Topic: POLITIK - on January 31, 2007 at 3:57:00 PM CET
Interior shots of Putin's jet
Lots of photos of Putin's godawfully glitzy, blinged-out jet.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 31, 2007 at 2:56:00 PM CET
Cuban TV shows Castro 'stronger'
Cuban state television has aired the first images of Fidel Castro in three months, showing him frail but stronger as he met the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 23, 2007 at 4:08:00 PM CET
Mind Games
New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 20, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
Bush quotes most notable of 2006 expert says
President Bush scored high Thursday on a list he may not be keen to top.
Three of Bush's quotes, led by his "I'm the Decider" remark in April, head 2006's most notable quotations compiled by Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations.
Bush's comment that "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense" is followed by his State of the Union address quote that "America is addicted to oil" and by his comment on Hurricane Katrina to high school students in New Orleans: "I take full responsibility for the federal government's response."
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 18, 2007 at 1:15:00 PM CET
N.Y. City parking fines for diplomats reach nearly US$18 million
Diplomats in New York City still have not paid a nearly US$18 million tab for parking tickets despite a government crackdown four years ago and a fresh appeal from the new UN secretary general to obey local laws.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 18, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Animal party bans mouse poison in parliament
The Dutch Party for Animals, which entered parliament for the first time last November, has forbidden the laying of poison to deal with a mouse infestation in its offices.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 12, 2006 at 5:35:00 PM CET
Bush - “I’ll be dead when they get it right.”
In 72 hours last week, a bipartisan commission harshly repudiated Bush's Iraq policy. Incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told senators the U.S. isn't winning the war. Then a British journalist snarkily asked at a White House press conference if Bush weren't "in denial" about Iraq.
For good measure, a new poll found only 27% of Americans back his Iraq policy, a new low. And a moderate GOP senator termed the policy "absurd" and possibly criminal.
"He'll be fine but he can't be doing very good," said a well-placed Bush source who talks with the President often. "It's been a terrible year, and it keeps getting worse."
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 28, 2006 at 4:14:00 PM CET
Embassy denies asking Bush twins to leave Argentina
The U.S. Embassy in Argentina rejected reports that it had told President George W. Bush's twin daughters to leave the country after a widely publicized purse-snatching incident.
ABC News reported on its Web site on Monday that embassy officials had "strongly suggested" that the twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their visit to Buenos Aires due to security concerns.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 26, 2006 at 3:39:00 PM CET
Italy's richest man collapses
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been taken ill during a speech to supporters in northern Italy.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 26, 2006 at 10:41:00 AM CET
New Hitler in Minsk - 'Immoral' Parents Will Lose Children
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, berated in the West for his authoritarian methods, has ordered that children be taken from families deemed "immoral" and sent to orphanages.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 24, 2006 at 2:00:00 PM CET
Priceless
Commander in Chief of our Nations Defense Forces Using Binoculars without the Lens Cap Removed.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 15, 2006 at 6:37:00 PM CET
Queen's speech omits violent sex
The Queen delivered a speech designed to appease the sado masochistic lobby today with a raft of proposals to give people in uniforms more power to punish those boys and girls who get caught doing something naughty.
But she disappointed the naughtiest of all, who had been waiting on the edges of their seats for her to mention plans to ban extreme porn made at home by so many people who like a little pain and perversion. She didn't even say, sex, let alone, bestiality.
All we heard was a long list of ways in which the government wanted to put everyone else into bondage.
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