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Turkey offically in the process 1 2
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[attachmentid=3997] BBC NEWS Deal struck over Turkey-EU talks The EU and Turkey have struck a deal over an EU demand that Turkey recognise Cyprus before membership talks begin. The compromise agreement clears the way for Turkey to start negotiations in October next year to enter the EU. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who currently holds the EU presidency, said Ankara had "accepted the hand we offered them". Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted signing the protocol was not a formal recognition of Cyprus. He said Turkey had worked hard to meet the criteria set out by the EU and that future negotiation would help to reso…
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think he has a new book out.... i hope jon gives him the extended interview... anyways just wanted to let heads know...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commen...omment-opinions L.A.'s Budding Mogadishus Nearly feral areas need urgent help. By Constance L. Rice, Constance L. Rice is a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. In Brazil's favelas, murder is the leading cause of death for 10-year-olds. In these urban hyper-barrios, police patrol in helicopter gunships. Any delusion of crime prevention gave way to containment and suppression long ago. At night, black children hide from both rogue cops and gang members; the rich venture from their fortress homes nearby only in armored vehicles or private planes. In the midst of Rio de Janeiro's splendor, favela…
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http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?SURV...N_USER_REQUESTS http://www.michaelmoore.com/ IF YOU'VE SEEN 'FAHRENHEIT 9/11,' YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FUN BUSH'S FIRST INAUGURATION WAS. HELP MAKE THIS ONE EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER. Count me in! I pledge to take action to keep the pressure on to Bring the Troops Home Now: I will support the demonstration on the first day of the next administration - January 20, 2005 - in Washington DC either by attending or doing what I can to help. i'll be there. how bout you?
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This is from threeworldwars.com its all just theories so dont flame me about it, flame the website that wrote it, its pretty intresting though, and it makes some sense: The Planned World War 3 - A Play in Numerous Acts A Three World War scenario was developed several decades ago (see Conspiratorial History). Two World Wars have already been achieved, and the Third and final World War envisions an attack on Iraq as being the trigger to set the entire Middle East into fiery conflagration. Once America is firmly entrenched into Iraq (or elsewhere in the Middle East - like Syria) with the majority of her first-line units, North Korea is to attack South Korea. Then, wi…
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I remember people trying this for gas prices a few years ago without much success, however its worth sharing with as many people as possible. I know I wont be spending shit, hope more follow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Not One Dime Day From: Bill Moyers Not One Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005 Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq c…
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Newsday article. While the article only speculates that a White House-ordered purge of those disloyal to Bush, if it's true, it's damn disturbing. This lends further credence to the notion that the WH had no desire to hear of/consider intelligence they disagreed with during the lead up to the Iraq war. Publicly disagree with us? You're disloyal and out of a job. Although the article fails to speculate on the long term repercussions of such a purge, it seems to lay down the law in terms of what CIA agents can and cannot do due to the possible political effects of their actions.
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Any one out there know if the ID card will be able to be tracked by satellite? If so then this is the beginning of the end......unless we do something about it! -" Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep have fallen on you we are many they are few" - SHELLY.. with a little change. ;)
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9 out of 10 soldiers survive
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...viving_soldiers For every American soldier killed in Iraq (news - web sites), nine others have been wounded and survived — the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. It isn't that their injuries were less serious, a new report says. In fact, some young soldiers and Marines have had faces, arms and legs blown off and are now returning home badly maimed. AP Photo But they have survived thanks, in part, to armor-like vests and fast treatment from doctors on the move with surgical kits in backpacks. "This is unprecedented. People who lose not just one but two or three extremities are people who …
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so much for liberal tolerance. i bet that an islam band promoting terrorism would be allowed to play if they wanted, because we'd be "tolerant" then. oh the hypocrisy. http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...EWS18/412150341 shame on that christian band for saying no to drugs!!!
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http://www.poe-news.com/features.php?feat=31845 You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld? Sleeping Dragon Technique! Drunken Temple Boxing! Spider Hand Technique! Grimace Palm!
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I was watching MSNBC and the conspiracy are flying.. I counld't find the topic on there web site. Then again, it might of been late breaking,But it went on to saying the this might of happen by India testing nuclear bombs in the ocean.. The only link this I could find at the moment which has nothing to do with india but russia... http://www.intl-news.com/blog/_archives/2005/1/2/221138.html
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The Ukraine 1 2
by RumPuncher- 49 replies
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And now they're saying that the Prez was poisoned? And look at his pics!!!! less than a year ago.... and now.... something sneaky is going on.
