Times Online
11/3/09
By Oliver August
The British oil giant BP will today take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield in the first important energy deal since the 2003 invasion. The move has created uproar among local politicians invoking resentful memories of their nation’s colonial past.
The agreement to develop the Rumaila field, near the southern city of...
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Reason
Blacklisted News
11/2/09
A WorldNetDaily story reports that the bill sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) that would call for an audit of the Federal Reserve has been “gutted” in a congressional committee. The legislation, H.R. 1207, would also close loopholes that prevent transparency of Fed actions. It currently has over 300 co-sponsors in the House.
In...
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Campaign for Liberty
10/31/09
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Press TV
11/3/09
North Korea has announced progress in weaponizing plutonium following the United States’ refusal to acknowledge Pyongyang’s interest in direct nuclear negotiations.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Tuesday said the country had ’successfully completed reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods by the end of August’.
“Noticeable successes have been made in turning the extracted...
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Vows US Will Never Allow Changes to Proposal
Anti-War.com
11/2/09
By Jason Ditz
Though Iran has expressed interest in a draft proposal for third party uranium enrichment, they have also sought additional talks and a handful of clarifications before finalizing the pact. The US appears to be ruling out any additional talks however.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is...
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Prison Planet
11/2/09
By Paul Joseph Watson
The U.S. government has appointed what the media is ludicrously billing as an “independent” group of health advisors whose job it will be to whitewash adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and “explain” them to the public as mere coincidence.
Authorities have been busier honing their propaganda about the H1N1...
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Lawyer: Ruling places executive officials ‘above the law’
Raw Story
11/2/09
A Canadian citizen who was wrongly identified as a terrorist suspect and reportedly tortured in a Syrian prison for nearly a year after US authorities sent him there has lost his bid to sue the US government.
In a 7 to 4 decision, judges on the 2nd...
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Al Jazeera
11/3/09
A prominent Russian businessman has been shot dead in the Russian capital of Moscow, police have said.Shabtai von Kalmanovich, who had been convicted in Israel for being a KGB spy, died at the scene, investigators from the state prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
Kalmanovich, who was well known in Russia as a concert promoter and basketball sponsor,...
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Examiner
11/2/09
Tensions have flared between both China and India militaries along their disputed 2,175 mile-long border, with both sides alleging more frequent troop incursions in recent weeks. China is upset when the Indian prime minister recently visit the disputed region. China considers an Indian-occupied piece of it’s own Tibetan Autonomous Region, has added flames to...
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