Government at Work: Obama's 'Safe Schools Czar' Keynoted Homosexual Conference for High School Students: Taught How To Practice Homosexuality and Handed Out 100's of 'Kits' (Graphic Descriptions)
In March 2000 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and some of the presenters even received federal money. During the 2000 conference, workshop leaders led a “youth only, ages 14-21? session that offered lessons in “fisting” a dangerous sexual practice. During another workshop an activist asked 14 year-old students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?” The unbelievable audio clip is posted here. Barack Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings is the founder of GLSEN. He was paid $273,573.96 as its executive director in 2007. Jennings was the keynote speaker at the 2000 GLSEN conference. (12/8/2009)
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In July Barney Frank said Fannie Mae was fundamentally sound and a good investment going forward. Bill O'Reilly calls him on it and Frank denies it in a very heated exchange.
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This week has come encouraging news for anyone with an interest in signs and wonders, or desperate for a chink of light in the prevailing gloom, which probably means most of us: a saviour is at hand. (12/22/2008)
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Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough—barely—to go around. (10/11/2008)
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The Obama administration is facing its first big international test this weekend as Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. heads to a conference in Europe in the face of a confrontational stance from an old cold war adversary. (2/6/2009)
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A pandemic response bill currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance. (9/2/2009)
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New Orleans authorities Monday warned residents who ignored a mandatory hurricane evacuation that police may arrest anyone found outside their properties during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Nearly two million inhabitants of the US Gulf Coast fled before Hurricane Gustav made landfall in Louisiana, but around 10,000 people stayed in the city despite the mandatory evacuation ordered by Mayor Ray Nagin on Sunday. (9/2/2008)
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As many as 20,000 town hall snoopers have assumed powers to enter people's homes without a warrant and search for information, a survey revealed last night. The research details for the first time how a raft of intrusive laws has allowed council staff to barge into homes and businesses uninvited. The bureaucrats are benefiting from the 1,043 state powers of entry in primary and secondary legislation – more than 400 of which have been created by Labour. (12/29/2009)
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The New Zealand Herald quoted an unnamed police spokesman who said officers acted on reports from villagers of strange goings-on at the lodge. (7/18/2009)
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has backed away from its plan to force money managers to publicly disclose how they’ve shorted stocks. The agency announced changes late Wednesday to a series of emergency rules it put in place beginning Sept. 17 to curb short selling, which has been fingered -- some say unfairly -- as a major cause of the collapse of many bank and brokerage stocks. As expected, the SEC, under Chairman Christopher Cox, said it would extend its outright ban on shorting of nearly 1,000 financial stocks beyond the scheduled expiration Thursday. (10/3/2008)
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Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.
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The lender carnage, death and destruction litter the home page of Aaron Krowne’s Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter like the beach at Normandy on D-Day. The infamous list has grown from September 2006 when Aaron started the website with approximately 10 failed lenders to a whopping 276 major U.S. failed lending operations today. (8/29/2008)
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Royal Bank of Scotland, one of Britain's biggest banks, was yesterday driven to the brink of nationalisation amid fears that the Government's latest bailout package would fail to alleviate the credit crisis... Concerns were also raised about how Britain will be able to pay for the bail-out, which follows last October's £500 billion bank rescue package. Some experts warned that Britain could be brought to the verge of bankruptcy by the taxpayer-funded intervention. (1/21/2009)
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Economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted much of the financial catastrophe that has unfolded worldwide over the last year, now says governments may have to temporarily close markets as a way to try to halt another massive wave of selling. Roubini, an economics professor at New York University and head of Roubini Global Economics, warned a conference of hedge fund managers in London on Thursday that the risk to the financial system has become bigger and bigger and could result in market holidays ordered by desperate governments. (10/25/2008)
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Almost a quarter of teachers have voiced their concerns about hidden surveillance cameras in schools, a survey said Monday. (8/18/2008)
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Toyota Motor slashed its profit forecast Thursday, warning the global auto industry faces an unprecedented crisis as Asian stocks tumbled on fears the US is sinking deeper towards recession. The Japanese giant became the latest automaker to reveal plunging profits due to the financial crisis, following on the heels of BMW, Nissan and Honda. (11/6/2008)
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Government report shows 50m people unable to put food on the table at some point last year. (11/18/2009)
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Russia will place short-range missile systems on the EU's eastern border to counter planned US missile defence installations in Eastern Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. 'Iskander missile systems will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralise the missile defence system,' Medvedev said. (11/5/2008)
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35 Christians killed and 50,000 forced from their homes by Hindu mobs enraged at Swami's murder. (10/9/2008)
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The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree. In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. (10/27/2008)
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Anyone departing the UK by land, sea or air will have their trip recorded and stored on a database for a decade. Passengers leaving every international sea port, station or airport will have to supply detailed personal information as well as their travel plans. The owners of light aircraft will also be brought under the system, known as e-borders, which will eventually track 250 million journeys annually. (3/14/2009)
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Jerome Corsi, senior WND staff writer and author of the New York Times best-seller The Obama Nation, has issued an alert to listeners of the G. Gordon Liddy show about a new European call for the global management of the planet. (11/25/2009)
