Government records incorrectly kill off thousands

The government says Toni Anderson is dead, but she insists she is very much alive. David MacAnally of NBC affiliate WTHR reports from Muncie, Ind.

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"Peace feels good, I can tell you!"

Written by: Raphael Marambii - I am glad to be the bearer of good news this time. The mediation talks in Kenya led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan have led to a breakthrough and a power-sharing agreement has been reached. The opposition leader Raila Odinga will get the newly formed position of prime minister with executive powers. This brings to an

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We Have No Permanent Self Existance

Here Come the Media Attacks on Obama

Now that the press has thoroughly trashed Hillary Clinton - they're going to turn their sites on Obama and his supporters.

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Bubble Boy by Mike Luckovich

too funny...

By Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
© Cartoonist Group, 2006

Bubble Boy

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I watched The Ellen DeGeneres show today...

I watched The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and she did something she doesn't usually do. She spoke of the murder of a young teenage boy named Larry King by another boy named Brandon McInerney. All because Larry had sent Brandon a Valentine.

Watch the video below and then read the rest of what I have to say below....

Choking back tears, she added, "Larry is not a second-class citizen. I am not a second-class citizen. It is okay if you are gay."

***Thank you, Ellen! You brought me to tears as you spoke about Larry King and the hate for gays that still pervades our society. I live in Massachusetts where gay marriage is legal. I am gay and married to my fabulous wife Kathy, since October 16th, 2006. We have a 15 y/o son that attends one of the local high schools in our hometown and is taunted by children because he happily tells people he has 2 Moms. He has lost friends due to their parents finding out we are gay and married. This school year it even became a "political issue" because one of my son's friends mother told the vice principal that we were gay and then made up a story that my son elbowed her son! We tried to work things out with the parents but when we called the kids mom yelled and screamed that she was going to file charges against my son! The school tried to intervene but encountered the same kind of irrational behavior from the mother that we did. The worst thing about all this is my kid and her kid were friends...they hung out together at school...his teachers told my wife and I what good friends the 2 were. That was until the mother actually took her son out of school and started home schooling him! The worst part about this whole thing is that 2 good friends can no longer continue their friendship because of a parents hate for something she doesn't understand.

Peace,

soul

Ellen DeGeneres: The Hate Must Stop - TV News, Ellen DeGeneres : People.com

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Anti-war groups launch campaigns against 'bomb Iran' McCain

VoteVets.org has launched a new ad against the Republican candidate featuring a female Iraq vet and her baby, suggesting that McCain will spend on endless war instead of on the things Americans really need. Meanwhile, anti-war group True Majority is planning a campaign targeting McCain's musings about bombing Iran.

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Prosecuting the Gay Teen Murder - TIME

Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime.

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Ellen DeGeneres: The Hate Must Stop

Ellen DeGeneres took a rare political stance – though she was careful to call it a personal stance, because, she said, "this is important to me" – on her show scheduled to air Friday, regarding the murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King, shot in the head on Feb. 12 by a classmate in a suburban Oxnard, Calif., junior high school.

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How Nader's Candidacy Illuminates Our Democratic Deficit

By Cynthia Boaz - Elections are the proximate requirement for democracy. Although they alone cannot sustain democracy, without them no system could ever make a reasonable claim to be democratic. Likewise, voting is the most basic, fundamental and obvious means by which citizens can participate in democracy. It is the means by which the people's wil

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Who Would Obama's Ideal VP Be?

I may be moving ahead of the discussion a little bit, but I have always found that in order to help frame a discussion it is important to start early.

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Could Our Democracy Withstand Another 9/11?

The Reichstag fire helped transform Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship. What can we do to avoid a similar outcome?

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The Farrakhan Distraction

Why do we continue using Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan to undermine important concerns and historic campaigns?

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Hey Homeowners, Bush Blames You--Not Iraq--for Our Tanking..

Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans' economic pain and war spending.

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The Cholesterol Con -- Where Were the Doctors?

Cholesterol drugs are unnecessary.*This sucks!!! I'm on a statin and my lab results show my cholesterol level has dropped to healthier levels. This article makes me wonder if it is the fact that I changed my diet dramatically that is making my cholesterol levels lower?

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Deadly ricin possibly found at Las Vegas motel

LAS VEGAS - Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.

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Israel threatens holocaust against Gaza?!

In a radio interview today, Israel's deputy defence minister threatened a "holocaust" (using the Hebrew word "shoah") against Gaza if Palestinian militants stepped-up their rocket fire against Israel. According to Reuters, Deputy Minister Matan Vilnai said:

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Turkish Troops Pull Out of Iraq

CUKURCA Turkey - Turkey military said Friday it has ended a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq but said that foreign influence didnt play a role in its decision.

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POLITICS-US: Vets Break Silence on War Crimes

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.

