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'Strategic Shock' Report Says Troops May Be Needed To Quell U.S. Civil
Unrest A recent report produced by the U.S.
Army War College's Strategic Institute warns that the United States
may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises
which it has termed "strategic shock."
Report:
Bush masked cost of wars that could top $1.7 trillion
Even if Barack Obama draws down troops in Iraq like he’s promised,
a new report finds the US is on pace to have spent nearly $2 trillion
on military operations including Iraq and Afghanistan over the next
decade.
Families’
9/11 liability suit could go to trial
A federal district court judge in Manhattan said Monday that he will
decide whether or not a suit brought against US airlines by families
of several victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, may proceed.
New
York planning ‘fat tax’ on drinks
If Governor David Paterson’s plan becomes law, consumers would
pay more for non-diet versions of drinks such as Coca-Cola, the New
York Times reported.
Bush
Rewrites History: ‘I Never Said The Taliban Was Eliminated’ Early this morning, during a press conference
in Kabul with Afghan President Karzai, President Bush attempted to paper
over his previous declarations of victory over the now-resurgent Taliban.
Bush claimed emphatically, “I never said the Taliban was eliminated.”
Bush’s
Iraq assailant has broken arm, ribs: brother
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush
has a broken arm and ribs after being struck by Iraqi security agents,
his brother told AFP on Tuesday.
HRT
Doubles Risk of Breast Cancer Drug companies can no longer deny the science: Breast cancer
risk is doubled for women who take conventional Hormone Replacement
Therapy (HRT) drugs.
U.S.
“to set up bases” in Central Asia The U.S. is planning to set up military bases in Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan, according to Russia’s head of the General
Staff.
World
government a danger
For years I have received letters written as elegantly as ransom
notes, advising me of certain worldwide conspiracies. Sometimes
the writing instrument of choice has been a crayon.
Secret
Service hit for not reacting quickly to shoe throwing
“A day after President Bush was nearly struck in the head
by flying footwear at a Baghdad news conference, U.S. Secret Service
officials faced questions Monday about how an Iraqi television reporter
was able to hurl not one but two shoes at the president without
the agents responsible for protecting him being able to move into
the line of fire,” Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times reports.
Court
sides with ACLU, strikes down Patriot Act gag provision A federal appeals court ruling late Monday
is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties
Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot
Act falls to the judicial system.
Obama
unveils climate change team President-elect Barack Obama named
his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US
leadership on combating climate change after eight years of Republican
foot-dragging.
Cheney
admits authorizing torture Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison
should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that
might be.
Sarkozy
escapes a ‘Taser gun’ attack
French police have arrested a man armed with a knife and Taser gun
for breaking into Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential palace in Paris.
