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Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs
Post Date: 2010-07-31 11:17:09 by _'+?@!
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Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish 'best evidence yet' of rising long-term global temperatures. Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world's leading climate ...

House Passes Bill To Crack Down On K Street 'Scofflaws'
Post Date: 2010-07-31 06:04:28 by Robin
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The House unanimously passed a bill this week to create a task force within the Justice Department to crack down on lobbyists who flake on disclosure laws. "We wanted to put some teeth behind current law because there seem to be quite a few scofflaws out there on K Street," freshman ...

WikiLeaks founder vows more leaks
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:54:41 by Robin
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New whistleblowers said to provide 'significant' documents on BP spill, military abuses The WikiLeaks website has received additional “very significant” material about U.S. military abuses from anonymous whistleblowers since the publication of its leaked Afghan war logs and plans to post the new ...

Israel launches Gaza Strip air strikes
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:11:44 by Robin
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Israel has launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, reports say. Palestinian witnesses reported numerous explosions in Gaza City, and several people were reported to have been injured. The strikes came after a rocket fired from the coastal enclave by militants earlier on Friday hit ...

Paul Craig Roberts: We Are Almost Past The Point of No Return! - Alex Jones Tv (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-30 22:05:22 by Robin
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TheAlexJonesChannel | July 30, 2010 Alex talks with economist Paul Craig Roberts about his article, The Year America Dissolved. Roberts served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street ...

All About Marc Mezvinsky (Chelsea Clinton's fiance)
Post Date: 2010-07-30 21:59:34 by Robin
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On July 31, Chelsea Clinton will marry longtime sweetheart Marc Mezvinksy. As the nuptials draw nearer and the wedding bells grow louder, the interest in Bill and Hillary's future son-in-law grows larger. Over the past week, online lookups for "marc mezvinksy" soared nearly 80%. Those ...

North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup
Post Date: 2010-07-30 21:54:58 by Robin
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North Korea's football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team's coach has been accused of "betraying" the reclusive leader's heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports. The entire squad was forced onto a stage at ...

Oregon officials close investigation of Gore [And the Wingnuts Have Not Yet Recovered From the Rangel Reprimand.]
Post Date: 2010-07-30 20:59:54 by _'+?@!
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Law enforcement authorities in Portland, Ore., have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal prosecution of former vice president Al Gore after a massage therapist accused him of sexually assaulting her in a 2006 incident. The Multnomah County District Attorney's ...

Israel - Our friend's dirty Linen
Post Date: 2010-07-30 20:09:16 by Peo111
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Police release rabbi arrested for inciting to kill non-Jews. Killing the children of a leader in order to pressure him, the rabbi continues, is also permissible. In general, according to the book, it is okay to kill children if they "stand in the way - ... ... There is justification in ...

Cost of War: $1 Trillion
Post Date: 2010-07-30 19:28:04 by Peo111
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Obama signs war spending bill: $1 Trillion. - - Insanitee....eeeeee!!!! Congress passed the bill on Tuesday and Obama signed it without public remarks in a low-key Oval Office session. ... the total amount of money that Congress has allotted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan surpasses $1 ...

Glenn Beck and the Oakland (teabagger) shooter
Post Date: 2010-07-30 15:27:05 by _'+?@!
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Late on a Saturday night two weeks ago, an unemployed carpenter packed his mother's Toyota Tundra with guns and set off for San Francisco with a plan to kill progressives. When California Highway Patrol officers stopped him on an interstate in Oakland for driving erratically, Byron Williams, ...

Subcommittee recommends reprimand for Charles Rangel; Wingnut Heads Explode
Post Date: 2010-07-30 14:24:40 by _'+?@!
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Subcommittee recommends reprimand for embattled Charles Rangel By Paul Kane Washington Post staff writer Friday, July 30, 2010; 2:18 PM The subcommittee that investigated Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has recommended that the embattled lawmaker face just a "reprimand," a mild form of ...

Bristol and Levi: Poster children for the dumbing down of America
Post Date: 2010-07-30 12:29:33 by _'+?@!
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There they are on the cover of Us magazine, a teenage mom who managed to get her high school diploma after her baby's birth, and the father of her child, a high school dropout. They apparently intend to get married and live happily or unhappily ever after. Bristol Palin and her fiance, Levi ...

