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House Votes Against Delaying Switch to Digital TV
Washington Post - 16 hours ago - all 1,885 articles »
They are not telling us what digital signals are really being used for... just so you know:
"Military sensing and communication systems operate in challenging electromagnetic environments where very high linear dynamic range is required to detect small target signals obscured by a strong background of interference, jammers, and clutter. The difficulty is compounded by the increasing (…)

Last update - 19:42 27/01/2009 Palestine has the Right to Respond to Israeli Attacks By News Agencies The Global People’s Resistance Front (GPRF) said on Tuesday that Palestine had a right to defend itself from the US funded Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territories. The war crimes and illegal attacks against Palestine could not go unanswered.
"We support Palestines right to self-defense. Israel, while armed and funded as the fourth center of nuclear and military (…)

Gaza

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Israel has re-launched aerial and ground attacks in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli soldier was killed in a bomb blast at a Gaza crossing.
Palestinian witnesses said Israeli tanks are seen rolling into the Gaza Strip after a warplane struck targets across the territory, Haaretz reported.
Heavy fighting have also been reported near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza after Israeli forces moved into the territory Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak had threatened to attack (…)

No state has the right or standing under international law to launch an illegal military attack upon another UN member state in the name of "humanitarian intervention." This principle applies to both the US and Canada which are continuing to extinguish the Indigenous peoples who live within their imperial domains... United States and NATO: The Axis of Genocide By Francis A. Boyle’s
What is the world to do about major human rights atrocities and catastrophes that undeniably do occur today? (…)

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
The "American Spectator" calls it Obama’s New Deal; CNBC and its parrot networks call it Obama’s New Deal, as well. As would be expected, the right tries to frame the argument by smearing the left. So lost and out of touch are these Ba’thist dead enders that they fail to realize that a New Deal sounds like a pretty good idea to millions of struggling Americans. But Obama’s stimulus program is not another New Deal, it is merely patching the (…)

Obviously Obama is vastly preferable to the Bush and McCain racist religious right republicans (R4s) and, while he could have done more and better so far, he has already done some good things e.g. appointments of Professors Chu and Holdren as top scientific advisers on climate change and other matters; US presence in Occupied Iraq to start declining; aid restored to African aid programs practicing birth control; closing Guantanamo Bay within the next year; and permitting life-saving and (…)

By Patrick Martin
24 January, 2009 WSWS.org
In a series of meetings and public appearances Wednesday and Thursday, and with the first military strikes of his administration, President Barack Obama has given a clear signal that he plans intensified bloodshed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the US escalates its military intervention in Central and South Asia.
Missiles fired from unmanned Predator drones struck two targets inside Pakistan Friday morning, killing at least 18 people. As is (…)

What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today’s Americans how to be good citizens?