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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CIA Backtracks On Reasons For Withholding Torture Tape Docs

Two weeks ago, the CIA said that it would not turn over documents to the ACLU related to the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes because it would compromise the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the matter. But on Monday, in a sudden reversal, the CIA withdrew that argument after a judge required an affidavit.

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NPR-Israel:West Bank Settlers Vow To Continue Building.

In an effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, the Obama administration is calling for a halt to expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But settlers insist that diplomatic efforts won't deter them. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government is not inclined to impose a moratorium....

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Scahill: KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers

The Department of Defense paid former Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq. The award payments were for the very work that resulted in the electrocution deaths of US soldiers, according to Department of Defense documents revealed today in a Senate hearing.

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Climate Change: LA Fires Aftermath in Photographs-10/2007.

The entire South West of the United States is suffering alarming droughts since the last 6 years. Huge fires, especially in California, are occurring every years. A few weeks ago, it was in Santa Barbara. In October 2007, 3 fires burnt enormous stretch of forest & land in the north of Los Angeles , and in Malibu. The photos were taken in Malibu...

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Climate Change: LA Fires Aftermath in Photos 10/2007.

All Photographs by Gilbert Mercier
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The photographs were taken in October 2007, mainly in the Malibu area of Los Angeles. The people in the photographs were trying to gather memorabilia, including some half burned bible pages, from a little wooden church that was completely destroyed by the fire.

The complete South West of the United States is currently affected by a severe drought, most experts attribute it to climate change & global warming. In Los Angeles proper the situation is so critical that the department of water & power, in order to conserve water usage, has decided to impose a water usage restriction for outside watering with sprinkler system to two days a week.

Can Schwarzenegger Recover From Voters’ Ballot-Box Blow?

California voted yesterday in record low numbers, the measures pushed by Governor Schwarzenegger to save the state from financial collapse were rejected. The state is in deep trouble.What are the possible outcomes of this?

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Senate Dems Reject Obama's Request for Funds to Close Gitmo.

Under pressure from Republicans and concerned about the politics of relocating terrorism suspects to U.S. soil, Senate Democrats rejected President Obama's request for funding to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and vowed to withhold federal dollars until the president decides the fate of the...

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Claims Graham Briefed in 01 and 02 About Spying Also Bogus

Like his recent disclosure about torture briefings, former Sen. Bob Graham disclosed in 2005 that an intelligence document which claimed he was briefed about the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program on two dates in 2001 and 2002 were bogus when compared to his own records, which showed that no such briefings ever took place.

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