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• The Distressing State of Our National Discourse Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Saturday, November 28. Is it possible we have reached the zenith of dumbing down or has our quirkiness just become more overt as devotees of hate radio and TV parrot what they hear and non-facts become an acceptable basis for debate?
• Canadian Border Officials Had Amy Goodman Flagged and Interrogated Her When She Entered Our Northern Neighbor, Fearful, Apparently, That She Would Criticize the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. They Finally Allowed Her to Enter, But Limited Her Stay to 48 Hours. For Shame!
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• Bob Herbert Hits It Out of the Park, Again: "We still keep fighting tragic, futile, stupid wars, squandering lives and resources and creative energies that could be put to use right here at home, where the need for nation-building is beyond critical. The U.S. should be a paradise for young people. We need big changes in this country, approaches that are constructive, creative and fundamentally new, if we’re going to give those smiling kids I saw on Thanksgiving Day the kind of society they deserve."
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• Secret Service apologizes for ticketless couple's access. Questions linger over checkpoint breakdowns at White House dinner.
• Boston Globe: US must act on violence against women
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• Driving America Over the Cliff in Afghanistan
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• Boston Globe Editorial: Wood-fired power plants are no environmental cure-all
• David Sirota: Colbert’s refrain that ‘reality has a well-known liberal bias’ is now less a laugh line than a devastatingly accurate commentary on America’s political discourse.
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• U.S. Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2017: White House. WTF? Sounds Like Bush All Over Again.
• Trial of Khmer Rouge Torturer/Executioner Nears End
• American Environmental Activist Arrested in China
• Military divorces edge up again in 9th year of war
• NYT Editorial: Stalemate Between Israel and Palestinians is Not an Option
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• Baghdad Garden Becomes Graveyard, Full of Grieving
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• "U.N. censure may start more confrontational phase with Iran." Just grand: America would be in good financial shape if we didn't spend trillions of dollars on military adventures for oil and the military industrial complex. The Iranian leaders are theocratic thugs, but as the U.S. becomes more in debt and impoverished, what are we going to be left to defend?
• "An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said."
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• 2 Afghans allege abuse at U.S. site. Teenagers say they were interrogated at secretive Bagram holding center.
• Of Interest: Russia and China Endorse Agency's Rebuke of Iran
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• Naomi Wolf: But can the poster girl of the Right ever be a serious contender for the White House?
• State Dinner Wannabe Realty Show Crashers Met Obama in Receiving Line.
• Glenn Beck Wants To Abolish Separation Of Church And State
• Several of the world’s largest banks funneled more than $10 billion in loans to Bank Turalem of Kazakhstan, but many of these loans have failed, forcing steep write-offs.
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• Militias Return to Basra and Threaten the Lives of Those Who Aided "Coalition Forces"
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• Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.
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• China Gets $100 Million Contract for Ventilation System Upgrade in New York City Subway. Unbelievable! It's the Wal-Mart Way of "Buying American."
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• "Taliban Open Up Front in Once-Quiet Afghan North." Afghanistan is a Fool's Errand that Benefits the Military-Industrial Complex at the Expense of Healthcare and a Stronger Economy in America.
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• Germany's highest soldier resigns over plot to cover up Afghan civilian deaths
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• NYT: A Republican party official rejects criticisms that a 10-point list of principles would harm the campaigns of many G.O.P. lawmakers.
• Did the Corporate Mainstream Media Help FOX Frame ACORN?
• USA Today poll on Obama & Afghanistan: "55% disapprove of the way he is handling Afghanistan and 35% approve, a reversal of his 56% approval rating four months ago."
• Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions. What's Next, More Troops for Iraq.
• Watch Out! General Electric Co. may be closer to selling control of NBC Universal to Comcast Corp. after Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt met with NBC’s minority owner Vivendi SA, two people with knowledge of the situation said.
• Dollar at 14-Year Low Against Yen
• Missouri Billboard Urges U.S. Citizens to 'Prepare for War'
• Obama, GOP Air Differences Over Jobs, Economy In Thanksgiving Addresses
• Dubai Debt Drags Down Markets
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• Report: Taliban Regrouping in Afghanistan
• The Obama Administration's Absolutely Appalling Decision Not to Sign the International Treaty to Ban Land Mines. A horrifyingly morally corrupt White House Betrayal of Basic Human Decency. 156 countries have ratified the treaty; but like Bush, Obama has decided not to sign it.
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• Beck’s Sexist Reason For Ruling Out Palin-Beck Ticket: She’d Always Be ‘Yapping’ Like We’re "In the Kitchen." This is Madness, the whole thought of it.
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• Preview of the Tuesday Night Obama Afghanistan Plan. Sounds Like Bush-light!
