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Iran vs U.S.A. in pics

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:06 GMT

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November 21 1979, Tehran, Iran: Hundreds of thousands of women demonstrate against the US. They shout for the Shah in return for the hostages who are in their 19th day of captivity

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An American hostage

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Jimmy Carter prepares to address the American people

following the failed mission to rescue the Iran hostages

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group of hostages give the victory sign as they emerge from an Algerian aircraft

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Reagan admits in a television address that he and his staff traded arms for hostages with Iran and funnelled profits to the Nicaraguan Contra armies

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a message to viewers about Reagan's role in the events leading to the Iran-Contra hearings

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July 1 1988, Tehran, Iran: Iranian mourners attend an anti-US demonstration after the USS Vincennes accidentally shot down an Iranian Airbus plane

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hristianne Amanpour interviews president Mohammad Khatami.

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US decision to lift a ban on imports of Iranian luxury goods

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'axis of evil'

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child is treated by doctors at the American field hospital

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anti-US slogans

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former US embassy

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Crocker

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This Day in History-July 21 "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo"

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:44:43 GMT

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1976

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Since 1983, on the Thursday closest to July 21

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Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

an association of Argentine mothers whose children "disappeared" during the Dirty War, the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

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are joined by others, and walk the 7 km (4.3 miles) from Calilegua to San Martin, demanding answers about their loved ones

supported by Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission

A military junta under

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Jorge Rafael Videla

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Pinochet y Videla

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he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents

their families, at secret concentration camps. The accusations also included the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres

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Dirty War

state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983

30,000

"disappeared

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24 hours in pictures (16 pics) June 03

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:07:07 GMT

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Plattling, Germany

1,000 tons of paper and wood pellets were stocked in the building which was completely destroyed

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China: People shield their faces from dust

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South Africa: Refugees from xenophobic violence sit on a bus

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Tibetan activists shout slogans from the back of a police vehicle

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Amy Dockstader, nine, hugs her mother, Nancy, after the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were reunited

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Buddha lies among the ruins of the destroyed Erwang Temple

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USA

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One of the 2,400 cottages provided by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency

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survivor of the earthquake calls out to a friend

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Germany: Lightning passes a church

Two women drowned

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USA

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UK: Performers from the Suzhou Kunqu opera company of Jiangsu province

at Sadler's Wells Theatre

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Pakistan: A fruit vendor sells watermelons from his roadside cart.

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woman passes a bronze sculpture by Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas

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India: A fisherman works in a traditional fishbreeding pond

west Bengal has 37%

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America the Wet Beauty - pics #1

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:05:24 GMT

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Niagara Falls at Night

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Nojoqui Falls, Santa Barbara County, California.

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Paran Creek, North Bennington, Vermont

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Niagara Falls

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Middle North Falls, Silver Falls, Oregon.

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Letchworth State Park, New Yor

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Last Light, Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

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Texas Judge Supports Gang RAPE of KBR US employee: "a reality in today's workplace."

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:08:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: MUST LISTEN VIDEO. Where's the coverage in the USA???

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(ABC

Sex Assault Suit Vs. Halliburton Killed

Alleged Sexual Assault Victim's Case Forced Into Secretive Arbitration

A mother of five who says she was sexually harassed and assaulted while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq is headed for a secretive arbitration process rather than being able to present her case in open court

A judge in Texas has ruled that Tracy Barker's case will be heard in arbitration, according to the terms of her initial employment contract

Barker's attorneys had argued that Halliburton/KBR had created a "boys will be boys" atmosphere at their camps and that sort of condition is not the type of dispute that she could have expected to be within the scope of an arbitration provision

"Sadly," wrote Judge Miller, "sexual harassment, up to and including sexual assault, is a reality in today's workplace."

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This Day in History - July 22

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:33 GMT

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July

July 22, 1756

The "The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures." was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers

1877

A general strike, part of the railroad strike that had paralyzed the country, was called in St. Louis, where workers briefly seized control of the city

1966

Federal Judge Claude Clayton issued a sweeping injunction ordering the police of Grenada, Mississippi, to stop interfering with lawful protest, ordering them instead to protect demonstrations, and requiring certain rules to be set down for the conduct of marches

followed weeks of arrests and beating of demonstrators who had been attempting to integrate all the businesses and other institutions

1987

Ronald Reagan signed into law the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (named for a member of Congress from Connecticut) which provided emergency relief provisions for shelter, food, mobile health care, and transitional housing for homeless Americans

