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OBAMA JUSTICE
The House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would expand the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, allowing it to review petitions filed by military service members challenging courts-martial decisions.
Under current law, a service member is barred from petitioning the high court if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF) has refused [...]
Watchingpolitics
From allAfrica.com................A Nigerian militant group said yesterday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. ...
Not all is lost in the war against the war. Sane people are trying to change the mad laws ...
The best thing you can say for California is that it has frequent earthquakes. That helps thin out the ...
Culled from the Japan Times, Saturday, February 7, 2010 Most Japanese are too young to remember what painful death is like. ...
The moderate Obama, the middle-of-the road Obama, the great compromiser, Obama, the bipartisan-seeking Obama, the negotiator Obama is a myth ...
Africa
PRICES WILL SOARFrom allAfrica.com…………….A Nigerian militant group said yesterday it had attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pipeline in the Niger Delta. The Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), a coalition of ex-militants and community leaders, said it had disabled a trunk line in the Obunoma area of Rivers state connecting several flow stations to the Bonny export [...]
Europe
NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANTLet’s call this, “Keeping it all in the family.”
From Moscow Times – Billionaire Sells Movie Chain to Daughter. LOS ANGELES — Sumner Redstone’s holding company, National Amusements, is selling its Russian theater chain Kinostar to Redstone’s daughter and other investors in a further move to pay down its debts.
The 86-year-old [...]