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In an embarrassment to the French President, and with just two days to go before the seventh anniversary of the deadly terrorist strikes, Jean-Marie Bigard - a member of Mr Sarkozy's inner circle of showbiz friends - said the official version was a lie. We are now absolutely certain that these two planes - the one that supposedly fell into a forest (flight 93 in Pennsylvania) and onto the Pentagon don't exist... those planes are still flying. It's an enormous lie, he told Europe 1 radio. It's an American missile that hit the Pentagon, they provoked it themselves, they killed fellow Americans. Usually one learns of these things 30 years afterwards. We know it now, he went on. (9/11/2008)
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Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday. (8/25/2008)
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Every police force in the UK is to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners - handheld devices that allow police to carry out identity checks on people in the street. The new technology, which ultimately may be able to receive pictures of suspects, is likely to be in widespread use within 18 months. Tens of thousands of sets - as compact as BlackBerry smartphones - are expected to be distributed. (10/27/2008)
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching 'perestroika' reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world. The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a series of reforms that abolished state planning in the Soviet Union. (11/10/2008)
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We need to strengthen our practices and financial infrastructure in the OTC derivatives market and in the tri-party repo system. Important work is underway in each of these areas, and needs to be completed quickly. To address the perception that some institutions are too big to fail, we must improve the tools at our disposal for facilitating the orderly failure of a large complex financial institution. It is clear that some institutions, if they fail, can have a systemic impact, so we must give regulators the authorities to limit that impact and facilitate an orderly failure. (7/8/2008)
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In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night, filled with new spending and tax cuts at the core of the young adminstration's revival plan for the desperately ailing economy.
How did your congressman vote?
The vote was 244-188.
We don't have a moment to spare, Obama declared at the White House as congressional allies hastened to do his bidding in the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The vote sent the bill to the Senate, where debate is expected to begin as early as this week on a companion measure already taking shape. Democratic leaders have pledged to have legislation ready for Obama's signature by mid-February.
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Views: 479Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has seized control of a rice mill owned by the US food giant Cargill as he tightens state control over the food supply and continues his policy of nationalisation. (3/5/2009)
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Mike Larson, an analyst at Weiss Research, says the long-term bond market could be the biggest bubble of all, worse than the dot-com and real estate bubbles.
Treasury bonds almost never move this far, this fast. And interest rates, which move in the opposite direction of bond prices, almost never fall this far, this fast, Larson said.
Larson said the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond plunged from a mid-October high of 4.08 percent to nearly 2.5 percent this week, yielding lows not seen since the mid-1950s.
There are lots of reasons to believe this Treasury rally is unsustainable, and that a day of reckoning is fast approaching, he said. (12/7/2008)
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A mystery electronic spy network apparently based in China has infiltrated hundreds of computers around the world and stolen files and documents, Canadian researchers have revealed.
The network, dubbed GhostNet, appears to target embassies, media groups, NGOs, international organisations, government foreign ministries and the offices of the Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan exile movement. The researchers, based at Toronto University's Munk Centre for International Studies, said their discovery had profound implications. (3/30/2009)
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Up to 15 regional and national retail chains face going bankrupt within the next month, insolvency experts warned yesterday, as one of the largest post-Christmas sales for decades got under way today. (12/26/2008)
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Downing Street's desperate efforts to shore up the economy in the face of the escalating credit crash may not be enough to rescue the transport, building and car industries, as a tidal wave of job losses are predicted in the coming months. More than a million Britons will be out of work and on the dole by next month as the toxic fallout from Black October filters down to ordinary families, economists are warning. (10/13/2008)
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The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a hysterical psuedo-religion. In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it occurred naturally and was not man-made. (9/5/2008)
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The head of Chicago's school system has proposed the creation of a gay-friendly high school to counter the high bullying, depression and drop-out rates among homosexual pupils. The proposals were supported by most of the 50 Chicago residents who attended a public meeting on the city's education. They will be voted on by the Chicago board of education on October 22. If approved, the Pride Campus would be unlikely to open until 2010 and would teach 600 students. (10/9/2008)
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If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted, Barack Obama said to the San Francisco Chronicle in January. (11/3/2008)
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The government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for pupils aged five to 11, dividing faith groups and safer sex campaigners. (4/29/2009)
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You know where that very important $700-billion figure came from? Here's a quote from that Forbes story: It's not based on any particular data point, a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. We just wanted to choose a really large number. They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action. (9/30/2008)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, suffered a serious blow yesterday when parliament sacked his interior minister for faking a law degree from Oxford University. Ali Kordan, a powerful figure on Iran's complex political scene, was told by the Majlis that he must face impeachment after he also admitted trying to bribe MPs not to proceed against him. By backing Kordan until the eve of the vote, the president has tarnished his reputation as a fighter against corruption. (11/7/2008)
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The financial crisis will probably not end until next year or even 2010, Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper quoted Morgan Stanley co-President Walid Chammah as saying in a preview of its Monday edition. Chammah also expected more banks to fall victim to the crisis, the paper said. (8/18/2008)
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The United States today formally endorsed a UN statement calling for the worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality, a measure that former president George W Bush had refused to sign. (3/19/2009)
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A home school legal advocate is disturbed by the recent actions of a social worker in Florida.
