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Marchers call on Bush to step down -- Hundreds of people have shut down westbound Market Street in a protest against the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. Protesters said they want President George Bush out of office and American troops out of Iraq, and many carried signs, wore T-shirts and chanted slogans such as "Impeach Bush" or "Bush get out." /more/
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape in front of the White House on Thursday amid a nationwide day of protest against the president. The 500 demonstrators were among many who gathered for similar events in more than 200 cities to protest Bush on issues ranging from global warming to the war in Iraq.
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Currently researchers are refining the system's ability to process and understand natural language by feeding it hundreds of articles from 2002, including an editorial in response to President George W Bush's use of 'axis of evil' to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea. But press and privacy questioned the usefulness of the proposed system and said it could end up being used to monitor the articles of individual reporters or publications. /more/
.: Michael Chertoff, appointed by G. W. Bush, head of Homeland Security born in the U.S.A. now also holds an Israeli citizenship.
.: Yevgenij Finkelstein-Primakov, ex-head of the Soviet KGB secret police, now a paid permanent counsellor of this institution.
.: Markus Wolf, ex-head of the Communist East-German secret police, the Stasi.
/Don't we look good!?/
- NEW YORK Thousands of protesters clogged streets around the United States to protest the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. Organized by the group World Can't Wait, the march in New York started at the United Nations headquarters in midtown Manhattan. It was one of about 200 protests staged around the country by the activist group. "That's how we got our civil rights," she said. "If we didn't protest we wouldn't be Americans." /more/
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape in front of the White House on Thursday amid a nationwide day of protest against the president. The 500 demonstrators were among many who gathered for similar events in more than 200 cities to protest Bush on issues ranging from global warming to the war in Iraq.
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- New York - The US government is sponsoring new software technology aimed at monitoring the world's press for negative opinions about the country, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The 2.4-million-dollar project is being funded by the Department of Homeland Security *** and will be useful in identifying 'potential threats' to the nation, security officials said. The programme would track the global news media to allow US officials 'to identify common patterns from numerous sources of information which might be indicative of potential threats to the nation,' according to a Homeland Security Department statement cited by the Times.
Currently researchers are refining the system's ability to process and understand natural language by feeding it hundreds of articles from 2002, including an editorial in response to President George W Bush's use of 'axis of evil' to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea. But press and privacy questioned the usefulness of the proposed system and said it could end up being used to monitor the articles of individual reporters or publications. /more/
***Guess who are the "heads" of the Homeland Security?
.: Michael Chertoff, appointed by G. W. Bush, head of Homeland Security born in the U.S.A. now also holds an Israeli citizenship.
.: Yevgenij Finkelstein-Primakov, ex-head of the Soviet KGB secret police, now a paid permanent counsellor of this institution.
.: Markus Wolf, ex-head of the Communist East-German secret police, the Stasi.
/Don't we look good!?/
