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Microsoft For Trash Talking’ Thursday
Why are we not surprised to find MS trying this stunt – well, because being kinda geeky, we’ve seen the company pull off a lot of sneaky, underhanded, lowdown tricks (e.g., stealing Windows from Apple). If it doesn’t fit Bill … Continue reading
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Palestinians – the Truly Homeless People
Palestinians Under Pressure To Leave Iraq: Militias and Police Are Targeting Community, Rights Officials SayBy Joshua PartlowWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, January 25, 2007; Page A20 BAGHDAD, Jan. 24 — The shouting in his Baghdad apartment building woke Luay Mohammed seconds … Continue reading
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Patrick Cockburn – Inside Baghdad
Inside Baghdad: A city paralysed by fearBy Patrick CockburnPublished: 25 January 2007 Baghdad is paralysed by fear. Iraqi drivers are terrified of running into impromptu checkpoints where heavily armed men in civilian clothes may drag them out of their cars … Continue reading
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Here’s a Great Listen
End Corporate Control Over Our MediaBy Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Police State Tactics (and Mistakes)
Your Local Police Force Has Been MilitarizedWednesday, 24 January 2007By Paul Craig Roberts 01/24/07 “ICHBlog” — — In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your … Continue reading
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As Slow and as Private as We Want …
C0lb£rt Defends Alberto Gonzalez
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What Is Junior Afraid Of?
This is the second time in six months that a case such as this has surfaced. The first was a fourteen-year-old kid. Seems to us that he oughta quit worrying – his final judgement is not in the hands of … Continue reading
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Palast: That Tongue Thing and Other Evils
Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the UnionPublished by Greg Palast January 24th, 2007 in Articles by Greg PalastTuesday, 23 January, 2006 There was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got … Continue reading
Killing Them Slowly
U.S. Prisoners Exposed to Deadly Chemicals in Toxic SweatshopsBy Christopher Moraff, In These Times. Posted January 24, 2007. For more than a decade, the Federal Prison Industries has been forcing inmates to handle toxic “e-waste” containing arsenic, mercury, lead and … Continue reading
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Memoirs of Failure
Aliens in an Alien Land: Iraq Through the Lens of Soldiers’ Memoirsby Stephen Soldzwww.dissidentvoice.orgJanuary 23, 2007 Not so many years ago, perhaps five, there was a country known as “Iraq.” That Iraq no longer exists. It has been replaced by … Continue reading
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Step One: Negotiate
Prominent Iraqi tribal leader says a truce between U.S. and insurgents is possibleThe Associated PressPublished: January 23, 2007 AMMAN, Jordan: A truce between insurgents and the U.S. forces in Iraq is possible if the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad is dismissed … Continue reading
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Weapons-Derived Uranium
Aka, depleted uranium. This is a lengthy, revealing article about the serious dangers that weapons made from U-238 pose. Depleted Uranium Poison Explosions Target US CitizensBy Cathy GargerJan 23, 2007, 21:13 I Left My Heart In (a 2500 miles radius … Continue reading
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