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- Atlanta Is Running Out of Water - OhmyNews International
  Posted by Villagenyc from OhMyNews
  Atlanta grew faster than kudzu as investors helped attract residents to the area's low cost of living and warm climate. But the arms of expansion extended well beyond the glass towers of downtown, sprawling out some 60 miles in either direction, presenting infrastructural challenges common to uncontrolled growth. Still, construction and bigger highways kept Atlanta's economic engine churning. That is, until a once in a lifetime drought threatened the region's most precious natural resource
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- Details emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
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  New reports underscore the extraordinary scope of a law passed earlier this month expanding government powers to spy on the population in the US and internationally.
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- Growing Up American: Words From Generation X
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  I grew up in a family who I always considered to walk the fine line between conservative and liberal. Before I was born, my father was in the Navy, stationed on a ship during the early days of the Vietnam War. My maternal gr-grandfather was in the Civil War. My paternal uncle was in the Army. My paternal cousin was in the Navy and is now in the Army, as an MP doing his tour of duty in Iraq...
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- Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality
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  April was a not a good month for the Republican Party. Two Congressional Republicans were forced to step down from their seats on powerful House committees amidst separate corruption and influence-peddling investigations—and may eventually lose their seats in Congress or go to jail—while the head of the US Agency for International Development, Randall Tobias, resigned from his post Monday after he was named as a client of a Washington DC call girl service.
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- The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia
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  The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”
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- The Virginia Tech massacre-- social roots of another American tragedy
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  A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s.
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- Shock Troops and Demonstrators Clash Over Bush Visit
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  The confrontation between protesters and shock troops on Avenida Paulista, at the center of São Paulo, has already left at least 23 people injured. The protest against the United States President, George W. Bush, and his visit to Brazil brought together at least six thousand people this Thursday afternoon (Mar. 8) and closed part of the avenue.
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JXC comments on:
United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians
If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?
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11:34 am 5/28/08
Jwgardner comments on:
Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

Meanwhile, Hillary’s camp praises Fox for the most ‘balanced’ news coverage, and for a ton of supposedly-democratic Hillaryites, no alarm bells are sounded. This whole cycle has gone right out of hand with the absurd disconnections from reality and unnecessarily puffed up emotions.

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6:55 pm 4/04/08
Jeff comments on:
Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

I will say I was disgusted to see Ferraro on Fox News again today. No intelligent politician – nor any democrat should spend a second on that set.

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4:30 pm 4/03/08
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

this sucks

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8:12 am 3/15/08
theangryindian comments on:
Campus shooters used same gun dealer - UPI.com

While I am not a supposed “liberal”, (whatever that is implied to mean these days, seems more like invective in today’s modern parlance) questioning the bravery or willingness to fight and kill perfect strangers over an theological or political ideology is not necessary to this discussion nor warranted. The U.S. has a traditionally violent gun culture with many advocates suggesting that to not want a gun in the hands of anyone, (well actually, that varies depending on who you may speak to. Many pro-gun folks I’ve personally encountered are also affiliated with historically aggressive White power organisations) is akin to cowardice. And to imply that the bravery you speak of is responsible for the United States, you’ve just proved by point. Very few but the most indoctrinated Aboriginal Americans and American Africans would call the groundwork applied to build the U.S. anything other than what it was and is, genocide. To deny this reality would be like denying Andrew Jackson ever held office. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Iraq, Iran, Columbia, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and the Filipinos who still struggle to expose American atrocities during the Philippine-American War of domination. The national myth may support your views, but factual colonialist American history documents a very different paradigm.

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12:34 pm 2/19/08
okami comments on:
Fidel Castro retires

it’s quite possible. . .after all, we’ve been doing it to most of Central America since 1900. . .

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3:34 am 2/19/08
theangryindian comments on:
Fidel Castro retires

The end of an era. Expect Cuba to be assaulted by the U.S. until they bend to its will.

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3:17 am 2/19/08

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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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Villagenyc
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East Village via Bama.
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JXC
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theangryindian
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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