Last
Updated:
Thursday, January 8, 2009 20:19
GMT Marines
Admit "Security Force" To Operate Inside U.S.
Following Northcom's denial that U.S. Army combat teams would be used
to deal with "civil unrest" after the announcement that thousands
of active duty military personnel were being moved inside the United
States, an Army.com report now concedes that more than 400 Marines assigned
to one unit includes a "security force" that would operate
within the homeland.
Is
Conservatism Dead?
The rise of the neoconservatives within the GOP has not only discredited
the Grand Old Party but tarnished the image of conservatism.
Vatican
official: Gaza is now a ‘concentration camp’ THE Gaza Strip has been
turned into a “concentration camp” by two weeks of Israeli
bombardments, said a senior Vatican official. Cardinal Renato Martino,
the Vatican's justice and peace minister, was quoted by the online Italian
daily Il Sussidiario.
Spokesman:
Officer in subway shooting has resigned The officer involved in a New Year’s Day shooting
that left a passenger dead in a crowded Oakland, California, subway
station resigned Wednesday, a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman said.
Coal
Creek, Colorado Coop Observing Station Cooling The Last Decade
A former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee
has predicted a massive collapse of the dollar within the next two to
five years, warning that a government increase in spending under President
elect Obama could be disastrous.
European
Leaders Call For New Global Order
The leaders of Germany and France along with former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair have all called for a new global order in the
wake of the financial crisis. The three made the tandem appeal at
a conference in Paris on the future of capitalism.
Israel ‘using
banned arms against Gazans’
Israel has been using phosphorus bombs, cluster ammunitions and
banned arms against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, a
report says.
BART
cop shooting protests escalate, turn violent Angry protests turned to rioting in response to the January
1st shooting of an unarmed man at a subway station in California’s
Bay Area. Police made over 100 arrests, after cars were vandalized,
store windows were smashed, and fires blazed out of control on the
streets.
Fred’s
Fearless Forecast for 2009:Continued ‘No Warming”–Nor
Much Else
So here we have them: Obama’s three - Chu, John Holdren, and
Jane Lubchenco. All with sterling credentials - a Nobel laureate
in physics, a recent president of the AAAS, a recent head of the
International Council of Scientific Unions - but with minimal knowledge
of climate science.
Judge’s
Order Could Keep Public From Hearing Details of 9/11 Trials The military judge overseeing
proceedings against five of the men accused of planning the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks signed an order designed to protect classified
information that is so broad it could prevent public scrutiny of
the most important trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to lawyers
and human rights groups.
Mumbai-like
attack could happen in U.S. : Bush aide
U.S. cities are vulnerable to an attack like the gun-and-grenade
assault that terrorized Mumbai for three days and killed 179 people,
the White House homeland security adviser said on Wednesday.
