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are being lied to about pirates Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s
governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this,
the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen
nations, from the U.S. to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to
take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains.
Mexican
drug wars force police to claim asylum in US
When Lieutenant Salvador Hernandez heard his name was on a death list
posted by drug gangs in the violence-gripped Mexican border city of
Juarez, he knew it was time to skip town.
New
bird flu cases suggest the danger of pandemic is rising
First the good news: bird flu is becoming less deadly. Now the bad:
scientists fear that this is the very thing that could make the virus
more able to cause a pandemic that would kill hundreds of millions of
people.
Minn.
city dissolves its police dept
Faced with the need for budget cuts, the Elko New Market City Council
voted to get rid of its police department.
"Liquidate
the Banks; Fire the Executives!" On Tuesday,
a congressional panel headed by ex-Harvard law professor Elizabeth
Warren released a report on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's
handling of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).
US
budget deficit nears 1 trillion dlrs: Treasury
The US budget deficit accelerated in March to hit a record nearly
one trillion dollars in the first half of the current fiscal year
as the government moved to bail out troubled institutions, government
data showed Friday.
What Does A Trillion Dollars Look Like?
This clip shows the enormous amount of money one trillion dollars
is.
Somali
pirates in German ship fail to find comrades
Pirates on a German ship with 24 foreign hostages said on Saturday
they had returned to the Somali coast after failing to locate the
scene of a standoff involving an American captive on a drifting
lifeboat.
