U.S. Group at NewsCloud.com http://www.newscloud.com/groups/U.S. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:01:15 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Dead Black Man Was Tasered Nine Times by White Cop http://www.newscloud.com/read/Dead_Black_Man_Was_Tasered_Nine_Times_by_White_Cop A 21 year old black man in Winnfield, Louisiana, named Baron "Scooter" Pikes, was tasered 9 times in 14 minutes by a white police officer in January after he was arrested and handcuffed. He died. Seems a tad excessive to me. However, here's the story of his arrest and subsequent death according to the police report by the arresting officers:

]]> Israel reneges on settlement pledge | World news | guardian.co.uk http://www.newscloud.com/read/Israel_reneges_on_settlement_pledge_World_news_guardiancouk An Israeli ministerial committee has approved construction of new homes in a West Bank settlement despite a pledge to the US to stop building on the site, Israeli media reported today.

]]> Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_Key_Benazir_Bhutto_assassination_witness_shot_dead Khalid Shahenshah, who was the former Pakistan prime minister's security chief at the time of her assassination, was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.

]]> Alabama Blueberry U-Pickin http://www.newscloud.com/read/Alabama_Blueberry_UPickin J.T., his wife Shirley and their daughter all toiled together to plant the first hundred or so bushes. There are now 900 bushes directly beside his house and more than 650 across the road.

Link to "Shelby County Reporter"

]]> Deadly Jerusalem bulldozer attack http://www.newscloud.com/read/Deadly_Jerusalem_bulldozer_attack A Palestinian man has driven a bulldozer into a bus and several cars in Jerusalem, killing three people, before being shot dead.

]]> German Toymaker Launches Barack Obama Doll http://www.newscloud.com/read/German_Toymaker_Launches_Barack_Obama_Doll Notice anything? According to the Spiegel Online International, in an article titled "Change You Can't Quite Believe In: German Toymaker Launches Barack Obama Doll:"

]]> It was oil all along http://www.newscloud.com/read/It_was_oil_all_along Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction.

]]> Easing of laws that led to detainee abuse hatched in secret http://www.newscloud.com/read/Easing_of_laws_that_led_to_detainee_abuse_hatched_in_secret WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.

]]> Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Kucinich Reads Impeachment Articles Against Bush on House Floor http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_Kucinich_Reads_Impeachment_Articles_Against_Bush_on_House_Floor For a good part of this evening, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio 10th District) has been live on C-Span reading Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.

]]> Black lawmakers emotional about Obama s success http://www.newscloud.com/read/Black_lawmakers_emotional_about_Obama_s_success Rep. John Lewis D-Ga. was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him. "I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, 'What would Dr. King think?'" the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.

]]> Fox News and bedbugs http://www.newscloud.com/read/Fox_News_and_bedbugs Fox News, Dick Cheney's favourite news source, is being sued by an employee for having bed bugs

]]> Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran http://www.newscloud.com/read/Halliburton_Charged_with_Selling_Nuclear_Technologies_to_Iran According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

]]> Is the Secret Service Investigating Liz Trotta a http://www.newscloud.com/read/Is_the_Secret_Service_Investigating_Liz_Trotta_a FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first 'mistakenly' referred to Obama as 'Osama' while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton's recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone 'knock off Osama.' When she was corrected and reminded that she meant 'Obama,' she then said, 'Well, both if we could.'

]]> Is the Secret Service Investigating Liz Trotta and Fox News? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Is_the_Secret_Service_Investigating_Liz_Trotta_and_Fox_News FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first "mistakenly" referred to Obama as "Osama" while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton's recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone "knock off Osama." When she was corrected and reminded that she meant "Obama," she then said, "Well, both if we could."

]]> Fox News Jokes About Obama Assassination http://www.newscloud.com/read/Fox_News_Jokes_About_Obama_Assassination You can bet that if this same joke were made about Bush, conservative bloggers would be screaming high treason and demanding that the offending individual be publicly executed.

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