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News Articles For 2/23

February 23, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” Samuel Adams: Essay in the Boston Gazette, April 16, 1781

Coalition Forces Detain Afghan Militants
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62895

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2011 – Afghan and coalition troops captured several insurgents, including a Haqanni terrorist network leader, yesterday in Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Deployed Currahee Soldier named preliminary bone marrow match
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4180-deployed-currahee-soldier-named-preliminary-bone-marrow-match.html

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – With his daily life dedicated to serving others through the military, U.S. Army Sgt. Tyrone J. Harvey never imagined he would one day have the opportunity to possibly make a personal sacrifice that might be someone’s one shot at hope.
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Study Guide: Van Jones, Qaddafi, and the Stock Market
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/22/study-guide-van-jones-qaddafi-and-the-stock-market/

NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/22 TV show.
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Oil price climb near $98 per barrel
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LIIAK00&show_article=1

NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices continue to climb as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi violently clashed with protesters who have expanded their control over the country.
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Nomura: Oil Could Rocket To $220 If Just Algeria And Libya Stop Production
http://www.businessinsider.com/nomura-oil-220-2011-2

Forget the biggies. If just Algeria and Libya were forced to stop production, oil could rocket to $220. That’s according to Nomura (via ZeroHedge). We have identified three distinct stages of the Gulf war which led to changes in oil prices and we believe we are only at the initial stage of the three stage process for the current MENA unrest.
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Mideast Unrest Is Not the Only Cause of High Oil, Gas Prices
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=20362

The ongoing turmoil throughout the Middle East highlights the continuing and pervasive vulnerability of the U.S. economy to oil price instability, yet the Obama administration continues to thwart any efforts to increase domestic oil production, according to H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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Run! Now Indiana House Dems Flee State to Block Anti-Union Legislation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/run-now-indiana-house-dems-flee-state-to-block-anti-union-legislation/

If you’re a politician and you want to block legislation that would crack down on union power in your state, apparently there’s a new way to do just that, and it’s gaining popularity. In a word: Run!
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Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/two-thirds-wisconsin-public-school-8th-g

(CNSNews.com) – Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.
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Wisconsin senate committee passes new rule: Senators must collect their paychecks in person
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/22/wisconsin-senate-committee-passes-new-rule-senators-must-collect-their-paychecks-in-person/

A nice first step. The next step, after the “fleebaggers” (as they’re now being called on Twitter) have come home, should be to pass a law retroactively docking their pay for the days they missed.
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Clueless In Wisconsin: Socialists March by Liberals Ridiculing Beck for Pointing Out Socialists Are Involved
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/clueless-in-wisconsin-socialists-march-by-liberals-ridiculing-beck-for-pointing-out-socialists-are-involved/

NOTE: This YouTube clip is 1:46.
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Democrat urges unions to ‘get a little bloody when necessary’
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/145627-dem-lawmaker-on-labor-protests-get-a-little-bloody-when-necessary

Sometimes it’s necessary to get out on the streets and “get a little bloody,” a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin.
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Tennessee joins states looking to yank fed reins
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=267141

Tennessee has joined the list of states looking to yank the reins on the federal government’s expansion into what more and more state lawmakers are considering their own prerogatives.
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‘Abe Lincoln’ Fined While Reciting Gettysburg Address at Lincoln Memorial
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/abe-lincoln-fined-while-reciting-gettysburg-address-at-lincoln-memorial/

A 25-year-old Washington, D.C. intern has been fined after he dressed up as Abraham Lincoln on Presidents Day and delivered the Gettysburg Address on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. His offense? He didn’t have a permit.
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Lawsuit: ‘Honor killings’ OK by Michigan Shariah
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=267029

A lawsuit that challenges the official cooperation by the city of Dearborn, Mich., which has one of the largest populations of Muslims in the U.S., with Islamic interests makes a stunning allegation: that under the recognized “Shariah” law in the city, there have been “honor killing” murders that have been “covered up.”
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Mexican marines find 72 sticks of explosives, guns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110223/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Mexican marines found 72 sticks of commercial synthetic explosives at a heavily armed camp in the southern state of Guerrero, the navy said Tuesday.
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North Korea and Iran’s Joint Nuclear Bomb Test
http://bigpeace.com/rkahlili/2011/02/23/north-korea-and-irans-joint-nuclear-bomb-test/

On December 30 of 2010, I revealed in my article, “Is Iran About to Test a Nuclear Bomb In North Korea?” that according to reports from inside Iran, a team of Iranian nuclear scientists have been sent to North Korea and that the two governments have agreed to a joint nuclear test in North Korea with a substantial financial reward for the Kim Jong-Il government.
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As Iranian Ships Pass Through Suez, Israel Decries ‘Provocation’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/as-iranian-ships-pass-through-suez-israel-decries-provocation/

JERUSALEM (AP) — As two Iranian warships sailed into the Mediterranean on Tuesday, an Israeli leader charged that Iran’s goal was hegemony in the Middle East.
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Greek riot police, protesters clash during strike
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110223/D9LIG4900.html

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Young demonstrators hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around the country.
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Bahrain frees prisoners to mollify protesters
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110223/wl_nm/us_bahrain

MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahrain has freed 23 people accused of trying to topple the island’s Sunni Muslim monarchy, along with more than 200 other mostly Shi’ite prisoners detained in recent months, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
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In Syria, Regime Squelches All Attempts at Protest
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34814.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The wave of protests sweeping through the Arab world has not passed Syria by, but has sparked some demonstrations and attempts to organize large-scale protests.
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Egypt protesters set cars alight in Cairo
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE71M1CU20110223?sp=true

CAIRO Feb 23 (Reuters) – About six vehicles were set on fire outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Wednesday, and witnesses said the blazes were caused by disaffected police officers demanding their jobs back.
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Saudi king back home, orders $37 bln in handouts
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/news-articles.aspx?cp-documentid=156221007

By Ulf LaessingRIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi King Abdullah returned home on Wednesday after a three-month medical absence and unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion (23 billion pounds) in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.
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Muslim Brotherhood: We’ll Set Up Satellite Channel, Publish New Newspapers
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34784.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has said that the movement intends to set up a satellite television channel and publish a number of newspapers and magazines, and that soon a monthly named Al-Da’wa would appear.
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In Gaza, Hamas Government Bans Men From Working In Women’s Hairdressing Salons
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34787.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The Hamas government has begun implementing its ban on men working in women’s hairdressing salons. Gaza Strip police have summoned five hairdressers and had them sign a document saying they would stop doing so, and would not enter salons that they manage, under threat of imprisonment and a NIS20,000 fine.
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Egyptian Children’s TV Show: We Must Liberate Jerusalem from the Hands of “the Disgusting Jews”
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2821.htm

NOTE: This clip from the “Ammo Alaa” Children’s TV Show is 2:16 long.
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Alert pizza delivery driver saves customer’s life
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14071806&

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – A pizza delivery driver was called a hero Monday after she likely saved an elderly woman’s life. Before Monday’s incident, most neighbors knew little about Memphis resident Jean Wilson, except that she’s eaten pizza daily for the past three years.
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The extraordinary face of the Moon
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/22/the-extraordinary-face-of-the-moon

Seen the full Moon lately? Maybe you have, but I can pretty much guarantee you’ve never seen it like this: Sure, that may just look like another full Moon picture, but it’s much more extraordinary than that: it’s one of the highest resolution pictures of the entire near side of the Moon ever compiled!