According to Kris Klicka of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a social worker in Miami, Florida, overstepped the boundary of law when she demanded to interview a home schooler's children. He says the social worker showed up at the family's home when the father was at work -- and out of fear and intimidation, the mother let the social worker into the home to interview her children, even though the worker neither had a warrant nor would disclose why she was there. (11/18/2008)
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Scientists have devised a cheap and simple method of turning water into rocket fuel using solar power in a development that could generate a new source of green energy for the home and workplace. (8/1/2008)
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The Vatican has said it regrets the decision by the Church of England to allow the ordination of women bishops.
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Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment. (9/29/2008)
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The banking industry has plunged into unprecedented turmoil as share prices plummeted, knocking billions off the value of some of the High Street's top banks within minutes. (10/7/2008)
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown says leaders at the G-20 summit have agreed to give $1 trillion to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to help struggling nations around the world. (4/2/2009)
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Nearly 600,000 people never convicted of any crime now have their details stored on Labour’s DNA database, shock figures reveal. More than 400,000 of those were added in the past two years, further fuelling the belief that the Government is building a genetic record of the entire population by stealth. (8/18/2008)
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Barack Obama will unveil plans to save American home owners from repossession this week, in a bid to recapture public support for his economic recovery programme and pave the way for other big plans. (2/14/2009)
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Sterling jumped more than a cent against a sharply falling dollar on Wednesday, with the greenback winded after US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was quite open to China's suggestion of moving toward SDR-linked currency system, Reuters reported. (3/25/2009)
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Parents in England will for the first time be routinely informed if a child is clinically overweight under controversial plans to tackle an epidemic of obesity that were announced yesterday by the Department of Health. (8/5/2008)
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Vladimir Putin has warned Europe that Russia's energy reserves will flow to the Far East if the continent's leaders seek to punish his country for invading Georgia. (9/2/2008)
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When the public moves to an investment in large numbers, it usually signals the end of a run. (6/17/2009)
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The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, has called on European leaders to create a new world order that minimises the role of the US. (10/8/2008)
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This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the June Employment Report . Jobs were negative for a 6th consecutive month. My target of 6% or higher stated unemployment by the end of the year remains on track. Here is a synopsis of that report. (7/8/2008)
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Last month the Christian Children's Fund announced it is adopting a new strategy to continue its work in aiding the world's impoverished children. Along with the new strategy comes a name change -- specifically, removal of the word Christian from its title.
The new name, ChildFund International, was approved at the Christian Children's Fund (CCF) Board of Director's meeting on April 21 and will take effect July 1. As AlertNet.org reports, CCF hopes to continue easing the burden of poverty for children and their families under the new, globally unified branding. (5/11/2009)
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The global food crisis won't go away any time soon. Capitalism has the average consumer by the belly. Amid growing signs of famine and outrage, the entire chain of commodities and resources of the world are now being cornered by giant corporations. (8/4/2008)
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The federal government would need to quarantine infected households and ban public gatherings to contain pandemic flu, according to a computer simulation study conducted by researchers from Virginia Tech and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Democratic-controlled House approved a budget blueprint drawn to President Barack Obama's specifications Thursday and the Senate hastened to follow suit after administration allies rejected alternatives from liberals and conservatives alike.
The vote in the House was 233-196, largely along party lines, for a $3.6 trillion plan that includes a deficit of $1.2 trillion.
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Views: 433You can't blame the Chinese for being mad. But the latest salvo from the Chinese concerning the dollar is a very weak attempt on their part to hit back. (3/25/2009)
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Mikhail Voitenko, editor of Russia's Sovfracht maritime bulletin, said the ship, carrying about £1 million-worth of sawn timber from Finland to Algeria, might have been targeted because it was also loaded with an unknown cargo.
He told the Russia Today news channel: The only sensible answer is that the vessel was loaded secretly with something we don't know anything about. We have to remember that before loading in Finland the vessel stayed for two weeks in a shipyard in Kaliningrad. I'm sure it cannot be drugs or illegal criminal cargo. I think it is something much more expensive and dangerous. (8/13/2009)
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The websites will be blocked as part of a government-sponsored trial of its filter technology that will start before Christmas and last six weeks. The government has already identified 1300 websites that it wants to black list as part of the clean feeds scheme. (11/15/2008)
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The chief ethicist for the diocese of London in Ontario Canada recently admitted to LifeSiteNews.com in an interview that St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in London has been performing early induction procedures in cases of diagnosed lethal fetal anomalies for twenty years, under his ethical direction. While Fr. Michael Prieur attempted to justify early induction for lethal fetal anomaly as not being abortion, the procedure has been condemned as illicit by the US Bishops' Doctrinal Committee and called direct abortion by the National Catholic Bioethics Center (12/14/2008)
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From 18 until 28 December there is a ten-day “Christmas Festival” for homosexuals, including a “gay X-mas open-air market”, gay nativity scenes – featuring Baby Jesus with either two Josephs or two Marys – several gay gatherings, a “pink ice skating rink” (for travestites), and streets lined with pink Christmas trees. (12/23/2008)
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After making millions selling New Jersey bonds to investors, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs told other wealthy clients they could profit by betting the Garden State may not be able to pay off its bonds as scheduled, according to a confidential presentation made two months ago...
