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Whistleblowers NSA Whistle-Blower: Obama “Worse than Bush”
03-10-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Thomas Drake and
Thomas Drake, the whistle-blower whom the Obama administration tried and failed to prosecute for leaking information about waste, fraud and abuse at the National Security Agency
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Techno Gadgets New iPad 3: Apple fails to surprise
03-10-2012
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blogs.computerworld.comBlogs by Richi Jennings
Here's the new iPad (not the 'iPad 3') from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Release date is March 16. Aside from the name, not much else was a surprise (except to those who backed the wrong rumors).
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Welfare: Social Welfare Reform—From Bad to Worse
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Greg Kaufmann
A stunning report released by the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center reveals that the number of US households living on less than $2 per person per day
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Politics: Republican Campaigns The Misinformation Machine
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Tim Karr
Dirty politics is a growth industry with few happy customers. In the run-up to Super Tuesday, television viewers nationwide had to endure an onslaught of negative and deceptive political ads
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Voting - Election Integrity NAACP Looks to UN in Fight Against Increasing US Voter Suppression
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org
The NAACP is sending representatives next week to a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland to argue that minority community members are facing clear voter suppression efforts in the United States
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Arizona's Top News Dear Tucson Students, It Gets Better
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Jeff Biggers
It's spring-time in the Sonoran Desert, and as la maravilla of the wild flowers stretches across the valleys of southern Arizona, caravans of literary heroes and national education advocates will be descending on the Old Pueblo this weekend for a ser
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World News Arabs ask Russia to back them on Syria crisis
03-10-2012
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reuters.com
Arab League countries pressed Russia on Saturday to back their efforts to end violence in Syria at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday attended by Russia's Sergei Lavrov.
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Gun Rights Federal Court: If your boss can't have a gun, you can't either
03-10-2012
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Suppose you work at a convenience store, at night, and you keep a gun on you because it can be dangerous employment. Now suppose the store owner you work for has a felony record. You have violated federal law.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Two Crystals Linked Through Quantum Entanglement
03-10-2012
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arclein
at allows them to verify that they've actually managed to release one, and only one, photon, a condition essential to the success of the experiment, a second de- vice "slices" this particle in two. [surely photon is meant here]
This splitting a
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Science Surprising Explosions on Venus Sparked by Space Weather
03-10-2012
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arclein
"At Venus, since there's no protective magnetic field, the explosion happens right above the surface of the planet," study lead author Glyn Collinson, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a statement.
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Israel Israeli Airstrikes Kill Militants in Gaza
03-09-2012
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New York Times
Israeli airstrikes killed up to 10 Palestinians, most of them militants, in the Gaza Strip on Friday and early Saturday, and militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israel in the worst cross-border fighting in months.
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World News Syria leader Bashar al-Assad firmly in control, U.S. intelligence officials say
03-09-2012
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Washington Post
A year into the uprising in Syria, senior U.S. intelligence officials described the nation’s president, Bashar al-Assad, on Friday as firmly in control and increasingly willing to unleash one of the region’s most potent militaries on badly overmatche
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Currencies US currency: The Gold Standard versus no standard!
03-09-2012
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The Political Commentator
Can you tell what the difference is between these two $1 bills?
If you went to spend them, each would get you a burger off of the dollar menu although there is a major difference between the two.
The bill on the top is based on the Gold Standar
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Justice and Judges Judge stabbed, deputy shot at Washington state courthouse
03-09-2012
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Reuters
A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a judge and shot a sheriff's deputy with her own gun in a county courthouse in Washington state on Friday, prompting a lockdown of schools and government buildings as police and SWAT teams searched for the attacker.
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Conspiracies The War Comes to America - Psycho Politics Clay Douglas
Just before World War I, the sentiment in America was decidedly pro-German, and more the half of all the immigrants coming to this developing land WERE German. Nobody wanted to get involved in a European war. But the media, owned by the same people w
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Israel - Palestine Toll from Israel Gaza strikes now 14 militants
03-10-2012
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By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press
The worst violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip in nearly a year entered its second day on Saturday, as Israeli aircraft killed 14 militants, according to Palestinian health officials.
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Military Industrial Complex The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State
03-10-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Prof. James Petra
There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousands of Syrian soldiers, police and civilians, partisans of t
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Entertainment: Movies 'Game Change': How accurate is the movie about Sarah Palin?
03-10-2012
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ByGloria Goodale, Staff writer csmonitor.com
Words have been flying between supporters of Sarah Palin, who charge the ‘Game Change’ filmmakers with a smear job, and the producers, who insist they’re committed to accuracy.
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Obama Administration Obama Plans More Middle East Wars
03-10-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Stephen Lendman
Cheerled by America's major media scoundrels, war looks increasingly likely. Syria and Iran both are targeted.
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Healthcare The Politics of Women's Health Care
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Renee Parsons
After months of Republican presidential candidates embarrassing themselves and the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt with religious zealotry dominating the primary season, the relentless assault on a woman's health care choices can be e
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Employment & Jobs The Precarious Jobs Recovery
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Robert Reich
February’s 227,000 net new jobs – the third month in a row of job gains well in excess of 200,000 – is good news for President Obama and bad news for Mitt Romney.
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Palestine -- Israel Palestinians fire 92 rockets at southern Israel
03-10-2012
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jpost.com By YAAKOV LAPPIN
Iron Dome intercepts 25 rockets aimed city centers; 8 injured, including 1 critically from rocket shrapnel on Friday night in rural region; Safety instructions in place for residents living within 40 km of Gaza.
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Weather News and History Global Warming May Force Pacific Nation of Kiribati to Move to Fiji
03-10-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
In what could be the first climate-induced relocation of a country, the leaders of the low-lying archipelago of Kiribati plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji in case rising tides force their entire population to leave.
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Agriculture Heavy Metal Pollution Causes Severe Declines in Wild Bees
03-10-2012
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arclein
The results clearly show that the most polluted sites had no, or only single wild bees, in artificial nests, whereas in unpolluted sites, the same nests contained 4 to 5 different species of wild bees, with up to ten individuals.
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Economy - Economics USA Public Sector Banks
03-10-2012
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arclein
Focusing on the financing of real businesses and economic growth seems to be the secret of the BRICs, which are leading the world in economic development today. But the BRIC phenomenon is more than just a growth trend identified by an economist. It
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Military Industrial Complex Presidential campaign inevitably boosts war with Iran
03-10-2012
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David Horsey, Los Angeles Times
Americans had become used to fighting wars with ambiguous results. War is now simply what we do. It is part of our national identity; facing any foe, bearing any burden in the twilight struggle to defend freedom.
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World News Pakistan prime minister names new spy agency chief
03-09-2012
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Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani on Friday named a successor to Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha as the head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency, ending speculation that Pasha’s term would be extended for the third year in a row.
Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam,
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Humor SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
March 11, 2012 Edition
03-09-2012 John Semmens
Film Biographer in Awe of Obama
Davis Guggenheim's recently completed film biography presents an unstintingly glowing portrayal of President Barack Obama. There is, to quote Guggenheim, “no downside to this man save the enmity of his enemies.”
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