16,000 Single Mothers Serving in IraqWhen they called her name, she could not move. Sgt. Leana Nishimura intended to walk up proudly, shake the dignitaries' hands and accept their honors for her service in Iraq - a special coin, a lapel pin, a glass-encased U.S. flag.
But her son clung to her leg. He cried and held tight, she recalled. And so Nishimura stayed where she was, and the ceremony last summer went on without her. T.J. was 9, her oldest child, and although eight months had passed since she had returned f... (more)
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MasterCard: Black Friday not even close to busiest shopping dayConsumer purchases in the post Thanksgiving weekend made up nearly 10 percent of all holiday sales in 2005, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers
This year, the National Retail Federation is projecting 137 million shoppers will shop during the four-day holiday weekend.
Roughly half of those 137 million shoppers are expected to be in stores today.
But Black Friday wasn’t even ranked one of the five busiest holiday shopping da... (more)
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David Rockefeller: Unashamed Predatory Globalist "Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
--David Rockefeller, Memoirs, page 405
"We are grateful to ... (more)
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Segregating Children From Men Frances Kemp booked an aisle seat on a recent British Airways (BA) flight because she had a bad leg that required extra space. Her 76-year-old husband Michael occupied the middle seat. A nine-year-old girl took the window position.
When a stewardess asked Frances to switch seats with her husband, she declined. The stewardess explained that the seating arrangement breached the airline's child-welfare regulations and moved the child.
Michael is a retired journalist w... (more)
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Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter's ASVAB ScamWith MySpace.com bulletins and a handful of homemade flyers, two teens have struck a blow against the American Warfare State, Lindale, Georgia Division.
On a Friday afternoon the 17th of November, 17-year-old high school seniors Robert Day and Samuel Parker decided to act after Day overheard some teachers at Pepperell High School saying that first thing Monday morning the school's juniors would be made to take the ASVAB military aptitude test.
Often administered und... (more)
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'US troops kill four' on Iraq bus US troops have killed four passengers on a minibus in Baghdad's Sadr City district, say security sources in Iraq.
The troops opened fire during a raid in the impoverished suburb of the capital, which is dominated by a militia loyal to a radical anti-US Shia cleric.
Elements of Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army are suspected of capturing a US solider last month and kidnapping scores of hostages at a government office.
There has been... (more)
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Feingold Considers Habeas Corpus Hearings ONALASKA, Wis. — U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold admitted Monday he’d have to seriously think about it if asked to be a presidential running mate.
But Feingold’s flirtation with the White House has given way to renewed enthusiasm for life in the Senate, now that there’s a Democratic majority.
At a listening session in Onalaska City Hall, Feingold talked enthusiastically about chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Con... (more)
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Baghdad car bombings 'kill 160' A wave of car bombs and mortars in Baghdad's Sadr City district has left about 160 people dead and more than 200 injured, Iraq police have said.
It was the most devastating series of attacks in Iraq's capital in a single day since the US-led invasion in 2003.
The bombings in Sadr City were followed by mortar attacks on Sunni areas.
The Iraqi authorities have put Baghdad under curfew and closed the airport, and Iraqi PM Nou... (more)
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Cancer chemical in street cocaine Cocaine's street price is falling as it is being cut with carcinogenic painkiller phenacetin, police say.
The warning from the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) comes as new figures are released detailing the use of Class A drugs in the UK.
Drugs like cocaine are now responsible for a £15bn annual bill in social and economic costs, says the Home Office.
And separate figures suggest Britons consume more cocain... (more)
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Biotech firm blames farmers, act of God for rice contaminationBayer CropScience says rice farmers and an "act of God" are to blame for the contamination of local rice crops with an unapproved genetically modified strain -- contamination that led to class action lawsuits filed in federal court in Missouri.
The company, based in Research Park Triangle, N.C., cited those reasons in a response to a lawsuit filed earlier this year after contaminated crops were discovered this summer.
"First, you have to understand that genetically ... (more)
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Poisoned spy 'had death threats' A friend of a former Russian spy seriously ill in a London hospital said both had received e-mail threats days before his poisoning.
Italian Mario Scaramella told a Rome press conference that he met Alexander Litvinenko the day he fell ill.
