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News: International |
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U.S. botched job at the Bay of Pigs |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: Granma
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THE Bay of Pigs invasion began in mid-1960, when the brainiest cloak-and-dagger men joined their successful – up until then – science for overthrowing unfriendly governments and decided that Fidel Castro would never be a welcome person.
A string of blunders, slip-ups and bad moves then began. They organized a force of more than 5,000 men, 1,325 of whom were selected by the CIA for their good conduct during nine months of training in Guatemala and Nicaragua, in the shadows of Somoza and IdÃgoras. Like in all self-respecting wars, an army was needed, and nobody better than Manuel Artime to head it up. Definitely, "Manolito" was the "golden boy" for the invincible CIA. |
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News: Media |
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The Web: WTO's gambling deadline missed |
Submitted by: UPI / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: UPI
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CHICAGO, April 19 (UPI) -- A deadline imposed by The World Trade Organization for the Bush administration to clarify its stance on online gambling passed earlier this month, without a public response from the government, gaming experts are telling United Press International's The Web column. "We haven't seen anything from them yet," Peter Marcus, a spokesman for online gaming company, Intercasino, told The Web in an interview from London Tuesday. "We're not really expecting anything either. This is an election year in the U.S. The world has to appreciate it."
The April 3 deadline came from a case the WTO trade court decided against the United States and in favor of the tiny Island of Antigua. Last April the WTO, based in Geneva, ruled that the U.S. government was violating international trade agreements by prohibiting U.S. banks and Internet service providers from dealing with offshore, cyber-gambling casinos. By Gene Koprowski |
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News: Politics |
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Scott McClellan Resigns in White House Shake-Up |
Submitted by: yo / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: truthout.org
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[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
The Associated Press
Wednesday 19 April 2006
Washington - White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday he is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush's administration that has already yielded a new chief of staff and could lead to a change in the Cabinet.
Appearing with Bush on the White House South Lawn just before the president boarded a helicopter at the start a trip to Alabama, McClellan, who has parried especially fiercefully with reporters on Iraq and on intelligence issues, told Bush: "I have given it my all sir and I have given you my all sir, and I will continue to do so as we transition to a new press secretary."
Bush said McClellan had "a challenging assignment."
"I thought he handled his assignment with class, integrity," the president said. "It's going to be hard to replace Scott, but nevertheless he made the decision and I accepted it. One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days."
In another move in an ongoing shakeup of President Bush's staff, longtime confidant and adviser Karl Rove is giving up oversight of policy development to focus more on politics with the approach of the fall midterm elections, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Just over a year ago, Rove was promoted to deputy chief of staff in charge of most White House policy coordination. That new portfolio came on top of his title as senior adviser and role of chief policy aide to Bush.
But now, the job of deputy chief of staff for policy is being given to Joel Kaplan, now the White House's deputy budget director, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the president had not yet made the announcement.
The move signals a possibly broad effort to rearrange and reinvigorate Bush's staff by new chief of staff Joshua Bolten. Bolten moved into his position last week; Kaplan was his No. 2 person at the Office of Management and Budget. |
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News: Human Rights |
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Few Protections for Migrants to Mexico |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: AP
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TULTITLAN, Mexico (AP) -- Considered felons by the government, these migrants fear detention, rape and robbery. Police and soldiers hunt them down at railroads, bus stations and fleabag hotels. Sometimes they are deported; more often officers simply take their money.
While migrants in the United States have held huge demonstrations in recent weeks, the hundreds of thousands of undocumented Central Americans in Mexico suffer mostly in silence...
"At night, you hear the gunshots, and it's the judiciales (state police) chasing the migrants," she said. "It's not fair to kill these people. It's not fair in the United States and it's not fair here." |
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News: Environment |
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Chernobyl death toll will be much higher, Greenpeace says |
Submitted by: @ / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: CBC
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More than 93,000 people could still die as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident – a figure dramatically higher than previous international estimates, according to a report released Tuesday.
That will be on top of the estimated 200,000 deaths that have already occurred, the Greenpeace report says, calling the continuing fallout from Chernobyl a "general crisis." |
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News: Human Rights |
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Race activists finally pardoned |
Submitted by: @ / 19 Apr 2006
Publisher: BBC
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Alabama has voted to pardon those who protested against race segregation, some 50 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Hundreds of people got arrest records in Alabama during the civil rights struggle galvanized by Ms Parks' act of defiance in Montgomery in 1955.
The "Rosa Parks Act" lets survivors or relatives purge their records of crimes related to opposing racial segregation... |
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News: Politics |
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Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden's "Media Committees" |
Submitted by: brad / 18 Apr 2006
Publisher: The Rush Limbaugh Show
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Yesterday on Rush Limbaugh, embattled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that those who criticize the Iraq war are being manipulated by terrorists, including Zarqawi and bin Laden, through the U.S. media:
There have always been people who have opposed wars...I think we just have to accept it, that people have a right to say what they want to say, and to have an acceptance of that and recognize that the terrorists, Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri, those people have media committees. |
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News: International |
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Insane Mass Killer won't rule out nuclear strike on Iran |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 18 Apr 2006
Publisher: Reuters
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Bush refused on Tuesday to rule out nuclear strikes against Iran if diplomacy fails to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
Iran, which says its nuclear programme is purely peaceful, told world powers it would pursue atomic technology, whatever they decide at a meeting in Moscow later in the day.
Bush said in Washington he would discuss Iran's nuclear activities with China's President Hu Jintao this week and avoided ruling out nuclear retaliation if diplomatic efforts fail. |
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