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Iraq Green Zone shelled amid sandstorm
Sunday, 27 April 2008 16:28
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Suspected ****ite extremists hammered the U.S.-protected
Green Zone Sunday in the fiercest salvo in weeks, apparently taking
advantage of a sandstorm that blanketed the capital and grounded the
American aircraft that normally prowl for launching teams.
Thunderous explosions resounded throughout the evening as rockets or
mortar shells slammed into the heavily fortified area in central Baghdad.
Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, rejected terms set by the
Iraqi government for lifting a crackdown against his Mahdi Army
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Why automakers don't sell a car that gets 50mpg
Sunday, 27 April 2008 13:16
Just hop on a plane and fly to Europe, where all new cars average 43mpg,
or Japan, where the average hits 50mpg. Here in the United States, we're
stuck at 25mpg in our considerably larger and more powerful cars, trucks
and SUVs.
Here's the dirty little secret: we can. "If you want better fuel
economy, it's just a question of when auto companies want to do it and
when consumers decide they want to buy it," says Don Hillebrand, a
former Chrysler engineer who is now director of trans****tation research
for Argonne National Labs. "Auto companies can deliver it within a year."
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Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity: Poisoning
Democracy with Vitriolic Hate
Sunday, 27 April 2008 12:36
It's a regular staple of the millionaire right-wing echo chamber to use
the explicit or implicit language of violence. In fact, the entire
"frame" of everyone from Sean Hannity to Bill O'Reilly to Rush Limbaugh
is to convince their listeners that people who don't agree with these
"pundits of patriotism" are the enemy and dangerous to America.
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Are the right wing resorting to violence against the left ?
Sunday, 27 April 2008 11:13
With the right wing resorting to false flag operations (911 is the
supreme case of that), the alternative media will have to take up the
challenge to be the "Fourth Estate", a position the main stream media
has been shown to be unworthy of. People like Michael Rivero, at
WhatReallyHappened.com are at the forefront of this fight back to
reclaim freedom and true democracy to the citizens of the world.
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Greenspan, Bush to blame for U.S. crisis: Stiglitz
Sunday, 27 April 2008 11:12
VIENNA (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and
the government of President George W. Bush were to blame for the U.S.
financial crisis, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a
magazine interview.
"This man (Greenspan) has unfortunately made a lot of mistakes," said
former World Bank chief economist Stiglitz, according to a preview of
the interview to be published on Monday in profil magazine.
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UN Confirms and Defends Deletion of Ban Statements from Transcripts,
What Else Gets Erased?
Sunday, 27 April 2008 11:10
At the UN statements, like web sites, can be made to disappear. While
the range of web sites blocked inside the UN, which Inner City Pres
first re****ted on earlier this month, includes watchdog sites like
GlobalCompactCritics.net, on Monday UN Spokesperson Michele Montas
defended the omission from the UN's online transcript of Ban Ki-moon's
April 16 Q&A session with the press of an answer he gave about Iran.
TVNL Comment: How's that for our world leaders? They are all liars and
the people of this planet better do something about it soon...before
they can't!
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Afghan president escapes assassination bid
Sunday, 27 April 2008 11:06
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt on Sunday
after an assassination attempt by Taliban fighters who fired guns and
rockets at an official celebration near the presidential palace in Kabul.
Karzai, government ministers, former warlords, diplomats and the
military top brass ducked for cover after gunfire sounded at the event
to mark the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Afghan communist
government to the mujahideen.
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Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of ‘Fear’
Sunday, 27 April 2008 10:53
The city’s new police commissioner, William Fitchet, says members of the
department’s Street Crime Unit will again don black, military-style
uniforms as part of his strategy to deal with youth violence.
Delaney said a sense of “fear” has been missing for the past few years.
TVNL Comment: The new American storm troopers! How sweet, America taking
a lesson from Hitler.
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IDF choppers in service of drug cartel
Sunday, 27 April 2008 10:43
American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made
choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel.
Incident may cloud relations between countries
TVNL Comment: Your tax money at work! You will NEVER hear about this in
the US media!
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