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Iran’s Guardian Council Admits to Vote Irregularities – The influential Guardian Council admitted the number of votes collected in fifty cities surpassed the number of people eligible to cast ballots in those areas.
Mousavi Calls for More Street Protests – Mousavi and former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami have defied Iran’s Supreme Leader and urged protesters to continue street demonstrations calling for a new election
Iran’s Web Spying Aided by European Firms Siemens and Nokia – Using the technology, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities not only to block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes
Israel to Allocate $250 Million for West Bank Settlements – Israeli army radio is reporting Israel plans to allocate $250 million over the next two years for settlements in the occupied West Bank
Report: One Billion People Go Hungry Every Day – World hunger is projected to reach a record high this year with more than a billion people going hungry every day. This is an increase of some 100 million people over the past year

Obama Admin Wants to Bring Spy Training Program to Colleges – The Obama administration has proposed offering federal money to colleges and universities to help train students to become spies for the CIA and other intelligence agencies .. unlike ROTC, the students’ participation in the spy training program would likely be kept secret
Poll: 72% of Americans back Creation of Public Healthcare Plan – A new poll by the New York Times and CBS News has found that 72 percent of Americans support the government creating a public healthcare plan, similar to Medicare, which would compete with private insurance plans. The poll also found the majority of Americans now believe the government would do a better job than private insurance companies in providing medical coverage
Obama Jokes about Plight of Uyghurs – Bermuda and the Pacific island nation of Palau have both accepted a group of Uyghur prisoners who had been held at Guantanamo for seven years even though US officials admitted they were wrongly detained. The Uyghurs are Chinese Muslims who could not be returned to China out of fear that they would be imprisoned and tortured. [Obama joked at the TV Correspondents’ Dinner], “Nick at Nite has a new take on an old classic: Leave It to Uyghurs. I thought that was pretty good.”
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