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The Senate’s New Piñata
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Investor's Business Daily, by Monica Showalter
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:29:48 PM
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Lobbyist and Senate sources tell IBD that the new hold placed on Tom Shannon’s appointment as ambassador to Brazil is just one of many in the pipeline for the luckless career diplomat who up until now has been the top U.S. policymaker for Latin America. On Thursday, the Senate did confirm Georgetown academic Arturo Valenzuela as assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, a job Shannon has held until now. Both Shannon and Valenzuela
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Fort Hood shooting: inside
story of how massacre on
military base happened
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Sunday Telegraph [UK], by Philip Sherwell and Nick Allen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/7/2009 7:27:39 PM
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Tuesday 4pm It may have been the first, small clue that an apparently ordinary week at the world's largest army base was about to become something horrifically different, when neighbours saw Major Nidal Hasan escorting a visitor into his flat. Other residents at the Casa del Norte apartment complex were surprised to see the mild-mannered army officer accompanied by another man in Islamic dress. Alice Thompson, 53, who manages the two storey block
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Authorities say man stole car
to make court appearance on
previous auto theft charge
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 7:08:14 PM
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VALLEJO, Calif. - The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge. The patrol says 24-year-old Samuel Botchvaroff, of Oakland, was arrested Tuesday after he left his arraignment at the Vallejo courthouse on auto theft charges. He was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of auto theft and possession of stolen property. Authorities were looking for the stolen car after its tracking system alerted
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Award-winning Cuban blogger
says she was beaten, detained
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 7:04:03 PM
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HAVANA — Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday. Three agents in street clothes snatched her and friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado. "They beat me and then they shoved me into a car head first. They did not give me
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Officer describes firefight
that downed Hasan
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Associated Press, by Jay Root
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 11/7/2009 7:02:49 PM
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KILLEEN, Texas – One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base. Sgt. Mark Todd joined Sgt. Kimberly Munley, hailed as a hero for her actions, in a firefight with Hasan that lasted less than a minute. Todd, 42, was not wounded, but the exchange left
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British butcher takes
biro to meet the queen
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 7:02:13 PM
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A butcher who received a medal from Queen Elizabeth II kept his trusty pen tucked behind his ear throughout the ceremony, newspapers reported Saturday. William Lloyd Williams, 49, from Machynlleth in western Wales, went to the sovereign's Buckingham Palace official residence in London to receive his Member of the Order of the British Empire medal for services to the meat industry. The butcher shed his hat and apron for the ceremony but couldn't bear to be without
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Obama leaning toward 34,000
more troops for Afghanistan
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McClatchy Newspapers, by Jonathan S. Landay
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 6:57:30 PM
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy. As it now stands, the administration's plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th
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Dinosaurs and Versace entice
tourists to Pablo Escobar’s drug ranch
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Times [U.K.], by John Harlow
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 6:47:08 PM
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SIXTEEN years after Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets, crowds of tourists are descending on his luxurious ranch to celebrate the tacky taste and violent times of South America’s most notorious drug lord. The unexpected success of Hacienda Napoles as an attraction has disturbed the government of Colombia, where Escobar’s foot soldiers were paid $1,000 for every official and policeman they shot.
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Oops:
Republican jumps gun
on health care vote
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 6:35:47 PM
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US President Barack Obama's Democratic allies got an unlikely vote of confidence Saturday, as a top Republican foe prematurely declared defeat in the fight over remaking US health care. Mike Pence, the number three Republican in the House of Representatives, put a statement on his official Internet site denouncing final House passage of White House-backed legislation -- hours before the vote was expected. Pence's office described the statement as coming "after the Democrat Majority in the House
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Many California jobs 'saved' by
stimulus funds weren't in jeopardy
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Sacramento Bee [California], by Phillip Reese
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 6:25:49 PM
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Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found. California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas – and in 44 other states. (Snip) That certainly was not the way Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger described it at a news event with Vice President
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Bikini record set in Johannesburg
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South Africa Press Association, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 6:25:44 PM
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A new Guinness World record has been set in South Africa for the most women to parade around in a bikini, organisers say. Kellogg’s Special KR’s Sarah Mansfield said 287 bikini clad women descended upon Melrose Arch in Johannesburg on Saturday to help break the record for the “World’s Largest Bikini Parade”. “Decked out with smiles, sunglasses and even heels, these confident and fun-loving women of all ages, shapes and sizes paraded down 1,690 meters
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'Time to consider global tax'
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 6:21:45 PM
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Scotland - Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting on Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries it was time to consider a global financial levy, such as a tax on transactions or an insurance fee, that
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The 'No' list: 31 Democrats so far
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Politico, by Patrick O'Connor & Charles Mahtesian
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 6:07:10 PM
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With just hours remaining until an historic vote on a sweeping health-care reform measure Saturday evening, at least 31 Democrats have said they will vote against the bill as of 6:00 p.m., according to a Politico analysis. Just nine more ''no' votes would be enough to sink the bill if Republicans maintain, as expected, a solid front of opposition. Still, Democratic sources are signaling that they have secured the majority of the caucus and expect
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Some US Muslims fear
backlash after army base shooting
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 6:00:43 PM
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Washington - Arab and Muslim Americans on Friday braced for the possibility of verbal or physical attacks after an army psychiatrist of Arab descent allegedly killed 13 during a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas. (Snip) Andrew Grant-Thomas, deputy director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, said reporting about the incident had unduly emphasized Hasan's ethnicity and religion.
