"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers." - -- Bernhard Haisch - (1949- ) Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Exploration

 

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"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." - -- Epictetus - (ca 55-135 A.D.) Greek philospher - Source: Discourses

 

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"Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor,
and there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong."

 

Leonard Cohen -  Tower Of Song
http://youtu.be/2e1rF08Su4I

 

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,770 icasualties.org/oif/

 

 

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Nazi portrayals of Jews, Yusuf points out, bear a disturbing resemblance to modern portrayals of Muslims.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28056.htm

 

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Extrajudicial killings by U.S. military forces have become the new norm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28057.htm

 

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In due course this could escalate to sanctions, air strikes and an all out war which looks all the more inevitable if the strategic objective of neutralising the nuclear assets of Pakistan is to be realised.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28058.htm

 

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"..all that really happened in Pakistan is that a small group of American soldiers shot and killed an ageing, sickly man in a mansion, who was the nominal head of a small and increasingly fractured terrorist organization.."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28059.htm

 

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For most of last week, the United States government seemed to be operating from a series of bellicose scripts.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28055.htm

 

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Operation to kill Bin Laden a hoax.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28054.htm

 

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Full Documentary Film of the 5th Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28053.htm

 

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While the public has been focused on Bin Laden, America's debt ceiling day of reckoning has been drawing ever closer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28060.htm

 

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Militants attacked a group of police officers Monday in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, killing at least six of them and wounding four, officials said.
http://bit.ly/ioGRds

 

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Five civilians including three schoolchildren were killed Monday when a suicide bomber targeted NATO forces in the eastern Afghanistan province of Laghman, officials said.
http://bit.ly/iBlpQn

 

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Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in clashes that broke out a day earlier had risen to 25 -- all but two of them Taliban fighters. The Taliban brushed aside the lopsided toll, instead boasting that the fighting had all but paralyzed the country's second-largest city.
http://bit.ly/mOsLeO

 

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As many as 113 puppets including soldiers of NANA police force and other government employees and officials along with 3 NATO invaders were killed in different parts of Kandahar in Saturday's operation conducted amid -Operation Badar' as part of spring offensives launched on May 01, 2011
http://bit.ly/lUdbFf

 

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Four people were killed and 40 wounded in pitched battles between Afghan troops and insurgents for a second successive day on Sunday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
http://bit.ly/lb0Jo1

 

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Eighteen people, including an Al-Qaeda leader and a senior Iraqi counter-terrorism official, died in a battle between inmates and security officers during a jailbreak attempt in Baghdad
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NjQ4MzY4OTYy

 

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Five people, including a suspected al-Qaida militant, were killed and three wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and northern Iraq on Sunday, the police said.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7374018.html

 

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Christian-Muslim clashes in Cairo killed at least 11 people and wounded hundreds as two churches were burned, Egyptian authorities said Sunday.
http://bit.ly/jmRxIG

 

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State SANA news agency reported that the army mourned on Sunday three of its personnel who were killed by a " terrorist group" last night in Homs, 160 km north to the capital Damascus.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7374053.html

 

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An armed gang shot dead ten Syrian civilian workers on their way back from Lebanon in a bus ambush near the Syrian city of Homs Sunday, the official state news agency said.
http://reut.rs/lGT3a5

 

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Witnesses said over 80 people were also injured when security forces fired tear gas and live rounds to break up a massive demonstration in the city, AFP reported Monday.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/178964.html

 

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Security forces backed by army units opened fire Sunday on protesters demanding the ouster of Yemen's longtime president, killing three, an opposition activist said.
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article388912.ece

 

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Exclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/08/nato-ship-libyan-migrants?

