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Afghanistan
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Report: Army targeted senators with psyops The U.S.
army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological
operations" team in 2009 to help convince American
legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the war
in Afghanistan. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star
general in charge of training Afghan troops, ordered the
operation,
Rolling Stone Magazine reported in a story published late on
Wednesday.An officer in charge of the unit objected when
he was ordered to pressure the visiting senators and was
harshly reprimanded by superiors, according to the magazine.
Midlevel Taliban Admit to a Rift With Top Leaders
War-weary field commanders have borne the brunt of the
fighting and are reluctant to return to some battle zonesUS
in direct talks with Taliban:
Iraq
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'Curveball' admits to Iraq WMD lies
An Iraqi defector, codenamed Curveball, who
allegedly helped convince the Bush administration that
Saddam Hussein had a secret stash of biological and chemical
weapons, has admitted for the first time that he made it all
up. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi
told
The Guardian that he invented the stories
to help topple Saddam Hussein, but was shocked when the US
used tales as an excuse to go to war. "I did that for a
number of reasons," he said. "Firstly because of my people,
the Iraqi people. The old regime was a dictatorship and that
caused a lot of problems for our country."
Powell Chief Of Staff: We Were 'Manipulated' Into Making
Case For Iraq War..Little
evidence for Iraq WMDs ahead of 2003 war: U.S. declassified
report
Amnesty Accuses Iraq of Operating Secret Prisons to Torture
Detainees
Iraqi Police Fire On Protesters, At Least Three Wounded
$40 billion 'missing' from Iraq accounts
Pakistan
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Aafia Siddiqui held by Pakistani intelligence, her lawyers
claimThe Pakistani government has always denied holding
Siddiqui, a US-educated mother of three who disappeared
between 2003 and 2008 and whose case has become a powerful
symbol of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan.
American who shot two dead in Lahore was CIA spy
The Americas
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Chevron sues Ecuadorians who fought toxic waste....Chevron
Threatened Ecuador Judge With Prison Time If He Failed to
Grant Their Motions, Court Papers
Bolivian President Evo Morales flees food price protest
Squatters build Haitian village and await services
Thousands of Haitian families have taken over a huge plot
near Port-au-Prince, but they lack basic humanitarian aid
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Israel supports democracy – except in the case of Egypt
U.S. Vetoes Palestinian Bid at UN to Halt Israeli
Settlements The U.S. today vetoed a draft resolution in
the United Nations Security Council that would have declared
Israel’s settlement construction in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem to be illegal
IRAN
FLARES UP
Hundreds
Of Thousands Protest.. Security Forces Beat Demonstrators,
Fire Tear Gas.. At Least 1 Reported Dead.....1,500
Allegedly Detained After Huge Demonstrations In Iran..Iranian
Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters
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everything related to the Protests in Egypt......
ARAB REVOLTS Updates Here-
Protests from Libya, Morocco, and many other countries in
the middle east and northern Africa.
Bahrain Shiites Turn Out in Vast Protest....Britain
preparing to send advisers to help anti-Gadhafi forces..Click
here for Updates on Tunisia
Europe
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Putin, Medvedev Bicker Over Blast President Dmitry
Medvedev took an indirect dig at Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin over the Domodedovo Airport blast, stating Thursday
that officials should not speak of the attack as being
"solved" yet — as Putin had done hours earlier.
US launched anti-extremist campaign to reverse UK
radicalisation
Asia
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Asia
China again cracks down on planned protests across country
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday held an online forum in
which he promised to focus on making the lives of ordinary
people in China more comfortable and secure. Just a few
hours later, Chinese police unleashed a show of force in
Beijing, Shanghai and other cities to clamp down on public
gatherings after a second week of overseas Internet-based
calls for protests across the country.