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24 hours in pictures - July 17th

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:22:18 GMT

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Nampa, Idaho: 'Mutton Buster' Gracie Schmitt is crushed when the sheep she was riding flipped on her back during the Snake River Stampede

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Hefei, China: Children attend a dance class during their summer holidays

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Haiti

People bathe in the waterfall as they believe it cleanses their souls

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Eritrea: A welder uses a homemade cover

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USA: Dancer Philippe Priasso with Compagnie Beau Geste hangs from a digger as part of Dance Out, a free outdoor dance festival

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Saut D'Eau, Haiti: Believers attend an annual voodoo festival

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Beijing, China: Men wearing suits with lights wait to take part in rehearsals of the Olympic Games opening ceremony

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burning tyres outside the Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE)

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China

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Dhaka, Bangladesh: People walk on a makeshift bridge built by joining boats, to cross a canal covered by water hyacinths

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Beijing, China: Workers clean the exterior of the National Aquatics Centre

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ingapore: A dancer from Italian company Studio Festi performs in the air

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Rotterdam,

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Argentina: Farmers celebrate

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This Day in History - July 16th

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:13:37 GMT

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16, 1099

The Sacking of Jerusalem

Soldiers from all over Catholic Europe, known as Crusaders, overtook the defenses of Jerusalem and slaughtered both the Jewish and Muslim populations

Urban II initiated the effort to wrest the Holy Land from the hands of the “Infidel” (the city had been under Islamic rule for 460 years)

1877

A contemporary artist’s rendering of the clash in Baltimore between workers
and the Maryland Sixth Regiment during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
The governor had called out the troops on behalf of the railroad company.

1945

U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project succeeded as its first hand-made experimental atomic bomb, known as the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated at the top of a 30m

1979

largest release of radioactive material in the U.S. occurred in the Navajo Nation

1979

Saddam Hussein became president of the Iraqi republic

1983

10,000 peace activists formed a human chain linking the two superpowers’ embassies
in London

Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

“Bye, Bye, Blackbird”

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Palestine: The State History Forgot

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:37:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is it a joke of history that before there was the states of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria, etc there was Palestine? Now they all exist and Palestine doesn't yet.

You will read that there never was a Palestine from a certain quarter and how can you miss what you never had. How you know they are lying! They'll say that as they are all Arabs that there's enough room for them all. It's like saying that the Scots Welsh and Irish are all Celts and one state would do them all! Yes, there was a time when such thinking was regarded as valid. If we had the Age of Imperialism back then the Brits might validly have a claim on the USA and most of the rest of the world.

In the present imperialism, if the existent holder of the gunboat diplomacy role, the USA, decided to sort out Palestine's present difficulties it could in a breath. Hopefully in a more honourable fashion that the last gunboat holder did.

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Mandate of Palestine

was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War when the Ottoman Empire was split up by the Treaty of Sèvres.

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The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. In September 1922 Britain organized the territory east of the Jordan river, "Transjordan," as an autonomous state.

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At the 1920 San Remo conference of the Allied Supreme Council, at which the Mandates were granted, the precise boundaries of all territories, including that of the British Mandate of Palestine, were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers"^[1] and were not completely finalized until four years later

However, it was clear that the boundary of Britain's mandate for Palestine was to extend eastward to the western boundary of its mandate for Mesopotamia.

In 1921, following Churchill's negotiations with Emir Abdullah, Transjordan (later Jordan) was accepted into the Mandate

separated from the area on which a Jewish National Home could be establish

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24 hours in pictures - June 26

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:41:27 GMT

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Grooms take part in a mass wedding organised by the Saudi government at the King Fahd cultural centre

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Qingdao, China: A man walks through blue-green algae at a beach in the host city for sailing events at the 2008 Olympic Games. The government called upon locals to help with a clean up operation ahead of the games

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Switzerland

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Chile: A soldier looks at a cloud of ash from the Chaiten volcano

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New York, USA: Local children watch the Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, perform an aerial display

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Panama: A police officer stands guard over packages containing cocaine

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Muslim piligrims touch the Kabaa

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San Fernando, Philippines: A priest conducts Mass on a beach for relatives of victims of Princess of the Stars ferry tragedy. The hull of the stricken vessel can be seen in the background

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Zimbabweans and South Africans hold a candlelit vigil

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Afghanistan: Drug users smoke heroin

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Israel

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Iraq: A recently graduated policewoman fires a handgun

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India: A flower seller

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