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News Articles For 2/5

February 5, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Face of Defense: Enlisted Marine Returns as Officer
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62705

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C., Feb. 4, 2011 – Marine Corps Capt. Joshua H. Weiland grew up in a typical American family in Park Falls, Wis. Not much more than a couple of intersections in the middle of a national forest, the town gave Weiland an environment that fit his personality.
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WikiLeaks: US Agreed to Reveal UK’s Nuclear Secrets to Russia
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wikileaks-us-agreed-to-reveal-uks-nuclear-secrets-to-russia/

In yet another bombshell disclosure this week, the online site WikiLeaks is shedding disturbing new light on the “special relationship” that once bound the United States and Great Britain.
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Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124502351634690.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Labor Force Participation Plunges To Fresh 26 Year Low
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/labor-force-participations-plunges-fresh-26-year-low

At 64.2%, the labor force participation rate (as a percentage of the total civilian noninstitutional population) is now at a fresh 26 year low, the lowest since March 1984, and is the only reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 9% (labor force declined from 153,690 to 153,186).
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Unions Can Bargain on Behalf of Airport Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05unionize.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1296925237-zf5HpGBLhoVaeBTi2X0w5Q

WASHINGTON — Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation’s 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation.
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Convicted: Woman ‘disobeyed’ illegal order
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259457

An appeal is challenging a Christian activist’s conviction for failing to obey a police officer’s order to shut down her camera while she was filming fellow Christian missionaries at last year’s Dearborn Arab Festival because the command apparently wasn’t legal.
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Big Obama donor quits envoy job amid criticism
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icvkPhBDrb3c8ySkXkQURKNJ9sSw?docId=306882dbed82458e8897d5afef59d730

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Cynthia Stroum was a superstar whose financial backing of the campaign landed her a plum diplomatic posting in Europe.
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U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Stroum Called “Bullying, Hostile” in State Department Investigation
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030683-503544.html

One way that presidents reward their biggest donors is by offering them plum ambassadorships. Which is why it wasn’t surprising when the Obama administration tapped Cynthia Stroum to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
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US warns about night driving in major Mexican city
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110205/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico

MEXICO CITY – Officials are warning U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the western Mexican city of Guadalajara after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets. A separate U.S. alert Friday said the northern city of Monterrey has seen a significant increase in armed robberies at restaurants and convenience stores.
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Beck & Rosenberg Explain the ‘New Caliphate’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-rosenberg-explain-the-new-caliphate/

NOTE: This is a 4:52 long video from Glenn Beck’s 2/4 Fox News TV show.
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Blast rocks gas terminal in Egypt’s Sinai
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110205/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_egypt_pipeline_explosion

EL-ARISH, Egypt – An explosion rocked a gas terminal in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, setting off a massive fire that was contained by shutting off the flow of gas to neighboring Jordan and Israel, officials and witnesses said.
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Is this the end? Mubarak quits as party leader after 12 days of bloodshed and riots in Egypt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353951/Egypt-protests-Hosni-Mubarak-quits-party-leader-12-days-riots.html

President Hosni Mubarak has resigned as the head of Egypt ruling party, according to State television. It comes as the country was on the verge of descending into chaos as newly appointed vice president Omar Suleiman reportedly survived an assassination attempt and saboteurs allegedly attacked an oil pipeline.
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Egypt Officials Seek to Ease Mubarak Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?hp

CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly isolated on Saturday, with protests entering their 12th day and the Obama administration and some members of the Egyptian military and civilian elite pursuing plans to nudge him from power.
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State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12371994

David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism. At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.
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Sudan’s Bashir vows freedoms and open government
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110205/wl_nm/us_sudan_bashir

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s president promised a future of freedom and open government on Saturday in a strikingly conciliatory speech following a week of small protests in Sudan and an uprising in neighboring Egypt.
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PIMCO says Europe should relieve Greece of debt
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/05/us-fund-greek-idUSTRE7141MC20110205

(Reuters) – Europe should relieve Greece of some of its debt burden as its savings program would only stifle economic growth, the head of the world’s biggest bond fund was quoted as saying in a German magazine on Saturday.
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Russian FM opposes further sanctioning Iran
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=206916&R=R1

MUNICH — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday indicated that he opposes slapping more international sanctions on Iran in the standoff over its nuclear program.
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Hate of U.S. keeps weapons trade thriving
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259313

Intelligence analysts say the three-way relationship, especially involving weapons trade, between Russia, China and Iran is complex, but it’s held together by a common enemy: The United States.
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Off-Duty Cop Credits Divine Intervention in Rescuing Kidnapped Woman
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/off-duty-cop-credits-divine-intervention-in-rescuing-kidnapped-woman/

Do you believe in God? Lt. Tommy Butler does and the Scotland County, N.C., deputy sheriff believes it was His divine intervention that helped him rescue a kidnapped woman trapped inside her abductors’ car trunk.

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News Articles For 12/20

December 20, 2010 — Operation Rooster

60 Panjshir families get healthy drinking water
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3857-60-panjshir-families-get-healthy-drinking-water.html

PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Thanks to a little self-help and the support of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team, 60 families in the Bazarak Municipality now have access to healthy drinking water.
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Christmas trees boost troop morale
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/christmas-trees-boost-troop-morale

FOB WARHORSE — A fresh, aromatic pine tree stands tall, its pine needles draped with garlands and Christmas ornaments, greeting Soldiers entering the 225th Brigade Support Battalion Headquarters building here with holiday festivity and cheer.
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Santa surprise: Belvidere boy gets reunion with Army brother for Christmas
http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=13706978

ROCKFORD (WREX) – Like most 4-year-olds, Michael Glass’s Christmas wish list includes toys. But what he really wants can’t be found at the mall. “Zach to come home. Zach as my present.” That’s what Michael’s letter to Santa said. The big man himself read it out loud as Michael sat on his knee. “Who’s Zach?” “My brother.” “That’s your brother. Where’s he at?” “The Army.”
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‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing’: Sen. Coburn Releases Gov’t Waste Report
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/823200-to-study-genitalia-washing-in-south-africa-sen-coburn-releases-report-detailing-govt-waste/

$175 million to maintain an unused monkey house. $1.8 million for a museum dedicated to old Las Vegas signs. $615,000 to digitize a Grateful Dead collection. And $823,200 to study genitalia washing in South Africa. Those are just some of the projects that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) uses as examples of government waste in his annual “Wastebook” report released today.
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Senate Passes Food Safety Bill…Again
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-passes-food-safety-bill-again/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. This is the second time the Senate has passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food.
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Govt ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.35fe9afbf5c0253f885080ba82e9784c.781&show_article=1

The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, The Washington Post reported Monday.
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FCC Chair ‘Calling CEOs’ to Garner Support for Net Neutrality
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fcc-chair-calling-ceos-to-garner-support-for-net-neutrality/

Democrats’ net neutrality proposal is entering its home stretch and members of the party have a clear message for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Julius Genachowski — don’t screw this up.
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Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/19/wireless-carriers-openly-considering-charging-per-service/

That slide above is no joke — it comes from a marketing webinar put on by two companies that count Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone as clients, and it describes a system that identifies customer internet activity and charges a different rate for using Facebook than watching YouTube, while allowing access to Vodafone services for free.
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FCC Working With Al Sharpton to Let HIM Drag Rush and Others in FRONT OF A PUBLIC HEARING to Explain Themselves
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fcc-working-with-al-sharpen-to-let-him-drag-rush-and-others-in-front-of-a-public-hearing-to-explain-themselves/

NOTE: This cliip is 1:31 from the Tom Joyner Morning Show on 12/15/10.
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Pigford Video Blockbuster: Key ‘Black Farmers’ Lawyer Admits Clients ‘Got Away With Murder’
http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2010/12/19/pigford-video-blockbuster-key-black-farmers-lawyer-admits-clients-got-away-with-murder/

The mainstream media has treated accusations of large-scale fraud in the Pigford settlement with overt skepticism and a distinct lack of journalistic curiosity.
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‘Police kept me in jail even after judge said let me free’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239633

A state appeals court has released a ruling that scolds sheriff’s department officers in Cleveland, Tenn., for breaking state law regarding due process, but at the same time said those actions really don’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of those rights.
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Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121802810.html

