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>Robert Parry writes about Bush bringing on Armageddon; tax cuts benefit 
>millionaires most; Democrats seek permanent protection for Alaskan wilderness; 
>climate change contributes to crude's big price swings; Al Gore kicks off The 
>Climate Project; discovery of stem cells in amniotic fluid could end 
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>Robert Parry | Bush's Rush to Armageddon
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807R.shtml
>Robert Parry writes: "On January 4, Bush ousted the top two commanders in the 
>Middle East, Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, who had opposed a military 
>escalation in Iraq, and removed Director of National Intelligence John 
>Negroponte, who had stood by intelligence estimates downplaying the near-term 
>threat from Iran's nuclear program. Most Washington observers have treated 
>Bush's shake-up as either routine or part of his desire for a new team to handle 
>his planned 'surge' of US troops in Iraq. But intelligence sources say the 
>personnel changes also fit with a scenario for attacking Iran's nuclear 
>facilities and seeking violent regime change in Syria."
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>War Could Last Years, Commander Says
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807S.shtml
>The new American operational commander in Iraq said Sunday that even with the 
>additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President 
>Bush's new war strategy, it might take another "two or three years" for American 
>and Iraqi forces to gain the upper hand in the war.
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>Bush Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Finds
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010807T.shtml
>Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop 
>more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush's tax 
>cuts, according to a new Congressional study, which also shows that tax rates 
>for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, while rates for people at the very 
>top continued to decline.
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>Democrats Want to Permanently Protect ANWR
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EA.shtml
>Opponents of oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge are going on the offense 
>after playing defense for a quarter of a century. They want the new Democratic 
>Congress to make an oft-challenged drilling ban permanent. Legislation 
>introduced in the House on Friday would make the oil-rich 1.2 million-acre 
>coastal strip of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a permanently protected 
>wilderness and end repeated efforts to open the area east of the Prudhoe oil 
>field to energy companies.
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>Global Warming Adds to Oil Volatility; Analysts Split
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EB.shtml
>Blame it on global warming. Record-breaking temperatures in the US and Europe 
>are reducing fuel demand and contributing to the biggest fluctuations in oil in 
>more than a year. 
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>Gore Mobilizes Global Warming Activists
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807EC.shtml
>Hundreds of volunteers from across the country have flocked to Nashville this 
>fall and winter and more are here today as part of a grass-roots training effort 
>to spread the word on global warming. They are taking part in Al Gore's The 
>Climate Project, which mushroomed from his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
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>Study: Amniotic Fluid Yields Stem Cells
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807HA.shtml
>Scientists reported Sunday they had found a plentiful source of stem cells in 
>the fluid that cushions babies in the womb. They produced a variety of tissue 
>types from these cells, sidestepping the controversy over destroying embryos for 
>research.
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>House Seeks Lower Drug Costs for Medicare Patients
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807HB.shtml
>Newly in charge House Democrats have fashioned clear marching orders for the 
>nation's health chief: Negotiate lower drug prices for seniors on Medicare. 
>They'll try to get the orders passed next week. 
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>Bob Herbert | Working Harder for the Man
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807LA.shtml
>"Robert L. Nardelli, the chairman and chief executive of Home Depot, began the 
>new year with a pink slip and a golden parachute. The company handed him a 
>breathtaking $210 million to take a hike. What would he have been worth if he'd 
>done a good job?" asks Bob Herbert.
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>For Female Soldiers, Sexual Assault Remains a Danger
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/010807WA.shtml
>"I fear that she will kill herself. I fear that she will never have a happy life 
>because she's been so damaged by all of this," said Sara Rich of Eugene, Oregon. 
>Rich's daughter, Suzanne Swift, is the internationally known American military 
>police officer facing a possible dishonorable discharge for going AWOL. Swift, 
>who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), did not want to rejoin 
>the superiors who sexually harassed and assaulted her. As a result, she has been 
>charged by the US Army with being absent without leave and missing movement for 
>not being present with her company when it left for Iraq in January of 2006.
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>VIDEO | Keith Olbermann: Special Comment About "Sacrifice"
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010307A.shtml
>Keith Olbermann states: "The former labor secretary, Robert Reich, says Senator 
>John McCain told him that the 'surge' would help the 'morale' of the troops 
>already in Iraq. If Mr. McCain truly said that, and truly believes it, he has 
>either forgotten completely his own experience in Vietnam ... or he is unaware 
>of the recent Military Times poll indicating only 38 percent of our active 
>military want to see more troops sent ... or Mr. McCain has departed from 
>reality."
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