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Monday, January 23, 2006 |
RawStory: "A federal judge that President Bush nominated to the U.S. Circuit Court 'apparently violated federal law repeatedly' by sitting on at least 18 cases involving corporations in which he owned stock."
OpEdNews: "New York Times writer and journalist David E. Rosenbaum was just murdered, a mere matter of days after writing a critical article about US President Bush's Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. The article by Rosenbaum helped expose how Alito was long ago an advocate of unrestrained government power."
WashingtonPost: "The Justice Department's voting section, a small and usually obscure unit that enforces the Voting Rights Act and other federal election laws, has been thrust into the center of a growing debate over recent departures and controversial decisions in the Civil Rights Division as a whole.
Many current and former lawyers in the section charge that senior officials have exerted undue political influence in many of the sensitive voting-rights cases the unit handles. Most of the department's major voting-related actions over the past five years have been beneficial to the GOP, they say, including two in Georgia, one in Mississippi and a Texas redistricting plan orchestrated by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) in 2003.
The section also has lost about a third of its three dozen lawyers over the past nine months. Those who remain have been barred from offering recommendations in major voting-rights cases and have little input in the section's decisions on hiring and policy."
12:11:57 PM 
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Scotsman: "A Scots comedian's wincingly accurate portrayal of life inside the corridors of power depicting a downtrodden minister and a bullying spin doctor has already received widespread acclaim.
Asked whether Blair had seen it, Iannucci replied: 'Well, his office have requested tapes...'"
You can watch episode four today on BBC2.
11:52:01 AM
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From American Samizdat: Al-Qaeda fighters with a CIA history:
"- Abdullah Azzam fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Abu Abdel Aziz 'Barbaros' fought for the CIA in Afghanistan & Bosnia
- Osama bin Laden fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Gulbaddin Hekmatyar fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Muhammad Jamal Khalifa fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi fought for the CIA in Bosnia
- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his three brothers, Zahed, Abed, and Aref fought for the CIA in Afghanistan
- Ayman Zawahiri"
etc. etc.
11:44:23 AM
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DowJonesNewswires: "Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini warned Friday that any pre-emptive strike by Israel on Iranian nuclear facilities would have potentially disastrous consequences for the Middle East and the world."
11:36:50 AM
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Observer: "For the first time the government, stung by allegations it has deliberately blurred the conflict's true suffering by refusing to reveal how many men and women have been wounded in Iraq, has accepted it must imitate the Bush administration's candid approach to the inevitable sacrifice of its soldiers.
The first confirmation that the complexities of the Iraq conflict has exerted an adverse psychological impact on a vast pool of British servicemen and women has started to emerge. Initial evidence suggests a problem on a scale far greater than the first Gulf conflict. More damaging though is news that 15 British soldiers who recently served in Iraq are to sue the government over claims it failed to help them cope with the psychological trauma of the conflict."
11:33:28 AM
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Observer: "Family doctors will be financially rewarded for encouraging sick patients back to work under highly controversial plans to reform the welfare state."
In a society in which money decides, some doctors will soon send sick people back to work.
In the Netherlands health insurance companies - not doctors - will in certain cases be allowed to decide which medicines the patients get. Money prevails over health.
11:28:09 AM
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