An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film “Erin Brockovich.”
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12 Arrested in Suspected UK Terrorist Plot
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/12-arrested-in-suspected-uk-christmas-terrorist-plot/

LONDON (AP) — British anti-terrorism police said Monday they arrested 12 men in early morning raids on three cities to protect the public amid fears of a holiday season terrorism plot.
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ECB government bond purchases drop sharply
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis

BRUSSELS – The European Central Bank has sharply reduced its purchases of bonds from vulnerable governments such as Greece, Ireland, or Portugal, despite pressure to do more to help fight the continent’s crippling debt crisis.
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‘Afraid’: NKorea Fails on its Retaliatory Promises After SKorea Drills
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/afraid-nkorea-fails-on-its-retaliatory-promises-after-skorea-drills/

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military staged live-fire drills from an island just miles (kilometers) from rival North Korea’s shores Monday, despite Pyongyang’s threats of catastrophic retaliation for the maneuvers.
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Protesting ‘Vote-Rigging,‘ Belarus Rioters Try to Storm Gov’t Building
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/protesting-vote-rigging-belarus-rioters-try-to-storm-govt-building/

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters in Belarus tried to storm the main government building to protest what they claim was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday’s presidential election, but they were driven back and beaten by riot police.
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Woman Samaritan Helps Save Cop From Beating
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/15/woman-samaritan-helps-save-cop-from-beating/

(Dec. 15) — When the going gets tough, it’s time to help out your local police officer. An Ohio cop is thankful for the community spirit of a woman who helped save him from a violent assault during a routine traffic stop.

News Articles For 12/15

December 15, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill, Detain Insurgents
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62082

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2010 – Afghan and coalition forces today killed more than 10 Taliban fighters during an operation in northern Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Warrant Needed to Get Your E-Mail, Appeals Court Says
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/fourth-amendment-email/

The government must obtain a court warrant to require internet service providers to turn over stored e-mail to the authorities, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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‘All Hell is Breaking Loose’: $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill Nears 2,000 Pages
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/%E2%80%98all-hell-is-breaking-loose%E2%80%99-1-1-trillion-spending-bill-reaches-2000-pages-includes-20000-earmarks/

In one of their last acts before Congress adjourns for the year, Senate Democrats are pushing a 1,924-page spending bill that includes massive earmark spending. If passed, the measure would be enacted into law without debate in the full senate.
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NY Schools’ ‘Human Rights’ Curriculum Features Van Jones
http://blog.survivalstation.org/ny-schools%25E2%2580%2599-%25E2%2580%2598human-rights%25E2%2580%2599-curriculum-features-van-jones-62695.html

A new human rights curriculum that was recently introduced to middle schools and high schools all across New York is a disservice to students because it wastes precious instruction time which would be more wisely spent on academic fundamentals.
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Report – Rate of Gitmo Detainees Returning to Jihad Doubled In Last 2 Years
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/12/14/report-rate-of-gitmo-detainees-returning-to-jihad-doubled-in-last-2-years/

The Weekly Standard reports that 150 former Guantanamo detainees are either “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities,” according to a new intelligence assessment released by the Director of National Intelligence’s office on Tuesday. In total, 598 detainees have been transferred out of U.S. custody at Guantanamo. 1 out of every 4, or 25 percent, of these former detainees is now considered a confirmed or suspected recidivist by the U.S. government.
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Senator Jim DeMint: The START 2 Treaty Does Limit U.S. Missile Defense
http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/12/14/senator-jim-demint-the-start-2-treaty-does-limit-u-s-missile-defense/

“This is a major arms control agreement and, in my mind, has some very serious flaws and can actually make the world more dangerous if we’re not careful.” – Senator Jim DeMint.
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FL School Board Shooter Posted Suicide Note Railing Against the Rich, Linking to Media Matters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fl-school-board-shooter-posted-suicide-note-railing-against-the-rich-linking-to-media-matters/

Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.
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Border Patrol Agent Killed in Southern Arizona
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/12/15/border-patrol-agent-killed-in-southern-arizona/

The U.S. Border Patrol has confirmed that one of its agents has been killed in Southern Arizona.Border Patrol spokesman Eric Cantu confirmed the agent’s death but had very few details to release Wednesday morning.
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Sidestepping the U.S. Dollar, a Russian Exchange Will Swap Rubles and Renminbi
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/global/15iht-ruble15.html?_r=1

MOSCOW — Russia and China are poised to take a small but symbolic step in their expanding economic relationship, a move that in the long term could make the dollar less relevant to business between the two nations.
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Mexican border city hits 3,000 dead in drug war
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico

MEXICO CITY – This year’s death toll in drug-related violence in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the hardest hit by Mexico’s drug war, rose to 3,000 Tuesday after two men were shot dead on a street, authorities said.
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‘Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years’
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199475

The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by two years, a top German computer consultant who was one of the first experts to analyze the program’s code told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
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Iran reformer sentenced to jail, exile and fine
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_politics

TEHRAN, Iran – An opposition activist has been convicted of vague charges of working against the ruling system and insulting the country’s supreme leader and sentenced to 20 months in jail, an opposition website reported Wednesday.
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Italians Riot After Prime Minister Gets Votes of Confidence
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/italians-riot-after-prime-minister-gets-votes-of-confidence/

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi pulled off another astonishing escape from the political dead, scraping through two confidence votes Tuesday in a dramatic parliamentary showdown. But the Italian leader’s hold on power remains precarious as his razor-thin victory makes political gridlock a near certainty – and violent street protests show growing unease with his rule.
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Shocking Vid: Greek Rioter Firebombs Policeman — Engulfs Him in Flames
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-vid-greek-rioter-firebombs-police-engulfed-in-flames/

Greek Labor unions are once again rioting in the streets against austerity measures. Those riots have quickly turned violent. The video below shows one rioter firebombing a police officer, who is then engulfed in flames as people cheer.
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Chavez seeks power to rule by decree for 1 year
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_venezuela_chavez

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked congress Tuesday to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers.
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Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/12/14/doctors-claim-hiv-positive-man-cured-stem-cell-transplant/

There’s an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, and now doctors believe one of them may have been cured of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2007, the medical journal Blood reported.
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Santa Fulfills Dying Boy’s Wish
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/13/santa-fulfills-dying-boy-s-wish/

(Dec. 13) — St. Nick and Christmas cards from around the world are fulfilling the final wishes of Matthew Michael Butman of Wylie, Texas. “I have Leigh’s Disease,” writes Matthew, 11. Like other ‘tweens, Matt uses a Facebook page to keep track of his buddies. But Matt also uses his Facebook page to explain the disease that’s killing him, the disease that keeps him in bed, unable to walk or even to speak.

