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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks dropped on Wednesday as bleak economic data fed worries that despite all the efforts to unlock credit markets, the economy is unlikely to avoid recession. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke further fueled those concerns when he said the economy faced a significant threat. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 stock index slid more than 7 percent to its intraday low, while the Dow shed more than 500 points to its lowest point for the session so far. U.S. retail sales in September dropped the most in more than three years, while a measure of New...

CAMP RIPPER, Al Asad, Iraq (Sept. 20, 2005) -- When some Marines in the Al Anbar province eat their meals, they can be assured that a master sergeant known as the ‘Food Doctor’ has given those dishes his blessing. Master Sgt. Filipo A. Bartley, the Regimental Combat Team-2 mess chief knows the importance of a good meal for his Marines, as he is responsible for all food services for RCT-2. “I have to travel to all posts in the upper Al Anbar province, to make sure the Marines are getting the food they need to properly carry out their mission,”...

It was reported in the Washington Post on Monday that the civil liberties board, whose main goal is to make sure individual rights are not trampled upon during our so-called "War on Terror," has yet to meet and is under-funded by the Bush administration. Created by Congress last year, the board consists of five members nominated by the president to act as an independent watchdog against potential abuses of the Patriot Act. President Bush took six months to appoint five members to the panel as reported in the Washington Post. In his proposed budget for fiscal year 2006, he allocated...

In the world of news sources, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find those that remain objective. Of course their are sources such as The Christian Science Monitor and ITN, but finding a good selection really is hard. So, what I am proposing in this post is for the members of FReeRepublic to help me out in finding some good news feeds for my site. This of course will make my site more appealing to users with similar interests to those of FR, but hey, where else could I get an educated, logical opinion on such a matter; DU? HAHAHAHAHA!...

For those of you who are Catholics - especially those who are traditionally oriented - Angelqueen.org now has a Catholic News ticker for your web site and RSS feeds available HERE.The News feed is updated several times daily. You can also get feeds for the latest forum posts or daily Martyrology if you like.Other areas you may be interested in is the Traditional Latin Mass, illustrated and explained, the 7-step Rosary or the weekly 1962 Sunday Missal Mass readings/propers.God bless.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - After getting a taste of the radio business in college, software designer Craig Patchett never lost his interest in broadcasting. But without a job in radio, it seemed likely to remain one of those unfulfilled passions — until something called "podcasting" came along. Now, Patchett's creating shows and sending them out to the masses every day — not over the airwaves to radios but over the Internet, from his personal computer in Carlsbad, Calif. His listeners download his shows to their iPods and other digital music players. Patchett, 43, is among a growing number of people...

Hizbullah's Al-Manar television station has begin broadcasting a virulently anti-Semitic documentary entitled "The Diaspora," purporting to depict the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. The 26-part series, produced in Syria, shows actors, dressed mostly in black Hassidic-looking garb, plotting and scheming to steal lands and murder Arabs. The first chapter shows the patriarch of the Rothschild family "dividing up" the various nations for his sons to rule. The United States complained to the governments of Lebanon and Syria, as it did last year to the Egyptian government when a similar series played there, but to no avail. The...