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Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans - http://www.truthout.org/1120097
Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans
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India's damned generation: young go hungry despite economic boom - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
India's damned generation: young go hungry despite economic boom
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Iraqi shoe thrower released; says he was tortured - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Iraqi shoe thrower released; says he was tortured
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Deadly Afghan ambush shows perils of ill-supplied deployment (video) - http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251...
Deadly Afghan ambush shows perils of ill-supplied deployment (video)
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Beach red-light cameras slow to rake in cash - http://hamptonroads.com/node...
Beach red-light cameras slow to rake in cash
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Teen tackles armed girl on Miss. school bus - http://www.usatoday.com/news...
"Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughan knew how it ended, but he said there still was plenty of drama in watching the Mississippi school bus security tape. At 6:53 a.m. Tuesday, a 14-year-old girl boarded the bus and walked better than halfway toward the back. She reached into a flower-print bag and pulled out a chrome-plated .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun and began shouting and threatening the other students" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Fire moves toward Acton as officials hope for lower temperatures - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow...
Fire moves toward Acton as officials hope for lower temperatures
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Navy delays releasing OLF study, raises issue of louder jet - http://hamptonroads.com/2009...
"Navy announced Friday that it will delay releasing an environmental study of an outlying landing field to serve Oceana Naval Air Station. The field has sparked controversy among residents around the five rural sites under consideration in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. They fear that jet noise will disrupt their lives without bringing any economic benefits" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Transients on locomotive cause emergency stop - http://www.usatoday.com/news...
"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — Three transients hopped aboard a locomotive on a train hauling hazardous materials and triggered the brakes, bringing it to a halt in a western Colorado canyon, authorities said" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Fed up with multiple heists, police put suspect's face on billboards - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
Fed up with multiple heists, police put suspect's face on billboards
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Mexico catches leading member of La Familia cartel - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Mexico catches leading member of La Familia cartel
"Mexican army said Monday that soldiers captured Luis Ricardo Magana, who prosecutors describe as a leading member of the violent La Familia drug cartel" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Late rush too much for 'clunkers' Web site - http://www.upi.com/Busines...
"The last day of the Cash for Clunkers auto trade-in program generated so much business the online system for reimbursement crashed, U.S. officials said. Department of Transportation officials said late in the day the deadline for filing applications would be extended until noon EDT Tuesday, although the deadline for dealers to sell cars under the program was unchanged from 8 p.m. Monday, The Washington Post reported." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Expert: CIA Techniques Were Torture - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
Expert: CIA Techniques Were Torture
"James Bamford is an author and intelligence expert who has written extensively about the CIA. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric talked with him Monday night about the day's developments related to CIA interrogation techniques and whether these the practices revealed to day were in direct violation of the Geneva Convention" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Justice Dept names special prosecutor to review CIA abuse cases - http://www.france24.com/en...
Justice Dept names special prosecutor to review CIA abuse cases
"US Attorney General Eric Holder has named federal prosecutor John Durham to conduct a preliminary review into a host of alleged CIA prisoner-abuse cases following a recommendation from the Justice Department's ethics office to reopen the inquiries" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
ObamaCare is failing, so it's time to get the media focused on something else. - Spencer
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US releases detainee, 19, allows his return to Afghanistan - http://www.france24.com/en...
US releases detainee, 19, allows his return to Afghanistan
"United States has released Mohammed Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, and has allowed him to return to his native Kabul, his lawyer said. Jawad was accused in connection with a 2002 grenade attack" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Two artists set a course for sustainability — on the ocean - http://www.projo.com/news...
Two artists set a course for sustainability — on the ocean
"Squint. The Seekonk River might seem like the Mississippi. And the two men on its bank might pass for Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Dan Gladstone, 19, and Zachary Weindel, 26, have built a raft, and a dream — they hope to have a self-sufficient boat, a community and a way of life." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Military begins notifying Red Cross of secret detainees - http://www.france24.com/en...
