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Vultures, Sharks, And Sex With The Enemy: The Bizarre Accusations Against Israel

Much mirth and merriment is being generated by the Sudanese reports that an Israeli vulture has been carrying out espionage over Darfur. In reality, of course, the bird was fitted with a GPS tracker by...

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Marine Sniper Kills Five Taliban And Fires A Rocket Launcher On His Way To A...

There was only one thing to do: Marine Cpl. David Gerardi reached for the rocket launcher.Torsten Ove at The Pittsburgh Post Gazette used a Silver Star award citation to report that a group of Taliban...

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Julian Assange Wants To Run For Australian Senate In 2013

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaksmastermind currently holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, has his sights set on a new frontier — a career in Australian politics.In an interview with Australia's...

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Intense Pictures Of The Syrian Rebel Group Blacklisted By The US

On Tuesday the U.S. designated Syria's al-Nusra Front as a Global Terrorist organization because of its direct links to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and then recognized the mainstream Syrian National Council...

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ENDING SOON: Subscribe To A Newsletter For A Chance To Win An iPad Mini

Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini.  Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet.  If you're the lucky winner...

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Zero Dark Thirty Director Kathryn Bigelow Defends The Controversial...

The Oscar-winning team behind a film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, have denied suggestions that they condoned the use of torture by including a scene in which...

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Joe Scarborough Rips Liberals For Hypocritical Reaction To 'Zero-Dark-Thirty'

The blindness of liberals to Obama's drone policy along with their outcry about waterboarding has rankled MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.Liberals (plus John McCain) are furious at the waterboarding scene in...

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North Korean Officials Watched Their Successful Rocket Launch From This Bond...

North Korea's successful rocket launch early this morning was watched by engineers and officials from a command center that was suitably Bond-villain-esque.North Korea Tech has more information on the...

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How US Guilt Over The Rwandan Genocide Is Leading To Another Bloody Foreign...

The United States is allowing one tragic foreign policy failure to compound another.Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw the...

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Jesse Canella Of HonorVet.org Outlines The Tough Challenges Vets Face As They...

Jesse Canella co-founded HonorVet.org in order to provide a decent, "holistic" structure for veterans as they make the transition from military to civilian life.Canella's concerns are first for the...

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The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A...

NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime.Known as the...

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Drug Smugglers May Have Developed 'Pot-Cannon' To Shoot Dope Over Border

Drug smugglers might have been using a pneumatic cannon to fire loads of marijuana over the border in Arizona, the Associated Press reports.A pneumatic cannon uses a pulse of compressed air to launch...

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It Says A Lot About The Syrian Regime That It's Now Firing Scud Missiles...

Various news outlets, including this paper, are reporting that the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has, beginning Monday, fired six Scud missiles from Damascus towards rebel...

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South Korea Refutes US Officials Who Say The North's Satellite Is Tumbling...

Following North Korea's missile success earlier this week, U.S. officials told NBC late yesterday that Pyongyang's space vehicle is "spinning out of control" above the earth.The satellite was placed in...

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China Flies Into Japanese Airspace For The First Time In History

Japan scrambled eight fighter jets on Thursday after a Chinese state-owned plane breached its airspace for the first time, over islands at the centre of a dispute between the countries.It was the first...

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Two Illinois Bank Robberies Leave Authorities Guessing

A lone robber stole money from a Mundelein bank Wednesday, and the FBI also is looking for two men who robbed a bank in Wheaton yesterday.At about 11:02 a.m. Wednesday a lone robber stole an...

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Gun Control Advocates Sue Web-Based Gun Sales Company

Gun control advocates filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in Chicago Wednesday seeking to make companies that sell firearms over the Internet more accountable.The lawsuit filed by the Brady Center to...

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Police Scramble Helicopter To Take Out Masked 'Super Hero' Ninja

A comic book fan who dressed as a masked ninja to emulate his favourite superheroes and fight crime in his neigbourhood ended up being arrested himself by police.He desperately wanted to be like his...

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Canada's F-35s Are Now $37 Billion More Than Promised And It's Outraging The...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been the jet of choice for Canada since 2001, but a milestone was reached in 2010 when defense minister Peter MacKay announced his intention to buy 65...

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There Are Around 23,574 Nukes In The World — Here's Who Has Them

The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite heightened fears that the same know-how could be used to launch ballistic missiles. Which countries already have the capability to launch...

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