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12 YEARS
HARD LABOR
US
Journalists Sentenced To North Korean Prison... Obama
Administration: We'll Pursue "All Possible Channels" For
Release
LUXURY HOTEL BOMBED IN PAKISTAN
VIDEO
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TIMELINE ...
U.S. Was To Buy Hotel ...
Report From Inside Pakistan
Obama's Pick to Lead Afghan War Linked to Abuse of
Prisoners & Secret Assassination Unit Lieutenant
General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander
of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to
2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program
to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around
the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley
McChrystal’s nomination for a key position because of
questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his
command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp
Nama, a US base near Baghdad’s airport where Special
Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention
center.
Netanyahu Convinced Obama Seeks Clash With Israel To
Appease Arabs
Health Professionals Tell Congress They Want
Single-Payer
FIRST SHOTS FIRED IN HEALTH CARE WAR
Clowns made fools of the KKK
The white supremacist
group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally
in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled by … clowns!
Unfortunately for [VNN] the 100th ARA (Anti Racist
Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by
making them appear like the asses they were.
Too sick to kill: Mod 9 to US CENTCOM, Individual
Protection and Individual-Unit Deployment Policy, 8 Sep
2008 "Too sick to kill". This US military policy on
deployment of sick soldiers was sent by Mod 9 to US
Central Command (CENTCOM); and is dated September 8,
2008. It was written at the
For Official Use Only level. It was exposed on an
internet connected server. It mentions psychotropic
drugs, mammograms, lack of AC mains in combat.
Multiple People Shot At Holocaust Museum In D.C.
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Iranian Dissident Group Claims US Support An Iranian
terrorist organization claims to have been receiving help
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2005 in
order to implement terror attacks inside Iran.
Obama's True Colors: Appointee Opposes Abortion and Birth
Control Women's rights stalwart Frances Kissling
questions why President Obama has appointed a woman as head
of the Department Health and Humans Services's
Center for
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives who, according to
Kissling,
believes abortion should be illegal and opposes birth
control--even for married couples.
CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed
Judge
refuses to reveal alleged US role in UAE torture of an
American citizen
Hamdan, a 42-year-old Muslim,
father and small business owner from California, was
arrested by United Arab Emirates authorities in August, 2008
and tortured repeatedly. During the abuse, he says, a man
who spoke perfect English was present, ever threatening him
to comply with his interrogators.
Two Old Wall Street Hands: "Nothing Has
Really Been Fixed"
Billionaire tax cheat: UBS recruited wealthy for tax
shelters
You should
absolutely
read the rest of this fascinating exploration of how
wealth is obscured.It's also worthy noting that former
Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), who was briefly Sen. John
McCain's economic adviser during the 2008 presidential
campaign,
is the
vice chairman of UBS AG's investiment banking division.
If you're wondering whether he had anything to do with the
company's efforts to recruit the wealthy into tax shelters,
well ... You
aren't the only one.
Global military spending surges China becomes world's
second biggest arms buyer, Swedish monitoring group says.
Why no calls to waterboard abortion doc killer?
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Media Madness I think there is a
dynamic where it is in the interests of reporters to portray
our political debate as standing between people like Rush
Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich on the right, and Barack Obama on
the left. And what E.J. Dionne was saying is that there are
plenty of people to Obama's left who deserve as large a
platform as a Rush Limbaugh or a Newt Gingrich or perhaps
even more so. |
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Connecticut
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In Memory of Matthew
Despite their incredible loss, a North Branford family is
reaching out to the community in the aftermath of the death
of 18-year-old North Branford High School senior Matt
Picciuto. This promising young student died as the result of
injuries suffered during an afternoon accident on May 23 on
Totoket Road; two friends in the vehicle survived with
non-life threatening injuries.
Dodd to Fed: Kill Banks' “Abusive” Overdraft Fees Sen.
Christopher Dodd wants the Federal Reserve to pull rank and
stop banks from charging “abusive” overdraft fees.
Conn. man says city taking house over $50 tax
bill A man in Connecticut says
he's losing his home because he owes $50 in back taxes. |
Uninsured babies may get better care A baby born with a
congenital defect might receive more specialized care if her
family is uninsured than if the family has health coverage,
according to a team of Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New
Haven Children’s Hospital doctors.
Connecticut crackdown takes 153 vehicles off the road
Officials said 411 tickets were issued for safety
violations. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut's safety crackdown
on commercial trucks, buses and tractor-trailers has taken
153 vehicles off the road. |
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United States |
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Who was Thomas Paine?
