L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'être bien battu.

A look at the Guantanamo military commission

Here is a look at the military commission system that will be used to prosecute five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks:

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Iran cut off from global financial system

Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

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Putin's return: Why It Matters

Vladimir Putin is heading back to the Kremlin — but for the last four years it often felt like he'd never left. As prime minister, he remained Russia's dominant political figure, his drive, sharp tongue and cocky bearing overshadowing his affable but mostly feckless successor Dmitry Medvedev.

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Australia's Foreign Minister

  Australia now has a new Foreign Minister.  His name is Senator Bob Carr. Long time Member of The Australian Labor Party  Mr Carr  replaces Kevin Rudd.MP. A Senate vacancy following the surprise resignation of NSW Senator Mark Arbib led Bob Carr to be n …

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Lawyer: Client devastated by ATF agent's NY death

An attorney for a retired police lieutenant who fired the shot that killed a federal agent trying to thwart a New Year's Eve pharmacy robbery says his client is "devastated" by what happened.

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Obama's Nuclear Option

More than anything else, the juvenile, irresponsible, and wholly unnecessary fight over the debt ceiling highlights the uncomfortable reality that only half of this country's political system is within spitting distance of reality.

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New Guantanamo trials could include 9/11 suspects

President Barack Obama's decision to resume military trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will open the door for the prosecution there of several suspected 9/11 conspirators, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Government drops defense of anti-gay-marriage law

President Barack Obama ordered his administration on Wednesday to stop defending the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage, a policy reversal that could have major implications for the rights and benefits of gay couples and reignite an emotional debate for the 2012 presidential campaign.

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Crocodiles, snakes are danger in flooded Australia

Residents of an Australian city cut off by some of the country's worst flooding in decades are being warned to stay out of the water, and not just because of the risk of being swept away: Debris, snakes and even crocodiles could also pose a danger.

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Would-be school volunteers thwarted by their past

Wendy Cross wants to chaperone field trips and join other parents in supervising activities at her children's school in Grand Rapids, Mich. But because of some bad checks she wrote a decade ago, that's out of the question.

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Forget Tax Cuts: help those living below poverty line...

There has been widespread media coverage through print Internet and television about extending tax cuts for the middle and high income earners. I say stop and take a breath. How about instead helping those that are homeless and living in poverty.

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Oprah Comes to the Opera House

">Oprah Winfrey the all time Queen of United States television will be bringing her show lock stock and smoking barrel for a trip to Australia. Additionally Oprah will be bringing down under an audience of her loyal followers for a weeks Holiday in Australia.

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Tour of Duty run across America

The 2010 Tour Of Duty run is a coming together of 16 Australian and 16 American firefighters whoare committed to remembering the police officers, military, emergency service workersand firefighters who, on a call of duty, lost their lives on 11 September 2001.America and Austral …

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Prosecutors: Gitmo inmate took pride in slaying

A Canadian former child soldier told jailers he comforted himself in his first days at Guantanamo by thinking about killing an American soldier, military prosecutors said Thursday in opening arguments at the war-crimes trial of the youngest inmate at the detention center.

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A child detained at Guantanamo Bay

The notorious detention military facility has been holding a youth for eight years now since his mid teenage years.

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What the NRA should disclose

NRA EXEMPTION FROM DISCLOSE ACTIS UNFAIR AND UNCONSTITUTIONALThe DISCLOSE Act, H.R. 5175, sponsored by Rep.

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Barack Obama: Where I think his policies have failed so far.

The 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver Colorado was meant to be a turning point. Historically for the first time a black skinned Afro-America had incredibly made it to the Leadership of the Democratic Party of the United States.

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Was Utah Governor Herbert wrong in posting his signal to Execute on Twitter ?

Was Utah Governor Herbert wrong in posting his signal to Execute on Twitter ? QUOTE: "I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims."

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Utah firing squad executes convicted killer

A barrage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner's chest where a target had been pinned over his heart. Two minutes later, the twice-convicted killer was pronounced dead as blood pooled in his dark blue prison jumpsuit.

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Utah to execute condemned killer by firing squad

Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving a style of justice that hasn't been used for at least 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.

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Helen Thomas ends White House career amid uproar

Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."

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Goodbye, Helen Thomas. You deserved better than this.

Fifty years of Presidential coverage came to an end today as Helen Thomas stepped down from her position at Hearst, the second in her long and storied career as a White House correspondent.

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Arizona does not deserve the benefit of the doubt

Back when Arizona passed it's "Papers Please" anti-illegal-immigrant law a lot of writers, myself included, were fairly judgmental of the whole thing. We saw it - and indeed still see it - as a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize being brown in the great state of Arizona.

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What makes a seed successful?

Just interested by this question. For those of you who know me I am rather prolific seeder (embarrassed cough). I will seed about 10% of what I read on a daily basis and on a range of topics.

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