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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon will not try to use emergency powers to build a compound to hold war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, according to a member of a Senate panel that oversees funding for military construction projects.
The U.S. Defense Department notified Sen. Dianne Feinstein that it canceled a contract solicitation to [...]

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Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama drew large crowds curious about his presidential prospects during his first trip to the pivotal campaign state of New Hampshire while he decides whether to enter the Democratic race.
Several hundred New Hampshire voters turned out to hear Obama speak at a signing for his best’selling book, “Audacity [...]

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FORT LAUDERDALE — About 100 people came down with a gastrointestinal illness aboard a Caribbean cruise that ended here Sunday.
The Sun Princess, operated by Princess Cruises, was undergoing a thorough cleaning after docking at Port Everglades. Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Santa Clarita, Calif.-based Princess said 97 of about 1,950 passengers on the ship and [...]

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From BendingLeft blog:

Saturday, December 09, 2006
No Bait and Switch, Nancy
It’s hard to believe, but the Democratic bait-and’switch on progressives has already begun over a month before our Majority congress takes office. Fresh on the heels of her famous promise to make this next Congress most ethical congress ever, the capitulations to corruption and [...]

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AP) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
Oil-rich Arab states in the Gulf announced at the end of a summit Sunday that they were considering a shared nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
“The (leaders) commissioned a study by members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to set up a common program in the area of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, according [...]

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By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
Forty years ago, Sgt. Silvestre Reyes was a helicopter crew chief flying dangerous combat missions in South Vietnam from the top of a soaring rocky outcrop near the sea called Marble Mountain.
After the war, it turned out that the communist Viet Cong had tunneled into the hill and built [...]

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This Sunday, Human Rights Day has been renamed “Human Rights and Impeachment Day,” as groups hold rallies from coast to coast across the United States calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached.
“The purpose of the events is to organize people to lobby their Congress Members for investigations and impeachment and to [...]

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This years focus is on poverty eradication. The United Nations is calling on governments to urgently come to grips with poverty and end the discrimination that systematically deprives poor people of their fundamental human rights.

Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations. It is this double edge that makes poverty probably the [...]

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This is a first…….

The Lagunitas School District board meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday to appoint a new trustee - and to consider a proposal urging impeachment of President Bush.
The meeting takes place at Lagunitas School at the corner of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Meadow Way.

Source here

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