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SHE was flirtatious yet straight-laced and the legendary recipient of some of James Bond’s best one-liners, but the original Miss Money-penny has died at the age of 80.
Lois Maxwell, who appeared in more 007 films than any Bond actor, had been suffering from cancer and died on Saturday.
She starred in 14 Bond films - from [...]

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By Charles Hawley and David Gordon Smith, Der Spiegel
from Alternet
Spiegel Online: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Once again, he said that he is only interested in civilian nuclear power instead of atomic weapons. How much does the West really know about the nuclear program in [...]

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from FreePress.net
Free Press calls for Congress to investigate abuses of free speech
WASHINGTON — Free Press, coordinator of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, is calling for congressional hearings to address growing public outrage over phone company censorship policies. Last week, Verizon made headlines with its decision to ban text messages from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
“Phone companies are supposed to [...]

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This is one scarey looking woman…..or is she dressed early for Halloween????
From Global Research:
Seems the Global Research link isn’t working for some of us. Here’s another link to the story in the Daily Mail

Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America’s stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by [...]

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Thousands of Iraqi immigrants have seen their life savings depleted by the high cost of living in Jordan and have now resorted to begging.
The U.S. embassy in Iraq repeated it’s support for a unified Iraq, voicing their objection to a Senate resolution to partition the country into three states.
Civilian deaths from [...]

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A United States-based private security firm received a contract worth up to US$92 million from the Department of Defense amid hard questions about its involvement in two separate violent incidents in Iraq.
“Blackwater [USA] has been a contractor in the past with the department and could certainly be in the future,” said the US’s top-ranking [...]

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his government will not attend a Middle East peace conference unless Syria’s concerns are addressed.
President Assad told the BBC that this meant primarily the return of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967.
Mr Assad said no opportunity for peace should be squandered, but he saw little of [...]

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Gordon Brown is preparing to announce the withdrawal of a substantial number of Britain’s remaining troops in Iraq as soon as Parliament returns next week. Up to half the force of 5,500 could be on their way home in the next few months.
One cabinet minister told The Independent on Sunday that the announcement by the [...]

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