Obama's Surveillance Power Grab
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:59:06 by Robin
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The Obama administration wants to "clarify" FBI power to get online records without warrants -- and vastly expand it. They're calling it a tweak -- a "technical clarification" -- but make no mistake: The Obama administration and the FBI's demand that Congress approve a ...

Never Heard Of Sam Wyly? Maybe You Know The Two George Bush Opponents Who He Helped Destroy
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:53:41 by Robin
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Despite being mega-wealthy, it's possible that plenty of folks have never heard of the Texas-based Wyly brothers, who were charged by the SEC with insider fraud yesterday. So who are they? Well in addition to being boardmembers of several companies, they're also big GOP boosters, and Sam ...

China Just Locked Up Another Monster Resource Deal In Africa
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:48:33 by Robin
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Juan Cole: The Closing of the Zionist Mind
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:43:16 by Robin
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It finally happened. The Jerusalem Post has declared archeology itself anti-Semitic. To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues who are committed Zionists having difficulty in dealing with reality in the wake of the severe difficulties facing the Zionist project in ...

Mullen: WikiLeaks’ Assange May Have Blood on His Hands
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:24:25 by Robin
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Trust in US Drops After Massive Leak of Classified Docs In comments today Admiral Michael Mullen, the highest ranking military commander in the United States, declared that Julian Assange, founder of the Sweden-based WikiLeaks whistleblower group may have blood on his hands for the leak of ...

Evangelical Christian On Fox: Obama Brings Apocalypse (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-30 11:20:12 by Robin
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Poster Comment:Tim LaHaye is basically saying that Obama is bringing socialism which will (somehow) bring on the Apocalypse.

Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern
Post Date: 2010-07-30 10:58:13 by Robin
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Clara MoskowitzLiveScience Senior WriterLiveScience.com clara Moskowitzlivescience Senior Writerlivescience.com – 2 hrs 40 mins ago A puzzling pattern in the cosmic rays bombarding Earth from space has been discovered by an experiment buried deep under the ice of Antarctica. ...

Ray McGovern: Israel to Start War with Iran Maybe in August 2010 - Alex Jones (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-30 10:49:08 by Robin
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TheAlexJonesChannel | July 29, 2010 Alex welcomes back to the show Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern presented morning intelligence briefings at the White House for a number of presidents. ...

SEC charges billionaire Texas brothers who donate to GOP with fraud
Post Date: 2010-07-30 00:02:48 by _'+?@!
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Sam and Charles Wyly, billionaire Texas brothers who gained prominence spending millions of dollars on conservative political causes, committed fraud by using secret overseas accounts to generate more than $550 million in profit through illegal stock trades, the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Spanish Celtic Music
Post Date: 2010-07-29 23:10:33 by Robin
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LoboBlanco88 | August 31, 2007 Some beautiful Celtic music. Not many people know this but Celtic tribes/people originate from Central-Northwestern Spain. Rest of "original" inhabitants of Spain = Iberians. Present-day Spaniards = celtiberians predominantly, with other indo-european ...

Stumbling Toward a Bleak Horizon
Post Date: 2010-07-29 22:52:31 by Robin
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consortiumnews.com Stumbling Toward a Bleak HorizonBy Danny Schechter July 27, 2010Editor’s Note: The political horizon looks bleak: Republicans are convinced their strategy of sabotage and obstruction will put them back in charge of Congress in November; the Obama administration has ...

Scheduled Server Outage/Upgrade 1:30 AM ET (tonight)
Post Date: 2010-07-29 22:39:35 by Pinguinite
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I'm going to take care of this this evening. I'll look to begin at 1:30 AM Eastern time. It should take about 45 mins or so. Something like that. This will be the first of 3 upgrades I'll do. I'll space them about 2-4 weeks apart, more or less.

Study argues stimulus, other action averted second Great Depression
Post Date: 2010-07-29 17:57:54 by _'+?@!
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Did President Obama's $787 billion stimulus and other aggressive federal policies avert a second Great Depression? A big study out Wednesday says so, but some other economists disagree. According to Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi and Princeton economist Alan Blinder, the suite of ...