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Joint Chiefs chair warns candidates on rapid exit from Iraq

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. military officer told America's armed forces on Thursday to prepare to support whoever wins this year's presidential election but voiced concern about a rapid withdrawal from Iraq...

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The Blotter: ACLU: 900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists

The FBI now keeps a list of over 900,000 names belonging to known or suspected terrorists, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

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John McCain sings "Bomb Iran"

 

He has served his country in the military, the Congress, and the Senate. Now he serves America in song.

John McCain sings "Bomb Iran"

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a quote on civilization...

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

- Ayn Rand -

'Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.' - Ayn Rand

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The Silent Coup - How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men

There is a battle far from getting the attention it deserves considering the stakes – the rule and governing of the USA.

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Hutto: Prototype for a nationwide concentration camp system?

America's Family Prison

Did you know that the federal government has not only set up but is also currently operating a prison that holds entire families - including infants, children and nursing and pregnant women?
It's located in Taylor, Texas and it's operated by Corrections Corporation of America, a privately owned corporation.
This short film by Matt Gossage and Lily Keber is one of the only public reports on this prison. Otherwise this subject has been entirely censored by the US news media.
For more information about prison:

Click here:

http://tdonhutto.blogspot.com

Hutto

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Republican Ideology Has Broken The Economy

Too little regulation has resulted in a credit-crunch.

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How Abu Ghraib Investigator Antonio Taguba Became A Casualty

"Could you tell us what happened?" [Paul] Wolfowitz asked. Someone else asked, "Is it abuse or torture?" At that point, Taguba recalled, "I described a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum, and said, 'That's not abuse. That's torture.' There was quiet."

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1 in 100 Americans Are Behind Bars: Highest Rate Ever

For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. One in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.

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U.S. sends warship off coast of Lebanon

Signaling impatience with Syria, the United States has sent its USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon in a "show of support" for regional stability, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

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Iran tells U.N. council sanctions aren't legal

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister has written to the U.N. Security Council arguing that sanctions resolutions against the country over its nuclear program lack any legal basis and undermine the council's...

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Senate Republicans block Democrats' housing bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic proposal to curb rising home foreclosures by changing bankruptcy law failed a key test vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. In a largely party-line vote, Republicans blocked the measure from moving ahead, although...

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Senate shelves Iraq U.S. troop withdrawal bill

A Democrat's attempt to impose quick U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq collapsed in the U.S. Senate, as expected, but leaders on Thursday insisted they will retool legislation and force votes in coming months. The Senate spent much of this week debating a plan by Sen. Feingold of WI to begin withdrawing most American troops from Iraq by July.

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Obama Rebuffs Challenges on His Israel Stance

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is engaged in a concerted effort to reassure Jewish leaders in the face of an increasingly aggressive Republican campaign to question his tolerance and his commitment to supporting Israel.

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Does Experience Matter in a President? - TIME

Wouldn't it be nice if time on the job and tickets punched translated neatly into superior performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés.

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The Politico: Anti-war movement wrestles with 1968

Anti-war groups vow to protest Democratic National Convention in Denver in spirit of 1968 demonstration.

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Obama To Raise “Considerably More” Than Jan.’s $36M

Could he break $50M? Because “considerably more” means more than an additional $10M. I guess we’ll see what that phrase means soon enough.

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Obama, Clinton, Dems - Show Leadership, Make Change Happen,

I must confess a dirty little secret - I don't care what presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they will do to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq if they become president next year. Thousands more Iraqis and hundreds more U.S. troops will be dead by then, and for what? I want to know what Senators Clinton and Obama are willing

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Obama Gives McCain a History Lesson on Al Qaeda in Iraq

If McCain wants to mock Obama, perhaps he should pick a topic in which a) Obama is mistaken; and b) McCain knows what he's talking about.

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The Onion: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

This is hilarious... until you realize that electronic voting machines are no laughing matter.

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Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions

How politicians communicate has more influence than policy details. Why else would the public accept destructive GOP practices like domestic spying?

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America Loves Peace? Odd, Since We're Always at War

Sure, any war can be spun as some necessity against some Very Bad Person, preferably of brown skin, slanted eyes and/or differing deity. Not only can any war be so spun, probably every war there ever was has been, at least since the days when governments had to start offering some justification or another for their little foreign adventures.

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today's quote...

"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand."

- Bodie Thoene

'Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.' - Bodie Thoene

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Savior and Protector

 
By Matt Wuerker, Politico.com
© Cartoonist Group, 2006

Savior and Protector

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Support Real Diplomacy with Iran, Instead of Military Threats

Now that the U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, there is a real chance to avoid another costly war if the U.S. government engages in serious diplomacy with Iran. And there is a bill in Congress that would encourage direct and comprehensive talks with Iran without preconditions.

