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Transportation: Air Travel
How the imams terrorized an airliner
11-28-2006
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Washington Times
Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.
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Legislative Mischief
Laws prohibit smoking around children
11-28-2006
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USA Today
Anti-tobacco forces are opening a new front in the war against smoking by banning it in private places such as homes and cars when children are present. Starting Jan. 1, Texas will restrict smoking in foster parents' homes at all times and in car
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Drug War
War on drugs strengthens Afghan mafia
11-28-2006
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Financial Times
Afghanistan’s war on drugs has been marred by corruption that has strengthened the grip of an increasingly powerful mafia on the country’s narcotics trade, a report by the World Bank and United Nations said.
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Military
Military tests nonfatal ways to halt vehicles
11-28-2006
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Air Force Times
Military engineers competed to come up with a solution to a problem US troops face daily in Iraq " how to stop civilian vehicles that blunder past checkpoints without destroying the vehicles or killing their occupants.
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WAR: About that War
Judge reinstates wrongful death lawsuit for Iraq contractors
11-28-2006
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AP
A judge agreed the wrongful death lawsuit filed by families of 4 private contractors killed in Iraq could go forward. Blackwater Security argued that it was an extension of the military and the case shouldn't be heard in any court,
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Entertainment: Movies
Phil Donahue Makes Anti-War Film
11-28-2006
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FOX News
Add Phil Donahue to the list of people who’ve made documentaries about the effects of the Iraq war. The legendary liberal talk-show host showed his film to a private screening group last week. The film, “Body of War,” is unfinished but riveting.
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World News
Why Turks Are Not Pleased to See the Pope
11-28-2006
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Time
For many in Turkey, the visiting pontiff personifies the mounting hostility they feel from Europe. For many Turks, Benedict, who once warned that letting Turkey into the EU would be "a grave error against the tide of history," personifies E
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Palestine -- Israel
UN criticizes Israel for Golan Heights annexation
11-28-2006
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AP
Human Rights Council passes two resolutions criticizing Israel, but keeps its record intact of singling out no other country for human rights abuses, taking the Jewish state to task for its occupation of Syria's Golan Heights and for building set
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Syria accuses Israel of building dam in Golan to secure water
11-28-2006
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AP
The head of the water resources department at the town of Quneitra just across the border from the Golan Heights, said Israel started building the dam in July only 10 yards away from the cease-fire line delineated by a UN peacekeeping force in the ar
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Foreign Policy
US ambassador warns Georgia against Iran gas deal
11-28-2006
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Jerusalem Post
A US diplomat warned Georgia against signing a long-term contract for natural gas supplies with Iran, saying that such a deal would be "unacceptable" for the United States.
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WAR: About that War
U.S. can do little to stop civil war in Iraq
11-28-2006
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McClatchy News
The US has 140,000 troops in Iraq and is spending roughly $2 billion per week on military operations, "but all of that effort doesn't really matter," said a Boston University professor and graduate of West Point. "We're not in
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Women talk three times as much as men, says study
11-28-2006
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Daily Mail
It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.
In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, [no comment]
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World News
Castro succession takes shape in Cuba under brother
11-28-2006
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Reuters
Whether or not ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro reappears in public this week at his 80th birthday celebration, a successor government led with stealth by his brother Raul appears to be firmly in place.
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World News
Stockpile in case of Venezuela vote chaos, U.S. says
11-28-2006
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Reuters
The United States warned people to stockpile food, water and medicine in Venezuela in case a vote on Sunday sparks public disorder as anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez seeks reelection. [or we invade]
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Economy - Economics USA
Fair winds for world growth but dollar dangers emerge
11-28-2006
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AFP
It reassured that house prices and the huge US external deficit should steady, but warned that this could go wrong and then a sharp fall of the dollar, rise of interest rates and housing downturn might feed each other.
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Iran
U.S. envoy: Iran nears nuclear weapons
11-28-2006
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AP
There is no time for complacency on
Iran because U.S. intelligence suggests it could have the capability to produce a nuclear bomb as early as 2010, a senior U.S. diplomat said. [Bomb them soon, eh?]
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Iran
West must accept a nuclear Iran: Guards chief
11-28-2006
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AFP
Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief General Yahya Rahim Safavi has said the West should accept Tehran as a nuclear power in the Middle East. "Superpowers have reached the conclusion that a powerful Iran is an unbeatable country in the region,
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Central Intelligence Agency
Europeans accused of obstructing CIA prison probe
11-28-2006
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Reuters
European countries knew about U.S. secret jails for terrorism suspects and have obstructed an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, a draft European Parliament report said.
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Sexuality: Sex and the Law
'Party in your pants' iBuzz ... for two
11-28-2006
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The Register
[***Sexual content warning***] The iBuzz, one of the first iPod-driven massagers, is back, reinvented not only as a more compact, more stylish device but also with the ability to power a pair of ... color coordinated too.
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Entertainment: Movies
MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations
11-28-2006
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by Scott Small (BBspot)
The MPAA is lobbying Congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
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Opinion • More about Religion: Believers
In The GOP We Trust
11-28-06
Chuck Baldwin
Today's column is written primarily for the benefit of my fellow Christians and pastors. More than 31 years as a minister of the Gospel qualifies me to broach this subject.
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CONNECTING THE DOTS
AMERICA'S SUICIDE
11-28-2006
Frosty Wooldridge
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Health and Physical Fitness
ADA receives millions from junk food companies
11-28-2006
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News Target
The American Diabetes Association recently rewrote its guidelines on accepting corporate sponsorships rom companies that sell unhealthy foods in an effort to appear unbiased, but critics say the charity group's willingness to take money from junk
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Environment
Recycling is just plain BS
11-28-2006
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Geeks are Sexy(Video)
This is just plain funny, and very instructive on the myths and stupdity of recycling. Penn and Teller at their best. This is very very funny!
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Legislative Mischief
How Gene patents are putting your health at risk
11-28-2006
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Parade
A fifth of your genes belong to someone else. That's because the US Patent Office has given various labs, companies and universities the rights to 20% of the genes found in everyone's DNA - with some disturbing results. Many US labs won'
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Drug War
War on Drugs expands to Catnip
11-28-2006
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Free Liberal(Fred Foldvary)
Drug warriors scored a virtual victory after the 2006 US elections when they hurriedly extended the War on Drugs to a psychoactive substance previously exempt: nepetalactone, the main psychoactive ingredient in catnip.
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WAR: About that War
Anbar picture grows clearer, and bleaker
11-28-2006
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Washinton Post
The US military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq, or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent
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Environment
Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens
11-28-2006
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VVAW(Doug Rokke)
The delivery of at least 100 GBU-28 "bunker buster" boombs containing depleted-uranium warheads by the US to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination, with consequent a
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Iran
Iran vows to help Iraq with security
11-28-2006
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Reuters
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would do whatever it could to help provide security to Iraq amid warnings the country was on the brink of civil war. Mr. Ahmadinejad made the pledge at the start of a visit to Iran by Iraqi President Jalal Tal
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Military
Army Game proves US can't lose
11-28-2006
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Wired
A new video game commissioned by the US Army as a recruiting tool portrays the nation's military in 2015 as an invulnerable high-tech machine. The new PC title, Future Force Company Commander, or F2C2, is a nifty God-game that puts players
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