Sherrod plans lawsuit against conservative blogger Breitbart
Post Date: 2010-07-29 16:35:24 by _'+?@!
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SAN DIEGO -- Fired U.S. Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, speaking Thursday at a convention of black journalists, said that she hopes her story will be a catalyst for racial dialogue and that she intends to sue the conservative activist whose blog post of an out-of-context video led ...

Israel allows new cars into Gaza (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-29 16:13:14 by Robin
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AlJazeeraEnglish | July 29, 2010 After holding Gaza under siege for more than three years, Israel has said it will finally allow new cars and spare parts into the strip. Residents were relieved, because they have had to buy damaged cars and parts from tunnel smugglers. But a month after the ...

Russian environmentalists fight to save forest (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-29 15:27:41 by Robin
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AlJazeeraEnglish | July 29, 2010 Russian environmentalists armed with fireworks and molotov cocktails have a stormed a town hall building near Moscow, the capital. They trying to stop the destruction of the Khimki forest, one of the last natural woodlands on the edge of the city. The area ...

What happens when a bagger runs for governor? This.
Post Date: 2010-07-29 13:13:49 by Mekons5
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Graham eyes 'birthright citizenship'
Post Date: 2010-07-29 13:03:14 by _'+?@!
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July 29, 2010 08:19 AM EDT Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday night that he is considering introducing a constitutional amendment that would change existing law to no longer grant citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the United States. Currently, the 14th Amendment ...

Paul Craig Roberts: The Year America Dissolved
Post Date: 2010-07-29 11:08:41 by Robin
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It was 2017. Clans were governing America. The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and ...

Florida Homeowner wins right to park truck in own driveway
Post Date: 2010-07-29 01:08:54 by Robin
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ODESSA, Fla. - It's hard to believe that A.J. Vizzi spent nearly $200,000 defending his right to park his own pickup truck in his own driveway. When he first moved in back in 1997, Vizzi was told that parking his large truck in the driveway wasn't against the subdivision's rules. But ...

It's Snowing Here Tonight
Post Date: 2010-07-29 00:19:52 by _'+?@!
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Very strange weather up where I live. Was in Boulder during the day and it was cloudy but very hot and muggy. Took the bus up the mountain at five and was surprised to see the hills above Nederland all covered with snow. Some snow on the roofs of the town but most of it starting at about 100 feet ...

Webster Tarpley: Media's Wikileaks "CIA Style Spin" Gives Obama Excuse to Invade Iran & Pakistan! (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 23:48:04 by Robin
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TheAlexJonesChannel | July 28, 2010 Alex talks with author, journalist, speaker and radio talk show host Webster Tarpley about the Wikileaks Afghanistan documents and the latest developments on the coming conflict with Iran. Tarpley is the author of Obama: The Postmodern Coup and Barack H. ...

Miles Davis - Stella by Starlight 1958 - Music
Post Date: 2010-07-28 23:18:51 by Robin
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And this is Wynton Marsalis:

WikiLeaks claims source of leaked data unknown
Post Date: 2010-07-28 18:38:52 by Robin
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LONDON — WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief claims his organization doesn’t know who sent it some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents, telling journalists that the website was set up to hide the source of its data from those who receive it. Julian Assange didn’t say whether he meant ...

US v Arizona, ORDER re SB 1070 (Immigration)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 14:05:49 by nolu chan
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US v Arizona, DCAZ, 2-10-cv-01413-SRB (2010) - Doc 87 - ORDER 7-28-2010

Bubble Boys --- The WikiLeaks documents put an underreported war back on the nation’s radar. It doesn’t matter that the pundits are yawning.
Post Date: 2010-07-28 13:41:13 by Robin
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The hardening conventional wisdom on the Afghanistan “war logs” is that they are not the Pentagon Papers. Nor are they, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rather grandiosely claimed, the equivalent of opening the Stasi archives. Having digested to varying degrees Sunday night’s ...

The job machine grinds to a halt
Post Date: 2010-07-28 12:24:58 by _'+?@!
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Ain't no hiring. And ain't likely to be any for a good long time. The problem isn't merely the greatest downturn since the Great Depression. It's also that big business has found a way to make big money without restoring the jobs it cut the past two years, or increasing its investments or even ...

Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast
Post Date: 2010-07-28 11:13:55 by aristeides
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Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast By Daniel Tencer Sunday, June 27th, 2010 -- 4:22 pm As unconfirmed reports of an imminent Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities pick up steam in the Middle Eastern media, a US-based strategic intelligence company has released a chart ...