I just asked my Senators and Representative to support this effort to avoid another military confrontation. This web tool makes it easy:

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iran/act.html

Also, in February and March 2008, a nationwide tour is happening called, "The Folly of Attacking Iran: Time for Real Diplomacy." There will be big events in 20 cities. See if the tour is stopping near you:

http://www.FollyofAttackingIran.org

THE FOLLY OF ATTACKING IRAN

Help this video gain momentum on YouTube and be seen by more people. We've set up a page that makes it easy to tell your friends.

Also, please write a letter to Congress in support of real diplomatic engagement with Iran.

Thanks for taking an active interest in reforming U.S. foreign policy!

THE FOLLY OF ATTACKING IRAN

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Impeachment: A Challenge to Dem Integrity and Courage

Dems face a decision--do the right, courageous thing, and have an opportunity for incredible new levels of long-term power in Congress, or reach for new lows of spineless cowardice and settle for holding onto or slightly increasing their power, for a short time, in the Congress.

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Breaking: Generals to quit if US strikes Iran

Some senior US military commanders are prepared to resign if President Bush orders a military strike against Iran, a new report says

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Entertaining Politics:Top Viral Videos from the '08 Campaign

Viral videos: yeah, yeah, we know. It's the realm of stupid pet tricks, jackass stunts and crazy kid antics. Today viral video is anybody's game, and the 2008 presidential election has become an online obsession. Look around and you'll see netizens from all over the country rallying behind their favorite candidates and using the power of the Web to

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(AP) General: Obama's story is believable

WASHINGTON - Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff, said Tuesday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama's recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn't have enough soldiers or weapons. (So much for Lush Limbaugh and Shill O Reilly calling Obama a liar)

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Civil Rights Leader Switches to Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama. Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton's campaign in the face of near-unanimous black support for Obama in recent voting.

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Keep quiet about atrocities, Ethiopia warns aid workers

Aid workers in Ethiopia's remote Ogaden region are currently facing an impossible dilemma. In order to carry on helping people in the east of the country, the government has warned them that they better keep quiet about allegations of army atrocities in the area.

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Darfur: Sudanese media report BBC thwarted by authorities

A crew from BBC Arabic TV left Sudan on 24 February after running up against too many government restraints on their filming. Reporter Muhammad al-Khatim al-Mahdi’s investigation had been focused on the Janjaweed in Darfur. The BBC press office confirmed this with me today.

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Cheney's subpoenaed e-mails missing. WOW, what a shocker !!

Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week's worth of e-mail from Cheney's office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department's probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

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Dem Debate No Game-Changer

"No one won. No one lost. And Clinton needed more than a tie to change the course of this race... Both candidates held their own, but there was no defining moment, breakout line or critical game-changer. So, in that sense, Obama won."

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Noam Chomsky: International Terror Most-Wanted List

If Washington turned its definition of terror on the U.S., America could easily rise to the top of its own most-wanted list.

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Military Doctors Withholding Treatment from Soldiers

The military is denying crucial care to soldiers, making them vulnerable on the battlefield.

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9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Ill

Republican "limited government" at its worst. From ABC:Former FAA Inspector: TSA's Enforcement of Post-9/11 Laws 'Basically Nonexistent'Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal

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L Ron Hubbard Plagiarized Scientology

"Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarized Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientologie." The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too."

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How to turn white evangelicals into Democrats

Feb. 26, 2008 | Amy Sullivan is a senior editor at Time, a liberal Democrat, and an evangelical Christian. One of those things is not supposed to be like the others, but she argues in her new book that her fellow Democrats need to reach out to her fellow evangelicals if they hope to build an electoral majority. In "The Party Faithful: How and Why D

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Ann Telnaes on Patriotism

Featured
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Ann Telnaes, comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, political cartoons

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Is New Hampshire Lucky 13?

New Hampshire has filed legislation to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of Marijuana

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Barack Obama hits One Million Donors!

He finally did it - probably because such of a strong showing at the debate last night.

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Time for Hillary to drop out?

There’s a growing chorus of voices starting to call for Hillary Clinton to give it up.

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Does This Make George H.W. Bush Unpatriotic?

The Conservative blogosphere says that Barack Obama isn't patriotic enough to be President because he was photographed without his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Looks like former U.S. President George H W Bush doesn't love America either.

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Why Conservatives Should Support Legal Marijuana

There are approximately 700,000 marijuana-related arrests made very year. Most of these — 87 percent — involve nothing more than mere possession of small amounts of marijuana. This exercise in scrupulosity costs us $10-15 billion per year in direct expenditures alone.

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The War On Terror- Going After People That Terrorize

This gem posted by Spree!Whether one agrees with America's methods or the handling of the War on Terror, it is safe to say that almost everybody would agree that the US spends billions upon billions of dollars going after terrorists. Why does the US ignore the terrorists within?