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http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/17810.asp Pirate radio calls for inauguration protests Dec. 23, 2004 An unauthorized radio station in the nation's capital called for "massive protests" in the week leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration. The station broadcast Wednesday at 1680 AM and identified itself as "Guerrilla Radio, WSQT." During the identification message, an announcer said, "WSQT is a project of urban activists in the D.C. area working on housing issues, homeless issues, issues of war, issues of occupation both at home and abroad, and issues of the environment that we all have to live in." After being tipped by a reporter, an of…
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House to weaken ethics rules
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/31/...s.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican leaders are considering a change in House ethics rules that could make it harder to discipline lawmakers. The proposal being circulated among House Republicans would end a general rule against any behavior that might bring "discredit" on the chamber, according to House Republican and Democratic leadership aides. House members would be held to a narrower standard of behavior in keeping with the law, the House's rules and its ethics guidelines. Other proposed changes to the ethics committee's rules being circulated in a "Dear Colleague" letter from House Rules Cha…
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Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comment Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made during a Christmas Eve address to U.S. troops in Baghdad has sparked new conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the speech, Rumsfeld made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers. But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania." A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been sho…
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STEM CELLS REPLACE SKULL
by Guest KING BLING- 18 replies
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/12/17/stem....s.ap/index.html (AP) -- Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what's apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human. The girl had been injured two years before in a fall, which destroyed several areas of her skull totaling nearly 19 square inches, the German researchers reported. Other surgeons had failed to correct the defects, and the girl wore a protective helmet. Her brain could sometimes be seen pulsating through the missing areas of her skull. But several weeks after the stem-cell surgery, she…
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va ups focus on gulf war illness
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MMAN (Reuters) - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called U.S. efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers said on Sunday. Ziad Khasawneh, a Jordanian lawyer and spokesman for Saddam's defense team, told reporters: "President Saddam Hussein urged the unity of his Iraqi people, regardless of their religious and ethnic creed, to confront U.S. plans to divide their country on sectarian grounds." Saddam relayed his messages through Khalil Dulaimi, an Iraqi lawyer and member of the defense counsel who met the ousted leader for more than four hours on Thursday -- Saddam's first access to lawyers …
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symbols et al...
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i know some of you are into immortal technique.. thought you might dig this: http://www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=29
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Apparently in Washington state parents now can't eavesdrop and monitor their kid's web browsing. Big fat thumbs down. So if your kid is setting up crack deals and you eavesdrop and tell the cops, you're breaking the law. Maybe I don't got the whole story and feel free to correct me if I'm only getting half the story, but this is complete bullshit. If I ever have children, I think it's my right to eavesdrop and snoop if the fucker is plotting something vicious. Your thoughts?
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BBC Radio 1 will pay tribute to the late John Peel through a night of live music tonight. Hosted by Steve Lamacq and come from the world famous BBC Maida Vale studios, the scene of many a Peel Session. Throughout the evening every studio at Maida Vale will be taken over as a whole host of bands perform and talk about John and the music he loved. And we'll be updating this site with photos throughout the night. 7pm - 8pm Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat Kicking off Peel night, Radio 1 takes a look back at the career of the great man with a one hour documentary celebrating his extraordinary life. The show will feature tributes from The Undertones, O…
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one medal for someone who did not prepare for the war he faced or its aftermath in winning the peace. one medal for someone who did not leave iraq in a stable enough condition to hold suitable elections. one medal for someone who did not stop 9-11 and called wmds in iraq a slam dunk. outrageous...to mock such a prestigious medal and to use it to justify your foreign policy is awful...and yet im not suprised "Did George Tenet get the Medal of Freedom for his 'slam dunk' case for war based on weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist? Did Paul Bremer clinch this honor for speaking out against the administration's bungled war planning only after he…
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I stumbed across an op-ed that said Lyndon LaRouche was one of the most important men of this century. I go to the Schiller institute website and two hours into his webcase I have no idea what he's talking about. He's covering things like metaphysics and the 'Roman Decadence' of America and western world. What does this guy stand for? Anyone?
