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Matt Renner, Truthout: "Anger over the bonuses at A.I.G. blew back onto members of the Obama administration as it was revealed that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and others had been aware of the bonus payments but failed to halt them and did not express 'outrage,' until the bonus checks were already cashed. Further revelations of backroom dealings and million-dollar bonuses threaten to make any kind of assistance to financial institutions politically impossible for Congress. A larger and potentially far more explosive powder keg of bonus payments - this time to top executives at now defunct Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. - may be about to blow."

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Norwich Evening News - Norwich, England, UK

Campaigners have vowed to continue their fight against a mobile phone mast in Earlham, despite it being recommended for approval at tomorrow's planning ...

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We want eyesore cleaned up

Norwich Evening News - Norwich, England, UK

Families living near an eyesore site have today renewed calls for it to be cleaned up - nearly a year after two unsightly mobile phone masts were taken down ...

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Alternate location sought for Pinner blunder mast

Harrow Observer - London, UK

Mobile phone company Orange will seek an alternate site for a controversial telecommunications mast that was accidentally given permission in Pinner. ...

http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/2009/03/31/alternate-location-sought-for-pinner-blunder-mast-116451-23276003/

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5:30pm Tuesday 31st March 2009

By Tristan Kirk

A MOBILE phone giant is considering finding a new site for an unwanted mast in Pinner after pressure from politician and residents.

A Harrow Council blunder meant Orange could build a phone mast at the junction of Grove Road and Rayners Lane, despite being denied planning permission.

However, the Harrow Times understands the company is open to the idea of finding another location for the mast following a public outcry at the consequences of the mistake.

Residents were up in arms last week after it was revealed a council officer had failed to send out the papers in time, meaning Orange had planning permission by default.

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http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/4249519.Unwanted_Pinner_phone_mast_may_not_be_erected_in_Grove_Road/

Mar 31, 2009

A PLANNING inspector has been called to settle a row over an
application to build a phone mast on a Teesdale church.

O2’s plan to put an antenna on the tower of St Mary’s, in Barnard Castle, was rejected by Teesdale District Council last year after dozens of objections.

The communications company has now appealed against the
decision – a move that has again led to protests.

Jackie Groszmann, of Barnard Castle, said the church was ignoring the concerns of local people.

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Von Reto Knobel

Vor der Abstimmung am 17. Mai: Mikroelektronik-Professor Marcel Jacomet kritisiert die Technologie für biometrische Pässe und die zentrale Speicherung von Fingerabdrücken.

Weiter unter...
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9:52am Tuesday 31st March 2009

By Morwenna Blake

A MOBILE phone mast at Bemerton Folly has been given the go-ahead by a planning inspector.

Residents objected to plans for the mast, on land at Westwood Road, fearing it would attract youngsters on motorbikes and quadbikes and that it would encourage flytipping.

They also raised concerns the 24-metre high structure, on land designated a nature reserve in 2004, would be a magnet for vandals, who would attack it with air rifles and catapults and start fires there.

Planning officers recommended the Vodafone application be approved when it went before Salisbury District Council’s city area planning committee in October, but councillors turned it down, branding it ‘a monstrosity’.

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http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4247811.Bemerton_phone_mast_gets_go_ahead/

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Upset over phone mast plans

11:50am Tuesday 31st March 2009

RESIDENTS of Wain-A-Long Road in Salisbury are upset about plans to put a mobile phone mast outside their homes.

Orange wants to put up the 38ft mast on the verge close to the St Mark’s roundabout.

It has already had applications turned down for sites in Campbell Road and Castle Hill and says a mast is essential to its network coverage of the north eastern part of the city.

But objectors to the plan have complained to council planners that it will be “a monstrosity” which will devalue their homes.

They also say it will be an eyesore for visitors travelling into the city.

Local councillors also have their doubts.

Read More...
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/4247853.Upset_over_phone_mast_plans/

Mark Todoruk, FirstWord

The latest findings, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, include data from an eight-year follow-up of the patients and confirmed that there were no long-term differences in behaviour between those who were treated with drugs and those who were not.