Of Course Clean Up Workers Can't Find the Oil ... BP Used Dispersants to Temporarily Hide It, So Now It Will Plague the Gulf For Years
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:31:45 by Robin
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Of Course Clean Up Workers Can't Find the Oil ... BP Used Dispersants to Temporarily Hide It, So Now It Will Plague the Gulf For Years News headlines state that cleanup workers are having a hard time finding oil. Sounds good, right?Actually, if BP had let things run their course:Oil-skimming ...

Five-year-old boy wins defamation case against Lidl
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:25:55 by Robin
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A five-year-old Irish boy who was wrongly accused of stealing a bag of crisps has won 7,500 euros damages for defamation of character. The case, reported in the Irish Times on Wednesday, concerned Tadhg Mooney from Balbriggan in County Dublin. The court heard he was in a local branch of Lidl with ...

I'd Be Sending A Surge Of Civilians To Afghanistan! So They Prefer Us To The Taliban! Rep Woolsey (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:16:46 by Robin
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Israel demolishes a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert - no comment (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:13:44 by Robin
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nocommenttv | July 28, 2010 Israeli authorities in the country's southern Negev desert on Tuesday demolished a Bedouin village built on land residents identify as their property.... No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/

Scores killed in Pakistan plane crash (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 10:10:45 by Robin
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AlJazeeraEnglish | July 28, 2010 A passenger aircraft has crashed on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board. Reports suggest air traffic controllers had told the pilot to divert due to the poor weather, but lost contact with the plane shortly after. Al ...

Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote
Post Date: 2010-07-28 09:46:42 by Robin
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The parliament of Catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting - the first region of mainland Spain to do so. The vote took place as the result of a petition brought to parliament, signed by 180,000 people who say the practice is barbaric and outdated. Bullfight supporters insist that the ...

Censored! 'Extremist' YouTube videos banned by Russian court
Post Date: 2010-07-28 09:17:07 by Robin
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RussiaToday | July 28, 2010 A court in Russia's Far East has ruled that an Internet provider should bar access to YouTube, accusing the video sharing site of hosting extremist ideology. The file in question contained a nationalistic video titled 'Russia for Russians'. The provider said ...

Countdown: Boehner calls pot tan, can't get GOPers to party less with female lobbyists (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 00:25:05 by Robin
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Why Is Bradley Manning Being Held In Kuwait? Is This A New GITMO For U.S. Soldiers? Julian Assange (Video)
Post Date: 2010-07-28 00:22:04 by Robin
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World Bank warns on ‘farmland grab’ trend
Post Date: 2010-07-27 23:50:37 by Robin
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Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank. “Investor interest is focused on countries with weak land governance,” the draft ...

BP’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy: The Well’s Corked, But Public And Government Are Left In The Dark
Post Date: 2010-07-27 23:21:49 by Robin
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Professor Bob Bea, of UC Berkeley, a civil engineer with years of expertise in marine oil drilling, says he is concerned that during the current crisis of BP’s blown-out well deep under the Gulf of Mexico, government scientists may not be getting all the information they need from the ...

How to end the filibuster with 51 votes
Post Date: 2010-07-27 22:23:09 by _'+?@!
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If you can't manage the 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, you can't manage the 67 votes to change the rules and end the filibuster. At least in theory. But in practice, there's another path open to the Senate's growing ranks of reformers: The so-called "constitutional option," which is being ...

Lightening hits three tallest buildings in Chicago simultaneously
Post Date: 2010-07-27 18:26:09 by Mekons5
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Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo. Click for Full Text! Poster Comment: This is the same storm that fried my telephone. BTW, Chicago has now had as much rain so far this summer as we got all last summer. West of here, ...

American taxpayers -- and not KBR-- will likely pay if the war contractor is found to have harmed Oregon Army National Guard veterans who say they were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in Iraq.
Post Date: 2010-07-27 18:00:18 by Robin
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Hexavalent chromium case: Iraq contractor cut deal for lawsuit immunity American taxpayers -- and not KBR-- will likely pay if the war contractor is found to have harmed Oregon Army National Guard veterans who say they were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in Iraq. The startling details emerged ...

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