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Both pictures taken with a BB Bold

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Source: U.N. World Drug Report 2009

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Source: WSJ Senators Consider Curtailing Hospitals' Tax Breaks

"Senators working on health-care legislation are considering provisions to pare back the billions of dollars in tax breaks enjoyed by U.S. hospitals. More than half of the 5,482 hospitals in the U.S. are nonprofits that don't pay federal, state or local taxes..." Read the rest here.

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"A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that around the world US foreign policy continues to receive heavy criticism on a variety of fronts, even though in 13 of 19 nations most people say they have confidence in President Obama to do the right thing in international affairs.

The US is criticized for coercing other nations with its superior power (15 of 19 nations), failing to abide by international law (17 of 19 nations), and for how it is dealing with climate change (11 of 18 nations). Overall, views are mixed on whether the US is playing a mainly positive or mainly negative role in the world"

Source: Though Obama Viewed Positively, Still Much Criticism of US Foreign Policy: Global Poll

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Les Masques - limited edition set of watches with masks from countries from different continents (Mexico, Japan, Papua New Guinea, and The Gabon) by Vacheron Constatin... Exquisite! You have to visit the site.

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Picture source/credit: Said Khatib/AFP

Apartment building in Rafah, Gaza.

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Phillip Morris International cigarette brands... Source: June PMI CFO presentation at the J.P.Morgan Global Tobacco Conference. Interesting 72-slide presentation on pricing, market share, etc.

(French: Smoking kills. German: Smoking can be deadly)

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M.I.A

Tosk's daily tweets will be offline until the Loudtwitter service is restored... (apparently they had a hard drive failure)

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Treble Clef. Go see this and other stunning macro photos at 35 Examples Of Stunning Macro Photography

Tweets for Today (Jun 29th)

Map of disputes between WTO Members tinyurl.com/n4j242 #

RT @earthintelnet "Global Legal Monitor Adds More than 300 RSS Feeds" (thanks resourceshelf) 80z1s.tk ¶ Fantastic resource #

Turkey: Military Ghost Rises Again bit.ly/xbWY6 #

Women: Dubai, New Destination on Trafficking Map bit.ly/16Jgex #

On Death Row: Pakistan - 7,000, U.S. - 3,200, India - 300 bit.ly/3tqjR #

(Drum roll) And now, the ne plus ultra of phoniness: Ahmadinejad wants probe of "suspicious" Neda death. bit.ly/BqayM #

It's not a Twitter revolution in Iran​ bit.ly/JMXXH #

Obama, Iran and a meaningless phrase​ bit.ly/vpDRu #

Cambodia: His paintings of "Brother Number One" saved his life bit.ly/kOF65 #

Is this leadership on health care? bit.ly/Py5qI #

RT @MariaWars: Ukraine is opening up its old KGB archive, declassifying hundreds of thousands of documents - bit.ly/AD8tC #

Bloodsuckers positioning themselves to exploit Michael Jackson's tragic death bit.ly/OwTw6 #

Egyptian Mummies Visit Hospital for CT Scan bit.ly/Pjgyk #

Pharma companies feeling 'supply chain pain', says UPS bit.ly/LqVzG #

The 'Rare' Disease That Isn't bit.ly/Zy7EG (up to 5% of pop?) #

Making Tumors More Sensitive to Chemotherapy bit.ly/uIW8s #

Jobs Travel to Transplant Mecca Shows System Flaws bit.ly/3cHN1o #

FDA weighs options to reduce painkiller overdoses tinyurl.com/n7r5f9 #

Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe tinyurl.com/mhm2ym #

Wisconsin ranked first in heatlhcare quality by federal agency tinyurl.com/lmujn3 #

RT @atomicgurl00 Marketing new chemical weapons: bit.ly/GbxOg #

RT @gamster428 RT Operation Mend needs LA buddy families; It's one of the most rewarding things you can do. bit.ly/FXaTI #

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Murs qui protègent, murs qui séparent Series, 'Walls which protect, walls which separate', from L'Express.

Tweets for Today (Jun 28th)

How come blocked followers now stay in Followers' list and count? Bah! #

RT @SteffanAntonas The raw beauty of the Cali coastline is breathtaking. twitpic.com/8mvf5 #

Also, what's the use of an 'unblock' command that doesn't work? e.g. tinyurl.com/l6xufe #

Obama Issues Signing Statement On War Spending Bill tinyurl.com/r8gbqu #

The First Licensing Round Gets off the Ground: The Politics of Oil in Iraq bit.ly/RrakW #

IRAN: "Obama Effect" Versus "Freedom Agenda" bit.ly/rpMDl ¤ U.S.-centric view of the world, it's all about us! #

Senator Baucus to put forward proposal to tax Americans for employer-paid healthcare coverage, except the unionized bit.ly/8ApKu #

Women in love: To hell and back in 15 days bit.ly/82rFG #

Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Elvis, Heath Ledger, Marilyn Monroe: What do they have in common? bit.ly/IHnfU (why FF on list?) #

Interested in a small, auxiliary monitor for your computer? Here's one: tinyurl.com/kud28d #

Iran: Larajani faction emerges as a third force in Iranian power struggle tinyurl.com/ntmvaj #

1st round in Internet war goes to Iranian intelligence tinyurl.com/kjeuob ¶ So now an "Iranian internet invasion" Total bunk #

Report: the unemployment rate among Egyptian youth stands at 21.1% tinyurl.com/lkfe5b #

The Mountebanks & The Apostates :by Fawaz A. Gerges tinyurl.com/nvggn9 #

Money floods out of Iran as election crisis continues tinyurl.com/kuo9y2 #

Airbus livre son premier avion assemblé en Chine tinyurl.com/m8u8uk #

Le porte-parole du gouvernement japonais gaffe après l'annonce du décès de Michael Jackson tinyurl.com/o4eban MJ, Japan #

Les fans de Michael Jackson pleurent le roi de la pop en Chine tinyurl.com/mo7dpr MJ, China #

Michael Jackson ou le vrai visage de l"Amérique tinyurl.com/ml8kkr MJ opened path for Obama? #

RT @johnkeithhart RT @jpneal Tony Blair, President of Europe? bit.ly/BaIWf ¤ Because he's been so successful as Quartet envoy ?!? #

RT @FiNS: More news about the plight of sharks twurl.nl/eubvkj #

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Ping pong tournament in China... This and other cool photos from Le Figaro here...

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Tidal channels near Iran's Qeshm Island. Source: NASA/JS. See this and 34 other pictures taken from the International Space Station (ISS) at The Big Picture.