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- Back in April, we swear we spotted Vogue Editor Anna Wintour wearing supermodel Linda Evangelista's coat. And the coat lives... |
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- President Bush offered an unyielding response today to outrage from Europe, Russia and Canada over his plan to limit prime contracts in the rebuilding of Iraq to U.S. firms and those of its allies in the war. "It's very simple," he added. "Our people risk their lives. |
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- The following comes from Al Jazeera, of all places, (althought it's an AFP article)... Iran has arrested 130 suspected members of al-Qaida and is ready to extradite some of them. President Muhammad Khatami said on Thursday that "those who have committed crimes in Iran will be judged in Iran and the others will be extradited to their country of origin". He said: "There is no place for al-Qaida, no place for any terrorist, for those who act against peace in the world. |
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- The Israeli military intelligence service, Aman, has informed the government that the Syrian leader, President Bashar Al-Assad, has instructed his army to get ready for an Israeli military attack. In open provocation of Syria, Israel has been conducting air force flights over Syrian airfields, barracks and other military interests, and has attacked 'terrorist' targets within Syrian territory. On 5 October, Israeli F-16 jets bombed an empty Palestinian training base near Damascus. It was the first assault on Syrian soil in 30 years and the Syrians were stunned, failed to retaliate and were mocked throughout the Arab world for letting the Israelis humiliate them. In October, eight Israeli F-15's crossed the international border with Lebanon, flew over Beirut and all the way over the 35,000 Syrian troops stationed in northern Lebanon. |
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- Political correctness run amok. Domestic islamofascism is not recognized as the enemy: December 10, 2003 -- FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism: * CNN downplayed Muhammad’s religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions. |
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- No surprise here, as Palestinian-Arabs march toward the civil war: "Former heads of security services, including the Mossad intelligence agency, who drew up the report for Sharon believe there is no chance of reaching a peace deal while Arafat is alive or for many years after he leaves the stage. ''I wouldn't put my money on peace,'' Shmuel Bar, chairman of the study team, said of its ''day-after scenario'' in which it forecast a power vacuum filled by warlords. ''What we will see is a lot of small areas of control and influence. Warlords with their own armed forces... |
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- (US) Anderson's home was raided by the Internal Revenue Service and a drug task force Sept. 5, two days after a similar raid at BALCO. SF Police Chief: 'I Am Not Retiring' [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- Amazing And Probably Even Useful |
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- DIE HARALD SCHMIDT SHOW MUSS BLEIBEN! Petition via geh-nicht.de |
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- Derzeit kann man hier nicht wirklich viel erwarten. Mir geht es immer noch nicht besonders. Die Tabletten die ich nehme machen mich derart mόde das ich den ganzen Tag schlafen kφnnte bzw. auch mache. Ich kann froh sein wenn ich alltδgliches auf die Reihe bekomme. |
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- The boycott Coke tactic is a political disaster and the sectarianism toward SIPTU workers is too. This article is an attempt to make some general arguments on why the boycott Coca Cola campaign is misconceived. I am submitting it here because the issue of the wisdom of the boycott coke tactic has only been addressed in reaction to the series of postings that have pushed the boycott further or that have sought to unnecessarily slander the position of Irish Coca Cola workers. ... |
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- On Tuesday I wrote about Dave Brubeck’s Christmas recording recalling holiday traditions of people gathered round the piano in the parlor, playing and singing. As I did so, I reflected that this probably isn’t a tradition for everyone. Our family is atypical in a bunch of ways, notably in having musical talent on both sides. |
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- Weblogs.com hit a new high water mark yesterday; at the peak during the day, 4,851 weblogs updated in a three hour period. Note the high R-squared value (0.953) for this log normal plot, based on fitting the data with an exponential curve. |
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- Fabulous thread on Slashdot about Kermit (the file transfer protocol and application, not the Frog). I remember, back in the day (like, 1993), when using Kermit over a modem was the only way one could deal with the truly astounding line noise on the local phone lines in Charlottesville. Mind, this was over a 2400 baud modem, to which I could actually send Hayes modem codes to improve performance. Remember that? No, of course not. |
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- To me, one of my favorite type of Pagan or non-Christian group are Wiccans |
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- I could not be a Pagan because: I believeΒ Jesus to be the Son of God,Β made flesh |
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- bot-valette (otherwise known as "me") posted a story on my blog of auto-generated goodness about a lady who locked her [non-biological] kid in a dryer for weeks at a time. it made me think that maybe i should read my bot-blog more often, but then i realized that post is preceeded by a bush post and i reconsidered. |
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- After a marathon meeting, the Lafayette Parish School Board refused to apologize Thursday night to a mother whose 7-year-old boy was punished for telling another child she is gay. |
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- Ο ηρωικός αγώνας των ιπταμένων συνοδών και φροντιστών της Ολυμπιακής ενάντια στην ιδιωτικοποίηση και τον εργασιακό μεσαίωνα που τους επιφυλάσσει η «νέα» εταιρεία έκλεισε ήδη 15 μέρες απεργίας. |
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- I've added a new author to connexions . Please look out for Mike and be sure to give him a ... |
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