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America the Tarnished
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Obama's Domino Theory
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I have received this link to a recent study, with the following comments:
Sylvia


"Now we know why there are so many road accidents":

Interesting study showing that just before people make an error in a task requiring sustained attention, an alpha brainwave pattern appears. Now cellphones are pulse modulated at just over 8Hz, which is a low alpha brainwave state. This entrains brainwaves into the alpha state, which is associated with sleep/trance/internal mindset, i.e. not tuned into the outside world. The Zombie Nation we see around us, in other words.

No question that cellphone radiation will therefore tend to increase errors associated with lack of attention to what's going on around you.

The WHO concedes that cellphone radiation changes brainwaves, but says this is "not a proven health risk". If you are not paying attention when you cross a road, or drive a car, I would say that is a "proven health risk" ....

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323122439.htm

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The Obamaites go to war
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Another War Lost?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind158.html

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A Philosophical Analysis of Obama's New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Camillo "Mac" Bica, Truthout: "In offering the American people and the world his agenda for change - his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan - President Obama reminds us that 'al-Qaeda and its allies - the terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks' - continue to be active in both nations. Using rhetoric reminiscent of the Bush administration, he warns us that al-Qaeda still seeks to kill 'as many of our people as possible' and is 'actively planning further attacks on the US homeland from its safe haven in Pakistan.' The reason, therefore, that 'our men and women still fight and die there' is to ensure our national security - the safety of the American people."

http://www.truthout.org/040109D

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Beware Those Treacherous Afpakis

By Eric Margolis

President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington's pretenses that a western "coalition" was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, "war on terrorism," replaced by the Orwellian sobriquet, "overseas contingency operations."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22329.htm



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What the drug wars cost
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On the continuing threat of the fusion police state.
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Am I a terrorist?

Liberty For All
by Jessica Pacholski

03/30/09

I have been called many names in my life, everything from cute nicknames to derogatory monosyllables, however this week added a new and surprising one to the list- Terrorist. It’s now a well known fact that the Missouri Police had been advised by MIAC, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, that people who support third party candidates, such as Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr or the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin, may be part of violent Militia movements and should be considered possible domestic terrorists...

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Peter Finn and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post: "When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an Al Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed.... In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials who closely followed the interrogations."

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Another anomaly in the "war of [mistakes] terror" may have been solved. The unfolding story about the anti-Pakistan psyop revolves around Britain's MI6 and the "Pakistani Taliban."

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By Henry Pelifian

Any society and its military is as only as good as its ability to not only perceive the truth but also use it as its basis for action. A nation of sheep is bred by sycophants. The sycophants are more a danger to society by creating failure than critics who often point the way to human progress and understanding.

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By HILARY BROWN

Spanish Judge Who Went After Pinochet Considers Charges for Gonzales, Others.
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283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries

By Jeremy Scahill

In the latest episode of Occupation Rebranded, it was revealed that the administration intends to reclassify some combat forces as "advisory and assistance brigades." While Obama's administration is officially shunning the use of the term "global war on terror," the labels du jour, unfortunately, seem to be the biggest changes we will see for some time.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

If the tax rate on a multi-million dollar annual income goes up by 5 percentage points, the cutbacks won't really affect the lifestyle.

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By Mike Whitney

If Obama is serious about restoring confidence in the markets, he should replace current SEC chief Mary Schapiro with Eliot Spitzer. That would send a message to the world that the president is through messing around. Schapiro is another Wall Street toady who believes that the markets can regulate themselves.

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By Ray McGovern

The chickens are coming home to roost after eight years of Cheney and Bush, but there is no sign that President Obama is listening to anyone capable of fresh thinking on Afghanistan. Obama has apparently decided to stay in the chicken coop. And that can be called, well, chicken.

