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US forces are taking to collective punishment of civilians in several cities across al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, residents and officials say. "Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, is still living with the daily terror of its people getting kill
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Enormous losses at one of the nation’s largest hedge funds resurrected worries yesterday that major bets by these secretive, unregulated investment partnerships could create widespread financial disruptions. the fund told investors it lost more than $3
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Combining obvious talent, an irreverent style, and what must surely be an eclectic base of financial and logistical support behind him, guerilla artist Banksy seems to be the irreverent counterpart to Christo. Banksy's art spans the spectrum of artistic l
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Jesus Camp, a Magnolia Pictures release, is a documentary about an evangelical Christian summer camp for children in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
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a whole bunch of stuff about digital thingities
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not sure why AT&T has a blog portal
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Sam Gardiner, former US Air Force Colonel, concludes that we are prepping for Iran war in a new report for the Century Foundation. Gardiner says the preparations for war "will not be a major CNN event."
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Digby always a good read - kind of a standard liberal hi-level sorta blog
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Some officials at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department said they're concerned that the offices of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney may be receiving a stream of questionable information that o
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CPA applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you v
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Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Pla
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Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) said, "We are conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming." Gardiner, who taught at the U.S. Army’s National War College, has previously suggested that U.S. forces were already on
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In a previously unreported action, the Internal Revenue Service has revoked the DLC’s tax exemption on the grounds that it primarily benefited a private group—Democrats, and particularly “New Democrats” running for or holding office—rather than
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The torture debate in Congress--I never expected to write such words--is as surreal to me as watching the collapse of the Twin Towers. surely the President's pro-torture bill will be viewed in hindsight as the nadir of the Bush presidency.
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Don Rumsfeld has apparently put Abram Shulsky (head of what was once the 'Office of Special Plans' (OSP)) in charge of a new DOD outfit, modeled on the OSP, to stovepipe bogus Iran intel from the likes of Manucher Ghorbanifar
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sort of a del.icio.us for .net developing - for my work
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Peter Gartrell blogs the Wyoming frontier - energy, snow and the tough life of a western reporter
