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Newshoggers.com: Pakistan Faces Bankruptcy, Wants $100bn Handout
Oct 6, 8:16pm    (1 review)  economy, shame, bigdicduybyas  http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2008/10/...
From the page: "Pakistan Faces Bankruptcy, Wants $100bn Hando The UK's Daily Telegraph reports that Pakistan may be the first nation to go bankrupt as a result of the continuing global financial meltdown. " here we go.....
Rice Admits She Led High-Level White House Talks About Torture
Oct 6, 7:32pm    (1 review)  shame, bigdicdubya  http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/347...
From the page: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted for the first time that she led high-level discussions beginning in 2002 with other senior Bush administration officials about subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists detained at military prisons to the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding, "
Europe has to side with Russia and break away from the USA!
Oct 1, 9:11am    (2 reviews)  politics, shame  http://www.nowpublic.com/world/europe-ha...
not only the economy, but 'Merica's reputation has tanked
Americans Think Iraq Is Improving But in Its Best Hospitals, Not Even...
Sep 28, 7:26pm    (1 review)  iraq, shame  http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/100403...
From the page: "One of the ten elevators still does, and the priority for this is patients who have lost their legs -- and there are many of them. "
The VA Continues to Abandon Returning Vets | War on Iraq | AlterNet
Sep 4, 12:46am    (1 review)  politics, shame, vets  http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/97284/...
SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME The VA Continues to Abandon Returning Vets By Joshua Kors, The Nation. Posted September 4, 2008. "Supporting the troops" only applies until they actually come home from war.
Re: My boss at KBR: "The military is none of our f---ing concern." - Progressive...
Aug 10, 3:46pm    (1 review)  health, iraq, shame, troops  http://www.progressivefuture.org/blog/my...
Ben Carter is a water safety expert and a caring family man. Passionate about his work, Carter went to Iraq to support the troops and reconstruction efforts. Yet soon after he arrived in Iraq he found KBR/Halliburton cutting essential corners...
Court Agrees to Release of Most Rosenberg Grand Jury Materials
Jul 30, 12:28am    (1 review)  history, shame  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/200807...
Washington D.C., July 22, 2008 - After hearing arguments today, a federal court in New York decided that the government must release most of the sealed grand jury records from the 1951 indictment of alleged Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
http://www.mi-aan.org/rescues/images/rabbits.jpg
Jul 30, 12:09am  bizarre, shame  http://www.mi-aan.org/rescues/images/rab...
The Iraq Page - Article Directory
Jul 11, 10:16pm    (1 review)  blogs, shame  http://iraq.pigstye.net/directory.php/mi...
From the page: "The Fallen of Operation Iraqi Freedom At least 4446 Coalition forces have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. 4129 from US , 177 from UK , 32 from Italy , 23 from Poland , 18 from Ukraine , 13 from Bulgaria , 11 from Spain , 7 from Denmark , 5 from El Salvador , 5 from Georgia , 4 from Slovakia , 3 from Romania , 3 from Latvia , 2 from Thailand , 2 from Australia , 2 from Estonia , 2 from Netherlands , 1 from Kazakhistan , 1 from Azerbaijan , 1 from USA , 1 from Fiji , 1 from Canada , 1 from South Korea , 1 from Czech Republic , 1 from Hungary"
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/touched_echo.jpg
Jul 10, 4:15pm    (1 review)  history, war, shame, obscene  http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/upload...
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/07/10/tou... . Using bone conduction technology (or what they call `Touched Echo') the sounds of airplanes and explosions simulating the air raid that occurred on February 13, 1945 are transmitted from the metal rail through the visitor's arms and directly into the inner ear... Sounds of screaming bombing victims might do WONDERs for getting folks to give up, oh,3 minutes a day; to ponder the hell of  life in a combat zone. For us? Only an assault on the senses..