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Christie Obama welcome in N.J.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Friday he welcomes President Barack Obama’s Tuesday trip to view the recovery from Hurricane Sandy and isn’t worried about any political fallout."The fact of the matter is he’s the president of the United States," Christie said on NBC’s "Today." "If he wants to come here and visit the people of New Jersey, ...
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Obama nominates Victoria Nuland
President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration's talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State's top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace ...
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Prof. Obama vs. President Obama
Topics in this episode: - President Obama’s big national security speech clarifying his policies on using drones for targeted killings in the war on terror and his unfulfilled goal of closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (1:45) - The new face of the IRS scandal and the evolving White House response to it (9:24) - Comprehensive immigration reform bill heads to the Senate ...
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Obamas Big Speech Interrupted-- And How the Media Blew It
here for an Opednews interview with Medea, after she repeatedly interrupted the president, which discusses what she said and what her goals. were. The reason I'm writing this short article is to point out that even when the President literally said, she's "Worth paying attention to" the cameras all stayed on Obama. They didn't shift to show a view of Medea. They ...
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Interview with Code-Pink founder Medea Benjamin After She Heckled Obama
An Interview with Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on why she disrupted a national foreign policy speech given May 23 by President Barack Obama Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, took President Barack Obama head-on during a major foreign policy speech the president was giving Thursday on drone policy and related issues. Benjamin demanded that the president close the Guantanamo Bay prison ...
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Good Grief Barack Obama
The most famous running joke in the Peanuts comic strip repeats at the beginning of every football season. Charlie Brown asks Lucy to hold the ball for him so he can kick it. At the last moment, just before Charlie gets his foot on the pigskin, Lucy snatches it away. Despite years of torment, each new season Charlie Brown finds a reason to believe that Lucy will hold the ball down where he can ...
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Blessed Be The Atheists The Pope and Obama Conspire To Put Non-Believers In Heaven
Atheist Alert! Both the Pope and Obama want you to know that atheists are actually normal - and moral - human beings! It must be very cold in hell today. Freezing, actually. Because it's official: atheists can be as good as Christians, meet the pope and possibly go to heaven! There is, of course, much wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among the echelons of the ...
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Obama Addresses Drones Gitmo in Speech on Refocusing Strategy on Terrorism
President Barack Obama tried to reframe America's approach to the war on terror in an address on foreign policy. Jeffrey Brown examines the president's remarks with Pardiss Kebriaei from the Center for Constitutional Rights, former State Department official Harold Koh and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise ...
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Obama Lays Out Counterterrorism Strategy Weiners 1st Day on the Trail Jo Bonner to Resign in Aug.
said Thursday the U.S. "has reached a 'crossroads' in its fight against terrorism and that it is time to redefine and recalibrate a war that eventually will end." Obama defended the use of drone attacks "as effective, legal and life-saving," but he "used the depiction of a diminished threat environment to make the case for broad counterterrorism changes, ...
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Obama Orders Review of Policy on Journalists
President Obama said Thursday he was troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may "chill" investigative journalism and said he had asked Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. to review Justice Department guidelines for going after reporters or their ...
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EU Approves Lufthansa-United-Air Canada Venture
United Airlines and Air Canada after the carriers agreed to give up landing and take-off slots at Frankfurt and New York.The European Commission, the EU's executive, said the airlines, which are key members of the Star Alliance, will also strike agreements with competitors on ticketing and improved access to connecting flights.The commission was concerned the revenue-sharing venture, would ...
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Video Worlds largest lego model put on display in New York
It weighs almost 46,000 pounds and took 32 builders about 17,000 hours to put together."I built pretty big things with Lego, but this is the biggest ever," said Lego master builder Erik Varszegi at an unveiling ceremony."It's a life-size version," he added.The building of the spaceship got underway a year ago in the Czech Republic, and was then later shipped over to ...
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Holder Probes Holder Review Sought Over Records Grab AG Likely OKd
The review ordered by President Obama into the Justice Department's policies on pursuing reporters' records could have Attorney General Eric Holder effectively reviewing his own actions. Under Justice Department guidelines, the attorney general would most likely have had to sign off on the controversial search warrant that allowed federal authorities to seize the private emails ...
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Worst Tech Flops of All Time
There are gadgets that change everything (the iPhone, Bose's noise-canceling headphones), and then there are devices that are so spectacularly bad that they should be immortalized in their own way. To make our list of all-time gadget flops, the product had to do more than fail to execute. It had to have serious hype behind it--enough to help make that crash and burn all the more ...
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Obama Issues Prayer for Peace Memorial Day Proclamation
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 24, 2013 President Barack Obama today proclaimed Memorial Day, May 27, 2013, "as a day of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each locality at 11:00 a.m. of that day as a time to unite in prayer. I also ask all Americans to observe the National Moment of Remembrance beginning at 3:00 p.m. local time on Memorial ...
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Atlantic Canada should prep for active hurricane season officials
HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre is backing U.S. predictions of an active season this year, telling residents in the Atlantic provinces they should prepare. The Canadian centre says an unusually warm tropical Atlantic Ocean is one of the factors behind the forecast of an active hurricane season, which continues a 15-year period of high hurricane activity. The National Oceanic and ...
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Obama addresses sex assault in Naval Academy speech
In his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy, President Obama touched upon the growing military sexual assault cases, telling graduates, "We have to be determined to stop these crimes. They've got no place in the greatest military on ...
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Obama Free press is essential to our democracy
i don't think it affects it at all. the thing that this might affect -- i don't think this is going to affect how anyone does business as far as reported iing, i think this is our ...
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Obama indicates beginning of end of war on terror
Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's announcement of a sea change in U.S. counterterrorism strategy and the suggestion that we are at the beginning of the end of the war on ...
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Canada ranks 3rd last in paid vacations
Canada ranks third last in guaranteed paid vacations, even with statutory holiday included. In Spain, workers enjoy 34 days, putting it in a tie for second place with Germany. (Jon ...
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Canadian forecasters warn of active hurricane season
High winds from Hurricane Igor topple trees in St. John's in 2010. The Canadian Hurricane Centre said Friday that regardless of the number of hurricanes forecast for 2013, expected to be an "active" season, it responds to four or five tropical cyclone events each year. (Paul Daly/Canadian ...
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New clues about location of Ontario hiker missing in Australia
Rescuers searching for a missing Brampton, Ont., man in the mountains of southeastern Australia have clues he may have taken a different route than originally thought. ...
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Supreme Court of Canada OK with judge who copied ruling from plaintiff’s written submissions
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a British Columbia judge who copied most of his ruling in a medical negligence case from the written submissions of the plaintiff. In a unanimous decision, the justices overturned a B.C. Court of Appeal ruling that ordered a new trial in the case. They also upheld the $4 million in damages awarded to a boy and his mother after he was born brain ...
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IHT Rendezvous America’s Profligate Ways With Water
the hammered High Plains Aquifer . The scale and circumstances are vastly different, but nothing focuses the mind on water like the fear of it running out. Nomadic peoples figured this out long ago. But in much of the world, industrial excess, lax control and blind greed foreshadow serial calamity ahead. As water grows scarce, special interests hurry to get it while they can. Anyone who ...
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Holder probing Holder Obama orders DOJ review over search warrant AG likely approved
The review ordered by President Obama into the Justice Department's policies on pursuing reporters' records could have Attorney General Eric Holder effectively reviewing his own actions. Under Justice Department guidelines, the attorney general would most likely have had to sign off on the controversial search warrant that allowed federal authorities to seize the private emails ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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