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Afghanistan Click here for more Afghan News

state-03-1125.pdf   US Government Underestimated the Taliban 

Afghans Plan to Stop Recruiting Children as Police

Rogue Arbakai militias abuse rural Afghans (damaging any government legitimacy & the US solutions)

U.S. Military Commander: Afghan War Like A Never-Ending 'Tom And Jerry Cartoon'

Iraq Click here for more Iraq News

Dozens dead in Iraq bomb blast

Death toll reaches 51 day after Iraq funeral blast

Toll From Suicide Bombing of Iraq Police Recruits Rises to 42 Dead, More Than 100 Wounded

Bombings kill at least 50 along pilgrim route to Shiite holy city of Karbala

Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault (confirms earlier estimates)

Pakistan Click here for more Pakistani News

Alleged assassin gets hero treatment Imagine one of the top politicians of your country is gunned down by his own bodyguard, and the alleged assassin shows up at court to a hero's welcome. That's what happened this week in Pakistan.

Karzai's pick for parliament speaker accused of atrocities An Afghan warlord who's accused of gross human rights violations and was once close to Osama bin Laden has received the backing of President Hamid Karzai for the important post of speaker of the new parliament, which was inaugurated Wednesday.

The Americas  Click here for more

Paramilitaries committed 173,183 homicides: PG (Colombia)

Former Marxist guerrilla sworn in as first female president of Brazil

Middle East Click here for more Mid-East News

Jordan King Orders Prices Down Amid Protests

5,000 rally in Jordan 'bread and freedom' demo

Yemen protests: Thousands call on president to leave

Lebanese rally against Hezbollah in 'day of rage'

Israel demolishes historic hotel  Hotel Shepherd bulldozed to make way for new settlement despite global opposition to the move seen as obstacle to peace.

Hamas urges Gaza militant groups to stop attacks on Israel  Hamas official says organization began talks with other militant factions in order to 'control the situation on the ground', signaling Hamas hopes to avert any large-scale IDF operation in Gaza.

Hezbollah stages coup drills in Beirut

Click here for everything related to the Protests in Egypt......UPDATED 2/19/2011

Click here for everything related to the rest of the Arab Revolt ..UPDATED 2/19/2011

Europe Click here for more EU News

China-Russia oil pipeline opens New pipeline effectively to double Russian exports of crude oil to world's largest energy consumer

BLAST ROCKS MOSCOW'S BUSIEST AIRPORT: SUICIDE BOMBER SUSPECTED, 35 DEAD, 150 INJURED...

Vatican letter: Irish bishops were warned in '97 not to report all child-abuse cases to police

Passengers overpower hijacker on Norway-Turkey flight

Asia Click here for more News from Asia

MALAYSIA releases genetically modified mosquitoes.

Africa Click here for more News from Africa

Tunisia Revolution News (Latest Updates) A cable released by WikiLeaks called Tunisia a "police state" and criticized Ben Ali for being out of touch with the people. This has fueled references to the current protests as a "WikiLeaks Revolution."

US Headlines  Click here for more US News

US 'sold weapons' to al-Qaida Author explains how the US let al-Qaida buy an arsenal of deadly weapons

Sy Hersh: Top Secret Military Branch Run By 'Crusaders'

Ex-spy operates 'private CIA' Owner was indicted in the Iran-contra scandal but was later pardoned.

Homeowner Beats Bank Of America In Small Claims Court

Justice Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination

Programmer gets just three years for nearly wiping out all of Fannie Mae's financial data A computer programmer who almost succeeded in wiping out all of the Federal National Mortgage Association's financial data at the height of the housing market crash was sentenced to three years in prison earlier this month.

Scalia, Thomas had conflict of interest, group says  Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are the subject of an unusual letter delivered Wednesday by Common Cause asking the U.S. Justice Department to look into whether the jurists should have disqualified themselves from hearing the campaign finance case if they had attended a private meeting sponsored by Charles and David Koch, billionaire philanthropists who fund conservatives causes. A Supreme Court spokesperson said late Thursday that the two justices did not participate in the Koch brothers' private meetings, though Thomas "dropped by." Scalia to address Tea Party Caucus To address Tea Party members of Congress in closed-door session.

11-year-old Pennsylvanian is youngest person in world to face life without parole: Amnesty

US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing....Spain backs Bolivia in coca leaf campaign

Calls for inquiry into spy's conduct Environmental activist says she feels 'violated' by sexual relationship with man unmasked as undercover officer

Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Leak to Times Reporter  Federal prosecutors charged Jeffrey Sterling with 10 counts related to improperly keeping and disclosing national security information. The indictment did not say specifically what was leaked but, from the dates and other details, it was clear that the case centered on leaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen for his 2006 book, "State of War." The book revealed details about the CIA's covert spy war with Iran.

