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About a year ago I was given some information about two special ops teams being deployed to Iraq near the Iranian border. These teams were reported to me as specialists in high level assassinations though that was not stated mission. Evidently, we have some confirmation that these teams may have been involved in […]

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From Rawstory

These inside revelations may provide fodder for prosecution of George W Bush even after he leaves office. What we can hope is that McClellan’s claim that he hopes Washington, DC can be changed from a power grabbing entity to a serious governing body, can come true.

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From USA Today
Twice as many veterans of the Iraq war are running for Congress than in 2006, and this year Republican candidates outnumber Democrats.
Although many of the veteran candidates still face primaries and some are long shots, the outcome in November could well increase the number of combat veterans serving in Congress, a group that […]

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Iran is becoming very ‘neighborly’. Recently we saw how Iran has brokered cease fires in Iraq and now Iran is connecting its electrical grid with Turkey’s
In a move certain to raise hackles in Washington, Iran and Turkey have agreed to connect their electrical power grids. According to an amendment to the Electricity Market […]

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From TPM

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The signs have been evident for more than a year, copper and magnets, both necessary to the production of electricity are becoming more and more sought after and more and more valuable.
Mr. Danne and thousands of explorers like him are the bedrock of a global mining industry struggling to keep up with booming demand. As […]

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Basra is critical to the US strategy of controlling Iraq’s oilfields but once again, it seems, the US is not properly equipped for the task.
Out of the dramatic developments of the past week, several questions arise, the principal being that the Bush administration’s triumphalism over the so-called Iraq “surge” strategy has become irredeemably farcical, and, […]

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In 1992 electricity began to be viewed less as an essential service and more as a commodity when deregulation was enacted with the passage of the Energy Policy Act. Previously, public and investor owned utilities controlled power generation, transmission and distribution within a set region. The Energy Policy Act, however, allowed for the […]

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The mass exodus of medical personnel from Iraq has left the country particularly vulnerable to health issues like this infection.
“This disease is a severe form of malarial infection caused by the parasite plasmodium falciparum, which is considered the worst type of malarial infection,” Dr. Ali Hakki from Fallujah told IPS. “It is one of the […]

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One of our presidential candidates, whose name I shall not mention because it triggers google ads featuring him, asserts that the transcendent issue of our time is radical Islamic extremism. Somewhere in a cave connected to a dialysis machine is a tall thin Arab wringing his hands and avowing that the transcendent issue of […]

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The disconnect between Bush and the reality of life on the ground for our military is so wide and so deep….
“I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this […]

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