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Terror Law To Make Photographing Police Illegal
New laws set to be passed in England and Canada would make it illegal
to use bad language or take photographs of police officers, moving us
further away from the idea of police as public servants and more towards
the notion of cops assuming God-like status.
CIA
Station Chief in Algeria Accused of Rapes
The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under
investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at
least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out
drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
US
Air Force seeks diamond gunports for electropulse ray-cannon
The US Air Force has made an appeal for a range of new technologies
which it will need in building its planned new arsenal of aerial rayguns.
In particular, it wants large artificial optically-correct diamonds
for use as portholes through which to shoot electropulse microwave blaster
cannons.
Turley:
Obama ‘accessory’ to war crimes if no prosecution
A few weeks ago, George Washington University Constitutional Law professor
Jonathan Turley, while appearing on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith
Olbermann, essentially said that the Obama administration would “own”
any war crimes — such as the reported waterboarding of 9/11 suspect
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — if it chose to look the other way.
Study
Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup
(HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of
55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first-
or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
“Houston
Chronicle” Editorial: A Global-Warming Scare Story
Wow. Could the Houston Chronicle have fit more distortions about climate
change into a 420-word editorial than it managed to do in its January
25th piece, “The heat is on: New data debunk claims that global
warming is hype”? It’s hard to figure out how.
USDA
Backs Off Mandatory National Animal Identification Registration In this time of deflationary pressure on all agricultural products,
farmers and ranchers got a token boost at the end of December when the
USDA`s Animal and Plant Health Inspection-Veterinary Service officially
cancelled its Mandatory Premise Registration Directive.
School
Children Complain Of “Obama Worship” During Lessons
Several disturbing stories have come to our attention over the past
weeks and days that further highlight how sections of the American
population have elevated Barack Obama to a dangerously inflated
“messianic” status normally only associated with Royalty
or totalitarian leaders.
Civil
rights group to Obama: Release secret Bush memos
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling on the Justice
Department to release Bush administration documentation pertaining
to torture, surveillance and other controversial national security
policies.
Behind
the Bloodbath in Gaza
Early speculation on the motive behind Israel’s slaughter
in Gaza that began on 27 December 2008 and continued till 18 January
2009 centered on the upcoming elections in Israel.
World
growth ‘worst for 60 years’
World economic growth is set to fall to just 0.5% this year, its
lowest rate since World War II, warns the International Monetary
Fund (IMF).
Quoting
Napoleon, judge okays holding Taliban cook at Gitmo
“A federal judge says being a cook for the Taliban is reason
enough for the U.S. military to hold a Yemen man as an enemy combatant
at Guantanamo Bay,” the Associated Press reports.
Alex
Jones’ Audio Blog: January 27, 2009 on Vaccine & Other
Gov’t Propaganda In the seventh installment of his
new audio blog, Alex Jones and his wife Violet discuss various government
propaganda, as well as television programs, which advance the idea
that those who don’t vaccinate will contaminate the rest of
society.
Stocks
Could Drop 20%, No Safe Haven: Dr. Doom US and global stocks are still likely to
fall because the corporate and economic news will be worse than
expected, Nouriel Roubini, RGE Monitor Chairman, told CNBC.
We
can be fooled again Letting go of an ideal and a sense of hopefulness came sooner
than expected. Resignation set in faster than had been anticipated,
leaving no illusions about the nature of the Obama administration’s
plans for foreign policy.