Financial Crisis Panel Finds Cause For Wall Street Prosecutions The bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has concluded that several financial industry figures appear to have broken the law and has referred multiple cases to state or federal authorities for potential prosecution, according to two sources directly involved in the deliberations.E-mails Show Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions

200 protesting construction workers burst into private mortgage bankers conference. The bankers fled

Science Click here for more Science News

Walk Like a Man: UK Gorilla Draws Fans Video of a Gorilla Walking Upright in a British Zoo Becomes Latest Internet Sensation

SCIENTISTS electrify microbes to clean dirty water.

Dramatic ocean circulation changes revealed The unusually cold weather this winter has been caused by a change in the winds. Instead of the typical westerly winds warmed by Atlantic surface ocean currents, cold northerly Arctic winds are influencing ...

WikiLeaks  Click here for more Wikileaks News UPDATED 2/19/2011

WikiLeaks points to US meddling in Haiti Minustah's commander, Brazilian Army General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2005. In January 2006, Bacellar was found shot dead on his balcony, after what his government described first as a 'firearm accident' and then as 'suicide'. Bacellar had earlier resisted calls to use his UN peacekeeping force to crack down on pro-Aristide rebels

PA's foreknowledge of the Gaza war? Did the PA know about the Gaza war in advance? That's a question raised by several exchanges in The Palestine Papers

PA stonewalled the Goldstone vote PA, with US encouragement, delayed a UN vote on the Goldstone Report into war crimes committed during Israel's Gaza war.

Israelis ‘demanded bribes at Gaza crossing,’ WikiLeaks reveals US firms complained in 2006 of corruption by Israeli officials at the Karni crossing into Gaza, then the Palestinian territory's main commercial transit point, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed Thursday.

Wikileaks claims Irishman gunned down in Bolivia was set up The diplomatic cable from La Paz released by Wikileaks says Dwyer was hired by disguised Bolivian intelligence agents and set up to mount a phony terrorist campaign. The cable says this campaign would have given President Evo Morales an excuse to go after right wing critics of his.

WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

Economy Click here for more Economy News

Census: Number of poor may be millions higher (than previously thought)

US Banks Report Phantom Income on $1.4 Trillion Delinquent Mortgages

JP Morgan Makes Big Bucks from Food Stamp Growth, Then Hires Workers in India with Our Tax Dollars

DAVOS 2011 Medvedev's defense of WikiLeaks--especially surprising considering the portrait of corruption the leaked diplomatic cables paint of the country. "Despite the fact that in itself those were probably illegal activities in the view of some states, the effect of this affair appears to me very, very positive for international relations," he said, adding that, "Russia will not support initiatives that put in doubt freedom in the Internet, freedom which is based on the requirements of morality and law." “Wealthy people invest in financial assets, creating asset bubbles,” he continued, presumably not singling out anyone in particular. -- William Alden

The German magazine Spiegel says Wall Street banksters committed a monumental insider bank robbery

Politics Click here for more Political News

Court Rules Government Can Continue To Suppress Detainee Statements Describing Torture And Abuse

ACLU: Unjustified homicide of detainees Among the documents are autopsy reports and military investigations, including 25 to 30 cases the ACLU says it believes are "unjustified homicide." Some of the homicides in the documents are widely known and have been reported in the media, such as the case of four Iraqi detainees executed by a group of U.S. soldiers and then pushed into a Baghdad canal in 2007.

Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight

Obama's New Chief Of Staff .....former JP Morgan Exec.. Opposed Health Care Bill.. Didn't Back Consumer Protection..And  Has $7.7 Million of JPMorgan Stock to Divest on Way to White House

Dem's PATRIOT Act extension would add judicial oversight

Leading Republican To Introduce Strict Gun Control Legislation

Colin Powell: Defunding NPR Won't Solve Deficit Problem, Congress Should Look At Cutting Defense

Fulfilling Father’s Campaign To Segregate Public Schools, Koch Groups End Successful Integration Program In NC  In a way, the Koch brothers are simply fulfilling their father’s legacy. In 1958, Fred Koch — the founder of Koch Industries — joined a group of manufacturing executives and Robert Welch to found the John Birch Society, a virulent far-right group that dominated the civil rights debate. The John Birch Society organized an impeachment campaign against then-Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren for the Brown v. Board decision outlawing racial segregation, and mobilized its supporters to oppose integration of schools on the grounds that mixing black and white would lead to the “mongrelization” of the races. Fred supported the John Birch Society’s anti-civil rights campaign, and wrote a screed denouncing the civil rights movement as communist-inspired.