 

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A complaint will be filed in the coming days in Brussels, Belgium, against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for 'crimes' committed in Libya, including the killing of the Libyan leader's son and his three grandchildren, French lawyer Philippe Missamou, announced Thursday to PANA.
http://bit.ly/lH8QRw

 

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A group of Libyan rebels in the western city of Misurata have surrendered to government forces, according to state television Sunday.
http://bit.ly/m0T7Fb

 

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Libya's government is drafting an amnesty law for fighters in the country's civil war, its prime minister said Saturday, in the latest in a series of measures aimed at appeasing rebels.
http://bit.ly/kuIs5F

 

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Rebels fighting a fierce back-and-forth battle with forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are selling oil they control in order to fund their effort, with assistance from Qatar.
http://bit.ly/iocYhv

 

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Media outlets publish incorrect name of the station head as relations worsen between spy agencies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/09/pakistan-media-name-cia-chief

 

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The U.S. government has requested access to the three widows of Osama bin Laden in order to probe the depth and extent of support the former al-Qaeda terror chief may have received from Pakistani security and intelligence officials.
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/142904/20110509/pakistan-obama-osama-donilon-abbottabad.htm

 

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The government has decided not to conduct inquiry of any kind at any level whatsoever about the shameful Abbottabad incident to find out the real culprits responsible for intelligence failure and violation of Pakistani borders and sovereignty. Only an in-house probe will be conducted by the Pakistan Army, it is reliably learnt from federal cabinet sources.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=45852&Cat=6&dt=5/9/2011

 

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Pakistan's prime minister will on Monday warn the United States it will defend its air space if American forces mount another raid on terrorists suspected of hiding inside the country.
http://bit.ly/m7LIZG

 

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Pakistan Air Force has assured the government that no foreign helicopters or fighter planes will be allowed to violate the Pakistani air space in future and if ordered, the PAF can shoot down the US drones.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=5806&Cat=13&dt=5/7/2011

 

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The head of the CIA has admitted that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/doubts-grow-on-us-version-of-strike-against-bin-laden-20110505-1eaah.html

 

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In case you missed it:
Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House
http://bit.ly/kpPQCE

 

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Iran's intelligence minister says the country has reliable information that former head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group Osama bin Laden died of disease some time ago.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/178898.html

 

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"Accordingly, and with the will of God, our attacks will continue against you as long as your support for Israel continues," the al-Qaida chief said in the audio recording.
http://bit.ly/kGFceZ

 

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 Pro-Palestinian groups have filed a suit in Britain against Maj. -Gen. Yohanan Locker for his involvement in alleged war crimes committed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Operation Cast Lead, the large-scale military offensive against the Gaza Strip in early 2009.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7372017.html

 

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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says Israel's decision to block funds puts the government in a 'very difficult' position as PA employee salaries go unpaid for first time since 2007
http://bit.ly/jkYc6Q

 

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In spite of the pathetic attempts by Zionists and their Jewish 'anti Zionist' allies to crash the event, the panel was a great success.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/panel-event-zionism-jewishness-and-israel-is-now-online-must.html

 

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"I request that you set me free of Israel, since Israel does not want me nor do I want Israel," he wrote. "I have no interest in Israeli citizenship, I don't want to go on living here."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0509/1224296491520.html

 

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Qatar has expressed its willingness to supply natural gas to Israel instead of Egypt.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4064547,00.html

 

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After undergoing numerous tests, the nuclear power station has become operational, but will start generating electricity in two months' time, reported Fars News Agency.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/179002.html

 

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They have included cyberattacks, assassinations and defections. As it turns out, these efforts have had some success.
http://n.pr/l0kYRM

 

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Based on multiple eyewitness accounts, Human Rights Watch documented at least nine unarmed people killed by government forces - six in Kampala, two in Gulu, and one in Masaka - none of whom were actively involved in rioting.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/05/08/uganda-launch-independent-inquiry-killings

 

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Thousands of Moroccan protesters have taken to the streets of Marrakesh to call for reforms and demand the King give up some of his powers.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/178912.html

 

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" The number of billionaires in the UK now stands at 73 - up from 53 last year and almost matching the record of 75 reached before the recession when the collective wealth of the top 1,000 was £413bn.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Britains-Super-Rich-Increase-Their-Collective-Wealth-By-18-To-3958bn-Says-Sunday-Times-Rich-List/Article/201105215987724?f=rss
http://bit.ly/ikdNJF

 

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Conservative lawmakers in Utah falsely claimed that cutting jobless benefits would be "motivation for people to get back to work," while Michigan gutted its unemployment insurance system despite having one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/08/florida-benefits-corporate/

 

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Tom Feeley