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Friday, November 25, 2005 |
EUObserver: "The US intelligence branch CIA is still using European airports for stop-overs on flights carrying terrorist suspects, a German daily has reported."
ThinkProgress: "A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled 'Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical' describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters:
'IRAQ HAS POSSIBLY EMPLOYED PHOSPHOROUS CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDISH POPULATION IN AREAS ALONG THE IRAQI-TURKISH-IRANIAN BORDERS.'
In other words, the Pentagon does refer to white phosphorus rounds as chemical weapons - at least if they're used by our enemies."
Telegraph: "Tony Blair was 'doubled crossed' by US President George W Bush's aides in the run-up to the Iraq war, according to the former diplomat at the centre of a political crisis engulfing the White House.
Tony Blair 'thought it was a disarmament campaign'."
Independent: "Catherine Green, whose pilot brother, Philip, was a British casualty, explains why she backs today's High Court action pressing for an independent investigation into the conflict.
'This court case is to find out the truth. It is not an act of revenge or even an exercise in apportioning blame. It is about the 98 British soldiers who died of horrific injuries under truly terrifying circumstances, fighting to protect their country from a threat that it appears did not even exist.'"
12:04:28 PM 
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BBC: "Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years."
The world is melting.
11:52:55 AM
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AlterNet: "The Bush tax cuts did not produce new jobs. In 2003, the President's Council on Economic Advisers promised 5.5 million new jobs by 2004, but only 2.6 million jobs were actually created. The jobs created failed to even match the 4.1 million new jobs expected in a normally functioning economy, let alone one supposedly supercharged by tax cuts.
The 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were a feast for the rich taken directly from the tables of the poor, the working class, the middle class, people of color, children and the elderly."
11:48:20 AM
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