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Sick and Wrong (Matt Taibbi)
How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it Sept 3, 2009 (Rolling Stone) -- Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest ...
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Cheney’s Tortured Logic (Jonathan Alter)
Sept. 4, 2009 (Newsweek) -- Dick Cheney is in retirement, a cable nuisance but not a political threat to President Obama -- unless there's another terrorist attack. In that case, Cheney will no ...
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Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years' (Richard Black)
Lake sediments contain a record of Arctic temperatures Sept. 3, 2009 (BBC) -- Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth's ...
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What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)
Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties ...
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At Least 90 Killed In US Attack: Stench of Death Hangs over Afghan Riverbank (Ameen Salarzai and Angor Bagh)
Sept. 4, 2009 -- Afghanistan (Mail & Guardian) -- The stench of burnt flesh hung over the banks of the Kunduz river in the early hours of Friday, the ground scattered with the body parts of ...
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Doctors lead ‘Care-A-Van’ for single payer to Congress (Kathlyn Stone)
Six “Mad as Hell Doctors” from Oregon embark on a cross country road trip Sept. 8 to demand Congress enact a single payer system. Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2009 -- Six physicians ...
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‘We Are Heading Towards an Abyss’ (Associated Press)
U.N. chief tells 150 governments that time running out on climate change Sept. 3, 2009 -- GENEVA (AP) -- U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of some 150 governments Thursday that time is running ...
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How Bad Will It Get? (Mike Whitney)
Sept. 3, 2009 (Information Clearing House) -- The U.S. economy is at the beginning of a protracted period of adjustment. The sharp decline in business activity, which began in the summer of 2007, ...
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Feeling Good About a Falling US GDP (Mogambo Guru)
The Mogambo Guru -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2009 -- TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- The Bureau of Economic Analysis at bea.gov has put out their latest report of Gross Domestic Product, and it was, as you would ...
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150 Years Ago: The Worst Solar Storm Ever (Robert Roy Britt)
Sept. 2, 2009 (Space.com) -- On Sept. 2, 1859, an incredible storm of charged particles sent by the sun slammed into Earth's atmosphere, overpowered it, and caused havoc on the ground. Telegraph ...
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Sibel Edmonds' Deposition Disclosures: Congressional Bribery, Blackmail and Espionage (Brad Friedman)
Sibel Edmonds Breaking down the formerly-gagged FBI whistleblower's sworn testimony... Sept. 2, 2009 (BradBlog) -- It has now been over a week since the video tape and transcript from the remarkable ...
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