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By Deanne Stillman
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By Oliver Sacks
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From Tufts.edu
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The former president waged a secret campaign earlier this year to replace the secretary of defense with a retired four-star general, according to Sidney Blumenthal. (Pay wall / ad-watching req’d.)
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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From USA Today
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Rep. John Murtha, one of the most outspoken antiwar Democrats on the Hill, has told fellow lawmakers that he will run for House majority leader if the Democrats retake the House in November.
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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From ThinkProgress
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The DailyKos-hosted annual blogger conference, taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, is attracting a gaggle of traditional-media reporters—not to mention politicians, fundraisers and political operatives.
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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From the BBC
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The center is opening in Amsterdam. Surreally, some players’ withdrawal symptoms include shaking and sweating when they look at a computer console.
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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Congressional Republicans killed a provision that would have prohibited the Pentagon from building the bases.
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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From MediaMatters
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“Headline News” host Glenn Beck said Al Gore’s story-telling methods in his global warming movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” were like those of Hitler. “Hitler said a little bit of truth,” Beck said, “and then he mixed in ‘and it’s the Jews’ fault.’ ”
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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From mccofnsw.org.au
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The Nation’s John Nichols explains how perilously close the U.S. government is to making a toll road out of the Internet—on which only the rich websites will be able to pay to have their content load move fastest.
Posted on Jun 10, 2006
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The death of the Al Qaeda leader is likely to downgrade sectarianism in the medium term, an expert on terrorism tells the Washington Post. “But,” he added, “the dynamic of sectarian violence is probably past the point of no return.”
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
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Faces: from smartmobs.com / NSA seal: from isoc.org
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The National Security Agency is funding research into ways to collect personal information from social networking websites like MySpace and Friendster, according to New Scientist magazine. The agency reportedly aims to combine the information with details from banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
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The Washington Post and the N.Y. Times have accounts of how U.S. forces killed the highly sought-after Al Qaeda leader in Iraq. Apparently, they tracked him through his spiritual leader.
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
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Murray Waas at the National Journal has another sizzling scoop: Then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft continued to oversee the Valerie Plame-CIA leak probe long after he learned that top White House officials were suspected of involvement. (He didn’t recuse himself from the investigation for two months…)
Posted on Jun 9, 2006
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That number is the highest level yet in the AP-Ipsos polling.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006
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The Al Qaeda-linked militant responsible for a string of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings was killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, according to Iraq’s prime minister.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006
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From towleroad.typepad.com
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Macy’s department store in Boston removed from its window a duo of mannequins—one wearing a gay pride flag—after a conservative group complained the display was offensive. (h/t: Towleroad )
Macy’s deserves all the criticism it’s getting for caving in to the puritans.
Posted on Jun 7, 2006
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Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned On Climate Change
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