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• Do Media Refs Do This Too? It Would Explain a Lot

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 123
  If “winning” and not good governance is all the most vicious partisans care about, their political game plan would look just like the Illini’s foul play and it would work out for them, especially on tv. A theory with excellent predictive value! ESPN dot comNovember 23, 2009Associated PressThey don’t all need ...
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• Exeter academic gives expert advice to The Iraq Inquiry

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 142
  The Government’s Iraq Inquiry conducted to identify lessons that can be learned from the Iraq conflict officially opens today. Professor Gareth Stansfield, the Exeter University’s Director of Research in Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, was one of a few academic experts who was asked to provide a briefing ...
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• Obama: Give me 34,000 More Troops for the "Necessary War," But Just Till I Can Blame Someone Else for Retreat

  
  Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels — Authority: 436
  Thats the impression one gets from President Obamas proposal, to be announced next week, to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan...but with "off ramps" to allow the POTUS to retreat but still blame someone else for his decision to bug out. This is really quite distressing. Barack Obama and the Democrats running ...
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• Ed Meese Suddenly Worried About The Prison Population [Assholes]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  " In an interview at the Heritage Foundation , a conservative research group where he is a fellow, Mr. Meese said the liberal ideas of extending the power of the state were to blame for an out-of-control criminal justice system." Ahem. You know, Ed Meese III, it is nice that you have come around, in some fashion, ...
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• Video: Terror trial debate

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 647
  Embedded video from CNN Video
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• Women, Islam, very low PH level fluids.

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  Warning, this video is harsh. Based on this excellent Phyllis Chesler article. Please click on over and read.
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• Will Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Sir John Chilcot, resist a whitewash on Iraq?

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Sir John Chilcot has pledged to produce a ‘full and insightful’ account of the decision-making process which took Britain into the Iraq War Will Sir John Chilcot resist a whitewash on Iraq? Daily Mail | Nov 23, 2009 This paper would like it set firmly on the record: on the eve of today’s opening session, ...
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• The Cost of an Afghanistan Surge

  
  Craig Cheslog — Authority: 116
  The Washington Notes Steve Clemons estimates the financial cost of an Afghanistan surge . Clemons notes his $105 billion price tag (which seems conservative to me) is higher than the annual cost of the health care reform plan and nearly 10 times higher than Afghanistans nominal gross domestic product. Many ...
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• Iraq war inquiry ‘will not be a whitewash’ claims Sir John Chilcot

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Sir John Chilcot, the chairman of the public inquiry into the Iraq war, will start holding hearings this week  Photo: AP “Free to do what they will.” The inquiry into events surrounding the Iraq war will not produce a report that is a “whitewash”, Sir John Chilcot, the man in charge of it, has insisted. ...
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• Climate Change “Could Spark African Civil Wars”

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  From BelfastTelegraph.com: Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by 50% within the next 20 years, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, it has been claimed. Researchers at Stanford University in California combined historical data on civil wars with rainfall ...
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• Q&A: Iraq war inquiry

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The role of the long-awaited inquiry chaired by Sir John Chilcot into why and how Britain went to war against Iraq Why are we having another inquiry? This is the fifth inquiry on the Iraq war, and will be the most wide-ranging. The Commons foreign affairs committee and the joint parliamentary intelligence and ...
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• Rep. David Obey Warns President Obama of Afghanistan War Surtax

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 531
  The powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has a stark message for President Obama about Afghanistan -- sending more troops would be a mistake that could "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy." Share Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc., talks exit strategy, compares Afghanistan to ...
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• What Afghans say about the war

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  A group of nongovernmental organizations recently polled 704 randomly-selected Afghans about how decades of conflict has changed their lives. Andrew Sprung has a summary: 1 in 5 say they’ve been tortured, three quarters have been forced to leave their homes at some point in the endless civil war, 43% have had ...
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• Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and ...
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• Blitzed Paul Delaroche artwork returning after 70 years

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Blitzed Paul Delaroche artwork returning after 70 years -1.0 5 2009-11-24 14:26:54 1stAngel A painting by Delaroche is going back on display after being damaged in a World war II air raid and hidden away for decades. Charles I Insulted was evacuated to Scotland in 1941 after its London home was bombed. ...
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• US ‘discussing Iraq regime change’ two years before war

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing “regime change” in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today.Sir Peter Ricketts, who was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001, said [...]
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• Obama finally makes Afghanistan decision

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 562
  After months of hand wringing, President Obama has finally made his decision as what to do about Afghanistan. From McClatchy: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what hes ...
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• U.S. is soft on terrorism

  
  Faultline USA — Authority: 472
  Commentary by James H. Shott On September 12, 2001, Americans were nearly unanimous in their belief that terrorism was a very real and serious threat to our country. September 11, 2009, eight years later, after not only no new terrorist attacks on the United States, but some thwarted ...
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• Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he’s called “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited ...
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• The War on Drugs: FAIL: An Interview With Clifford Thornton Jr.

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 586
  Pinky interviews drug policy expert Clifford Thornton: “The War on Drugs has absolutely nothing to do with drugs – it’s about power, it’s about control, it’s about coercion, it’s about money.”
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