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Apple report reveals child labour increase Apple found
more than 91 children working at its suppliers last year,
nine times as many as the previous year, according to its
annual report on its manufacturers. The US company has also
acknowledged for the first time that 137 workers
Africa
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South Sudan votes to secede South Sudan has voted to
secede from the north after offical results from January
referendum showed landslide in favour.
Fighting erupts in southern Sudan Rebellion by former
pro-Khartoum fighters against giving up their heavy weapons
leaves 20 people dead and many injured.
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BP Says Spill Settlement Terms Are Too Generous
Out Of 91,000 Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Only 1 Final Payment
Issued
Jihadi who helped train 7/7 bomber freed by US after just
five year Release prompts claim that Islamist was US
informant while he was assisting leader of 2005 London
suicide bomb plot
Hackers pierce system that runs Nasdaq
'40,000 violations of the
law’ in FBI snooping: report
FBI DIDN'T PROVE ANTHRAX CLAIMSAn
independent panel of scientists has determined that the FBI
did not have enough scientific evidence to produce a
conviction in the case of the 2001 anthrax attacks that
killed five people. The National Academies of Sciences
released a review Tuesday of the science used in the
investigation. The $1.1 million report, which was
commissioned by the FBI, concluded that the man accused in
the case, Bruce Ivins, could have carried out the attacks,
but the science alone did not prove it.
Judge says jail for Bush whistle-blower protector Bloch
admitted withholding information from House investigators
about having private technicians "scrub" computer files used
by political appointees at the Office of Special Counsel in
December 2006.
Man says ex-CIA agent gave
him explosives to bomb hotel
an exclusive interview Tuesday, a Salvadoran man
told The Associated Press that a former CIA operative gave
him powerful explosives and cash to carry out a 1997 hotel
bombing in Cuba. Otto Rene Rodriguez said that he was given
C-4 explosives and $2,000 by Luis Posada Carriles to enable
the bombing at Havana's Melia Cohiba hotel on Aug. 3, 1997.
He was later captured in Cuba with 3.3 pounds of C-4 that he
said was given to him by Posada.
In Blow To Rule Of Law-Court Dismisses Lawsuit To Hold
Former Gov Officials Accountable For Torture
Report Shows Ugly Racial Disparity In Drug Convictions
The
report, published by the Disproportionate Justice Impact
Study Commission, analyzed arrest data from 2005, the most
recent year that complete data is available. It was
commissioned by the General Assembly in 2008 to research the
notion that minorities -- and particularly young black men
in inner cities -- were disproportionately subjected to drug
arrests, prosecution and sentencing
Fox News producers scripted
socialism outcry, email shows
I.R.S. Offers New Amnesty Deal for Offshore Accounts
Massive Nationwide Medicare Bust: 111 Charged For Scams
Worth $225 Million
From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ of Fraud
But during a private two-hour interview in a visitor room
here on Tuesday, and in earlier e-mail exchanges, he
asserted that unidentified banks and hedge funds were
somehow “complicit” in his elaborate fraud, an about-face
from earlier claims that he was the only person involved.
JPMorgan Hid Doubts on Madoff, Documents Suggest
BP could have prevented blowout: investigator
Oil well in the
Gulf of Mexico might never have blown last year if the
company's engineers had been consulted about a key test.
Key Oil Spill Device May Have Design Flaw
Jon Stewart Nails Fox News' Hypocrisy On Teachers
You thought the Rodney King thing was bad--- I think this
one is worse.
Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims There is
no evidence that ecstasy causes brain damage, according to
one of the largest studies into the effects of the drug. Too
many previous studies made over-arching conclusions from
insufficient data, say the scientist
Race gap seen in justice system
Tully said the judge then
told him, "These drug laws are doing more to disenfranchise
a whole people than Jim Crow ever did." The anecdote was
among the most pointed moments Friday at the Charlotte
School of Law during a panel discussion involving some of
the city's most prominent lawyers, public officials and
activists. The story reflected what panelists said was a
disturbing national trend. The number of people in U.S.
prisons has grown from fewer than 500,000 in the 1970s to
more than 2million today, a spike attributed largely to the
nation's war on drugs, panelists said. About three-fourths
of those in prison for drug crimes are minorities, though
usage is spread across all races.
