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Updated:
Sunday, November 22, 2009 15:56
GMT Obama’s
healthcare bill clears first Senate hurdle
Barack Obama’s healthcare reform bill cleared a crucial hurdle
last night when the Democrats secured the 60 votes needed in the US
Senate allowing debate to begin on 30 November.
Cuba:
military exercise braces island for US attack Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba,
the communist nation said Saturday it is holding a military exercise
next week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.
Forced
labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America
In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil:
trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work
as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.
Signs
That Swine Flu Has Peaked
Although federal health officials decline to use the word “peaked,”
the current wave of swine flu appears to have done so in the United
States.
Questions
Regarding The Fort Hood Massacre
By now, virtually everyone has read and reread the copious news accounts
of the terrible shooting a few weeks ago at Fort Hood, Texas. This column
will not attempt to add new details to what is already a highly scrutinized
tragedy.
The
Road to Copenhagen part III: A “Planetary Regime” in
the Making
The machine of mass media is working overdrive now that the Copenhagen
summit is approaching. All major media outlets have by now obviously
received their talking-points which have an strangely similar ring
about them all across the board.
Some
U.S. holiday terror?
Okay, call me crazy, paranoid, even “a conspiracy theorist.”
Egads! But I heard it first on the news this morning. Then it flashed
across my computer screen this afternoon in a story from the Washington
Post.
U.S.
Enlists Allies in New Surge
The Obama administration is in advanced talks with its North Atlantic
Treaty Organization allies for a coordinated rollout of a new Afghan
war strategy, which U.S. officials hope will include a commitment
by European allies to send several thousand additional troops.
Iran
to launch largest aerial defense maneuver
Iran is scheduled to launch a large-scale joint aerial defense maneuver
in an attempt to prepare itself for any potential attack against
the country.
July 13 - Gregory
Seabrooke - $100
June 24 - David Kwon - $50
June 11 - Peter Keeley - $10
June 11 - James Gathings - $10
May 25 - Stefan Lisander - $200
May 15 - Barry John Bennett - $15
