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• Obama Set To Address the Nation on Afghanistan Dec. 1

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 153
  President Obama is expected to address the nation early next week, saying he will send a sizable force of additional troops to Afghanistan, sources tell NPR. The tentative plan is for the president to make his announcement Dec. 1, followed shortly thereafter by testimony on Capitol Hill by Defense Secretary Robert ...
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• AWARD SEASON – JOCKEYING FOR POSITION

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 595
  Pictured: Vera Farminga "The Departed" Can you just feel it in the air? Award season has begun, which means film and Television critic organizations and film festivals are leaping over one another to get their oh so important list of nominees out there first. So, isn’t it brilliant of the Santa ...
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• Obama To Announce Increase Of US Troops For Afghanistan On December 1

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  President Barack Obama is expected to announce a “sizeable force” increase in US troops for Afghanistan early next week, tentatively December 1, according to a report from NPR . Original post: Obama To Announce Increase Of US Troops For Afghanistan On December 1
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• State Parks To Remain Fully Open, Thanks To Friendly Feds

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  The National Parks Service has come to the rescue of the highly popular state parks in the Santa Monica Mountains, providing a grant of $939,169 to avoid cutbacks that would have been likely because of Sacramento’s budget shortfall. Read the original here: State Parks To Remain Fully Open, Thanks To Friendly Feds
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• Morgan Stanley Hires Former Merrill Executive

  
  DealBook — Authority: 773
  Morgan Stanley has hired a former Merrill Lynch executive, David Moffitt, to prepare the firms capital markets division for a resurgence in securitized debt sales.
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• Sunni Awakening, Afghan Version

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Its often said that you cant hope to apply Iraq strategy to Afghanistan because the two countries/conflicts are so different. But Stanley McChrystal seems not to agree : In Iraq, the U.S.-funded Sons of Iraq program got as many as 100,000 Sunni insurgents to stop fighting the U.S., or even take up arms against the ...
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• Comics Cavalcade: Sharks and Spirits

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 679
  Gekiga Jaws ( one and two ) A Trip to the Moon and Dream Girl by Jim Davis Hide n Seek by John Stanley White Indian by Angelo Torres Still more Cobean Wednesdays Child and The King of the Ring The Spirit by Lou Fine Johnny Quick by Mort Meskin ...
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• Is This How NATO Should Announce Casualties?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 761
  I saw in my RSS reader that four U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. Hmm , I thought, I get emails from the International Security Assistance Force — the NATO military command in Afghanistan — and I don’t recall seeing that . So I went back through my inbox and found this press ...
  11 hours ago

• US pastors plan to defy law and endorse candidates

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  Mister-info.com : "Erik Stanley, a legal adviser with the ADF, said the group would be sending copies of the sermons to the IRS and would be seeking a Supreme Court case. The law, he said, was unconstitutional because being tax-exempt is part of freedom of religion; otherwise the government could tax churches out of ...
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• Obey Wants a Deficit-Neutral Afghanistan War

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 761
  Speaking of the unclear cost of escalating the Afghanistan war , I see via David Dayen and Tim Fernholz that Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, wants to treat war spending like domestic spending : Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.), the chairman of the House Appropriations ...
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• Calix gets ready to go public

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 145
  Calix finally made it official last Friday that it has filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Since the IPO filing is only preliminary, the company did not provide how many shares would be offered in the IPO. However, it did say that it wrote $100 million for the offering and that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, ...
  13 hours ago

• White House to Hold Last-Minute Af-Pak Meeting Tonight

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy announcement will come paired with an announcement of a troop escalation. Before that happens, however, Obama will host one last all-hands-on-deck meeting with ...
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• Obama Meeting With National Security Team On Afganistan And Pakistan Tonight

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 806
  The President will meet with his National Security team in the Situation Room tonight, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to a release from the White House Press Office, expected attendees include: Vice President Biden Secretary of State Clinton Secretary of Defense Gates Ambassador ...
  14 hours ago

• How Much Will Escalation Cost?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 761
  The Los Angeles Times earns your readership this morning by running a great piece digging into differing cost estimates between the White House and the Pentagon over how much a troop increase in Afghanistan will cost. The White House says it wants a thorough accounting; the Pentagon appears to be worried that such a ...
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• Is global warming unstoppable?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 23, 2009 -- In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions -- the major cause of global warming -- cannot be stabilized unless the worlds economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.
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• The Federal Reserve is fundamentally a scam, run by big international and foreign banksters.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  They have monetary diarrhea because it benefits the big banks, right at this moment, to have that. The actions of the Fed have absolutely NOTHING to do with the best interest of the people of the U.S.A., or, for that matter, small to medium sized financial institutions. It is all about the big international casino ...
  15 hours ago

• Bezos Family Pledges $10M to the “Hutch” for Next-Generation Cancer Therapies

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Biotech , cancer , vaccines Luke Timmerman wrote: The parents of Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos have pledged a $10 million donation to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with an eye toward creating new therapies that trigger the immune system to seek out and kill cancer ...
  17 hours ago

• 4 at 4 A.M.

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  * The Stanley Aronowitz talk from this weekend’s conference will hopefully be up soon, but until then here are the two recent pieces from which it was primarily drawn: “Facing the Economic Crisis” and “Reflections on Seattle 1999.” * A torture session in Iran took a strange turn when an elite policeman ...
  19 hours ago

• Dear Flat Stanley.

  
  Betsy & Iya Jewelry — Authority: 110
  Can we adopt you?? You reminded us to take time for each other and appreciate the small things…literally. We’re sad to see you go, Stanley.  We had such great adventures with you and we’ll share more here, but—we don’t want to spoil them all just yet before you get back to your best ...
  20 hours ago

• Eric Wood gets his leg broken: Video

  
  Sports Rubbish — Authority: 588
  Warning: The video below is not for the squeamish. Eric Wood, a rookie lineman for the Buffalo Bills, broke his leg. Or more accurately, Montavious Stanley of the Jacksonville Jaguars broke Eric Wood’s leg by accidentally falling on him while Stanley was attempting to tackle Ryan Fitzpatrick. What a freak injury. ...
  22 hours ago

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