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Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
EUObserver: "The BBC, the UK public broadcaster, has found evidence in South Ossetia that appears to indict Georgian troops of having targeted civilians during their August attack on Tskhinvali, a claim strongly denied by Tbilisi. Meanwhile, Russian officials have told the EU that unless it recognises the two breakaway regions, it is to keep its monitors out.
After a visit to Tskhinvali - the capital of South Ossetia - the BBC reported on Tuesday (28 October) evidence including a heavily bombed apartment building that suggests Georgia used indiscriminate force and may have targeted civilians - an action that qualifies as a war crime under international law."
10:29:50 AM 
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Guardian: "One of America's more prolific novelists - his latest, Man in the Dark, is his 12th, and he's no slouch as a poet, non-fiction author, screenwriter and editor - but Paul Auster is not feeling very inspired today. 'I'm completely emptied out,' he says, 'no thoughts in my head. No ideas. I am back to zero.'
If there is something getting Auster's goat, it's American politics. It was his disgust at the outcome of the 2000 US elections that sparked the story-within-a-story at the heart of Man in the Dark, about a counterfactual US where civil war reigns and New York leads a movement to form the Independent States of America.
'It's a war of bullets and bombs, whereas the divisions in the US now are similar to a civil war, but we're fighting it with words and ideas,' he says.
He can pinpoint the idea for his latest story to his 'frustration and disgust after the 2000 elections ... Gore won, Gore was elected president, and it was taken away from him by political and legal manoeuvering, and ever since then I've had this eerie feeling of being in some parallel world, some world we didn't ask for but we nevertheless got. In the other world Al Gore is finishing his second term now, we never invaded Iraq, maybe 9/11 never happened, because they were getting close to figuring it out, the Clinton people, and then the Bush people ignored all the warnings, so I think that's the origin of it.'"
Man In The Dark is a must read. It's one of Auster's best books.
10:27:01 AM
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Yahoo: "The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 17th year in a row in favor of lifting the 46-year-old US trade embargo on communist-ruled Cuba, as Havana hoped for better ties with a new US administration."
Reuters: "The U.S. helicopter attack into Syria this week underscores the Bush administration's determination to cross borders when it can strike an enemy target, and to weather any international backlash."
WireDispatch: "A young Guantanamo prisoner's confession to Afghan police was obtained through torture and cannot be used as evidence in his trial on charges of wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade, a judge in the U.S. war crimes court ruled Tuesday."
Most worrying:
BradBlog: "Our friends at VideoTheVote.org were able to capture some early coverage of the vote-flipping incidents on ES&S iVotronic machines in WV. We now have reports of votes flipping from Democratic to Republican (and other) candidates across the states of WV, TN, TX and MO."
10:18:02 AM
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DeConstruct: "'I said it almost ten years ago, and I say it today: Racak was a major hoax! There was no 'massacre of the innocent villagers', but a legal and legitimate police action against the members of the terrorist organization of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army', Investigating Judge Danica Marinkovic told Glas Javnosti.
At the time of Racak setup, Danica Marinkovic was the investigating judge of the Pristina District Court (now serving as the judge in Kragujevac District Court), and a chief investigator of the event which took place in the Kosovo-Metohija village of Racak. This ugly hoax and the vile setup was orchestrated by Mr. Massacre, American CIA operative William Walker, who was sent to Serbian Kosovo province under the guise of the OSCE Mission chief, with a task to create a trigger event for the long-planned US-led NATO aggression and bombardment of Serbia which lasted almost three months."
10:04:50 AM
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