Military begins notifying Red Cross of secret detainees
"In a first, the Pentagon is handing the International Committee of the Red Cross the names of militants held secretly at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Saturday" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
"red cross" .... don't trust 'em...i think this is phony news. red cross, same "guys" who stole money from the 9/11 victims...http://www.illuminati-news.com/red-cro... - Marg Uerite
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Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins
"A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
Idiots like this are holding us down, man. - Spidra Webster
+1 Spidra. - Tyson Key
Jolie photo:-) - Orangeade
Obviously the witch is allergic to water... - Peter Ghosh
is she still pissed that dorothy killed her sister with that house? - Jason Cox
Seriously, guys, the argument is that she slipped and fell because of the water. - Karl Knechtel
She slipped and feel due to the fact she was not careful and aware , how stupid do you have to be to not expect water on the ground around a big tank of water. - Lisa zahara Hopkins
This case is now live at the AllRise Court. Cast your vote and opinion - http://bit.ly/AllRise242 - AllRise
Bets on the outcome? My money is on the plaintiff, sadly. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Honestly. - Ayşe E.
Why visit the place where there is water to be splashed? - Ashish
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Marines Work and Live Hard in Afghanistan - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
Marines Work and Live Hard in Afghanistan
"The U.S. Marines from Echo Company are in Afghanistan with a mission to hunt down the Taliban in dangerous Helmand Province so that voters could get to the polls yesterday. They weren't always successful and voter turnout was very low" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Mexican Drug Cartels Find a Lucrative New Home in California State Parks - http://www.time.com/time...
Mexican Drug Cartels Find a Lucrative New Home in California State Parks
"The damage they do to society is well-known, but drug traffickers, it turns out, also aren't the most environmentally-minded campers. Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara's Los Padres National park, burning more than 136 square miles, was sparked by a cooking fire started by the hirelings of a Mexican drug cartel which was growing thousands of marijuana plants in the remote canyons." - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Leonard Peltier, American Indian Activist, Denied Parole And Won't Be Eligible Again Until 2024 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
Leonard Peltier, American Indian Activist, Denied Parole And Won't Be Eligible Again Until 2024
"American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said Friday" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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U.S. clinic offers British parents the opportunity to choose the sex of their child - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health...
U.S. clinic offers British parents the opportunity to choose the sex of their child
"British couples are being offered the chance to choose the sex of their child in a U.S. clinic" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Virginia Beach 19-year-old to serve 13 years for robbery - http://hamptonroads.com/2009...
"A 19-year-old man was ordered to serve 13 years in prison this week after being convicted of robbery and related gun and conspiracy charges. Circuit Judge Frederick Lowe formally sentenced Kevin M. McInnis of Virginia Beach to 33 years in prison, but he suspended 20 years, according to a statement from the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office. Police said they arrested and charged McInnis and a 16-year-old male with the Nov. 27 robbery of a cell phone and marijuana from another male on 14th Street. The juvenile pleaded guilty in January and was ordered to serve three years in juvenile detention" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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Macon police looking for missing teen - http://www.macon.com/local...
"Michael Andrews, who is 5 feet 10 inches, was last seen at approximately 9:20 p.m. at his residence at 160 Lamar St. He was last seen wearing his pajamas, a black tank top, black gym shorts, black Crocs, and white socks, according to a Macon police news release. Andrews weighs 160 pounds, has braces, short blonde/brown hair, and has a visible scar on his upper lip, according to the release. Andrews is reported to have bi-polar disorder and ADHD, but has not been medicated. He could be a danger to himself, according to the news release. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call the Macon police at 751-7500" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
:( - LB shining
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Blogger's Case May Test Limits of Political Speech - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Blogger's Case May Test Limits of Political Speech
"Internet radio host Hal Turner disliked how three federal judges rejected the National Rifle Association's attempt to overturn a pair of handgun bans. "Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed," Turner wrote on his blog on June 2, according to the FBI. "Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions."" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
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"delegation of U.S. senators led by John McCain met with Libya's leader Friday to discuss the possible delivery of non-lethal defense equipment" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet
how times have changed - Bill Rawlinson
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