Two
Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military
Two years after the United States launched a war in Iraq
with a crushing display of power, a guerrilla conflict
is grinding away at the resources of the U.S. military
and casting uncertainty over the fitness of the all-volunteer
force, according to senior military leaders, lawmakers
and defense experts. - Washington Post
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Thousands
Protest Iraq War On Two Year Anniversary
Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of
San Francisco and other American cities Saturday, chanting
slogans, stopping traffic and carrying cardboard coffins
to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion
of Iraq. - Associated Press
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FREEDOM
AWAKENING
The world was stunned when the Ukrainian people refused
to accept the election-as-usual travesty, and forced a
new, free and fair election of Viktor Yushchenko. The
Palestinian people went to the polls, and for the first
time, elected people who were not hand-picked puppets
of Yasser Arafat. - NewsWithViews/Henry Lamb
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Incredible
Shrinking Colorado Governor Bill Owens
"It's a sad day in America when law makers side with
law breakers against law abiding citizens." African-American
Ezola Foster
Two weeks ago, after hearing 28 Colorado citizens speak
in favor of Representative David Schultheis' H.B. 1271,
which prohibits illegal aliens from gaining taxpayer benefits-Democrat
Terrance Carroll stood up and announced that all 28 men
and women in favor of upholding the law-were racists.
NewsWithViews/Frosty Wooldridge
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Malibu
Gas Station Already Charging More Than $3 a Gallon
Are Californians ready to pay three dollars a gallon for
gas? Some already are.
The 76 Union station on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu
is doing brisk business despite self-serve pumps selling
regular unleaded at three dollars, five cents a gallon
and supreme unleaded at three dollars, 15 cents. KESQ
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Report:
Struggling GM Seeking Deep Cuts - automaker could cut
as much as 28 percent
General Motors Corp., which rocked investors last week
by slashing its 2005 income outlook, plans deep cuts to
its nonunion employee ranks, according to a newspaper
report.
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Russian
Immense Currency Reserves Pose Competition for Asian States
f oil prices remain on the high level, Russia will be
able to take the 5th place in the world on the amount
of currency reserves
Russia has taken the 7th place in the world on the
volume of it currency reserves. Russia is expected to
leave India behind and approach Singapore on this index
by the end of the current year. The countries of East
Asia have been holding the leading status in the competition
for quite a long time. However, Russia has a good chance
to compete with Asia at this point: the nation's huge
oil income is still not used in the real sector of economy,
but stimulates the growth of consumer prices instead.
- Pravda
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Soaring
Commodity Prices Show Threat to Dollar System
More than three decades after President Nixon dismantled
the Bretton Woods monetary order, global financial markets
are in an untenable situation. At the heart of the issue
is the U.S. dollar, still the most important reserve currency
in the world. The dollar is the currency upon which the
interest rates of hundreds of billions of dollars worth
of loans, mortgage credits, and financial derivatives
are pegged, and with which practically all raw material
purchases are transacted. - Executive Intelligence Review
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Border
Line: Teetering Tensions on the Mexico Border
CBN News recently traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border,
where angry residents are screaming for a crackdown on
illegals. That is because the massive flood of foreigners
is ruining many Arizonans' way of life along the border.
- CBN
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Tancredo
Whacking Limbaugh in Online Presidential Poll
In another sign Americans are looking for outlets to express
their concerns over illegal immigration, Rep. Tom Tancredo,
R-Colo., is handily beating conservative icon Rush Limbaugh
in an online poll on who would make the best Republican
candidate for president in 2008. - WorldNetDaily
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Insurers
Put Cap on Disaster Coverage
Take a close look at your home insurance policy. You may
not be covered for as much as you think.