Paine worked in various positions in America's early
revolutionary government. But he was never accepted as one
of the founding fathers largely because his restless spirit
and appetite for revolution led him to another mass revolt,
this time in France.
US high school graduation rate climbs to 69.2
percent
Clowns made fools of the KKK
The white supremacist group
VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in
Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled by … clowns!
Unfortunately for [VNN] the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action)
clown block came and handed them their asses by making them
appear like the asses they were.
Security Issues
New Orleans Mayor, Wife Quarantined In China New Orleans Mayor Quarantined In China: Ray Nagin And
His Wife Were On Plane With Passenger Showing Flu-Like
Symptoms
Global military spending surges China becomes world's
second biggest arms buyer, Swedish monitoring group says.
Army cracks down as drug, alcohol cases rise Drug and
alcohol abuse in the ranks is on the rise, and Army
officials say commanders are largely to blame for failing to
take control of the situation.
"School of Americas" Generals Charged In Colombia Two
Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the
U.S. Army's "School of The Americas"(SOA) at Ft. Benning,
Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes
involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal
paramilitary groups, according to a report in the June 15th
issue of The Nation magazine.
Why no calls to waterboard abortion doc killer?
Too sick to kill: Mod 9 to US CENTCOM, Individual Protection
and Individual-Unit Deployment Policy, 8 Sep 2008 "Too
sick to kill". This US military policy on deployment of sick
soldiers was sent by Mod 9 to US Central Command (CENTCOM);
and is dated September 8, 2008. It was written at the
For Official Use Only level. It was exposed on an
internet connected server. It mentions psychotropic drugs,
mammograms, lack of AC mains in combat.
The Secrecy Court of Last Resort One of
the absurdities of the system is that historical national
security information, even information 60 years old, is
subject to standards that are nearly as tough as those
applied to recently-produced information.
Multiple People Shot At Holocaust Museum In D.C.
BC: Suspected Shooter Was White Supremacist
Police
New video shows officer shove, then taser 72-year-old great
grandmother
It shows
Constable Richard McCain screaming, “Get over here now!”
Winkfein replies, “Give [the ticket] to me and I’ll sign
it.” Instead, the officer reaches out and pushes her, and
she starts complaining, “Oh, you’re going to shove me?
You’re going to shove a seventy-two year old woman?”
New Jersey Teen Killed at a Block Party
A neighborhood's "Meet your Candidate" barbeque turns
violent as a drive-by shooter opens fire
Courts
Shell, Nigerian families settle suit for $15.5 million
Calif. cities go to court for recruiter ban Two
California cities are defending recent their voter-approved
measures banning military recruitment of minors.
Federal Court Says Religious Monument At Oklahoma Courthouse
Is Unconstitutional
The Drug
Prohibition
Prohibition: The Forgotten Crusade
R.I.
senate okays medical pot shops
Housing
Minneapolis Man Facing Foreclosure Boarded In His House
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Corporate Greed
SEC accuses 2 California men of running Ponzi
scheme Peter Son of Danville and
Jin K. Chung of Los Altos ran an $80-million scheme that
involved about 500 Korean American investors in the U.S.,
South Korea and Taiwan, the agency says in a lawsuit.
Billionaire tax cheat: UBS
recruited wealthy for tax
shelters
You should absolutely
read the rest of this fascinating exploration of how
wealth is obscured.It's also worthy noting that former Senator Phil Gramm
(R-TX), who was briefly Sen. John McCain's economic adviser
during the 2008 presidential campaign,
is the vice
chairman of UBS AG's investiment banking division. If
you're wondering whether he had anything to do with the
company's efforts to recruit the wealthy into tax shelters,
well ... You
aren't the only one.
Homophobia
Homophobia on Prime Time: Judges from 'So You Think You Can
Dance' Freak Out Over Two Men Dancing Together They were
so freaked out that they were unable to render a verdict on
the pair's dancing, and insisted that each man repeat the
audition with a woman.
Immigration
American dream
Applications for US visas dry up after years of
queues
Judge: Raids Violated Immigrants' Rights Federal
agents violated the constitutional rights of four
illegal immigrants in raids that critics say were
retaliation for a New Haven program that provided ID
cards to foreigners in the country illegally, a
federal judge has ruled.
Media
FRIDAY:
Analog TV signals stop.