Confirmed: Union-Bashing Right-Wing Media Stars Hannity,
Limbaugh and O'Reilly Are AFL-CIO Union-Affiliated Members
Reporter's phone, bank and travel records seized as hunt for
whistleblowers is stepped upAs the fallout from the
Wikileaks revelations rumble on, new details have emerged of
the extraordinary lengths prosecutors will go to identify
leakers. Court papers in the case of a former CIA officer
accused of spilling secrets
Ending Tax Dodging By The Rich Would Save More Money Than
Gutting Ohio’s Unions
Chinese hackers infiltrate five energy firms: study
Military chaplain: Soldier’s rape ‘must have been God’s
will’
You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays
In Federal Taxes
Science/History
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News
Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most
Elemental Human Rights’
Past medical testing on humans
revealed Shocking as it
may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine
to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such
experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in
Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of
prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into
chronically ill people at a New York hospital. An
exhaustive review by The Associated Press of medical journal
reports and decades-old press clippings found more than 40
such studies. At best, these were a search for lifesaving
treatments; at worst, some amounted to curiosity-satisfying
experiments that hurt people but provided no useful results.
Some Antarctic Ice Forms From the Bottom Up
Some of Antarctica’s ice sheet is
formed by water re-freezing from below not just by snow
falling on top as was traditionally thought, findings showed
on Thursday that will help scientists project effects of
climate change.
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Economy
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Wal-Mart kills jobs,
creates taxpayer burdens: report
The report concludes that Wal-Mart, the biggest
U.S. private employer, kills jobs rather than creates them,
drives down wages and is a tax burden because it does not
give health and other benefits to many part-time employees,
leaving a burden on Medicaid and other public programs.
IMF warns of civil wars as global inequalities worsen
Oil Falls on Profit Taking, Libya Plan Eyed
Oil prices fell from near
2-1/2-year highs on Thursday as traders took profits after
Venezuela pitched a plan to resolve the Libyan crisis, even
though the market was deeply skeptical about whether it
would work.
Lack of information, not lack of oil, driving price rise
The continued climb in global oil prices brought on by
unrest in Libya is due more to fear than to a shortage of
petroleum, but experts warned Wednesday that the Obama
administration may have to take steps to drive prices down
if they don't fall on their own soon.
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Politics
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House GOP Says ‘So Be It’ To Taxpayers, Votes Unanimously to
Protect Big Oil Subsidies House Republicans
voted
in lockstep this afternoon to protect corporate welfare
for Big Oil, even as they call for draconian cuts to
programs that everyday Americans depend on each day.
Obama's Proposed Budget Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle
Class
Who Owns the United States? Of the country's $14
trillion debt, $4.4 trillion is held by foreign governments.
Wartime Contractors Waste, Steal Billions -- Then Come Back
For More
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One
Wants You to Know About
Gates: Prospects for closing Guantanamo 'very, very low'..Suspected
Taliban Commander Dies In Guantanamo
House blocks federal aid for Planned Parenthood
House votes down bill to ax military sponsorship of NASCAR
GOP senator favors cutting US aid
to Israel - Politics - msnbc.com
Senator
favours cutting US aid to Israel WASHINGTON: A new
Republican senator favours cutting US aid to Israel as part
of a deficit-driven effort to slash government spending by
$500 billion this year, drawing criticism from Democrats and
Republicans who argue the US must be unwavering in its
support for the long-time Mideast ally.
Obama administration replaces controversial 'conscience'
regulation for health-care workers The Health and Human
Services Department eliminated nearly the entire rule
put into effect by the administration of President George W.
