Lebanon reacts: “Would it be simpler just to put the whole world on?”
However President Obama is judged on various subjects for his first year in office, he has already made history in the way that neither his predecessor nor any other leader has ever managed.
On January 3, 2010, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued new security directives to all United States and international air carriers with inbound flights to the… Continue
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We only have rights as long as we chose to exercise them, if we don't then we have no rights here is your opportunity to exercise your rights, as well as preserve them for your children and future generations.
Sent to me by Wes (Thanks Wes) incidentally this has been getting very little mainstream media exposure, so how about that Tiger Woods eh!
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Sorry to hit you with yet another URGENT request! (Seems they are hitting us from all angles right now!!) For… Continue
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Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. He joined the Harvard faculty at 23. Dr. Gordon was an executive on the War Production Board during… Continue
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Note: This letter to the editor was published in the Japan Times on 7 January, 2009. Click here for the direct link.
In his Jan. 3 letter, "Unbelievable case against Blair," Paul Middleton seems to hinge his defense of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (whom Gwynne Dyer criticized in his Dec. 22… Continue
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Into Thin Air: The Airport Scanner Scam
by James Ridgeway
First published in his blog Unsilent Generation on 4 January 2010
What will happen if the full-body scanner goes the way of the puffer? Well, there’s always the next generation of security equipment: the Body Orifice Security Scanner, or BOSS chair...
Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at… Continue
SAN JOSE, California—Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.
We’re excited to announce several new features that integrate the micro-blogging service Twitter and 12160.org. Spreading the word with Twitter is an effective way to reach a wider audience and increase the membership of your Ning Network. In the coming days, you and your members will be able to:
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Share photos, videos, and other content on Twitter without leaving…
A lawsuit filed against investment bank Goldman Sachs by a shareholder alleges that the company spent more money on corporate bonuses than it earned in 2008.
Shareholder Ken Brown's lawsuit is one of two suits filed against the company this week over its controversial decision to hand out billions of dollars in bonuses even after it was accused of playing a central role in… Continue
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Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy.
Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the end of their signed contracts. According to the Pentagon, more than 120,000 soldiers have been affected by stop-loss since 2001, and currently 13,000 soldiers are serving… Continue
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This amazing picture shows a rare phenomenon called a roll cloud which tend to form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles.
Photographer Daniela Eberl took this snap at Las Olas Beach in Maldonado, Uruguay. Photo: NATIONAL NEWS
They are most common when an advancing storm front causes moist air to rise, then cool to the… Continue
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Last night, in near freezing Louisiana temperatures, I was grilling some burgers on my Christmas present from my lovely fiance. As I saw the grill's thermometer read between 350 and 400'F it reminded me of this photo (courtesy of Anthony Watts, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and SurfaceStations.org.)…
You know the mainstream media exemplifies the green ethic in every way, shape and form. We're told that we MUST recycle, reuse and repair in order to save the planet.
We're also told, "waste not, want not" in various forms. People are starving, people are cold, they lack health care. Children go to school without winter jackets and gloves. The mantra of "help the homeless" is drilled into our psyche because, well, because there are more homeless people in this country than ever… Continue
MARIETTA - 2010 is the Year of the Elephant, U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Roswell) says.
The keynote speaker at the Cobb GOP's Saturday breakfast, Price ripped the President, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats, singling Obama out as "philosophically incapable of… Continue
An Iraqi woman takes her dead son into her arms. The 6-year-old was killed on the way home from enrolling for his first year of school.
War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfare can kill dozens, even hundreds of people, who never see their attackers. The power of these industrial weapons… Continue
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The use of Tasers has become increasingly controversial over the last year, following high-profile cases such as the Tasering of a 10-year-old girl who had refused to take a shower and video of a… Continue
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12-29-2009 Kevin Fenton
OpEdNews.com
A recently released 9/11 Commission memo highlights the role of government “minders” who accompanied witnesses interviewed by the commission. It was added to the National Archives’ files at the start of the year and discovered there by History Commons contributor… Continue
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Kabul/Jalalabad—Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.
Four civilians were killed during an operation of NATO forces in Baghlan and eleven, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed in eastern Kunar and 13 others were perished in an overnight air raid of NATO-soldiers in Laghman province.
Activists of youth branch of Jamiat Eslah (Afghan Society for Social… Continue
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As I sit here at home I often wonder what makes me different than the rest of America. No doubt I am different than most.
Why do I see Obama as a member of an elite group without concern for the average American, without remorse for sending young men to die in Afghanistan, without empathy, no different than George Bush?
Why do I see the addition of food additives and animal antibiotics and growth hormones and environmental chemical pollution as a direct attack on the… Continue
Neil Oliver reacts after a top Dutch government official has admitted 'Covid' was a military operation.#gbnews #uknews #covid #coronavirus #covid19 Keep up t...
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