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A World Without Water

he world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies.

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Obama Interview on Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight took a break from stalking Britney Spears to do an exclusive interview with Barack Obama that aired last night. The Illinois senator chewed the fat with Jann Carl, and they talked about Michelle (”she’s a stylish person, and she’s tall and elegant”), his fave movies and he even picked Will Smith to play him...

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Sick 9/11 workers rally in rainy D.C. for more help

Chanting "$25 million isn't enough!" dozens of sick 9/11 first responders stood in the rain on Capitol Hill Tuesday and urged President Bush to restore funding to help pay their medical bills.

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Top Ten Hilarious Anti-Hillary Clinton eBay auctions

These are some funny anti-Hillary Clinton ebay auctions

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Internets to judge: you suck at the Constitution.

Wikileaks may very well be unstoppable. That didn't prevent a federal judge from vastly overstepping his authority while attempting the impossible. This article offers a description of some of the Constitutional issues presented in the lawsuit.

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US Army at the Breaking Point, Schwarzenegger

Top Army officials have told a Senate panel that the Army is under serious strain and must reduce the length of combat tours as soon as possible. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of Staff said, "The cumulative effects of the last six-plus years at war have left our Army out of balance."

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The Emerging Third World US

Globalization has diminished US manufacturing jobs, and created an enduring balance of payments deficit. Both of these threaten the quality of American life in ways that almost cannot be avoided or changed. It's a frightening prospect

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You Tube Service Restored in Pakistan Craziness

YouTube service was restored to Pakistan this morning after a turbulent 48 hours in which a government-imposed YouTube ban caused an accidental worldwide shutdown on Sunday night. The New York Times is reporting that Pakistan “lifted its restrictions on its citizens’ access to YouTube...See the videos that sparked the controversy here!

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How to Start Your Own Country in Four Easy Steps

With Kosovo unilaterally declaring independence and a host of wannabe states looking to follow its lead, you might be thinking it’s about time to set up your own country. You’ve picked out a flag, written a national anthem, even printed up money with your face on it. But what’s the next step?

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Army aims to cut Iraq tours in summer: general

By Andrew Gray WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army aims to cut the length of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan this summer, its top general said on Tuesday, as commanders seek to reduce severe war strains on the force. Gen. George Casey said the...

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Power goes out for millions in Florida

By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - A massive power outage struck parts of Florida on Tuesday, knocking out electricity to millions, snarling traffic and trapping people in elevators. A spokeswoman for FPL Group Inc, the main energy provider in south Florida.

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I wonder if Pakistan did a You Tube on Florida?

[Breaking] Power outage turns South Florida dark

Florida Power & Light is reporting massive power outages throughout South Florida, including Miami, Doral, Westchester, and Pembroke Pines. Reports of outages extended into Palm Beach, an FPL spokeswoman said.

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today's quote...

"In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help.... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings."

- Urie Bronfenbrenner-

In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help.... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.' - Urie Bronfenbrenner

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BREAKING: Greenpeace activists have breached security at Heathrow Airport

Greenpeace activists have breached security at Heathrow Airport and climbed on top of a Boeing aeroplane.

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Greenpeace activists rock! I believe they attract alot of attention by using a kind of 'guerrilla activism', for lack of a better word, that a lot of people don't understand. They often use whatever tactics they can to stop Japanese whaling. In this paragraph from a Greenpeace action on trying to block refueling of a Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship;
"As the documentation was in progress, two of the whaling fleet's hunter vessels spent more than an hour performing close-quarter maneuvers around the small Greenpeace inflatables, to harass the activists, and push them away from the Nisshin Maru and Oriental Bluebird."
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press-center/release ...

Peace,
soul

Iraq demands immediate Turkish withdrawal

Turkey launched incursion last week against separatist Kurdish rebels---BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government demanded for the first time that Turkey immediately withdraw from northern Iraq, warning Tuesday it feared an ongoing incursion could lead to clashes with the official forces of the semiautonomous Kurdish region.

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Self Help: $10 billion for What?

Self-help is everywhere, but does it work? One writer immersed herself in the industry for a year to find out.

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Afghanistan: the Brutal 'War of Choice' We Never Heard About

It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.

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France eyes sending troops to Afghan combat zone

PARIS (Reuters) - France may send hundreds of ground troops to east Afghanistan where NATO-led forces are fighting al Qaeda-backed insurgents, Le Monde newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said the move would be part of a new Afghan policy being worked...

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Depression drugs don’t work says data

Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.

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Smoking Gun Video of Lobbyists Buying Govt. Contracts

This paying off of politicians is what the right wing proudly defends as free speech.

