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POPSFederal Air Marshals Too Busy Being Criminals to Protect You The Federal Air Marshal Service presents the image of an elite undercover force charged with making split-second decisions that could mean the difference between stopping a terrorist and shooting an innocent passenger. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general also flagged gaps in the background checks. "We can reassure the public that these dedicated professionals go out there every day and put their lives on the line to make sure that everyone is safe," Bray says. Before 9/11, the Air Marshal Service was a nearly forgotten force of 33 agents with a $4.4 million annual budget. Now housed in the Transportation Security Administration, the agency has a $786 million budget and an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 air marshals, although the official number is classified.
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POPS"Top 25 Censored stories for 2009" # # 21 NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option # # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid # # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs # # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror # # 25 Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/
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POPSChildren for sale Child abus is endemic and should be stamped out. This investigation in Australia reinforces convictions that everyone involved in child crime, and here I include those politicians who want to remove child protection matters by the reduction of the age of sexual consent, should be given no leniency at all. There can be no mitigation when the damage done to all innocent families is so extensive.
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POPSThe dental trick After 11 years of performing the “dental trick”, as it is known, her worst fears were realised. A sharp pain in her jaw as she turned in circles around the big top made her relax her bite. She plunged more than 30ft and was taken to hospital unconscious.
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POPSReview: HBO's "China's Stolen Children" After having one child, Chinese parents may be unable to get a birth certificate for subsequent children, who then, as "non-persons" often become victims of kidnap and human trafficking.
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POPSU.N. Workers Raping, Abusing Children The liberal's respected world body, the one they feel should run all world affairs, engages in child rape and abuse. This is the organization that seats countries like Libya on it's human rights committee, and is powerless to take any meaningful action on anything meaningful. Bill Clinton would have been a perfect match for a U.N. aid worker, except it would require some work.
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POPSChildren Worse Off Despite Legislation By 2015 the MDGs are supposed to be accomplished- these include improving the basic rights of the child. I think we are so far away from that as a reality, and it does not need to be this way.
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POPSSave the girl child: india is fighting! "India's attitude to women can be summarized by this old saying: 'If a woman dies, then the man has a chance to get a second dowry. If a buffalo dies, then it's an economic disaster for the whole family.'
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