"Deep in Norway 's frozen Svalbard archipelago sits a high-tech facility that could save the world. If global catastrophes like asteroid impacts or disease pandemics were to strike, seeds stored in this first ever 'doomsday' vault would ensure that humans could regrow the crops needed for survival."

here would be much less need for such a thing if people would stop allowing violent morons to run the world.

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"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington ’s 'Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians'."

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"The Washington Post reported that 'current and former officials' said the torture lasted weeks and even, according to some, months, and that the techniques included hypothermia, long periods of standing, sleep deprivation and multiple sessions of waterboarding. All these 'alternative procedures', as Bush described them, are illegal under US law and the Geneva conventions. They are, in fact, war crimes. And they were once all treated by the US as war crimes when they were perpetrated by the Nazis."

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"Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan , as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning."  (Free Reg. Req.)

Sending in the reinforcements to prop up yet another tyrant.

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