BlueHerald 2.0

by Jim Swanson
Blue Herald.com

I don-t think there are too many people (at least Progressives) that believe the propoganda that’s coming out of Ari Fleischer’s “Freedom’s Watch” organization.
My calculated guess tells me that somebody at the White House has their puppet hand up Ari’s arse and telling him what to say and how to say it.
But [...]

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By Aung Hla Tun
Reuters

YANGON (Reuters) - Despite gradually easing its iron grip on Myanmar’s main city on Thursday, the junta continued to round up scores of people and grill hundreds more arrested during and after a ruthless crackdown on pro-democracy marches.
Although most are too terrified to talk, the monks and civilians slowly being freed [...]

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By Charles Hawley and David Gordon Smith, Der Spiegel
from Alternet

Spiegel Online: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was just in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Once again, he said that he is only interested in civilian nuclear power instead of atomic weapons. How much does the West really know about the nuclear program in [...]

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from FreePress.net
Free Press calls for Congress to investigate abuses of free speech
WASHINGTON — Free Press, coordinator of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, is calling for congressional hearings to address growing public outrage over phone company censorship policies. Last week, Verizon made headlines with its decision to ban text messages from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
“Phone companies are supposed to [...]

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By Belinda Goldsmith
Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It’s not just people who find it hard to get going in the morning. Cockroaches don’t like mornings either, according to U.S. researchers.
A study by biologists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, found dramatic variations in a cockroach’s learning ability throughout the day. In the morning, the insects [...]

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from The New York Times

Unless President Bush backs away from his threat to veto a significant expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, it will be incumbent on all Republicans in the House who value health care over ideological warfare to summon the courage and vote to override him.
The Senate approved the legislation [...]

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from VoteVets.org

YouTube Video Captures Moment Petraeus Concedes He Doesn’t Know if Iraq Plan Makes America Safer; Quotes Three Republican Senators
VoteVets.org has unveiled a new internet ad on YouTube, which captures the moment that General David Petraeus admits during an exchange with Senator John Warner, that he doesn’t know if the White House plan for Iraq [...]

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Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday it carried out an air strike in the Doura district of southern Baghdad on Friday, saying it had targeted men firing mortars into a neighboring area.
“Coalition forces surveillance elements observed a group of men setting up and firing mortars in the Doura neighborhood of southern Baghdad. [...]

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By JASON STRAZIUSO
The Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for [...]

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