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Mission to Mars

23 hours ago ago from ghostworld

Mission to Mars (2000) IMDB rating: 5.00 Plot: Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find Lke surprisingly alive, and he has spent the time alone ...

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PRESIDENT OBAMA NAMING HISPANICS TO TOP POSTS AT RECORD PACE

10 hours ago ago from BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

by  LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | 12/21/09 04:22 PM |     MIAMI — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians. That won't necessarily give the president a free pass on issues such as immigration, ...

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Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace

12 hours ago ago from Stealth Fusion - World Breaking News

Obama naming Hispanics to top posts at record pace - Yahoo! News Quote: MIAMI Â President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide range of the nation's Latino communities, including Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Colombians. That won't necessarily give the president a free pass on issues such as immigration, but it may ease ...

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World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars

22 hours ago ago from Stop NATO

Stop NATO December 21, 2009 World's Sole Military Superpower's 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars Rick Rozoff - With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government military spending with a population that is only 4 percent of that of the earth's. A 10-1 disparity. In addition to its 1,445,000 active duty ...

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Army general in Iraq issues pregnancy ban

22 hours ago ago from counter-recruitment

[2 articles] Women Soldiers Forced to Resort to Back-Alley Abortions: Why Are Their Reproductive Rights Denied? http://www.alternet.org/story/144696/women_soldiers_forced_to_resort_to_back-alley_abortions%3A_why_are_their_reproductive_rights_denied By Kathryn Joyce December 21, 2009. Thanks to anti-abortion forces in Congress and other culture warriors, female soldiers are not protected by the Constitution they defend. -- ...

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Marjorie Cohn: Obama's Af-Pak War Should be Considered Illegal

17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His choice to escalate the war may not have been what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war. In 1945, in the wake of two wars that claimed millions of lives, the countries around the world created the United Nations, a system to "save succeeding generations from the ...

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Lawrence Wittner: Afghanistan: In War, Winners can be Losers

13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Thus far, both supports and opponents of President Obama's decision to escalate the U.S. war in Afghanistan have focused on whether it is possible to secure a military victory in the conflict; however, it is important to consider the fact that in war, even a winner can be a loser. The most obvious way in which military success can turn into defeat is by imposing vast human and material costs on the victor. Britain, for example, was ...

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