In the 58-page proposal, Goldman said it identified 11 states where prospects for a default might be on the upswing. (12/11/2008)
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Christians increasingly targeted in blogs for anti-homosexual positions. Some are advocating well organized acts of terrorism. (11/10/2009)
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The top congressional budget analyst says pension plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months. The Fed announced it would begin buying companies' short-term debt. The powers were bestowed during the Depression as part of the Federal Reserve Act. (10/7/2008)
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Japan has warned of an increasing Russian military presence in North-East Asia, with additional exercises and incursions into Japanese territory in the last 12 months by naval and airborne forces. (9/7/2008)
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It has finally happened. With yesterday's naming of Border Czar Alan Bersin, the Obama administration has by any reasonable reckoning passed the Romanov Dynasty in the production of czars. The Romanovs ruled Russia from 1613 with the ascension of Michael I through the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. During that time, they produced 18 czars. While it is harder to exactly count the number of Obama administration czars, with yesterday's appointment it seems fair to say it is now certainly in excess of 18. (6/8/2009)
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Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free, said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. I don't believe that was the intent of the program. (10/17/2008)
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Share prices have fallen by a fifth since their peak a year ago, and the majority of City analysts believe worse is still to come. (7/8/2008)
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Russia would cross "a red line for the United States of America" if it were to base nuclear capable bombers in Cuba, a top US air force officer warned on Tuesday.
"If they did I think we should stand strong and indicate that is something that crosses a threshold, crosses a red line for the United States of America," said General Norton Schwartz, nominated to be the air force's chief of staff.
He was referring to a Russian news report that said the military is thinking of flying long-range bombers to Cuba on a regular basis. (7/23/2008)
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Parents who took their children out of school in protest at them being taught about gay, bisexual and transgender history could be prosecuted. (3/6/2009)
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Rising unemployment and the economic slowdown could cause massive social turmoil in China, a leading scholar in the Communist Party has said.
The redistribution of wealth through theft and robbery could dramatically increase and menaces to social stability will grow, Zhou Tianyong, a researcher at the Central Party School in Beijing, wrote in the China Economic Times.
This is extremely likely to create a reactive situation of mass-scale social turmoil, he wrote. (12/5/2008)
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A California school system refuses to say what action, if any, it will take after it received complaints about a kindergarten teacher who encouraged her students to sign pledge cards in support of gays. (11/1/2008)
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What some are advocating... The world is heading for an ecological credit crunch far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today. (10/30/2008)
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Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed catastrophe and submerged much of the impoverished Caribbean nation, said President Rene Preval. A fourth storm, Ike, was gathering force in the Atlantic and could strike next week. (9/5/2008)
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A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion bailout of the abortion industry.
Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The report, titled Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration, also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, is hoping a Republican-led effort in the Senate will block Obama's plan to substantially increase taxpayer funding of Marjorie Dannenfelserthe abortion industry. (12/18/2008)
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Mark my words, the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. (10/20/2008)
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The majority of people feel that the CDC can no longer be trusted. Many doctors and health care professionals are beginning to challenge the assumptions of our current vaccine programs, and question the sanity and safety of rushing to mass-vaccinate against such a mild virus as H1N1 with untested and unproven vaccines.
Furthermore, one physician, Dr. Blaylock, board certified neurosurgeon, author, and lecturer, who has written over 30 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals on a number of subjects, says that the CDC is leading America into an unfounded mass vaccination emergency. (11/7/2009)
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The European Central Bank has dramatically changed its tune over the last twenty-four hours as the credit freeze worsens, acknowledging for the first time that the world faces the gravest crisis since the Great Depression. “We’ve got to get together on both sides of the Atlantic. It is absolutely essential to co-ordinate everything, including monetary policy,” Spain's governor said. (10/7/2008)
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Shell and BP have been warned by Greenpeace and other investors that their involvement in unconventional energy production such as Canada's oil sands could turn out to be the industry's equivalent of the sub-prime lending that poisoned the banking sector and triggered the current financial crisis. The global warming agenda is being used to control the energy sector. What would we do without these environmental saviors? (9/20/2008)
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A lot of companies are predicting that online content will not be free anymore. The Financial Times Editor is the latest person to discuss a subscription-based model. (8/5/2009)
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Vice President-Elect Joe Biden said the U.S. economy is in danger of absolutely tanking and will need a second stimulus package in the $600-billion to $700-billion range... The economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in. (12/19/2008)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government will take over and nationalize La Cristinas, the biggest gold mine in the country owned by Canada's Crystallex, Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Wednesday. The move is part of leftist Chavez's socialist agenda that calls for nationalizing Venezuela's natural resources. Over the past year, he has taken over the electricity, oil, steelmaking, cement and telephone enterprises (11/6/2008)
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Record numbers of childminders are being forced out of business, just 12 months after the introduction of Labour’s compulsory “nappy curriculum”, figures suggest.
