ``remain unchanged,'' he said. ``They haven't unloaded and we hope that it will stay like that, that the imbalances are reduced in a gradual and bearable manner,'' Issing said. " http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1...qrpE&refer=home …
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so i've been listening to reflux all day. they're one of my favorites for intelligent politics in music (propagandhi a close second). anyways, i just wanted to get their words out and see some other politically minded music... i gotta type this because i can't find 'em online...(related note: this band is hugely conspiracy-theory based, illuminati, masons, etc..., amusing) MODERN DAY BABYLON turn over your dollar bill translate the words they have painted this picture.... painted it so well but the colors do run. they steal what they claim to protect. and when we shed light on the theft, we're the ones they try to catch "in our battle against…
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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/www.pfaw.org Video: http://media.pfaw.org/video....-Sharon -------- Yeah, I think it's a stretch to say God is involved when a 77-year old, overweight man who worked a very stressful job has a stroke. :rolleyes: I swear, there should be a Pat Robertson super thread.
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ATTN SF1-Krakatau-Stereotype 1 2
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Hey fellas, since i'm too bored to highlight the same point in numerous threads, i'll do it here and it applies everywhere in crossfire. I keep noticing how the three of you get into really stupid e-personal debates that start from nowhere and never end. Somehow we managed to keep the quality of content in this forum in decent, sometimes really good, quality (reason why this whole section was created and taken away from channel zero). Personally, i hate it when i check one thread to read more on the subject only to find out that the new 20 posts in there are you guys talking shit to eachother and one nice post is hidden between that bullshit. I'm sorry but thi…
