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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 18:21
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Prize Winner Obama Demands Record War Chest Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama is to request a record
defense budget for 2011 in order to expand the war in Afghanistan and
continue the conflict in Iraq, according to military officials.
It
Is A Madhouse Out There
I think we need to face it: 2010 is more than a new year; it is also
part of a new era in which all vestiges of normalcy and common sense
have been left behind. In other words, it is a madhouse out there.
Amsterdam-Aruba
flight diverted after bomb threat
An ArkeFly flight carrying 235 people from Amsterdam to Aruba in the
Caribbean was forced to divert to Ireland on Wednesday after an unruly
Dutch passenger made bomb threats during the flight.
Geoengineering
Conference To Discuss Blocking Sun
As hundreds of people die worldwide as a result of record low temperatures
in the midst of a savage winter, scientists are preparing for a conference
in which they will discuss measures to use geoengineering to block out
the sun.
Police fight cellphone recordings
Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when
he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from
a teenager’s mouth.
Google threatens
to pull out of China
Google, the internet search engine, has said it is ready to close down
its business and quit China because of the country’s increasing
censorship.
Obama
Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors
who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic
security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations
for martial law.
California
Set To Enforce “Energy Efficiency” In Homes
California is expected today to adopt a green building code that
would reduce water use, mandate the recycling of construction waste
and step up enforcement of energy efficiency in new homes.
The
fight against full-body scanners at airports
“We don’t need to look at naked 8-year-olds and grandmothers
to secure airplanes,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said last
week. “I think it’s a false argument to say we have
to give up all of our personal privacy in order to have security.”
Why
Whole-Body Imaging Won’t Work Every time the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) fails to protect aviation, as it did when it
allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a plane Christmas Day,
it punishes passengers with further restrictions and humiliations.
Swine
flu: can we have our £1 billion back now, please? Journalist dies, oinking horribly, after
failing to take Swine Flu seriously. That was the title I gave one
of my first Telegraph blogs – April 27th 2009 – well
aware that I was offering up a tremendous hostage to fortune. My
how they would all have laughed darkly if I’d caught swine
flu and died! But I didn’t, did I? And nor strangely did you.
New
York Fed Faces House Subpoena Over AIG Bailout Payments
Tehran on Monday dismissed as thoughtless comments by a top US general
that Iran’s atomic sites could be attacked if the nuclear
issue remains unsolved, the official IRNA news agency reported.
More
evidence emerges that Americans are drugged out of their minds
A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry
documented a dramatic increase in the use of antidepressant drugs
like Prozac since l996. In fact, these medications are now the most
widely prescribed drugs in the U.S.
Does
the Government Own the Whole Economy?
In a recent New York Times op-ed, economist Robert Shiller (coproducer
of the famous housing-price index) recommended that the US government
begin to sell claims on fractions of Gross Domestic Product.
CNBC’s
Kilduff: $100 Oil in Next Six Months
It hasn’t been in the limelight recently, but it is coming.
According to CNBC contributor John Kilduff of Round Earth Capital,
we will soon see the price of reach $100 per barrel.
Another Phony Bin Laden Tape
Holdren's Eugenicist Nightmare
CIA Involvement In Iran
Nazi Roots Of The European Union
North Korea Nuclear Circus
Police State UK
Neo-Con Attack On Jesse Ventura
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