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Climate change will impact US national security
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:01

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Climate change will have sweeping consequences for US
national security by 2030 aggravating global poverty and destabilizing
fragile countries, a US intelligence report said Wednesday.

"We judge global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for
US national security interests over the next 20 years," Thomas Fingar,
deputy director of National Intelligence for Analysis, told US lawmakers.

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A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:53

An aircraft-style safety test is to be implemented in all British
hospitals to reduce the risks of surgery, using a simple checklist that
has been proved to save thousands of lives.

Surgeons and nurses will run through the checks before each operation in
the same way that pilots check their aircraft before take-off. In
Michigan, a similar checklist to reduce hospital infections is estimated
to have saved 1,500 lives in the first 18 months.

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Ex-Cabinet Members Press Bush to Ban Torture
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:21

The statement has been endorsed by 204 public and religious officials
from both sides of the aisle, including six former secretaries of State
or Defense, four former members of the Joint Chiefs, and included and
Organizers hope to launch a grassroots campaign to garner support before
presenting the statement to President Bush.

High profile former administration officials signed onto the statement,
including former secretaries of state George Shultz, Madeleine Albright,
and Warren Christopher; former secretaries of defense Harold Brown,
William Perry and William Cohen; Former Deputy Secretaries of State
Richard Armitage; former national security advisors Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Anthony Lake, and Samuel R. Berger; former Sens. Charles S. Robb, Chair
of the Iraq Intelligence Commission, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, and Gary
Hart; and former Gov. Thomas Kean, 9/11 Commission Chair.

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The Station That Dared to Defend Carlin’s ‘7 Words’ Looks Back
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:20

As the encomiums for George Carlin have rolled in from stand-up legends,
celebrities and scholars, his death at 71 has also been noted at a
diminutive, iconic and iconoclastic radio station in Manhattan, WBAI-FM.

Its broadcast of the comedian’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on
Television” became a landmark moment in the history of free speech.

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Justice for Sale: How Big Tobacco and the GOP teamed up to crush
Democrats in the South
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:18

But as Raw Story’s series has shown, Rove’s role in the US Attorney
scandal is one that he has played for many years — acting as a broker on
deals which were rewarded by corporate donations to Republican coffers.

“Rove is a lobbyist,” said one Washington source close to the
investigation of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff who wishes to remain
anonymous. “He never stopped being a lobbyist.”

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More offshore drilling does little at the pump: EIA
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 14:08

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Allowing oil drilling in U.S. offshore waters
that are now closed to energy exploration would do little to lower
gasoline prices paid by consumers, the government's top energy
forecaster said on Wednesday.

In response to record pump prices, Republican presidential candidate
Sen. John McCain and President George W. Bush this month called for
Congress to end its moratorium on drilling off the East and West coasts
and in Florida waters, leaving it up to each affected state to decide
where to permit drilling.

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Dam Inspection Data Withheld From Press Under Patriot Act
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:28

News outlets seeking inspection and safety data on local dams, in light
off the recent string of floods in the Midwest, have been stonewalled by
government officials who have withheld such data as part of the Patriot
Act, according to Investigative Reporters and Editors.

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Iran issues warning over nuclear program
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:48

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament speaker warned the West on
Wednesday that it may face "a done deal" if it provokes Iran, a stern
hint that Tehran could build nuclear weapons if attacked.

The speaker, Ali Larijani, who was once Iran's top nuclear negotiator,
also warned that a "short opportunity is left" for a deal with Iran over
its nuclear program, which the U.S. and some of its allies fear is aimed
at producing a bomb.

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Exxon Valdez $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:28

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned
the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had
been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.

The nation's highest court ruled that the punitive damages should be
limited to an amount equal to the total relevant compensatory damages of
$507.5 million.

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