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Just What Does Being "Pro-Life" Mean?
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:50)
I just heard John McCain say that he is going to pick a running mate that shares his views and values. I also heard him describe himself as being "pro-life". Like McCain I have heard a lot of people talk about their values and I have heard many of these people talk about being pro-life. Interestingly enough most of these people who I have heard describing themselves as being pro-life are Republicans and almost all of them are Christians. Many of are or at least were supporters of George W. Bush. Imagine that, John McCain...pro-life. War is just about the only thing that gives this guy an erection, and he calls himself pro-life. Have you ever seen a bomb that protects the rights of a fetus? Does the song "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" sound pro-life to you? I have a question for these people...what does "life" mean? People like John McCain seem to feel that they can call themselves pro-life because they are against abortion. It appears that these people consider unborn human fetuses to be the only form of life worth supporting. These people have no problem dropping bombs on human beings, denying life sustaining health care to human beings, hunting living animals with guns...for fun and killing fish with hooks...for fun. They don't care about polluting the Earth and in tpr process killing all kinds of life sustaining organisms. They really love killing germs as they buy anti-bacterial soaps and such. They use insecticide and have no problems with using cruel mouse traps. And dishing out the death penalty practically gives some of these people sexual excitement! And they call themselves pro-life. Talk about deceptive labeling practices! So can't we come up with a more accurate term for people who are anti-abortion while being extremely pro-other-forms-of-killing, like...oh...calling them "anti-abortion?" Think about it. Jesse Richard - Editor, TvNewsLIES.org
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Afghan civilians said killed in U.S.-led air raid
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:30)
More than a dozen civilians have been killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan's eastern province of Laghman, two provincial officials said on Thursday. The issue of civilian casualties caused by foreign forces while hunting the Taliban has led to a rift between Afghanistan and its Western backers. President Hamid Karzai said this month that air strikes by foreign forces had only succeeded in killing civilians and not in winning the war. More...
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Jindal won't renew anti-discrimination order
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:53)
 An anti-discrimination order put in place by former Governor Kathleen Blanco won't be renewed by Governor Bobby Jindal.
The order prohibited various sorts of harassment and discrimination at all state offices, including discrimination by race, sexual orientation and political affiliation. It expires Friday.
Jindal says discrimination is prohibited under state and federal laws and he doesn't want to create additional special categories by executive order. He also said Wednesday that he worried it could cause problems with faith-based organizations' ability to contract with the state.
More...
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British security services colluded in unlawful detention of terror suspect, court rules
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:34)
 Two judges ordered the foreign secretary to hand over to Binyam Mohamed's legal team secret information that could support his case that he was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco before being sent to Guantánamo Bay.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones found that the British security service "facilitated interviews by or on behalf of the United States incommunicado and without access to a lawyer in Pakistan" in 2002. The detention was unlawful under Pakistani law, the judges said.
More...
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Scientists urge U.S. to protect economy from climate
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 05:01)
 Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.
Each year the United States suffers billions of dollars in weather-related damages ranging from widespread events like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the more recent droughts in the Southeast, to smaller, more frequent glitches like airline delays from storms, they said.
More than a quarter of the country's economic output, about $2 trillion, is vulnerable to extreme weather, they added. More...
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Russia warns of response to US missile shield
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:22)
Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are clearly aimed at weakening Russia. Rice dismissed blustery comments from Russian leaders who say Warsaw's hosting of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost frontier opens the country up to attack.
Such comments "border on the bizarre frankly," Rice said, speaking to reporters traveling with her in Warsaw.
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around." More...
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225 Days of WH Emails Missing
(published Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:13)
 The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press.
"With an eye on the clock, the White House continues to drag its feet and do everything possible to postpone public access to the records of this presidency," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a private watchdog group. More...
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New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:49)
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.
The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations. More...
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Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:37)
 A key pillar of the U.S. strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces.
More...
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Bloomberg Calls for Alternative Energy
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:20)
Outlining his vision for a dramatic reconfiguration of urban energy sources, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he is exploring potential for installing turbines and other alternative energy generators throughout New York City, in the water and on bridges and skyscrapers. Speaking Tuesday evening at a conference in Las Vegas on alternative energy, Bloomberg said he will ask private companies to study how windmills, tidal turbines, and solar energy panels might be built, in an attempt to move the city towards independence from the national power grid. More...
