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Pheonix AZ - U.S. Marshals Capture Alleged Child ...
"Phoenix, Ariz. – This afternoon members of the U.S. Marshals led Phoenix High Intensity Drug Task Force (HIDTA) Fugitive Task Force arrested an alleged child rapist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lance Kelly, 51, was wanted by the Albuquerque Police Department after it...
Huge rally in Cuba marks May Day
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans attended a rally through the streets of Havana today in mark May Day and honour the world's workers."President Raul Castro, who succeeded his ailing brother Fidel in February, is...
Syria's nuke facility was nearly finished, with K...
The list of nations seeking to enter the nuclear weapons club keeps growing--and, as always, politics mades interesting bedfellows. In this case, North Korea, a long-time foe of the United States and Western...
Drew Peterson: Former Cop, Now a Suspect in Fates...
Update: Nancy Grace of CNN has reported that police are now searching undisclosed locations for Stacy Peterson's body. They are looking for gravesites, although they won't say where, and now consider her case a...
Shannon mum to stand trial with alleged abductor
The mother of Shannon Mathews, whose dissapearance in February led to one ofthe largest search operations in the history of West Yorkshire Police, is to stand trial in her abduction."The mother of Shannon Matthews...
Secretary Reaffirms Strategic Ties with Omani Lea...
" WASHINGTON, April 5, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates returned here today after a brief stop in Oman following the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania. In the secretary’s first visit to Oman, Gates met with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id Al Said at his...
'Tis the Season: Tornadoes Rake Oklahoma, Storms ...
UPDATE: Tornado watches will expire soon in more than a dozen southeastern Oklahoma counties after a day of wild, dangerous weather that began in the darkness of night. At least two tornado touchdowns have been...
Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invas...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
Cheney makes surprise visit to Iraq
As the deadline for the Iraq progress report looms closer, the Bush administration is refocusing attention on the conflict. "Vice President Dick Cheney landed
in Baghdad today on an unannounced trip for meetings with U.S.
military commanders and Iraqi officials before a...
Massive SnowStorm Hits Ontario, 50cm Expected
Hold on to your hats Toronto, we're in for another storm, this one is expected to last at least 36 hours and dump 50cm of snow between Friday and Sunday.You can see what happened the last time we had even a third of...
MI6 admit keeping a dossier on Mohamed Al Fayed
"After their brief trip to Paris, Diana spent virtually every free moment with Dodi at his apartment in London’s Park Lane or together at Kensington Palace, which rankled the royals greatly. Prince Philip was...
Chinese Man accused of spying appears in New Orle...
"by Bill Walsh, The Times-Picayune
Thursday February 14, 2008, 10:28 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The New Orleans man accused by the government of being at the center of a Chinese spy ring was held in custody Thursday while a federal judge agreed to let his codefendant post $100,000...
Obama foreign policy by Brezinsky?
"America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower
The Grand Chessboard Part 1
Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
October 1, 2007
In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he...
McCain Beats Romney to Win Fla. Primary
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MIAMI (AP) - Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination ahead of next week's contests across...
Cellulosic Ethanol Sugar Diverted to Algae Biodie...
I've been doing some investigation into a new algae biodiesel company. See more of the story at Gas 2.0:"Today I had a few minutes to speak with Harrison Dillon, President and CTO of Solazyme. But with all the publicity around the film Fields of Fuel (see earlier post), I...
