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the beatles new album is due in november is all new music since 1970 release of let it be
Post Date: 2006-10-03 00:17:46 by TLBSHOW
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As expected, the soundtrack to the Cirque Du Soleil/Beatles show "Love" will arrive in November via Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol Records. The music for the album and stage extravaganza, which is running at Las Vegas' Mirage Hotel, was assembled by Beatles producer George Martin and his son, Giles, from the original master tapes. Although the album track list has yet to be announced, fans can expect an unorthodox blend of elements drawn from throughout the Beatles' recorded legacy. Excerpts were played for members of the media in late May and included a version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" that grew from John Lennon's original demo through to its final take, plus a melange ...
Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat
Post Date: 2006-10-02 20:26:34 by TLBSHOW
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Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 — A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday. The account by Sean McCormack came hours after Ms. Rice, the secretary of state, told reporters aboard her airplane that she did not recall the specific meeting on July 10, 2001, noting that she had met repeatedly with Mr. Tenet that summer about terrorist threats. Ms. Rice, the national security adviser at the time, said it was ...
Israelis developing hijack-proof jetliner
Post Date: 2006-10-02 08:06:23 by A K A Stone
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TEL AVIV — An Israeli security firm is designing an aircraft that is immune to hijacking. Israel's Athena GS3 Security Implementations is drafting designs and methods for a European aircraft that could not be commandeered by intruders. Athena, founded in 1996 by former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit, has been deemed a major participant in the European Union's Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment, or SAFEE. SAFEE, launched in 2004, was meant to last through 2007. The $45.7 million project, which also includes Airbus, EADS, BAE Systems, Siemens and Thales, has been financed through a $25 million grant by the European Commission. "The goals of our projects are ...
Court upholds Nazi-era ban on homeschooling
Post Date: 2006-09-29 16:16:05 by A K A Stone
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A new ruling from the European Human Rights Court has affirmed the German nation's Nazi-era ban on homeschooling, concluding that society has an significant interest in preventing the development of dissent through "separate philosophical convictions." The Strasburg-based court addressed the issue on appeal from a Christian family whose members alleged their human rights to educate their own children according to their own religious beliefs are being violated by the ban. The specific case addressed in the opinion involved Fritz and Marianna Konrad, who filed the complaint in 2003 and argued that Germany's compulsory school attendance endangered their children's religious ...
Brother-in-Law of Saddam Trial Judge Killed
Post Date: 2006-09-29 11:21:09 by A K A Stone
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A brother-in-law of the judge trying Saddam Hussein for genocide was shot dead by gunmen while driving in western Baghdad, police said on Friday. One police source told Reuters that the 10-year-old nephew of chief judge Mohammed al-Ureybi and a third person in the car were wounded in the attack on Thursday evening. A second source said the nephew had died and the third person, who was Ureybi's sister, was seriously wounded. It was not immediately clear if the attack was linked to Ureybi's work at the Iraqi High Tribunal. He was appointed chief judge only last week after the government sacked his predecessor for telling Saddam the former president was "not a ...
Wary Eye Cast on Abe's 'New Japan'
Post Date: 2006-09-29 11:14:55 by A K A Stone
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TOKYO — For those who view Japan's swelling nationalism through suspicious eyes, there is plenty of evidence that the World War II loser is straining at its pacifist shackles. New Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to rewrite Japan's war-renouncing constitution. He yearns for a robust role in world affairs, and has even mused about the possibility of a pre-emptive military strike against North Korean missile sites. Abe's talk of a "new Japan" also includes a plan to inculcate patriotism in schools and put an end to teaching what he calls a "masochistic" version of Japanese history. His newly minted Cabinet tilts so far to the hawkish side of Japanese politics ...
Ex-Prez Carter: Bush has brought U.S. "international disgrace"
Post Date: 2006-09-29 11:06:52 by A K A Stone
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RENO, Nev. Former President Carter is urging northern Nevadans to elect his son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought "international disgrace" to the country. The former president told a crowd of about 300 on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno today that the nation is more sharply divided that it has ever been as a result of Bush's policies. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, he says he's deeply embarrassed that the American government now stands convicted around the world as one of the greatest abusers of civil rights. He continued the theme in a dinner speech to 700 at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, saying every past ...
Legal Battle Over Detainee Bill Is Likely
Post Date: 2006-09-29 10:08:49 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved President Bush's plan to question and try foreign terrorism suspects before military judges — without oversight by the federal courts. Bush is expected to receive a bill he can sign into law in the next few days, but legal challenges almost assuredly will be pursued against the prosecution process, which the administration considers a key element in its war on terrorism. The measure's most disputed provision would block foreign prisoners held by the military from turning to the federal courts to end their imprisonment. By preventing detainees from challenging their confinement in court, it sets up a potential constitutional conflict ...