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Olympian Michael Phelps Flakes Out with Paid Endorsement of Frosted Flakes Cereal
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:44)
 Super-Olympian Michael Phelps, who famously follows a horrendous junk food diet, has now signed a lucrative deal to promote Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes. In doing so, he will leverage his celebrity status to push sugary, processed foods onto a generation of children who already suffer from unprecedented rates of obesity and diabetes.
More...
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US food prices to post biggest rise since '90:USDA
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:17)
U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
Food prices are forecast to rise by 5 percent to 6 percent this year, making it the largest annual increase since 1990. Just last month, USDA forecast food prices would climb between 4.5 and 5.5 percent in 2008. TVNL Comment: Another Bush Legacy. More...
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Report Rejects Medicare’s Boast of Cutting Fraud
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:57)
In calculating the agency’s rate of improper payments, Medicare officials told outside auditors to ignore government policies that would have accurately measured fraud, according to the report. For example, auditors were instructed not to compare invoices submitted by salespeople against doctors’ records, as required by law, to make sure that medical equipment went to actual patients.
As a result, Medicare did not detect that more than one-third of spending for wheelchairs, oxygen supplies and other medical equipment in its 2006 fiscal year was improper, according to the report. Based on data in other Medicare reports, that would be about $2.8 billion in improper spending. More...
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Intel details new core chip line
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:56)
 The chips will appear in laptops, desktops and servers and with them Intel aims to boost processing ability, cut power use and improve graphics.
"It provides the best of both worlds," he said. "Higher performance and energy efficiency are not mutually exclusive if you innovate enough."
With Nehalem Intel has combined memory and processing functions into a single chip instead of using two. On the most powerful Core i7 processors this will result in as many as eight processing cores co-existing on a single chip. More...
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FTC targets prerecorded telemarketing drivel
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:45)
In the ongoing battle to let us eat dinner in peace without being interrupted by amazingly annoying telemarketer blather and in this case the even more infuriating recorded telemarketing drivel, the Federal Trade Commission today basically outlawed such calls. Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit, as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller.
Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy and quick way for consumers to opt-out of any call, the FTC said. More...
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Giuliani To Be Keynote Speaker At Republican National Convention
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:40)
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who are seen as two of the most likely candidates to become John McCain's running mate, were not granted primetime speaking slots. More...
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Stem cells can be used to create limitless blood supplies
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:37)
 Scientists from a US firm claim to have created a large number of red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, opening up the prospect of having a limitless supply of blood for transfusions.
"Embryonic stem cells represent a new source of cells that can be propagated and expanded indefinitely, providing a potentially inexhaustible source of red blood cells for human therapy.
"We can currently generate 10 to 100 billion red blood cells from a single six-well plate of stem cells," he said in a paper published online in the Blood journal. More...
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Pentagon Plans to Send More Than 12,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:20)
A request by Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, for three U.S. brigades with support staff has been approved. "Now that means we just need to figure out a way to get them there," adds a senior defense official. More...
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Bush creating 'embryonic police state'
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:56)
The Justice Department has proposed changes to police intelligence-gathering rules that would ease the transfer of information about citizens to federal intelligence agencies, who would then keep the information for at least 10 years. "It turns police officers into spies on behalf of the federal government," German said. "If police officers no longer see themselves as engaged in protecting their communities from criminals and instead as domestic intelligence agents working on behalf of the CIA, they will be encouraged to collect more information." More...
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White House missing as many as 225 days of e-mail
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:53)
The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press. More...
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US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio dies after hemorrhage
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:25)
 Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.
Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights on Tuesday, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland.
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Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:28)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests. Vice President Dick Cheney and the neoconservative-dominated Bush Pentagon were aware of the intimate relationship between Musharraf's regime and both the Taliban and al Qaeda. But al Qaeda was not a high priority for the Bush administration.