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New Gallup Poll: Obama is Most Likely to Unify Country

Check out this new Gallup poll graph. Obama trounces Clinton on the question of "unifying" the country: "Most Americans think Barack Obama ... would unite rather than divide the country as president, but view Hillary Clinton as a potentially more divisive chief executive." Digg this up and read the full results. It's really quite striking.

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The Meaning of Obama's Robes

The Clinton campaign is attempting to spread fear through the dissemination of this photo. The BBC's head of Somali service explains the meaning of the traditional Somali garb.

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The Politico: Dodd boards the Obama train

Rejecting entreaties from longtime friends the Clintons, he becomes another of major Dem. to endorse.

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When And How: The U.S. Lost 8 Nuclear Weapons

During the Cold War the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls “broken arrows”

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Robed Obama picture ignites row

The more desperate Clinton becomes the dirtier the race gets.

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TheHill.com - Edwards joins Obama supporters in new anti-war effort

Former presidential candidate John Edwards (D-N.C.), whose endorsement is sought by Democratic presidential rivals Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), will join several groups that have endorsed Obama in a new effort to end the Iraq war.

TheHill.com - Edwards joins Obama supporters in new anti-war effort

YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses | ZDNet Government

YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses by ZDNet's Richard Koman -- It isn’t often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that’s what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the site facilitates illegal sharing, but also of third-world dictators, [...]

YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com

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Obama SINGS the National Anthem... Others Do Not

Some people are saying Obama is unpatriotic because he didnt cover his heart during the pledge. Well, it WASNT the pledge, it was the national anthem and modern custom does not require a hand over the heart. But if you watch closely: He is the ONLY one singing! Clinton clearly is not, Richardson might be. So, who is the unpatriotic one?

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McCain Breaks Law...That He Wrote

Tomorrow morning the Democratic National Committee will file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against John McCain. Why? In the words of DNC Chair Howard Dean: "We want John McCain to obey the law with his own name on it."

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Democrats focus on war costs to defeat McCain

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic grass roots organizations on Monday launched a $20 million campaign to defeat Republican John McCain in the 2008 U.S. presidential election by focusing their attention on rising costs of the Iraq war. The campaign,...

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Iran shrugs off sanctions threat over atomic plans

By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran voiced defiance on Monday as Western powers pushed for new sanctions over its nuclear program, saying high oil prices will cushion the blow. The United States, Britain and France are pushing for a United...

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Obama Gains Big Ground on Clinton in Ohio - Poll

Barack Obama gained big ground against rival Hillary Clinton in the battleground of Ohio on Monday as their race took a negative turn. With a week until the pivotal votes in Ohio and Texas on March 4, a poll said Clinton leads Obama in Ohio by 51% to 41% among likely Dem voters. This was a narrowing from 55% to 34% two weeks ago, and was a sign...

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Iraq: F*** you Washington Post…

so says Raed Jarrar. Today's post features voices from the edge. Sunshine is waiting for the war on her doorstep to end and writes of her hopes and aspirations; Last of Iraqis is turned back at the Jordanian border and writes of hopes lost; Layla waits in the immigration queue; Baghdad Dentist writes of a relaxed Baghdad and the blogger formerly

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I wondered who was voting for Hillary

You are free to draw your own conclusions on this one.

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Jon Stewart: "Oscar Is 80, Making Him the GOP Frontrunner"

Some political humor highlights from Jon Stewart's opening monologue at the Oscars.

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Bush Admin: Nevermind, the Sky Isn't Falling After All

The closer one looks, the more it appears the administration's fear-mongering was unfounded. Who would have guessed?

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Why I hate Hillary Clinton

Because, unlike Obama, she doesn't inspire cult-like devotionBecause the Obama campaign twisted her and her husband's statements to paint her as a racistBecause the media repeatedly tells me that, despite her centrist policies, she's "polarizing"Because her campaign is focused on energizing Democrats instead of those all-important Independent

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Hillary claims SNL skit shows the media is on her side

She urged donors to watch the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live," which featured a skit mocking last Thursday's CNN debate as a love fest for Obama. "The voters of this country deserve to have a real election," she said.

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The GOP Smearing of Don Siegelman [VIDEO]

Is Don Siegelman in prison because he's a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama?

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Hillary Continues Anti-Hope Campaign

Hillary continues to ridicule Obama and his supporters on the notion that all he is bringing to the table is hope, as if that were insubstantial.

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Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

Yes, global capitalism may be resilient. But it looks like its options are increasingly limited.

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The Three Trillion Dollar War

The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportions.

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Where's the Debate Over Gun Control?

As the Democratic party becomes increasingly pro-gun, not even campus bloodshed grabs the candidates' attention.

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Fred Armisen Is SNL's Barack Obama?

By Oliver Willis - Putting aside the fact that I historically have not found him funny, you really mean that Saturday Night Live was unable to find a single funny black guy?UPDATE: And, not only was the selection kind of insulting -- his Obama impression sucks.