Climate sceptic 'misled Congress over funding from oil industry'

Dead Woman Donated Thousands To Tea Party Express Joan Snyder Holmes has been dead for nearly four years. But during the past two years, she's managed to make thousands of dollars in donations to one of the country's premier Tea Party organizations. Those donations, uncovered by the Center for Responsive Politics in a report released Friday, gives an alternate, more cryptic meaning to the term grassroots. According to the money-in-politics investigative organization

Gates unveils billions in Pentagon cuts

$1b effort yields  no bioterror defenses The Pentagon is scaling back one of its largest efforts to develop treatments for troops and civilians infected in a germ warfare attack after a $1 billion, five-year program fell short of its primary goal. Untouchable: World’s Mightiest Military Loses Control of Spending on Foreign Firms Bribery cases in which investigators can't follow the money. Alleged offers of prostitutes to win defense contracts. Tax dollars winding up in the hands of the enemy. There are risks to the military's dependence on foreign firms – and challenges to making sure money is well spent. By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert How Did Super Bloated Defense Spending Become Such a Sacred Cow That We Can't Have a Debate About Cutting It?

BACKDOOR BAILOUT? Goldman Sachs Netted Billions Through Taxpayer Rescue

Goldman Sachs: “We Consider Our Size An Asset That We Try Hard To Preserve”

Banks React To New Rules -- By Replacing Old Fees With New Ones

GOLDMAN UNDER FIRE: New Information On Trading Activities Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has generated at least 18 percent of its revenues this year through trading and investing for its own benefit, according to a regulatory filing made Tuesday, flatly contradicting the firm's previous claims that such speculative activity made up a much smaller slice of its business.

Fed Caves On Predatory Lending Rule The central bank has informed several consumer agencies that it will table its proposal to eliminate "rescission," a critical component of consumer-protection law that strips banks of the right to make money on illegal loans.

Citigroup Bailout To Make US Taxpayers $12.3b Profit

Connecticut

 
Uncovering Sexual Assault in the Military

Madison residents guard beach access

North Branford sees need for town hall security cameras

SWAN And ACLU File Lawsuit Seeking Military Sexual Trauma Records Withheld By Federal Government

Proposed North Branford school budget calls for no layoffs, adds engineering program

CT Drug War

2 dead in Hartford shootings

State police seize 50 pounds of marijuana in New Haven

Homicides increase as other violent crimes dip 9% in New Haven

Internal Police Controversy Takes Another Turn

Evergreen Solar to close new plant at Devens The solar-panel plant is a cornerstone of Governor Deval Patrick's efforts to make Massachusetts a hub for the emerging clean-energy industry.
But Evergreen has been struggling in face of weak prices and competition from cheaper operations in China, where the government has offered solar companies generous subsidies to locate there.

School play controversy brews in Waterbury over racial epithet

Gun fair organizer acquitted in boy's death

Lieberman won't run for re-election

Conn. lottery sales still strong despite economic woes

United States  
WikiLeaks

Click here for Wikileaks News UPDATED 2/19/2011

Security Issues

Suicides up in 2010, U.S. Army says

US Justice Department wants Internet, cell records held longer

Controversial Muslim cleric caught being smuggled into U.S. over Mexico border

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday canceled the controversial virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, citing technical problems, cost overruns and schedule delays since its inception in 2005.

Uncovering Sexual Assault in the Military

dod-04-0110.pdf   DoD Domestic HUMINT Spying

New Hack Turns Smartphones Into Covert Spying System

Report: Women Should Be Permitted In Combat Roles

Two packages explode in Maryland state office buildings; no injuries reported

No more color-coded terror warnings Homeland Security Dept. plans to scrap color-coded terror warnings.

Oil Spill

Disaster Tax Rules Don't Apply For BP Oil Spill Claims (Not classified as a disaster)

Deepwater Drilling Resumes Without Any Changes To Spill Liability

Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help "We are very, very ill."

"Man, look at all this oil" says scientist on Florida beach

Blood Tests Of Gulf Residents Reveal Alarming Levels Of Toxic Chemicals

Study finds oil dispersants lingered deep under Gulf An active ingredient in the chemical dispersants pumped deep into the Gulf of Mexico after BP's oil spill didn't break down, but remained for several months in a deep layer of oil and gas, according to a study published Wednesday.

Fraudulent BP spill claims investigated

Environment

More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Ark.

State Allows Disposal Of 'Fracking' Pollution In Waterways Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.    There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful, then dumped into rivers and streams from which communities get their drinking water.

