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- Most Influenza Strains Do Not Match Current Vaccine
  Posted by okami from medscape
  As the U.S. flu season soars, the CDC says this year's flu vaccine doesn't match two of the three main types of flu bugs now in circulation.
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- Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare
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  “Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?”
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- RAND | News Release | United States Lacks the Capability to Counter Insurgency in the Muslim World
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  Recognizing that the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be the last of their kind, a new RAND Corporation study issued today finds that U.S. capabilities to meet the threat of Islamist insurgencies are seriously deficient and out of balance.
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- Iran: Certainty Declines in U.S. Intelligence Reports
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  Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the U.S. government regularly stated in a variety of forums that Iran possessed a large undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons (CW) and a substantial production capability. . .
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- Terrorist use of the Internet
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  Lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere should not to try to censor Islamic extremists' use of the Internet, says a new report from a global think tank.
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- More Tests Please
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  No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do
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- American Civil Liberties Union : Supreme Court Refuses To Review Warrantless Wiretapping Case
  Posted by okami from ACLU
  The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to review a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program
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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
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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
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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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Thomas Friedman: Charge It to My Kids

This is one of the best opinion pieces I’ve ever read in the New York Times or anywhere. I’ve never been a huge fan of Friedman but this essay reads like he’s finally come around to common sense…

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10:48 pm 10/16/07

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