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Source:News of the Weird In underreported November election returns: Notorious Florida radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem lost his race for Pinellas County sheriff, and his Tampa radio competitor "Dave the Dwarf" Flood lost for a conservation-panel seat (but each got nearly 30 percent of the vote). The mayor of Arvin, Calif., Juan Olivares, was arrested the day before polls opened, charged with child molesting. (Voters ousted him.) Peter Stevenson, losing candidate for Vermont lieutenant governor, appeared at the only televised debate with a fake arrow through his head and blood on his clothes. Bruce Borders won, becoming the Indiana General A…
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so we had this dicussion about gay marriage and sex education in public school in my political science class. this class fills with idiots, they never think before they open their mouth. anyways, we talked about sex education and how hard it is for parents to talk to their kids about sex. this bitch, bush's supporter (oh yes she loves bush very much) and he's against sex education in public school, had a dick that's so big to make her suggested that public school should have a weapons education program too if they gonna have sex education. i just want to let this shit out because this stupid bitch always annoy me in class, i think if i don't let it out here i will sla…
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2004 Campaign money
by Guest imported_Europe- 3 replies
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Hello intelligent part of 12oz Im turning in an examproject soon, its about the Presidential Election 2004, more specifly the money used for the Bush and Kerry campaigns. Where did the money come from? What was it spent on and why? Any info, links, help etc. you might have about campaign money will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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New York Art Shuttered After Bush Monkey Portrait Mon Dec 13, 3:57 PM ET Entertainment - Reuters Industry By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush (news - web sites) using monkeys to form his image led to the closure of a New York art exhibition over the weekend and anguished protests on Monday over freedom of expression. "Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show that was scheduled to stay up for the next month. The show featured art from the upcoming issue of Animal Magazine, a quarterly pub…
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Flu pandemic inevitable, plans needed urgently -WHO 26 Nov 2004 12:21:25 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds ministerial statement) By Vissuta Pothong BANGKOK, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Every country in the world must come up urgently with a plan to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year, a top global health expert said on Friday. "I believe we are closer now to a pandemic than at any time in recent years," said Shigeru Omi, regional director for the Western Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). "No country will be spared once it becomes a pandemic," he told a news conference. …
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (08/12/04) - A former US Marine has testified before a Canadian asylum tribunal that his unit had killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in only two days, news agencies reported. The testimony of Sergeant Jimmy Massey on Monday before Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) was in defense of US paratrooper Jeremy Hinzman, who had deserted the US Army and is seeking asylum in Canada. Massey said his unit had gunned down 30 unarmed civilians in Iraq in 2003 and that US Marines had routinely shot wounded Iraqis and killed them, according to the Washington Post. Massey said the 30 killings in two days had taken place while his unit was on checkpo…
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Summary: Five Bulgarian nurses are facing the death penalty for spreading AIDS in a Libyan hospital. Conspiracy theories pinning the origin of AIDS on a western bio-warfare program are popular in sub-Saharan Africa, where over 25 million people live with the disease. But in Muslim countries like Lybia, the shame and denial caused by the epidemic may be so great that they cannot accept it as an indigenous reality. http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/headline.php?id=324 Amazing.
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bush arrested is this real? its on cnn.com, has anyone else heard about this? and if it is real, why isnt the mainstream media, besides cnn, covering it? can anyone confirm this or any news about it?
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell, 1984 http://www.hategun.com/features/mistaken/index.html
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is it morally bad or good? what does it contribute to the human experiecne and what does it take away? im stuck on an essay.
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more good news
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no...really? well, here's some 'officialness'.. 2 C.I.A. Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's Path By DOUGLAS JEHL Published: December 7, 2004 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials. The cable, sent late last month as the officer ended a yearlong tour, presented a bleak assessment on matters of politics, economics and security, the officials said. They said its basic conclusions had been echoed in briefings presented by a senior C.I.A. official who recently vi…
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top level report: bush's war on terror "disaster"
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The new Pentagon Paper A scathing top-level report, intended for internal consumption, says that Bush's "war on terrorism" is an unmitigated disaster. Of course, the administration is ignoring it. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Sidney Blumenthal http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/12/02/pentagon/ Dec. 2, 2004 | Who wrote this -- a pop sociologist, obscure blogger or antiwar playwright? "Finally, Muslims see Americans as strangely narcissistic -- namely, that the war is all about us. As the Muslims see it, everything about the war is -- for Americans -- really no more than an extension of American domestic politics and its great game. This per…
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oh this makes me really mad at George W. Bush... JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - Twelve people died, several more were injured and about 18 others were taken hostage Monday when gunmen attacked the U.S. Consulate in the Saudi city of Jeddah. From a Canadian News Source None of the people who died were American, though several U.S. citizens were slightly injured, officials said. Five non-American staff members were killed in the clash, along with four members of the Saudi security forces and three of the gunmen. President George W. Bush immediately blamed the attack on Islamic militants, saying "terrorists are still on the move" as they try to get…
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http://www.sorryeverybody.com Some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are truly, truly sorry. And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren't. I am pleasantly surprised at and slightly inundated by the volume of submissions! This site is still sort of in alpha, but rest assured we will work out the kinks and get everyone's pictures up. I have also posted some rough submission guidelines. …
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breaking: more bombs go off in madrid
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Series of bombs rip through Madrid Last Updated Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:12:36 EST MADRID - A series of explosions ripped through Madrid on Friday following a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA. The bombs were reportedly of "low potency" and there have been no reports of injuries so far. One device exploded at a gas station near a highway packed with people leaving the city for a long holiday weekend, the news agency Efe said, quoting the manager of the station. There were reports of two other smaller blasts. Earlier Friday, a Basque newspaper said it received a call from a ETA spokesman who said five explosive devices had been placed at …
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http://www.theocracywatch.org/ Read and discuss.
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