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Pablo Ouziel, 12/17/2007
After reviewing the mainstream media reports on the political response to the National Intelligence Estimate, it seems clear to me that the leaders of the 'Axis of Good' are bent on betting all their stakes on Iran.
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Earth Talk, 12/17/2007
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that can be used in a variety of industrial applications due to its strong flexible fibers, its resilience to heat and chemicals, and the fact that it does not conduct electricity.
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Matthew Cardinale, 12/17/2007
Having moved up the demolition dates of three family projects serving mostly poor, Black families, Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) has begun notifying residents of their eviction plans and are deceiving them in the process.
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Granma International, 12/14/2007
Venezuela continues its program to help low-income US families get through the cold winter season. This year’s heating oil donation plan began Wednesday in a poor neighborhood in the US capital.
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Pedro de la Hoz, 12/14/2007
More than 500 artists, writers and scholars from the United States have signed on to a letter to President Bush requesting he put an end to the nearly half-century blockade against Cuba and stop impeding cultural exchange between the two nations.
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Jean-Guy Allard, 12/13/2007
Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina said on December 19 that mafioso networks in Miami linked to drug trafficking also control the trafficking of “undocumented Cubans” carried out from within Mexico with the complicity of criminals in that country.
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Akahata, 12/13/2007
In drafting the next fiscal year’s military budget, the Japanese government is discussing with the U.S. government to what extent Japan will bear the cost of the stationing of U.S. forces in Japan – the so-called “sympathy budget.”
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Prensa Latina, 12/11/2007
As expected, the US on Monday rejected the greenhouse gas emissions goals agreed upon by industrialized nations for negotiations on a new 2012 climate agreement.
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Dave Zirin, 12/11/2007
Chilling. That's the only way to describe Michael Vick's 23 month sentence for admitting he bankrolled the "Bad Newz Kennels" dogfighting operation and helped kill the dogs that couldn't perform.
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Jonathan Springston, 12/10/2007
A bipartisan Georgia House of Representatives study panel released draft legislation November 29, 2007, that, if eventually passed, would require minimum procedures for enhancing witness identification accuracy.
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Thomas Riggins, 12/10/2007
There are the people's interests and there are the interests of the military industrial complex [MIC] and those who benefit from US imperialism or think they do.
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Jonathan Springston, 12/06/2007
The Atlanta City Council voted to first amend and then send back to committee a resolution that would have created a Task Force to study the effects of the Atlanta Housing Authority’s (AHA) Quality of Life Initiative on public housing residents.
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Mark Gruenberg, 12/06/2007
Following in the footsteps of his unsuccessful nepotistic predecessor, Bush regime Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin plans to push through a giveaway to Big Media on Dec. 18.
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Joe Sims, 12/05/2007
Hillary Clinton is on the defensive again today after the report that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program some years ago: Clinton voted for the Senate resolution castigating the Iranian Guards as a terrorist organization.
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Matthew Cardinale, 12/05/2007
The Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) sent in five demolition applications to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) containing falsified documents.
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Sherwood Ross, 12/04/2007
The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969.
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Sherwood Ross, 12/03/2007
Last November 8, Fox TV’s Bill O’Reilly said in an on-air chat with Fox News analyst Laura Ingraham that the distinguished Miami Herald Latin authority Andres Oppenheimer was “crazy” and “a nut.”
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David Bacon, 12/03/2007
The union negotiating committee for security guards in San Francisco buildings goes to City Hall, where they and Mayor Gavin Newsom announce that they've agreed to a new union contract with security companies.
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Matthew Cardinale, 12/02/2007
On Thursday, November 27, 2007, the Community Development and Human Resources Committee (CDHR) of the City Council of Atlanta approved a resolution to create a Housing Relocation Task Force.
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W.T. Whitney Jr, 11/30/2007
Over 200 friends of Cuba from throughout North America gathered here, Nov. 9-11, to hear legal updates, retool strategies and rededicate themselves to the liberation of five Cuban men jailed in the United States.
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