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November 23, 2009 06:46 AM EST
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This is a continuation of my series taking a closer look at the November 17, 2009 Congressional hearings on "Prioritizing Chemicals for Safety Determination." Earlier I gave an overall summary . Today . . .
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November 23, 2009 06:22 AM EST
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16.11.2009 Source: pravda
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world lives with a number of barriers that serve to restrain the free movement of people. The wall that divides . . .
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November 23, 2009 04:11 AM EST
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Yes, that’s Afghanistan, the country we’re investing billions in, the country that our military personnel are dying in and the country run by a government that we established and continue . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:24 AM EST
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh has begun a visit to the US for talks expected to be dominated by Afghanistan, climate change and nuclear energy cooperation.
Mr Singh has said that a victory for the Taliban . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:19 AM EST
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The US Senate has narrowly voted to hold a full debate on a landmark bill designed to overhaul the country's healthcare.
All 58 Democrats, plus two independent senators, approved it. All but one . . .
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November 23, 2009 01:03 AM EST
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Hopes for the Copenhagen climate summit in December have been boosted after it emerged that more than 60 presidents and prime ministers plan to attend.
There had been concern that no strong agreement . . .
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November 23, 2009 12:29 AM EST
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I can see where we should all be outraged at what health care has morphed into as Congress continues to botch the job in a truly spectacular partisan fashion, but to act as if this has happened overnight . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:50 PM EST
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From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
the FBI subpoena's a list of EVERY visitor to indymedia and tries to gag them from even telling anyone . Can you spell fascism?
[My ISP and . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:08 PM EST
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The poor and lower middle-class are already pre-selected. Who registers for Selective Service? Anyone who wants a Pell Grant. Who qualifies for Pell Grants. The poor. They'll simply come after those and . . .
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November 22, 2009 10:36 PM EST
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There's no attempt to put the costs into any context - specifically, there's no mention that an escalation in Afghanistan would mean outlays for the one-year Pentagon budget is approaching the total outlays . . .
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November 22, 2009 10:32 PM EST
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(I wrote this on November 16, 2009).
1.I heard the news a' ringin', it's stingin' in my ears
They're bringin' in some pris'ners, after all these years
But those fast-talkin' politicians, . . .
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November 22, 2009 10:23 PM EST
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The Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin might conclude that she represents the exact moment important Republicans gave up on democracy. She was clearly seen as an empty vessel who could be controlled . . .
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November 22, 2009 10:13 PM EST
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Rush Limbaugh, in just a few minutes on his Freaky Friday show, Nov. 13, managed to offend the President, the Attorney General, lawyers, judges, the Department of Justice, Jews, and two war heroes. And . . .
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November 22, 2009 09:43 PM EST
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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union ). It is considered to . . .
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November 22, 2009 09:08 PM EST
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Gallop Polls: About 7 out of 10 Republicans (71%) say they would seriously consider supporting Mike Huckabee for president in 2012, putting him tops on the list of likely contenders though just slightly . . .
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November 22, 2009 07:38 PM EST
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God, the Army, and PTSD
By Tara McKelvey
The trauma of war seems to be especially acute for men and women whose faith in a benevolent God is challenged by the carnage they have . . .
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November 22, 2009 07:37 PM EST
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‘Israel is the light onto the nations’ says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many fronts. Take for instance, terrorizing . . .
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November 22, 2009 06:44 PM EST
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Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its . . .
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November 22, 2009 06:39 PM EST
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Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it attacked a high profile California . . .
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November 22, 2009 06:36 PM EST
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From the Washington Post
"And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for . . .
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