Childminders, who look after very young children in their own homes for as little as £3 an hour, must now draw up plans of what activities they will carry out with those in their care, monitor their progress in meeting the goals and write reports when they go on to nursery. (11/4/2009)
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FCC commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to reimpose the fairness doctrine: The move could undermine the justification for existing localism and children's TV regulations, and could be used against public radio... He also suggested it would not come back wearing a big sign saying, it's me, the fairness doctrine, but would likely instead be rebranded. (1/29/2009)
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Georgia's president says a column of more than 100 Russian tanks and other vehicles is moving toward the country's second-largest city. (8/14/2008)
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Russia threatened to deploy bombers and short-range missiles on the Polish border if Warsaw agrees to host elements of a US missile defence shield on its territory. (8/7/2008)
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American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more at alarming rates, a study of nearly 30,000 high school students concluded Monday.
The attitudes and conduct of some 29,760 high school students across the United States doesn't bode well for the future when these youngsters become the next generation's politicians and parents, cops and corporate executives, and journalists and generals, the non-profit Josephson Institute said. (12/1/2008)
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has threatened to walk out of London's G20 summit if France's demands for stricter financial regulation are rejected, it has been reported. (4/2/2009)
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Any aggression against Iran will start a world war, deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency. The unrestrained greed of the US leadership and global Zionism... is gradually leading the world to the edge of a precipice, Jazayeri said, citing the unrest in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Georgia. (8/30/2008)
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U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Thursday regarding the importance of getting it right on health care reform (12/17/2009)
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The census' American Community Survey figures for 2007 indicate that 74 percent of all residents in the El Paso metropolitan area spoke Spanish at home, even if they are fluent in English. The numbers also say that one out of every five people living in the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California use mainly Spanish, and not English, at home. (9/24/2008)
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Georgia cabinet minster says Georgian troops are in control of capital of South Ossetia, four Russian warplanes shot down; Russian military officials claiming 10 "peacekeepers" killed, 30 wounded in fighting.
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A Nevada voter-fraud task force Tuesday raided the state headquarters of a Democrat-allied organization that works to get low-income people to vote, setting off a skirmish over efforts to expand the electorate on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama. Authorities searched the Las Vegas office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with duplicate and false names, including names of former Dallas Cowboys players. (10/9/2008)
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We speak to Pulitzer-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg about how the “war hero” candidate Sen. John McCain buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. (10/25/2008)
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday that Congress was not told the truth about the bailout of the nation's financial system and should take back what is left of the $700 billion 'blank check' it gave the Bush administration. 'It is just outrageous that the American people don't know that Congress doesn't know how much money he (Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson) has given away to anyone,' the Oklahoma Republican told the Tulsa World. 'It could be to his friends. It could be to anybody else. We don't know. There is no way of knowing.' (11/17/2008)
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Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute said Tuesday. (6/16/2009)
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Israel has warned Russia that further weapons sales to Syria would upset the power balance in the Middle East. (8/22/2008)
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Elderly and disabled could be 'forced to commit suicide' under changes to rules. (11/14/2009)
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Since CNBC's Rick Santelli first suggested a Chicago Tea Party to protest President Obama's plans to stimulate the economy and bailout homeowners through unrestrained government spending, organized demonstrations have been occurring across the fruited plain.
Unfortunately, unless you frequent conservative websites, you'd have no idea that such events were being staged.
Despite their lack of coverage, as Knoxnews.com revealed Sunday, these Tea Parties are springing up all over the country...
Did you know there have been that many? If you didn't, don't feel embarrassed for these have gone almost totally ignored.
For instance, with the exception of Fox News and CNN, no major television outlet has covered even one of these events except the original proposed by Santelli on February 19. (3/17/2009)
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As new figures reveal the massive increase in multiple abortions, a mother tells of their devastating legacy (7/16/2008)
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Children as young as five should be taught about explicit sex acts, according to guidelines from the United Nations.
The advice also calls for youngsters to learn about abortion, same-sex relationships and sexually transmitted diseases.
The draft report on sex education has been compiled by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
The guidance is due to be issued to governments, local authorities and education bodies around the world by the end of next month. (9/10/2009)
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According to the Economist, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and China have been “quietly” buying up more than $20 billion of this asset.