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News Articles For 12/13

December 13, 2010 — Operation Rooster

World War II Navy Ace Recalls Harrowing Mission
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62062

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – When the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, America sought retribution and finally took up arms. It wasn’t until almost three years later that the country would receive its final closure.
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US Soldier honors fallen brother in Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-soldier-honors-fallen-brother-in-iraq

CAMP TAJI — When 11-year-old Dominic Wheeler watched his brother DJ leave for Iraq in 2003, his mother asked how he felt about his brother going to war. “Just as long as he comes home,” Dominic responded.
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TF Patriot honors fallen comrade
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3809-tf-patriot-honors-fallen-comrade.html

LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Members of Task Force Patriot gathered to honor U.S. Army 1st Lt. Scott Milley during a memorial service at Combat Outpost Baraki Barak Dec. 5.
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Red Currahee cooks create special treats for Soldier morale
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3810-red-currahee-cooks-create-special-treats-for-soldier-morale.html

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Food service personnel from Company E, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, treat Soldiers to delicious meals and desserts at Forward Operating Base Waza Khaw.
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Face of Defense: Soldier Finds Niche in Nuristan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62060

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Since arriving here several months ago to serve with Task Force Bastogne, Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil — a cannon crewmember with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, has made a positive impression on his leaders.
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To get DREAM Act over its first hurdle, timing was everything
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/133291-on-house-passage-of-dream-act-timing-was-everything

When House Democrats last week passed the DREAM Act before the Senate had staged its vote, the timing was no accident. Instead, the chronology was part of a carefully designed strategy — orchestrated, with some tension, between the two chambers — to grant the proposal its greatest shot at success.
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Wall Street Sees Record Revenue in Recovery From Bailout
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/wall-street-sees-record-revenue-in-09-10-recovery-from-government-bailout.html

Wall Street’s biggest banks, rebounding after a government bailout, are set to complete their best two years in investment banking and trading, buoyed by 2010 results likely to be the second-highest ever.
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Judge rules for Va. on health-care case
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/dec/13/judge-rules-va-health-care-case-ar-712804/

A federal judge in Richmond today has ruled in favor of Virginia’s challenge to the federal health-care law, striking down the mandate that requires nearly every American to purchase insurance or face a penalty.
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Obamacare Heads to Court This Week
http://biggovernment.com/kharned/2010/12/13/obamacare-heads-to-court-this-week/

While the new Congress deliberates over ways to repeal or defund the Obama Administration’s “healthcare reform” law, twenty states and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), have filed suit in federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be struck down immediately. This is the largest of several legal challenges to Obamacare across the country.
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Harry Reid’s Lame Duck Attempt to Weaken Our Border
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/12/13/harry-reids-lame-duck-attempt-to-weaken-our-border/

From the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers that Reid’s effort, if successful, would harm U.S. efforts to block illegal entry and drug smuggling in border areas.
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Detroit Is Halting Garbage Pickup, Police Patrols In 20% Of City: Expect Bankruptcy In 2011
http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-garbage-pickup-bankruptcy-2010-12

Detroit has been bankrupt for years. It simply refuses to admit it. Detroit’s schools are bankrupt as well. A mere 25% of students graduate from high school.
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Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/us/13prison.html?_r=2

The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons.
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UK: Gangs and hardcore activists behind violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_tuition_protest

LONDON – Home Secretary Theresa May says street gangs infiltrated a London protest last week in which demonstrators attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.
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Anti-austerity strikes held in Greece
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1213/breaking29.html

Greek public transport and media workers launched a week of anti-austerity strikes today expected to ground flights, disrupt services and pile rubbish on the streets in the run-up to Christmas holidays.
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Iran conducts large military exercise near Iraq border
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199231

TEHERAN — Iran’s army has finished a large military exercise by ground forces near the Iraqi border, the official Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Monday. But unlike previous war games in which Iran boasted of weapons advances, the latest maneuvers were largely held under wraps.
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Iran not a rogue state: Australia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101213/wl_nm/us_wikileaks_iran_australia

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is at odds with its major security ally the United States over Iran, saying it is not a “rogue state” and its nuclear weapons program is for deterrence, not attack, according to U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks.
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NKorea threatens SKorea with nuclear war
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101213/D9K2VUKO0.html

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of a South Korean island.
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Hundreds protest against Russian government
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40630754/ns/world_news-europe/

MOSCOW — Hundreds of people protested against the Russian government Sunday at two separate rallies in Moscow, with opposition activists calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and nationalists demanding greater rights for ethnic Russians. Several opposition activists were detained.
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Continental Flight 9900 provides magical North Pole trip for hospitalized children
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/12/north_pole_trip_is_magical_for.html

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just in case the special guests missed the blow-up Santa or penguins marking the ticketing counter Saturday, a flashing sign alerted them that they had indeed reached “Elf Check-in.”

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News Articles For 11/3

November 3, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Combined Force Kills Insurgents in Helmand Province
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61535

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2010 – A partnered Afghan and International Security Assistance Force patrol yesterday killed several insurgents and detained several others during an operation to detain a Taliban leader in the Nad-e Ali district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, military officials reported.
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Opry comes to Iraq: Adkins plays for troops
http://www.dvidshub.net/index.php/news/59271/opry-comes-iraq-adkins-plays-troops

BASRA, Iraq – A four-time Grammy Award nominee visited southern Iraq recently to play for what could arguably be his toughest crowd yet. Trace Adkins, a country musician with nine albums that reached the top 10 on U.S. music charts, put on a show for United States Division-South troops in Basra Oct. 31.
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Fairchild Airmen rescue 6 in one day
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123228895

11/2/2010 – FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFNS) — Airmen from the 36th Rescue Flight saved six people and a dog during two different operations in Northern Idaho Oct. 28.
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Quiet hero awarded Soldier’s Medal
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/11/01/47518-quiet-hero-awarded-soldiers-medal/index.html?ref=home-headline-title2

Specialist Jose A. Ortiz-Fernandez of the 63rd Chemical Company, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) was awarded the prestigious Soldier’s Medal in the shadows of the 101st Airborne Division Headquarters Friday, October 29.
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Air Guard Looks to Expand Home Child Care
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/11/02/air-guard-looks-to-expand-home-child-care/

When it comes to the Air National Guard, weekend child care is not just a matter of readiness, it’s sometimes an added expense that has some Guardsmen considering leaving the service.
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Veterans’ Reflections: Following in Her Father’s Footsteps
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61529

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2010 – Marie Peckham is a small woman. While it wouldn’t be technically inaccurate to assume she wears military-themed pins and jewelry because her husband served in the military — he did — it would be an underestimation of Peckham’s strength.
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Face of Defense: Couple Deploys, Re-enlists Together
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61528

BAGHDAD, Nov. 3, 2010 – “Go big or go home” is what Army Sgt. Ashleigh Berg told her husband, Army Sgt. Matthew Berg, when they decided to re-enlist here for four more years Oct. 21.
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US missile strikes kill 9 militants in Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101103/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Two U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles into northwestern Pakistan just hours apart on Wednesday killing nine suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Coast Guard office latest site of gunshot
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/2/police-shots-fired-coast-guard-office-va/

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — At least one shot was fired overnight at a Coast Guard recruiting office in Northern Virginia, police said Tuesday, the fifth case since last month of unexplained gunfire targeting military-related buildings in the Washington area.
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Treasury estimates $362B in borrowing for quarter
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101101/D9J7HIAO0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Treasury Department said Monday it will need to borrow $362 billion in the current October-December quarter, the second largest borrowing on record for this period.
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QE2 risks currency wars and the end of dollar hegemony
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/8103462/QE2-risks-currency-wars-and-the-end-of-dollar-hegemony.html

As the US Federal Reserve meets today to decide whether its next blast of quantitative easing should be $1 trillion or a more cautious $500bn, it does so knowing that China and the emerging world view the policy as an attempt to drive down the dollar.
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`Invalid’ Forms by Supposed Billionaires Skew U.S. Wage Figures
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-02/-invalid-multiple-tax-forms-by-supposed-billionaires-skew-wage-figures.html

The Social Security Administration asked its inspector general to investigate how a $32.3 billion mistake skewed its statistics on 2009 wages in the U.S.
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US to spend $200 [million] a day on Obama’s Mumbai visit
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106

Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama’s visit to the city. “The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
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Election Day fraud found all over U.S.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=223145

During each election cycle, news stories emerge of voter irregularities and ballot malfunctions, prompting volunteer organizations to fight what they say is rampant fraud, while many authorities and other organizations dismiss the charges as unfounded.
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Bachmann wants Constitution class
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44418.html

For the Tea Party soldiers worried that the young upstarts they’re poised to send to Congress will lose their constitutional druthers once they get to Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann has a message: Fear not, she’s going to set up constitutional classes.
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Oklahoma votes to gut Obamacare
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=223389