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Youtube down, not OpenDNS

Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube. This isn't an OpenDNS issue. Just letting you all know. This is now fixed. PCCW took far far too long to fix their broken customer (Pakistan Telecom)... Argh.

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Who stands up for real American values?

Spoken before the US invaded Iraq

"We can call ouselves Americans. We can fly the American flag, but unless we stand up and defend the values that define us as Americans, we will cease being Americans."
Scott Ritter gave this talk before the US invaded Iraq. As a former US Marine Corps officer, UN weapons inspector and expert on the armaments of Iraq, he very publicly disputed the Bush adminstration's claim that Iraq was a threat to the US.
Now the US is on the same path with regards to war against Iran.
Learn what you can do to help stop another illegal, immoral,and reckless use of US power in the world. Get and Scott's book "Waging Peace."

Who stands up for
real American values?

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Timeline Of Bush Admin's Politicization Of Terror, 2002-2008

Olbermann presents an impressively detailed timeline called "The Nexus of Politics and Terror," chronicling the Bush admin's exploitation of terror threats for political gain. "What we were told about terror, and not told, for security reasons, has overlapped considerably with what we were told about terror, and not told, for political reasons."

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Shocker — Ralph Nader Announces Independent Run

In a “shocking” new development, “consumer advocate”, Ralph Nader (that’s the only free one you get, Ralphie), has tossed his hat into the three-ring, two-party circus again.

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Comedian Goes on Anti-Fox News Rant During Live Broadcast

Comic
by luvnews


Who is this little guy anyway?

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It's the media, stupid!

The vast corruption of our media system is an issue of profound importance-- an issue as important as, and fundamentally related to, the corruption of our voting system. So what really matters isn't whether John McCain was schtupping Vicki Iseman. It's that Ms. Iseman was but one of many pricey lobbyists who have helped McCain schtup all the rest o

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More from the same article;
Here is a bouquet of items on Bomb-Bomb McCain, who's long been whoring
for the worst players in the corporate media--especially Sinclair Broadcasting,
which, back in 2004, stood out for the brazenness of its pro-Bush agenda. It was
Sinclair that first screened Stolen Honor, the anti-Kerry propaganda hit piece that was financed and assembled by the Bush machine. (So much for Bomb-Bomb's solidarity with a fellow vet.)

Pakistan declares war on YouTube

A ZDNet.com Blog - As of this writing, 3:30 Eastern most of the rest of world can still not get to YouTube

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Nick Graham: Pakistan Blocks YouTube Video Access

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.

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Iran says work plan closed, U.S. intelligence fake

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it had cleared up all past outstanding issues over its nuclear program with the United Nations nuclear watchdog and accused the United States of providing intelligence that was fake. ''The work plan is...

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Pakistan blocks YouTube website

Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.

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SpringWidgets: Widget Election

Get this widget!

Widget Election Widget...pick your candidate...copy the code onto your website, blog, or social networking site and support the candidate you choose for the 2008 Presidential Elections

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The New Invasion of Iraq

By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent UK

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.

    A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.

The New Invasion of Iraq

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Turkey steps up PKK offensive in Iraq

By Daren Butler CIZRE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops intensified their offensive against Kurdish PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq on Saturday, two days after crossing the mountainous border in a campaign Turkey's allies hope will be short and...

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Iran president says nuclear report a ''victory''

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday a U.N. watchdog report on Iran's nuclear program was a victory over the West, which accuses Tehran of seeking atomic bombs. ''(The president) congratulated the leader and the...

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Will Michael Moore Bring Castro to the Oscars? [VIDEO]

Moore insists it would be a "ratings grabber".

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California: Legalize Pot In 2008

The well known marijuana legalization activist Jack Herer is leading an initiative to get marijuana legalization on the 2008 November ballot in California.

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today's quote...

"Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

- H. L. Mencken

'Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.' - H. L. Mencken

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AP Survey: Superdelegates Jump to Support Obama

The Democratic superdelegates are starting to follow the voters—straight to Barack Obama. In just the past two weeks, more than two dozen of them have climbed aboard his presidential campaign, according to a survey by The Associated Press. At the same time, Hillary Rodham Clinton's are beginning to jump ship, abandoning her for Obama.

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GM exec repeats, global warming 'total crock of sh**'

Actually, it's the cars that he designs that are total crocks of shit.

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Precinct Hiccups Blamed on Poor Training

When things go awry at the voting booth, as they have several times in this hectic primary season, much of the blame often falls on ill-trained poll workers who are paid a pittance.

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Serb official blames U.S. for violence

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo - Several thousand Serbs chanting "Russia, Vladimir Putin!" and "Kosovo is Serbia!" protested peacefully Saturday in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica and a Serb enclave in the south in a sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo's independence.

