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Terrorist Watch List Now Contains Over 1 Million Names
Newly released figures show that one million names now make up the government's
terrorist watch list, a dramatic rise of around 32% in the last two
years.
Google’s
‘interest-based’ ads sure to stoke privacy fears
Google announced this morning that it is going to more and more sophisticated
tracking of its users online browsing patterns in the interest of displaying
to them advertising that will presumably be of greater interest.
Australian
govt. begins funding abortions in third world nations
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has set the Christian lobby, a key Labor powerbroker
and a crucial balance-of-power Senator against him over Australia’s
move to scrap a 13-year-old ban on foreign aid being used to fund safer
abortions for women in poor nations.
Ron
Paul: Obama Foreign Policy Identical To Bush
Congressman Ron Paul has slammed Barack Obama's foreign policy, saying
it is identical to that of his predecessor George W. Bush, proving once
again that both parties follow the same agenda on major issues.
Pelosi
Made Repeated Requests for Military Aircraft, Documents Show
Representatives for Judicial Watch, which obtained e-mails and other
documents showing the requests, say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has treated
the Air Force as her “personal airline.” Researchers
Suggest Insufficient Evidence of Efficacy of HPV Vaccine
There is not enough evidence to confidently state that two popular vaccines
against the human papillomavirus (HPV) will reliably prevent against
the development of cervical cancer, according to two articles published
in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Iran
not moving on bomb, say US spies
IRAN has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for
a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so, US intelligence officials
told Congress.
The
Criminal Injustice System
Ronald Cotton spent 11 years in prison because Jennifer Thompson
provided eye witness testimony that he was the person who raped
her. On March 9, National Public Radio revisited the story.
Greenspan:
Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said lower rates
on long-term, fixed-rate mortgages and not the Federal Reserve’s
policies are to blame for the U.S. housing bubble.
Ahmadinejad:
World economic system ‘unfair’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the world monetary system
serves the interests of global economic powers in an “unfair”
way. ACLU:
Gitmo judge ‘blatantly defied’ Obama executive order
The ACLU is angry that a military judge has accepted an incendiary
legal pleading filed by five 9/11 suspects, despite President Obama’s
order stopping the Guantanamo military commissions and even though
attorneys for some of the defendants were unaware of it.
I
don’t know what to say
After all is said and done, having studied the various plans to
bail out banks, buy their toxic assets and bail out AIG again, plus
stabilize world currencies, I don’t know what to say. Fears
over security for London 2012
EU and Nato help should be called upon to boost security at the
London 2012 Olympics, an influential group of peers has said.