• One Year After the Mumbai Terrorist Attack
• Native Americans plan Plymouth, Mass. Thanksgiving protest
• Prisoner Exchange Between Israel and Hamas Nearing Final Agreement?
• BBC: "A damning report into clerical child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese has criticised the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse."
• Israel Offers a Pause in Building New Settlements
• Too big to regulate, the banks need to be broken up.
• Bizarre! Feds: Couple crashed Obama's state dinner, Secret Service confirms
• Obama Administration won't sign land mine ban. WTF? This isn't change; it's abhorrent.
• Irish Workers Stage Biggest Strike in 30 Years
• Philippines Declares State of Emergency After 57 People Killed in Politically-Linked Massacre
• Hacked climate emails called a "smear campaign"
• U.S. Seeks 10,000 Troops From Its Allies in Afghanistan. Give It Up, Already, But Allow All the Women in Afghanistan to Emigrate.
• "No matter where the healthcare debate takes us, Reid and Senate Democrats should commit to getting rid of rules that stifle debate and prevent action, and they should eliminate the filibuster and implement majority rule. That, after all, is what democracy is supposed to look like."
• Obama denounces Mugabe's rule
• Ezra Klein: Cost control opportunities galore
• The Family: C Street Group Tied To Proposed Uganda Law That Would Carry Death Penalty for Gays
• IRAQ: TV commentator who criticized government is shot
• Palin Suggests "Reforming" Canada's Universal Health Care System: 'Let The Private Sector Take Over.' Message to Sarah: Canadians have a longer life expectancy than ours in the U.S. So you want Canadians to live shorter lives? Obviously, yes.
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• South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is getting help from a Connecticut lawyer who represented that state’s governor during a 2004 impeachment effort.
• Dana Milbank: Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers "Or, to put it another way: Don't regulate us now because the economy is still suffering from the mess we made because we weren't regulated the last time. Chutzpah, it appears, is recession-proof."
• Our flawed health care system failed a young mother and her unborn child
• Obama Backs Senate on Two Disparities in Health Bills: Tax on High Premium Insurance and Medicare Cost Cutting Commission. Labor Will Not be Happy and GOP Will Further Scare Seniors.
• Obama Afghanistan Speech at West Point on Tuesday
• Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Writing History in the Streets
• Obama Administration lawyers are likely still scratching their heads over how to respond to an extraordinary ruling in San Francisco. Last week, the chief judge of one of America's most prominent federal courts ordered an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife.
• Get your tickets now: Palin, Bachmann To Speak At National Tea Party Convention
• The United Nations announced Tuesday $10.5 million in new grants to bolster international efforts to end violence against women.
• Pittsburgh Man Gives Cop Middle Finger, Gets $50,000 in Settlement for Wrongful Arrest
• Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus.
• The Maldives, a nation of roughly 1200 low-lying islands in the Indian Ocean, could be underwater by the end of this century if feared climate change causes ocean levels to rise.
• British Iraq inquiry hears Bush admin. discussed toppling Saddam two years before the 2003 Iraq invasion
• Kentucky Supreme Court temporarily halts executions
• Defense Department official in charge of closing the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has resigned after only seven months in the job.
• Bruce Reed, head of the DLC, oddly channels those anonymous White House sources attacking Dems
• Third World Women Suffer the Most from Climate Change While Bloggers Use Sex to Save the Earth -- Green is Good
• The governors of Virginia and Maryland, both Catholics, said Tuesday that it would be wrong for the church to suspend or reduce social services in the nation's capital if the District of Columbia approves gay marriage.
• Alberto Gonzales Won't Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony
• Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive
• Dee Evans: Google's Offensive Michelle Obama Image -- Reposted! -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• When 14 Colombian trade union members were in the United States for a training program, they were unable to forget just how dangerous it is to support unions in their home country. During the two months they were here, four of their colleagues were assassinated.
• The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors: They're not just against health care reform. They think Obama may have hypnotized voters and that climate legislation threatens your health.
• Over 33 million infected with AIDS virus: UN
• Jacqueline Marcus: Middle-East War Is Futile -- By 2020, Electric Cars Will Make Oil Obsolete -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• George Lakoff: Give Thanks to Kathleen Sibelius For Saving 47,000 Women From Death by Cost-Benefit Analysis -- BuzzFlash Guest Commentary
• Free the Children Works to Bring Education Around the World to Win this week's BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award Too often, children feel like they can't do anything about the world's problems. But having an organization geared toward children, on both sides of the equation, encourages children to see themselves in others their age around the world.
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• Afghanistan's Zero-Sum Game: In Planning a Surge Into an Unwinnable War to Appease an Implacable GOP, Do Numbers Matter? -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
• BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 25, 2009
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• EPI's urgent call for more jobs gains momentum
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