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Putting A New Coat on a Failed Strategy

By Ron Jacobs

Washington and its NATO cohorts will stay in Afghanistan until the world is safe from Al-Qaeda. Left unsaid by Obama, just like it was unsaid by George Bush, is the reality that foreign troops killing Afghans and Pakistanis has done very little to end the supposed threat from Al-Qaeda.

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Ana Veciana-Suarez, The Miami Herald: "Hit hard by the slumping economy and surviving on fixed incomes, senior citizens have experienced the sharpest increase in bankruptcy filings. In 2007, Americans 55 and older accounted for 23 percent of the more than one million Americans who filed for bankruptcy, a threefold increase from 1991, according to a recent AARP study."

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Dean Baker, Truthout: "The new consensus among the experts who missed the housing bubble (EMHB) is that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's plan to subsidize the purchase of junk mortgages and their derivatives will help alleviate the stress on the banking system.... Oh, by the way, some people will get very rich off the Geithner plan. Some hedge and equity fund managers could make hundreds of millions or even billions off the Geithner plan. And, under current law, they will pay a lower tax rate on this money than a schoolteacher or firefighter. Are you sold yet?"

http://www.truthout.org/033009A



Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off

Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the economy and lower the unemployment rate. This paper briefly outlines a method for Congress to quickly boost demand in the economy, while at the same time promoting important public ends: an employer tax credit for paid time off."

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By Jonny Fordham

March 30, 2009

Families are furious after a council blunder meant its ban on plans for a 10 metre phone mast arrived in the post at Vodafone one day too late under planning regulations.

The company has ploughed on with the project in Westdene Crescent in Caversham after Reading Borough Council failed to submit its refusal within the designated 56 days.

The letter, which council officials claim was posted in time, did not arrive until the 57th day, giving the mobile phone giant the green light for the controversial mast.

People living in the crescent believed they had successfully fought off the proposal when it was submitted in 2006, until paper plans for the positioning of the mast blew into Parveen Whitehead’s driveway last Monday when builders began work on the mast.

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Alzheimers' 21st Annual Public Policy Forum Washington, D.C. March 23-25, 2009
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30. März 2009

Zu Rücktrittsspekulationen um Bahnchef Mehdorn erklärt das Mitglied des Parteivorstandes Jan Korte (MdB):

Der Eigentümer, also die Bundesregierung, muss jetzt schnell und konsequent handeln. Es war nicht hinnehmbar, als vor Monaten bekannt wurde, dass Daten von Bahnmitarbeitern verdeckt ausgeforscht und verdachtsunabhängig abgeglichen wurden. Es ist auch nicht hinnehmbar, dass E-Mails anlasslos überwacht, gelöscht und gespeichert wurden. Die gezielt Ausspähung der Gewerkschaften ist der sprichwörtliche Tropfen, der das Fass zum Überlaufen bringt. Bahn-Mitarbeiter müssen endlich vor ihrer Konzernführung geschützt werden. Dieser Schutz kann nicht allein mit der seit langem überfälligen Kündigung von Bahn-Spitzel-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn hergestellt werden. Nein, vielmehr müssen die aktuellen Debatten endlich zu einem wirksamen Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz führen. DIE LINKE hatte bereits im Dezember vergangenen Jahres einen umfangreichen Antrag (Drs. 16/11376) hierfür dem Parlament vorgelegt. Im Kern geht es – und dies zeigt das Beispiel Bahn deutlich – um eine stärkere Kontrolle der Aktivitäten von Betriebsführungen, die stärkere Beteiligung der Beschäftigten an Betriebsentscheidungen, einen wirksamen Schutz personenbezogener Daten von Beschäftigten, eine nachhaltige und ausreichende materielle, personelle und finanzielle Ausstattung der von uns geforderten Betriebsdatenschützer und ein Verbot der anlasslosen und massenhaften Video-, Audio und E-Mail-Überwachung von Beschäftigten. Seit LIDL und den Affären bei der Deutschen Telekom wissen die Große Koalition und die Regierung um Datenschutzverstöße in Unternehmen. Diese zu beheben wäre seit langem ihre Aufgabe gewesen. Angesichts der Untätigkeit der Mehrheit im Bundestag in Sachen Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz, sollten mit Herrn Mehdorn gleich auch die politisch Verantwortlichen in Parlament und Regierung ihr letztes Ticket lösen: Endstation Ruhestand.