Voters in Oklahoma have shouted “No” to the Obama administration’s signature legislation, Obamacare. Sooners voted overwhelmingly, 65 percent to 35 percent for a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to declare mandates to purchase health insurance illegal.
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Calif. Republican Loses to Dead Democrat
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-republican-loses-to-dead-democrat/

Death has no political sting in California. Exhibit A: even though Jenny Oropez died last month, the Democrat easily won re-election to California’s State Senate, defeating John Stammerich, her Republican challenger, by a 58-35 margin.
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Alaska TV Station Fires Staff for ‘Phonegate’ Plot Against Joe Miller
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alaska-tv-station-fires-staff-for-phonegate-plot-against-joe-miller/

In an election week bombshell, the Senate campaign of Alaska Republican Joe Miller released audio captured on a phone message left by a local television affiliate. In the audio, the Miller campaign claimed, employees of KTVA could be heard discussing plans to undermine Miller’s campaign by purposefully negatively skewing their reports.
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ACORN files for bankruptcy on Election Day
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=223173

ACORN, a national registration organization accused of rampant voter fraud, celebrated this Election Day by declaring it is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. “For over 40 years ACORN has fought the good fight,” Bertha Lewis, the group’s CEO, said in a news release today.
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Mail bomb campaign in Athens reaches Germany
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_greece_mail_bombs

ATHENS, Greece – Suspected Greek terrorists unleashed an unprecedented two-day wave of mail bomb attacks in Athens and abroad, with one package reaching the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday.
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Greece suspends air freight after bombs found
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/ts_nm/us_greece_bomb

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece suspended overseas shipment of mail and packages for 48 hours on Wednesday, hoping to stop militants sending more parcel bombs in addition to more than a dozen already sent to governments and embassies.
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Ahmadinejad: Russia has sold us out to our enemies
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=193859&R=R1

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned Russia’s decision not to supply Iran with S-300 missiles in accordance with a previous agreement on Wednesday.
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South Korea fires warning shots, second incident in days
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/wl_nm/us_korea_north;_ylt=AmsJ7EtA9FUKCpqPNZwxovtvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTJmZ3B1cTJjBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAxMTAzL3VzX2tvcmVhX25vcnRoBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNzb3V0aGtvcmVhZmk-

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s navy fired warning shots to drive away a North Korean fishing boat at a maritime border on Wednesday, the second incident in six days, jangling nerves in Seoul ahead of next week’s G20 summit.
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Israel cuts off special dialogue with Britain
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_britain

JERUSALEM – Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with London as long as Israeli officials visiting Britain face possible arrest for suspected war crimes against Palestinians, officials said Wednesday.
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Sugar soars to 30-year high as supply fears grow
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/43cfbb7a-e6b2-11df-99b3-00144feab49a.html

The price of sugar has jumped to a 30-year high as the Brazilian harvest has tailed off sharply, hardening expectations of a shortage. Traders believe that prices could soar over the coming months as the market faces a supply shortfall driven by smaller-than-forecast crops in important growing countries from Brazil to Russia and western Europe.
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Radical Islamist ‘Thinkers’ Now Moving to Violent Action
http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2010/11/03/radical-islamist-thinkers-now-moving-to-violent-action/

Followers of the outspoken groups Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society are moving from ideology to violent action, a review of recent terror indictments by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows.
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Store Customer Uses Squash To Stop Robber
http://www.wmur.com/r/25578010/detail.html

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A Manchester corner store clerk is thanking her fast-acting neighbor for foiling a robbery. Police said Sean Cullen, 25, used a note to try to rob the Hillsborough Market on Lincoln Street.

News Articles For 11/2

November 2, 2010 — Operation Rooster

US transfers border outpost to GoI
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-transfers-border-outpost-to-iraqis

AL TIB – Just a stone’s throw away from the Iranian border, United States Soldiers recently spent their final day at Joint Security Station Al Tib before pressing forward with their next mission.
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Troops assist with Iraqi-led aid mission
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/troops-assist-with-iraqi-led-aid-mission

BAGHDAD—School is out for the day at the North Halabsah School northwest of the Iraqi capital. The Iraqi boys and girls swarm out of their classrooms, smiling, carrying backpacks and holding hands. Laughter floats along the cool October breeze.
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‘Toy Soldiers’ cheer hospitalized kids
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/toy-soldiers-cheer-hospitalized-kids

COB ADDER – Calling themselves the “Toy Soldiers,” a team of U.S. service members is reaching out to the local people by delivering toys to hospitalized Iraqi children here.
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Veterans’ Reflections: The Crew of the USS Oklahoma City
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61510

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2010 – On Sept. 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the USS Missouri to sign the Japanese instrument of surrender, effectively ending fighting on the Pacific front in World War II.
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Face of Defense: Defense Department Teachers Deploy
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61492

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2010 – When Brenda Colom first heard news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that affected as many as 3 million people, she felt compelled to do something.
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US found suspected test parcels in Yemen bomb plot
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.07a5df7c6b6557b51ab3e6a8600d21ee.f1&show_article=1

The United States intercepted parcels from Yemen in September thought to be a dry run for the package bomb plot, a US official said, as Western governments tightened freight and passenger security.
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Overwhelmed by Debt? Go on a Debt Diet
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/debt-diet-pay-credit-card-bills-student-loans/story?id=12018885

Eleven trillion dollars of debt: that’s the current amount of consumer debt in this country. Even though this staggering number has decreased since 2008, the average American is $16,000 in debt, not including a mortgage.
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Congress ‘socialist bloc’ expected to survive vote
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=222653

While Republicans are expected to make extraordinary gains in today’s elections, the most radical Democrat members of Congress – notably a House caucus founded as an arm of a Marxist socialist organization – are expected to emerge mostly unscathed.
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Professor Exposes Federally Funded ‘Revisionist’ History Conference
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/professor-exposes-federally-funded-revisionist-history-conference/

In July, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored a workshop on “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII” for college professors in Hawaii. Professor Penelope Blake, a veteran professor of Humanities at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., was one of 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, but was reportedly disheartened to find the conference “driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda.”
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The New Axis of Evil
http://biggovernment.com/dfreeman/2010/11/01/the-new-axis-of-evil/

In 1983, Ronald Reagan infuriated liberals worldwide by accurately labeling the Soviet Union as the evil empire. George W. Bush received a similar reaction following his “axis of evil” speech in which he used the politically incorrect term, evil, to describe the regimes of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
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Four Americans Killed in Separate Attacks in Border City, Mexican Authorities Say
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/01/mexico-americans-killed-separate-attacks-border-city/

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.
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Pakistan Seeks Alliance with China as the U.S. Gets Tough
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20101102/wl_time/08599202857600

Declarations of solidarity and the $2 billion in promised military aid received by a high-level Pakistani delegation in Washington last week belie the hardening of U.S. attitudes toward Islamabad.
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Embassies targeted in wave of Athens parcel bombs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101102/wl_nm/us_greece_bomb;_ylt=Am_nqiv7VUdwMVrHaJUXza9vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTJmcmhsZ2poBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAxMTAyL3VzX2dyZWVjZV9ib21iBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNlbWJhc3NpZXN0YXI-

ATHENS (Reuters) – Bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens on Tuesday and police found suspect packages at two other embassies in a wave of parcel bomb attacks in the Greek capital.
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France and UK plan unprecedented military cooperation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101102/wl_nm/us_britain_france

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – Britain and France will launch a broad defense partnership on Tuesday that includes setting up a joint force and sharing equipment and nuclear missile research centers, a French government source said.
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NATO member undermines defense plan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=222529

NATO’s plan to build a defense shield that would protect against a missile launch by Iran, whose leaders have threatened to destroy Israel, may be derailed by one of the security organization’s own members, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-cure-for-the-common-cold-may-finally-be-achieved-as-a-result-of-a-remarkable-discovery-in-a-cambridge-laboratory-2122607.html

In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body’s immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.
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Australian man saves woman from shark by grabbing tail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11664360

A swimmer saved a young woman who was attacked by a shark, off the coast of western Australia, by grabbing it by the tail, rescuers have said. The shark, which had bitten 19-year-old Elyse Frankcom, let go of her, they added.

