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Taliban attacks strike at the heart of occupation
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Israeli army crosses into Lebanon: "An intense Israeli build-up of forces during the past 24 hours has been observed along the eastern sectorof the Blue Line, with mobile and fixedpatrols," said NNA.
Fighting in Somalia displaces 63,000
01/19/10 09:54 PM, EST
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity", the United Nations’ refugee agency said Tuesday.
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China and eurozone fears hit risk appetite Global Markets Overview: Monetary tightening in China and and worries about the eurozone periphery knock stocks and the euro, taking the shine off generally positive US earnings.
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Ten years after the publication of ’No Logo’, Klein looks at how
Obama created a brand that won him the Presidency. Will his failure
to live up to his lofty brand cost him?
No, not just fluoride, which is bad enough - much of our drinking water, in the U.S., Canada and U.K. at least, is contaminated with Prozac and a "vast array" of other drugs.
We don't just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf.
Greece cancels order for swine flu Greece has canceled the remaining order for about 8 million batches of the vaccine against the deadly swine flu, local media said citing the government sources.
Greece has previously ordered over 11 mln batches to vaccinate its entire population, and has received 3.6 mln batches, worth 25 mln euro ($36 mln) from that order.
‘The state will pay only for vaccines which have been received so far’, local TV quoted Health Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou as saying on Monday.
It’s something the CDC won’t admit.
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Global Markets Overview: Wall Street returns from a day’s holiday to be greeted by results from Citigroup and IBM, while UK prices data raise the spectre of inflation
Most people imagine that slavery died in the 19th century. Since
1810, more than a dozen international conventions banning the slave trade have been signed. Yet today there are more slaves than at any time in human history.
By Joseph Zernik
‘Lethal force’ an option in Olympic Games airspace: Norad
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Turkey: Israel is strategic ally with shared interests
By Barak Ravid, Jack Khoury and Amos Harel
APPEAL: Natives fear oil company will be careless, harm sea life.
A VARIETY OF VIEWPOINTS ON COMMUNITY:
Carrying capacity is a measure of how many people can be supported indefinitely. Therefore if any fraction of global warming is due to the actions of humans, this alone proves that human populations are larger than the carrying capacity of the earth. Sustainability requires that the size of the population be less than or equal to the
carrying capacity of the ecosystem for the desired standard of living.
This image from the IPCC’s AR4 report was included with claims of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035. That claim has now been disproven. The image also shows that glacial retreat was occuring long before the industrial age.(IPCC)
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More than 84,000 were unleashed in just the first quarter of 2009. On Jan. 30 alone, more than 65,000 job cuts were announced -- including Sprint Nextel (S, Fortune 500) and Texas Instruments (TXN, Fortune 500). Also in January, Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) said it planned to cut 5,000 jobs.
Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned” vulnerability in its flagship Web browser.
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’Retired? No; Refired? Yes: ’On Call’ This is an interview with a fiesty Vermont hospice nurse who has decided to turn a rural in into a boarding house for the Second Great Depression. It is tremendously inspiring!
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ~Martin Luther King, Jr~
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This is not a pitch :) but for anyone interested, there is an online Bible and here, you can access just about any verse or chapter or ‘book’ …Thought you might be interested. It certainly took a lot of work to do this, and it really takes the headache away for those who search for certain passages. – Luc Majno |
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