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*** Military Propaganda Pushed Me off TV
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:26

In the fall of 2002, week after week in debates televised on MSNBC, I 
argued vigorously against invading Iraq. I used every possible argument 
that might sway mainstream viewers - no real threat, cost, instability. 
But as the war neared, my debates were terminated.

There was no room for me after MSNBC launched "Countdown: Iraq" - a 
daily one-hour show that seemed more keen on glamorizing a potential war 
than scrutinizing or debating it. "Countdown: Iraq" featured retired 
colonels and generals, sometimes resembling boys with war toys as they 
used props, maps and glitzy graphics to spin invasion scenarios. They 
reminded me of pumped-up ex-football players doing pre-game analysis and 
diagramming plays. It was excruciating to be sidelined at MSNBC, 
watching so many non-debates in which myth and misinformation were 
served up unchallenged.

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White House undermines EPA on cancer risks, GAO says
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:11

The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection 
Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by 
letting nonscientists have a bigger - often secret - role, congressional 
investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

The administration's decision to give the Defense Department and other 
agencies an early role in the process adds to years of delay in acting 
on harmful chemicals and jeopardizes the program's credibility, the 
Government Accountability Office concluded.

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Behind the Run on Rice
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:08

Instead, what's driving the price of rice so high are widespread worries 
about food inflation in many rice-growing nations. "In poorer nations, a 
large share of people's earnings is spent on food, and big price 
increases in other kinds of food are harming consumers," Childs says. So 
to protect their supplies of rice—a staple food in much of the 
world—several countries have imposed export bans or sharp limits. That 
has led to a sharp reduction of rice available for trade in the global 
market. In 2007, India and Vietnam, two of the world's biggest rice 
exporters, reduced their rice shipments. Since then, Cambodia, Egypt, 
and Brazil have all halted rice exports. And many observers worry that 
Thailand, the world's largest rice exporter, might jump on the bandwagon.

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Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Push by Pentagon on Detainees
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:52

GUANT$(D??(BNAMO BAY, Cuba — The former chief prosecutor here took the witness 
stand on Monday on behalf of a detainee and testified that top Pentagon 
officials had pressured him in deciding which cases to prosecute and 
what evidence to use.

The prosecutor, Col. Morris D. Davis of the Air Force, testified that 
Pentagon officials had interfered with his work for political reasons 
and told him that charges against well-known detainees $B!H(Bcould have real 
strategic political value$B!I(B and that there could be no acquittals.

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Rise in health coverage charted
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:42

When couples divorce, Daly said, parents are required to provide 
"reasonable" medical coverage for dependent children.

Current regulations don't define "reasonable," Daly said, and for some 
individuals, paying for coverage sometimes means they can't pay rent, 
child care or other bills.

"Even if a person is paying 65 percent of their income, that's still 
considered reasonable," he said.

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Officials: 8 killed, 67 wounded in Baghdad's Sadr City
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:41
BAGHDAD (AP) - A senior government official was assassinated in Baghdad 
on Tuesday as clashes between Shiite militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces 
in the capital's Sadr City district left eight other people dead, 
officials said.

The violence in the embattled area appeared to be a continuation of 
heavy fighting over the weekend in which about 45 militants and four 
U.S. soldiers have died.

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GM to cut 1 shift each from 4 truck factories, lay off 3,500
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:21

General Motors Corp. said Monday it plans to cut one shift at four North 
American factories that make pickup trucks and big sport utility 
vehicles, laying off about 3,500 workers.

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Conservatives Increasingly Tuned Out Everything Except Fox News Between 
1998-2006
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:15

Hollander also notes that conservatives $B!H(Bdramatically dropped news 
sources that they perceive as being biased against their position.$B!I(B 
Evidently, this included C-SPAN, which also saw a dramatic drop in 
conservative viewers.

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Former workers accuse employees of improper activity, including the 
stealing of weapons, artwork and gold
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:10

KBR employees working in Iraq stole weapons, artwork and even gold to 
make spurs for cowboy boots, two former company workers told Senate 
Democrats on Monday.

Warren said the supervisor reminded her she had signed a confidentiality 
agreement and then threatened her by suggesting an American woman 
"wouldn't last very long on the streets of Baghdad."

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