Bush during his final days in office that was widely
interpreted as allowing such workers to opt out of a broad
range of medical services, such as providing the emergency
contraceptive Plan B, treating gay men and lesbians and
prescribing birth control to single women.
Air Force ordered software to manage army of
fake virtual people...
Pentagon’s 2012 Spending Proposal ($553 billion) Is ‘The
Largest Request Ever’ Since World War II
Chase admits mishandling loans to military
Ron Paul expelled from conservative group for
anti-war views
Bill Maher New Rule: Americans Must Realize What
Makes NFL Football So Great: Socialism
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Union Protests..
In Heavy Snow, Massive Crowd Rallies in Madison (Police Say
Over 100,000)
"Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin": Media Parroting
Walker’s False Claims of Taxpayer "Subsidies" for Workers’
Pensions
Bill Maher bashes Gingrich: ‘I don’t think actual Newts are
this slimy’“If Charlie Sheen’s home life means he can’t
have a TV show, then I say Newt Gingrich can’t run for
president,” Maher said, tearing into Gingrich for cheating
on his wife at the same time he was pushing for the
impeachment of President Clinton.
Wisconsin Is a Battleground Against the
Billionaire Kochs' Plan to Break Labor's Back
DEM
LAWMAKERS FLEE WISCONSIN
Police
Officers Dispatched.. Estimated 25,000 Protest Sweeping
Anti-Union Bill
Police estimate Wis. Capitol protest crowd at 70,000
WikiLeaks
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WikiLeaks: Britain Secretly Advised Libya How to Secure
Release of Lockerbie Bomber
WikiLeaks: How the Cola war was won in Libya
A leaked US cable
details how Coca-Cola got caught up in an armed conflict in
Libya.
Court agrees to extradite WikiLeaks founder A
British court agreed on Thursday to extradite WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange to Sweden where he is wanted for
questioning over sex crimes, dismissing claims the move
would breach his human rights.
Confidential Assange rape
allegation docs leak onto Internet
"The documents show Assange was arrested in
absentia within minutes of the two women reporting him for
rape and sexual molestation, and before they had been
questioned fully by police," The New Zealand Herald's
Juha Saarinen wrote. At one point, a police
investigator noted that she had been locked out of her
interrogation notes and was told to create a new interview
document with "necessary changes." One witness explained
that "Miss A" sat in on the interview with "Miss W" and
added something to "make her case stronger." "The police
inspector who interviewed Wilen is listed as a friend of
Ardin on social-networking website Facebook," Saarinen
observed. "Ardin and the inspector are both politically
active in the Swedish Social Democratic Party."
Julian Assange extradition hearing: woman's text messages
'showed she wanted revenge' · A woman who accused
Julian Assange of raping her sent text messages speaking of
getting revenge on the WikiLeaks founder and making money by
“giving him a bad name”, a court has been told
FBI Says No Fifth 9/11 Cell WikiLeaks cable fuels
conspiracy theories, not investigations, says senior
official A senior FBI official yesterday moved to quash
rumors that the publication of a secret State Department
cable by Wikileaks points towards a so-called “fifth 9/11
cell
US Hunting Previously Unkown 9/11 Gang: Cable
The
United States is conducting a manhunt for a previously
unknown group believed to be involved in the planning of the
9/11 attacks, according to a US cable published in
Wednesday’s Telegraph newspaper....
Data security firm hacked
by 'Anonymous' plotted against
WikiLeaks on Bank of America's behalf, documents show |
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Census: There Are No Italians In Little Italy
Watch: Angry Christian mob surrounds praying Muslim man in
front of White House
WikiLeaks
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Security
Issues
Huge Security Breach At JFK
Army Wounded Warrior Units Have Become 'Dumping Grounds For
Criminals'
Al Qaeda Actively Seeking “Dirty” Bombs: Documents
Al-Qaeda is attempting to procure
nuclear material and recruit rogue scientists in order to
build a radioactive “dirty bomb,” leaked documents published
in Wednesday’s Telegraph newspaper revealed.
