Adviser To Maliki: Blackwater Staying In Iraq Is “Bad News”

By- Suzie-Q @ 4:00 PM MST

A woman passes a burned car in Baghdad where Blackwater guards killed 17 in September.
From CNN:
Iraqi official: Blackwater staying on ‘is bad news’
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. State Department’s renewal of Blackwater’s contract to provide security in Iraq “is bad news,” an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri [...]

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British fear US commander is beating the drum for Iran strikes

anthony @ 21:54 BST

Damien McElroy | UK Daily Telegraph | Saturday, April 5, 2008
British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government.
A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on [...]

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Conyers Smacked McCain! LOL

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:45 PM MST
From: Cafe, Election Central, Muckraker
Conyers smacks McCain – and boy was it funny

By – April 4, 2008, 4:18PM
I wish I had, had my PVR running about ten minutes ago when Alex Witt(less, she always seems to be overtly anti-Obama) on MSNBC was interviewing John Conyers about MLK [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox…Take My Breath Away

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:30 PM MST

Berlin – Take My Breath Away

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Ashcroft Was Not Aware Of Yoo Memo

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:15 PM MST

Post: Ashcroft Didn’t Sign Off on Yoo Pentagon Torture Memo
By Paul Kiel – April 4, 2008, 2:17PM

More evidence that John Yoo was the most powerful deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s history. The Washington Post reports this morning that when Yoo issued his now-infamous March 14, [...]

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This is what we in the U.K. call “taking the p*ss”!

anthony @ 18:21 BST

YOU [THAT'S THE U.K. TAXPAYER] HAVE TO PAY BROWN’S TV LICENCE
By Macer Hall and Sarah O’Grady – Saturday April 5,2008
GORDON Brown forces taxpayers to meet the cost of his annual TV licence and cleaning bills, it was revealed yesterday.
The details of the Prime Minister’s expenses were exposed when the shocking scale [...]

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‘Monstrous’ human-cow embryos survive

by Geezer Power

By Grant McArthur
April 03, 2008 01:38am
Article from: Herald Sun
* Human-cow embryo created in world-first experiment
* Embryo survives for three days
* Critics say development is ‘monstrous’
HUMAN-cow embryos have been created in a world first at Newcastle University in England, hailed by the scientific community, but labelled “monstrous” by opponents.
A team has grown hybrid embryos [...]

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Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs

Sudhan @17:25 CET
Ynetnews, April 4, 2008

Rabbi Eliyhau Photo: Gil Yohanan
Mass Jerusalem service marks one-month anniversary of deadly attack on Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary. ‘We do not seek vengeance, we seek retaliation,’ says yeshiva head saysSome 1,000 people attended a memorial service at the Mercaz Harav rabbinical seminary Thursday, marking the [...]

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War Criminal Blair misusing the name of God

Sudhan @16:35 CET
Behold, a voice from out of the wilderness

Ann Treneman: Political Sketch | The London Times, April 4, 2008

And lo, but he was tanned. Tony Blair came before us yesterday not as a former Prime Minister but as a man of religion. The Vicar of St Albion is breaking free of his [...]

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Constitutional lawyer: Bush ‘ordered war crimes’

anthony @ 11:17 BST

Nick Juliano | Raw Story | Friday, April 4, 2008
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners [...]

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Thinking Politics in Bush Country

anthony @ 10:38 BST

Jesse Ventura | Huffington Post | Posted April 2, 2008
Related Story: Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition
This excerpt from Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me! reveals some of my feelings about the Bush administration, but readers should not think that my criticisms of today’s political world are aimed only [...]

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