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By GABRIEL GABIRO
Associated Press Writer
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will investigate claims that the CIA secretly used an airport on the Nordic country’s remote Arctic territory of Greenland to transport prisoners in the U.S. war on terror, the prime minister said Thursday.

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A new report by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves finds that the “U.S. military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job.” More than 88 percent of Army National Guard units are combat-ready today.

throw some money in the hat here for Orcinus!

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John Aravosis (DC)
Because what we need surrounding 9/11 is more reason to believe there was a conspiracy. Seriously, the Commission has already done a lot to undermine its credibility - including Kean being involved with that awful rewriting of 9/11 history from ABC, and Hamilton refusing to say boo about it - to the weird [...]

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from Think Progress by Faiz
Last night, CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview with FBI agent George Piro, the man who was charged with interrogating Saddam Hussein over the course of seven months. Piro reported that he asked Saddam whether he had any relationship to Osama bin Laden. Saddam responded by saying he was “wary” of [...]

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January 25, 2008
A CounterPunch Special Investigation
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE
The DEA and its predecessor federal drug law enforcement organizations have always been infiltrated and, to varying degrees, managed by America’s intelligence agencies. [...]

http://www.narconews.com/…
Drug War Beginning to Look Like One Giant Cover Story
By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
January 29, 2008
On a fall evening in a cotton field in Nicaragua, a group of armed men placed a series of torches in a line of planters along a makeshift runway.

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by: Jim Spencer
Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:00 AM MST
When he didn’t answer or provided an answer they didn’t like, at first [name blacked out] would slap Mowhoush, and then after a few slaps, it turned into punches. And then from punches, it turned into [name blacked out] using a piece of hose.

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Cuba’s Castro Criticizes ‘Demagoguery, Lies’ of Bush’s State of the Union
WILL WEISSERT
AP News
Jan 30, 2008 10:27 EST
Fidel Castro called President Bush’s State of the Union address a new low point in “demagoguery, lies and total lack of ethics” in a commentary published Wednesday.

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Chris in Paris
Yum, is that Roundup that I’m tasting?
Government promises to rid the nation’s food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren’t doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children.
The peer-reviewed study found that the urine and saliva of children eating a variety [...]