U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver
Post Date: 2006-09-28 16:48:50 by A K A Stone
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A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq last year. Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene. "They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and Nightline. THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS * Check out Videos in the Brian Ross Video Section on the Brian Ross Page * Video World News: Anatomy of an Ambush * Escaped Top al Qaeda Leader Killed in Iraq The tape shows ...
Al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq called for launching biological warfare on US troops at their bases in Iraq
Post Date: 2006-09-28 12:52:25 by TLBSHOW
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Al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq called for launching biological warfare on US troops in the war-torn country, in an audio-clip posted on the Internet. "My message to the pioneers ... especially atomic and explosives experts: We are in urgent need for you, as the American bases are the perfect place for non-conventional experiments of biological and dirty (warfare)," said the voice, purportedly that of to Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. Muhajer said the group was launching a new "all-out offensive ... to uproot the infidels and the apostates," from Iraq, in reference to the US-led coalition forces and their supporters among the Iraqis.
ESPN faked cheers for Bush Sr.
Post Date: 2006-09-28 11:26:08 by A K A Stone
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As a person who dabbled with sportscasting in college, I operated under the impression that my job was sports not politics. Sports were sports and you leave your politics off the air It's a very simple standard. If I want to watch football for three hours, give me football. Unfortunately, ESPN has continuously violated this concept. If ESPN is going to play phony tapes for politicians, then they need to be pressured off the air. For several years, ESPN has been manufacturing fake cheers and fake boos for politicians. It's a very simple rule. If you are a Democrat not named Joe Lieberman, ESPN will play a tape of boos previously recorded and insert them into the audio after the Democrat is ...
Court bars Scottish girl from leaving Punjab
Post Date: 2006-09-27 00:35:51 by A K A Stone
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LAHORE (AFP) Tells father to hand in her passport A Pakistan court yesterday ordered the father of a 12-year-old Scottish girl at the centre of a custody battle to hand in her passport and not to move her outside its jurisdiction. Molly Campbell, who also bears the Muslim name Misbah Iram Ahmad Rana, was brought here by her Pakistani father last month. Her Scottish mother alleges the girl will be subjected to a forced Muslim marriage. The Lahore High Court said her father Sajjad Ahmed Rana would have to hand over her passport and keep her within the province of Punjab until the next hearing on October 9, a court official said. Mother Louise Campbell filed a petition after the girl’s ...
He helped and then raped the housemaid
Post Date: 2006-09-27 00:31:29 by A K A Stone
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Runaway told it’s futile to pursue the case Ayla Marisse G Ginete Contributor A Filipina housemaid has been allegedly raped by the person who had helped her run away from her sponsor and recruiter. G. C. (name withheld), who worked for a Bahraini sponsor for a few months, asked the household to send her back to the agency, claiming that she had been physically abused and forced to work longer than the normal working hours. “I was made to work almost 24 hours a day, often left with nothing to eat. I couldn’t bear it any longer. I was treated like a slave in that household, not a human being,” Gina told the Tribune yesterday. “I asked my madam to send me back to the ...
Kingdom Denies Israel Meeting
Post Date: 2006-09-27 00:27:53 by A K A Stone
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JEDDAH, 27 September 2006 — Saudi Arabia yesterday denied as baseless a report carried by Israeli and Qatari media that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently met with a Saudi official. “The news is completely fabricated,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. He said Saudi Arabia was carrying out its national duty transparently. “We don’t have declared and undeclared policies,” he said, adding that the Kingdom’s stand on the Palestinian issue has been made clear through the Arab peace plan, which was proposed by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and adopted by the Arab summit in 2002.
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Honda Unveils 'Super-Clean' Diesel Engine
Post Date: 2006-09-26 20:55:16 by A K A Stone
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TOCHIGI, Japan — Honda Motor Co. says it has developed the first diesel passenger car engine capable of meeting California's tough 2009 air-quality standards, one that produces almost none of the emissions that have sullied the fuel's image. The "super-clean" diesel's emissions will be no greater than those of a gasoline engine, Honda said. ADVERTISEMENT The automaker unveiled a four-cylinder engine capable of propelling an Accord sedan to speeds well in excess of 120 mph during a weekend technology demonstration at its research center in this rural town about 100 miles north of Tokyo. Honda, the world's largest engine maker and second behind Toyota Motor Corp. in ...
ITS A BEATLE DAY - NEW MUSIC FROM ALL 4 BEATLES RELEASED TODAY
Post Date: 2006-09-26 11:00:31 by TLBSHOW
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In stores today Paul McCartney - classical cd John Lennon - Political Cd George Harrison - religious cd Ringo Starr - duet with Jerry Lee Lewis cd and new ringo starr with Greg Lake of emerson lake and palmer
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Tony Snow , Press Secretary for the murderer George Bush will raise money for more murderers so they can murder more people.
