Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced she's resigning from her job and plans to step down by the end of the month, CBS News affiliate KTVA is reporting
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]]> “We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the global recession, and a package of problems “we have kicked down the road for far too long.”
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]]> The 4th of July is the date, way back in 1776, that the colonial government declared themselves independent of the British crown, thereby giving form and substance to the United States of America. What are you doing today, and why is it important?
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]]> It is estimated that the state of Alaska has spent nearly $300 thousand investigating ethics complaints against the Governor. There's no mystery to Sarah Palin's decision. She is merely advancing in a nutter direction? A scandal in the works?
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]]> This is the 4th of July fireworks show at the Disney-MGM Studios in Walt Disney World, FL. !!!!!!!!!!!!! 2009. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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]]> Please urge your U.S. representative to cosponsor the Great Ape Protection Act.One thousand chimpanzees in the United States need your help! The Great Ape Protection Act, HR 1326, would finally prohibit invasive research on chimpanzees. But the bill need
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]]> Sources say embezzlement scandal, federal indictments may soon break concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials for Palin's home...
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]]> Just an eye opening thought, if the points on the top of the fence at a prison are pointed inward toward the prison, its to keep the prisoners inside right? So why are the points on the border fence between Mexico and the US pointed toward the US?
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]]> Let's raise a massive global chorus immediately to support Obama’s statement that the settlements in occupied territory must stop, by joining our voices to a petition based on his very own words
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]]> Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor.
"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time," she said.
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]]> If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day - the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly - to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub-surface coal...
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]]> The White House - Vatican connection revealed by Brianstalin for the very first time! There has been some speculation that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ:
1.- He will come as a man of Peace (Obama promises peace in Iraq, defeat for the US)..
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]]> Nearly a day after the detention of former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney by Israeli forces, Washington has yet to make a reaction
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]]> How PA officials vote on HB 1175 will determine whether Pennsylvanians can be FORCED to accept a microchip implant. The RFID chip is capable of replacing all the I.D. and credit cards we use: passports, insurance cards, drivers licenses, student I.D…
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]]> California will begin issuing IOUs instead of cash due to a budget crisis. Sadly, but not surprisingly, politicians and judges will continue to get greenbacks, while the poor, elderly, and disabled will be stuck with California's new "currency."
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]]> President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to build support to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system as a key Republican questioned whether bipartisan support among lawmakers is possible
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]]> Gov. Schwarzenegger went out of his way to disparage an anti-cruelty bill that has nothing to do with his budget. It simply stops the painful practice of tail-docking of dairy cows, an archaic mutilation procedure. He's acting like a demagogue and a bully
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]]> With Senate confirmation practically a lock, big business plays nice with the likely next justice.
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]]> Presidents Obama and Medvedev are meeting next week. Let's call on them to put their historic pledge into action and lead global efforts to achieve a nuclear free world. Sign the declaration to Obama and
Medvedev...(Visit site)
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]]> A Native American boy is fighting a Texas school district for the right to keep his long hair. A small rural school district in Fort Bend County Texas wants to force Adriel Arocha to cut his hair in compliance with the terms of the school district's dress
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]]> Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts. CA didn't meet midnite deadline last night!
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]]> After 19 months of struggle in Iraq, U.S. military officials conceded a loss to Iraqi insurgents Monday, but said America can be proud of finishing "a very strong second."
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]]> Embarrassing that no Afghani or Pakistani child or parent has any human right at all, including the right not to be blown to pieces in a US drone air strike? - the final insult being the value of their lives put at a mere $2,000 by the US government!
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]]> Countering criticism that he's done little on gay rights, President Barack Obama commemorated the 40th anniversary of the birth of the modern movement by welcoming its leaders to the White House and reaffirming his commitment to their top priorities.
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]]> Recently, reports surfaced that President Obama is drafting an executive order that would authorize a regime of indefinite detention without charge. Indefinite detention without charge is one of the most egregious of all human rights violations and is...
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]]> A brief description of the our health care factory and some of the political barriers to fixing it. Produced by an ER Doctor who also created of “Health, Money and Fear”, a 48 minute video Submitted by Bryan Buchan on 6-29-2009...Healthcare, do you care?
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]]> President Barack Obama, fresh from his first legislative victory on climate policy, expressed confidence on Monday that new greenhouse gas emission limits would become law with help from the U.S. Senate.
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]]> Here we have yet another phony food safety bill, which does NOTHING but grant the FDA massive new police powers without actual policy oversight. And it would do NOTHING to solve the actual problem.
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]]> SACRAMENTO California dairy and ranch operators would be prohibited from "tail docking" cattle, except in emergencies, if a bill that passed its first Assembly review Tuesday becomes law.


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]]> “A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,” the magazine’s Jane Mayer writes in the magazine’s June 22nd issue."
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]]> Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He can't walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep.


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]]> During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. That pivotal era in the history of our nation is the subject...
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]]> “……After a series of well-publicized cases of food contamination – E. coli-tainted meat, melamine-adulterated pet food and baby formula, salmonella-infected peanut butter – the public has been well primed to look toward Congress to fix a poorly funded and
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]]> The Daily Show With Jon Stewart LOL!!!!!!
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]]> A military coup has taken place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), led by SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez, forcing the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into custody.
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]]> ALBANY, N.Y- Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello has taken a plea deal to avoid prison time for forcing state employees to handle personal chores when she was New York's health commissioner.
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]]> The Iraqi authorities are tightening security in preparation for next Tuesday's deadline for US soldiers to pull out of the country's cities.
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]]> As a person who was born on the UKs National Health Service,who has been a lifelong recipient of the service,and now works within it,I see that the right wing of the USA, are telling lies about healthcare.Most Americans are going without ..something
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]]> MAYOR HERENTON announced Thursday that he is resigning effective July 11. The Neals wonders if his resignation relates to the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal in Shelby County Jail. The lifelong mentally ill heart patient "disappeared" in
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]]> Companies exploit undocumented workers, and then claim that sanctions require them to fire them when it's convenient.
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]]> Can a court in Madrid bring Gonzales, Yoo, and company to justice? Mother Jones talks to the lawyer seeking indictments of the "Bush Six."
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]]> There’s a renewed focus this week on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans, based on my sworn affidavit detailing a nearly three-year-old pattern of attacks on Corps critics, posted from Corps computers onto blogs and forums on NOLA.com.
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]]> In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU...
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]]> ALBANY, N.Y-It was a parade of strength, forged by family bonds.
"There is no way possible our soldiers could mentally and physically prepare for this mobilization without knowing that the home front is strong and that they have your love and support---
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]]> Albany N.Y. --- “Martin Van Buren is rolling in his grave,” said Governor David Paterson.
At least Old Kinderhook is dead. We still have to watch the Senate stalemate drag on.
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]]> ALBANY, N.Y.-It's hard to imagine anyone messing with mounted police officers. That's precisely why the APD uses officers on horseback to control big crowds, like the ones you'll see at Alive at Five.
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]]> CNN) -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, just back from a secret trip to Argentina unknown to his staff or his wife, admitted Wednesday he has carried on an extramarital affair.

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