Flames erupted across Tehran today as angry drivers set filling stations on fire. Could this be the start of one of the most [...]
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Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks.
New rules being considered by the Mayor’s Office of Film, [...]
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PHILADELPHIA - An officer who ordered two women to put on a “sex show” in a jail cell will be fired.
Norberto Cappas, 32, was found guilty by a police tribunal of conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation, the department said Tuesday.
Internal Affairs investigators found that Cappas ordered the two women [...]
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New studies show that an afternoon snooze is not so good for children. So should parents be banning the nap?
Read it and sleep: self-help advice from Dr Seuss.
According to new studies in the US, children who have a nap sleep less well at night and do not perform mental tasks as well as children who [...]
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The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.
The bill’s supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate and clear the way for final passage of the legislation, which critics [...]
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Cheaters Don’t Like The Score, So They Try To Change The Rules
The Fairness Doctrine is about as fair as the Patriot Act is patriotic. Its supporters are fooled by this veneer of rosy lexicon while overlooking the basic fact that this is about government regulation and suffocation of independent media.
John [...]
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EUROPE will increase its genetically modified (GMO) crop area by 50,000-100,000 hectares a year over the next decade, US biotech giant Monsanto has said.
“It will be slow but within ten years GMOs will have reached the point of no return,” said Jean-Michel Duhamel, Monsanto’s director for southern Europe.
“The technology will not impose [...]
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The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation to be released today.
As a result, President Bush’s pledge to [...]
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Assume Congress was considering a “comprehensive” plan to reduce wages for the poor, increase crime in minority neighborhoods, further diminish already failing pubic schools, and seriously strain an overburdened health care system.
Surely such a proposal would be dismissed as “un-American.”
Yet this is exactly what the current amnesty/guest worker bill would accomplish.
While multinational [...]
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Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta answered questions from members of 9/11 Truth Seattle.org about his testimony before the 9/11 Commission report.
Mineta says Vice President Cheney was “absolutely” already there when he arrived at approximately 9:25 a.m. in the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center) bunker on the morning of 9/11. Mineta seemed [...]
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