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SOTT Focus: A New Definition Of Terror

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:03 UTC



Three news stories, three examples of the mania that has gripped the American mind, three reasons to believe that, at this point, the American people are completely at the mercy of their political leaders' hidden agenda.
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SOTT Focus: Of The Chameleon's (or Caterpillar's) Dish

a. saccus
Signs of the Times
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:16 UTC


©unknown

King: 'How fares our cousin Hamlet?'

Hamlet: 'Excellent, i' faith; Of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promise-crammed;'
I awoke from a nap with that passage tripping through my mind. What on earth does that mean? I wondered, as I pulled down the Bard from my bookshelf, and thanked the God of Helpful Editors, for sending me one who had noted in the margins:
"chameleon's dish", i.e., the air (which was believed to be the chameleon's food); Hamlet willfully takes "fares" in the sense of "feeds".
Air, huh? So I took a sniff, then a huff, and then a great, big, deep gulp of air. Unlike Hamlet, however, I cannot say that I "fared" very well with my serving of "the chameleon's dish". No, not at all.
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Bizarro Earth

SOTT Focus: Pathocracy Begets Idiocracy

AB
Sott.net
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:40 UTC


©Ternion

I recently rented the movie Idiocracy, having heard from several people that it was hilariously funny and, from a few others, that it would make me weep. As usual, the few were closer to the mark.
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Florida's New Governor to Recommend Paper-based Optical Scan Voting System

Anthony Man
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:09 UTC
Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to recommend that the controversial touch-screen voting machines used in Broward, Palm Beach and 13 other Florida counties be scrapped and replaced with optical scanners that would count paper ballots.

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.
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Cloud Lightning

SOTT Focus: Just How Stupid Do They Think We Are?

Henry See
Signs of the Times
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:45 UTC


©Middle East Online
Victim of Israeli Cluster Bomb in Lebanon



In an article published this week in the New York Times on Israel's use of cluster bombs on a civilian population in their illegal war last summer on Lebanon (carried out under the guise of attacking Hezbollah) -- although the Times did not quite phrase it that way -- we read the following justification given by Sean McCormack of the US State Department:
"It is important to remember the kind of war Hezbollah waged," he said. "They used innocent civilians as a way to shield their fighters."
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Clock

Libya could free sentenced Bulgarian nurses


IOL
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:01 UTC
Libya has proposed a plan to release the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in an Aids epidemic case in exchange for compensation, the son of Libyan President Moamer Kadhafi told a Bulgarian newspaper on Monday.

"We have proposed a road map with solutions (satisfying) all parties: the parents, the Libyan government, the Bulgarian side, the EU," Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam told the daily 24 Hours, adding that he had also discussed the plan with the foreign ministers of Germany and France.
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Wolf

Long-Dead Psychopath a Tourist Attraction

Don Babwin
Associated Press
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:07 UTC
CHICAGO - Al Capone refuses to be rubbed out.

Chicago officials shun any association with "Scarface," whose Prohibition-era exploits made his name synonymous with the city.

"Anything that glorifies violence we are not interested in," said Dorothy Coyle, director of the city's office on tourism.

But 60 years after his death, they still can't run his memory out of town and visitors from all over the world are very much interested.
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Bomb

SOTT Focus: War Without End - But Who's To Blame?

Steve McFarland
Signs of the Times
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:33 UTC
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Padlock

Russia's Putin, India call for 'weapons free' space


AFP
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:16 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for a "weapons free outer space," after China staged a satellite-destroying weapons test.

"The fundamental position of the Russian Federation is that outer space should be absolutely weapons free," Putin told a joint news conference in New Delhi.

India's prime minister said he shared that position.
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Better Earth

SOTT Focus: On the Turning Away

Steve McFarland
Signs of the Times
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:40 UTC
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