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Danish Tests Show Arms Found in Iraq Not Chemical :
Wed Jan 14 18:25:22 2004
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Danish Tests Show Arms Found in Iraq Not Chemical :

The Danish Army said on Wednesday initial tests showed a cache of mortar rounds found buried in Iraq on January 9 did not contain any chemical substances as originally suspected.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4127077

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Surreal moments serving a mythological president:

Mr O'Neill was astonished to read plans for covert assassinations around the globe designed to remove opponents of the US Government. The plans had virtually no civilian checks and balances.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5525.htm

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Can PM appease Bush?:

Some refer to George W. Bush as another Hitler. This is a gross exaggeration. He has constructed no death camps and only one concentration camp — at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1073908426223&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

http://tinyurl.com/3eoyu

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High Price For Bad Advice :

As he roams the airwaves plugging his new book, giving aggressive prescriptions for American policy at every stop, we would all be well advised to take a closer look at Richard Perle's recent counsel. If you want bad advice at a high price, Perle is your man.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9753

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Sean Penn returns to Iraq and files a personal, candid report from the front:

The alienation bred by war on a people doesn't stop with armies, but instead continues with corporations and privatization dominating and shaping the very culture and economic participation that freedom might otherwise express.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/14/DDGG048F0G1.DTL

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OPEC mulls move to euro for pricing crude oil :

OPEC is considering a move away from using the U.S. dollar — and to the euro — to set its price targets for crude oil, the highest-profile manifestation of the debilitating effect of depreciation on the greenback's standing as the currency of international commerce.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040112.wopec0112/BNStory/Business/

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11 Killed in Iraq:

A car bomb exploded in front of a police station in the town of Baqouba, killing the driver and two other Iraqis and wounding 31, including civilians and police. Outside Samarra, U.S. troops killed eight Iraqis after their patrol came under fire.
http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0537_BC_Iraq&&news&emergency

http://tinyurl.com/2ao22

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Three killed in Iraqi drive-by:

Two Pakistanis and a Turk have been killed near Saddam Hussein's home town in Iraq when unknown assailants fired on vehicles they were driving, Iraqi police said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1025690.htm

Continuing Slaughter of Iraqi Civilians, Police, and US Soldiers:

Despite the spin given by Governor Bremer, the situation on the ground in Iraq today is horrendous, and Iraqi civilians, Iraqi Police, and US troops are all paying the price with their blood.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5524.htm

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Clashes Rise in Southern Iraq :

The boom of exploding dynamite packets, followed by the rat-a-tat of returning assault-rifle fire, echoed all Tuesday morning through the streets of this gritty, once peaceful city on the Euphrates River
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14292-2004Jan13.html?referrer=emailarticle

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Israel: Three Soldier's, One Civilian Killed In Suicide Bombing:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5523.htm

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Corroborating O’Neill’s Account:

Official Confirms Claims That Saddam Was Bush’s Focus Before 9/11.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5520.htm

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O’Neill’s Claims Supported By Letters By Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz:

Anyone who doubts former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s recent claims that President Bush mislead the public and secretly planned the Iraq war eight months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 needs to read the two letters sent to then President Bill Clinton in 1998 and Speaker of the House Trent Lott by current members of the Bush administration urging Clinton to launch a preemptive strike against Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5526.htm

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The O'Neill Factor:

Certain facts have come to light confirming irrevocably that President George W. Bush lied us into an unnecessary, unjust and unconstitutional war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5522.htm

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America accused of war crimes in Iraq:

The US military is committing war crimes by demolishing homes of suspected insurgents and arresting the relatives of Iraqi fugitives, a top human rights group said today.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/14/1073877864333.html

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Human Rights Watch: Letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:

We are writing you with regard to several incidents in Iraq involving actions by United States forces that appear to violate the 1949 Geneva Conventions. These incidents involve the demolition of homes of Iraqis on at least four recent occasions in situations that did not meet the test of military necessity, but rather appeared to be for the purpose of punishing or compelling the cooperation of the family in question.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/12/usint6921.htm

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Exporter didn’t know CIA trailing him

Iliyas, who is in London now on a business trip, was not aware that the world’s top intelligence services were on his trail until newspaper reports on Tuesday mentioned him by name, his family members here told The Indian Express.
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=39179

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We Can Make a Difference

Considering most American’s get their news from the 7 and 11 o’clock television reports, and the minute attention these acts have received, it is no wonder more than one-half of our populace has no understanding of the danger we’re in as a free nation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5528.htm

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US military criticises legal process for Guantanamo detainees:

Military lawyers assigned by the Pentagon to detainees at Guantanamo Bay are planning to present a brief to the US Supreme Court tomorrow, criticising the fairness of the legal process.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1025041.htm

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Register for draft, jailed migrants told :

"My point is if you come here illegally and you are going to receive benefits from this great country, the United States of America, you should follow the law and register for the Selective Service. And if you get called up, you should fight for this country,"Arpaio said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5521.htm