Quelle: http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bahn-mitarbeiter-brauchen-schutz-vor-weiteren-ueberwachungen/

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Datenaffäre bei der Deutschen Bahn: Diesmal Mehdorns Ende?

10 Jahre später und 100.000 Mitarbeiter weniger: Bilanz super!

1999 wurde Hartmut Mehdorn Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Bahn AG. Zu verdanken hatten wir dies Gerhard Schröder. Am heutigen Tage [30. März 2009] wird er seinen Rücktritt anbieten. Hört sich gut an: Seinen Rücktritt anbieten. Diese Chance hatten fast 100.000 Menschen nicht, sie wurden einfach entlassen. Ausbaden dürfen das nun noch 237.000 Menschen, welche zur Zeit bei der Bahn unter z.T. unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen die Entlassungen kompensieren müssen sowie Millionen von Bürgern, die sich für viel Geld den A.. am Bahnsteig abfrieren dürfen, weil mal wieder weit und breit kein Zug in Sicht ist. Jetzt bietet dieser Mensch seinen Rücktritt an, er habe sich zwar nichts vorzuwerfen und sei Teil einer Kampagne, also eigentlich selbst Opfer und so weiter. Naja, er wird mit ein paar Milliönchen seine Opferrolle sicherlich bei einem guten Wein genießen können. Jetzt ist die Reizfigur also endgültig weg und alles wird gut? Schön wär es ja, allein uns fehlt der Glaube... Siehe dazu: „Aus Bahnchef wird Hartmut: Mehdorn tritt zurück“ bei n-TV vom 30.03.2009 http://www.n-tv.de/1128945.html


Der König der Schnüffler

„Der Schnüffelskandal bei der Deutschen Bahn weitet sich aus. Entgegen bisheriger Aussagen forschte der Staatskonzern auch den kompletten E-Mail-Verkehr der Belegschaft aus, suchte ohne Wissen der Mitarbeiter nach Kontakten zu Wissenschaftlern, Journalisten und Bahn-Kritikern. Das geht aus einem Zwischenbericht der Sonderermittler hervor. Die Gewerkschaften Transnet und GDBA fordern deshalb erstmals den Rücktritt von Bahn-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn. Auch in der Regierung schwindet der letzte Rückhalt für den Manager…“ Artikel von Thomas Wüpper und Matthias Thieme in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 28.03.09 http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/1701787_Datenaffaere-bei-der-Deutschen-Bahn-Der-Koenig-der-Schnueffler.html


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Classically Liberal
by CLS

03/29/09

Obama’s popularity is plunging. President Obama is proving himself to be relatively incompetent. And, after eight years of George Bush, the bar for competency was set quite low. Obama is proving he can do more damage to the economy than Bush, can spend more than Bush, can create bigger deficits than Bush, can expand the Afghan war beyond Bush, ad nauseam. Add in his bungling appointments and his clear cut radical agenda regarding the economy and Obama is earning his decline in support. It isn’t that I’m opposed to a radical change in the economy. But Obama’s radicalism is to magnify all the bad things that Bush did several fold over...

http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-slide.html



Hounding Obama, part 6: Failing, and should be

from Reason to Freedom
by Peter Namtvedt

03/29/09

Obama’s policies are failed policies. They were tried before. They failed before. I should certainly want them to remain failed policies, and want them to fail. I want them to not even get out of the gate. I want Obama to fail. If he does not, this recession will get worse, as we find out it is more costly than we expected and that the ills of the recession are not really getting cured...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Great Afghan Bailout: It's Time to Change Names, Switch Analogies