It’s not oil or natural gas assets though. And it’s not the molybdenum they need to build thousands of miles of new pipelines. They’re buying up one of my favorite long-term investments, farmland. (6/15/2009)
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The market was 500 trades away from Armageddon on Thursday, traders inside two large custodial banks tell The Post. Had the Treasury and Fed not quickly stepped into the fray that morning with a quick $105 billion injection of liquidity, the Dow could have collapsed to the 8,300-level - a 22 percent decline! - while the clang of the opening bell was still echoing around the cavernous exchange floor. According to traders, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, money market funds were inundated with $500 billion in sell orders prior to the opening. The total money-market capitalization was roughly $4 trillion that morning. (9/21/2008)
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The widening housing crisis took center stage on the presidential campaign trail Saturday after the Treasury Department confirmed to the candidates it was preparing a historic seizure of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson briefed Obama late Friday on plans to seize, perhaps as early as this weekend, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to bolster the pair and calm jittery global financial markets. (9/7/2008)
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MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for unidentified Britons who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
(8/4/2008)
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Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian tribes has turned so violent that the country's Supreme Court warns it could escalate into civil war.
(8/6/2008)
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Teenagers spend an average of 31 hours a week online and nearly two hours a week looking at pornography, according to a study. (2/10/2009)
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A program to exchange guns for gifts has brought in a record number of weapons this year as residents hit hard by the economy look under the bed and in closets to find items to trade for groceries. (12/7/2008)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought Arab support Tuesday for a proposed oil-backed currency to challenge the U.S. dollar in his latest swipe at Washington's dominance in global financial affairs. (3/31/2009)
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A defector from Germany's hard-core neo-Nazi party the NPD has painted a chilling picture of the rise of new Hitler worshippers and their plans to build the Fourth Reich. (2/26/2009)
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A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing. (10/14/2009)
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The indicators were so bad that analysts have described it as the day the perfect storm came ashore. (1/30/2009)
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An unexpected collapse in demand for Chinese goods has confirmed fears that the world's fourth-largest economy is on the precipice of a major crisis.
The collapse in exports has triggered a series of violent riots at factories across China's south in recent months, with thousands of laid-off workers rampaging through Dongguan and Guangzhou, previously the centre of China's economic miracle. (12/10/2008)
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The Quebec Superior Court has denied a petition from concerned Catholic parents who wanted exemptions for their children from the province's mandatory relativism program, 'Ethics and Religious Culture' (ERC), reports Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com. (9/9/2009)
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Christians are gathering on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to fast and pray all week. Leaders say they are humbly calling upon God in a time when our country needs it the most. God is really our only hope, said Katie Mahoney. Now is the time to pray that the right leaders will come, explained Nathan Rummage. (10/7/2008)
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The U.S. Mint is temporarily halting sales of its popular American Buffalo 24-karat gold coins because it can't keep up with soaring demand as investors seek the safety of gold amid economic turbulence. Mint spokesman Michael White said Friday that the sales were being suspended because demand for the coins, which were first introduced in 2006, has exceeded supply and the Mint's inventory of the coins has been depleted. (9/26/2008)
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The United States is mired in a once-in-a century financial crisis which is now more than likely to spark a recession, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said Sunday. The former Federal Reserve chairman also predicted that the financial crisis would see the failure of more major financial institutions, even as embattled Wall Street investment giant Lehman Brothers scrambled to find a buyer. (9/14/2008)
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Iran has warned it is ready to shut down the shipping lanes of the Gulf as it boasted of a new missile system designed to "prolong" war at sea. (8/4/2008)
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Britain is considering joining the eurozone as a direct consequence of global financial turmoil, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Sunday. We are now closer than ever before. I'm not going to break the confidentiality of certain conversations, but some British politicians have already told me: 'If we had the euro, we would have been better off. (11/30/2008)
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In a barely noticed development, a US Army unit is now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. An initial news report in the Army Times newspaper last month noted that in addition to emergency response the force “may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.” The military has since claimed the force will not be used for civil unrest, but questions remain. We speak to Army Col. Michael Boatner, future operations division chief of USNORTHCOM, and Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine. (10/7/2008)
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U.S. and European banks, already burdened by losses and concerns about their financial health, face a new challenge: paying off hundreds of billions of dollars of debt coming due. The crunch will begin next month, when some $95 billion in floating-rate notes mature. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. analyst Alex Roever estimates that financial institutions will have to pay off at least $787 billion in floating-rate notes and other medium-term obligations before the end of 2009. That's about 43 percent more than they had to redeem in the previous 16 months. (8/29/2008)
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Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures, threatening the Obama administration's efforts to end the housing crisis and diminishing hopes the economy will rebound with vigor. (7/17/2009)
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I thought at first it was just conjecture and gossip, but the more I have researched it, the more I believe it is not only real…but coming soon. And as a writer who has your best monetary interests at heart, I feel you need to know at least a little about this. A North American Union (NAU) with a common currency is not a new idea. Herbert G. Grubel, a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute, came out with a book entitled “The Case for the Amero” in September of 1999. Discussion of SPP and NAFTA Superhighway. Many links to other sites with detailed information. (10/9/2008)
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Researchers have demonstrated a flexible television screen which could result in people folding up their computer and putting it in their pocket. The design could be used for television and posters, as well as computers, while it could also pave the way for the development of newspaper display technology which would allow readers to upload daily news to an easy-to-carry display contraption. (10/4/2008)
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The US military was surprised by the timing and swiftness of the Russian military's move into South Ossetia and is still trying to sort out what happened, a US defense official said Monday. (8/11/2008)
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recently revealed that the South American countries are planning for a common currency as part of the integration of the individual countries into the Union of South American Nations. This integration is patterned after the formation of the European Union, and parallels the plan for the North American Union.
