'To see ourselves as others see us, would from many a blunder free us,' -  Robbie Burns

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"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" - -- Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland - (1754-1793) - Source: November 8, 1793, her last words before being executed on the guillotine, quoted in Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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"You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan," Hina Rabbani Khar, the Pakistani foreign minister, said in New York. - "If they are choosing to do so, it will be at their own cost," Ms Khar said, adding that "anything which is said about an ally, about a partner, publicly to recriminate it, to humiliate it, is not acceptable".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29204.htm

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The only thing that stands between all of us and the next holocaust is international law and treaty provisions such as universal jurisdiction. But who cares? Not the U.S. or British governments and not the Zionists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29205.htm

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Netanyahu shows to the world that Israel wants neither an agreement nor a Palestinian state, and for that matter not peace, either.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29203.htm

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I'm sure that President Obama believes that his financial support from the Jewish community is heavily contingent on his backing for Netanyahu," according to Rosenberg. "And right now, everything he does is motivated by his desire for a second term."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29210.htm

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The Palestinians have set the cat among the pigeons with their freedom song. And it's good to see Uncle Sam and his fiendish brat break out in a cold sweat for a change.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29211.htm

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U.S. And Israel Kept Lid On Bomb Sale To 'Avoid Any Allegations' Of Preparations To Strike Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29212.htm

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With the mainstream media playing the part of a mute stenographer, the Democrats trembling at the first sign of opposition and coughing up our lunch money like a pre-pubic nerd trapped in the bathroom, and Citizen's United turning our elections into a bidding war, we're about out of stinkin' reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29209.htm

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While on a peaceful march near Union Square in downtown Manhattan, multiple female protestors were penned up in the street by orange mesh barricade, then maliciously maced.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29206.htm

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The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29207.htm

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Chris Hayes illustrates the bait-and-switch trope being tossed around by conservative pundits of late-this notion that "the top ten percent pay 70 percent of all income taxes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29208.htm

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At least 40 people, among them dissident soldiers, were killed in violence that rocked Yemen's capital on Saturday, an activist from the protest organising committee said.
http://bit.ly/qXGG6E

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Eighteen shot after crowd of 6,000 marches through capital, as returned president reportedly prepares to give televised address
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/25/yemen-protest-sanaa

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A total of 24 people were killed Sunday in a wave of bombings in two Iraqi cities, according to police and medical sources.
http://bit.ly/nyDAkS

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Kurdish guerrillas killed five Turkish police and wounded nine others in an attack on a police station in South East of the country.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0924/turkey.html

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The United States has agreed in principle to deploy US Predator drones on Turkish soil to aid in the fight against Kurdish separatist rebels, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=116205

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The Obama administration is considering a military trial in the United States for a Hezbollah commander now detained in Iraq, U.S. counterterrorism officials said
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/25/hezbollah-leader-military-trial_n_979808.html

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At least 18 people were killed Saturday in demonstrations across Syria, while pro-regime protesters in Damascus attacked the French ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, according to witnesses.
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1936395.html

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The day-long gunbattle near Kharkai hills, in the Lower Dir district of the once Taliban-infested Swat Valley, started when troops were approaching a strategic peak to establish a post, a senior security official told
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/pakistan/afghanistan/166553-15-insurgents-killed-in-clashes.html

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At least eight suspected militants were killed when two missiles were fired by US drones in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan Friday night, a media report said.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-73842.html

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The United States will have to consider all options "including defending our troops" in confronting Pakistani support for militant networks fighting U.S. soldiers in the region, a U.S. senator said on Sunday.
http://reut.rs/p87rSS

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Pakistan's prime minister has turned on the US over its allegations of links to the Haqqani terror network, saying the "blame game is self-defeating" and US policy in Afghanistan is in "disarray".
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-disarray-afghanistan-pakistani-pm-050246522.html

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PM Gilani recalls Foreign Minister Khar: Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today asked Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to cut short a visit to the US and return to Pakistan even as the army's top commanders held a special meeting against the backdrop of mounting tensions with the US over ISI's links with terror groups.
http://bit.ly/p5ZMdu

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Six insurgents were killed and several others were arrested in a combined operation in Chahar Bolak district of Balkh province, Isaf said in a statement.
http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/4007-six-insurgents-killed-in-balkh

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Two coalition service members were killed as a result of two separate bomb blasts in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-74875.html

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 Another member of the Army "kill team" accused of killing unarmed Afghan civilians for sport pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for the murder of a 15-year-old villager in southern Afghanistan.
http://warisacrime.org/content/army-private-gets-7-years-murder-unarmed-afghan-teen

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Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in "Kill TV nights" designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal.
http://ind.pn/noSHAH

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Pakistan's nuclear architect A Q Khan has seriously implicated the Pakistani military and the Chinese government in proliferation of nuclear technology and material, and instructed her to take a "tough stand" if Pakistani establishment "plays any mischief with me."
http://bit.ly/pvyFf7

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Libya's interim government forces have retreated from Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, after fighters loyal to the former leader mounted stiff resistance to an attempt to seize the city.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/2011925104532777522.html

