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| NewsWatch - Wednesday,
February 23, 2005 |
Despite
new technology, Border Patrol overwhelmed
Across an expanse of desert where nothing marks the Mexican
border but a flimsy line of barbed wire, Border Patrol
agent Mitch King flies his helicopter low to search for
signs of illegal entry into the USA. - Yahoo News
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U.N.
to Control Use of Internet?
Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope
to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under
the control of the United Nations. - WorldNetDaily.com
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Canadian
Government to Unleash Terminator Bombshell at UN Meeting:
All-Out Push for Commercialisation of Sterile Seed Technology
A confidential document leaked today to ETC Group reveals
that the Canadian government, at a United Nations meeting
in Bangkok (Feb 7-11), will attempt to overturn an international
moratorium on genetic seed sterilisation technology (known
universally as Terminator). Even worse, the Canadian government
has instructed its negotiators to "block consensus"
on any other option. - RaiderNews
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Dollar
Weakens as Bank of Korea Plans to Diversify Reserves
The dollar fell the most in more than four months against
the yen and dropped versus the euro, Korean won and at
least 30 other currencies after the Bank of Korea said
it plans to diversify its reserves. - Bloomberg
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Wilting
Greenback Puts Shine Back on Gold
GOLD may rise for a third week, on expectations that a
drop in the dollar will spur inflation, boosting demand
for the metal as a hedge, a Bloomberg survey of 48 traders,
investors and analysts shows. - Bloomberg
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What
is China Doing With its $162 Billion Trade Surplus With
the U.S.?
Why did the United States, and not Germany, Russia, or
Britain, produce “the atom bomb” during WW2?
The answer is: the United States had enough money for
a project of development of it and, having received Einstein's
letter, warning that Germany may develop “the atom
bomb” ahead of the United States, Roosevelt finally
decided in 1942 to finance the project in all earnest,
after Germany, at war with the United States, had reached
in Russia the Volga in the summer of 1942, and the defeat
of Russia augured ill for the United States. - WorldTribune.com
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Poll
Shows Doubts Over Bush Democracy Push
President Bush is calling on European leaders to support
his campaign to spread democracy abroad at a time people
in many of those countries have doubts whether that should
be the U.S. role in the world, Associated Press polling
found. - Myway News
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Funds
raised for arrested homeschoolers
A homeschool group in South Carolina is beginning to raise
funds to help defend two of its members – a teenage
boy and a mother – who were arrested after a confrontation
with a plainclothes police officer at a park. - WorldNetDaily.com
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U.S.
prepares for germ attack
The world's richest governments are looking to create
an international germ-warfare crisis center and vaccine
bank as "a matter of top priority." - WorldNetDaily.com
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The
Erosion of American Lives — Commentary
For all of us who are 50-years-old, or older, the world
we lived in as children is completely gone. Nothing that
exists resembles our lives, as youths, anymore.
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Can
somebody in the mainstream USA media take a little closer
look at Venezuela?
All the news reports are 'mysteriously'
aligned with US government foreign policy of eliminating
'tyranny' and 'terrorism' around the world ... the problem
is that it is only US government officials who get to
define what 'tyranny' is and its geographic location.By
the 'strangest' coincidence, most of the countries that
have been identified as having 'tyrannical authorities'
are developing countries capable of producing large
quantities of oil -Elio Cequea/VHeadline VE
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Colombia
and Venezuela Further Deepen Ties
Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Alí Rodríguez
and his Colombian counterpart, Carolina Barco, pledged
to further deepen bilateral relations between their
two nations, emphasizing the importance of preserving
their shared historic patrimony and reiterating that
all of the economic and commercial projects that were
suspended due to the "Granda Affair" would be reactivated
-Sarah Wagner/Venezuelanalysis VE
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Ukraine
seeks Nato relationship
The Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko,
confirmed today at a Nato summit attended by George
Bush that the former Soviet country wants to become
a member of the transatlantic organisation.The announcement
is likely to heighten Moscow's concern that Ukraine's
new western-leaning president will try to take the country
out of Russia's sphere of influence -Guardian UK
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Anti-terror
plan faces first test
Plans to detain terror suspects under
house arrest without trial are set for their first real
test in Parliament. Tories and Lib Dems will join forces
against the new anti-terror plans in the first vote
of MPs. They say the powers wrongly attack civil liberties
-BBC
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Oregon's
assisted-suicide law to get high court airing
The United States Supreme Court has
agreed to take up physician-assisted suicide, potentially
one of the most profound political and social issues
today. The case involves Oregon's law allowing certain
individuals to take their own lives with the help of
a doctor. The outcome could determine whether such laws
are enacted in other parts of the country -Christian
Science Monitor
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FBI
abandons whistleblower secrets claim
The Department of Justice has abandoned
its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator
are secret, paving the way for a court case that will
air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor
security and possible espionage in the translation unit
of the Bureau's Washington Field Office.At issue are
the claims of Sibel Edmonds, a contract translator for
the FBI hired in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001,
terror attacks
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Kim
willing to return to talks
Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has said
his country was willing to return to nuclear disarmament
talks despite an earlier threat to withdraw from negotiations,
Chinese officials reported today.Less than two weeks
after the North announced it had nuclear weapons and
was snubbing the talks indefinitely, Kim told Chinese
envoy Wang Jiarui he remained committed to a nuclear-free
Korean peninsula -News.com AU
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Bush,
Putin Differ on State of Russian Democracy
President Bush and Russian President
Vladimir Putin openly differed on the state of Russia's
democracy Tuesday, setting the stage for a possibly
difficult face-to-face meeting Thursday. He(Bush) questioned
whether Russia had an independent free press and said
Baltic leaders at a NATO summit had expressed their
own worries to him, which he said he would tell Putin
about
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China
sullies Bush charm offensive
US President George W. Bush declared
overnight that deep divisions with Europe over Iraq
had been laid to rest, but said plans to lift an European
Union arms ban on China spelled serious trouble for
transatlantic ties.He also delivered a mixed message
to allies worried that he is mulling military action
against Tehran, saying: "This notion that the United
States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous."Having
said that, all options are on the table." -News.com
AU
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Labour's
half-truths and spin are a cancer in the body politic
If the facts don't fit the argument,
then the facts become flexible.It is Orwellian. Words
mean what they wish them to mean. Bad news is good.
Up is down. Black is white.Fiction is fact.It is no
wonder that, to a bewildered public, trust has collapsed."Trust
me," said Tony Blair back in 1997, "we'll be whiter
than white … purer than pure."Well, that is yet another
promise not kept -John Major/Telegraph UK
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