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If Blair and Bush were sincere about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, they would have invaded North Korea By Robert Fisk

Edit Information Clearing House 08 Jul 2016
“I will be with you, whatever.” Sure, we understand the political importance of this tosh ... I will be with you – whatever the British people think ... “I will be with you, whatever.” It’s the “whatever” bit that gives the game away, of course; a kind of tossed-out line, the midget’s version of “even unto the end”, an “aw-shucks come-hell-or-high-water, you can rely on me”. ....

Self-Awareness and the Apocalypse

Edit CounterPunch 08 Jul 2016
Many human supremacists love to talk about the “mirror test” of self-awareness, in which you put a mirror in front of some nonhuman to see if the nonhuman recognizes itself, in which case it is declared to be self-aware (though not as self-aware as we, of course!) ... Sitting in the eternal dark of your cage in some unfathomably huge complex, ......

Music world reacts to shooting of police officers in Dallas

Edit NME 08 Jul 2016
The music world has reacted to the news that several police officers have been shot, with some dead, in Dallas, Texas overnight ... Erykah Badu, meanwhile, added, "May Love & light surround all the families who have lost loved 1s within these past few long days ... goodnight noises everywhere.— Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer) July 8, 2016 May Love & light surround all the families who have lost loved 1s within these past few long days....

Putting up resistance is natural

Edit Jamaica Observer 08 Jul 2016
How often have we heard of businessmen or others being killed while putting up resistance during armed robberies and ever wonder in our hearts, and even aloud, why they chose to resist and did not simply hand over the money or whatever to the criminals? ... in all animals and human beings, manifests in the natural reaction to resist or run from danger....

Facing heat, Zakir Naik posts video condemning ‘all forms of terrorism’

Edit Deccan Chronicle 08 Jul 2016
“The Quran says that if anyone kills any other human being, whether he is a Muslim or non-Muslim, it is as though he has killed the whole of humanity ... he has saved the whole of the nation....

South Africa Land-Price Court Ruling Seen Deterring Investment

Edit Bloomberg 08 Jul 2016
In arriving at the amount to be ... That the judge arrived at an amount other than market value doesn’t in itself indicate a trend because each case would be judged on its own merits ... “Farmers are concerned that they may invest and if they get expropriated for whatever reason, that they will not be able recover what they have invested,” Crosby said....

Terrorists don’t need large numbers to terrorize

Edit Toronto Sun 08 Jul 2016
The documentary tried to be fair to American Muslims in understanding the causes of Islamist rage ... Zakaria may have presented this fact in response to the anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican U.S ... I’d argue it may in fact serve as a distraction to the real menace of terrorism ... Quoting the figure of 0.01% may help ......

Dear Abby: At walk-in clinic, she walks out unhappy

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 08 Jul 2016
A lot of health insurance companies offer a 24-hour service to call for a referral to a physician in whatever locale you happen to be ... (“Partner” may be appropriate, but in my opinion, it does not accurately describe your status as a married person.). People may be jolted to hear married male couples refer to each other as husband because same-sex marriage is still new in many areas of the country....

What it means when a bomb disposal robot is used as a weapon

Edit Mashable 08 Jul 2016
A bomb disposal robot has, it seems, for the first time disposed of a human being ... Police detonated the explosive device, killed the suspect and may have just changed law enforcement forever ... “This is the first time that I’ve heard of this tactic being used by a police agency,” Endeavor Robotics President Tom Ford told me ... In this case, the robot was on American soil and dealing with, by all accounts, an American citizen....

Dear Abby: Wife questions care received at out-of-town walk-in clinic

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 08 Jul 2016
... it does not accurately describe your status as a married person.) People may be jolted to hear married male couples refer to each other as husband because same-sex marriage is still new in many areas of the country....

Pressure mounts for Tony Blair to be brought to court over Iraq

Edit Topix 08 Jul 2016
Former PM Tony Blair is facing growing calls to be brought to court over his role in taking Britain to war with Iraq following the damning verdict of the Chilcot Report. The former prime minister has been put on notice by families of dead servicemen that he may face legal action over what flowed from his decision to tell US president George Bush "I will be with you whatever" eight months before the 2003 invasion ... ....

With humor and honesty, Carter talks about his cancer

Edit Boston Herald 08 Jul 2016
... Jimmy Carter told the world Thursday that he has cancer in his brain, and feels "perfectly at ease with whatever comes."....

Enda Kenny: Questions being asked about Irish premier's future in office

Edit BBC News 08 Jul 2016
It has not been a good week for the taoiseach (Irish prime minister), Enda Kenny, and questions are now being openly asked by his own TDs about how long he will remain in office ... not be fully enacted until the spring ... Whatever the truth of either claim it seems unlikely Enda Kenny will be taoiseach by the time the Brexit negotiations have concluded....
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