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April 2008
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The End of Network News as We Know It?
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| By Brian Steinberg | AdAge.com | Apr. 28, 2008
The big three TV network newscasts lost about 1.2 million viewers last year, and advertising on their three big morning news shows fell to an estimated $1.03 billion. The average viewer is 60 years old, and the demographic marketers most want to reach is more likely to be facing a computer screen than a TV screen when the evening news comes on. Read
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Why Is Gary Hart So Fearful Of Discussing His “New World Order”?
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| By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Apr. 30, 2008
Former Senator Gary Hart seems to be having difficulties remembering his last lie because he fouled up again in his latest confrontation with We Are Change by reversing his assertion that he never used the term "new world order," contradicting his previous falsehood, but still seemed fearful of discussing exactly what the term meant. Read
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Tuesday: 82 Iraqis Killed, 136 Wounded
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| AntiWar.com | Apr. 29, 2008
As heavy street fighting continues in Sadr City, Kirkuk suffered a spate of roadside bombings. Also, female suicide bombers staged attacks in Diyala province. At least 82 Iraqis were killed and another 136 were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Read
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MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects
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| By Ian Cobain | The Guardian | Apr. 29, 2008
British agents alleged to have questioned men at Pakistani interrogation centre after they had been brutally mistreated. Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects. Read
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Iraq Rebuild a Money Pit
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| AP & Reuters | April 28, 2008
Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the US government as complete, investigators say. Read
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Credit card rates hustle higher
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| By Kathy Chu | USA TODAY | Apr. 28, 2008
Even as the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates, financial institutions have sharply raised rates for credit card customers — even those who pay on time — as they grapple with losses from other bad consumer loans. Read
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'911' COPS ON WALL OF FAME
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| By MurrayWeiss and Chuck Bennett | NY Post | Apr. 28, 2008
Eight city cops who succumbed to 9/11 dust-related illnesses will be memorialized on the NYPD's "Wall of Heroes" for officers killed in the line of duty - a poignant nod to their kin, who spent years battling City Hall over how the deaths should be classified. Read
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Police State Party!
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| Gawker | Apr. 25, 2008
"It's a first for mass transit in the United States. NYPD officers, armed with rifles, submachine guns, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs will begin patrolling the city's subway system thanks to a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant." Well, good thing we're putting that to good use! Turning an already problematic police force into a paramilitary organization? Read
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Poll results: SPP plans are 'treason'
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| WorldNetDaily.com | Apr. 25, 2008
97 percent oppose North American Community without congressional approval. A new poll by the American Policy Center has revealed that the lack of widespread opposition to the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, announced in 2005 by President Bush and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada, is because more than half of the American residents polled hadn't heard of it. Read
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Wednesday: 2 US Soldiers, 1 US Contractor, 59 Iraqis Killed; 114 Iraqis Wounded
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| By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Apr. 23, 2008
At least 59 Iraqis were killed and 114 more were wounded in the latest violence, much of it involving continued fighting between the Mahdi army and Iraqi security forces. Exact figures are difficult to obtain due to the nature of the clashes. One American soldier was killed during combat operations in Baghdad, while the DOD reported the death of a U.S. soldier from non-combat injuries. The remains of an American contractor who was kidnapped in 2006 were positively identified. Also, a former Iraqi Vice President under Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has possibly been captured. Read
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Spy Case Poses Questions on Size of Israeli Ring
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| Associated Press | April 24, 2008
New Espionage Case Raises Questions About Americans Passing Secrets to Israel. The case of an 84-year-old New Jersey man charged with passing secrets to an Israeli agent a quarter-century ago has created speculation that more Americans may have been serving Israeli intelligence than previously thought. Read
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BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus
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| By Ernesto | TorrentFreak.com | April 21, 2008
Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs. Early findings show that customers from quite a few other Internet service providers experience an unusually high amount of TCP-resets. Read
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