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   Like wet sand through the hourglass, these are the wars in our lives. Just cannot seem to get past these things with an idiot in the White house.

AP

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb ripped through a bustling shopping district in a religiously mixed neighborhood of western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 20 as the U.S.-Iraqi security operation entered its third week.

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   The US is finally beginning to catch some flack about the treatment of detainees, from the UN no less.

AP

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.

Louise Arbour referred to the Military Commissions Act approved by Congress last year and last month's federal appeals court ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their detention. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.

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   The Chinese stock market played kamikazi again on Thursday and dropped a bit more.

Al Jazeera

China's main stock index fell more than 3 per cent in early trade on Thursday, hit by renewed selling in blue chips, after it had rallied slightly in the previous session.

   I'm off to the races everyone! I've got computers to fix, taxes to do, and.....?   Good Day and Good Night!

 

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