Thousands Of Dead Crabs Mysteriously Wash Ashore

200 dead cows found in Wisconsin field

Government recommends lowering fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water

Himalayan glaciers not melting because of climate change, report finds

Police/Prison

Planned Parenthood Calls In FBI After Series Of O'Keefe-Like Encounters

Misconduct in the FBI Years of secret FBI internal disciplinary reports obtained by CNN paint a disturbing picture of misconduct, including sleeping with sources, misusing government computers and watching porn in bureau offices. FULL STORY

SEIU union official found dead in Oakland home The political director of SEIU Local 616 was found dead Tuesday in his West Oakland home, the victim of a homicide,2 dead, 2 cops hurt in shootout outside Washington state Walmart

SF police caught on tape shooting wheelchair-bound man

WATCH: Kids Attack Man In D.C. Metro -- Bystanders Do Nothing

Envelope sent to Napolitano ignites at D.C. postal facility

Naked, Unarmed Man Shot and Killed by LAPD

Only Manufacturer Of Key Death Penalty Drug Ceases Production

Gunman shoots four cops in Detroit precinct

Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts Of Murder A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a "house of horrors" clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 69, made millions of dollars over 30 years, performing as many illegal, late-term abortions as he could, prosecutors said. State regulators ignored complaints about him and failed to inspect his clinic since 1993, but no charges were warranted against them given time limits and existing law, District Attorney Seth Williams said. Nine of Gosnell's employees also were charged.

Ex-cop faces 30 years over torture of suspects  Ex-cop faces 30 years over torture of suspects Dozens of people — mostly black men — claimed for decades that officers tortured them into confessing armed robbery, murder, other crimes

BOMB FOUND ALONG  MLK DAY PARADE ROUTE .....Rat poison, pellets in MLK parade bomb

German man admits mailing hundreds of tarantulas to U.S

U.S. Marshals agent, two police officers shot in St. Petersburg

 

Admiral: Captain to be relieved, others investigated, over videos There are also anti-gay slurs, simulated sex acts, and what appear to be two female sailors in a shower together.The Navy captain who produced profanity- and slur-laden videos while second in charge of the USS Enterprise will be permanently relieved of his command of the ship, a top Navy commander said Tuesday.

Greed

autism.vaccines The author of a now-retracted study linking autism to childhood vaccines expected a related medical test to rack up sales of up to $43 million a year, a British medical journal reported Tuesday.-

Key Insider Pleads Guilty In Massive Insider Trading Case

Fraud plagues global health fund 67 percent of money for an anti-AIDS program was misspent, a probe found.

How High-Interest Lenders Ensnare American Soldiers

Media

Facebook OKs using posts as ads 'Liking' something means it may appear as ad at friend's page.

GOOGLE censoring torrents, but not more harmful searches.

'You're going to have to shoot them in the head,' and assorted other instances of violent rhetoric

Morning Joe' Crew Shocked At Lieberman Calling Arianna 'Sweetheart'

Fox News gave GOP $55m in free advertising

Fox’s Own On-Screen Graphic Debunks Cavuto’s Theory That Low Corporate Tax Rates Are Good For Markets

Drug War

Justices To Pot Users: Be Careful When You Flush

Legalizing Drugs Decreases Use - Proof In Portugal, Netherlands

Drug-Hurling Catapult Found on Ariz.-Mex. Border

Pa. auditor: Release non-violent offenders This is something reformers have been yelling about for years. Why put nonviolent offenders into an institution where not only does it cost more, you're practically guaranteeing that they come out as hardened criminals?

Obama calls drug policy debate 'legitimate,' backs prohibition

Education

Government Cashes In On Defaulted Student Loans

Black Children Wrongfully Classified As Special Education Students

B.C. professor's lecture prompts FBI call    "I think that it's only in the United States, or only in the context of a colonial culture, a racist culture, a patriarchal culture, that a young white male can really shoot his mouth off, making accusations and causing all this uproar," she said.

Lawmaker explains why teachers should grade parents

Courts

75-Year Prison Sentence for Taping the Police? The Absurd Laws That Criminalize Audio and Video Recording in America

Allen Stanford ruled unfit to stand trial for fraud District Judge David Hittner ruled that Mr Stanford did not have the present mental capacity to assist his lawyers.  But he ordered Mr Stanford to undergo treatment at a US prison hospital for an addiction to an anti-anxiety medication, and also receive additional psychiatric testing.

California Court Rules Ammunition Ban AB962 Unconstitutional

NY judge limits amount World Trade Center firm can claim it lost in Sept. 11 attacks

Eskimo Family Beats BP In Court

The CIA File on Luis Posada Carriles A Former Agency Asset Goes on Trial in the U.S.Transcript: Ex-CIA agent said he didn't understand English while admitting Cuba hotel bombings

Madoff victims win $7.2B  

Righthaven extends copyright lawsuit campaign to individual Web posters

Science History
Scientists Create Desert Rainstorms According to Arabian Business, the storms were part of a top secret, Swiss-backed project, commissioned by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE and leader of Abu Dhabi. Called "Weathertec," the climate project -- said to be worth a staggering $11 million -- utilized ionizers resembling giant lampshades to generate fields of negatively charged particles, which create cloud formation, throughout the country's Al Ain region, the Telegraph is reporting.

