George W. Bush makes secret visit
to mourning families at Fort Hood
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Los Angeles Times, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: goblin- 11/7/2009 8:19:43 PM
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Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood. The Bushes Instructed the mourning military base's commander that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his wife made the 30 mile trip unannounced from their ranch near Crawford, Texas Friday evening. Fox News broke news of the visit this afternoon.
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Video: Michele Bachmann on House
Floor Opposing PelosiCare (Hawaiian Lei)
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Eyeblast.tv, by Michele Bachmann
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Posted By: Rufus2007- 11/7/2009 8:13:27 PM
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Rep. Michele Bachmann on House floor expressing her opposition to PelosiCare with Hawaiian lei.
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Suspect told 'There's something
wrong with you'
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Associated Press, by Angela K. Brownand Allen G. Breed
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Posted By: garnet- 11/7/2009 8:13:25 PM
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FORT HOOD, Texas – There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent. As a student, some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the young Army psychiatrist — who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded — had no
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2 Canadians linked to
Detroit imam granted bail
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:13:03 PM
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Windsor, Ontario -- A judge on Friday granted bail for two Canadian men who face extradition to the U.S. on charges linked to the slain leader of a radical Detroit-area Islamic group. (Snip) The conditions were negotiated behind closed doors after a large number of Muslim community members showed up at the courthouse to support the men. A Detroit imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was killed on Oct. 28 when FBI agents attempted to arrest him
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Somali adulterer stoned to death
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 11/7/2009 8:07:13 PM
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Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al-Shabab group said the woman would be killed after she has had her baby. (Snip) The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says that if the woman is also
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ASTEROID NEAR MISS:
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Space Weather, by Staff
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Posted By: ruby2ssday- 11/7/2009 8:01:43 PM
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On Nov. 6th at 2132 UT, asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 km above the planet's surface. That's well inside the "Clarke Belt" of geosynchronous satellites. [snip] 2009 VA was discovered just 15 hours before closest approach
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African-Americans slam Obama
in White House protest
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AFP, by Staff
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Posted By: blondie- 11/7/2009 7:51:52 PM
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WASHINGTON– Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home.More than 200 people gathered for the first public demonstration by African Americans against the Obama administration since his historic inauguration in January, and slammed the president for continuing what they described as Washington's "imperialist" agenda around the world.
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'Islam not responsible' for
Fort Hood massacre: US imam
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:50:48 PM
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Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday. "We offer our condolences and prayers to the families that have a person who died," said Imam Mohammed Abdullahi over loud-speakers that carried the weekly Muslim prayer to several hundred worshippers gathered at the mosque.
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Obama claims Fort Hood
shootings revealed 'the
best and worst' of America
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Scotsman [Edinburgh, UK], by Philip Elliott
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:45:59 PM
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama moved to reassure a nation shaken by the mass shooting on an army post in Texas yesterday by stating that the training designed to keep US forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended a rampage at Fort Hood. Praising what he called the heroism that ended the rampage on the nation's largest army post, the president described the exchange that left 13 dead and 30 others wounded on Thursday as a
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Fort Hood shooting: policewoman
Kim Munley awoke from surgery
and asked if anybody died
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Sunday Telegraph [UK], by Nick Allen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/7/2009 7:41:01 PM
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Sergeant Munley, 34, was unconcious after being shot three times by Hasan and was rushed to hospital after she lost so much blood doctors thought she would die. She was shot twice in the left thigh and once in the wrist but still managed to bring Malik down with four shots of her own. Dr Kelly Matlock, who treated Munley in hospital, said: "She opened her eyes and said, 'Did anybody die?' That's what she
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Iran Positions Israel In Its Cross Hairs
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Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:35:49 PM
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Mideast: Iran tests an advanced warhead design as it gets caught shipping weapons to Hezbollah. Syria is reported to give the group operational control over Scud missiles. It's five minutes to midnight. Tyranny abhors a vacuum. While the U.S. and the West dither in Hamlet-like fashion over whatever we shall do in places such as Afghanistan and Iran, the Axis of Evil is in full swing in its plans to destroy Israel and threaten Europe
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Stimulating Failure
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Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: Pageturner- 11/7/2009 7:33:16 PM
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The Job Report: Another month, another drop in payrolls. Will it ever occur to our leaders in Washington that what they're doing isn't working — and may actually be damaging our economy? News that the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2% in October, its highest level since 1983, as the economy shed 190,000 nonfarm jobs, underscores the spectacular failure of the so-called fiscal stimulus to stimulate anything other than economic misery.
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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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