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Top Iran military official aiding Assad's crackdown on Syria opposition |
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From Haaretz:
"According to the Syrian official, Kassam Salimani, commander of the Quds
Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard special forces unit, has arrived
in Syria recently and has taken up a spot in the war room which manages
army maneuvers against opposition forces....The Quds Force includes 15,000 elite soldiers who operated, among other
locations, in Iraq during the war, and the specialty of which is
engaging in unconventional warfare on foreign soil."
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McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco |
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From The San Francisco Weekly:
"On Thursday, Dec. 1, the city's de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it?"
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The New World Order: Where food is apparently more valuable than the U.S. dollar |
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From The New York Times:
"While other states have their own agricultural intrigue — cattle
rustlers in Texas, tomato takers in Florida — few areas can claim a
wider variety of farm felons than California, where ambushes on
everything from almonds to beehives have been reported in recent years.
Then there is the hardware: diesel fuel, tools and truck batteries
regularly disappear in the Central Valley, the state’s agricultural
powerhouse, where high unemployment, foreclosures and methamphetamine
abuse have made criminals more desperate, officials say."
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Drought cripples southern US farms |
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From FT.com:
"Half of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life...The Lone Star state is at the epicentre of a once-in-a-generation drought stretching from Arizona to Florida. The US’s southern underbelly is scorched like meat on a grill."
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Obama Admin Objects to Alaska Oil and Gas Development Bill |
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From The New York Times:
"The Obama administration today said a proposal from House Natural
Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) to expedite oil and gas
leasing and energy infrastructure permitting in an Alaska reserve could
force federal regulators to flout environmental laws and includes a
costly, redundant resource assessment"
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