DISPATCH FROM DOWN UNDER

Talks on Iraqi Coalition Government Falter :

Politicians had hoped to convene the new parliament by Sunday. But Ali Faisal, of the Shiite Political Council, said the date was now ``postponed'' and that a new date had not been set.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4837863,00.html

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House GOP wants more defense, less foreign aid :

Republicans want to spend one-point-eight (b) billion dollars more than the president is asking for

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=3023723

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The price of torture:

The techniques employed by the American torturers in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay are among the most insidious and effective.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/02/EDGAMBID291.DTL

http://tinyurl.com/6gw9k

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Russia slams US human rights report :

Russia has rejected criticism on human rights from the United States, attacking the US State Department's annual human rights report as a "politically biased" document that ignored the rest of the world's concerns on alleged US violations of human rights.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1314993.htm

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What Comes After Farce?
Marx explained that history always repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. This just in from the New York Times:

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_735.html

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Canadian Sovereignty, America-Style

US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci has warned Canadians that the United States will have no qualms about launching interceptor missiles into Canadian airspace, claiming that Canada "[gave] up its sovereignty"

http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/article_746.html

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About This Site

“They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”
- Benjamin Franklin

http://www.waronterrorismwatch.ca/

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EPIC Report: FTC's Market Approach Has Failed to Protect Consumer Privacy

In conjunction with the opening of EPIC's first satellite office in San Francisco, California, EPIC has released a policy report arguing that self-regulation has failed to meaningfully address consumer privacy. New technologies and invasive practices from the online world are finding their way into the offline world and have dragged down the practices of ordinary retailers. This paper argues that the FTC and Congress should reevaluate their commitment to market approaches, and empower consumers with privacy law that incorporates Fair Information Practices. (Mar. 3)

http://www.epic.org/

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Italian journalist Guiliana Sgrena,

Wounded by U.S. soldiers after she was freed following month in captivity, returns to Rome.

http://edition.cnn.com

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Australia

Has an American company contracted to process Tax Returns. The three biggest banks recently announced an American company to process all their transaction data.

Now that is a worry

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Shooting not justified: journo

05:42 (AEST) FREED Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena has said the shooting by US troops in Iraq that left her injured and an Italian intelligence officer dead was not justified.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/breakingnews/

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Diggers set off for Baghdad
March 5, 2005 - 5:19PM

The latest group of Australian soldiers bound for Iraq were farewelled as they set off for a six month deployment.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Diggers-set-off-for-Baghdad/2005/03/05/1109958149169.html

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3/4/2005
Senior Democratic staff on Capitol Hill lash out at mainstream press, question Dems

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=150

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SCIENCE FILE
A Hidden Tomb Is Uncovered in Egypt

One of the best-kept mummies ever found, from about 500 BC, was discovered with two others, archeologists say.
From Associated Press

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mummy5mar05,0,4515386,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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Republican media adviser found dead

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050303-110422-6672r.htm

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Satellite images show about 90 UN inspection sites in Iraq stripped or razed

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Satellite imagery shows about 90 sites in Iraq which had been subject to UN inspection and monitoring have been stripped of equipment or razed, the chief weapons inspector said in a report Friday

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/03/04/950668-ap.html

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Shiite spiritual leader calls for unity, quick formation of government

BAGHDAD (AP) - The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority said Saturday that the clergy-led United Iraqi Alliance must finally unite and form a government one month after Iraq's first democratic elections.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/03/05/951300-ap.html

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Iraqi judge who was to have tried Saddam reported killed outside Baghdad home

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/03/01/946718-ap.html

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Al-Qaida in Iraq launches Internet magazine urging Muslims to join jihad

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2005/03/03/949251-ap.html

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