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After Washington shut down exports of military hardware to Pakistan in 1985, none other than Harvard-educated Benazir Bhutto concluded a missile deal with the North. Pakistan’s black-marketing lead scientist, AQ Khan, visited North Korea 13 times over the next seven years. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has denied he knew anything about this, but according to former senior Pakistani officials those visits occurred with the knowledge and consent of the military leadership. Pakistan agreed to provide second-rate P1 centrifuge technology to North Korea in return for missiles, enabling Pakistan to extend the reach of its nuclear weapon deep inside India, and North Korean scientists received nuclear briefings at KRL (Khan Research Laboratory), Pakistan’s main nuclear facility.

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I’ve been accepted into the UC San Diego School of Medicine. So it looks like I am going to be a doctor after all. So I guess it’s all been worth it, even the second semester of Organic Chemistry and the fiendish annoyingness of retro-synthesis. Now I have to learn to say “I concur” with the best of them.

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What would it mean for a group of people to be “intelligent”? For instance, if a single superhuman intelligence had access to all the knowledge and resources of a company like IBM or General Motors, what would it do? What strategies would it pursue? How quickly could it respond to changes in the marketplace? How productively could it use factories and money? How profitable would it be?

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A coroner has recorded a verdict of unlawful killing on ITN reporter Terry Lloyd, who was shot dead by US forces in southern Iraq in March 2003. An inquest heard Mr Lloyd was killed by a US bullet near Basra. His interpreter died and his cameraman is missing.

Major Kay Roberts, of the Royal Military Police, told the inquest 15 minutes of footage appeared to be missing from a film of the incident which was supplied by the US military. [National Union of Journalists' broadcasting organiser Paul] McLaughlin said the US authorities had not only failed to co-operate with the inquest but had actually obstructed it.

Lloyd who was driving with fellow ITN reporters from Kuwait toward Basra, Iraq was shot in the back by Iraqi troops who overtook his car, then died after U.S. fire hit a civilian minivan being used as an ambulance and struck him in the head. “Terry Lloyd died following a gunshot wound to the head. The evidence this bullet was fired by the Americans is overwhelming,” [Deputy Coroner Andrew] Walker said. “There is no doubt that the minibus presented no threat to the American forces. There is no doubt it was an unlawful act of fire” … a civilian drove up in a minivan, pulled a U-turn and picked up four wounded Iraqi soldiers, then saw Lloyd with a press card around his neck and helped him into the van. Lloyd was shot in the head as the van drove off toward a hospital.

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MEMRI:

On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims.

Selective Memri:

The Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), based in Washington but with recently-opened offices in London, Berlin and Jerusalem … is subsidised by US taxpayers because as an “independent, non-partisan, non-profit” organisation, it has tax-deductible status under American law … the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel … The co-founder and president of Memri … is an Israeli called Yigal Carmon [who] spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin … three [MEMRI staff] are described as having worked for Israeli intelligence … [others] served in the Israeli army’s Northern Command Ordnance Corps, one has an academic background, and the sixth is a former stand-up comedian.

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We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654,965 (392,979 – 942,636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 (426,369 – 793,663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire … Recent estimates are that 200,000 people have died in Darfur over the past 31 months … Although such death rates might be common in times of war, the combination of a long duration and tens of millions of people affected has made [Iraq] the deadliest international conflict of the 21st century.

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Watching Marines arrive at my detention facility and unload a truck load of flex-cuffed midgets. 26 to be exact. We had put the word out earlier in the day to the Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels.

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The Iraq war could be heading to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Baghdad that already has turned dramatically bloodier for American soldiers and carries enormous stakes for the country’s future. At least 13 American soldiers have been killed around Baghdad since Monday – the highest four-day U.S. toll in the capital since the 2003 invasion.

The disclosure of heavy American losses came on another day of horrific violence for Iraqis, with at least 59 people killed in separate incidents across the country, Iraqi police said. The single deadliest attack took place at 11 a.m. in Ramadi, a Sunni insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, when a suicide bomber blew up his car at an Iraqi army base, killing at least 19 people and wounding 10 … an entire Iraqi police brigade — comprising an estimated 800 to 1,200 officers — had been pulled out of service and placed under investigation for alleged complicity with death squads.

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U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, one of Washington’s leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn’t like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers [Foley singled] out Lake Como nudist resort in Land O’Lakes, which hosted a bare-skinned youth camp that ended last week. Foley said the camp, sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, appears to exploit children to make money [he] most recently tackled child erotica on the Internet. He said he was shocked by the newspaper article about the naked camps that have been going on in his home state since 1993. Foley suggested the camps force kids to fixate on nudity during their impressionable, formative years. Normal teen sexual urges can become inflamed by the nakedness around them, he said.

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So I noticed that there is currently only a single entry for sissy babyfur on Google. So now there are two. Sissy babyfurs are, apparently, people who combine the fetishes of paraphilic infantilism (adult babies), paraphilic zoomorphia (furries), and transvestitism (sissies).

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