Dallas Target: Texas Resident Arrested on Charge of
Attempted Use of Weapon of Mass Destruction According to
the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, Aldawsari
has been researching online how to construct an IED using
several chemicals as ingredients. He has also acquired or
taken a substantial step toward acquiring most of the
ingredients and equipment necessary to construct an IED and
he has conducted online research of several potential U.S.
targets, the affidavit alleges. In addition, he has
allegedly described his desire for violent jihad and martyrdom
in blog postings and a personal
journal.
Civil
Rights
Judge: Teen Can Wear Anti-Gay Shirt To School
Black Church Leaders Ask for Forgiveness From the
LGBT Community
NAACP Calls on District Attorney to Probe Shooting
of Black Children The charges against a North
Carolina man who shouted racial slurs before
shooting two children don't match the alleged crime.
Feds
allegedly
spied
on
reporter
to
find
intel.
leak
Catholic College Fires Professor After Discovering
That He's Gay
Alabama GOP Official Explains Racial Disparities In
Schools: ‘Blacks Misbehave’
»The U.S.
Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has
been evaluating the Huntsville, AL school system’s
racial integration, and earlier this month released
a report that “wasn’t
promising.” The DOJ
listed “several outstanding desegregation issues
that the school district must address,”
including “that predominantly black schools have
too few advanced courses” and “that black children
at predominantly white schools are punished and
suspended at alarming rates.”
Breaking
Obama
decides
DOMA
is
unconstitutional
Orders
Justice
Dept
To
Stop
Defending
ACLU:
Calling
Your
Teacher
Fat
On
Facebook
Is A
Constitutional
Right
WATCH:
19-Year-Old
Student
Defends
Gay
Parents
To
Iowa
Legislators
In
Amazing
Speech
State
rejects
compensation
for
wrongly
convicted
man
The
Texas
Comptroller’s
Office
has
denied
compensation
to
Anthony
Graves,
who
spent
18
years
on
death
row
before
a
special
prosecutor
determined
he
was
innocent
and
authorities
dropped
capital
murder
charges
against
him.
Hawaii
legislature
approves
civil
unions
for
same-sex
couples
Hawaii
Legislature
passed
a
bill
making
civil
unions
for
same-sex
couples
legal
in
the
state.
Police/Prison
Disturbing Incident Caught On Tape.. Cop Promoted
Cops recorded talking about stealing man’s property
Flash riot in Seattle targets police over shooting
Angel Alvarez, shot 23 times by cops, found innocent
on charges he opened fire on NYPD
Ex-CIA
Analyst
Ray
McGovern
Beaten,
Arrested
for
Silent
Protest
at
Clinton
Speech
TSA
Workers
Stole
$40K
From
Checked
Bags
at
JFK:
Cops
Another
non-violent
Tea
Partier
gets
eight
years
in
prison
for
assaulting
Obama
supporter
with
pool
cue
FBI
can
obtain
phone
records
without
oversight:
Justice
Dept.
3
Philly
priests
charged
with
sex
abuse
2
million
mentally
ill
people
missing
from
national
gun
check
system
Riot
Police
Guard
Against
Anti-Billionaire
Protesters
in
Rancho
Mirage.
(25
arrested)
This is
live
video
sent
back
from the
Quarantine
the
Kochs
rally in
Rancho
Mirage
about an
hour and
a half
ago.
John
Amato is
on the
scene
and has
called
me a
couple
of times
with
updates.
There
are
about
1500
people
or so
there,
peaceful
cn-pace-int.htm
Device using a person’s pace to identify them
Man
'stabbed
for
being
Muslim'
Florida
man
allegedly
stabbed
colleague
who
revealed
he
was
Muslim.
