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POPSKandahar rocked by suicide blasts The US-led coalition said its forces had killed more than 10 insurgents in an operation in the eastern province of Khost on Saturday. Afghanistan has seen rising levels of violence in recent months. There are about 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, most of them serving under Nato's command.
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POPSA satellite eye on the Earth last 2 pictures: a) Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands, August 8: Dormant for 200 years this small volcano in the Pacific erupted without warning on August 7. The volcano’s plume is seen here as a brown streak in the cloud b) Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea, Norway, August 12 2008. Phytoplankton are tiny plant-like organisms that are the foundation of the ocean food web. Like plants, they contain chlorophyll that they use to harvest sunlight for photosynthesis. In northern waters, these organisms are starved for sunlight much of the year, but during the summer months, they explode in colourful blooms such as this one
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POPSJerusalem dig uncovers ancient walls Jerusalem is an old city. For most of it to be uncovered they need to wait until the right scanners are developed, to scan it virtually. We only need to know what is there, so we can keep putting our past in a better context. We won't have to unearth it to know.
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POPS50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe Based on this self-regulating maximum rate, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile, have calculated an upper limit for these mega-mammoth masses. Fifty billion suns, that's 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg, otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big" and triple the size of the largest observed black hole, OJ 287.
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POPSU.S. Forces Conduct Offensive in Pakistani Border Region This is, however, a sensitive issue. It is assumable that the moderates within the Pakistani government want the Taliban removed from Southern Waziristan. The problem is the more hardline elements of the Pakistani citizenry are sure to be unhappy about this. The unrest amongst the fundamentalists combined with the corrupt officials and Taliban sympathizers within the Pakistani government creates a unique situation that must be handled delicately. But this does not discount the need for military action in Southern Waziristan.
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POPSnut case hard to believe what some will put them self through
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POPSObama's recognitions/honors while a Senator Distinguished service recognitions received during his four years as a U.S. Senator. You are certainly free to disagree with Obama, but the suggestion that his service as a Senator is less than exemplary is simply ill-informed propaganda.
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POPSHUNTING WITH CHENEY RUSSIAN STYLE ! Russia put a twist to hunting with Cheney ,one of their biggest hits on Russian TV except with Russia you don't make it to the big game preserve ,fuck you don't even make the cab ride ! Believe or not "OIL" is behind this too !
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POPSHurricane Gustav: 2 Million Evacuate New Orleans Area After Katrina, now this. Live radio coverage here. Last night they said it could strengthen to category 4 or 5 with winds up to 150 mph and a deluge of rain. Recent reports say it may not as it now remains now at Category 3 level. The warnings made it clear that everyone in New Orleans should evacuate, and the massive exodus is already under way.
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POPSEthnic Cleansing and the Disneyfication of New Orleans two years ago, I told my friends that this is what will happen. New Orleans will no longer be the city it once was, but ethnically cleansed and all in the hands of developers and corrupt politicians. It was so predictable and it is such a shame and an embarrassment. I loved New Orleans, good memories of American Southern Culture-No More
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POPSOpen-borders protestors stop by DNC Gilchrist says he is encouraging all minutemen to take up the gauntlet of "real change" by bringing national awareness of what he calls the "invading armies" of illegal immigrants flowing over the southern border and demand that all political parties view the influx as a national threat.