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"...Fallujah is surrounded by refugee camps where people are living in tents and old cars..." "One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old...She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything." "...They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead." "Of course they targeted all our ambulances and doctors. Everyone knows this."
Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?" McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam." Coulter: "I don't think that's right." McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam." Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?" McKeown: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No." Coulter: "I think you're wrong." McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam." Coulter: "I think you're wrong." McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada." Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops." McKeown: "No." Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that." McKeown tags out in script: "Coulter never got back to us -- but for the record, like Iraq, Canada sent no troops to Vietnam."
Hey, kids! Want to know how to avoid contracting a sexually transmitted disease? "Get plenty of rest." That's one of the eight STD-prevention steps listed in one of the four high-school and middle-school health textbooks approved for state adoption last week by the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). "When you're tired, it's hard to think clearly," the text continues. "Don't put yourself in a situation in which you have to make a tough choice when you're tired." The other steps include: "Respect yourself" and "Go out as a group" ("You can also take the pressure off by double-dating"). No mention is made of the barrier methods of contraception, such as condoms, that help prevent STDs. One almost expects to see, in its stead, something about "an apple a day."
HALIFAX - Same-sex marriages will be allowed in Nova Scotia following a ruling Friday morning that said banning them is unconstitutional... Applause broke out in the Halifax courtroom as the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling made the province the sixth jurisdiction in Canada to allow same-sex couples to marry. Nova Scotia is the first Atlantic province to allow the marriages. Justice Heather Robertson's ruling effectively changes the definition of marriage in Nova Scotia to "the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others." ... Neither the federal or Nova Scotia governments opposed the challenge. "We certainly did not want to waste taxpayers' money," said Nova Scotia Justice Minister Michael Baker.
FOX News Channel contributor and former Republican speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Senator John Kerry would be "really silly" to argue that he could "win the war on terror." But President George W. Bush made precisely that claim just one month before he contradicted himself on August 30, saying, "I don't think you can win it."
President Bush tried today to stop the political fallout over his comments last weekend that the war on terror might not be winnable. Indeed, "we will win" that war, Mr. Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in Nashville. "We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win," Mr. Bush said. He spoke on the second day of the Republican National Convention in New York City, where Mr. Bush will deliver his nomination-acceptance speech on Thursday.
Council for National Policy, 732 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge LA 70802 (address was current as of 1984). Member Participants, Members-Elect, and Special Guests. Dallas TX, August, 1984. New Member Participants, Rancho Las Palmas CA, February, 1985. These lists include a biographical paragraph on each of 223 elites from the Right who participated in two conferences. Years ago the John Birch Society developed the view that the Council on Foreign Relations, dominated by Rockefeller's money and Kissinger's politics, was too soft on the cold war. Today many conservatives, from Birchers to Lyndon LaRouche, still see CFR as more or less part of the Soviet conspiracy. The Left, on the other hand, has always felt that CFR is an example of imperialism in the service of ruling class interests. In 1981 the Hunt brothers and T.Cullen Davis founded the Council for National Policy as a counterweight to CFR. This was not a collection of right-wing nuts, but rather the cream of the wealthy activist Right in America. Forget about trying to join either one -- both CNP and CFR are for elites only. It is unclear whether CNP is still active. The last time they were in the news was when Oliver North, first named by the media in 1985, was found on CNP's 1984 confidential mailing list.
When Halliburton announced in November that it would stop providing health insurance for its retirees who are eligible for Medicare, some got upset. Three wrote the company complaining about the change that's scheduled to take effect Jan. 1 and promptly got sued -- by Halliburton. "I was flabbergasted," said Paul Bryant, one the three complaining executives and a former vice president of human resources for Halliburton until he retired in 1999. The fact that Halliburton is dropping health benefits for its retirees in favor of Medicare is nothing new in today's business world. That they were sued for complaining is relatively new.
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