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Let's start by stopping. It's time, as a start, to stop calling our expanding war in Central and South Asia 'the Afghan War' or 'the Afghanistan War.' If Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke doesn't want to, why should we? Recently, in a BBC interview, he insisted that 'the "number one problem" in stabilizing Afghanistan was Taliban sanctuaries in western Pakistan, including tribal areas along the Afghan border and cities like Quetta' in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. And isn't he right? After all, the US seems to be in the process of trading in a limited war in a mountainous, poverty-stricken country of 27 million people for one in an advanced nation of 167 million, with a crumbling economy, rising extremism, advancing corruption, and a large military armed with nuclear weapons. Worse yet, the war in Pakistan seems to be expanding inexorably and in tandem with American war planning from the tribal borderlands ever closer to the heart of the country."

http://www.truthout.org/033009L



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by Ayn R. Key

03/27/09

The phrase ‘too big to fail’ is too often used to describe why various companies should receive bailouts from the federal government. Some financial companies are allegedly too big to fail because if they do fail it would create a series of failures as those who do business with the failing companies would be hurt by the failure of the initial company. Some automobile companies are allegedly too big to fail because if they do fail then parts suppliers and dealerships would all fail as well. Perhaps it is time to introduce a new phrase into the national lexicon, ‘too big to succeed.’ A company is too big to succeed if it grows so big that it cannot make a profit anymore, and as a result it must fail...

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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/27/09

With the possible exception of the war on drugs, it would be difficult to find a greater terrorist-producing machine than the U.S. government’s occupation of Afghanistan. Think about it: For almost 8 years, they’ve been killing terrorists in that country, fulltime. Yet, today there are more terrorists than ever before. From the standpoint of a lover of big government, this is a dream come true. They kill one terrorist, they get 10 more, which means ever-increasing federal power and budgets...

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CNN

03/29/09

President Obama said Sunday that his administration remains prepared to order strikes against ‘high-value’ targets within Pakistan. Obama reiterated a previous assertion that the U.S. military would pursue extremists within Pakistan’s borders after consulting with the Pakistani government...

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The Obamaites go to war

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/30/09

The Obamaites have inherited the central thesis of Bush’s ‘war on terrorism.’ In spite of renaming it, they’ve kept the essential element of the Bushian strategy, which is to mount an offensive campaign, to go after al-Qaeda’s leaders in their nests. Yet this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy. This nonsensical idea that al-Qaeda is a regular military formation, not a viral spore spread throughout the globe, is why bin Laden is laughing at us a decade later. Even if the U.S. succeeded in killing or — better yet — capturing bin Laden, it would have little effect on the effort to eradicate his influence or the movement he created. Indeed, it would promote the world’s most famous terrorist and symbol of evil into a mythic figure, even larger in death than in life, aside from imbuing him with the martyr status all Islamists crave...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/03/29/af-pak-fever/



Don’t go there, Mr. President!

The Nation
by Tom Hayden

03/27/09

The Obama plan instead will accelerate any plans Al Qaeda commanders have for attacking targets in the United States or Europe. The alternative for Al Qaeda is to risk complete destruction, an American objective that has not been achieved for eight years. A terrorist attack need not be planned or set in motion from a cave in Waziristan. The cadre could already be underground in Washington or London. The real alternative for President Obama should be to maintain a deterrent posture while immediately accelerating diplomacy to meet legitimate Muslim goals, from a Palestinian state to genuine progress on Kashmir. President Obama is right, at least politically, to take very seriously the threat of another 9/11 from any source. Besides the suffering inflicted, it would derail his agenda and perhaps his presidency. This is all the more reason he must understand that by repeatedly threatening to ‘kill Al Qaeda’ he is provoking a hornets’ nest without protection against a devastating sting...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/hayden


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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "These are the conclusions I arrived at after reading Marine Capt. Tyler E. Boudreau's first-person exposé of the time he spent in Iraq and the struggles he and his comrades faced in the aftermath of their deployment."

http://www.truthout.org/032909A



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NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach, FL, USA

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a by-product of detonating an atomic bomb above the Earth’s atmosphere. When a nuclear weapon is detonated in space, ...

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