The Iraq Nuke Showdown continues on both Bill Hemmer’s Fox News Live (12 - 1 p.m.) and on Studio B with Shepard Smith. They made sure to inject the fear by repeating on both programs that the president of Iran had said he would cut off the hand of any aggressor.

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CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs

President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said.

The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin.

“A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we’re getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to … people putting information on there that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times.
Eliot A. Jardines, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for open source, said the amount of unclassified intelligence reaching Mr. Bush and senior policy-makers has increased as a result of the center’s creation in November.

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A week ago a Belgian teenager was murdered in front of thousands of travelers in the central train station. The young man was listening to music on his mp3 player when two men asked him to hand his mp3 player over. He refused and got stabbed five time by one of the two men. No one in the train station dared to try help him! Travelers in Brussels are often threatened by ethnic gangs, but it is the first time someone was actually murdered this way.

The murder was recorded on CCTV and yet the killer and his friend still not been apprehended. Belgian police doesn’t want to release the tapes of the murder which would lead to the identification of the two men. The first claimed the pictures weren’t clear enough. Later they admitted that the real reason is that the two culprits were “ethnics”!

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by Jamie Kelso

Spanish Patriot Pedro Varela
Arrested By Political Thought Police!One of Spain’s leading patriots, Pedro Varela, has been arrested for the “crime” of speaking and writing true historical facts.This great Spanish patriot, Pedro Varela, now joins Germar Rudolf and Ernst Zundel (jailed in Germany), and David Irving (jailed in Austria) as the latest political prisoner jailed for the “crime” of telling the truth as a European in a European country.The second story on the arrest of patriot Pedro Varela is in Periodismo.

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While I was reading the news yesterday, I found an article claiming that unborn babies don’t feel pain till the age of 26 weeks. It didn’t take long for me to realize that this was not about science but about making women who consider abortion feel good about it.

For US based pro-life movement, this is nothing more than propaganda.

“This is a bit more propaganda than science,” said David Christensen, director of congressional affairs for the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.

Specifically, Christensen faults the author for being selective in the research he chose to include and for presenting a “circular argument.”

“He redefines pain such that not even a newborn could experience pain in the way he defines it, and then concludes that fetuses can’t experience pain and that’s absurd,” Christensen said. Full story…

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On www.scotsman.com
On www.mirror.co.uk
On www.14wfie.com
On www.bbc.co.uk
On www.medpagetoday.com
On www.playfuls.com
On www.999today.com

RAF Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, having refused to serve in Iraq in what he correctly believes is an occupation brought about by an illegal war, is predictably given an 8-month prison sentence, fined £20,000 costs and dismissed from his job. Kendall-Smith, now a national hero, follows in the steps of Ben Griffin who resigned from the Army SAS in a similar protest.

Despite all the pompous huffing and puffing from a few military wallahs rolled-out for the occasion the fact remains that, according to the Geneva Convention, Dr Kendall-Smith was perfectly entitled to refuse service. The decision made by the Military was based not on legal premises but on expediency. If Kendall-Smith had not been found guilty what kind of message would that send out to other conscientious objectors, refusekinks and would-be deserters? So the thin red line was held and an honourable man punished.

Kendall-Smith has been criticised for not having resigned his post before being sent to fight in a war he disagreed with. But in the real world it’s the horror of war that opens the eyes of the idealistic rookie, leading to disillusion and a changed perspective. Kendall-Smith admits to having had a somewhat romantic illusion of the RAF in earlier days. Those illusions were dashed in the nightmare of the Iraq invasion and what followed which he put on a par with Nazi behaviour.

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While in most European countries, there are no such things as races because the law says so…

The GenSpec brand of dietary supplements, proclaimed to be the “first genetically specific product line,” aims distinct products at blacks, whites and Hispanics, and at men and women within each group.

GenSpec’s multivitamins for African American and Hispanic males and females, for instance, contain higher amounts of vitamin D because, the Florida-based maker of the products says, the skin of darker-toned people doesn’t make as much vitamin D from the sun as that of lighter-skinned people.

POLITICS-U.S.: RETIRED GENERALS DECLARE WAR AGAINST RUMSFELD

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) - Three years after the fall of Baghdad and the city’s disastrous plunge into chaos, the U.S. military brass appears to be engaged in a new campaign: getting rid of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld.

While the offensive has so far been limited to generals who have recently retired from the service, they claim strong support for their views on the part of active-duty officers.

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For more than 3 years, we have covered national news from several European countries and countries settled by people of European descent. Our aim was to shed new light on the news.

Now the time has come to for a new altermedia site. Unlike the previous sites, this AM site will not be linked to any specific country.

When I watch the French or German news and then see how it repported in US media, or when I watch news about the US in European media; it seems that the reporters do not understand the local content in which the events are taking place. I will try to summaries the news from different European and Euro-American countries. I will try to explain events and also their context.

Altermedia wants to be an open media. We want European patriots all over the world to read us and also to contribute to Altermedia by posting articles.