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Israel's
New Jerusalem Plan Angers Palestinians
Israel plans to build thousands of
new homes in the occupied West Bank to cement its hold
on Jerusalem, government sources said Monday, drawing
a Palestinian warning that peace efforts were at risk.The
blueprint for two new neighborhoods linking the Jewish
settlement of Maaleh Adumim to Arab East Jerusalem appeared
to flout a U.S.-backed peace "road map" whose final
vision is disputed by Israel and the Palestinians
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Bush
signs Bill to save Terri Schiavo
US President George W. Bush has signed
controversial legislation designed to prolong the life
of a severely brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding
tube had been removed by court order."Today, I signed
into law a Bill that will allow federal courts to hear
a claim by or on behalf of Terri Schiavo for violation
of her rights relating to the withholding or withdrawal
of food, fluids, or medical treatment necessary to sustain
her life," Mr Bush said in a statement -News.com AU
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Protesters
in Kyrgyzstan Denounce Ballot Fraud
Thousands of protesters demanding the
resignation of Kyrgyzstan's president over allegedly
fraudulent elections rampaged through a southern city
Sunday, burning down a police station and occupying
government buildings.The government said it was ready
to negotiate, but Kurmanbek Bakiyev, an opposition leader
and former prime minister, said talks would be possible
only if President Askar Akayev was involved.
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THINK
THE COLD WAR'S OVER?
Just as the free enterprise capitalists
are becoming more politically and economically comfortable
with Beijing and Moscow, both sent out very clear signals
last week that the century old sparring match between
Karl Marx and John D.Rockefeller may not be over.It
may, in fact, be entering round ten with an unwanted
KO—in the form of WWIII—coming at the end of this decade
as a new, structured world government becomes an Orwellian
reality -Jon Christian Ryter/NewsWithViews
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EU
Eases Budget Pact as Germany Wins Waiver
EU finance ministers clinched a deal
late on Sunday to relax much-flouted budget rules that
underpin the euro,bowing to Berlin's key demand that
its hefty unification costs be excused."A small miracle
has happened," Finnish Finance Minister Antti Kalliomaki
said after nearly 12 hours of emergency talks in which
Germany secured special treatment for the billions it
pumps into the former communist east each year
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China's
anti-secession law obstacle to lifting EU arms embargo:
Straw
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
said that China's recent adoption of an anti-secession
law regarding Taiwan has complicated the lifting of
the European Union's arms embargo against Beijing. The
law has "created quite a difficult political environment,"
Straw told the British ITV television channel -Channel
News Asia SG
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Crisis
Deepens as Lahoud Opponents Spurn Dialogue
Lebanon’s crisis deepened yesterday
with the opposition spurning a plea for dialogue from
the pro-Syrian president and as a UN envoy said he feared
another high-profile political killing in the country.The
opposition rejection means that an ominous standoff
between anti-Syrian opponents and the current leadership
is set to continue in an atmosphere of mounting political
tension that followed the assassination Feb. 14 of former
prime minister Rafik Hariri -Arab News SA
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Negroponte's
Time In Honduras at Issue
The selection of Negroponte for the
new post of national intelligence director has focused
renewed attention on the question of how much he knew
about the Honduran military's involvement in nearly
200 unsolved kidnappings during the 1980s, and what
he did about it.The subject has dogged him in the past,
and Democratic staff members said it is likely to be
revisited when the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
holds nomination hearings, tentatively scheduled for
April 12 -Washington Post
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FEC
Considers Restricting Online Political Activities
The Federal Election Commission has
begun considering whether to issue new rules on how
political campaigns are waged on the Internet, a regulatory
process that is expected to take months to complete
but that is already generating considerable angst online
-Washington Post
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UN
in dramatic climbdown after American pressure
The security of America and other wealthy
countries will for the first time be declared a key
priority for the United Nations under reforms designed
to restore confidence in the crisis-ridden international
body.The reforms, to be announced tomorrow by Kofi Annan,
the UN secretary-general, will be seen as a concession
to Washington after repeated clashes with President
George W Bush over US foreign policy, including the
war in Iraq -Telegraph UK
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China’s
President Warns Rice on Taiwan
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
and the Chinese president have endorsed a commitment
to get North Korea back into talks over its nuclear
program.
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The
Age of Missing Information
Information is the oxygen of democracy.
Day by day, the Bush administration is cutting off the
supply.
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