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House poised to pass
historic health-care reform bill
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McClatchy Newspapers, by David Lightman
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 6:00:39 PM
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WASHINGTON -- With a personal push from President Barack Obama, the House of Representatives Saturday inched closer to passing historic health care legislation that would guarantee virtually all Americans access to care. Obama met for half an hour with House Democrats as the all-day debate was starting Saturday morning, and compared the health care effort to Democrats' championing of Social Security and Medicare. "Now is the time to finish the job," Obama said later in
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Bipartisanship erupts between
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton;
they cancel joint LA, NY appearances
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Los Angeles Times, by Mark Z. Barabak
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 5:58:45 PM
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George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who some may remember as previous presidents who disagree on many things, today agreed and abruptly pulled out of a joint public appearance scheduled for this winter in Los Angeles. The money was no doubt good but it seems the 42d and 43d presidents grew unhappy with the confrontational way the event was being promoted. The politically dissimilar pair have also dropped out of a similar later appearance in New York
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Take a Look at Hasan's Old Mosque
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New York Post, by Stephen Schwartz
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Posted By: quidnunc- 11/7/2009 5:55:43 PM
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What interpretation of Islam influenced Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan? (Snip) We've also learned that, before his transfer to Ft. Hood last year, Hasan served as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and regularly attended Friday prayer at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md. The Silver Spring clerics have issued formal statements condemning the carnage at Ft. Hood.
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Turnbull gets ovation
for slamming PM
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Australian Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 5:54:46 PM
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Kevin Rudd is running an ''extraordinarily vain'' government that is handing over Australia's immigration program to people smugglers, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says. Mr Turnbull was speaking at the Victorian Liberal Party's state council today where about 300 delegates gave him a standing ovation for a speech about the weakening of Australia's border control. ''Our borders should be secure, they were secure. We recklessly unpicked the policies of the previous government that worked, and as
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Unique homecoming to
Vietnam for US commander
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Associated Press, by Ben Stocking
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Posted By: NuGoddess- 11/7/2009 5:51:04 PM
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DANANG, Vietnam – On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Le piloted the USS Lassen on Saturday into Danang, home of China Beach, where U.S. troops frequently headed for R&R during the war, which ended on April
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November 9, 1989 ‘luckiest
day’ of German history
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 5:45:39 PM
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, which she called the “luckiest day of recent German history”, in a video broadcast released yesterday. The chancellor, who grew up in former East Germany, said the news came at the end of a regular Thursday. “As I came home from work, from the Science Academy, I heard (East German Politburo member Guenter) Schabowski announce that
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Giant dominoes form
tribute to Berlin Wall's fall
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Associated Press, by David Rising
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 5:34:12 PM
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BERLIN — Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades. Many of the upright 7.5-foot-high (2.3-meter-high) plastic foam dominoes carried messages, including "We are one people." The approximately 1,000 dominoes stretching for 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) will be toppled Monday as part of wider celebrations of
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Spray-can vandals face
prison under crackdown
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Sydney Morning Herald [AU], by Lisa Carty
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 5:34:10 PM
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Children carrying spray-paint cans without a legitimate reason could face six months in jail under a revolutionary graffiti crackdown by the State Government. It is the first time courts will have the power to jail youths for merely carrying a can of spray paint. The tough new measures come as Premier Nathan Rees - sickened by the crimes of paint-spraying vandals - decides to take a zero-tolerance approach to vandals
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Cantor Calls for Inclusive Party,
Criticizes Limbaugh Rhetoric
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Bloomberg, by Lorraine Woellert
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Posted By: viola- 11/7/2009 5:33:49 PM
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The second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, Eric Cantor, criticized some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as inappropriate and said his party needs to be inclusive. “The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
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Berlin all fired up for wall-to-wall partying
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Times [U.K.], by Peter Millar
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Posted By: PageTurner- 11/7/2009 5:28:58 PM
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THE elderly lady with her shopping bag stood and stared at the armed policeman politely but firmly preventing her from crossing the 8ft-high barrier built across the street. “It’s like having the Wall back,” she said tetchily. But with a smile. The policeman smiled back. Stretching away on either side, a chain of 1,000 wall-like slabs daubed with graffiti form a new 1.2-mile barrier from the Brandenburg Gate to Potsdamer Platz — now once again
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A calculated cool-down
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Tampa Tribune, by Patrick Bohlen
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Posted By: Hazymac- 11/7/2009 5:13:08 PM
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On Oct. 21, 13 of the nation's leading professional agricultural, biological, chemical and geological organizations sent a joint letter to the U.S. Senate urging it to adopt policies that would limit U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. "Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver," they wrote. At the same time, a recent
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Drinking eight cups of tea a day
'reduces heart attack and stroke risk'
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Telegraph [UK], by Chris Irvine
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 5:10:55 PM
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Drinking up to eight cups of tea a day offers ''significant health benefits'', including a lower risk of heart attack and stroke, according to research. Caffeinated drinks including tea, coffee and cocoa have a positive effect on mental function, increasing alertness, wellbeing and short-term memory, according to the study. (Snip) ''Black tea, in particular, contains polyphenols, which are natural plant antioxidants. These have beneficial effects on many biochemical processes in the body''
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