Teen
Arrested
On
Assault
Charges
For
Throwing
Snowballs
At
Mailman
Oil Spill
Baby dolphins washing up in Gulf Baby bottlenose
dolphins are washing up dead in record numbers on
the shores of Alabama and Mississippi, alarming
scientists and a federal agency charged with
monitoring the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
FULL STORY
Seafood
restaurant
done
after 19
years —
NO fresh
shrimp,
oysters
since
oil
disaster
US scientists examine possible link between dolphin
deaths and BP oil spill
BP engineer who called blown-out well 'nightmare
well' says e-mails with wife privileged
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Greed
State agency finds phony Navy veterans charity collected $2
million in Va.
Religious Coalition Tells The GOP That ‘The Budget Shouldn’t
Be Balanced On the Backs Of The Poor’ In an address at
the National Association of Religious Broadcasters Sunday,
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a moral case for the
deep cuts passed by House Republicans, saying, “[i]t
is immoral to rob our children’s future and make them
beholden to China.” But
Sojourners, a progressive group of Christian leaders,
looks at the GOP’s deep slashes to the budget in a
different light and bought a
full-page ad in Politico yesterday that asks legislators
to consider, “what
would Jesus cut?”
Media
Fox employees Gingrich, Santorum SUSPENDED
AOL Agrees To Acquire The Huffington Post
....Huffington's
AOL partner a 'conservative' who gave to GOP
Justin Bieber Takes On 'Evil' U.S. Health Care System
"You guys are evil," he told the magazine, out on February
18th. "Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the
doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but
here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical
bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to
pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in
the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home."
US accidentally shuts down 84,000 websites
Anonymous targets www.GodHatesFags.com
Google Tweaks Algorithm to Push Down Low-Quality Sites
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Spray-on tan? Try spray-on skin
By spraying healthy stem cells onto damaged areas, the
skin cell gun cuts burn victims' recovery time
drastically Video
New inexpensive way to grow silicon microwires for sensors,
batteries and solar cells
Earth's core rotating faster than rest of the planet but
slower than previously believed
Cellphone use yields more ‘active’ brain scan: study
Cellphone use
appeared to measurably increase brain activity in dozens of
test subjects in a new study.
A nano-Solution to global water problem: Nanomembranes could
filter bacteria
Chandra finds superfluid in neutron star's core NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has
discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a
bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a
neutron star. Superfluids created in .
Gas rich galaxies confirm prediction of modified gravity
theory
Warmer oceans taking toll on world's coral
reefs Global warming took a toll
on coral reefs in 2010, endangering one of the world's key
ecosystems that benefit people in countless ways. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data show
that 2010, the warmest on record, was hard on corals.
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Quantum hot potato: Researchers entice two atoms to swap
smallest energy units
Major NASA Launch Fails, Climate Satellite Plummets To Ocean
World’s sixth mass extinction may be underway: study
Mankind may have
unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth's
history.
Space plane, secret payload set for launch The
experimental pilotless craft, seen above after its
last flight, has piqued the interest of Russia and
China. Analysts say it could be a precursor to an
orbiting weapon.
New parasitic fungi found that turn ants into zombies
Scientists from the US and UK have discovered four new
species of parasitic fungi in the Brazilian rainforests. The
fungi attack four distinct species of ants and release
mind-altering chemicals
Refuting a Myth About Human Origins |
The scandal that almost destroyed Ronald Reagan
"We did not -- repeat -- did not trade weapons or
anything else for hostages. Nor will we"
In Central America, different challenges faced the
president. Congress had enacted several restrictions on the
nature of government aid that could be supplied to the
Contras, a guerrilla army fighting the leftist Sandinista
government in Nicaragua. The Boland Amendment specified the
volume of funds that could be spent on this cause and the
type of assistance that could be provided. The Contra cause
was passionately supported by Reagan. Beginning in 1984,
members of the National Security Council, particularly
North, began seeking alternative non-U.S. government sources
of support. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, for example, provided
a million dollars per month from May to December 1984. The
upkeep of the Contras continued in a covert fashion, with
support from a disparate array of U.S. government officials,
opportunistic middlemen and operatives in the NSC and CIA.
