During a Wednesday morning (July 30th) press conference, President Bush was asked a question about jobs going overseas as a result of technological innovation. His response was:
“I fully understand what you’re saying. In other words, as technology races through the economy, a lot of times worker skills don’t keep up with technological change.”…{{link http://capwiz.com/ieeeusa/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=3008896/ [...]

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The war in Iraq failed to reduce security threats against Britain and may have harmed efforts to tackle the al-Qaida terror network, a parliamentary committee said Thursday.
In a report, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said the war may have helped the terror group led by Osama bin Laden to recruit new members.
“Our witnesses [...]

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Perhaps he should silence himself!!!
Conservative ethicist Bill Bennett emerged from a self imposed two month silence on Tuesday to announce that he wasn’t going to let inaccurate stories about his gambling habits planted by “people who were trying to take me out” drive him from public life.
“I’m back and I will be more outspoken than [...]

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ISTANBUL - Arab tourists are flocking to Turkey in a trend some see as a show of appreciation for the country

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Plans are stalled for a Medicare prescription drug benefit, with the two houses trying to compromise over the details.
When members of Congress headed off to Washington, D.C., last January, there was little doubt that a Medicare prescription drug benefit would be passed. It was a top priority for legislators from both parties.
Now, plans are [...]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence (news - web sites) suffered a sharp and unexpected fall in July as worries over rising unemployment took a heavy toll, the Conference Board (news - web sites) reported on Tuesday.
The Conference Board’s monthly consumer confidence index slid to 76.6 in July from 83.5 in June, the [...]

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By Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com
Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police
wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month.
Representatives of the FBI’s Electronic Surveillance Technology Section in Chantilly, Va., have met at
least twice in the past three weeks with senior [...]

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ONLY FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION– THE STUPIDITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS!!!
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Will the king of Jordan be overthrown? Will Yasser Arafat be assassinated? Will North Korea launch a nuclear attack? You can bet on it.
The Pentagon has set up a Web site for the Policy Analysis Market, which is intended for a group of scholars and analysts [...]

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Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: “If you want your family released, turn yourself in.” Such [...]

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Sept. 11, 2001, hastened a significant shift in our nation’s self-understanding. It became commonplace to refer to an “American empire” and to the United States as “the world’s only superpower.”
Instead of those formulations, try to conceive of ones like “superpower democracy” or “imperial democracy,” and they seem not only contradictory but opposed to basic assumptions [...]

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Everything’s going to be all right. No, not Bob Marley, but every policymaker from Alan Greenspan to Wim Duisenberg. The A side of 2003 was a bit grim,
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but turn the record over and the second half will be better. The controls are set to go, the policy framework is solid, better [...]

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BBC bosses blocked a compromise which might have prevented the suicide of David Kelly, the weapons expert confirmed by the corporation yesterday as its source for the story of the “sexed-up” dossier.
The Guardian can reveal that the BBC chairman, Gavyn Davies, and the director general, Greg Dyke, were made an offer in the days [...]

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By: William Rivers Pitt
The scandal axiom in Washington states that it is not the crime that destroys you, but the cover-up. Today in Washington you can hear terms like

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US warnings shift view on Guantanamo Bay prisoners
Nicholas Watt in Seoul and Julian Borger in Washington
Monday July 21, 2003
The Guardian
Tony Blair indicated yesterday that two of the British men being detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will still stand trial before a US military court because national security would be at risk if [...]

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