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Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - “When Your Mind’s Made Up”
Congratulations to these two on their well-deserved Oscar for Best Original Song, from one of the best films of 2007, Once. I previously featured their winning song, “Falling Slowly,” here. This is probably my other favorite from the film. [...]

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U.S.-backed Sunni volunteer forces, which have played a vital role in reducing violence in Iraq, are increasingly frustrated with the American military and the Iraqi government over what they see as a lack of recognition of their growing political clout and insufficient U.S. support.
Since Feb. 8, thousands of fighters in restive Diyala province have left [...]

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You put a handful of people on a bench, most of whom clearly partial, influenced, biased towards big money and big business, and JUSTICE takes a big fucking leap right out the damn window!
At the High Court, Damage Control
Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of [...]

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Just a note to further point out………. Bush just said, “You can’t expect telephone companies to help if they are going to be sued.” Well dopey, if there’s a WARRANT, they won’t be sued. What you’re asking for is to be able to wiretap anybody, anytime and for any reason you [...]

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Bush just gave his fear fear fear, Dems are baddddddddd speech. I guess this is their cue to cave in. Here’s a little ditty about Bush and retroactive immunity for telecoms that I found at the Baldwin Park Democrat, from a blogger who is “Retired Navy. Retired DHS. Now just retired.” [...]

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Well they must believe that. Why else would they not want to invest in alternative energy sources for the future?
House OKs New Taxes on Big Oil Companies
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies Wednesday as Democrats cited record oil prices and rising gasoline costs in a [...]

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Bloomberg: I’m Not Running for President
And the world heaves a collective sigh of relief.

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Wired has obtained previously unreleased photos from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, taken from a presentation by Philip Zimbardo on how ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, become evil. Evil, indeed.

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Politicians who talk about the terrorism threat — and it’s already clear that this will be a polarizing issue in the 2008 campaign — should be required to read a new book by a former CIA officer named Marc Sageman. It stands what you think you know about terrorism on its head and helps you [...]

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All cruelty springs from weakness.
- Seneca
One of the Bush administration’s chief defenses, besides a mostly gutless and complicit Congress and press, is that the harm they’ve done is so deep and widespread it’s hard to keep track of it all. That said, the Guantanamo show trials and the use of torture are as [...]

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