(8/4/2008)
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The governor of the Bank of Spain on Sunday issued a bleak assessment of the economic crisis, warning that the world faced a total financial meltdown unseen since the Great Depression. (12/21/2008)
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Hundreds of proponents of gay marriage rallied in Salt Lake City Saturday, as speakers predicted a groundswell of activism unleashed by the LDS Church's support of Proposition 8 in California. 'I'm so glad Salt Lake City has become ground zero,' exclaimed Jeff Key, a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran who was discharged after coming out as gay. Diversity trainer Dominique Storni told the crowd she was grateful that the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had 'wakened our sleeping giant. We finally have a civil rights movement equal to that of the '50s and '60s.' (11/15/2008)
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Gordon Brown said today he was hopeful of success in his attempts to persuade dollar-rich Gulf states to prop up ailing national economies through a massive injection of capital into the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The prime minister spent three hours in one-to-one talks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, trying to persuade the monarch to invest in a revamped IMF. (11/2/2008)
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The constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage has the support of 55 percent of Florida voters, which is not enough to get approved in the state. (9/9/2008)
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In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser, argues that drastic measures must be taken in order to prevent a catastrophe. He is proposing the creation of a CO2 budget for every person on the planet, regardless whether they live in Berlin or Beijing. (9/8/2009)
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Nearly 10 years after a stunning photograph of his tiny hand traveled the world, Samuel Armas has a firm grip on what The Hand of Hope means to him. (5/7/2009)
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Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London. (10/22/2008)
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The ripples from a short and brutal war in the Caucasus spread out to encompass the Middle East yesterday, when the Syrian president rekindled a strategic alliance with Moscow that had been neglected since the Cold War. (9/5/2008)
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At Tuesday night's Salt Lake City Council meeting, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement showing its support of the city's proposed non-discrimination regulations. (11/11/2009)
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The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday. (6/17/2009)
Views: 380
The Federal Reserve, already arguably the most powerful agency in the U.S. government, will get sweeping new authority to regulate any company whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy and markets under the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul plan. (6/16/2009)
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A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions. (11/14/2008)
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What does Christianity mean to these people? The World Council of Churches is encouraging Christian churches worldwide to ring their bells 350 times on December 13 during the Copenhagen climate change summit to represent the maximum of 350 PPM of CO2 allowed. (11/13/2009)
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Teachers are being turned into social workers and surrogate parents under Labour, according to the headteacher of the country's most popular school. (7/8/2008)
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The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Government has warned. (7/20/2008)
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Pupils and their families will be required to agree to the deal - setting out minimum standards of behaviour and attendance - before the start of term. Contracts, known as Home School Agreements, will also establish parents' responsibilities for the first time. They face court action and possible fines of up to £1,000 for repeatedly breaking rules. The contracts will become compulsory in all English state schools under plans laid out in a Government White Paper. Ministers suggested that good parents would be able to complain about other mothers and fathers who fail to ensure their children behave. (7/23/2009)
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The US Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step of setting an inflation target for the first time as it warned the American economy will contract more sharply than first thought in 2009. (2/20/2009)
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Phrases such as gentlemen's agreement, black mark and whiter than white have been banned by dozens of quangos over fears they may cause offence. (8/25/2009)
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The head of Mexico's intelligence service has said that drug cartels are threatening the country's democratic institutions, including Congress. (7/16/2008)
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A group of journalists stood for many hours in near-freezing temperatures Monday waiting to get into the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. (12/15/2009)
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A former chairman of the Bar Council is calling for an international court for the environment to punish states that fail to protect wildlife and prevent climate change. (11/30/2008)
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AIG's death would be far worse than Lehman's. (9/16/2008)
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The UK faces a catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned.
Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the impasse.
He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was no plan B.
World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty. (10/19/2009)
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The White House on Friday insisted it's not trying to take over two ailing financial institutions, even as stocks tumbled again.
On Wall Street, talk of nationalization of Citigroup Inc., and Bank of America Corp., prompted investors to continue to balk, worried that the government would have to take control and wipe out shareholders in the process. Citigroup fell 20 percent, while Bank of America fell 12 percent in afternoon trading but also came off their lowest levels. (2/20/2009)
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One can criticize the Federal Reserve for a number of its actions in this 2007-2008 credit crisis, but it has not lacked for creativity. The most recent possibility that is being broached would be the sale of its own debt, in order to raise money so it can continue to support troubled credit markets, which are basically stuck. (12/11/2008)
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The number of attacks on US government, defence companies and businesses rose by a third in 2007, to 43,880 incidents affecting five million computers, according to the claims by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Some were so sophisticated that they might be impossible to counteract, or even detect. Meanwhile, its space programme, targeted at what one Chinese military strategist called America's soft ribs, was steadily increasing the vulnerability of US assets.
