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Russia promises retaliation if weapons deployed in space


RIA Novosti
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:45 UTC
Russia is ready to take appropriate measures if weapons are deployed in space, the commander of the Russian Space Forces said Thursday.

"Should any country deploy weapons in space, then the laws of armed warfare are such that retaliatory weapons are certain to appear," Col. Gen. Vladimir Popovkin said.
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Ambulance

Rabbis disgusted by Madonna's visit

Matthew Wagner and AP
Jerusalem Post
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:50 UTC
Orthodox teachers of Kabbala reacted with disdain Sunday to pop idol Madonna's Rosh Hashana visit in Israel, during which she took part in a study session of Judaism's most esoteric texts.

"It is a known fact in Kabbala that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity," said a director of one of the most respected Kabbala yeshivot in Jerusalem who preferred that he and his institution remain anonymous.
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SOTT Focus: National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 911 Investigation


SOTT correspondant/OpEd News
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:08 UTC
A Signs of the Times reader comments on Lynn Margulis' recent criticism of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.

Dear Colleagues,

The following appeared today in the UMass/Amherst Daily News Summary for September 6, 2007:
Lynn Margulis, geosciences, is criticizing the official account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. and is calling for a new investigation of those events. (Opednews.com, 9/6/07)
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Stormtrooper

A Psychopath's Recommendation: Drop Marine Murder Case

ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:56 UTC
SAN DIEGO - A Marine accused of murdering Iraqi civilians, including children, in the town of Haditha should have all charges dropped against him because of weak evidence, an investigating officer recommended on Thursday.
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Crusader

EU urges Texas to halt executions before 400 mark


Reuters
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:33 UTC
The European Union urged the governor of Texas on Tuesday to halt all executions before the U.S. state carries out its 400th death sentence since reinstatement of the penalty in 1976.

"The European Union notes with great regret the upcoming execution in the State of Texas," the Portuguese presidency of the 27-nation bloc said in a statement.
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Monkey Wrench

New twist! Libya slams Bulgaria 'betrayal' over pardoned AIDS medics


AFP
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:20 UTC
Libya on Saturday denounced a decision by Bulgaria's president to pardon six medics from life jail terms in an AIDS case as a "betrayal" and an "illegal procedure."

"The detainees should have been detained upon their arrival (in Sofia), and not freed in this celebratory and illegal manner," Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham told a news conference in Tripoli.
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Heart

Bulgaria may forgive Libya's $54 million foreign debt - PM


RIA Novosti
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:21 UTC
Bulgaria may write off the $54 million debt Libya owes it, Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said Wednesday.

He said the move must not be seen as the Bulgarian government's response to Libya's decision to release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, now a Bulgarian national.
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Document

SOTT Focus: Book Review: Why Is Peace "Missing"?

Justin Soutar
Signs of the Times
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:47 UTC
A peace divorced from history and the real world is no peace at all.
Book review of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross HarperCollins, New York, 2004.
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SOTT Focus: The Problems Of Palestine -The Problems Of Cyprus

I.G.
Signs of the Times
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:04 UTC


©Signs of the Times

Today I read the article Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine, and I began thinking about the "Cyprus problem" and the "Palestinian problem", the sad stories behind them and the conditions that currently prevail in each country.

You see, when an army invades a country, confiscates the land and kills and imprisons the people, suddenly the whole sum of these people that have been killed, imprisoned and kicked out of their homeland become a "problem". The psychopathic leaders that caused the suffering have the gall to claim that the oppressed and beleaguered people of an invaded nation are the "problem". These psychopaths fume at the idea that their victims would dare to demand their rights, dare to talk of freedom and raise up their voices and arms towards their oppressors. Apparently those that survived the onslaught of the psychopaths in power should be grateful that their lives were spared.
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Vader

Richard Neville asks: Is this man a psychopath?

richard Neville
opednews.com
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:25 UTC


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U.S. General Dan McNeill, Commander of NATO's forces in Afghanistan,

Comment: To be better able to understand and be better equipped to answer the question that the author poses, it is well worth reading the book "Without Conscience" by Robert Hare. See also the article at cassiopedia on psychopathy.

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