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is telling in the other thread that for the Israeli policies to Palestinians you cannot uncondtionally be anti-Israel but you are ofcourse welcome to uncondtionally be pro-Israel :D

History, they say, does not repeat – but it does echo. Looking back at other situations, other republics and empires, one is tempted to draw parallels between then and now. The parallel drawn most often is the decline of the British Empire. American world dominance, as with British, was based...

The 2007 International Privacy Ranking UNITED STATES OF AMERICA No right to privacy in constitution, though search and seizure protections exist in 4th Amendment; case law on government searches has considered new technology No comprehensive privacy law, many sectoral laws; though tort of...

SO here are the rules. 1.You can provide a short preamble to justify your conclusion if you want. 2.You have to say "yes" or "no" at the end - no sitting on the fence, please. It doesn't prove anything, but might be an interesting measure of opinion (for this "sample" of people)...

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with the United States on law enforcement. The expansion comes as President...

Right across the board America was behind on so many fronts in terms of attitudes, awareness and what they are fundamentally doing." So says Australian environmentalist Jon Dee, who has completed a global survey into attitudes to the environment for the first annual World Environment Review...

OTTAWA — Frank McKenna, Canada’s former ambassador to Washington, referred to the United States on Friday as "a theocratic state" in which Christian evangelicalism plays a big role in the Republican administration. “Right now the United States is in many ways a theocratic state, not dissimilar...

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WASHINGTON - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen...

Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days. The US government has been involved in drawing up the law...

* In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal. * In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal. * In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All...

Air traffic controllers monitoring a British Airways jumbo jet were stunned at the pilot's decision to try to "get as far as we can" after an engine caught fire on takeoff, a transcript of discussions between the plane and the control tower revealed. The controllers in Los Angeles expected the...

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Second-largest quarterly gain ever posted by public company http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15426390/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In her first public comments about Bob Woodward's explosive book "State of Denial," first lady Laura Bush sharply denied claims in the book that her husband has misled the public about the level of violence in Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/26/laura.bush/index.html

WASHINGTON - The 2006 election is shaping up to be a repeat of 1994. This time, Democrats are favored to sweep Republicans from power in the House after a dozen years of GOP rule. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_el_ge/election_ap_poll_6

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has retired his "stay the course" slogan for Iraq, worried about its use as a weapon against his Republican Party in November elections, the White House said. Read more http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061023/pl_afp/usiraqpoliticsbush_061023220632

(CBS News) Army Staff Sgt. Bryce Syverson spent 15 months in Iraq before he was diagnosed by military doctors with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and sent to the psychiatric unit at Walter Reed Medical Center, CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports. "It ended up they just took his...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Southern California Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said...