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submitted by MikeK 66 weeks 5 days 10 hours 4 minutes ago
A few weeks ago, with some hub-bub, the administration that tortures people agreed not to torture people any more. Kind of... In this great piece, Nat Hentoff reveals that nothing's really changed. More newspeak from Big Brother Bush... From the article:
"On July 20, George W. Bush...(more)
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submitted by MikeK 59 weeks 6 days 13 hours 38 minutes ago
Foreclosure filings across the U.S. nearly doubled last month compared with September 2006, as financially strapped homeowners already behind on mortgage payments defaulted on their loans or came closer to losing their homes to foreclosure, a real estate information company said Thursday.
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submitted by MikeK 58 weeks 6 days 12 hours 31 minutes ago
PC World - Much of the attention for Apple has been on the iPhone lately, but the company's hardware business is showing strength too. Apple's hardware shipments for the third-quarter surged 15.9 percent over the same quarter last year, according to a report released Wednesday by...(more)
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submitted by MikeK 58 weeks 6 days 12 hours 32 minutes ago
This one million voices effort hasn't made much of an impact where I live. I hope it's bigger in the Middle East.
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submitted by MikeK 59 weeks 19 hours 54 minutes ago
See, you can never have enough instructional videos about how to survive aliean attacks.
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submitted by MikeK 83 weeks 5 days 11 hours 50 minutes ago
Saudi Arabia said today it had arrested 172 militants and foiled an apparent terrorist plot to use aircraft in attacks on the country's oilfields.
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submitted by MikeK 13 weeks 5 days 7 hours 55 minutes ago
John McCain's vice-presidential pick, Sarah Palin, has gone on record in support of teaching creationism in schools.
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submitted by MikeK 7 weeks 6 days 6 hours 22 minutes ago
The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one of his troopers, Michael Wooten. This time, the director of Gov. Sarah Palin’s Anchorage office was on the line.
As Mr. Monegan recalls it, the aide said the...(more)
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submitted by MikeK 13 weeks 6 days 10 hours 37 minutes ago
Thousands of containers of lethal nuclear waste are likely to fail before being safely sealed away underground, a devastating official report concludes.
The unpublicised report is by the Environment Agency, which has to approve any proposals for getting rid of the waste that remains deadly for tens...(more)
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AP - U.N. officials accused Iraq on Wednesday of withholding civilian death figures to try to deflect attention from escalating violence and a worsening humanitarian crisis despite the U.S.-led Baghdad security crackdown.
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submitted by MikeK 59 weeks 19 hours 52 minutes ago
Here you go -- our unhappy future of environmental collapse in animation.
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submitted by MikeK 30 weeks 2 days 8 hours 25 minutes ago
Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get to...(more)
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