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Time for Bill O'Racist to Resign in Disgrace

O'Reilly should be fired for using the word "lynching" in the context of a rant about Michelle Obama, despite his faux apology. ..Lynching: A variety of howling posses composed of fire-eyed redneck thugs -- terrorists, if you will -- skulking through the woods, hauling with them an African American to a cowardly, ritualistic, vigilante execution.

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Major powers to meet on Iran

Six major powers are to meet Monday in Washington for fresh talks on how to make Iran give up its contested uranium enrichment activities, a top US diplomat official said Friday.

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The Bush Dollar

By Mike Peters , Grimmy.com
From the Cartoonist Group.

The Bush Dollar

Technorati tags: the Cartoonist Group, political cartoons, political satire, economy, Mike Peters, Bush

Bush and Cheney Should Be Arrested: Vermont Rising Up

An email from Impeach Bush;

Impeachment call spreads to local and state legislatures
Vermont to vote on arresting Bush and Cheney

"Bush and Cheney: arrested for gross violations of international and U.S. law!" A new proposal in the township of Brattleboro, Vermont -- authorizing local law enforcement to arrest Bush and Cheney -- would make this headline a reality, should either of them step inside the town's jurisdiction. The Brattleboro proposal is to be voted on in the coming weeks at a town hall meeting. The proposal is up for discussion thanks to the hard work of community activists, who petitioned citywide to have the motion put to a vote. Fearful of the indictment, Bush and Cheney are mounting a counteroffensive. But in town after town in Vermont, the people have voted to support impeachment recognizing that Bush and Cheney have committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

The Brattleboro indictment of Bush and Cheney is reflective of the tide of opposition to the current administration. The people of this country are refusing to let Bush leave office without facing charges for his criminal deeds. Just yesterday, the New Hampshire State House held an impeachment hearing, which was flooded by activists and community members insisting that the state legislature take action. Hollywood actor Ed Asner wrote a letter for the hearing expressing his support for the resolution, which indicts Bush for "invading Iraq without just cause or provocation."

We are keeping the pressure on and "impeachment" has become a household word. We are mobilizing the impeachment movement for the anti-war actions on the 5th anniversary of the war. We are lobbying Congress. We are taking out impeachment advertisements. We are telling the courageous people of Brattleboro that they speak for millions more. We are telling the New Hampshire activists who filled the State House yesterday that people from the other 49 states stand with them.

We can seize upon this historic momentum only with your help. Please take a momentum to click on this link and make a donation for impeachment.

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The REAL McCain

Demand John McCain stop his lobbyist fundraising...Sign the petition!

You said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to."

Yet you have 59 lobbyists raising money for your campaign! 

Stop your lobbyist fundraising now, and return the millions of dollars raised by lobbyists.

Sign the petition to stop John McCain

The REAL McCain

Technorati tags: John McCain, lobbyist, fundraising, 2008 Presidential Candidates, videos, petition

O'Reilly Smears Huffpo with His Standard Jackboot Ignorance

Bill writes to say that "freedom of speech... is a canard. Hate speech is hate speech, whether it's being spewed by some nut wearing a Nazi armband or some gnome hunched over a keyboard. People like Arianna Huffington should be taken out to the village square and publicly scolded."

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Kosovo Serb Protesters Attack UN Police

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) -- Violent protests rocked Serb-dominated northern Kosovo on Friday, as mobs chanting "Kosovo is ours!" hurled stones, bottles and firecrackers at U.N. police guarding a bridge that divides Serbs from ethnic Albanians.

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Turkey border tensions fuel confusion

The Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq has apparently turned out to be on a considerably lesser scale than initial reports had suggested.

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'Dozens dead' in Turkish assault

Turkey's army says its ground offensive in northern Iraq has left five soldiers and dozens of Kurdish rebels dead.

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Secret Service responds to charges of lax screening

It takes a lot to get the Secret Service to respond. Based on this statement, someone is not telling the truth, as the USSS challenges the veracity of the Dallas law enforcement's observations reported in the Star-Telegram. Is this a satisfactory explanation? (UPI):

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Obama and his Army captain contact in Afghanistan

In last night’s Democratic debate in Austin, Barack Obama was responding to a question about his readiness to be commander in chief. After explaining a bit about his approach to military issues, Obama spoke about conditions in Afghanistan for U.S. troops after resources were diverted for combat in Iraq.

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When parts of McCain's defense don't add up

A sworn deposition that Sen. John McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist.

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Turkey invades northern Iraq

The Turkish military says it launched a ground operation in northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels. The incursion, backed by the Turkish air force, began around 7 p.m. Thursday and is going after specific Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in Iraq.

