Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
UK forces taught torture methods
The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources.
The techniques devised in the system, called R2I - resistance to interrogation - match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2004 at 4:45:00 PM CEST
Wüstenschiffe im Seewinkel
Manche im Seewinkel trauen wohl in diesen Tagen ihren Augen nicht. Doch sie sehen schon richtig: Eine Kamelkarawane ist unterwegs nach Halbturn - zur Ausstellung "Jenseits der Seidenstraße".
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:40:00 PM CEST
#19 U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq
President Richard Nixon removed U.S. currency from the gold standard in 1971. Since then, the world's supply of oil has been traded in U.S. fiat dollars, making the dollar the dominant world reserve currency. Countries must provide the United States with goods and services for dollars — which the United States can freely print. To purchase energy and pay off any IMF debts, countries must hold vast dollar reserves. The world is attached to a currency that one country can produce at will. This means that — in addition to controlling world trade – the United States is importing substantial quantities of goods and services for very low relative costs.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:39:00 PM CEST
U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
Everyone is familiar with security patrol dogs. You may even know that because of their exceptionally keen sense of smell, dogs like beagles are also used to detect drugs and bombs, or land mines. But a dog would not be effective in finding a sea mine.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
The Wars of Religion
The basic intolerance of the Christian religion is revealed not only in persecutions of heretics, dissenters and witches. Religious wars was another popular outlet for this intolerance. Following the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Europe was the stage for many religious wars, most of them between Catholics and Protestants.
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Topic: W A R - on May 9, 2004 at 3:28:00 PM CEST
On the Beaches
As the 60th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Euan Ferguson visits the Normandy beaches where the course of the war turned. It was a day marked by huge loss of life and a high-risk strategy that, had it failed, would have altered our world irrevocably.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 9, 2004 at 10:11:00 AM CEST
Coca-Cola Creates Custom Phone for Promo
The FCC yesterday approved an entirely new type of cellular device designed exclusively for a Coca-Cola promotion to take place this summer. The device, which is shaped like a soda can, includes a specialized GSM cellular phone and a GPS location-tracking device.
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