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Dead Afghans: Franken is “Cautiously Optimistic” Turn them upside
down and they all look alike. Democrats and Republicans that is. When
Bush and the neocons ruled the roost, Democrats complained about the
invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Haitian
Man Behind Second JFK Security Breach
A busy terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated
after a man opened a restricted door and set off an alarm, authorities
said, making it the second known security breach at a New York-area
airport this month.
Met
Office computer accused of ‘warm bias’ by BBC weatherman
A BBC weather forecaster has suggested that the Met Office’s super-computer
has a ‘warm bias’ which has stopped it predicting bitterly
cold spells like the one we have just endured.
Nations
scrap orders for GSK swine flu jab
The British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline has confirmed it is
in talks with several countries keen to reduce their orders of its swine
flu vaccine Pandemrix.
Health
Bill Can Pass Senate With 51 Votes, Van Hollen Says Even if Democrats
lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator,
Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using a process called
reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
Sunstein
Attacks Second Amendment In a lecture at
the University School of Law on October 27, 2007, Obama’s administrator
of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs emphatically
stated that you do not have a right to own firearms.
Major
powers fail to agree on new Iran sanctions
Representatives of six major powers ended a meeting in New York
Saturday to mull a response to Iran’s nuclear defiance without
reaching agreement, a Russian official said.
'Even
Charles Manson could beat him now'
One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating is lower
at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why
has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly?
Possible
peacekeeping role for US troops in Haiti The US relief mission in Haiti remains focused
on saving lives but American troops could be called on to help keep
order if security deteriorates, officials said.
Easily
Hacked Voting Systems to be Used in MA Special Election for the
U.S. Senate
Next Tuesday's Special Election for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts
looks to be coming down to the wire. Surprising pundits in what
had previously been thought to be a cakewalk for State Attorney
General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate hoping to fill
the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, Republican state Senator
Scott Brown has come on strong in the final days of the campaign.
Poland's
Economy Is No Joke
Watching the world's leaders stumble their way through the economic
crisis, it often feels as if political success and economic understanding
are mutually exclusive.
National
Security: The Big Fraud
The handwringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber
and the politicians' tiresome declarations that it will never happen
again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its
imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship
of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets
for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents -- it
merely points out an inevitable chain of events.
Another Phony Bin Laden Tape
Holdren's Eugenicist Nightmare
CIA Involvement In Iran
Nazi Roots Of The European Union
North Korea Nuclear Circus
Police State UK
Neo-Con Attack On Jesse Ventura
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