Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Last November the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a startling report revealing that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined. Peta is now after overweight Al Gore to be more vocal about this... Read the full story
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
General Petraeus told The Australian during a face-to-face interview at his Baghdad headquarters there had been a 75 per cent reduction in religious and ethnic killings since last year, a doubling in the seizure of insurgents' weapons caches between January and August, a rise in the number of al-Qa'ida "kills ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Gov. Rick Perry, in a rare and uncharacteristic move Thursday, spared the life of condemned prisoner Kenneth Foster, hours before he was to be executed for his role in a San Antonio robbery-shooting.Read the full story
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
LiveJournal tries to turn the blogosphere upside down. Ooops. Don't they talk to the folks at SixApart?Read the full story
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.Read the full story
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
It's a ray gun that neither kills nor maims, but the Pentagon has refused to deploy it out of concern that the weapon itself might be seen as a torture device.Read the full story
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Sounds like another closeted GOP member caught red umm... handed? In the report, the arresting officer alleges that Craig lingered outside a restroom stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the stall door with his luggage. Read the full story
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
The four-deck, double-hulled Alakai carrying 500 passengers and 150 cars turned back from Lihue harbor to the cheers of several hundred protesters beating drums and shouting Hawaii chants along a sea wall, witnesses said. Its docking was prevented by protesters who paddled out to within a few yards of the ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats and even some Republicans, announced Monday that he has resigned from his post.Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
In addition to the video footage, the three suspected plants wore the same brand boots, as evidenced by the soles, as the Sûreté du Québec riot police. Neither the SQ, nor the RCMP, commented; each initially denied planting agents provocateurs.Read the full story
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