[Uruknet 55725 06-jul-2009 04:26 ECT] Attack on Iran would be 'very destabilizing' -- US military chief

A US military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "very destabilizing," top US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen said Sunday, warning that any attack could have serious "unintended consequences." "I've been one who has been concerned about a strike on Iran for some time, because it could be very destabilizing, and it is the unintended consequences of that which aren't predictable," the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff told the Fox News Sunday television program...

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I’m With Sarah!

Millions of liberals rejoiced and thousands of Republicans heaved a sigh of relief Friday as Sarah Palin announced her decision to resign as Alaska’s governor. In her usual forthright manner, Gov. Palin made clear that she was not content to squander her time on ‘politics as usual’. Hear, hear.

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�Bailout� for Transportation Agencies?

CQ.com is reporting the following: "Passenger rail and bus advocates are pressing conferees on the war supplemental bill to include a Senate-passed provision that would allow public transit agencies to spend some of their stimulus dollars on operating expenses, instead of capital improvements." According to the article, transit agencies received $8.4 billion in stimulus funds.

Does this not sound like a bailout in the making: "Many transit agencies are facing budget deficits that leave them unable to keep up with dramatic increases in ridership. As a result, service and personnel cuts are being proposed in cities across the country."



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TARP - A Big (Really, Really Big) Mistake

An appropriately titled column ("The $787 Billion Mistake") on TARP at Forbes.com.



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UC Santa Barbara Students Confront ADL�s Genocide Denial

By Armine Amy Kaladzhyan

Students Protest Anti-Defamation League�s Involvement in UCSB Matter
Almost two years ago, a group of outraged students at UC Santa Barbara banded together.� They united, just as� citizens in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had done before them, to get campus and community entities to� disassociate themselves with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) [...]

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North Korea defies world with Hiroshima-size nuclear device

Country risks further international isolation as underground nuclear explosion triggers earthquake
North Korea today risked further international isolation after it claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
The test comes less than two months after the North enraged the US and its allies by test firing a [...]

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Cameron pledges shake-up of power

David Cameron has promised his party would deliver a dramatic redistribution of power in response to voter disgust over MPs’ expenses.
The Conservative leader, writing in the Guardian, says he would reduce prime ministerial power and boost the role of Parliament to win back public support.
Decisions must be handed back "to the man and woman [...]

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Two held over �attack� on boy, 11

Two young boys have been arrested after an alleged assault left an 11-year-old boy with life-threatening injuries in a ravine in Doncaster, police said.
Police were called to the Brick Ponds area of Edlington on Saturday afternoon after a nine-year-old boy was seen in the street with face and arm injuries.
Inquiries led police to a [...]

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