In essence, Reagan's foreign policy was being privatized and
shielded from both Congress and the American people.
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Wisconsin
Little-Noticed Provision In Walker's Bill Could Reap Huge
Gains For Koch Industries a less noticed provision that
would allow the state to sell or contract out any
state-owned energy asset in no-bid
Disgraced Former Tea Party Leader Calls On Right-Wing
Activists To Pose As SEIU Organizers
Official who wanted 'live ammunition’
used on protesters has been fired..Indiana
Deputy Attorney General tweets " use live ammunition"
against demonstrators
Walker pranked by fake ‘Koch’ An alternative paper in Buffalo, New York, which
prides itself on being about as beastly as the subjects they
cover, claims they've managed to trick Governor Scott Walker
into
taking a
call from one of their editor posing as tea party tycoon
David Koch.
Madison police chief asks Walker to explain 'troubling'
statements "I spent a good deal of time overnight
thinking about Governor Walker's response, during his news
conference yesterday (Wednesday), to the suggestion that his
administration 'thought about' planting troublemakers among
those who are peacefully protesting his bill," Wray said in
a statement issued this morning." I would like to hear more
of an explanation from Governor Walker as to what exactly
was being considered, and to what degree it was discussed by
his cabinet members.
Union-Busting Is Theft -- a Weapon of Class Warfare from
Above
Conservative Utah group begins recall effort for Wisconsin
Democratic senators A Utah group that opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants
has filed paperwork in Wisconsin to begin recall efforts
against eight Democratic state senators, including Sen. Fred
Risser, D-Madison. The group,
Americans Against Immigration Amnesty, did not return
phone calls or e-mails, so it was not immediately evident
why it was undertaking recall efforts here. The eight
senators are among 14 who left Wisconsin Feb. 17 to delay a
vote on Walker's budget repair bill by depriving the Senate
of a quorum.
Wisconsin Police Sent to Search for Democratic Senators
Wisconsin Republicans dispatched police to the homes of
absent Democratic senators on Thursday to try to round them
up for a vote on a plan to strip public sector unions of
most collective bargaining rights.
Wife Of Wisconsin GOP Senate Leader Gets Layoff Notice
Absent state senators paying for their own food and lodging,
not accepting donations
Federally funded Jacksonville abstinence program has ties to
‘Kill the Gays’ Ugandan pastor
Florida Gov. Rick Scott now says he'd like collective
bargaining removed from Constitution
Wisconsin: Police refuse to close capitol, will sleep in
capitol with protesters tonight Palmer also announced
that the WPPA is asking its members from across the state to
join the protests, explaining, “Law enforcement officers
know the difference between right and wrong, and Governor
Walker’s attempt to eliminate the collective voice of
Wisconsin’s devoted public employees is wrong. That is why
we have stood with our fellow employees each day and why we
will be sleeping among them tonight.”
Wisconsin police association urges members to join sleep-in
at Capitol
Hackers Take Down Koch-Backed Conservative Website
POLICE CLOSE WISCONSIN CAPITOL BUT HUNDREDS
REFUSE TO LEAVE
Fox Buses In Footage From Sacramento To Make Union
Protesters Look Violent In the wake of one Fox News
reporter apparently lying about being "punched" by a "hate
filled" protester in Wisconsin, some media outlets appear to
have been too quick to label another Fox misappropriation as
outright deception. In one of those videos, which were
earlier identified as having come from "all over the
country," man wearing a jacket with union references pushes
another man twice before police step in between the two.
