The website WikiLeaks.org has been taken off line in many parts of the world. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to leaking documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.” Several factors have taken the site off line including DDoS attacks, which was followed by a fire which took out the main servers hosting the site in...
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A day after declaring independence from Serbia, Kosovo is hoping for recognition from the global community, especially the European Union and the United States. “We expect to be recognized by the first countries any minute,” said Prime Minister Hashim Thaci to his cabinet. Most of the EU’s 27 member nations are expected to recognize...
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In a delayed poll the Pakistani vote for a new parliament today. The election was originally scheduled for January 8, but the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007 forced a delay. The elections had a slow start at 8 a.m. (0300 GMT), as fears of violence kept...
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“Therefore victory in war is not repetitious, but adapts its form endlessly.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War There were secret meetings in restaurants, encrypted e-mail messages using a mysterious shorthand, suitcases crammed full of stolen documents.There were covert payoffs: a pocket stuffed with a wad of bills, free poker games in Vegas,...
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U.S. President George W. Bush, accompanied by his wife Laura, began his five-nation trip to Africa today in Benin, where he met with President Yayi Boni and participated in a joint press conference. This is Bush’s second visit to Africa and the first time any US president has visited Benin. Topics that were discussed...
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On Wednesday, American film director Steven Spielberg withdrew from his position as artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. “Conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual,” he said. “Sudan’s government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these ongoing crimes but the international community, and particularly China,...
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If there exists one visional depiction of the Cold War’s end, it is still a Eurocentric one, November 9, 1989, the day East Berliners joined with those of the city’s West in celebration of the Berlin Wall’s demise. Three weeks earlier, on October 19, 1989, Stalinist East German dictator Erich Honecker, facing mass internal...
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In the early hours of Tuesday, Denmark’s Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET) (Danish Security Intelligence Service), arrested three people for their connection to an alleged plot to murder one of the cartoonists from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. On September 30, 2005, Jyllands-Posten a Danish newspaper, published twelve cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The paper solicited...
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Those who want to know why Republicans will lose in 2008 should ask Senator John McCain. McCain has demonstrated uncanny consistency changing the subject whenever someone asks a legitimate question on core social issues. This is the fatal shortcoming for both Senator McCain, and the G.O.P. as well. An analysis of his speech given...
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Fourteen members of a South Florida-based Bloods gang with direct ties to the national Bloods criminal organization have been charged federally in connection with their illegal gang activities, according to US Justice Department officials and the FBI’s report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police. In the one-count indictment unsealed on Monday, defendants...
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United States Attorney Johnny Sutton and FBI Special Agent in Charge Ralph Diaz announced the indictment of 23 San Antonio residents, all of whom are in leadership positions in the Texas Mexican Mafia, for violating the federal Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs...
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New “Essence of Hillary” video adapts Reagan’s “Morning in America” to “Morning After in America” following a “one term stand” with Hillary Clinton reprising the two-term stand with Bill Clinton.· By Jim Wrenn, Editor and Washington Bureau Drawer Chief at PoliSat.Com. February 1, 2008–            While a Charlotte Observer columnist swoons over what he...
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The following are remarks by US Amb Robert Blake at a vocational training center in Sri Lanka. The comments section following the article below are especially interesting because they chronicle a history of communications to this publication by some parties apparently involved in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict. Dr. A.T.Ariyaratne, Mr. Arumainayaham, Mr. Careem, Ms....
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