After 9/11, the White House created the political myth that Musharraf, faced with a clear choice, had "joined the free world in fighting the terrorists". But as Asia expert Selig S. Harrison has pointed out, on Sep. 19, 2001, just six days after he had supposedly agreed to U.S. demands for cooperation against the Taliban regime and al Qaeda, Musharraf gave a televised speech in Urdu in which he declared, "We are trying our best to come out of this critical situation without any damage to Afghanistan and the Taliban." More...
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Iraqi troops detain son of prominent Sunni leader
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:47)
The U.S. military says Iraqi troops have detained the son of a prominent Sunni leader during a raid in Baghdad. The arrest of Adnan al-Dulaimi's son Muthanna comes eight months after the detention of another son prompted an outcry among Sunni politicians.
The military's statement on Wednesday says the detention took place the night before but that American troops were not involved. Al-Dulaimi is the head of the largest Sunni Arab police bloc the National Accordance Front. He insists his son is not involved in politics. More...
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Peru moves to end Amazon protests
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:35)
 Peru has declared a state of emergency in jungle areas where indigenous groups are blocking oil and gas installations in protest at a new land sale law.
The measure allows the authorities to send in troops and bans public gatherings for 30 days.
Some 65 Amazon tribes say the law will make it easier for big energy companies to buy up their land, parts of which are known to be rich in oil and gas. They are angry at a law which they say makes it easier for investors to buy their land because it lowers the bar for consent from two-thirds of a community assembly to a simple majority.
The legislation is one of a number of laws being passed as part of Peru's free trade agreement with the US. More...
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Sen. Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:22)
 Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention, an official said.
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Pentagon, White House at odds over aid to Georgia
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:45)
The Bush White House and the Pentagon are at odds over whether to station a Navy ship in the Black Sea to demonstrate U.S. support for the embattled Georgian military and government, two defense officials told McClatchy Tuesday.
The White House thinks that deploying a vessel such as the hospital ship USNS Comfort would showcase the Bush administration's support for Georgia and signal U.S. concern that Russia has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Georgia. TVNL Comment: Expect a "retirement" over this. In other words some high ranking military official who disagrees with the Bush administration will be fired. Just a guess. More...
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NC man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:28)
A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding. Federal officials have threatened to cut off funding because of Sabock's death and a report that a physician punched a patient after the teen bit the doctor.
Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Tom Lawrence said the state team also may investigate what, if any, disciplinary action should be taken following Sabock's death. More...
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New York City agrees to pay protesters $2 million
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:53)
New York City has agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to protesters arrested during a 2003 rally against the Iraq war who said their civil rights had been violated, lawyers for both sides said on Tuesday.
The 52 plaintiffs in the lawsuit were among 94 protesters arrested on April 7, 2003, during a demonstration at the midtown Manhattan offices of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm with holdings in the defense sector.
"The New York Police Department violated core constitutional rights when it arrested a group of peaceful demonstrators who were lawfully protesting against the commencement of the Iraq war and those who stood to profit from it," said Sarah Netburn, a lawyer for the protesters. More...
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Energy majors awash in money but not oil
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:44)
 Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand.
Part of the reason is political. From the Caspian Sea to South America, Western oil companies are being squeezed out of resource-rich provinces. They are being forced to renegotiate contracts on less-favorable terms and are fighting losing battles with assertive state-owned oil companies.
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A steady diet of trash 'news'
(published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:35)
The media stopped reporting news long ago and now reports on what many in this country want. Dirt, gossip, salacious details about who is sleeping with whom, who is the father of each new baby born out of wedlock or whether Britney is wearing underwear. In America there is a growing hunger for the lowest level of human depravity that can be found. Jerry Springer and Maury Povich should bring tears to every viewer's eyes, yet they evoke laughter as the viewer is entertained by the pain and sickness of the weakest among us. It has reached staggering proportions, and there is no end in sight as to just how far the media conglomerates will go to dredge up the filth they package as news. More...
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Just What Does Being "Pro-Life" Mean? (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:50)
I just heard John McCain say that he is going to pick a running mate that shares his
views and values. I also heard him describe himself as being "pro-life". Like McCain I
have heard a lot of people talk about their values and I have heard many of these people
talk about being pro-life. Interestingly enough most of these people who I have heard
describing themselves as being pro-life are Republicans and almost all of them are
Christians. Many of are or at least were supporters of George W. Bush.
