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GHALANAI, Pakistan - The United States plans to pour $750 million of aid into Pakistan’s tribal areas over the next five years as part of a “hearts and minds” campaign to win over this lawless region from Qaeda and Taliban militants.
But even before the plan has been fully carried out, documents and officials involved [...]

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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
7/16/07
WASHINGTON - Why did humans evolve to walk upright? Perhaps because it’s just plain easier. Make that “energetically less costly,” in science’speak, and you have the conclusion of researchers who are proposing a likely reason for our modern gait.
Bipedalism - walking on two feet - is one of the [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats, hoping to raise pressure on President George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans to pull troops from Iraq, have scheduled an around-the-clock war debate starting on Tuesday.
“I think that the American people deserve what we’re doing and that is focusing attention every minute of the day on what is [...]

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Nice they can use campaign funds to fight pervert charges. We SOOOOOO need campaign finance reform.

WEST PALM BEACH — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress amid an Internet teen sex scandal, has racked up nearly a half-million dollars in legal fees paid from his campaign account, according to [...]

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from The BBC Online

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the UK will make “no apologies” for expelling four Russian diplomats.
The decision follows Moscow’s refusal to hand over the former KGB agent accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko in London last year.
Mr Brown said that because “there is no forthcoming co-operation, then action has to be taken”.
The [...]

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by Roddy Scheer
from E/The Environment Magazine
Robert Greenwald and his company Brave New Films are fast becoming members of my personal heroes list. - JS

A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups launched a campaign last week targeting the Fox News Network for spreading misinformation about global warming. The campaign is urging Home Depot, which [...]

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Good Lord………

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military’s top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.
Making no predictions, Marine Gen. Peter Pace revealed that he and the chiefs of the Army, [...]

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Oh yeah…..things are going swimmingly in Baghdad. The surge has improved things so much!

BAGHDAD - The dress code at the Blue Star restaurant inside Baghdad’s Green Zone now calls for vest and hat.
Flak vest and Kevlar helmet, to be precise. And it’s a good thing.
At least four mortar rounds hit inside the Green [...]

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Oh what a shock……..
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer

An independent oversight board created to identify intelligence abuses after the CIA scandals of the 1970s did not send any reports to the attorney general of legal violations during the first 5 1/2 years of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism effort, the Justice Department has told Congress.
Although the [...]

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