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...Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich...
...question of domestic eavesdropping. Last summer, it passed the Protect America Act (PAA), which was designed to modernize the 1978 law controlling electronic surveillance of Americans. After initially trying to block the bill, which expanded the government's ability to track suspect individuals, Democrats caved. But in a last-ditch effort to placate civil libertarians, the Democrats attached a six-month sunset on the old law. That six-month extension ends Feb. 1 and the pressure is on for a permanent...
...Most Geordies, though, remain anxious about the bank's future. In a last-ditch effort to avoid nationalization, the U.K. government on Monday hatched plans to convert into bonds the $50 billion Bank of England loan it used to prop up Northern Rock. That makes a private sale of the bank more likely: those interested in bidding before the February deadline - including a consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group - will no longer need to front up for a big slice of that loan. The bank's battered shares climbed more than 40% on the news...
...major offensive aimed at routing extremists who have been terrorizing the territory for months. Grainy video from a flying drone showed several men emerge from a car parked in a field. The figures opened the trunk and pulled out a struggling victim, who was then thrown into a ditch and shot multiple times...
...This is one of four videos I have personally viewed in the last three weeks demonstrating the nature of the enemy we face," Hertling said. "In one of those videos, which we decided not to show today, after the terrorists shot the individual and left him in the ditch, they then beheaded...