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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101407D.shtml



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Agence France Presse reports that "A key Shiite member of Iraq's ruling coalition called Saturday for the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country and rejected the possibility of permanent bases."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101407B.shtml



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The lead editorial in Sunday's New York Times takes George W. Bush to task over the recent debate surrounding the issue of domestic surveillance, accusing the White House of "pumping out the same fog of fear and disinformation it used to push the [eavesdropping] bill through Congress this summer."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101407Z.shtml



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Informant: Teresa Binstock



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by Joel Turtel

We may still have fundamental freedoms of speech and the press, but America is in a transition from liberty to despotism, a halfway house on the road to tyranny. We already have economic tyranny in America. If you add up all the taxes you pay, including income taxes, Social Security, sales, real estate, gasoline, telephone, and dozens of other hidden taxes, government loots over forty percent of your hard-earned income in taxes.......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel49.htm



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The Democratic Party leadership in the US Senate has effectively killed proposals put forward earlier this year to close a tax loophole that allows billionaire managers of hedge and private equity funds to enjoy tax rates on their income that are far lower than those imposed on average American workers.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/hedg-o10.shtml



Millions of Americans in Economic Battle to Make Ends Meet

While families at the top of the income ladder have seen their incomes rise faster than inflation, those in the middle and bottom have seen theirs fall.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/65110/


From Information Clearing House



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"You kill a dog, you go to jail. You kill a little black boy, nothing happens," he said, in an apparent reference to NFL quarterback Michael Vick, who pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges in August and faces up to five years in prison.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1225765820071012


From Information Clearing House

One of the drugs that ICE is accused of using on detainees is a powerful anti-psychotic drug that is not approved for use without a physician seeing a patient in person to prescribe it first. The drug Haldol, which is used to treat schizophrenia or other mental illnesses, was used on some detainees.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008809243


From Information Clearing House



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Namibia has ordered two Americans to leave the country for trying to recruit Namibians to work as security guards in Iraq and Afghanistan, the information minister said.

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL13551937.html


From Information Clearing House

Charges won't be pursued against a Marine company pulled from Afghanistan by a general on suspicion of killing innocent civilians, a lawyer in the case said.

http://snipurl.com/1s4t1


From Information Clearing House

By Leonard Doyle

Fifty years after it was first published, Ayn Rand's most influential book offers a vital clueto why so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18551.htm



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If you're not on the list, you're not getting on

By Wendy M. Grossman

US demands air passengers ask its permission to fly: Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United States regardless of citizenship or the airline's national origin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18549.htm



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By Wajahat Ali

"Isn't it interesting that the same government individual, who has been reported by one investigative committee to have made the initial decision for Blackwater to get its first contract, is the brother of the current State Department Inspector General, who was found, by the same committee, to have intervened in preventing an investigation into Blackwater's illegal activity?"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18546.htm



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By Laith

I don't know how to express my feelings when Leila my boss and I visited the man who lost his wife in the incident of Al Nosoor Square 13 days ago. I saw him fighting his tears and he didn't allow them to run away from his eyes. I could feel the difficulty he faced when he was talking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18545.htm

By Joe Conason

Wesley Clark's new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration's secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18544.htm



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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/Taking_Down_7_Countries.html

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Der neue Welhungerbericht der Deutschen Welthungerhilfe (DWHH) ist erschreckend. Nach dem am Freitag veröffentlichten Bericht haben weltweit 854 Millionen Menschen nicht genug zu essen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682367ms68



Afrika hat 284 Milliarden US-Dollar durch Konflikte verloren

Oxfam fordert weltweite Handelskontrollen für konventionelle Waffen. http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741682366ms68

Ongoing study reveals how mobile phones affect our private lives

A quarter of British young people are addicted to their mobile phones.

One third of Britons aged 16-24 say they would feel unwanted if they received no calls or messages for one day.

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Kein anderes europäisches Land derart von Mobiltelefonie besessen
Großbritanniens Bevölkerung ist süchtig nach Mobiltelefonen. Zumindest ein Viertel aller Handynutzer der jungen Generation (unter 25 Jahren) behauptet von sich selbst, "abhängig" zu sein, so das Ergebnis einer aktuellen Studie der London School of Economics und dem Mobilfunkhändler Carphone Warhouse.

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13 October 2007 | 15:00

FURIOUS residents today spoke of their anger at a telecommunication company's bid to install a phone mast near to their homes.

If granted planning permission, the 12.5-metre mast will be installed on land between Belle Vue Road and Woodbridge Road, in Ipswich.

Residents claim the mast poses a potential health risk, is unsightly and unnecessary.

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Abby Goodnough, The New York Times, says, "Across the nation, jurisdictions that experimented with touch-screen voting after 2000 are starting to scale back or abandon it based on a growing perception that the machines are unreliable and concern that they do not provide a paper trail in case questions arise."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101307G.shtml



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Writing for Truthout, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III says, "For months, President Bush has tried to defend the extreme tactics being used by the CIA to interrogate individuals suspected of terrorist activities. This, in spite of recently released documents from the Justice Department indicating that in 2005, then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales issued a secret opinion authorizing physical abuse to extract information."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101307C.shtml



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