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News Articles For 10/6

October 6, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Troops help with ISF humanitarian aid
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/soldiers-assist-isf-humanitarian-mission

BAGHDAD – U.S. Soldiers recently assisted Iraqi Security Forces during “Operation Raider Outreach,” an ISF-led humanitarian aid mission to an area in need near here.
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Forces Capture Taliban Kidnapping Suspect
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61146

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2010 – Coalition and Afghan forces apprehended several insurgent leaders in Afghanistan overnight, including a Taliban district leader suspected in the kidnapping of a British news reporter last year, military officials said.
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Helmand Province Sees Governance, Economic Improvements
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61150

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2010 – Britain’s senior representative in southern Afghanistan said today that she sees “significant progress” in local governments, justice institutions and economic indicators in the former Taliban stronghold of Helmand province.
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Wounded veteran shares stories of resilience
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/10/02/46067-wounded-veteran-shares-stories-of-resilience/?ref=news-arnews-title4

BASRA, Iraq (Oct. 4, 2010) – When Dave Roever was in the Navy during the Vietnam War, “resiliency” and “comprehensive soldier fitness” took a backseat to combat operations. In the summer of 1969, there was little in the way of stress clinics, resiliency campuses or mental health treatment for service members.
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Face of Defense: Marine Takes Service to New Heights
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=6115

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2010 – Marines are encouraged to be active in their local community, but an instructor with the Marine Corps Communication-Electronics School here has taken that challenge to new heights – literally.
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Border Patrol Projects Caught Up for Months in Red Tape, Government Study Shows
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/05/border-patrol-projects-caught-months-red-tape-study-shows/

Border Patrol agents trying to keep up with the pace of illegal immigration along the southwest border have gotten stuck in a kind of bureaucratic limbo, with a new government report showing federal regulations have stalled projects for months.
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$162 million in stimulus funds not disclosed
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-10-06-stimulus06_ST_N.htm

WASHINGTON — Recovery.gov promised transparency on how the government spends every dollar of stimulus money, but there’s $162 million the website doesn’t disclose.
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HHS Can’t Meet Their Own Deadlines for Obamacare
http://biggovernment.com/bdomenech/2010/10/06/hhs-cant-meet-their-own-deadlines-for-obamacare/

When President Obama sold his health care plan to the American people, he did so based on the broad notion that government really can run your life better than you can, even when it comes to your own health care. He did this in spite of massive evidence to the contrary from all walks of life, confident that Washington bureaucracy knows best.
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Middle Class Slams Brakes on Spending
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298504575534341401915382.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

Middle-class Americans made their deepest spending cuts in more than two decades, slashing spending on such discretionary items as restaurant meals and alcohol during the recession.
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Banks’ $4 trillion debts are ‘Achilles’ heel of the economic recovery’, warns IMF
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8043800/Banks-4-trillion-debts-are-Achilles-heel-of-the-economic-recovery-warns-IMF.html

More taxpayer support is needed to ensure global financial stability despite the billions already pledged, the International Monetary Fund has warned, as banks remain the “achilles heel” of the economic recovery.
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Doomsday Clocks: Are We Heading for Another Great Depression?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/are-we-heading-for-another-great-depression/

Is America heading toward another Great Depression? The answer may not be a definite “yes” or “no,“ but rather an eerie ”maybe.” In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Donald Luskin laid out an argument for why, should we continue on our path, America might be poised to repeat the mistakes it made that lead up to and perpetuated the Great Depression. In other words, if history is a great teacher, we could be its worst students.
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Obama’s euthanizing of 4th Amendment
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=211885

Before his forced resignation, President Richard Nixon declared, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” Our current chief executive, however, speaking this year at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, said of our terrorist enemies: “They may seek to exploit our freedoms, but we will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and distrust.”
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Cyber Wars: US Is Stepping Up Defense Against Digital Attacks
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39518423

Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knights with double-edged swords.
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The Russian Hacker Bust: Is the FBI Only Chasing Mules?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20101005/wl_time/08599202339100

The FBI wanted poster looks like a yearbook page from a Russian provincial college. Seventeen men and women from Eastern Europe, mostly between the ages of 19 and 22, with bad skin, nerdy haircuts and no resemblance to your stereotypical bank robbers.
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Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101006/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan, killing six militants.
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25 NATO fuel tankers attacked in Pakistan
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101006/D9IM4OV00.html

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – Gunmen torched more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver Wednesday, the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing almost a week ago.
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Afghan Police Seize 22 Tons Of Explosives From Iran
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/international/afghan-police-seize-22-tons-of-explosives-from-iran-20101006-ncx

AFP – Afghan police said Wednesday they had seized 22 tons of explosives stashed in boxes marked “food, toys and kitchenware” that were imported from neighboring Iran.
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Report: Taliban chiefs enter secret talks with government to end war
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39529232/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia

Secret talks to end the war in Afghanistan have begun between representatives of the Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, The Washington Post reported on its website Tuesday night.
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Greek debt and deficit figures to shoot up: EU
http://news.ph.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4380915

Increased figures for Greek national debt and deficits covering contested data from 2006 to 2009 will be published this month, the EU said on Wednesday after conducting its first invasive audit.
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Fitch Downgrades Ireland’s Rating on Cost of Banking Bailout
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-06/ireland-sovereign-debt-rating-cut-one-level-by-fitch-outlook-is-negative.html

Fitch Ratings lowered Ireland’s credit grade to the lowest of any of the major rating companies and said there’s a risk of a further reduction. Ireland was cut to A+ from AA-, reflecting the “exceptional and greater-than-expected cost” of the nation’s bailout of its banking system, Fitch said in a statement today.
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Alzheimer’s Patients Making Memorable Art
http://www.gnn.com/article/alzheimers-patient-chuck-kellar-making/1312253

(Oct. 5) — Chuck Kellar fans can recognize his signature work in seconds, but the artist often forgets which pieces are his shortly after painting them. Kellar has Alzheimer’s disease and can’t remember whether he is 83 or 85, but his fans find his work unforgettable, even as his own memory fades.

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News Articles For 10/2

October 2, 2010 — Operation Rooster

15 insurgents killed in Konar Province
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/press-releases-mainmenu-326/3381-15-insurgents-killed-in-konar-province.html

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces killed at least 15 insurgents in a firefight after they attempted to set up an attack position in the Tsowkey District, Konar Province, Oct. 1.
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Afghan, Coalition Troops Find Narcotics Cache
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61116

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2010 – Afghan and International Security Assistance Force troops found and secured a large amount of narcotics during a combined operation in the Achin district of Nangarhar province today.
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New Medical Center Serves Military, Veterans
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61111

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2010 – The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments took a big step today toward closer collaboration with the dedication of a first-of-its-kind, fully integrated health-care center, in North Chicago, Ill.
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Faith, Hope and Charity: Dying Marine’s Final Wish Granted
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/faith-hope-and-charity-dying-marines-final-wish-granted/

A former Marine and Desert Storm veteran with little time left to live has become the recipient of grateful citizens’ outpouring of support and generosity — all in hopes of granting one man’s final wish.
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Face of Defense: Guardsman Serves in the Classroom
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61113

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2010 – Georgia National Guard Spc. Doug Lane didn’t quit his day teaching job when he deployed earlier this year to Iraq.
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U.S. drone strikes kill 18 militants in Pakistan
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6910M020101002