Imagine that, John McCain...pro-life. War is just about the only thing that gives this
guy an erection, and he calls himself pro-life. Have you ever seen a bomb that protects
the rights of a fetus? Does the song "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" sound pro-life to
you?
I have a question for these people...what does "life" mean? People like John McCain seem
to feel that they can call themselves pro-life because they are against abortion. It
appears that these people consider unborn human fetuses to be the only form of life worth
supporting. These people have no problem dropping bombs on human beings, denying life
sustaining health care to human beings, hunting living animals with guns...for fun and
killing fish with hooks...for fun. They don't care about polluting the Earth and in tpr
process killing all kinds of life sustaining organisms. They really love killing germs as
they buy anti-bacterial soaps and such. They use insecticide and have no problems with
using cruel mouse traps. And dishing out the death penalty practically gives some of these
people sexual excitement! And they call themselves pro-life. Talk about deceptive labeling
practices!
So can't we come up with a more accurate term for people who are anti-abortion while
being extremely pro-other-forms-of-killing, like...oh...calling them "anti-abortion?"
Think about it. Jesse Richard - Editor, TvNewsLIES.org
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Afghan civilians said killed in U.S.-led air raid (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:30)
More than a dozen civilians have been killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in
Afghanistan's eastern province of Laghman, two provincial officials said on Thursday.
The issue of civilian casualties caused by foreign forces while hunting the Taliban has
led to a rift between Afghanistan and its Western backers. President Hamid Karzai said
this month that air strikes by foreign forces had only succeeded in killing civilians and
not in winning the war.
More... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP335436.htm
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Jindal won't renew anti-discrimination order (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:53)
An anti-discrimination order put in place by former Governor Kathleen Blanco won't be
renewed by Governor Bobby Jindal.
The order prohibited various sorts of harassment and discrimination at all state offices,
including discrimination by race, sexual orientation and political affiliation. It expires
Friday.
Jindal says discrimination is prohibited under state and federal laws and he doesn't want
to create additional special categories by executive order. He also said Wednesday that he
worried it could cause problems with faith-based organizations' ability to contract with
the state.
More... http://wwl.com/pages/2822842.php?contentType=4&contentId=2620001
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British security services colluded in unlawful detention of terror suspect, court rules (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 08:34)
Two judges ordered the foreign secretary to hand over to Binyam Mohamed's legal team
secret information that could support his case that he was tortured in Pakistan and
Morocco before being sent to Guantánamo Bay.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones found that the British security service
"facilitated interviews by or on behalf of the United States incommunicado and without
access to a lawyer in Pakistan" in 2002. The detention was unlawful under Pakistani law,
the judges said.
More... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/21/law.guantanamo1
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Scientists urge U.S. to protect economy from climate (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 05:01)
Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country
from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying
about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.
Each year the United States suffers billions of dollars in weather-related damages
ranging from widespread events like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the more recent
droughts in the Southeast, to smaller, more frequent glitches like airline delays from
storms, they said.
More than a quarter of the country's economic output, about $2 trillion, is vulnerable to
extreme weather, they added.
More http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2041263620080821...
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Russia warns of response to US missile shield (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:22)
Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are
clearly aimed at weakening Russia.
Rice dismissed blustery comments from Russian leaders who say Warsaw's hosting of 10
U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost frontier opens the
country up to attack.
Such comments "border on the bizarre frankly," Rice said, speaking to reporters traveling
with her in Warsaw.
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said. "It's 2008
and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if
it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these
threats around."
More... http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92M5GM81&show_article=1
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225 Days of WH Emails Missing (published Thursday, 21 August 2008 00:13)
The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there
is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush
administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained
by The Associated Press.
"With an eye on the clock, the White House continues to drag its feet and do everything
possible to postpone public access to the records of this presidency," said Anne Weismann,
chief counsel to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a private watchdog
group.
More...
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1834327,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:49)
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation
against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the
details said Wednesday.
The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest
and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates
say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism
investigations.
More... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/21fbi.html?hp
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Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:37)
A key pillar of the U.S. strategy to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the
Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim insurgents
who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces.
