Mousavi And Up to 100 Reformers Arrested. Many People Hurt In Riots By Police

Mousavi And Up to 100 Reformers Arrested. Many People Hurt In Riots By Police


The aftermath of the contested Iranian election on News Junkie.....

ALCU- O’Reilly: The New Face of Stop-and-Frisk in New York.

Bill O'Reilly thinks it is absolutely fine to stop and frisk anyone in New-York, even when it is based on racial profiling.....

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AP-Pentagon Official: U.S. Soldier Kills 5 Comrades

The five were killed in a shooting Monday at Camp Liberty near Baghdad International. The toll was the highest for U.S. personnel in a single attack since April 10.....

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GOP Implosion-Cheney: Powell Left the Republican Party.

Dick Cheney was on " Face the Nation" on Sunday. He said:" I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican". This remark followed Colin Powell's statement that the GOP should be moving towards the center. Rush Limbaugh is urging Powell to become a Democrat. Meet Dick & Rush's GOP:The sinking ship.

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Wait to Have Sex, Palin's Daughter Tells U.S. Teens.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, who caused a stir on her mother's U.S. vice presidential campaign last year when it was revealed she was pregnant, urged young Americans on Wednesday to abstain from having sex to avoid...

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

On December 10,1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is the document. Article 5:"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

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Pew Poll:The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate.

This poll looks at how Americans view torture in a religious context. In a poll, of the general US population( taken on 4/23/09) Pew found that Americans were split on the issue.Half said the use of torture dealing with suspected terrorist is often(15%) or sometime( 34%) justified. 22% said the use of torture is rarely justified, 25% said never.

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New York City-Sized Ice Collapses Off Antarctica

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) - An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming.....

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Vienna Named City With World's Best Quality of Living

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Vienna has beaten Zurich to be crowned the place with the best quality of living in an annual survey in which European cities dominated the top 10. Management consultancy Mercer said Vienna scored the highest for...

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Former CIA Bob Baer On Bill Maher:" Torture Doesn't Work "

This interview of Bob Baer on Bill Maher, last night, is one of the best argument against torture. First and foremost, it is a crime as defined by the Geneva Convention. Second it doesn't bring any accurate information.Baer says that when you are submitted to it,you end up saying whatever your torturer wants to hear.So it is wrong & ineffective.

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Bank of America Chief "Told to Buy Merrill or Face Sack".

The bank boss claims that US Treasury ( Henry Paulson at the time) told him to seal the $50 Billion deal and keep quiet about Merrill Lynch huge losses. This took place in December 2008....

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Secretary Clinton Says Cheney Not a ''Reliable Source''.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took aim on Wednesday at former Vice President Dick Cheney, telling lawmakers she did not view him as a ''particularly reliable source'' on issues of torture.......

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Report :"Harsh Interrogation" Approval From Top of Bush Adm.

A Senate report, just released today, offered detailed evidence that the military’s harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects were approved at high levels of the Bush administration.....

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Cheney: " Harsh Interrogation Techniques Were a Success".

In an interview with Fox, today, Dick Cheney not only defended the torture authorized by the controversial memos, but even asked that the results of the interrogations files be released to prove his point....

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Clinton Scores Points by Admitting Past U.S. Errors.

For a senior American official (someone who almost became president )to declare that the United States had erred, makes a major impact on foreign audiences.....

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Report: EPA To Declare 6 Gases A Public Health Risk

The agency's declaration, if it is made Friday as expected, is the first step toward regulating the greenhouse gases as pollution linked to climate change. The 6 gases in question include carbon dioxide....

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Pentagon Closes Office Accused of Propaganda Under Bush.

Critics said the office overstepped its mandate by trying to organize information operations that violated Pentagon guidelines for accuracy and transparency....

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Paris, Berlin Bristle as Obama Backs Turkey for EU

By Kerstin Gemhlich and Mark John PRAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged the European Union on Sunday to accept Turkey as a full member of the 27-nation bloc, in remarks rejected outright by France and met coolly by Germany....

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Hedge Fund Paid Obama Adviser Summers $5.2 million

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, was paid about $5.2 million by hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the past year, financial disclosure forms released by the White House showed on...

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Obama Calls Major Economies Climate Change Meeting

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is launching a ''Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate'' to help facilitate a U.N. agreement on global warming, the White House said on Saturday. Leaders from 16 major economies have...

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