Evidence Of 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel Found

British Medical Journal: Report Linking Vaccine To Autism Fraudulent

NASA'S Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space

Hong Kong researchers store data in bacteria

New map of the universe unveiled (Dialup Warning)

Coal Fires May Have Caused Biggest Extinction Ever 250 million years ago was not a fun time to live on earth. Studies now suggest that around this time, volcanic eruptions sparked coal fires that may have led to the extinction of over 90 percent of marine species.

Humans Left Africa 65,000 Years Earlier: Study  Modern humans may have left Africa for Arabia up to 65,000 years earlier than previously thought and their exodus was enabled by environmental factors rather than technology, scientists said on Thursday

Reagan exhibited signs of Alzheimer’s while still in White House, son claims

Patrice Lumumba: 50 Years Later, Remembering the U.S.-Backed Assassination of Congo’s First Democratically Elected Leader the assassination of Lumumba really signaled that that was not to be, because, for Belgium, as for the other major European colonial powers, like Britain and France, giving independence to an African colony was OK for them as long as it didn’t disturb existing business arrangements. As long as the European country could continue to own the mines, the factories, the plantations, well, OK, let them have their politics. But Lumumba spoke very loudly, very dramatically, saying Africa needs to be economically independent, as well. And it was a fiery speech on this subject that he gave at the actual independence ceremonies, June 30th, 1960, where he was replying to an extremely arrogant speech by King Baudouin of Belgium. It was a speech he gave on this subject that I think really began the process that ended two months later with the CIA, with White House approval, decreeing that he should be assassinated.

wh-74-1111.pdf    Prez Ford ex-DCI McCone on Spying Policy

Government Report Finds Bush White House Violations

Politics  
Treasury/Federal Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS

Mortgage Bankers Association Stands Against Successful Foreclosure Prevention Efforts Bank of America said it agreed Monday to pay $2.8 billion to taxpayer-funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to settle claims that it sold the mortgage giants bad home loans.

Loan Modification Scam Pushing Working Parents Toward Bankruptcy Reversing a potentially controversial decision, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling from the ground rules for Medicare's new annual checkup, the White House said Wednesday.

How taxpayers subsidize Facebook Taxpayers on hook for Goldman Sachs' investment in Facebook.

SEC Issues Crucial New Ruling On Mortgages, Loans The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules Thursday requiring firms selling the securities to make a thorough review of the loans backing them and then to report the findings of the review to the public. The markets for securities backed by bundles of mortgages, auto and student loans, and credit cards have remained weak since the crisis, largely because investors are unsure about the quality of the loans.

The Latest Foreclosure Scandal: Default Notices Every notice of default has a signature on it. But just like the infamously rubber-stamped affidavits in the robo-signing cases, default notices, in at least some instances, have been signed by employees who did not verify the information in them, court papers show. In several lawsuits filed in nonjudicial states, borrower attorneys are arguing that this is grounds to stop a foreclosure.

Goldman Sachs sued over mortgage deal cited by SEC A foundering bond insurer filed a civil fraud suit against Goldman Sachs Thursday over the same exotic mortgage securities deal in which Goldman paid $550 million last summer in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. » read more

UPS, FedEx subject of U.S. antitrust inquiry United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp are under scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over whether they broke antitrust law by trying to shut out bargain-hunting shipping consultants.

Internal USDA Report Says $4B In USDA Stimulus Loans May Have Gone To Ineligible Borrowers

AIG ‘Shouldn’t Exist,’ Golub Says, Urging Breakup  

US investigates Deutsche Bank in foreclosure case (Allegations Deutsche Bank filed false documents)

Michigan sues countrywide for 65 Million in pension losses.

Health Care

Preparing To Obstruct Health Law, WI Gov. Scott Walker Hires UnitedHealth Lobbyist As Deputy Chief Of Staff

Blue Shield rejects 60-day delay of rate increases in California

Vermont Lawmakers Lay Groundwork For Single Payer System Instead Of Obamacare

Big Health Insurer Wants Up To 59 Percent Hike In Individual Premiums

Arizona Patient Dies After GOP Budget Cuts Deny Transplant

Congress will probe the Pentagon on the denial of a therapy for brain-injured troops

Hospital Visitation Rights for Gay, Lesbian Partners Take Effect

GOP Health Care Repeal Would Spike Deficit By $230 Billion

Budget and Taxes

U.S. Says New York City Overbilled Medicaid

Incoming Energy Chair Rep. Fred Upton: ‘I Don’t Think We Have To Regulate Carbon’

New GOP Governor: Jailing Drug Addicts Is 'Draining To Our State'

Tom DeLay sentenced to 3 years in prison Former U.S. House majority leader was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy

Joe Wilson 'You Lie' Slogan Etched Onto Line Of Assault Rifle Components

Republicans Elect New Leader

Michael Steele Reportedly Dropped RNC Reelection Bid After Being Offered Lucrative Deal

Racist Right Causes (R) To Resign In Arizona

Idaho Lawmakers Cite Founder Of Neo-Confederate Hate Group To Justify Plan To Nullify Health Reform

Republican Study Committee Budget Plan Doesn’t Include Single Cut To Defense, Despite Tea Party Demands

Arizona shootout

Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard

FBI: Family of suspect in Giffords shooting blocking access to house

UPDATE: DHS Denies Link Between Suspect And Hate Group

Suspect Stopped For Running Red Light Hours Before Shooting.. Congresswoman Moving Both Arms.. Suspect's Parents Address 'Heinous Event'..

