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Iraq PM offers money for arms

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

  Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, has extended a deadline to April 8 for Shia fighters to hand over weapons or face “severe penalties”. In a statement on Friday, he said: “All those who

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Brain scan lie detectors ‘may already be in use’

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

A brain imaging technique called fMRI may be being used as a “lie detector” by US intelligence agencies, despite concerns over unreliability and the possibility of abuse, a leading academic has claimed. Professor Jonathan

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Bush likely to delay withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 1

George Bush signalled yesterday that he was likely to suspend the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq this summer because of fears that the country might return to the levels of violence witnessed last

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POLICE SEEK TO AXE ANTI-ARMS TRADE MOVIE

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

Yet another below the belt blow to civil liberties was struck by the Sussex Plod this Monday. The long-awaited world premier of SchMOVIES ‘On The Verge’- the cinematic debut of the Smash Edo campaign

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The engineer whose ‘evidence’ led to war in Iraq

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

An Iraqi engineer who provided the information that became one of the key planks in the Bush administration’s case justifying the invasion of Iraq has been tracked down by undercover reporters to a drab

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Monk dies from Chinese food blockade

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

A Buddhist monk died of starvation due to a 12-day blockade of food and water to major monasteries in Lhasa by Chinese forces, Tibetans in exile reported Wednesday. Lama Thokmey died Monday in the

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VIDEO: Religio-Fascist thought police at work

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 2

The Bible actually as something to say about these people: “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend

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Hillary Clinton; fibber in chief

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

A good memory is needed once we have lied,” observed Pierre Corneille, the 17th-century French tragedian. He was right. The complexities involved in keeping an untruth plausible and consistent are so tortuous that to

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NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 1

Heiss – A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into

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Government admits Human Rights breaches

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 1

MoD admits human rights breaches over death of tortured Iraqi civilian. The Government admits “substantial breaches” of the European Convention of Human Rights over the killing of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi who died in

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McCain walking out on Bush?

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 2

In a sudden turn of events, Republican Bush-faithful Senator John McCain is distancing himself from the US president’s go-it-alone approach. In a Wednesday speech at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, the presidential hopeful

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Why the Government doesn’t care what you think

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

“All the more reason for us to elect the right person come November — so that in four years, we don’t run the risk of seeing someone from the next administration yawn in the

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Is this the End of Antibiotics?

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 4

Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of

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FBI posts hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them. Undercover

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Grooved edges could be banned

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

A word of advice on wedges: Get them before they’re illegal. The USGA is having discussions with leading manufacturers about the nonconforming grooved edges that could be banned by next year because of the

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Italian giants preparing to swoop for Spurs defender

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

MEDIA reports have suggested Italian giants Juventus are prepared to make a summer swoop for Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul. The Turin club, who returned to the top tier of English football this season following

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Iraq MPs plan emergency session

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

Iraq’s parliament is due to hold an emergency session to try to end fighting between Shia militias and Iraqi security forces.It comes amid a three-day total curfew in Baghdad, imposed after attacks on the

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Beckham 100th cap and hungry for more

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 0

Much was made of Beckham’s future with the Three Lions following his decision to step down as captain after Luis Felipe Scolari and Portugal proved to be their undoing in the quarterfinals once again.

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