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- Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change - NYTimes.com
  Posted by Damianmann from New York Times
  THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he - and we - must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis.
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- McCain misses Medicare vote
  Posted by Damianmann from Arizona Central
  Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.
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- Crumbling dollar resonates through economy - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com
  Posted by Damianmann from MSNBC
  Things in the U.S. sure are tough. Brother, can you spare a euro? Signs saying "We accept euros" are cropping up in the windows of some Manhattan retailers. A Belgium company is trying to gobble up St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest brewer and iconic Super Bowl advertiser.
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- Hillary Prods Bush to Go After Iran
  Posted by Damianmann from Consortiumnews
  Hillary Clinton and 75 other senators apparently feel that George W. Bush hasn't been belligerent enough toward Iran. They want him to hurry up and label a large part of Iran's army an international "terrorist" entity for allegedly supplying Iraqi insurgents with bombs that have killed American troops.
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- Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical Research
  Posted by Damianmann from Global Issues
  [M]any people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases.… Malaria, tuberculosis, acute lower-respiratory infections—in 1998, these claimed 6.1 million lives. People died because the drugs to treat those illnesses are nonexistent or are no longer effective. They died because....
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- Global Warming and Population
  Posted by Damianmann from Global Issues
  It seems there has been a recent interest in associating climate change/global warming with “over population” and that countries such as China and India have to do more to help contain global warming.
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Danielus comments on:
Hillary Prods Bush to Go After Iran

yeah, I agree with Urbanmad.

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9:17 pm 9/30/07
Urbanmad comments on:
Hillary Prods Bush to Go After Iran

so all the arms the USA is supplying to Israel is fine but if someone supplies arms to the the Shiites then it’s not. I’ve been saying all along that democrats will keep up the wars…

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3:19 pm 9/28/07