Loughner "faking it," says ex-girlfriend The suspected shooter's former sweetheart does not believe the many rumors about schizophrenia

Police release Loughner's pre-shooting timeline Authorities say he had photos developed, bought bullets at Wal-Mart and checked into a motel before his rampage

Arizona Shooting Suspect Jared Loughner Posed in Pictures in Red G-String with Glock, Say Police

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist OrganizationSarah Palin Criticized Over Gabrielle Giffords Presence on "Target List"

Federal Judge Shot At Incident In Arizona

Arizona Shooting Suspect Not Cooperating

Giffords shooter fired 31 rounds As gun control backers turn their focus to high-capacity clips, NBC reports that 31 rounds were fired in Arizona

Religious extremists banned from picketing funeral

Dick Cheney: 'Maybe It's Appropriate' To Limit Size Of Gun Magazines

Police looking for accomplices at Giffords shooting scene

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was a target of Sarah Palin, but is a moderate, gun-owning Democrat

Gun in Tucson shooting legal

Glock Sales Surge In Wake Of Shooting

Congress

Issa Blocks Dem From Making Case Against JPMorgan At Start Of Foreclosure Hearing

Senate

Senator: Police should get warrants for mobile data

House

US House to investigate Wikileaks

Republicans kill global warming committee

House Republicans Vote To Repeal Health Care Law

White House

Obama

Nurses Blast Obama Administration for Removing OSHA Safety Rule

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

Obama Administration Reverses Decision On End-Of-Life Counseling Reversing a potentially controversial decision, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling from the ground rules for Medicare's new annual checkup, the White House said Wednesday.

GE CEO To Replace Volcker On Obama's Economic Team

Obama Team Dysfunction Hurt Economic Policy, Book Says

Obama: Let's strip out oil subsidies and give them to green tech

GITMO/Bahgram/CIA-Blacksites

Judge upholds Algerian's detention at Guantánamo

CIA “Ghost Prisoner” Abu Zubaydah Recognized As “Victim” In Polish Probe Of Secret Prison »

Guantanamo detainees stage peaceful protests daily

Obama Issues Signing Statement Panning Gitmo Transfer Ban After signing the defense authorization act this afternoon, President Obama issued a signing statement calling provisions banning the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees "a dangerous and unprecedented challenge to critical executive

 Economy Click for Economic Statistics Financial Crisis for Beginners 
SEC may force Facebook flotation

Webster is trying to shame property owners to action

U.S. To Offer Compromise In Mexican Trucking Dispute  The Obama administration Thursday offered a proposal to allow Mexican long-haul trucks to operate in the U.S. in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, signaling a new effort to break a stalemate that provoked Mexico to slap punitive tariffs on an array of U.S. goods.

Citigroup CEO Gets A 175 Million Percent Raise

China might revalue its currency this year: Kissinger

 

Iraq  Map of Iraq
Back in Iraq, militant cleric Sadr tells followers to shun violence In a triumphal return after more than three years in Iran, militant cleric Muqtada al Sadr called on his followers Saturday to abandon the use of violence and channel their efforts into the new Iraqi government, while demanding an end to U.S. influence in Iraq. Radical cleric Sadr returns to Iraq (after 4 years) as hero

Blackwater suit tossed 7 years after grisly deathsA federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the restive streets of Iraq

In ’91, Hussein Sought Soviet Help to Head Off U.S.

Iraq refugee returns fell in 2010

Baghdad's loss is Kurds' gain: Nightclubs head north as alcohol is banned in Iraq's capital

Iraqi soldiers kill two U.S. soldiers in Mosul

Top Ranking Insurgents Make Daring Jailbreak In Iraq

Blair-Bush notes will remain secret The head of the civil service has refused to allow the official inquiry into the Iraq War to publish notes sent by Tony Blair to former US president George Bush.

Middle East Map of the Middle East
Egypt Click here for everything related to the Protests in Egypt

UPDATED 2/19/2011

Deadly blast outside Egypt church At least ten people killed in an attack on a Christian church in Alexandria in northern Egypt.

Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields For Coptic Christmas Services Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reported that prominent Islamic leaders and celebrities had called for a massive show of support by Egypt's Muslims in order to send a message that the majority of the nation would not stand for extremist violence and persecution.

Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain  

Protesters In Egypt Defy Government Ban, Massive Detentions Underway

After Blocking Twitter, Egypt Reportedly Starts Restricting Access To Facebook

Anonymous Asks For DDoS Attack On Key Egyptian Sites

Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez as protests in Egypt move into third day

Massive Detentions.. AP Journalists Arrested

Hillary Clinton Confronts Egypt: Reform Now, Stop Blocking Social Media

ElBaradei arrives in Egypt
Democracy advocate returns to country to join anti-Mubarak protests, the latest of which has claimed one life.

Egypt shuts down texting Reports claim Egyptian government shut down Short Message Services

Guardian Journalist Arrested and Beaten Alongside Protesters in Egypt Secretly Records Ordeal

Protesters torch Egypt police post

(Thousands of) Cairo protesters try to storm Foreign Ministry (& the state TV building

US-Egypt military chiefs meet in Washington

Mapping Egypt's 'day of wrath'

Leaked cables: Torture a 'daily' reality in Egypt's prisons Leaked diplomatic cables released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks show that Egyptian police regularly torture suspects due to "unrelenting pressure" from their superiors to solve criminal investigations.

SHOCK VIDEO: Protester Shot..

NOBEL LAUREATE DETAINED.. Journalists Arrested..

El Baradei under house arrest Egypt places Nobel Peace laureate under house arrest amid massive protests.

Egypt's Internet Goes Down

Police Open Fire On Crowd In Cairo

WIDESPREAD LOOTING

Egyptian State TV reports that Omar Suleiman, Head of Intelligence, has been sworn into office as VP

Egypt has arrested over 1000 UN human rights chief calls for lifting of emergency law, free use of social networ

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Iran <Click for video and history>

Iran passenger plane crash 'kills 72'

Iran says 2 downed spy planes were US-operated

Iran says it will end Afghan fuel blockade

Iranian Workers Stage Protests Over Nonpayment Of Wages

Iran hangs Iranian-Dutch woman Sahra Bahrami A Dutch-Iranian woman, arrested after taking part in anti-government protests in Iran, has been hanged for drug smuggling,

Syria

Syria Internet Down As Egypt Blackout Catches On In Middle East

Saudi Arabia

Saudi man dies after setting himself on fire

Other

Yemeni soldiers killed in ambush Al-Qaeda blamed for attack on army vehicles in Lawdar, in Abyan province, that has claimed nine lives.

Man with ‘black magic’ tools arrested at Abu Dhabi airport

Qaeda warns of 'Christian-Shiite pact' on Yemen An Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader warned Sunni Muslims of a rising "Christian-Shiite alliance" against them in an audio message released on jihadist forums late on Friday.

Israel

Expelling Israel's Arab population? Israeli negotiators, including Tzipi Livni, proposed "swapping" some of Israel's Arab villages into a Palestinian state.

Palestinian killed in Israeli raid  Family says soldiers mistakenly shot dead sleeping man during hunt for a Hamas fighter released from Palestinian jail.
 
Gazan youth vent anger with all sides Anonymous group of students has expressed frustration with Hamas's violent crackdowns and the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks

Israeli gov't approves 'McCarthy-esque' panel to investigate 'left-wing' groups

Israeli Soldiers Kill The Wrong Man In Hamas Raid

Palestinian Reporter Charged With Insulting Leader On Facebook

Thousands Protest In Gaza Over Leaked 'Palestine Papers'

Student protesters occupy Palestinian embassy in London

Vice PM: Hezbollah agents infiltrated Gaza to train militants Former IDF chief Moshe Yaalon says Hezbollah has been in Gaza since Israel's 2005 withdrawal; Hamas spokesman denies claim

Lebanon

Lebanon's Druze leader says backs Hezbollah

Lebanese Government Collapses

Hezbollah Backs Karami for Premier as Lebanon Political Deadlock Deepens

Afghanistan   Map of Afghanistan
NATO: $20 billion spent in 2 years for Afghan Training

Afghanistan bombings strike intelligence officials

U.S. keeps funneling money to troubled Afghan projects McClatchy found that U.S. government funding for at least 15 large-scale programs and projects grew from just over $1 billion to nearly $3 billion despite the government's questions about their effectiveness or cost. Welcome to Afghan aid, American-style. U.S. Risks Wasting Billions In Security Aid To Afghanistan

Shocking footage emerges of Taliban stoning couple to death

Pakistani Politician Imran Khan Links Blasphemy Laws To War On Terror Under a new anti-corruption strategy for Afghanistan, the U.S. government won't aggressively pursue top Afghan officials suspected of malfeasance, conceding that "limited judicial capacity and political interference" from President Hamid Karzai's government make success in prosecuting them unlikely. » read more

Bin Laden message warns France to pull out of Afghanistan

 U.S. won't pursue Karzai allies in anti-corruption campaign

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Mainstream Pakistan religious organisations applaud killing of (Punjab Governor) Salman Taseer

US drones kill 6 in Pakistan

14 NATO lorries torched in Pakistan Pakistani Taliban target tankers supplying conflict across the border in Afghanistan.