(Reuters) – Two U.S. drone attacks killed 18 militants in Pakistan on Saturday, intelligence officials said, after recent NATO incursions raised tensions with an ally critical to Washington’s war effort in Afghanistan.
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Source: U.S. to Issue Travel Warning on Public Places in Europe
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/02/source-issue-travel-warning-public-places-europe/

The Obama administration will issue a warning Saturday to U.S. travellers in Europe to avoid places frequented by Westerners based on new intelligence suggesting an attack by Al Qaeda could be imminent, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Fox News.
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White House: Stimulus Law Is Working as Promised
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-house-stimulus-law-working-as-promised/

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s $800 billion-plus economic stimulus law may not be earning good grades with the public, but the White House claims it’s on track to produce the promised 3.5 million jobs.
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AP: ‘Sparse’ Crowd of ‘Thousands’ Gathers in DC to Push Dem Agenda
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-sparse-crowd-of-thousands-gathers-in-dc-to-push-dem-agenda/

WASHINGTON (AP) – Thousands of people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial for a rally Saturday organized by labor and civil rights groups, hoping to show support for the Democratic agenda in the face of expected GOP election gains next month.
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Free speech cases at top of Supreme Court’s agenda
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_new_term

WASHINGTON – First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court’s docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.
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Hamas-linked cleric took part in FBI outreach effort
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/30/hamas-linked-cleric-took-part-fbi-outreach-effort/

The FBI on Thursday defended its inclusion of a Chicago Muslim cleric tied in the past to the terrorist groups Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood in a group that recently visited the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and FBI headquarters.
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Federal Judge Rejects Lawsuit Against Pledge and ‘In God We Trust’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/federal-judge-rejects-lawsuit-against-pledge-and-in-god-we-trust/

A federal judge in Wisconsin has rejected a lawsuit by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation seeking to have the phrase “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance removed from the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.
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‘Flash crash’ was sparked by single order
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ee1a816-cd81-11df-9c82-00144feab49a.html

The flash crash of May 6 was sparked by a rapidly executed $4.1bn sale of stock index futures by a single institutional investor who was hedging against the risk of a market downturn, a report by leading US regulators said on Friday.
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US apologizes for ’40s syphilis study in Guatemala
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101001/D9IJ5O3G0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) – American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over “such reprehensible research.”
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Dem Rep: Quoting the Constitution Is ‘Some Sort of Revolutionary Plan’ by Extreme Republican ‘Tenthers’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-quoting-the-constitution-is-%E2%80%9Csome-sort-of-revolutionary-plan%E2%80%9D-by-extreme-republicans-tenthers/

Note: This is a 1:14 long clip of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky talking about the Republican’s Pledge to America on the 9/30/2010 episode of the Stephanie Miller Show.
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‘No Pressure’: New Environmental Campaign Glorifies Eco-Fascism
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/no-pressure-new-environmental-campaign-glorifies-eco-fascism/

The latest anti-global warming campaign aimed at getting people around the world to reduce their carbon footprint has backfired. Big time. The people behind the “10:10″ campaign, a movement encouraging people to reduce their carbon consumption by 10 percent in 2010, have been forced to pull their controversial new advertisement from the internet after widespread public outcry.
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Healthamburglar
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704483004575523980464573518.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion#articleTabs%3Darticle

Among President Obama’s core health-care promises was that Americans can keep their current coverage if they like it. Among the reasons that a new ObamaCare squall blows in every other day is that this claim simply is not true, as people are discovering.
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San Francisco considers banning Happy Meals toys
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9IJN2080&show_article=1

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco has a long history of bold public health and environmental stances, going after everything from plastic bags in grocery stores to cigarettes to sugary drinks. The latest target: Ronald McDonald.
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State downgrades pot possession to infraction
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/01/BAR61FN4GC.DTL&tsp=1

(10-01) 16:49 PDT Sacramento — Citing the need to reduce spending on prosecution and courts, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure that makes marijuana possession an infraction, on par with traffic and littering tickets.
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No end in sight to Pakistan-NATO supply standoff
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan kept a vital border crossing closed to U.S. and NATO supply trucks for a third day Saturday, a sign that Islamabad’s desire to avoid a domestic backlash over a NATO incursion that killed three Pakistani troops is — for now — outweighing its desire to stay on good terms with America.
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Number of Officers Killed in Mexico Border City Tops 100 as Drug War Drags On
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/02/number-officers-killed-mexico-border-city-tops-drug-war-drags/

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican officials say a shooting attack has killed a policeman in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. The death raises the number of officers killed in the drug violence-plagued city this year to 102.
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Fears of Chinese land grab as Beijing’s billions buy up resources
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/fears-of-chinese-land-grab-as-beijings-billions-buy-up-resources-2095451.html

China is pouring another $7bn (£4.4bn) into Brazil’s oil industry, reigniting fears of a global “land grab” of natural resources. State-owned Sinopec clinched the deal with Spain’s Repsol yesterday to buy 40 per cent of its Brazilian business, giving China’s largest oil company access to Repsol Brasil’s estimated reserves of 1.2 billion barrels of oil and gas.
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China’s Wen offers to buy Greek debt
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE69100N20101002

ATHENS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – China offered on Saturday to buy Greek government bonds when the country returns to markets, in a show of support for the country whose debt burden pushed the euro zone into crisis and required an international bailout.
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Iran gives evidence of al-Qaida links
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=210493

Iran has released back to Afghanistan a one-time spokesman for Osama bin Laden, providing further evidence that the Islamic republic is linked directly with al-Qaida, the terrorist entity that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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Iran ‘detains western spies’ after cyber attack on nuclear plant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/02/iran-western-spies-cyber-attack

Iran has detained several “spies” it claims were behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme. The intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said western “spy services” were behind the complex computer virus that recently infected more than 30,000 computers in industrial sites, including those in the Bushehr nuclear power plant, appearing to confirm the suspicion of computer security experts that a foreign state was responsible.
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Ahmadinejad to visit ‘Iran’s border with Israel’
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=189937

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to visit what he has reportedly called “Iran’s border with Israel” during a trip to Lebanon later this month, referring to the Lebanese southern border.
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Students and families join French pension protests
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101002/wl_nm/us_france_pensions_protests

PARIS (Reuters) – French families, students and private sector workers joined mass demonstrations on Saturday as trade unions ramped up pressure on the government to drop pension reforms.
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Global employment crisis will stir social unrest, warns UN agency
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8036438/Global-employment-crisis-will-stir-social-unrest-warns-UN-agency.html

Global employment will not recover to pre-crisis levels until 2015 if current policies are pursued, creating social tension, the International Labour Organisation has warned.
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Merkel calls for calm as rail protest turns ugly
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.50cde88a891bb4f2c3adb2ce3e936445.861&show_article=1

Chancellor Angela Merkel called for calm Friday after riot police used what critics called “Rambo” tactics to disperse thousands of opponents of a contentious rail project.
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Rising Tensions Between Hizbullah, Egypt and Jordan
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139838

Lebanese terrorist group Hizbullah lashed out at Egypt and Jordan this week, accusing both countries of funding Sunni militias that are rivals to the Shiite Muslim group. The charges were leveled in an interview with the Arabic daily Ash-Sharq il-Awsat which was published Friday.
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World War I Ends….This Sunday?
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/10/02/world-war-i-ends-this-sunday/

Give the Germans credit; they pay their debts. As the Daily Telegraph reports, this sunday the German government makes its final payment on reparations from the First World War. (They would have done it earlier, but Hitler stopped making payments.
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Happy anniversary, Charlie Brown
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/sns-peanuts-anniversary,0,7070429.story?track=rss

(Reuters) – Peanuts, the iconic comic strip that has charmed hundreds of millions of people worldwide with the antics of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus, is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Saturday.

