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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
LATimes: "If U.S. involvement continues on the current scale, the funding for the Iraq war - combined with the conflict in Afghanistan and other foreign fronts in the war on terrorism - is projected to surpass this country's Vietnam spending next year."
SpaceWar: "Some 64 percent of the British public believe that their government should back an international agreement banning all nuclear weapons, according to a new poll released Monday."
Indymedia: "More and more, soliders, sailors, airmen, and marines are saying no to going back to Iraq for a second or a third tour."
Carpetbagger: "In almost every instance, whenever an energy company drills for oil or gas on federal property, it's supposed to pay a royalty or tax to the government. Last month, CBS News reported that the Interior Department's diligence in collecting those royalties is little more than a bad joke."
Guardian: "The US-controlled Iraqi government is preparing to remove the country's most precious resource from national control."
BBC: "Spain has issued an international arrest warrant for three US soldiers accused of causing the death of a TV cameraman during the Iraq war."
FAS: "'Effective 16 October 2006, Psychological Operations was established as a basic branch of the Army, pursuant to the authority of Section 3063(a)(13), Title 10, United States Code.'
According to the Department of Defense Dictionary (JP 1-02), psychological operations are defined as 'planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives. Also called PSYOP.'"
There are Klingons in the White House.
11:34:36 AM 
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BlairWatch: "A group of 130 campaigning groups has asked Blair to reverse his decision to scrap a corruption inquiry into the Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Tony's response? The Attorney General set out the reasons for the decision on that and I have nothing further to add
Now the reason Lord Goldsmith gave was national security.
Today MI6 disagree and the newly Kinghted John Scarlett has refused to sign another dodgy dossier that Blair is hoping to present to an OECD enquiry into the matter, as Britain has signed treaties making bribery a criminal offence."
Channel4: "The Trial of Tony Blair
M4 15 Jan 10pm; C4 18 Jan 10pm; M4 Sat 20 Jan 9pm.
Biting feature-length satire portraying the private travails of the Prime Minister as he leaves office after more than a decade in power."
11:20:49 AM
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Independent: "The accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union will be recorded in history as a glad moment for the continent. But in the short term it has brought about one unfortunate consequence. The entrance of six reactionary Romanian and Bulgarian representatives to the European Parliament means that the far-right parties of the continent now control enough seats to form a recognised political group. This will go under the faintly sinister name of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group.
Thankfully, there is little sign that the ITS will be able to organise itself properly. Its leader, Bruno Gollnish, is awaiting trial on charges of Holocaust denial. And its members - ranging from Jean-Marie Le Pen and Alessandra Mussolini to Ashley Mote, formerly of the UK Independence Party - have little in common other than a generalised xenophobia. Most actually voted against the very Romanian and Bulgarian accession that has enabled them to form a recognised group."
11:13:33 AM
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