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* "India's 2nd Deadliest Heat Wave in History Ends as the Monsoon Arrives:" http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3011Read more... ) -
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* "Rep. Has Cordial Chat About Whether Obama 'Should Be Executed' (VIDEO):" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/congressman-cordial-chat-execute-obamaRead more... ) -
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* Best of luck to the people of Maldives on the occasion of their much delayed election ( Read more... ) -
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* For workers in Bangladesh to get reasonable safety standards, it would cost 10 cents per garment. The lives of all those human beings is not worth even ten cents to Walmart or the Gap, who are also refusing to compensate the families of those who died making their clothes. After all, the Walmart family are some of the richest people in the ( Read more... ) -
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* More than 1100 are officially dead in the Bangladeshi factory collapse. The woman found alive after seventeen days appears to be recovering. They are close to the bottom of the wreckage.
* Dixiecrats, Bleeding Kansas, and the modern Republican argument for Nullification:
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* When disasters happen, whether man made like this one or natural like an earthquake, I really only watch enough to find out what's going on. I will check back periodically, with an eye to things like updated information and what people should do if they want to help. I refuse to want the same horrible footage on loop and watch the talking heads ( Read more... ) -
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* The Syrian Opposition says they have shot down a war plane.
* On Paul Ryan's belief that sperm and eggs have rights, but adult women not so much: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#48654635
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* The Arab League Foreign Ministers are calling on Assad to go and talking with Opposition leaders about how best to transition. Opposition footage seems to contradict some of the government's claims of how things are going. The government is using helicopter gunships and tanks to level civilian neighborhoods in Damascus. Assad claims they will ( Read more... )