09 Dec
Mirth 9:21 pm (Afghanistan, Iraq, Military)
Forty injured servicemen are to receive payments of up to £500,000 each in a series of test cases. This is expected to lead to claims from hundreds more of the estimated 1,000 [United Kingdom] troops injured in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
Payments will be made on a “sliding scale” of about £1,000, for [...]
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09 Dec
Mirth 8:53 pm (Miscellaneous)
US bugged Diana’s phone on night of death crash
The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana’s telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week.
Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former [...]
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09 Dec
Mirth 6:05 pm (Iraq, Military)
Men attend a funeral for people killed in an overnight U.S. raid and airstrike in Ishaqi, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, December 9, 2006. (Nuhad Hussin/Reuters)
photo slideshow here
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09 Dec
Mirth 3:28 am (Sex Scandal)
Alternate title: How One School Is Crackin’ Down On Perverted Four-Year-Olds!
A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in’school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.
Damarcus Blackwell’s four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused [...]
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08 Dec
Mirth 3:01 pm (Peace)
“War is the stateman’s game, the
priest’s delight,
The lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s
trade,
And, to those royal murderers, whose
mean thrones
Are bought by crimes of treachery and
gore,
The bread they eat, the staff on which
they lean”
Percy B. Shelley
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08 Dec
Mirth 1:20 pm (Congress)
WASHINGTON
Members of Congress are in line for a $3,300 pay raise effective Jan. 1 unless they block it, and Democrats said Thursday they intend to try.
Officials said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the party’s leaders, had notified Republicans they will try to add the anti-pay-raise provision to a bill [...]
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08 Dec
Mirth 1:04 pm (Israel/Palestine)
Israel’s foreign minister has arrived in the United States amid worries that the Jewish state’s main ally could shift course after a report urged Washington to redouble Mideast peacemeaking efforts.
Tzipi Livni will meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials during her visit, which will focus on the repercussions of a report [...]
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07 Dec
Mirth 6:06 pm (Israel)
JERUSALEM
Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candour on the Iraq war.
Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to hear Gates mention with equal frankness what U.S. administrations have long avoided saying in public — that the Jewish state has the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal.
To be [...]
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07 Dec
Mirth 2:28 pm (Political Video)
07 Dec
Mirth 1:29 pm (Education, Israel/Palestine)
Green Line in school maps angers right-wingers
Education Minister Yuli Tamir decided on Tuesday that new geography textbooks ordered by the Education Ministry will include the so-called Green Line in their representations of the map of Israel, triggering condemnation from right-wing MKs.
“This is for the purposes of education and demonstration and discussion,” Tamir told The [...]
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