veritas wrote:
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> On May 6, 1:40 pm, Reggie <Reggie...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Latest News-at-a-Glance - Courtesy of
TvNewsLIES.orghttp://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/latest-news-at-a-glance
> >
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> > John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps
> > Tuesday, 06 May 2008 14:25
> >
> > Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards
> > victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile
> > Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he
said
> > the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Wa****ngton
took
> > no action.
> >
> > “This is a case where the use of military force against a training
camp
> > to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the
most
> > prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court
> > to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”
> >
> > More...
> >
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> > Inquiry: Hospitals couldn't handle terror attack
> > Tuesday, 06 May 2008 13:29
> >
> > WA****NGTON — Hospital trauma centers in seven major cities do not have
> > the capacity to handle even a modest terrorist attack, according to
> > findings released Monday from a House committee investigation.
> >
> > Lawmakers looked into hospitals' ability to deal with a sudden influx
of
> > victims in the five cities considered at highest risk for terrorist
> > attack and in the two cities hosting this summer's political
conventions.
> >
> > More...
> >
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> > House panel subpoenas top Cheney aide
> > Tuesday, 06 May 2008 13:19
> >
> > WA****NGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to
compel
> > a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee
> > about the Bush administration's interrogation practices.
> >
> > David Addington, Cheney's chief of staff, refused to testify without a
> > subpoena. No date has been set for his appearance before Congress.
> >
> > Addington is one of several lawyers believed to have played a key role
> > in crafting the administration's interrogation policies shortly after
> > the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, policies which some say amounted to
torture.
> >
> > More...
> >
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> > Guantánamo Briton sues UK over 'torture evidence'
> > Tuesday, 06 May 2008 12:49
> >
> > The last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay is suing the UK
> > government for refusing to produce evidence that he was a victim of
> > extraordinary rendition and torture.
> >
> > Binyam Mohamed faces a US military commission which could sentence him
> > to death, and his lawyers say proving that the case against him is
based
> > exclusively on evidence extracted by torture, following his rendition
by
> > the CIA, is vital to his defence.
> >
> > Today, they lodged papers at the high court in London, seeking a
> > judicial review to force the Foreign Office to release information on
> > his movements.
> >
> > More...
> >
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> > Fuelling the world food crisis
> > Tuesday, 06 May 2008 12:39
> >
> > Yesterday’s Wa****ngton Post front-page lead story summed up in seven
> > words what’s going on: "Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars."
> >
> > Yes, cars on American roads will burn up close to one-third of the
> > enormous corn crop American farmers will grow this year. But because
the
> > United States is the world’s biggest producer of corn, an essential
> > staple, this massive diversion from the food bowl to the fuel tank
> > threatens to wreak increasing havoc from here to Timbuktu.
> >
> > More...
> >
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> >
> > News updated throughout the day. http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl
>
> Well, then Timbuktu will have to pay more for the corn than the fuel
> people. Ecomomics
> at work. Then maybe oil will go down under a $100.00/barrel. They
> can't eat oil. Well,
> maybe they can in Timbuktu, but not the middle east. Ken Hogan
If "economics" in the sense of "free enterprise economoics" made sense,
oil would be $300- per barrel and rising.
Regards,
Greg.P.
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