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US back in nuclear bomb-making business
April 24 2003

The United States says it has regained the capability to make nuclear weapons for the first time in 14 years and has resumed production of plutonium parts for bombs.
The Energy Department’s announcement on Tuesday marks a symbolic and operational milestone in rebuilding America’s nuclear weapons complex, which began a long retrenchment in the late 1980s as the Cold War ended and the toll of environmental damage from bomb production became known.

Under a Bush Administration plan, the Energy Department will begin limited production of plutonium parts for the country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons and begin laying plans for a new factory that could produce parts for hundreds of weapons a year.
The Energy Department’s previous Rocky Flats site in Colorado was shut down after serious violations of environmental laws and the FBI raided the plant.

Los Angeles Times

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N. Korea admits it has nuclear weapons
In talks with the U.S., North Korea has admitted having nuclear weapons, sources close to the negotiations said. News of the North Korean claim came as a summit meeting between the United States, Pyongyang and China wound down in Beijing today.

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The new arms race begins. One more thing to fight against in this New World Disorder.

Despite the controversy — or perhaps because of it — the Chicks remain one of the top draws in all of pop music.

Though the group’s song “Travelin’ Soldier,” which was No. 1 on Billboard’s country charts around the time Maines made the remark, fell off the charts, sales of the group’s CD, “Home,” picked up after an initial dip.

The album has been out since late summer, selling more than 6 million copies. It hit No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart and has spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s country album chart.

Most of the shows on the tour already had sold out before Maines’ comments. The band’s agent, Rob Light, was unavailable for comment Wednesday but told Billboard this week that of the 59 shows, only six have seats left and those are all 85 percent to 90 percent sold.

“The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves,” wrote Springsteen — who has been touring overseas. “For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about — namely freedom.”
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I’ve never been a big fan of either’s music, but I must say I respect both the Dixie Chicks and Bruce Springsteen for taking a stand and not being afraid to stand by their words.

Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of ground forces in Iraq, plans to issue a proclamation reminding Iraqi politicians that coalition forces are the sole authority in the country until a new government is put in place

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Now Bush and Co. are worried their occupation might not work out the way they planned. It seems most Iraqis are not buying the lies of the people who bombed them and were responsible for their lack of food for so long. They want to be free from foreign rulers as soon as possible, and that is certainly their right!

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) — The first criminal charge for bringing objects allegedly looted from Baghdad into the United States has been filed against a television network employee whom authorities said tried to smuggle paintings taken from one of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palaces.

Meanwhile in Baghdad, four U.S. soldiers are being held on allegations of stealing several hundred thousand dollars of illicit cash from the millions found by U.S. forces in the Baghdad bungalows of senior members of Saddam’s regime, Pentagon sources told CNN Wednesday.

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Gotta love occupation!

The true war is on between Bush’s American Empire, New World Order, Globalization and uncontrolled Capitalism and the forces of Peace, Compassion, Truth, Global Responsibility and True World Order (where all people have the basics of life, where people rule with compassion and not big business with wealth). The enemy has their forces ready, and it’s time for the world to gather with our own. It’s time to take back media, take back government, and heal a world being scarred by greed.