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November 21, 2009 11:45 AM EST --
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist
In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion . . .
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November 21, 2009 09:45 AM EST --
By Massimo Calabresi
President Barack Obama will miss his self-imposed Jan. 22 deadline to close down the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay. But sources familiar with the issue . . .
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November 21, 2009 08:26 AM EST --
Report tracks a five-year upswing in fuel efficiency
WASHINGTON - For the fifth consecutive year, EPA is reporting an increase in fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
ABC News Finds the Location of a "Black Site" for Alleged Terrorists in Lithuania
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:08 AM EST --
Killing is the ultimate traumatic experience
There’s no armor, it turns out, for conscience.
So our men and women are coming home from the killing fields wounded in their heads, used up, . . .
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November 20, 2009 07:13 AM EST --
Would Our Government Really Start a War to Try to Stimulate the Economy?
I've written two essays attempting to disprove "military Keynesianism" - the idea that military spending is the best stimulus. . . .
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November 19, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
The First Thanksgiving
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. . . .
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November 19, 2009 08:53 AM EST --
Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn 202-564-7849 202-564-4355 milbourn.cathy@epa.gov
For the first time in nearly 40 years, EPA is proposing to strengthen the nation’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) . . .
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November 18, 2009 10:24 PM EST --
On January 20, a changing of the guard occurred in the United States White House with two-term president George W. Bush being replaced by former freshman senator Barack Obama.
Bush had continued the . . .
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November 17, 2009 08:02 AM EST --
NASA will hold a second national strategies workshop to examine the impacts of climate change and extreme weather variability on native peoples and their homelands. The workshop, which will study the . . .
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November 15, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
The Polish Health Minister Eva Kopacz today told Parliament during a heated debate on the swine flu vaccination that she, as a qualified family doctor with more than 20 year of . . .
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November 15, 2009 07:34 AM EST --
No climate-change deal likely by year's end, officials say
By Ed Henry and Dan Lothian
President Obama says he hopes the upcoming Copenhagen summit will lead to a long-term global warming accord. . . .
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November 14, 2009 06:56 PM EST --
UN special rapporteur says wealthy US ignoring deepening homeless crisis while pumping billions into bank rescues
By Chris McGreal
Investigator meets homeless victims of American dream . . .
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November 14, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
By Robert Naiman
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?
There is something . . .
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November 14, 2009 01:58 PM EST --
By Richard Gale and Dr Gary Null
I have no doubt whatever that vaccination is an unscientific abomination and should be made a criminal practice. G. Bernard Shaw
Under normal circumstances, . . .
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November 14, 2009 09:03 AM EST --
From The Economist print edition
The biggest obstacle to a climate-change bill is rural America
America will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit . . .
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November 13, 2009 07:00 PM EST --
The Buzz—and Truths—Around Doomsday
by Vera H-C Chan
Talk about your confluence of doomsday scenarios.
Today isn't merely Friday the 13th, bad enough for those who suffer paraskavedekatriaphobia . . .
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November 13, 2009 06:59 AM EST --
The Ilulissat glacier has retreated by approximately 15km over the past decade
By Richard Black
The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than in previous years and making an increasing . . .
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November 12, 2009 02:20 PM EST --
The ratio of record daily highs to lows from 1950-2009 at 1,800 U.S. weather stations.
Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the . . .
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November 12, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
Will baselessly claimed health care reform plans will increase U.S. "debt and borrowing"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200911120005
In his November 12 Washington Post column, George Will asserted . . .
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