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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x495849... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/26 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:10:18 Source: [b]McClatchy Newspapers @ Yahoo News[/b]

Taliban -led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/24 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:59:12 Source: [b]Bloomberg[/b]

U.S. stocks erased most of a 156- point rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a House bill to curb credit-card rates spurred concern about bank earnings, outweighing the Federal Reserve’s plan to keep interest rates at a record low.

Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/25 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:30:14 Source: [b]CNN MONEY[/b]

[strong] If a proposed 21% cut in payment rates goes through in 2010, it could spark a physician boycott against new enrollees [/strong]


Medicare has become a scary word to the doctors at the largest private group practice in Kansas City, Mo.

It's so scary that most... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/23 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:45 Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting "trick or treat," their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same.

On Monday, the activist artist group The Yes Men staged anot... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/22 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:15:22 You all know the theme to "The Addams Family." Sing it with me now: "They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky . . . "

OK, quick trivia question for you. What group sang that legendary finger-snapping theme song? I once asked that question of seven TV critics, and none of them knew.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/21 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:25:14 The Swedes, those latter-day descendants of bloodthirsty Vikings, have found a new use for rabbits: heating fuel. According to Der Spiegel, stray rabbits in Stockholm are being shot, frozen and then shipped to a heating plant to be incinerated.

In the Swedes' defense, the bunnies are a menace; a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/20 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:20:31 By declaring war on Baucus bill, AHIP will unleash Democrats (earlier held back by the White House) who want stronger measures like premium caps -- and it will stiffen spine of those demanding a public option.

Bottom line: The chances that some kind of public option will make it into the final bi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/19 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:07:57 New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue some Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their sources in national security cases.

Some supporters are ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/18 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:15:13 If you're under 65, chances are you don't know a lot about a program known as Medicare Advantage. But you will be hearing a lot more about it soon. It has become a major front in the growing war that the insurance industry is waging on the Obama Administration's health reform effort. On Tuesday, the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/17 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:44 In some ways, it's reminiscent of the 1980s, when competing black Democrats, some who couldn't stand one another, got in elbowing matches to stand closest to black presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.

Now U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has signed an anti-tax pledge at the state level. She says ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/16 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:41:25 President Obama will again huddle with his national-security team on Wednesday to decide how many more troops — if any — to send to Afghanistan. But making the decision will be the easy part, the real challenge will be getting those extra boots onto the ground. If he ends up embracing Army General S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/15 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:59:53 U.S. officials must figure out what to do about an economy that is growing yet not generating enough jobs before they can shift their focus to dismantling their multi-trillion-dollar rescue programs.

Two deadlines are looming.

The first is the $12.1 trillion federal debt limit, which will soon... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/14 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:53:37 The next move in the Senate is up to Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose office said the full Senate would begin debate on the issue the week of Oct. 26.

Nominally, Reid must first blend the bill that cleared during the day with a version that passed earlier in the Health, Education, Labor and Pens... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/13 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:51:02 UK - A grandfather who beat cancer was wrongly told the disease had returned and left to die at a hospice which pioneered a controversial 'death pathway'. Doctors said there was nothing more they could do for 76-year-old Jack Jones, and his family claim he was denied food, water and medication excep... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/12 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:28:08 During the go-go years of the real estate bubble, shady mortgage brokers [3] thrived, thanks to the sluggish response of regulators and law enforcement agencies. Amid the ruins of the crash, there's a new boom attracting unscrupulous mortgage professionals: "Foreclosure rescue" companies promising —... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/11 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:52:23 The 10th Mountain Division has been to Afghanistan four times since 2001 and twice to Iraq. It is common to meet senior NCOs and captains with three combat tours behind them, an experience unmatched by any generation of US soldiers since Vietnam.

But that experience comes at a cost. British sold... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/10 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:15:25 Source: [b]Times Online[/b]

American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.

Many feel that they are risking their lives — and that collea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/9 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:35:40 The head of Britain's biggest bank has warned we could soon be heading into a second recession.

Michael Geoghegan of HSBC said he had delayed expansion plans because he fears the upturn could be short lived.

The chief executive said the economy could follow a W-shaped trajectory, with the re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/8 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:43:50 The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal's comments on strategy for the war.

According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential adviser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/7 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:03:34 [i][font face="Times New Roman"]

When one reads news like this item, it adds to the realization that the whole system has become corrupt to the core - what can we as ordinary citizens do to clean up this system? [/font][/i]


The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modificati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/5 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:19:55 Over the next few weeks, Barack Obama must make the most difficult decision of his presidency to date: whether or not to send up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as his commanding general there, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has reportedly proposed.

This summer, Mr. Obama described the effort ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/4 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:08:57 Source: [b]TIME[/b]

There are four main prescriptions for a more realistic strategy in Afghanistan. First, stop trying to do the impossible, i.e., build an effective government in Kabul and enlarge Afghan security forces. Corruption, inefficiency and addiction are endemic to Afghan society. We shou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/3 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:19:01 Source: [b]The Independent On Sunday[/b]

[strong] Rotting carcasses testify to the scale of the disaster looming in East Africa [/strong]

On the plains of Marsabit the heat is so intense the bush seems to shiver. The leafless scrub, bleached white by the sun, looks like a forest of fake Christma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/2 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:33:55 Akio Toyoda, the 53-year-old grandson of the company's founder, warned Friday that Toyota is one step away from "capitulation to irrelevance or death."

In a speech to journalists that cited the book How the Mighty Fall by Colorado-based management guru Jim Collins, Mr. Toyoda said the company has... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/progressiveGI/1 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:15:19