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With all due respect to one of my favorite bloggers (Vivian Berryhill of “Soul Voice Blog“), I really enjoy this roll in the mud.
John and Barack are going to go “knuckle to knuckle and nose to nose” in a real fight for the office of President. Both should thank their lucky stars that Hillary is out of the running (for the present?).

In mocking Obama, McCain told a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D.: “My opponent doesn’t want to drill, he doesn’t want nuclear power, he wants you to inflate your tires.” The Republican National Committee widely distributed tire pressure gauges labeled “Obama energy plan” and suggested that was the Illinois senator’s only idea for reducing oil imports, although both candidates have offered multifaceted energy proposals.
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Appeasement is never good for a nation
Lalit Koul - Rediff.com
10,000 forest trees are chopped down to build the Mughal road in Kashmir. No one makes a noise.
Acres of land in the Kashmir valley are given to install mobile phone towers. No one screams.
Acres and acres of land in the Kashmir valley are allotted to lay sewage and drinking water pipes. No one objects.
But when 40 hectares of uninhabitable land is handed over to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board to provide better facilities to the Amarnath Yatra  pilgrims, all hell breaks loose.
Why? Because the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board caters to Hindu pilgrims who want to visit the Amarnath shrine in the valley of Kashmir. It is as simple as that.
Politically correct politicians, policy-makers and administrators might try to tell you that it is not about religion, but the fact of the matter is that it is all about religion.
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MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book.
The book claimed that the former Prime Minister sent a top British spy to the Middle East in 2003 — three months before the invasion — to dig up enough intelligence to avoid war but that President Bush and Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, dismissed any claims or possible evidence that would stop military action.
In The Way of the World, the Pulitzer prize-winning author Ron Suskind also claimed that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a backdated, handwritten letter purportedly from the head of Iraqi Intelligence to Saddam. The letter, which came to light nine months after the invasion, was meant to demonstrate a link […]

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A military court on Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden’s driver of supporting terrorism but acquitted him on the more serious charge of conspiring with al Qaeda in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two.
Here are some facts about the detention center at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the trials, which have been severely criticized by human rights groups:
- The United States holds about 265 prisoners at Guantanamo and has released or transferred to other governments more than 500 previously held there.
- The first captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002.
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NEW gates are to be installed at the Scottish Parliament, more than a year after bosses were told by MI5 that security needed to be stepped up.
The new security gates and turnstiles are now set to be put in place at the Queensberry House and Canongate entrances to the £414 million Holyrood Building.
The new measures will not affect public visitors to the parliament as they are for staff and MSPs only.
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Iraqi troops have seized Iranian-made rockets and mortars in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City, the US military said Wednesday.
It said the cache was discovered Monday near where Shi’ite militants fired more than 1,000 rockets toward the fortified Green Zone during clashes with US-led forces earlier this year. Iran denies US allegations that it trains and arms militants in Iraq.
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It was a sweltering 93 degrees outside Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on Sunday and Gunnery Sgt. Ronald Morgan was riding his bicycle at the busy Four Corners intersection.
Across the street, a 21-year-old Japanese woman was standing alone in the heat. Suddenly, she collapsed to the sidewalk, he said.
The woman wasn’t moving and nobody was moving to help.
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New microchipped passports designed to protect against identity theft by terrorists and criminals can easily be faked, it was claimed today.
Tests showed that personal information could be cloned and manipulated within an hour before being inserted into new chips, the Times reported.
The paper said it had exposed “security flaws” in the passport system by asking a researcher to clone the chips on two British passports and implant digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by reader software used by the UN agency that sets the standards for such e-passports.
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A stash of World War II weapons and ammunition has been found on the site of an old sauerkraut factory during construction work in Berlin. Discoveries of wartime shells and millitary equipment remain common in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war.
Construction workers have uncovered a large pile of World War II era weapons and ammunition on the site where eastern Berlin’s first mosque is being built.
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