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No One Has to Die Tomorrow
By Melanie Phillips
11-24-2009
Lord Lawson was right to call in today’s Times for an inquiry into the global warming scandal. As noted below, through a set of hacked emails a group of some of the most influential scientific proponents of anthropogenic global warming have been revealed to have been…
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11/25/2009
By Pete McMartin
VancouverSun.com
Whenever someone frets about the erosion of personal freedoms in our modern society, such as in the steady proliferation of surveillance cameras in public places, the stock answer, which is one I read all too often in my e-mail, is:
"If you haven't done anything…
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Added by Marklar on November 25, 2009 at 3:26am —
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Glenn Beck, Community Organizer
The Fox News star’s plunge into political activism is more than rank hypocrisy. It’s the work of an unprincipled propagandist who’s draining his followers’ bank accounts.
Remember when Glenn Beck accused President Obama of winning followers like a totalitarian demagogue, warned against the nefarious tendencies of community organizers, and was himself defended against critics by Jonah Goldberg,…
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Added by Marklar on November 22, 2009 at 6:50pm —
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In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.
By Paul Harris in Dayton, Ohio
November 22, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some campaigners to dub it a modern form of…
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Added by Marklar on November 22, 2009 at 3:18pm —
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Chicago Bar-Tender
Jennifer Fernicola on 11.13.09
The estate of a man allegedly held by his legs from the second floor window of his home by two Chicago police officers is suing the city and the individual police officers.
According to the complaint, on March…
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Added by Marklar on November 20, 2009 at 11:28pm —
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The Star
Cathal Kelly Staff Reporter
11/20/2009
The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.
The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking…
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Added by Marklar on November 20, 2009 at 4:32pm —
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By Ted Rall
November 19, 2009 -- NEW YORK--American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.
The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts…
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Added by Marklar on November 19, 2009 at 8:31pm —
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Disinfo.com
Posted by majestic on November 19, 2009
Matthew Cole and Brian Ross break an exclusive story for ABC News:
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.
Where affluent…
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Added by Marklar on November 19, 2009 at 8:05pm —
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The Jobs Summit
The Progress Report
by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor, 16 November 2009
President Barack Obama will be hosting a White House forum on jobs in December 2009. Unemployment continued to rise during 2009, and the president seeks to stoke the economy to create more jobs, jobs, jobs.
The summit will gather together…
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Added by Marklar on November 18, 2009 at 12:01pm —
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Challenging Our Thinking About Military Service And War
By Paul Rockwell
November 17, 2009 - "
BlackCommentator" -- There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place…
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Middle East Monitor
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Uruknet.info
November 16, 2009
Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces
An official report, received by Arab League from the minister of prisoners' affairs in the Palestinian Authority (Ramallah), revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped about 6,200 Palestinian…
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Added by Marklar on November 16, 2009 at 7:15pm —
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It is not dollars, treasuries, bonds and debt that is being sold by your government. Text and references:
Freedomain… Continue
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Think Progress
Nov 13th, 2009
Last month, 30 Republican senators voted against Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) amendment that would punish defense contractors “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” His amendment was inspired by Jamie Leigh Jones, who was gang-raped by…
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12160.org
By Marklar
Nov 16th, 2009
So here I am vainly looking far afield for some news to satisfy my news addiction on a Sunday night. I find myself navigating to GNN.tv (Guerrilla News Network) which is one of the first truly alternative news sites that I frequented on the internet. It's not that I no longer frequent GNN but the news cycle can be a little long over…
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Added by Marklar on November 16, 2009 at 5:07am —
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ROBERT PEAR
The New York Times
November 15, 2009
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington…
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Added by Marklar on November 15, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Empire Burlesque
Written by Chris Floyd
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Talk is cheap; actions speak volumes. And it seems Barack Obama is compiling quite a volume for himself at America's flagship concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. As Andrew Wander reports,…
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