Post Date: 2006-09-26 08:16:08 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Tony Snow is taking his gift of gab across the country in the coming weeks to raise money for Republican candidates, an unusual task for the president's top spokesman. ADVERTISEMENT On the job just four months, the former Fox News commentator is in-demand on the GOP circuit. He said he decided to help maintain the party's majority in Congress after some consideration of his proper role — and that doesn't include a lot of red meat rhetoric like some speakers offer at partisan events. "They asked, and I thought about it a lot and we went back and forth," Snow said. "It's one of those things where I certainly want to help the ...
U2 AND GREEN DAY WALK ACROSS ABBEY ROAD IN A BEATLES REMAKE
Post Date: 2006-09-24 15:50:56 by TLBSHOW
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U2 and Green Day have joined forces to record a charity song, and will unveil it during a live performance in New Orleans on September 25, http://Billboard.com reports. The track, a cover of Scottish punk band The Skids' "The Saints Are Coming," will serve as the official reopening of the Louisiana Superdome prior to a New Orleans Saints' football game. The Superdome was almost destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when it was used as a shelter by thousands of displaced people. Proceeds from the release of "The Saints Are Coming" will go to Music Rising, an initiative co-founded by U2 guitarist The Edge which helps musicians who lost their instruments during ...
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Fuels Terror
Post Date: 2006-09-24 09:20:12 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq has made global terrorism worse by fanning Islamic radicalism and providing a training ground for lethal methods that are increasingly being exported to other countries, according to a sweeping assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies. The classified document, which represents a consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, paints a considerably bleaker picture of the impact of the Iraq war than Bush administration or U.S. intelligence officials have acknowledged publicly, according to officials familiar with the assessment. ADVERTISEMENT "They conclude that the Iraq war has made it worse," said a government official familiar with the ...
Why per capita poverty does not factor into China's global power equation
Post Date: 2006-09-24 09:15:06 by A K A Stone
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Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian. Lev Navrozov Monday, September 18, 2006 My inquiry in Yahoo! “China’s military power” evoked 3,670,000 “search ...
Japan, Iran talk $2 billion deal for Azadegan field
Post Date: 2006-09-24 00:05:11 by A K A Stone
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LONDON — Iran and Japan plan to discuss a $2 billion oil development project. Officials said the two countries have agreed on talks to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field. They said the project was held up for years amid U.S. opposition to Japanese participation. "For Japan, the Azadegan oil field project is of importance and due to the same reason it is considering ways to ensure progress in the talks," Iranian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Katsutoshi Kaneda said on Sept. 15. Japan has been a leading customer of Iran and invested billions of dollars in the Middle East nation. Kaneda said the Azadegan project would not affect Japan's position toward Iran's nuclear ...
Mubarak's son and heir looks to China for nuclear energy
Post Date: 2006-09-24 00:03:01 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO — Egypt's regime of President Hosni Mubarak plans to acquire nuclear reactors, his son said. Officials said the Energy Ministry intends to discuss nuclear energy facilities and technology from a range of countries, including China and Russia. "The whole world — I don't want to say all, but many developing countries — have proposed and started to execute the issue of alternative energy," Gamal Mubarak, the president's son, said. "It is time for Egypt to put forth, and the party will put forth, this proposal for discussion about its future energy policies, the issue of alternative energy, including nuclear energy, as one of the alternatives." In an ...
Programmable parachutes drop supplies yards from target
Post Date: 2006-09-24 00:00:24 by A K A Stone
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BAGHDAD — The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed a new parachute system that could guide cargo to a pre-determined location. Officials said the Sherpa system has enabled the Marines to deliver supplies by air without landing the aircraft or attracting attention. They said the parachute could drop one metric of ton of supplies within a stone's throw of its target. "The Sherpa is one system of precision-guided airdrop systems," Staff Sgt. Christine Weber, a Marine assistant air delivery project officer, said. "There are many systems in the family of precision-guided systems that utilize the Global Positioning System to fly to a target." Officials said Sherpa, deployed ...
Somali Islamists stage execution
Post Date: 2006-09-23 23:50:19 by A K A Stone
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Somalia's Islamist group have carried out their first execution since seizing the capital, Mogadishu, in June. Hundreds turned out to witness a 25-year-old man convicted of killing a businessman shot dead by firing squad. The Union of Islamic Courts has also banned the stimulant khat during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Many Somali men, especially militiamen, spend hours chewing khat. The UIC has flogged users of other drugs but this is their first crackdown on khat. The militia had their faces covered and they fired until Abdulkadir was dead Witness Ahmed Mukhtar Unlike their secular rivals, Islamist gunmen are not allowed to chew khat. But the BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan says it ...
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