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If you thought the United States had a secure, state-of-the-art ballistic missile defense shield deployed around Fort Greely, Alaska, that could have shot down any North Korean ICBM during the crisis last July, think again.
Pyongyang’s attempt to test fire an ambitious Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile failed and the ambitious giant rocket exploded not long after take-off. But at least it got off the ground. The much-vaunted Ground-based Midcourse Interceptors, or GBIs, around (…)

Rosie O’Donnell
Michael D. Morrissey
April 1, 2007
Can be sung to the tune of "Eileen O’Grady,"and redistributed for non-profit purposes. Orig. place of publication is (see for tune) http://members.tripod.com/mdmorrissey/rosie.htm.
Rosie O’Donnell and Daniel O’Connell
We’ll follow you into the fray
Two heroes of darin’, one fightin’ for Erin
And one for Americay
O’Reilly and Hanitty, where is their sanity
Flag-wavin’ is all they can do
Perfidious traitors and (…)

How I know Blair faked Iran map
Craig Murray, Former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Head of the Foreign Office’s Maritime Section – via The Daily Mail March 31, 2007
Like most senior Royal Navy officers, Commodore Nick Lambert has great reserves of professional expertise and common sense. The Coalition task force commander was aboard HMS Cornwall when 15 Royal Navy personnel serving on the frigate were seized at gunpoint by Iranian forces on March 23.
The Navy states the 14 men and one (…)

Pet-food recall: What you need to know
Update 3/31 (8:45 p.m. PT):
Nearly than 2,800 pets have been reported as deceased to our PetConnection database.
New to the site?
Click for an overview of the situation.
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What you can do
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Get the official recall lists (Note: Not all lists of recalled foods are yet on the FDA site; keep checking)
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Find updated unoffical recall lists from Pet Food Tracker
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Report to the FDA
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Add your pet to the PetConnection.com (…)

Published on Saturday, March 31, 2007 by CommonDreams.org by Felicity Arbuthnot
An Open Letter to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, M.P.
Dear Mr Brown,
Standing in Afghanistan, you called the Iranian holding of fifteen British sailors who it is likely strayed in to Iranian waters: ‘Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable.’ Breathtaking.Compared to the behavior of the UK and US troops, their treatment in Iran is seemingly a health spa.
‘Cruel, callous, inhumane and (…)

This is my contribution to Peace. My Peace. And perhaps by my peace the world’s peace.
Perhaps I’m just getting older. Maybe more tired. Maybe just more tired of it all.
All of the wars, all of the fighting, all of the rumors of wars, all of the rumors of fighting.
All of the petty squabbles, all of the egos, all of the silliness, all of the savagry.
Many want to change the world. Many don’t care. Many don’t know what they want. Many don’t know where to start or where to end.
As (…)

by Stephen Lendman
Emma Lazarus’ memorable words on Lady Liberty’s pedestal once had meaning as a new nation grew. No longer in a country hostile to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses, the wretched refuse, the homeless and many others not making the grade in a white supremacist Judeo-Christian state worshiping wealth and privilege. No welcome sign is out for the unwanted poor and desperate. At best, they’re ignored to subsist on their own. At worst, they’re scorned and abused, (…)

by Wayne Besen
The beginning of each college semester at the University of Florida was always exciting. It brought fresh faces from new places and renewed hope for the possibility of young love. Inevitably, there would be one guy in class that instantaneously caused my eyes to pop out and my head to swivel like a bobble head doll.
What I always found interesting, however, was that the person who initially turned my head, often turned me off by the end of the year. Meanwhile, there would (…)

Paris (VNA) – Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin have garnered further support at the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Mar. 27.
Speaking at the meeting, André Bouny, Chairman of the international committee in support for the Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and the New York trial (CIS), recalled the period between 1961 and 1971 when the US military sprayed 84 million tonnes of defoliant over Viet Nam , and called upon the international (…)

"You can’t handle the truth!".....Jack Nicholson, from ’A Few Good Men"
Last week, in a TV interview, Senator Joe Lieberman (Republicrat),told of the new Iraq, and that General Abbazabba related how he regularly ventured out into the heart of Baghdad in an "UNarmored" Humvee. What follows is an eyewitness account from a FOX TV "embedded journalist", who recently accompanied General Abbazabba.
As we leave the magnificent Green Zone and head South on Al Abib Ave, the first sight meeting (…)