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“Bailout Rage” Sets Pretext For New Financial World Order
A so called “bailout backlash”, a huge rise in public antagonism
toward banks and Wall Street, is set to provide the Obama administration
and the governments of the G20 nations a pretext to usher in a new era
of international centralization and control over financial practices
and institutions.
L.A.
Times Op-Ed: Anti-Zionism Is Hate Crime A prominent L.A. Times editorial confuses the political movement
of Zionism with semites as a race in an attempt to argue that anti-Zionism
is worse than anti-Semitism and should be outlawed as a hate crime.
Lingering
mystery: Congressman calls for probe into 2001 anthrax attacks
More than seven years after the first bio-terror attack on the United
States, Congress is considering creating a commission to probe the government’s
response to the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people. Florida
legislator wants random drug tests for the unemployed
Employers have justified drug tests in the workplace by pointing to
such negative effects of drug use as absenteeism and work-related injuries.
Now a Florida legislator has proposed that random drug-testing also
be applied to those receiving unemployment insurance, justifying it
as a way to make state funds go further.
Number
of Young Girls on Diabetes Drugs Skyrockets 147 Percent
The number of girls between the ages of 5 and 19 taking prescription
drugs for diabetes increased 147 percent between 2002 and 2005, according
to a study conducted by researchers from Saint Louis University School
of Medicine, the Kansas Health Institute, and the private company Express
Scripts, and published in the journal Pediatrics.
Kucinich
Calls For Congressional Investigation Into Cheney “Assassination
Unit” Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has called for
a formal Congressional probe into allegations by investigative reporter
Seymour Hersh that former Vice-President Dick Cheney had his own SS-style
political assassination unit.
Banned
hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day The Australian communications regulator says it will fine
people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further
expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower
site Wikileaks.
Israel
handed new option in attacking Iran
A prominent US think tank has advised Israel to use ballistic missiles
against Iran’s nuclear sites after deciding on a pre-emptive
strike.
Democrats
Finally Waking Up to the Ongoing Looting of the Economy
Just as a certain percentage of republicans refused to admit that
rotten things were happening under the Bush administration, many
democrats have fought to defend the Obama administration against
charges of mishandling the response to the economic crisis.