More...
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Bloomberg Calls for Alternative Energy (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:20)
Outlining his vision for a dramatic reconfiguration of urban energy sources, Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg says he is exploring potential for installing turbines and other
alternative energy generators throughout New York City, in the water and on bridges and
skyscrapers.
Speaking Tuesday evening at a conference in Las Vegas on alternative energy, Bloomberg
said he will ask private companies to study how windmills, tidal turbines, and solar
energy panels might be built, in an attempt to move the city towards independence from the
national power grid.
More...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003663.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Olympian Michael Phelps Flakes Out with Paid Endorsement of Frosted Flakes Cereal (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:44)
Super-Olympian Michael Phelps, who famously follows a horrendous junk food diet, has now
signed a lucrative deal to promote Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes. In doing so,
he will leverage his celebrity status to push sugary, processed foods onto a generation of
children who already suffer from unprecedented rates of obesity and diabetes.
More... http://www.naturalnews.com/023914.html
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US food prices to post biggest rise since '90:USDA (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:17)
U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years
in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the
Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
Food prices are forecast to rise by 5 percent to 6 percent this year, making it the
largest annual increase since 1990. Just last month, USDA forecast food prices would climb
between 4.5 and 5.5 percent in 2008.
TVNL COMMENT: ANOTHER BUSH LEGACY.
More... http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN2047383220080820?sp=true
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Report Rejects Medicare’s Boast of Cutting Fraud (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:57)
In calculating the agency’s rate of improper payments, Medicare officials told outside
auditors to ignore government policies that would have accurately measured fraud,
according to the report. For example, auditors were instructed not to compare invoices
submitted by salespeople against doctors’ records, as required by law, to make sure that
medical equipment went to actual patients.
As a result, Medicare did not detect that more than one-third of spending for
wheelchairs, oxygen supplies and other medical equipment in its 2006 fiscal year was
improper, according to the report. Based on data in other Medicare reports, that would be
about $2.8 billion in improper spending.
More... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/business/21medicare.html
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Intel details new core chip line (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:56)
The chips will appear in laptops, desktops and servers and with them Intel aims to boost
processing ability, cut power use and improve graphics.
"It provides the best of both worlds," he said. "Higher performance and energy
efficiency are not mutually exclusive if you innovate enough."
With Nehalem Intel has combined memory and processing functions into a single chip
instead of using two. On the most powerful Core i7 processors this will result in as many
as eight processing cores co-existing on a single chip.
More... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7571600.stm
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FTC targets prerecorded telemarketing drivel (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:45)
In the ongoing battle to let us eat dinner in peace without being interrupted by
amazingly annoying telemarketer blather and in this case the even more infuriating
recorded telemarketing drivel, the Federal Trade Commission today basically outlawed such
calls.
Specifically, the FTC changed its venerable Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to prohibit,
as of Sept. 2009, telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages, unless a consumer
has agreed to accept such calls from a given caller/seller.
Between now and 2009, telemarketers must provide an obvious, easy and quick way for
consumers to opt-out of any call, the FTC said.
More... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/31211
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Giuliani To Be Keynote Speaker At Republican National Convention (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:40)
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who are
seen as two of the most likely candidates to become John McCain's running mate, were not
granted primetime speaking slots.
More... http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/08/20/politics/horserace/entry4366357.shtml
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Stem cells can be used to create limitless blood supplies (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:37)
Scientists from a US firm claim to have created a large number of red blood cells from
human embryonic stem cells, opening up the prospect of having a limitless supply of blood
for transfusions.
"Embryonic stem cells represent a new source of cells that can be propagated and
expanded indefinitely, providing a potentially inexhaustible source of red blood cells for
human therapy.
"We can currently generate 10 to 100 billion red blood cells from a single six-well plate
of stem cells," he said in a paper published online in the Blood journal.
More... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ushealthbloodcells
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Pentagon Plans to Send More Than 12,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 21:20)
A request by Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, for
three U.S. brigades with support staff has been approved. "Now that means we just need to
figure out a way to get them there," adds a senior defense official.
More...
