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Federal Judge Rules Military's Gay Ban Unconstitutional - A federal judge...declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment rights of gay and lesbians.

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:20:45 +0000

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One wonders if the actual burning and slaughtering of actual human beings in the Muslim world...by the most honored, respected and powerful worthies of American society might, just possibly, incite more violence and ill will against us than the burning of a few books by a powerless goober...

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:47:12 +0000

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Obama's Indefensible Drones - The drones feed hourly intelligence information to U.S. war commanders, but the machinery can't inform people about the spiraling anger as the U.S. conducts assassination operations in countries throughout the 1.3 billion-strong Muslim world.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:41:28 +0000

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Truck full of pig manure explodes in Germany - The manure had become too warm, creating too much pressure in the tank and eventually bursting a glass panel, local fire officials said. The manure was sprayed over a large area.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:19:11 +0000

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Yesterday, after the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled that people claiming to be torture victims of a U.S.-run intelligence program could get no day in court, it was hard not to feel that the short arc of the Obama Administration has bent, in this instance, toward injustice.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:43:40 +0000

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Exclusive: WikiLeaks Collaborating With Media Outlets on Release of Iraq Documents

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:35:43 +0000

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Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization - A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:56:39 +0000

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Fewer summertime deaths for Marines - Fourteen sailors and 14 Marines lost their lives in off-duty recreational, motor vehicle and pedestrian mishaps during the 15 weeks of summer that ended on Labor Day.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:54:41 +0000

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Two American Non-Combat Troops Injured In Iraq Bomb Attack - A grenade attack on a US military convoy in the Salaheddin provincial capital Tikrit wounded two American soldiers and four Iraqi civilians, US Army Lt Colonel Jeffrey Allen said.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:49:37 +0000

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galt1776 on Obama Incinerates 5 In Pak Drone Attack On Same Day He Condemns 'Recruitment Bonanza' Of Koran Burning - A US missile strike killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan early today..., the fourth such attack in 24 hours.

2010-09-09T21:36:24.283413+00:00-0700

Obama is the commander-in-chief of the American military. He could stop these attacks w/ a stroke of a pen. He has not, therefore their blood is on his hands.

Kabul Bank's Dubai Connection - Mahmoud Karzai, the president's brother and a key promoter of the bank, lives in a villa in Palm Jumeirah project. He has told media that he made a profit of around $800,000 by buying and then reselling a villa using a loan given by Kabul Bank chairman.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:30:05 +0000

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Obama Incinerates 5 In Pak Drone Attack On Same Day He Condemns 'Recruitment Bonanza' Of Koran Burning - A US missile strike killed five alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan early today..., the fourth such attack in 24 hours.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:21:15 +0000

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Obama: Burning Korans A 'Recruitment Bonanza' But Dropping High Explosives On Afghan Kids Is Peachy Keen - “This is a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda,” Mr Obama said. “You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan."

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:00:23 -0700

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The Mexican Hunter: Obama Sets Record Year For Deportations - Despite reports that illegal entries into the United States are plummeting, the Obama administration deported more immigrants in 2009 than in any other year in history.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:57:39 +0000

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Hypocrisy surrounds Rev Jones’ bonfire of Korans - [Constitutional] freedoms matter most when they are under duress. Amid the duress after 9/11, the Constitution was trashed by the leaders who now decry Jones.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:39:44 +0000

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Dem Senator Michael Bennet Won't Support Obama's Latest 'Stimulus' Plan - Political observers said Bennet appeared to be the first prominent Senate Democrat to back away from the plan.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:26:19 -0700

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galt1776 on Another Glorious American Victory Over Mighty Somali Pirates - U.S. Marines boarded and seized control Thursday of a German-owned vessel that pirates had captured the day before off the coast of Somalia, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said.

2010-09-09T12:44:54.866556-07:00-0700

Yes, there was sarcasm. No, we should not be intervening.

Obama's insistence on protecting every...Bush era war crime from any redress or even scrutiny is a sign both of how cold-blooded he can be, but more, I think, of how powerful the security state now is, how it can protect itself, how it exists independently of any real accountability...

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:48:18 +0000

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galt1776 on US Iraq War Vet Gunned Down By Cops In Vancouver - Police said three officers fired at the Vancouver man early Tuesday morning after they responded to a report of a man walking in a neighborhood, armed with a handgun.

2010-09-09T11:35:22.894419-07:00-0700

>[Friend Jennifer] Sanders told the Oregonian that [Spc. Nikkolas W.] Lookabill was "just such a happy kid" and "always had everyone smiling." She said he rarely discussed his time in Iraq. **"The only thing that he ever said to me is that he didn't want to go back. It was hell. It was horrible,"** she said.

US Iraq War Vet Gunned Down By Cops In Vancouver - Police said three officers fired at the Vancouver man early Tuesday morning after they responded to a report of a man walking in a neighborhood, armed with a handgun.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:33:44 +0000

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One wonders when the White House will realize ground realities and when will it learn from the history in all its dimensions. The military machine of the West has broken Afghanistan’s economic infrastructure. But the West can never destroy the will power of the Afghan people.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:29:41 -0700

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Al-Shabaab Threatens More Blowback For US-Backed Ugandan Occupiers - Al-Shabaab on Tuesday demanded that Uganda withdraws her peacekeeping troops from the war-torn Somalia, or face more attacks.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:47:10 +0000

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Hillary Sets The Stage For US Invasion Of Sudan - Sudan is a "ticking time bomb" in the run-up to a scheduled January vote on independence for the country's oil-rich south, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:24:45 +0000

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Obama To Spend Millions To Circumcise All Males In Zimbabwe - The United States Government has made available 5,000 medical kits worth US$1,5 million for use in Zimbabwe’s growing program to provide male circumcision services.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:22:55 +0000

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Is Obama finally beginning to understand the concept of 'Blowback'? - US President Barack Obama warned a Florida church's plan to burn Korans would bolster Al Qaeda as the church at the centre of the storm defied a growing chorus of global outrage.

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:19:12 +0000

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