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Measure For Fed Bailout Disclosure Is Not Good Enough
The Senate has introduced a measure into the budget blueprint asking
the Federal Reserve to disclose the names of institutions that received
bailout money. Good, but not good enough, because it will not be enforced.
Unseen
Footage: Riot police attack peaceful protesters at G20
While the police stood off the hardcore anarchists smashing up the windows
of the Royal Bank of Scotland, riot squads were ordered to wade into
the “climate camp” protesters, a few streets away, and “kettle”
them into a very confined space.
New
World Order: Still A Conspiracy Theory?
Despite the fact that the term "new world order" was mentioned
in connection with the G20 this week hundreds of times by both global
leaders and in news reports, it is still regarded as a "conspiracy
theory" by that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.
300
Arrested As Nato Summit Leaders Arrive
French police have detained 300 people after protests in Strasbourg,
hours before Barack Obama arrived in France for a two-day Nato summit.
Dmitry
Medvedev hails Barack Obama as ‘comrade’
Russia’s leader hailed President Barack Obama as a “comrade”
on Thursday and predicted that the two countries would resolve the vexed
issue of a missile defence shields in Eastern Europe.
DHS,
Military Police, Law Enforcement Plan Checkpoint in Tennessee
An Infowars reader has sent a page taken from the Hardeman County, Tennessee,
Bulletin Times announcing a seat belt checkpoint to be conducted on
April 4 “in conjunction with a Homeland Security training exercise
by the 251st Military Police in Bolivar who recently returned from Iraq”
Police
records indicate cop planted gun on dead teen: lawsuit
A Minneapolis family is suing after attorneys discovered in police records
what they say is proof that a 19-year-old gunned down by an officer
in 2006 while allegedly waiving a gun, was actually unarmed.
Climate
change not all man-made, report says
It’s wrong to blame our warming climate on human pollution alone,
says a major analysis by U. S. climate scientists who say North America’s
warming and drying trend also has important natural causes.
Eco-terrorists
dump chemicals in bid to halt power plant A manifesto allegedly from the eco-terrorist group Earth First!
claims to have dumped mercury and chemical solvents at the Plainfield,
CT site of a proposed wood-burning power plant, reports the local NBC
affiliate.
Marijuana
helps in battle against cancer: study
The main chemical in marijuana appears to aid in the destruction of
brain cancer cells, offering hope for future anti-cancer therapies,
researchers in Spain wrote in a study released Thursday.
One
in 10 Americans gets help to buy food
A record 32.2 million people — one in every 10 Americans —
received food stamps at the latest count, the government said on
Thursday, a reflection of the recession now in its 16th month.
Police
ordered to release 7/7 footage
Police have been ordered to release footage of the July 7 bombers
after a three-year freedom of information battle.
Democrats
duck Bush torture probe
Despite overwhelming evidence that ex-President George W. Bush and
many top aides engaged in a systematic policy of illegal torture,
national Democrats appear to be shying away from their recommendation
last year for a special prosecutor to investigate these apparent
war crimes.
Phoenix
police raid home of blogger whose writing is highly critical of
them
In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every
blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the
United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has
been highly critical of the department.
UKBA
to exchange fingerprints with US
The UK Border Agency plans to start exchanging fingerprint data
with the US, Canada and Australia in the near future.
