Archive for January, 2010
Thiessen: Terrorist grateful after waterboarding
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Daily Caller, by Staff Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:15:22 GMT Marc Thiessen, a former chief speechwriter for George W. Bush and author of the new book Courting Disaster, claimed this week that senior Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah actually thanked interrogators for waterboarding him because it lifted a moral burden from his shoulders, the burden to resist. Thiessen says Zubaydah, reportedly the first terrorist to be waterboarded under the Bush administration, spilled his guts after interrogators used enhanced interrogation techniques.
Union leader: ‘Card check’ will pass in 2010
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Michael O'Brien Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:54 GMT Congress will move to pass controversial "card check" legislation this year, AFL'CIO President Richard Trumka predicted Sunday. Trumka said that lawmakers would pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) as well as healthcare reform this year, despite Republicans having picked up enough votes in the Senate to sustain a filibuster. "I think we'll get health care done and I think we'll get labor law reform done
Osama’s global warming plan
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Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:55:22 GMT Does Osama bin Laden have a point when he blames the U.S. and other industrialized nations for global warming? Post Carbon decided to look at the facts. (Snip) From a historical perspective, bin Laden's charge holds water. According to the World Resources Institute's Climate Analysis Indicators Tool, the U.S. accounts for 26.3 percent of the world's cumulative energy'related carbon'dioxide emissions from 1950'2006, more than any other nation.
‘Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11
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Presstv.com, by MJ/HGL Posted By: Bialystock- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:50:19 GMT Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. "The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism," Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
Obama to Field Questions Posted by YouTube Users
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New York Times, by Brian Stelter Posted By: Dreadnought- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:41:10 GMT On Monday, President Obama is scheduled to sit down in the library of the White House residence for his first interview since his State of the Union address. The interviewer? The United States of YouTube. In a first'of'its'kind group interview, Mr. Obama will read and watch questions submitted by YouTube users and answer them in a live Webcast. Its a way to give people access to the president that feels
GOP idea: Slash cash for Gitmo shutdown
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Washington Times, by Joseph Curl Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:33:59 GMT Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday threatened to try to cut off the cash the Obama administration will need to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and hold terrorism trials in U.S. courts. (Snip) "Three years ago, we passed military commissions legislation for the specific purpose of trying foreigners captured on the battlefield. They ought to be tried in these military commissions.
New groups mobilize as Indians embrace the right to bear arms
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Washington Post, by Rama Lakshmi Posted By: Dreadnought- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:31:04 GMT In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.'style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms. When gunmen attacked 10 sites in Mumbai in November 2008, including two five'star hotels and a train station, Mumbai resident Kumar Verma sat at home glued to the television, feeling outraged and unsafe. Before the end of December, Verma and his friends
Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in No Child Law
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New York Times, by Sam Dillon Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:29:40 GMT The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bushs signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the laws 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency. Educators who have been briefed by administration officials said the proposals for changes in the main law
As food distribution improves, Haitians want U.S to ‘take over’
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Washington Post, by Peter Slevin Posted By: Dreadnought- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:29:06 GMT PORT'AU'PRINCE, HAITI '' International relief organizations backed by American soldiers delivered hundreds of tons of rice to homeless residents of the Haitian capital Sunday, laboring to ease a food shortage that has left countless thousands struggling to find enough to eat. But even as food'aid workers enjoyed their most successful day since the Jan. 12 earthquake, the increasingly prominent role of U.S. troops and civilians in the capital is creating
Obama’s strategy: Blame the other guys
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Los Angeles Times, by Doyle McManus Posted By: fishmonger- Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:25:08 GMT The gloves are off. President Obama made a brief effort to sound bipartisan last week, saying he still hoped to find some ideas that both parties can embrace. But the affability was mostly tactical, and so were the professions of hope. The reigning emotion at the White House has been frustration '' frustration that Obama's mandate for change has eroded and that Republicans have been so successful in mounting an effective opposition.