News Articles For 9/21

September 21, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Aviation brigade operates medical clinic in Iraq
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/09/20/45432-aviation-brigade-operates-medical-clinic-in-iraq/?ref=news-arnews-title4

CAMP TAJI, Iraq (Army News Service, Sept. 20, 2010) — An aviation brigade at Camp Taji, Iraq, has been assigned with operating a consolidated level-two medical clinic in an effort to maintain military infrastructure as Operation New Dawn brings sweeping changes.
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Disabled veterans sports clinic begins in San Diego
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123222861

9/20/2010 – SAN DIEGO (AFNS) — The third annual National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic began here Sept. 20, as more than 200 disabled veterans came out to participate in a number of activities, including surfing, kayaking, cycling, and track and field events.
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Fallen Airman to Receive Medal of Honor
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60920

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2010 – An airman who was killed 42 years ago in Laos will receive the Medal of Honor for actions he took after enemy forces overran a clandestine U.S. radar site.
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Soldier Turns Brush With Death Into Message of Hope
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60921

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2010 – Army Capt. Joshua Mantz was dying on a hospital bed in Iraq. Just moments earlier, a sniper’s bullet had severed a femoral artery in his right thigh, causing massive blood loss.
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Face of Defense: Twins Reunite in Afghanistan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60936

NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Sept. 21, 2010 – “Congratulations on your promotion, sir,” the soldier said as he approached an open truck window and greeted a face he recognized. The captain in the truck had been hearing a lot of that in the 48 hours since his arrival to Bagram Airfield.
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Twitter hack opens popups, causes havoc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100921/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_twitter_hack

NEW YORK – A new way to cause mischief is spreading through short-messaging service Twitter as mysterious “tweets” of blocked-out text propagate themselves and cause popup windows to open.
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All You Need to Know about that Beck-Breitbart Protest: Obama’s ‘Organizing for America’ Was Behind It
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/20/all-you-need-to-know-about-that-beck-breitbart-protest-organizing-for-america-was-behind-it/

How to confront the left: by giving as good as you get, by staying civil, by never backing down — and by using the First Amendment as both your sword and your shield.
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Is the Obama Administration Using Tax Information to Track Adversaries?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the-obama-administration-using-tax-information-to-track-adversaries/

It’s no secret that the Obama administration and its allies want to discourage the political activities of libertarian-leaning billionaires Charles and David Koch. As you may be aware, the brothers give a significant proportion of their political donations to the Republican Party and support conservative operations such as Americans for Prosperity, founded in 2004 by David Koch.
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Report: Reid Hoping to Steer $3,360,000 in Earmarks to Campaign Contributor
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-reid-hoping-to-steer-3360000-to-campaign-contributor/

A new report released today by the group 1001 Reasons to Vote Against Harry Reid shows that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has either steered or is attempting to steer a total of $3,360,000 in earmarked Defense Department contracts to a campaign contributor, despite President Obama’s direct opposition to the project.
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US Government ‘hiding true amount of debt’
http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/us-government-hiding-true-amount-of-debt/story-e6frfkur-1225926567256#ixzz106MjZzOz

THE actual figure of the US’ national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited on Sunday by the New York Post.
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Fed Mulls Trillion-Dollar Policy Question
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39271495

How much of a boost to the U.S. recovery could another trillion dollars or two buy? That’s a tricky question for the Federal Reserve when it meets Tuesday to debate what would warrant pumping more money into the financial system.
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Denver On Frontline in Fight Against Homegrown Terrorism – Experts
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/09/20/denver-on-frontline-in-fight-against-homegrown-terrorism-experts/

Denver’s 9News reports national security experts are saying metro Denver is a frontline in the fight against homegrown terrorism and that Denver is listed as one of the places to watch on the homegrown terrorism radar.
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U.S. military infiltrated by thumb-drive virus
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=205597

In yet another sign that the Cold War between Russia and the United States isn’t over, Defense Department officials have revealed that Russia’s intelligence service was able to compromise classified Pentagon computer networks with the use of a manipulated portable thumb drive, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092006665.html

Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 2.
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Bill Would Give Justice Department Power to Shutter Piracy Sites Worldwide
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/justice-department-piracy/#ixzz10Aeo5Tmt

Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites’ domain registration.
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Dem operative ‘involved’ in New Black Panthers call
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=205805

Information obtained from the Obama Department of Justice by the Washington-based government monitor Judicial Watch appears to document that a political operative participated in the decision to drop large portions of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party that essentially already had been won.
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Suddenly, Offensive Nazi Signs at Protests Aren’t Big News — If the Target is the Right, the MSM Gives Them a Pass
http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/09/20/suddenly-offensive-nazi-signs-at-protests-arent-big-news-if-the-target-is-the-right-the-msm-gives-them-a-pass/

Signs depicting an American politician with an Adolph Hitler mustache are prominently displayed at a political protest and the organizers and participants continue with their demonstration making no attempt to remove the signs or disavow the message.
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30 NYPD, 2 FDNY Assigned To Ahmadinejad Security
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/20/30-nypd-2-fdny-assigned-to-ahmadinejad-security/

NEW YORK (CBS 2/WCBS 880) — One of the world’s most despised leaders was quite possibly the safest man in New York City on Monday night. The city is going to great lengths to protect Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reports CBS 2′s Rob Morrison.
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Taxpayers foot giant bill to keep heads of state safe at annual United Nations meeting
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/21/2010-09-21_millions_to_protect_this_jerk_taxpayers_foot_giant_bill_to_keep_iran_madman_safe.html

It will cost taxpayers a pretty penny to protect a petty Iranian tyrant while he visits New York. Security for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and 190 other world leaders gathering for the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly could cost $5 million to $7 million, officials said.
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China tells U.S. to keep out of South China Sea dispute
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_china_seas

BEIJING (Reuters) – China told the United States not to interfere in a regional dispute over claims to the South China Sea, saying it would only complicate the matter.
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Clinton to unveil US funds for clean cookstove push
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20177469.htm

NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce on Tuesday a U.S. contribution of more than $50 million toward providing clean cooking stoves in developing countries to reduce deaths from smoke inhalation and fight climate change.
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UN: Rich must not cut aid to poor to balance budget
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20266544.htm

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
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Mexico paper asks drug cartels what they can print without risk of murder
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39270102/ns/world_news-americas/

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The biggest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city is to restrict drug war coverage after the killing of its second journalist in less than two years, just as international press representatives will urge the government to make security for journalists a national priority.
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France on High Alert After Threat of Possible Terrorist Attacks
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/09/20/france-on-high-alert-after-threat-of-possible-terrorist-attacks/

According to news reports, France is on high alert after threats of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida’s North African branch and reports that a female suicide bomber is planning to strike somewhere in Paris.
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Greek truckers march to parliament
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ICBT200&show_article=1

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Some 2,500 protesting truck drivers, carrying Greek flags and shouting “shame” and “thieves,” marched to parliament Tuesday, on the ninth day of demonstrations against planned labor market reforms.
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[Finland's] Government to implement planned tax on sweets, ice cream and soft drinks
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Government+to+implement+planned+tax+on+sweets+ice+cream+and+soft+drinks/1135260220527

On Thursday, the government decided in its general session that a tax is to be levied on candies and similar sweets, chocolate, cocoa products, ice cream, and popsicles or ice lollies. Initially the tax on sweets was supposed to be the equivalent of almost one euro per kilogram, but now the tax has been set at 75 cents a kilo.
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After Watching This Video, It’s Clear the Universe Will End Today
http://gizmodo.com/5641843/after-watching-this-video-its-clear-the-universe-will-end-today

There are plenty of amazing time lapse videos. This is one. But when you see it paired with Hans Zimmer’s “Dream is collapsing”—from Inception’s soundtrack—it goes from amazing to holy-fuck-the-Universe-is-about-to-collapse-and-we-are-all-gonna-die amazing. Play the HD full screen. Use headphones.

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