political nonsense

It was reported that since the US invaded Iraq in 2003 an estimated 4.2 million Iraqis have fled their homes, US-led forces reported killing 49 insurgents and no civilians on Sunday during predawn clashes with renegade Shiite militia members, while Iraqi police said at least 13 civilians were dead, including three children and a woman, at least 3,834 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war, and Kurdish rebels crossed the Iraq-Turkey border and killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers Sunday, while the Turkish army retaliated by stepping up its bombardment of the Iraqi side of the border, hitting 11 different areas close to towns and villages, Kurdish officials said.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that emotional well-being is not an independent factor affecting the prognosis of patients with head and neck cancers. “While there can be lots of emotional and social benefits of psychotherapy, patients should not seek such experiences solely on the expectation that they are extending their lives,” they said.
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The amount of Carbon Dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has decreased, and rising sea levels were reported to threaten 21 major cities by 2015.

[coming your way]
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Hospitals throughout Gaza have shut down their operating rooms due to a lack of essential anaesthetic drugs, the Hamas de facto administration in the Strip said.
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Stephen Colbert announced he was running for president. “I don’t want to be president. I want to run for president. There’s a difference,” he said.

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A survey found that most Americans now believe that humans are causing global warming, and that we should do something about that.
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The FDA voted to ban cold medicine for small children, because they are potentially extremely harmful and there is no proof that they do any good.
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The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2,500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed yesterday.
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At least three civilians were killed and nine wounded when an explosive charge went off south of Baghdad on Saturday morning, and in the northern oil city of Kirkuk insurgents blew up an oil pipeline, battled a convoy carrying bodyguards of a deputy prime minister and ambushed a police chief,
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50% of American voters polled said they would never vote for Hillary Clinton, up from 46% in March.

[cause she's scary]
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The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission proposed doing away with media ownership rules that bar companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.
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Turkey authorized a military offensive against Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq.
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It was reported that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins.

[duh]
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Scientists reported that more Americans are killed by the superbug than by AIDS.
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It was reported that swearing boosts work morale.
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US and Iraqi officials were negotiating Baghdad’s request to expel the private security company Blackwater within six months following last month’s deadly shoot out in Baghdad, a Washington Post correspondent was shot dead in Baghdad, former US military commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez described the war as a “nightmare with no end in sight,” the Turkish government formally sought authorization from the Turkish parliament to invade Northern Iraq and attack Kurdish rebel groups after amassing 60,000 troops along the country’s border and shelling Kurdish regions across the border, and a former top US general admitted the war in Iraq was about oil. “Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that,” former Commander General John Abizaid said.
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Two thirds of American CEOs, a study found, think that American CEOs are overpaid.
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Researchers reported that strippers earn more money when they’re ovulating.

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Economists pointed out that going to college might not be worth it.
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The Israeli military ordered the seizure of vast new swaths of Palestinian land in the West Bank.
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