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Dear Sheriff __________:
First, I would like to commend you for your service to our community, state and nation, thank you.
My name is NAME and I live in CITY. I see our county’s Sheriff’s deputies patrolling in CITY/COUNTY quite often and I am thankful for their presence in our area.
I am writing you to let you know of an organization of military, police, firefighters and others who have sworn an oath to uphold…
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Added by fireguy on November 5, 2009 at 4:21pm —
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WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee cleared its version of a climate and energy bill, despite a Republican boycott of the vote and a "no" from powerful Montana Democrat Max Baucus.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's 11-1 vote to approve the climate proposal may have little long term significance in shaping the final bill. Negotiations to shape a Senate climate bill have already…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 5, 2009 at 4:06pm —
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At least seven people are dead and 12 wounded in a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, the base's public affairs office told NBC News on Thursday.
The official would not give his name nor additional details. It was unknown whether victims are soldiers or civilians. One gunman was reportedly in custody and another was on the loose, NBC News said. A third shooter…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 5, 2009 at 3:53pm —
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By Chris Hedges
The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries are fictional. The uplifting narratives used to justify the war in Afghanistan are pathetic attempts to redeem acts of senseless brutality. War cannot be waged to instill any virtue, including democracy or the liberation of women. War…
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Added by Tara on November 5, 2009 at 3:39pm —
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By Vermont Trotter
I’ve been watching this “pandemic” story develop ever since I started in this chair back in April of this year. I had just finished my first week in the saddle and was casting about for a story, something which I could do some in depth study upon, perhaps write about, but no matter what, share what I had discovered…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 5, 2009 at 2:54pm —
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Across the Middle East, the US is building heavily fortified embassies which cut off diplomats and create hostilities
By Simon Tisdall
November 05, 2009 "
The Guardian" -- After the US Congress agreed a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan this autumn, the Obama administration was taken aback by…
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Added by Marklar on November 5, 2009 at 2:28pm —
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By Daniel Tencer
November 05, 2009 "
Raw Story" -- November 04, 2009 --- The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Craig…
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Added by Marklar on November 5, 2009 at 1:59pm —
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Arts Technica
By Nate Anderson
Oct 11, 2009
For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.
It's almost a truism in…
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Added by Marklar on November 5, 2009 at 1:38pm —
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Added by ZoSo on November 5, 2009 at 1:20pm —
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Tetrahedron Publishing Group
Health Science Communications for People Around the World
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NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. H1N1-15=6
Date Mailed: April 25, 2009
For Immediate Release
H1N1-H5N1 Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American
“Vaccine Pipeline” Says Expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA— Skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc.,1 precipitated by dozens of flu…
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Added by Kay on November 5, 2009 at 1:01am —
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One of the 23 Americans convicted today by an Italian court says the United States "broke the law" in the CIA kidnapping of a Muslim cleric Abu Omar in Milan in 2003.
"And we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized and approved this," said former CIA officer Sabrina deSousa in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson.
DeSousa says the U.S. "abandoned and betrayed" her and the others who were put on trial for the…
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Added by Tara on November 5, 2009 at 12:40am —
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Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
By Glenn Greenwald
November 04, 2009 "
Salon" -- It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with…
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Added by Marklar on November 4, 2009 at 8:54pm —
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By Glenn Garvin McClatchy/
Tribune News
November 3rd, 2009
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will…
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Added by Marklar on November 4, 2009 at 7:41pm —
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My God!! Our government is on the side of prosecutors who frame innocent people. So they are all for screwing the innocent and not prosecuting the prosecutors who knowingly use false or fabricated evidence. We need to pass a law on this fast. So we have absolutely no protection or recourse if wrongfully accused.We rightly should have the right to sue and bring to court those who are ruining our lives. Nobel Peace Prize huh...…
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Added by bob on November 4, 2009 at 6:51pm —
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Alternet
By Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse.
November 4, 2009.
The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
MILAN — An Italian judge Wednesday…
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Added by Marklar on November 4, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Posted to talktomeg.com (running for CA govenor in 2010):
Dear Meg,
Let's set aside the issues for a moment. For over two decades I've seen 'em come and seen 'em go....not *one* has ever started to sing the same tune after a few months. Now you're an idealist-- a reformer. How do you propose to (personally) "insulate" yourself from the company you will be keeping while you are in office so that you don't become "just another one of them"? In other words: "How…
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Added by youhavetoforgiveme on November 4, 2009 at 5:46pm —
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Pneumonic plague is one of three main forms of plague, all of which are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is more virulent and rarer than bubonic plague. The difference between the versions of plague is simply the location of the infection. Pneumonic plague is an infection in the lung(s), bubonic plague is an infection of the buboes or lymph nodes, while septicemic plague is an…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 4, 2009 at 5:04pm —
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November 4, 2009
It is quite possible that what they are really dealing with is the Pnumonic Plague or black death. There are outbreaks all over Romania now, however they will not give any details on the infection and are still insisting that it is all swine flu. My bravo sierra detector is going off big time. What I am seeing here in Romania and getting reports of in…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 4, 2009 at 4:55pm —
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Reporting from Los Angeles and Sacramento - Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear.
Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 4, 2009 at 4:34pm —
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Drip…drip…drip: the fall of dropping water wears away the stone. So it goes with shaping public attitude and policy. If you repeat something often enough it must be true (not!), thus politicians are always coached to stay “on message”. The constant drumbeat creates foundation…
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Added by Swtnlovabl on November 4, 2009 at 3:59pm —
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