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Many revolutionary fighters are abandoning one of the main fronts in the battle to rout Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists, saying they're not afraid of dying in the face of heavy resistance but are tired of the disorganization and lack of ammunition among their own ranks.
http://bit.ly/p9QOi0

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Those close to the scene told Xinhua that there were possibilities that the explosions were carried out by the remnant forces of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi that remained in the capital.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-09/24/c_131158006.htm

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Dubbed "offshore balancing," the strategy has been used for years in Somalia in the wake of the US withdrawal from the African country after the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu when 19 US and UN troops died during a disastrous humanitarian mission.
http://bit.ly/qXILjt

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War criminal:
Tony Blair's six secret visits to Col Gaddafi:

Tony Blair's close relationship to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has come under fresh scrutiny after it emerged he had six private meetings with the dictator in the three years after he left Downing Street.
http://tgr.ph/p6BKj9

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"We are powerful and strong by your demands, so hold your heads high, you are Palestinians." Abbas also ruled out any peace talks without a "complete halt" to Israeli settlement building.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/2011925104155882960.html

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The Jewish Defence League has dispatched French "militants" for a "show of solidarity" in illegal West Bank settlements.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/09/201192343750232386.html

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In an interview with NBC's 'Meet the Press', Netanyahu talks about Mahmoud Abbas' consistent refusal to 'accept Israel's existence', the 'insatiable crocodile' of Islamism, and America's continual support for Israel.
http://bit.ly/qVBAvf

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Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh slams PM over UN address in which he said militant Islam has taken over Gaza, and that Hamas kicked the PA out of the Strip.
http://bit.ly/nLw4ob

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Professor John Mearsheimer is subject to a Zionist-trans-Atlantic-attack for supporting my latest book The Wandering Who.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/goldberg-vs-mearsheimer-by-gilad-atzmon.html

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The king said in an annual speech today before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, that Saudi women will be able to run and cast ballots in the 2015 municipal elections.
http://ind.pn/pSCpXV

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The relatives of three Chechen men gunned down in Istanbul last Friday have accused a Russian secret service hit squad of executing them on the Kremlin's orders.
http://tgr.ph/pBugO1

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According to a report released by the aid group Oxfam on Wednesday, more than 20,000 people say they were evicted from their homes here in recent years to make way for a tree plantation run by a British forestry company, emblematic of a global scramble for arable land.
http://nyti.ms/pxnplR

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A newly leaked U.S. diplomatic cable accuses Canada of paying ransom to free hostages and thereby putting other countries' citizens at risk of abduction.
http://bit.ly/nvkthi

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In addition to inflammatory seminars which likened Islam to the Death Star and Mohammed to a "cult leader," Danger Room has obtained more material showing just how wide the anti-Islam meme has spread throughout the Bureau.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-domination/

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In Joe McGinniss's book the former Governor of Alaska is accused of cheating on her husband Todd Palin, with his ex-business partner.
http://bit.ly/pxoDTb

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Scott's reminder that he laid of thousands of Floridians drew big applause from the conservative crowd. At least 600,000 government workers have lost their jobs since the recession began, but Republicans nevertheless keep scapegoating public employees who have shouldered more than their fair share of economic pain.
http://bit.ly/qZJ3Rn

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The International Monetary Fund's $384 billion lending chest may not be enough to meet all loan requests if the global economy worsens, Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
http://bloom.bg/qKlxk5

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Finance Minister signals Greece may opt for 50 per cent writedown on bonds as top economist warns Spain and Italy could be forced out of single currency
http://ind.pn/oSSInK

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IMF tells eurozone EFSF may need to be boosted five-fold to £1.7tn to convince markets that default could be contained
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/24/eu-six-weeks-greek-default

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More austerity measures likely to be passed in return for IMF help, but has nation been pushed beyond breaking point?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/24/greek-despair-cuts-suicide-crime

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In this clip, he illustrates the bait-and-switch trope being tossed around by conservative pundits of late-this notion that "the top ten percent pay 70 percent of all income taxes."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29208.htm

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US regulators closed two banks - one in Norfolk, Virginia and the other in Nevada City, California - on Friday, bringing the total number of closures this year to 73.
http://arabnews.com/economy/article506269.ece

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Video posted by the group Occupy Wall St from the eighth day of protests against corporations show police using Tasers and mace to control the crowd, which the group says has only made it more committed to keep up the demonstrations in lower Manhattan for the long haul.
http://abcn.ws/p5SOPH

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The anti-capitalist protests that have become something of a fixture in Lower Manhattan over the past week or so have taken on a distinctly ugly turn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/25/occupywallstreet-occupy-wall-street-protests

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Michael Moore, filmmaker, activist and author of "Here Comes Trouble," calls on people all over the country to bring the Occupy Wall Street movement to their communities
http://bit.ly/nTqeg9

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The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the U.S. has sunk to 25th in a global ranking of Internet speeds, just behind Romania.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/09/14/welcome-your-hungarian-internet

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Tom Feeley