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/08/19/pentagon-plans-to-send-more-than-12000-additional-troops-to-afghanistan.html
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Bush creating 'embryonic police state' (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:56)
The Justice Department has proposed changes to police intelligence-gathering rules that
would ease the transfer of information about citizens to federal intelligence agencies,
who would then keep the information for at least 10 years.
"It turns police officers into spies on behalf of the federal government," German said.
"If police officers no longer see themselves as engaged in protecting their communities
from criminals and instead as domestic intelligence agents working on behalf of the CIA,
they will be encouraged to collect more information."
More...
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/MSNBC_Bush_creating_embryonic_police_state_0819.html
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White House missing as many as 225 days of e-mail (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:53)
The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there
is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush
administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained
by The Associated Press.
More...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002617.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR
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US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio dies after hemorrhage (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:25)
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in
Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain
function, a doctor said Wednesday.
Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered the hemorrhage while driving her car in Cleveland Heights on
Tuesday, said Dr. Gus Kious, president of Huron Hospital in East Cleveland.
More... http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5atlJ9I4IGbTPQB-hNQA0uwlyPQD92MA7LO0
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Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:28)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday brings to an end an
extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush
administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from
the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security
interests.
Vice President Dick Cheney and the neoconservative-dominated Bush Pentagon were aware of
the intimate relationship between Musharraf's regime and both the Taliban and al Qaeda.
But al Qaeda was not a high priority for the Bush administration.
After 9/11, the White House created the political myth that Musharraf, faced with a clear
choice, had "joined the free world in fighting the terrorists". But as Asia expert Selig
S. Harrison has pointed out, on Sep. 19, 2001, just six days after he had supposedly
agreed to U.S. demands for cooperation against the Taliban regime and al Qaeda, Musharraf
gave a televised speech in Urdu in which he declared, "We are trying our best to come out
of this critical situation without any damage to Afghanistan and the Taliban."
More... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43605
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Iraqi troops detain son of prominent Sunni leader (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:47)
The U.S. military says Iraqi troops have detained the son of a prominent Sunni leader
during a raid in Baghdad. The arrest of Adnan al-Dulaimi's son Muthanna comes eight months
after the detention of another son prompted an outcry among Sunni politicians.
The military's statement on Wednesday says the detention took place the night before but
that American troops were not involved. Al-Dulaimi is the head of the largest Sunni Arab
police bloc the National Accordance Front. He insists his son is not involved in politics.
More...
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/20/iraqi-troops-detain-son-of-prominent-sunni-leader/
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Peru moves to end Amazon protests (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:35)
Peru has declared a state of emergency in jungle areas where indigenous groups are
blocking oil and gas installations in protest at a new land sale law.
The measure allows the authorities to send in troops and bans public gatherings for 30
days.
Some 65 Amazon tribes say the law will make it easier for big energy companies to buy up
their land, parts of which are known to be rich in oil and gas.
They are angry at a law which they say makes it easier for investors to buy their land
because it lowers the bar for consent from two-thirds of a community assembly to a simple
majority.
The legislation is one of a number of laws being passed as PART OF PERU\'S FREE TRADE
AGREEMENT WITH THE US.
More... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7569851.stm
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Sen. Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:22)
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in
2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak
at the Republican National Convention, an official said.
More... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26310337
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Pentagon, White House at odds over aid to Georgia (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:45)
The Bush White House and the Pentagon are at odds over whether to station a Navy ship in
the Black Sea to demonstrate U.S. support for the embattled Georgian military and
government, two defense officials told McClatchy Tuesday.
The White House thinks that deploying a vessel such as the hospital ship USNS Comfort
would showcase the Bush administration's support for Georgia and signal U.S. concern that
Russia has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Georgia.
TVNL COMMENT: EXPECT A "RETIREMENT" OVER THIS. IN OTHER WORDS SOME HIGH RANKING MILITARY
OFFICIAL WHO DISAGREES WITH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WILL BE FIRED. JUST A GUESS.
More... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/49307.html
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NC man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital (published Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:28)
A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for
22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who
have threatened to cut off the facility's funding.
Federal officials have threatened to cut off funding because of Sabock's death and a
report that a physician punched a patient after the teen bit the doctor.
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