Modern
Media Madness I think there is a
dynamic where it is in the interests of reporters to portray
our political debate as standing between people like Rush
Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich on the right, and Barack Obama on
the left. And what E.J. Dionne was saying is that there are
plenty of people to Obama's left who deserve as large a
platform as a Rush Limbaugh or a Newt Gingrich or perhaps
even more so.
Stimulus Spending
Work begins on nation's largest mass transit project The
largest mass transit project in the country got under way
Monday with the help of federal stimulus dollars,
Abortion
Slain
U.S. abortion doctor's clinic to close The family
of slain abortion provider George Tiller said Tuesday that
his Wichita clinic will be "permanently closed," effective
immediately. In a statement released by Tiller's attorneys,
his family said it is ceasing operation of Women's Health
Care Services Inc. and any involvement by family members in
any other similar clinic. Supreme
Court
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
What’s next on “bailout” law?
In what may have been an excess of exuberance, the White
House issued a statement about the Chrysler deal Tuesday
night. Attributed to an unnamed White House official, it
included this assertion: “We are gratified that not a single
court that reviewed this matter, including the U.S. Supreme
Court, found any fault whatsoever with the handling of this
matter by either Chrysler or the U.S. Government….” There
are some problems with that, and they are not mere legal
technicalities. Fundamental constitutional issues surround
the use of federal funds in the Chrysler bailout, as do a
host of questions about using the bankruptcy laws as they
were in this case. They were raised in the papers filed at
the Court this week, but they were not answered in any final
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Politics |
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House
House approves ‘cash for clunkers’ plan
With auto sales in the doldrums, the House approves a plan
to provide vouchers of up to $4,500 for consumers who turn
in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for more
fuel-efficient vehicles.
House Lawmakers Subpoena Fed for BoA-Merrill Lynch Documents
It’s just the latest in a string of controversies
surrounding the merger. In April, reports emerged that Lewis
claimed he was pressured by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and
then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to keep silent about
Merrill’s decline at the end of 2008 — as well as $4 billion
in bonuses Merrill intended to pay its employees — lest the
news spook BofA shareholders and kill the acquisition deal.
That deal, originally billed as a private transaction,
eventually required $20 billion in federal funds to
complete.
House Subcommittee Considers Bill To End
“Life Without Parole” For Children
Issues
Federal Reserve/Bailouts
Two Old Wall Street Hands: "Nothing Has Really Been Fixed"
Some Big Banks Will Be Allowed To Repay TARP Funds
10 banks to pay back $68 billion
Geithner: We Are Not Putting Caps On
Compensation
WARS
Major problems found in war spending In its first report
to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a
bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have
been spent since 2001. The 111-page report, obtained by The
Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight,
and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring
themes in wartime contracting.
U.S. War Funding Bill Brims with Unrelated Extras A $100
billion bill to fund U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is
rapidly accumulating extra items such as money for military
aircraft the Pentagon doesn't want and possibly a scheme to
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Supreme Court
Attack On Sotomayor's Political Ties Ignores Roberts' Link
To Bush A new line of attack against Judge Sonia Sotomayor holds
that the Supreme Court nominee lacks impartiality because
she has been a public supporter of President Barack Obama.But Sotomayor is not the only nominee to the court who
has publicly supported a sitting president. The
conservatives criticizing Sotomayor seem to have forgotten
Chief Justice John Roberts' close association with President
George W. Bush.
Judges must disqualify themselves in some
cases involving their top campaign contributors, the
U.S. Supreme Court said, ruling for the first time that
judicial elections can create a risk of bias that violates
the Constitution.
Health Insurance
Health Professionals Tell Congress They Want Single-Payer
FIRST SHOTS FIRED IN HEALTH CARE WAR
GITMO/Abu Gharab/Bagram/CIA Sites
Judge refuses
to reveal alleged US role in UAE torture of an American
citizen
Hamdan, a 42-year-old Muslim, father and small
business owner from California, was arrested by United Arab
Emirates authorities in August, 2008 and tortured
repeatedly. During the abuse, he says, a man who spoke
perfect English was present, ever threatening him to comply
with his interrogators.
WATCH: Gitmo Detainee Freed After Seven Years
Speaks
Lakhdar Boumediene was an aid worker for the Red
Crescent when he was swept up in a 2001 raid by Bosnian
police and then transferred to the military prison at
Guantanamo Bay, accused of plotting to attack a U.S.
embassy.
CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed
Justice Dept.: 1st Gitmo detainee arrives in US
Ex-Guantanamo prisoner pleads not guilty in
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Technology Key To New Drug War Strategy The Obama
administration plans to use a combination of new technology
and old-fashioned police work to crack down on the extensive
drug trade along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush As president, Barack
Obama mentions Jesus Christ in a number of high-profile
public speeches. |
Obama's True Colors: Appointee Opposes Abortion and Birth
Control Women's rights stalwart Frances Kissling
questions why President Obama has appointed a woman as head
of the Department Health and Humans Services's
Center for
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives who, according to
Kissling,
believes abortion should be illegal and opposes birth
control--even for married couples.
The
President's Budget: Bush to Obama This
publication offers a look at federal budgets spanning 2008
to 2010, including the Obama administration's first budget.
Since the values embedded in the budget set the parameters
for action while reflecting our nation's approach to the
common good, citizens are urged to reconcile the numbers
presented here with the President's words. |
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Banks
US banks submit funding plans Ten US banks ordered to
raise extra funds have developed sufficient plans to
strengthen their finances, the Fed says.
Repeat Bank Stress Tests 'Right Now': TARP Panel Chair
OPEC leaves production quota unchanged |
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Iraq
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Map of Iraq |
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Middle
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Israel/Palestine
Israeli car park ignites protest Officers injured and
demonstrators arrested at rally against car park opening on
Sabbath.
Palestinians killed in border clash Three fighters shot
by Israeli forces near Nahal Oz crossing, Gaza hospital
officials say.
U.S. envoy assures Israel of strong alliance U.S. envoy
George Mitchell said on Tuesday that Washington was seeking
swift renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and
promised Israel its alliance with the United States would
remain strong despite differences.
Netanyahu Convinced Obama Seeks Clash With Israel To Appease
Arabs
Did a Palestinian try to assassinate a top Abbas aide?
Palestinian security men shot and seriously wounded a driver
they believed was going to ram the convoy of a senior aide
to President Mahmoud Abbas, police and medics said on
Tuesday
Deadly attack on USS Liberty gets new attention Israel
has always maintained that the 1967 Israeli attack on the
USS Liberty was an accident — a tragic case of Israeli
forces mistaking a U.S. spy ship for an Egyptian ship less
than half the size. Others — including a local veteran
aboard the ship — have maintained that the attack could not
have been a mistake.
Yemen
More Dead in Southern Yemen Clashes
Clashes on Monday between protesters and local security
forces in southern Yemen have left at least two people dead.
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Saud Arabia
Movie Time: Saudis Hit Cinema Saudis in Riyadh go to the
movies for first time in decades but no women allowed
Iran
Iran's 'Macaca' Moment? Ahmadinejad's Rivals Attack His
Bizarre "Light" Claim
A 2005 claim by Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad that a "light" surrounded him
during a U.N. address was mocked Monday by his main
pro-reform opponents in the latest barrage against the
president's competence and another sign of the bitter tone
dominating the election campaign in its final days.
Huge Campaign Rallies Snarl Tehran A pair of sprawling
rallies brought Iran’s capital virtually to a standstill
ahead of Friday’s presidential elections
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Afghanistan
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Blast near US troops kills 1 Afghan and wounds 54 An
explosion in a crowded bazaar near a convoy of US troops in
northeastern Afghanistan killed one Afghan child on Tuesday
and wounded about 50 people, many of them children,
officials said.
Grenade Wounds 3 U.S. Troops, Afghan Child
Women's Rights In Afghanistan Depends On Where One Lives
Afghanistan needs more security force trainers: FM
NATO calls for more European troops in Afghanistan
Taliban commander, 2 comrades killed in N
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Car bomb
destroys
five-star
Pakistan hotel
Three suicide
attackers shot
their way onto
the grounds of a
five-star hotel
in the northwest
Pakistani city
of Peshawar and
set off a car
bomb, killing at
least seven
people and
wounding dozens,
officials said.
One local
official said a
Nigerian who
worked for the
United Nations
was among the
dead.
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Conservatives racing ahead in EU parliament voting
Swedish pirates capture EU seat
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Somalia
Atrocities in Somalia force
100,000 to flee Somalis are
experiencing near-daily
atrocities, including rape, the
shelling of civilian areas and
fighting that has forced more
than 100,000 to flee their homes
since May, the U.N. refugee
agency said Tuesday.
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The Americas
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