Nearly 2,700 Lightning Bolts Strike Washington State and Oregon In Two Days

And start 212 fires.

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Bomb-laden 'Reaper' drones bound for Iraq

The Reaper is loaded w/ one and a half tons of bombs, able to fly at 300mph and outfitted with state of the art targeting, but there is no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a console 7,000 miles away in Nevada. The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones is aviation history's first robot attack squadron

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Marine says officers ordered to 'crank up' violence in Iraq

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level."a procedure called "dead-checking" was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure

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Marine: Beating of Iraqis became routine

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level." He said Marines consider all Iraqi men part of the insurgency.

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Bush admits administration leaked CIA name

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has "run its course."

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Bush on Health Care: It's All Your Fault

Bush spoke in Ohio today and blames YOU for lawsuits on doctors, not choosing the correct health plan, being in poor health…it goes on and on. His new talking point is the “Federalization of health care.” The medical industry is freaking since Moore’s movie just came out. They need you dumbed down and Bush tries to do that for them.

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Most Prescribed Drug in U.S.: Antidepressants

"Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives."

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Real 9/11 Heroes Expose How Giuliani Short-Changed and Endangered the City

New York City firefighters are out to set the record straight on Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 legacy. More accurately, they are campaigning to expose how Giuliani short-changed and endangered the city's 11,000 firefighters over the course of two terms, and then went on to exploit their heroism during and after the 9/11 attacks for his own advantage.

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BANNED President Bush Interview

This is a video of an Irish TV interview with President Bush. This interview was not shown on American television.

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Colin Powell: "I tried to avoid this war"

Colin Powell discusses the 2 1/2 hours he spent trying to convince George Bush not to invade Iraq.

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FTC Abandons Net Neutrality

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to abandon net neutrality and allow telecoms companies to charge websites for access.

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ALL presidential candidates are taking money from the Medical lobby

Michael Moore's SiCKO site has a list of who's taking how much from whom, and noone is immune. (Source: Center for Responsive Politics)

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BREAKING!: Statement by President Bush on Commuting Scooter Libby Sentence

You've gotta read this one. Straight from Whitehouse.gov

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The Military-Industrial Complex are extortionists

Like the mafia, the military-industrial complex runs an extortion racket, with the entire nation as the target. It works like this: pursue policies that antagonize foreign populations and causes them to threaten/attack America and its interests, which necessitates higher spending for the military industrial complex to protect America.

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Marijuana will be legal in New Mexico starting Sunday

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

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First artificial life 'within months'

Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacteria into another.

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White House may force Congress to charge president w/ criminal charges

Bush Administration may face impeachment if Executive Privilege is used to block subpoenas

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Faced with losing funds, Cheney now admits he's part of exec branch

Cheney folds on one of the lamest arguments of all time after a threat to try to cut off his office’s $4.8 million in executive-branch funds.

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Michael Moore Calls For New 9/11 Investigation

Answering questions after a preview of his new documentary "SiCK0", Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore discusses 9/11 eyewitness testimony of explosions, suppressed video footage from the Pentagon and the unlikelihood of a plane striking a five story building at 500mph with ultra precision.



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9/11 widows demand release of secret CIA report

In a statement obtained by RAW STORY, September 11th Advocates Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg, and Lorie Van Auken write, "Almost six years have passed since the attacks of September 11, 2001, yet critical information continues to be withheld from the American public regarding the attacks."



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