Archive for December 2nd, 2009

NPR 11/30/09 The global swine flu outbreak has become something of a political football in every country where the pandemic has spread, but Ukraine’s response to the virus has achieved a new level of blatant politicization. According to a campaign advisor to Yulia Tymoshenko, the...

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Arizona Daily Star 12/2/09 A nationally prominent climate change researcher at the University of Arizona has been asked by a U.S. senator not to destroy any records he has with a tie to a global controversy over e-mails raising questions about the scientific integrity of...

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AP 12/2/09 ROME – A group of European scientists say they have successfully connected a robotic hand to a man who had lost an arm, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial hand and control it with his thoughts. The experiment lasted a month....

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LoHud.com 12/1/09 By Khurram Saeed WEST POINT — More than 250 people held a candlelight vigil outside the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday night to protest President Obama’s decision to escalate the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan. The protest was held shortly before Obama announced that...

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If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people’s pain RAWA News 11/30/09 By Malalai Joya After months of waiting, President Obama is about to announce the new US strategy for Afghanistan. His...

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Anti-War.com 12/2/09 By Gareth Porter President Barack Obama presented a case Tuesday for sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan that included both soaring rhetoric and a new emphasis on its necessity for U.S. national security. Obama said the escalation was for a “vital national...

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Wired 12/2/09 By Kim Zetter Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October. The...

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The Jerusalem Post 12/2/09 By E.B. SOLOMONT Palestinian statehood is a “vital” component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday’s annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. But amid criticism of Israel’s settlement activities during...

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Bloomberg 12/2/09 By Timothy R. Homan Companies in the U.S. cut an estimated 169,000 jobs in November, according to a private report based on payroll data. The drop, the smallest since July 2008, compares with a revised 195,000 decline the prior month, data from ADP...

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  We Are Change 12/2/09

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