Machine Politics

"We don't need to be body searching young children traveling with their parents on holiday to Spain," Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary told Sky News television "If we the industry and the government don't work together to have sensible security ... we are going to hand these extremists a terrific PR success," he added.

"You turn your underpants around in the morning and you turn them the other way around and that's as close as you get to clean," one man said. With the terror alert at the peak level of critical, meaning another attack is imminent, there was no indication when the situation would ease.

SWORDS CLEAR THE WAY

POWERS THAT BE CONTROL THE PODIUM

FIREWORKS DAZZLE, YET DISTRACT FROM THE TRUTH

WATCH CAREFULLY

SELECT THE PROPER SUNSET

SHOOT THE RIGHT TARGET

ARE YOU SCARED?

President Reagan with Pope John Paul II in Miami, Florida

DOES THE POPE KNOW WHAT TO DO?

MORE LATER,

UPDATED AUGUST 12, 2006

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Quotes from the Machine

"These are not indiscriminate arms transfers," Commander Hicks said. They are done "in the interest of peace and broader international security"
(on the right of Isreal to buy missles that deploy cluster bomlets - 8-14-06)

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