Nobody was injured in the incident, but a tea party
protesters said his throat was hurting from one of the
shoves.However, when the clip rolled during the O'Reilly
segment, it was not clearly identified as having taken place
in Sacramento, California, during Saturday's mass civil
actions against union-busting legislation. The conversation
that was taking place at the time, however, was aimed at
Wisconsin, which has been remarkably peaceful for such a
large, sustained protest
Senate orders arrest of missing Democrats.
Dem Tries To Enter Wisconsin Capitol, Tackled By Police
Public Employee Unions Don't Get One Penny
from Taxpayers and Can't Require Membership, But the Big Lie
That They Do Is Everywhere Public
sector workers are employed by the government, but they are
private citizens. Once a private citizen earns a dollar from
the sweat of his or her brow, it no longer belongs to his or
her employer. In the case of public workers, it is no longer
a “taxpayer dollar”; it is a dollar held privately by an
American citizen.
Michael Moore in Madison: 'The rich have
overplayed their hand' |
Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed
Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them
GAO: U.S. bureaucracy wastes billions
Ron Paul Wins Conservatives' Straw Poll Again
Defense Spending
Hummingbird 'Spy' Being Developed By Pentagon
House
Kills Fighter Engine Reviled As Pure Pork
White House pressured to give aerial tanker contract to
Boeing Amid fears that Boeing will lose a $35 billion
aerial tanker contract to a European competitor, senators
from Washington state and Kansas pressured President Barack
Obama on Thursday to side with the U.S. aerospace giant,
which promises to bring thousands of jobs to the two states
if it wins the competition.
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Exclusive: Military’s ‘persona’
software costs millions, used for ‘classified social media
activities’ Boeing is awarded a $3.5 billion Pentagon contract, which
ultimately may be worth $35 billion, to build Air Force
tankers
Health Care
Anthem Blue Cross raising individual rates again
Plans steer patients to lower-cost hospitals Hundreds of
small businesses have signed up for a new health insurance
plan that penalizes employees for seeking care at more
expensive hospitals.
OUTED: Doctors Order Unneeded Tests
Healthcare Is For Rich People! Indiana Governor Mitch
Daniels
Treasury/Federal
Reserve/Bailouts/SEC/IRS
Fed Seeks to Identify Firms That Pose ‘Systemic’ Risk
US Risk Council Breaks Non-Bank World Into Four
- The new U.S. financial risk
council has divided non-bank financial institutions that
could be subject to additional oversight into four
categories, including hedge funds and insurers.
SEC escalates probe into Freddie Mac disclosures
US panel on flash crash urges rule changes
Budget and Taxes
Barack Obama to unveil $1.1tn cuts in US budget over next
decade
GITMO/Bahgram/CIA-Blacksites
Sudanese war criminal at Guantánamo turns
government witnessA
Sudanese former terror camp instructor traded a promise to
turn government witness for release from prison by 2014 in a
plea bargain made public Friday — moments after a military
jury sentenced the man to a symbolic 14 more years at
Guantánamo.
Acquitted terror defendant can’t return home, court rules
Feds: Terror Suspect Hoped to Be Swapped For American
Soldier in AfghanistanAn associate of convicted subway
bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi allegedly confessed several
times to FBI agents saying he hoped to swapped for an
American POW in Afghanistan.
Obama
Obama: Wisconsin plan ‘an assault on unions’
Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker's plan to strip public-sector employees of
collective-bargaining rights "seems like an assault on
unions," President Obama said Thursday.
Obama aims for sharp drop in gov't-backed mortgages
White House To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor
Obama signs temporary extension of Patriot Act
Official: Obama, Mexican President Reach Trucking Agreement
House
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lawmakers question impartiality of Justice Thomas
Seventy-four Members
of Congress have signed a letter calling for Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases
involving the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
because of his family's financial ties to groups dedicated
to lobbying against it.
Senate
New bill strips president’s power to shut off
Internet
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Tom Carper (D-DE) and Susan
Collins (R-ME). introduced The Cybersecurity Freedom Act of
2011, which would take away the president's power to shut
off the Internet. |