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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Who Is Responsible For Osama Being Alive, Not Dead?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  Prime Minister Gordon Brown is angry, he is angry there are terrorists, he is angry that Osama bin Laden is still alive and healthy somewhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan or some place in the world. The British prime minister blasted the government of Pakistan for allowing the noted terrorist to remain alive and still ...
  19 hours ago

• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Al Jazeera notes US Media more interested in Mickey Mouse than the Taliban

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  I am not surprised by the US media but found this Al Jazeera story interesting. Youd have been hard pressed to find much coverage of the Obama troop announcement on Wednesdays American breakfast TV. I know this because our North America editors had asked me to watch the US breakfast shows, in case there was a story ...
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• Obama finds new excuse to escape the Oval Office and fly on AF1

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  His "White House to Main Street" photo-op tour will not fix his inept handling of the economy. Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor ...
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• USDA says PETA is a terrorist threat

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 136
  ”Plants have feelings. Be a Carnivore.” Says People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” ...
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• Complaints From the Unemployed

  
  The Junkyard — Authority: 112
  Dammit ! Now that I’m back from Germany, I’m having the wonderful experience of searching for a job in the worst economy since the Great Depression. While this is an experience I’ll be able to hang over my children and grandchildren’s heads with lines like, “when I was a kid…” and “you don’t even ...
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• CLIMATEGATE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED CAUSE, SO BEWARE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 127
  I want to go on record here sooner than later about this thing called Climategate. I am on record many times saying that it is not a question of whether or not 9/11 was an inside job but rather only a matter of how deep and wide. This thing called Climategate at best must be approached from the opposite direction. ...
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• Of Adding Troops, Mapping an Exit Plan, and Writing Headlines.

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 713
  I don’t know anything about the intricacies of publishing a newspaper, or about the relationships or sequence and timing between the on-line and printed versions of a major newspaper such as the New York Times. Although I am not a journalist, I remember from my Journalism 101 class that newspapers pay a lot of ...
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• Priorities, Suborning The Rule of Law and Subpoenas

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 438
  I just came across this little blurb on CNN regarding the "party crasher" incident at the White House: It was unclear whether the Salahis would accept the committees invitation to testify, according to the committees chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi. "Late this evening, I was informed by the ...
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• Barack Obamas war in Afghanistan: Crack Pipe, Peace Pipe... Same difference!

  
  THE INTERSECTION OF MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 471
  So I woke up yesterday only to be greeted by one of my Black Republican buddies on Facebook by the question: So what are your thoughts on Obamas war? The question didnt throw me off as it is what I have come to expect from Conservatives. Obamas war? Wait a minute, didnt we invade Afghanistan a little over 8yrs ago? ...
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• Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy

  
  Nevada Thunder — Authority: 120
  side note: An awesome article from Vanity Fair, check out their site b/c they have quite a few links backing up some of the facts in this story. I’m a bit torn on this….on one side, I agree with Prince that if he was truly a CIA asset, then he should have the same legal protections as Valerie Plame ...
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• Epicenter of Mendacity: The Illegal War Against Afghanistan

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 133
  Nobody in the corporate media mentions it, but the war in Afghanistan which President Barack Obama just ramped up by 50 percent this year, with the dispatch, first of 17,000 troops last spring and now with another 30,000 troops, to begin deployment on Christmas, is being fought on the shaky legal basis of a hastily ...
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• The First Draft: White House takes a lonely road to openness on Crasher-gate

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 675
  President Barack Obama’s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, feels the White House doesn’t need Congress to help it maintain openness on the Crasher-gate scandal. That’s why it’s chosen to eschew the limelight of a Capitol Hill hearing today. “We think we’ve really answered the questions fully,” she ...
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• The Dithering Bloom Of Bush/Cheney

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 479
  In a recent conversation on Twitter with @AnUnlikelySaint, I pointed out that as recently as last year, Bush/Cheney did not answer a call for more troops in Afghanistan. My assertion, back up by a report in McClatchy which I blogged about yesterday, is solidified with new information coming from Admiral Micheal ...
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• Cheneys Pre-Speech Criticism of Obama on Afghanistan Went Too Far

  
  : - Published news — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Dick Cheney , Foreign Policy , Afghanistan , Conservatives read more
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• The old switcheroo

  
  Nutwood Junction — Authority: 127
  Before I get into that, I just wanted to wish Cousin Shane a very happy birthday! Those of you who have been reading for a while have heard plenty about Cousin Shane over the years. He truly is like a brother to me, and one of my best friends. We have similar senses of humor, we crack each other up and sometimes go ...
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• Cheneys Pre-Speech Criticism of Obama on Afghanistan Went Too Far

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 804
  Filed under: Dick Cheney , Foreign Policy , Afghanistan , Conservatives Since leaving office a little more than 10 months ago, former Vice President Dick Cheney has become the most outspoken critic of President Obamas foreign policy decisions. Most of the time, this has been a good thing, as Cheney has often ...
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• Paying Attention in Afghanistan

  
  @ Home in the World — Authority: 112
  If you are surprised by, or disappointed in, President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, then you probably weren’t paying attention during the campaign.   Before he was elected, Obama talked about Iraq being the wrong war, and how it caused us to take our eyes off the ball in ...
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• Blackwater’s Erik Prince to step down, reveals CIA role

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: RawStory ‘Power struggle’ inside Blackwater over Prince’s successor Blackwater’s Erik Prince was recruited as a CIA agent in the years after the 9/11 attacks, says an exclusive report at Vanity Fair that also reveals the billionaire ex-Navy SEAL plans to step down from Blackwater to teach high ...
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