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Volunteer military isn't so voluntary :

The volunteer military isn't so voluntary anymore. If the draft was involuntary servitude, as some opponents of conscription argued during the Vietnam War era, so is forced retention under "stop loss" orders.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/011304/opi_edi002.shtml

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Pentagon conscripts soldiers for Iraq war:

The military brass' stop-loss orders signal the beginning of the end of the “volunteer” US army and the re-introduction of conscription, abandoned in 1973. The orders are a de facto admission by the Pentagon that its “volunteer” army has two few combat soldiers to crush armed resistance to its occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/566/566p24.htm

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Iraq troop rotation plan: Pentagon prepares for next war:

The logistical preconditions for another war will begin to take shape from as early as July. The rotation schedule means that by March the Army will have back in US bases the bulk of its rapid deployment force, the four division-plus XVIII Airborne Corps, which formed the backbone of the invasion of Iraq. The units will then be given four months to “reset” for use elsewhere.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/rota-j13.shtml

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Last Copter Out of Baghdad: Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express:

George Bush is selling out Iraq. Gone are his hard-liners' dreams of setting up a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic republic, a light unto the Middle Eastern nations. The decision makers in the administration now realize these goals are unreachable. So they've set a new goal: to end the occupation by July 1, whether that occupation has accomplished anything valuable and lasting or not.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/perlstein.php

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Bush: Go Get Me A Burger:

PRESIDENT Bush interrupted a White House meeting to tell his chief of staff to go and get some cheeseburgers, it was revealed last night.After waiting in vain for an earlier food order, Bush called in White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and said: "You're the chief of staff. You think you're up to getting us some cheeseburgers?"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13814972_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-BUSH--GO-FETCH-ME-A-BURGER-name_page.html

http://tinyurl.com/2m466

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Refereeing in Hell: GIs are dying.

Rival factions are turning on each other. After freeing Iraq, can we keep it from coming apart?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3927768&p1=01%7C%7C%7C%7C003

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Lunar Lunacy:

This week George W. Bush is expected to announce that he wants to go to the moon. Once there, he wants to set up a Lunar base, and from that permanent settlement launch manned missions to the planet Mars and back. Wow! Three years ago he'd never even been to Europe.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5519.htm

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Halliburton Drilling On Mars?

NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnarch/010228-49.html

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Shot British peace activist dies:

A British peace volunteer who was shot by Israeli occupation forces has died in a London hospital.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DD065357-0D95-453D-AB20-EE59F62738DE.htm

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Israeli soldier faces manslaughter charge over Briton's death :

An Israeli soldier is expected to be charged with manslaughter following the death of British peace activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot in the head nine months ago in the Gaza strip, Israeli military sources said today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1122921,00.html

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Tears Run as Israeli Barrier Rises Near Jerusalem :

Tearful Palestinians watched cranes lower huge concrete slabs into place at the edge of Arab East Jerusalem Tuesday as the latest sections of a disputed Israeli barrier cut them off from the city.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4120133

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The two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is dead.

Good riddance!

But someone has to issue an official death certificate before the rotting corpse is given a proper burial and we can all move on and explore the more just, moral and therefore enduring alternative for peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Mandate Palestine: the one-state solution.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan04/Barghouti0113.htm

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Israeli held in U.S. over nuclear parts sales to Pakistan:

An Israeli citizen was arrested at Denver International Airport on January 2 on suspicions he illegally shipped high-tech equipment to Pakistan that could detonate nuclear weapons.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=382663&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

http://tinyurl.com/3965h

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Halliburton subsidiary gets piece of $15 billion in building contracts:

A subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton Co. has been awarded a portion of 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction contracts that could be worth up to $15 billion
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/01/12/daily19.html

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Halliburton trainees complain they're not being paid:

With more devastation happening every day, the big job of rebuilding Iraq is the responsibility of Houston-based Halliburton. Hundreds of Americans have been recruited and brought to Houston for training.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou040109_cm_halliburton.126f12023.html

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Chavez Frias signs Monterrey Americas Summit document ... with reservations:

Heads of State from 34 countries attending the Monterrey (Mexico) Summit of the Americas have conceded to Venezuela and Brazil agreeing NOT to set a final completion date for the USA-promoted Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA) agreement
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=14480

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Study: Cos. Slash Retiree Health Benefits :

Companies continued to slash retiree health benefits over the last year, with 10 percent of firms eliminating coverage for future retirees and 71 percent increasing retirees' contributions for their coverage, according to a new study
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=7&u=/ap/20040114/ap_on_bi_ge/retiree_health_benefits_2

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Kaiser wants out of pension plan :

Kaiser Aluminum Corp., which operated an aluminum plant in Tacoma for five decades, asked a federal bankruptcy court Monday for relief from obligations to pay medical and life insurance for thousands of retirees and dependents and to end its underfunded pension plans. The company said it cannot afford the ongoing and future costs of retirement benefits.
http://www.tribnet.com/news/government/story/4616670p-4580548c.html

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