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Focus on near(er)-term issues, i.e., within the next five (5) years. Long(er)-term issues are covered by the "Futures" Twine, http://www.twine.com/twine/futures.
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comThe administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials
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Patterico's Pontifications » KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts11/19/2009 KSM Show Trial Watch: The Evidence Mounts Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:35 am Eric Holder, reassuring the mother of a 9/11 victim that trying KSM in federal court is the right thing to do: There are reasons why bringing this case in an Article III court when it comes to ...
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Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires : NPRThe Kiribati government was concerned about overfishing. So it came up with a plan: It would subsidize the coconut oil industry. "The thought was that by paying people more to do coconut agriculture, they would do less fishing," says Walsh. "And this would fulfill two goals: One, they would ...
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Shun beef to stop climate change, says India - Yahoo! NewsIndia, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming. "The single most important cause of (carbon) emissions is eating beef," Environment Minister Jairam ...
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Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.comFor much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. He decried Democrats' "unprecedented, obstructive tactics." To have Bush nominees "opposed on a partisan ...
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1Shun beef to stop climate change, says India - Yahoo! NewsDUH! India by far and away has the largest number of methane producing cattle at 281,700,000, followed by Brazil (100 million LESS), China, and only then the USA. SO, if reducing the number of cattle will help, India is on the front lines. So what will it be - eat some of those cows? ...JDP added 5 hours ago
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1Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - washingtonpost.com"Lying, flip-flopping hypocrites." A charge Republican's love to level against anyone perceived as their opponents. Only this time it sticks to those very same Republicans. Ethics? Principles? Can be trusted to stick to and follow their word? Not for these Republican Senators.JDP added 7 hours ago
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1Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payFat chance on any "rational" theory guiding - or rather restraining - the sociopathic personal and corporate greed that has developed. That would take something like real application of anti-trust and anti-corruption laws, to the tune of breaking up many of the Fortune 500 and sending most of ...JDP added 28 hours ago
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12009/cpi/surveys_indices/policy_researchGreenland comes of gray-snow clean ... because there aren't enough people there to be corrupt!?JDP added 28 hours ago
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1Geithner: some bailout funds to help lower debt - AOL Money & FinanceBlaming the new President and Congress for the economic mess could only be done by a Republican hypocrite with the memory of a slug [GW Bush? 6 years of Republican congressional control? massive "off budget" hidden unnecessary war spending with no-bid-for-our-cronies contracts, now honestly ...JDP added 29 hours ago
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