26
migrants found in Northeast motel
El Paso police discovered 26 undocumented immigrants from
Mexico on Sunday morning staying at a Northeast motel.
- El Paso Times
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Many
illegals cross border more than once
Jesus Saavedra Parra, a scraggly 23-year-old from Culiacan,
Sinaloa, has had little success eluding the Border Patrol.
Slouched outside a holding cell at the agency's Tucson
sector substation, Saavedra struggled to recall how many
times he has been caught. "More than six times,"
he said. "But I don't know how many." AZ Times
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Security
cameras patrol Big Easy's dangerous areas
The intent was obvious. The man aimed an AK47 at the newly
installed crime camera and fired away. "All it did
was get him arrested," chuckled New Orleans' chief
technology officer Greg Meffert. "The camera immediately
notified the police and tracked him until he was caught."
- Associate Press
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Sharon,
Abbas Declare End to Violence
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas declared Tuesday
that their people would stop all military or violent
activity, pledging to break the four-year cycle of bloodshed
and get peace talks back on track.
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BUSH'S
BUDGET MEANS NOTHING
Why is Bush's budget meaningless? Due
to the dumbing down of the American people and the absolute
corruption of our political system, few even know the
actual job description for a president of these united
States of America according the to the U.S. Constitution.No
where does the supreme law of the land state the president
has any authority to submit a budget to anyone.That
responsibility is the sole domain of the House of Representatives
-Devvy Kidd/NewsWithViews
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The
birth of a narco state
A rejuvenated campaign to crack down
on Afghanistan's booming heroin trade could backfire
and end up alienating large sectors of the population
from the government of President Hamid Karzai, warn
Afghan development and rights groups -Jim Lobe/Asia
Times
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Sistani
begins on his true agenda
Leading Shi'ite clerics in Iraq are
reportedly "pushing for Islam to be recognized as the
guiding principle of the new constitution".Such a proposal
is in stark contrast from the transitional law the US
enacted before installing the Iraqi interim government
headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi last June -Ehsan
Ahrari/Asia Times
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Sop
to Iraqi Clerics?
If Shiite religious leaders can't infuse
Islam in Iraq's new constitution, then they reportedly
want Koranic law, or sharia, to govern in the narrower
realm of personal life -Christian Science Monitor
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Yukos
drops banks from court bid
Russian oil company Yukos has dropped
the threat of legal action against five banks it had
accused of involvement in the sale of its key Yugansk
unit -BBC
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Interests
and aspirations clash in region of frozen conflicts
Now the Black Sea, contested through
history by Roman emperors, Russian tsars, Nazi and Soviet
totalitarians and, inevitably, by British imperialists
in the Crimea in the 1850s, is once again emerging as
a strategic amphitheatre of clashing interests and aspirations
-Simon Tisdall/Guardian UK
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US
guard tells how Nazi girlfriend duped him into helping
Goering evade hangman
An enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg
trials was apparently solved yesterday when an American
former prison guard claimed it was he who, as an unwitting
accomplice, passed to Hermann Goering the cyanide capsule
with which the Nazi number two cheated the noose -Julian
Borger/Guardian UK
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White
House Warns Senate on Lawsuit Bill Changes
The White House on Monday warned the
Senate against making changes to a bipartisan bill to
curb class-action lawsuits, saying it supported the
version now on the chamber's floor.On Monday afternoon
the Senate began debate on the measure, long sought
by business and favored by President Bush.It would move
most large multi-state class-action lawsuits into more
stringent federal courts
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Rosneft
says no foreign banks in Yugansk buy
State-owned oil firm Rosneft raised
$9.35 billion for newly-acquired YUKOS production unit
Yuganskneftegaz, some from a consortium of Russian banks,
Rosneft president Sergei Bogdanchikov announced(finance
minister Alexei Kudrin saying last week "it seems this
includes the loan Vnesheconombank obtained from Chinese
banks to finance Rosneft's deal.") -Russia Journal RU
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Russia,
China to Boost Defense Plans
Quietly, with almost no notice taken
in the U.S. media, Russia and China have just stepped
up their military cooperation to a level not seen in
half a century since the end of the Korean War.
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OUTSOURCING
TORTURE
Rendition was originally carried out
on a limited basis, but after September 11th, when President
Bush declared a global war on terrorism, the program
expanded beyond recognition—becoming, according to a
former C.I.A. official, “an abomination.” -JANE MAYER/The
New Yorker
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New
Call for United Euro Policy on Migrants
The European Commission today renewed
calls for a common EU asylum and immigration policy
as the Government unveiled plans for new controls on
migrants.Labour's five-year plan includes a crackdown
on abuses of asylum and immigration procedures, including
tougher border controls - just one in a series of piecemeal
national policies now emerging across the EU in the
absence of a Europe-wide set of rules -Scotsman UK
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Iraq
party photos shame US army
A US female soldier has been found
guilty of indecent exposure after she took part in a
mud wrestling party at the largest military prison in
Iraq -BBC
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China
to Pioneer ‘Pebble Bed’ Nuclear Reactor
China is poised to develop the world's
first commercially operated "pebble bed" nuclear reactor
after a Chinese energy consortium chose a site in the
eastern province of Shandong to build a 195MW gas-cooled
power plant.
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Bush's
Jobless Economy
The January jobs report from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics continues the bad news of the past
four years. During President Bush's first term, the
US economy had a net loss of three-quarters of a million
private sector jobs. Despite three years of economic
recovery, fewer Americans are employed in the private
sector today than when Bush was first inaugurated four
years ago, says Paul Craig Roberts.
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Officers
Fault US Command For 'Failure To Surprise' In Iraq
U.S. military sources said combat units
have failed to develop effective tactics required to
defeat the insurgency in Iraq.
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US
Secretly Pulls 25,000 Troops Out Of Iraq
In an abrupt move, American occupation
forces withdrew 25,000 troops from Iraq over the weekend,
according to Islam Memo.
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$150,000
Incentive To Stay In US Elite Forces
The Pentagon is offering six-figure
bonuses to members of the special forces in an attempt
to stop the hemorrhaging of America's Elite military
units to far better paid jobs as civilian "mercenaries."
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Bush
Budget Director Brags of Shifting Tax Burden to Rich
The White House budget director Josh
Bolten on Monday bragged to reporters how the nation's
most-wealthy will see an increase in tax burden under
Bush's new budget.—Drudge Report
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