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Your future is being decided today

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Ward Harkavy Attention, planet Earth: Your future is being decided today at the annual Bilderberg Group conference. This year’s five-star resort site is the Klassis Hotel in Silivri, Turkey, 40 miles from Istanbul. Conspiracy

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9/11 Health Toll Still Unknown

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AMANDA GARDNER It was a disaster that defied all imagination. And now, more than five years after two jetliners plunged into New York City’s twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, there is much experts

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Billions in Aid, With No Accountability

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Pakistan receives the most post-9/11 U.S. military funding, yet has failed to ferret out al Qaeda, Taliban leaders Sarah Fort The runaway winner of the post-9/11 race for new U.S. military aid dollars is

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Rights group sues Boeing unit over CIA abductions

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The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Company, on behalf of three victims of the United States government’s unlawful “extraordinary rendition” program. The

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Terrorism Defined

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Stephen Lendman Probably no word better defines or underscores the Bush presidency than “terrorism” even though his administration wasn’t the first to exploit this highly charged term. We use to explain what “they do

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Lugovoy: MI6 involved in Russian spy’s death

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Press Association The man accused of murdering former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has claimed that the British security services were involved. Andrei Lugovoy, also a former spy, said he holds evidence that MI6 had

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Authorities Build 7 Mile Fence Around G8 Summit

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Police today shut off public access to the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, the venue for next week’s Group of Eight summit in Germany. Authorities have built a seven-mile fence around Heiligendamm at a

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Congress doubtful about immunity for phone companies in NSA spying

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Despite the Bush administration’s firm stance on granting immunity to telephone companies, Congress hopes to raise the issue again to find out exactly what the phone companies provided to the government, reports Ars Technica.

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Political Assassinations, 9/11 & Media

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*An Open Letter to Chris Matthews on: Political Assassinations, 9/11 and the Media* Kyle F. Hence Executive Producer, 9/11: Press for Truth http://www.911pressfortruth.com Dear Mr. Matthews, What has happened to you? On your Sunday

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Airport-style metal detectors to be used in English schools

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 Schools in England have been given the legal right to search pupils who are suspected of carrying knives. The Department for Education and Skills will also give heads guidance on how to use airport-style

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Government appeals ID card justification order

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Mark Ballard The Office of Government Commerce has appealed against an order by the Information Tribunal that it must publish official documents that assess the justification for the government’s identity card scheme. Meanwhile, speculation

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Watchdog says most UK CCTV cameras are illegal

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Melanie Reid We are living in the surveillance age but 90 per cent of Britain’s 14.2 million closed-circuit television cameras may be failing to comply with the law. A new national advisory body for

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Dutch pot shops to fingerprint customers

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TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove

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Wolfowitz, Kissinger attend Bilderberg meeting

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The Bilderberg Group, which brings together people of influence from around the world, will begin its 2007 meeting in Turkey today. Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which

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Guantanamo Prisoner Commits Suicide

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Jane Sutton in Miami A SAUDI Arabian prisoner died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay naval base yesterday, the US military said “The detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell

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