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• The Lives They Lived: Peg Mullen: Cornfield Protest

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  ANTIWAR PATH The future activist with her son Michael in 1944.
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Vets put boots to road to raise funds

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Mark Finelli is hoping to turn a 100-mile journey into thousands of dollars for injured troops. He and three fellow war veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are hiking 100 miles in their combat boots this week to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a national charity that supports injured service ...
  5 days ago

• Thousands Of Chinese Vietnam War Veterans Join Wa

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Written by KNG Tuesday, 15 December 2009 In a development, which does not bode well for the Burmese ruling junta, thousands of Chinese Vietnam war veterans have joined the ethnic Wa rebels in Burma in the wake of the contentious Border Guard Force issue, said border sources. About 15,000 military personnel from ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• 9th Circuit Oral Arguments: In Mt. Soledad Cross Case

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Religion Clause Blog : "Yesterday the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in  Jewish War Veterans v. City of San Diego. ( Recording of full arguments .) The case is part of the 20-year long series of lawsuits challenging the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego, California, and the large ...
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• Silly Question, Easy Answer: Is The Cross A Symbol Of Christianity?

  
  The Wall of Separation — Authority: 547
  It’s been a little while since we’ve had an update on the Mt. Soledad cross controversy, but today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is finally hearing oral arguments to decide if this cross is a religious symbol or a generic and secular emblem of death.It seems like it would be such an obvious [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Protesting war veterans return nine cartons of gallantry medals

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) War veterans and ex-servicemen have returned nine cartons of gallantry medals to the defence ministry as a sign of protest against their demand of “one rank one pension” not being accepted, union Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Wednesday.“Nine cardboard boxes full of medals have been ...
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• Stress of War Shatters More Marriages

  
  Ohio Family Law Blog — Authority: 106
  The Pentagon reported the divorce rate among military members increased again in the past year and is now a full percentage point higher than it was around the time of the September 11, 2001, attacks.  According to their figures, the divorce rate of about 3.6 percent for fiscal year 2009 increased from the reported ...
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• Mugabe Lackey Invades Harare House

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 135
  The so-called leader of the War Veterans of Zimbabwes liberation war of the 1970s  (although he actually never went to war and is not a real Veteran), Joseph Chinotimba, has invaded a house in Harare and is refusing to leave. The house belongs to Harare City Council, which has taken Chinotimba to court, but witnesses ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• PTSD as a mitigating factor

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 133
  Supreme Court throws out Korean war veterans death sentencePTSD must be considered by a jury, the justices rule for the first time in a Florida case in which murderer George Porters own lawyer didnt know he served in the Army, earning two Purple Hearts.Reporting from Washington - The Supreme Court on Monday threw out ...
  3 weeks ago

• 7296: G.I. Navajo.

  
  MultiCultClassics — Authority: 483
  From The Chicago Tribune… Veterans wall honors American Indians’ military service By Dan Simmons, Tribune reporter In his youth, Joe Yazzie wanted to be an artist. But his mother knew he would be a warrior in the proud tradition of his Navajo forebears. He was named for G.I. Joe and was made to run and chop ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

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