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Thursday, October 6, 2011

This week's standout NBU stories and users

This week's standout NBU stories and users.

IRS Cites 1982 Tax Code, Charges Pot Shop $2.5M

(Newser) - Bummer news for an Oakland marijuana dispensary that calls itself the world's largest: IRS auditors say it owes $2.5 million in back taxes for 2007 and 2008, a figure so high it may force Harborside Health Center to close its doors, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Here's... More »

Awlaki's Rap Sheet Includes 2 'John' Busts

(Newser) - Radical cleric Anwar an-Awlaki apparently had other things on his mind than just religion. During the time he spent in San Diego as a graduate student, the late cleric was arrested twice for soliciting hookers in the city's more seamy districts, reveals the Los Angeles Times . For the first... More »

A Conservative Looks at Climate Change Denial

(Newser) - Robert "Bob" Inglis formerly represented South Carolina's 4th congressional district for 12 years, losing to a Tea Party backed challenger in the 2010 GOP primary. Never popular with liberal environmentalists (he calls them arugula-eating bed-wetters,) Inglis pens a column in this week's USA Today that has some of them... More »

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N. Dakota: Recession? What Recession?

(Newser) - Does a place really exist where the economy is actually booming these days, where unemployment sits below 2%, and thousands of jobs are just waiting to be filled? NPR explores Williston, a veritable boom-town in the N. Dakota Badlands thanks to advances in oil and gas extraction technologies drawing in... More »

NASA Confirms Shocking Arctic Ice Loss in 2011

(Newser) - Apparently the polar ice caps haven't received the denialist memo that "global warming has stopped." * Washington D.C.'s ABC Channel 7 reports that the Arctic Ocean's sea ice shrank again this summer to near record levels, and is melting faster than initially predicted, citing a scientific group that... More »

Khamenei rejects two state solution

(Newser) - Speaking at a conference commemorating the Palestinian Intifada, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, rejected any compromise which accepts Israel's right to exist, and threatened Israel with "paralyzing blows". "Governments that host Zionist embassies or economic bureaus cannot advocate support for Palestine," Khamenei said, referring to Egypt, Jordan,... More »