Powerful quake rocks remote area in Pakistan

U.S. embassy worker kills two armed men in Pakistan

Pakistanis rally over blasphemy law Strikes and protests against proposed change to present law which permits death sentence for those guilty of blasphemy.

Report faults Daniel Pearl murder investigation (New details emerge after 3 1/2 year investigation)Federal agents have backed up al Qaeda captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession in the killing of journalist Daniel Pearl by using photographs of the veins in his hands, according to a new report released Thursday.The four men imprisoned for killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were not present during his beheading but were convicted of murder because Pakistani authorities knowingly relied on perjured testimony

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Troops in Dhaka court over mutiny  Hundreds of Bangladeshi soldiers appear before judge accused of a mutiny in February 2009 that left 74 people dead.

China blacks out CNN television

Photos Leaked Of Possible Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet

China Internet cafe blast kills 6, injures 38

Europe Map of Europe
Iceland blasts US demand for lawmaker's details in WikiLeaks probe

Medvedev Expands Corruption Fight President Dmitry Medvedev opened a new front in the war against corruption Thursday, ordering a thorough check of government officials' income declarations and tough penalties against those who provided false information.

Al-Qaeda to unleash Western jihadis Twelve Caucasian Canadian militants are receiving jihadi training in al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan's North Waziristan for terror attacks in their home country,

Swiss find signs of illegal US surveillance

Russian bank staff under investigation in London

Three dead as Albanian protesters clash with police

Ireland's finance minister secures deal to pass austerity bill

Fitch downgrades Greece rating to junk status

UK terrorism security threat level raised at airports (from "substantial" to "severe")

Thousands Of Birds Found Dead In Italy

Riots break out in Athens between right and left-wing protesters (over immigration)

Russians hope to reach Lake Vostok for the first time soon Lake Vostok, an untouched lake in Antarctica, is soon to be reached for the first time. Russian scientists are drilling down to the oxygen-rich lake, which is buried beneath a sheet of ice ...

Spying on (environmental) protest groups has gone badly wrong, (British) police chiefs say

Russia's Own WikiLeaks Takes Off A new web site striving to be Russia's answer to WikiLeaks has become a hit with the publication of photographs of a luxury mansion linked to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The site's team promised that the photos were only the beginning.

Africa

Map of Africa
Many dead in Nigeria market blast

Ivory Coast: Ouattara wants commandos to snatch Gbagbo

US blacklists Ivory Coast president, inner circle

Sudan arrests opposition leader Turabi and eight others

Zimbabwe mulls treason charges against former opposition politicians named in WikiLeaks cables

Sudanese man dies after setting himself on fire

Dramatic high-seas rescue as S. Korean troops storm ship Eight Somali pirates were killed and five captured Friday when South Korean toops stormed the Samho Jewelry chemical carrier in the Arabian Sea. The ship had been sailing between the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka when it was seized last week. » read more

NGOs, SHELL lock horns over Nigerian oil spills.

Ugandan gay rights activist bludgeoned to death

Sudan opposition 'to oust regime' Hassan al-Turabi, a leader of the opposition, says parties will 'peacefully' overthrow President al-Bashir's government. \

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Mexico

Severed head hung from Tijuana bridge

Diplomat to Consulate of Mexico Assassinated

15 headless bodies found in Acapulco

Juarez killings activist Chavez murdered in Mexico A Mexican activist who led protests against the unsolved killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez has herself been murdered.

Mexico police: 7 slain at soccer game

Venezuala

Chavez says he won't give up decree powers

Venezuela arrests 'Aguilas Negras commander'  Adriaan Alsema Venezuela on Sunday claimed it arrested the leader of Colombian neo-paramilitary group

Haiti

'Baby Doc' Duvalier charged with corruption in Haiti Ex-Haiti dictator holes up in luxury hotel

Duvalier: Give frozen assets to Haiti |

Baby Doc Duvalier Charged With Graft, Theft Switzerland is looking to seize $7.3 million from Duvalier to give to Haiti.

HAITI probes alleged Duvalier atrocities.

Other

Fidel Castro's nemesis goes on trial in Texas 82-year-old avowed militant faces charges connected to decade-old bombings that killed an Italian tourist

Lifelong secrecy vow gags thousands of federal officials, records show (Canada)

Plaintiff's Final Arguments in Ecuador Court Show 'Overwhelming' Proof of Chevron Contamination