Monday, October 4, 2010
Pentagon Bars Four Reporters from Guantánamo
People in New Orleans Are Being Pushed Out of Their Homes--And Now Theyre Pushing Back Investigations
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Bin Laden warns US not to kill 9/11 designer
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Thousands of Students Taking Part in National Day of Action to Defend Public Education
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HCR Summit: The Republican Reconciliation Gambit
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What a shock! The initial thing out of the Republicans" side is Lamar Alexander and the monument of reconciliation--how we only dont have make have use of of that for healthcare. Sen. Alexander, you know what the "R" in COBRA stands for, right? You know that SCHIP upheld by settlement in 1997, right? [Update from Ezra: "This morning, Lamar Alexander pronounced that settlement has never been used for anything as big as health-care reform. Health-care remodel has a 10-year cost of about $950 billion. The Bush taxation cuts, that upheld by reconciliation, had a 10-year cost of about $1.8 trillion. Lamar Alexander voted for them."]
Healthcare remodel has consistently been upheld around reconciliation. And Lamar Alexander was ideally happy to have make have use of of settlement to pass the Bush taxation cuts. And, of course, he mischaracterizes the Dems" approach, as TPM describes:
Democrats have already upheld extensive legislation by unchanging sequence in both chambers. Two opposite bills. What they"re planning, tentatively, to do right away is have make have use of of settlement to have a little teenager changes to one of those bills.
A sign on the logistics. The limit runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST. The initial 4 hours...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Blackwater Rescued Progressive House Rep. Alan Grayson from Nigers Civil Unrest News Politics
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Rep. Alan Grayson&(D-Fla.), who finished his estimable happening by suing troops contractors and after lambasted them as a lawmmaker, was in truth evacuated from Niger by crew operative for Xe Services (the in isolation security sovereignty rigourously well known as Blackwater), his orator confirms.
Earlier currently I&reported&on the sworn statement of Fred Roitz, an senior manager clamp boss at Xe, at todays Senate Armed Service Committee on Blackwater subsidiary&Paravant. In his rebuilt remarks, he stated: Xe Services, by the auxiliary Presidential Airways, provides aviation await and medevac services to Defense Department crew in Africa. Just last week, the crew evacuated a congressman from Niger during polite unrest.
This certain seemed to fit the outline of Grayson, who was roving in the nation last week when a troops manoeuvre erupted. The lawmaker was fast evacuated out the nation to neighborhing Burkina Faso. The moody was organised by the State Department, Todd Jukowski, Graysons spokesman, told me. The Congressman did not know, and honestly did not care, who owned the plane. Later, Jurkowski followed up with an email confirming that Grayson was flown out of the nation on a Xe helicopter.
I additionally asked Jurkowski either the experience had altered Graysons meditative on the make use of in isolation troops firms. Jurkowski replied: The Congressman does not repudiate that there is excellent work being finished by a little employees of in isolation contractors.& However, he stands by his critique of companies who have been found to lie the American people, deceive the government, and unnecessarily risk the lives of members of the military, all in the name of creation a profit.
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Soldier Jailed for Rap Lyrics Is Discharged
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Until Apr 17, US Army Spc. Marc Hall sat in a troops brig at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, confronting an approaching court-martial for severe the US militarys stop-loss process in a song.
Sunday morning, Spc. Hall was postulated a liberate by the military.
On Dec 17, 2009, Hall was locked up for essay a strain about the personal stroke of being forced to sojourn in the troops over the range of his stipulate by the stop-loss policy.
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