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Faster troop withdrawal may save $1 trillion

A speedier withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan would shave $1.1 trillion off the budget in the next decade, a new congressional budget projection says. That would be a sizeable cut in defense-related spending from 2010 through 2019, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates at $7.4 trillion.

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How to rob an Apple Store 31 seconds: 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods for free

Want to know how to rob an Apple store and gain over 30 grand of Apple hardware in under a minute?

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How to rob an Apple Store 31 seconds: 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods for free

How will Rupert Murdoch justify not covering Obama’s address to Congress next week?

Fox has made it perfectly clear that it's not going to cover any of Obama's primetime press conferences. Ever. Fox TV (not Fox News) has walked away from that traditional obligation.

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How will Rupert Murdoch justify not covering Obama’s address to Congress next week?

Monkeys dance only to monkey music…and Metallica

In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, music bridged the gap between worlds, but music may not actually be the key to interspecies communication.

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Monkeys dance only to monkey music…and Metallica

Space station experiment to hunt antimatter galaxies

Antimatter galaxies and dark matter have long haunted physicists' theories, but no instrument in orbit has had the power to confirm or deny their existence. Now a $1.5 billion cosmic ray detector scheduled for launch in 2010 could usher in a new era for discovering all that's weird and wonderful about the universe. Cosmic rays consist of high-energy particles that emerge from catastrophic events such as supernovas, and may also hold the clues to whether antimatter galaxies and dark matter truly exist

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Gunmen kill 17 people at a drug rehabilitation center in Mexico

Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation center and shot 17 people dead in a northern Mexican border city, an official said. The attackers on Wednesday broke down the door of El Aliviane center in Ciudad Juarez, lined up their victims against a wall and opened fire, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the regional prosecutors' office.

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Contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan

A senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said it was highly questionable whether contractors brought the same commitment and willingness to take risks as the men and women of the military or the diplomatic services. He also questioned whether using contractors was cost effective, saying that no one really knew whether having a force made up mainly of contractors whose salaries were often triple or quadruple those of a corresponding soldier or Marine was cheaper or more expensive for the American taxpayer. added by: VC1 0 responses

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Contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan

Atheists offer to care for Christians’ pets after the Rapture….LOL

It's a question that all animal-loving Christian evangelicals must address: who will look after their pets on Earth when the Rapture comes and they are taken up to heaven? added by: RFIDemocracy 27 responses

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Time lapse footage of station fire in Los Angeles

Anyone living in Los Angeles knows that there has been a smokey mushroom cloud looming over our city for the last few days.

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Time lapse footage of station fire in Los Angeles

Rep. Joe Barton: Republicans Will Repeal Health Care Reform If It Passes

On a conference call last month, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) hedged a little bit on the question of whether Republicans, if they won a congressional majority in 2010, would repeal a health care bill passed by the 111th Congress. Rep

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Rep. Joe Barton: Republicans Will Repeal Health Care Reform If It Passes