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| Texas Judge on Trial for Refusing to Hear Appeal Hours Before Death Row Prisoner's Execution | |
| The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on trial for misconduct for refusing to hear a last-minute appeal from a death row prisoner scheduled to be executed that night. Judge Sharon Keller, dubbed Sharon Killer by her critics, reportedly denied an appeal from the lawyers for Michael Wayne Richards at 5:20 pm on September 25th, 2007, saying: We close at five. Richards was killed later that night by lethal injection. Keller faces five charges of judicial misconduct and could be removed from the bench. | |
| Date: 2009-08-19 11:03:55 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 804 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Wave of bombs rip through Baghdad | |
| Dozens are killed and hundreds wounded as a wave of co-ordinated explosions rip through the Iraqi capital Baghdad.. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_news | |
| Date: 2009-08-19 10:49:33 - Added by: KMC | |
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| The challenger not on Afghan ballot -The Taliban | |
| Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, is relying on ethnic affiliations to win in the country's upcoming elections. The support of Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun population, to which Karzai belongs, is crucial as they constitute the majority of the country's 15 million eligible voters. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Kandahar on the tribal elders who hold sway over Afghanistan's Pashtun heartland. | |
| Date: 2009-08-19 10:28:30 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Power struggle in Afghan politics | |
| As Afghanistan prepares to go to the polls, three major ethnic groups in the north of the country - the Tajiks, the Uzbeks and the Hazara - are vying for a key role in local and national politics. Each group is looking for the candidate who is likely to bolster their status by granting them more privileges and powers. Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Mazar-e-Sharif on the power struggle for the Northern Vote. | |
| Date: 2009-08-19 10:27:31 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 786 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| U.S.: Women at Arms: Beyond the Wire - NYTimes.com/Video | |
| For female soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience on the ground is outpacing official military policy. Related article: http://bit.ly/OKFbC | |
| Date: 2009-08-19 09:56:27 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 723 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| John Pilger Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation | |
| John Pilger Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation ----------------------------------- John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US. --------------------------------- Thank You to... Wakeymedia2 SUBSCRIBE TO http://www.youtube.com/user/Wakeymedia2 | |
| Date: 2009-08-18 11:52:10 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 819 - Votes: 86 - Rating: 4.9 | |
| [B]ehind Closed Doors, Republicans Say Palin Doesn't Know What She's Talking About | |
| http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908180006 From the August 18 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe. | |
| Date: 2009-08-18 10:57:10 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 767 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 3.25 | |
| Rachel Maddow: ObamaCare: The collapse of political ambition | |
| Rachel Maddow: ObamaCare: The collapse of political ambition Visit: http://firedoglake.com | |
| Date: 2009-08-18 10:52:10 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 793 - Votes: 14 - Rating: 4.43 | |
| British residents bring back bartering | |
| The global recession has led many countries to come up with new ways of handling their finances, but residents of one European country have gone back in time for their inspiration. People in a number of cities in Britain are swapping goods without using any money at all. Nazanine Moshiri reports from London | |
| Date: 2009-08-18 09:56:02 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 757 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Taliban Bombings Threaten Afghanistan Election | |
| Car bombings continue in Afghanistan as Presidential elections draw near. Mandy Clark reports. | |
| Date: 2009-08-18 09:50:40 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 751 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |