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September 24, 2003 - 5:02pm -- jim
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"Houston Exec Gets Top Iraq Energy Post"

David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, 23 September 2003

WASHINGTON -- Houston's Robert E. McKee III, a former ConocoPhillips executive, has been appointed the new senior adviser to the Iraqi Oil Ministry.


He will replace Philip J. Carroll, the one-time head of Shell Oil Co. who has overseen the often tumultuous effort to jump-start Iraq's oil sector for less than five months.

September 24, 2003 - 4:47pm -- jim
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"U.S. Plan to Attack Seven Muslim States"

Al Jazeera, 22 September 2003

Presidential Hopeful General Wesley Clark says the White House devised a five-year plan after the 9/11 strikes to attack seven majority-Muslim countries.

A former commander of NATO's forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.

September 24, 2003 - 4:18pm -- jim
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The State

bob daniel writes:


"What Color Are You?

Robert Daniel

Expect to be labeled with a color by the summer of 2004 as the United States government
implements a profiling system for all airports nationwide.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to provide the U.S. government with
your full name, home and credit card billing address, phone number and itinerary in order
to verify your identity. After the information has been pooled from commercial and national
databases, you will be assigned a color to determine if you are a security risk.

September 24, 2003 - 4:07pm -- jim
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"White House Knew Saddam Was No Threat"

John Pilger


Australian investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie which could cost George W Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.


A television report by Pilger aired on British screens last night said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat.

September 16, 2003 - 6:53am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

hydrarchist writes:

This translation from Indymedia Italy

GENOA - Today, the Genoa Prosecutor sent to 73 people notices that investigations against them been closed. The investigations in question were all part of a two-year inquiry into the events that took place in the Diaz and Pascoli schools and in the Bolzaneto police barracks
during the G8 summit. From the Diaz and Pascoli schools, 30 people have charges against them; the defendants are police, penitentiary personnel, and medical staff.

September 15, 2003 - 3:35am -- nolympics
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The State

nolympics writes
this is the last of 4 spots from radio free palapas and broadcast on the state channel. The others are here. This one, la viloncia, was first heard
on the 9th, the day before Lee kyong Hae, with thousands of others, threw down in Cancun.

September 13, 2003 - 4:42pm -- jim
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"Latin Bishops Launch Broadside against Free Trade Area"

Raul Pierri, Inter Press Service (IPS)

MONTEVIDEO, Sep 4 (IPS) -- The Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA) looks less like a true regional integration project than
a ''neo-colonialist'' plan that will make poor communities even
poorer and will not respect national sovereignty, said the Catholic
bishops of the members of South America's largest trade bloc.
''What we condemn is that the only aim of the project is to increase
trade flows, regardless of whether or not it devastates everything
and everyone in its path,'' the secretary-general of the bishops'
conference of Uruguay, Bishop Pablo Galimberti of the southern
Uruguayan city of San Jos, told IPS on Thursday.

September 13, 2003 - 11:58am -- jim
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"Mussolini Never Killed Anyone, Berlusconi Says"

Japan Today, Sept. 12, 2003

ROME - Italy's outspoken Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi unleashed new
controversy Thursday, declaring that the former fascist dictator Benito
Mussolini did not kill anyone, just sent them on holiday.
"Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on holiday
within the borders of the country," Berlusconi was quoted as telling the
Voce di Rimini newspaper.
His comment immediately triggered outrage in Italy, with some claiming it
was an apology for fascism and embarrassed his coalition partners, even
though Berlusconi said he had not intended to rewrite his country's history.

September 13, 2003 - 11:36am -- jim
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"Westerners Pretty Rich"

Leander Kahney, Wired News, Sep. 11, 2003


You may think your salary is paltry, but compared with most of the
world's population, you're up there with Bill Gates.


A new website, the Global Rich List,
starkly illustrates the worldwide distribution of wealth.

September 10, 2003 - 10:18am -- jim
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An anonymous coward writes:

"What Does the Pentagon See in "Battle of Algiers"?

Michael T. Kaufman, New York Times, September 7, 2003

Challenged by terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare
in Iraq, the Pentagon recently held a screening of
"The Battle of Algiers," the film that in the late
1960s was required viewing and
something of a teaching tool for radicalized Americans
and revolutionary wannabes opposing the Vietnam War.

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