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Congress Ramps Up Fight Against Permanent Iraq Bases

Antiwar Democrats in Congress have failed in almost every one of their attempts to reverse the Bush administration's Iraq policy. However, they are now pursuing what many call a winnable objective: resisting the establishment of a permanent US presence in Iraq.

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Obama Wins Dems Abroad Vote, Ties Hillary in Ohio, Texas

This may be the end for Sen. Clinton as the ABC/Washington Post poll confirms what these other polls are saying.

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Dallas Police vexed at SS order to stop screening for Obama

DALLAS -- Ordered by Secret Service, security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

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Hillary Booed for Calling Obama "Change You Can Xerox"

Obama countered, "What we shouldn't be spending time doing is tearing each other down. We should be spending time lifting the country up."

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Neo-Nazis Publish Ominous Threats to Obama

The most heated anti-Obama talk appears to be on Internet sites that allow people to post messages anonymously.

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Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory

Good insight...Pot isn't illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp -- it's because of racism and the culture wars.

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Olbermann Slams O'Reilly For "Lynching Party" Remark

Last night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann slammed Bill O'Reilly for saying on his radio show, "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence."

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How to Stay in Iraq for the Next Million Years

When did immediate military withdrawal from Iraq stop being an option?

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What the Hell Are Democrats So Afraid of?

The problems discussed in this article are not themselves the source of Democratic failings, but rather symptoms of a deeper problem: a lack of courage. It is not a crisis of competence that the Democrats face, but rather a crisis of confidence. It will be impossible to implement any solutions until Democrats gain the backbone to do so.

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McCaine: No favors for anyone - except that one guy...

McCaine's campaign was quick to criticize the NYTimes for the article suggesting he might have done some favors for lobbyists: "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," they said. But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. Read on...

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US Orders Some Diplomats to Leave Serbia

The State Department on Friday ordered nonessential diplomats and the families of all American personnel at the U.S. embassy in Belgrade to leave Serbia, following an attack on the compound. "We are not sufficiently confident that they are safe here," Munter said in an interview in Belgrade.

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Seven Steps to Revolution: Are We Close?

If history is any indication, we may already be on the road to violent revolution. Can it be -- at long last -- that Americans have, simply, had enough? Are we, finally, stepping out to take back our government -- and with it, control of our own future?

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Bush's Life of Constitutional Crime; Has He Been Spying

President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to spy on terrorists, and we will all be blown up.

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Media Blackballs Willie Nelsons Call To Impeach Bush

If an award-winning icon and a pure symbol of Americana boldly argued for the impeachment of President Bush and urged that the general public "throw the bastards out" of the White House, would it make for a good story?

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Impeachment on their minds: Activists blast Bush

Activists from as far away as Michigan and as close as Warner clutched their pocket-sized U.S. Constitutions and crowded into a State House hearing yesterday on a proposed resolution that would request Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

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John McCain Affair? Links To Female Lobbyist Exposed

According to two former McCain associates, some of the senator's advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene.

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Slate Magazine - Is John McCain a Crook?

The controversial George W. Bush-sponsored poll in South Carolina mentioned John McCain's role in the so-called Keating Five scandal, and McCain says his involvement in the scandal "will probably be on my tombstone." What exactly did McCain do?

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NY Times: McCain had possible relations to Female Lobbyist

Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship. But to his advisers, even the appearance of a close bond with a lobbyist whose clients often had business before the Senate committee Mr. McCain led threatened the story of

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Opiate For the Mrs.

You're U.S. Senator John McCain, and you've got a big problem.Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to prescription painkillers. She stole pills from a medical-aid charity she heads and she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions.

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Which Myers-Briggs Type are Hillary, Barack and Johnny Mac?

Hillary Clinton is a Guardian, and her specific type is an ESTJ, "the Supervisor." Guardians' "self-esteem is greatest when they present themselves as dependable, trustworthy or accountable in shouldering their responsibilities." In other words, an ESTJ wants everyone to know she's "ready to be president on Day 1.

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The Folly of Attacking Iran: Video

"We had a democracy here, until America came over and crushed it"

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The "New" Constitution

Kudos to David Swanson for all the effort he invested in this 5 page article. If you are up for the read, it is well worth it.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, except on corporations, those possessing over $10 million, and close acquaintances of the Unitary Executive

clipped from www.opednews.com The Constitution of the Homeland of America: Revised Abridged Edition We the people of the Homeland, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, kill the terrorists, lock up the immigrants, and honor our Commander in Chief, do promise to vote, and shop, and watch the television news sometimes, and definitely to vote Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Unitary Executive of the United States, attended by a royal court which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives No person shall be a Representative who shall not profess absolute loyalty to either the Republican or Democrat Party, or both, and God When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the Diebold Corporation shall issue virtual writs of election to fill such vacancies clipped from www.opednews.com Bribery shall be permitted