Scotland Yard anti-terrorist officers have taken charge of the investigation.
Officers have said they are treating the case as a suspected "deliberate poisoning" and that it could have taken ... (more)
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Questions still surround Metzger's disappearanceThe three-day disappearance of a Vance County native and U.S. Air Force major stationed in Kyrgyzstan ended happily when Jill Metzger turned up safe on Sept. 8.
But it's not yet clear whether Metzger and her loved ones will live happily ever after following an experience a relative described as a traumatic, torture-filled kidnapping.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Air Force Office of Special Investigations are jointly looking into Metzger's disappearance, w... (more)
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Fox Financial Guy: We End the War "By Bombing Tehran, Not by Getting it so Some Iraqi Woman Doesn't Have to Wear a Burqa Anymore"One of the segments featured on Your World w/Neil Cavuto today (November 20, 2006) was a roundtable discussion about Iraq captioned: "Go Big, Go Long, Go Home: Which Does Wall Street Want?" The participants included three cast members from Fox's Saturday morning "business news" show, Cashin' In, and a guest participant, conservative radio talk show host Paul McGuire.
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Students Dropping Out of High School Reaches Epidemic Levels In several of the largest school systems across the country -- from Baltimore to Cleveland to Atlanta and Oakland, Calif. -- half of the students are dropping out. And the problem is not only in the big cities.
Watch the second part of Pierre Thomas' report Tuesday on "World News with Charles Gibson."
A recent study by the Department of Education found that 31 percent of American students were dropping out or failing to graduate in the nation'... (more)
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Pelosi says 'no' on Rangel's draft bill Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Monday Rep. Charlie Rangel's, D-New York, call for a reinstatement of the draft is something he has long championed to promote shared sacrifice. But Pelosi, having just concluded a meeting with incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, to discuss the Democratic agenda, said the leadership will not support the measure.
"It's not about a draft it's about shared sacrifice in our country," ... (more)
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Anger at £7bn cost of war Tony Blair faced accusations last night that he is wasting nearly £7 billion of taxpayers' money on a failing war on terror after announcing massive sums of British aid to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In the last three days, the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, have trumpeted special funding to the three countries totalling £844 million.
This is in addition to the estimated £5 billion cost to British taxpa... (more)
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Top Neo-Con LA Times Editorial: We Must Bomb Iran WE MUST bomb Iran.
It has been four years since that country's secret nuclear program was brought to light, and the path of diplomacy and sanctions has led nowhere.
First, we agreed to our allies' requests that we offer Tehran a string of concessions, which it spurned. Then, Britain, France and Germany wanted to impose a batch of extremely weak sanctions. For instance, Iranians known to be involved in nuclear activities would have been ba... (more)
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Hotel chain drops CNN over Iraq video; 'their actions supported terrorism’COLUMBIA, Mo. - A Midwest hotel chain has pulled CNN from the TV channel lineup in its guest rooms, saying the cable network was aiding terrorism with the broadcast of a video showing Iraqi snipers shooting at U.S. troops.
The broadcast, which aired Oct. 18 on both CNN and CNN Headline News, featured edited portions of a tape the network said it obtained from a rebel group called Islamic Army of Iraq.
The video crossed the line from journalism to propaganda, said Ja... (more)
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Military may ask $127B for warsWASHINGTON — The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II.
The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion in requests from the armed services for the 2007 fiscal year, which began last month, several lawmakers and congressional staff members said. That's on top of $70 billion already approved for 2007.
Since 200... (more)
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Senate Dems plan overhaul of military tribunals bill Gearing up for a major clash with the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress, several key Senate Democrats are planning to overhaul the newly minted legislation governing military tribunals of detainees.
Even before it was signed into the law last month, Democrats were criticizing the military commission bill as unconstitutional and a magnet or endless legal challenges.
Defense lawyers working on behalf of military detainees at Guant... (more)
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As Bush Goes To Vietnam, White House Website Displays The Wrong FlagToday, President Bush visits Vietnam for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, “looking to burnish his foreign-policy credentials.” He’s off to a miserable start.
Yesterday, the White House website featured a graphic with the flags of the three countries he’s visiting on his trip — Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. One problem: instead of displaying the Vietnamese flag, t... (more)
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