China is intent on expanding its sphere of control even at the expense of its Asian neighbours and the United States, it said. (11/21/2008)
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Iranian leaders say the world financial crisis indicates the end of capitalism, the failure of liberal democracy and divine punishment -- marking the superiority of the Islamic republic's political model. (10/15/2008)
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US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States. (4/24/2009)
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in a blog posting entitled 'A McCain 'Win' Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned', David Swanson, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, writes: 'If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, DC, which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. We may be there for days or weeks or months. But we must be there. We must be there by the millions. We must show each other, and the nation, and the world that we have had enough, that we will not stand for one more stolen election, that we will not give in to fear, lies, theft, and intimidation.' (10/25/2008)
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Hundreds of panicked savers on Wednesday rushed to withdraw their money from banks linked to Sir Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire who has been charged by US securities regulators with “massive” investment fraud. (2/18/2009)
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Fears are growing that Ireland could default on its national debt after the cost to insure against possible losses on loans to the country rose to record highs at the end of last week. (2/16/2009)
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Mexico and Pakistan are at risk of a rapid and sudden collapse, according to a recent report from the U.S. Joint Forces Command. (1/15/2009)
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With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region. (12/9/2008)
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Congress will consider legislation to extend some of the curbs on executive pay that now apply only to those banks receiving federal assistance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said.
“There’s deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Washington news conference today.
He said the compensation restrictions would apply to all financial institutions and might be extended to include all U.S. companies. (2/9/2009)
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action. (9/9/2008)
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Hungary is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy with its citizens struggling to pay off mortages and personal loans taken out in foreign currency during one of the post-Communist era's most exhuberant booms. (2/27/2009)
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President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev wants to send a Russian naval fleet to visit Venezuela. (8/19/2008)
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Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.
Dr Rowan Williams also criticised Christianity's history for its violence, its use of harsh punishments and its betrayal of its peaceful principles.
His comments came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for 'the common good'. (7/16/2008)
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Are males becoming an endangered species?
That's the question scientists and researchers have been pondering since alarming trends in male fertility rates, birth defects and disorders began emerging around the world. More and more boys are being born with genital defects and are suffering from learning disabilities, autism and Tourette's syndrome, among other disorders. (11/10/2008)
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The US economy is facing slow growth and higher prices, according to the most recent survey by the US central bank, the Federal Reserve. (9/7/2008)
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George Bush has today lifted a presidential ban on oil drilling off American coastlines that was first signed by his father – a symbolic move aimed at pressuring Congress into lifting its own similar ban.
(7/17/2008)
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In Memphis on Sunday, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said to an audience that the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination was developed to depopulate the human race. (10/22/2009)
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Three big city mayors asked the federal government Friday to use a portion of the $700 billion financial bailout to assist struggling cities. The mayors sought help with their pension costs, infrastructure investment and cash-flow problems stemming from the global financial crisis. The mayors—Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and Phil Gordon of Phoenix—made their request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. (11/16/2008)
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Sarah Palin has returned to Alaska after her whirlwind 68-day exposure to America's national political scene, but the controversy over her vice-presidential candidacy shows no sign of abating. As the state governor stepped off a plane in icy Anchorage on Wednesday, she faced fresh allegations over her behaviour on the campaign trail and renewed attacks on her lack of readiness for the White House. Many of the attacks were from disgruntled aides within John McCain's campaign. (11/7/2008)
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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Japan on Thursday, within minutes of a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said. (9/11/2008)
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Mourning over the destruction of Jerusalem is normal in the month of Av, but at the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faith Movement all focus is on the “big day” - the day in which the Third Temple will be built. (8/1/2008)
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Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet.
Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La Jolla. (5/25/2009)
Views: 365
Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, upbraided Ukraine's bickering leaders on Friday as he warned that Russia was using blackmail and intimidation to divide America's allies. (9/7/2008)
Views: 365
Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy. (8/20/2008)
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Buildings were shaking in Mexico City after an earthquake hit, Reuters reported.
It was a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (4/27/2009)
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The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England have all cut interest rates in an emergency move to restore confidence in the global financial system. (10/9/2008)
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The US stock market could suffer a devastating crash with shares losing a third of their value this week if Hank Paulson’s financial bailout plan fails, US Treasury officials have warned. The financial system could face a meltdown of 1929 proportions unless US politicians succeed in their efforts for a $700bn rescue scheme, experts added. One Republican said that the message from government officials is that “the economy is dropping into the john.” He added: “We could see falls of 3,000 or 4,000 points on the Dow. Amazing pressure being applied! (9/28/2008)
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Gordon Brown is promoting his plan for an international regulator to oversee the international financial markets and prevent further economic turbulence during talks with world leaders in New York. (9/26/2008)
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“Train-wreck” doesn't even begin to describe what is starting to happen to the U.S. today with the financial crisis, an onrushing depression, and the failure of George W. Bush's war policy as he is faced down by Iran and the Russian bear. (9/16/2008)
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Plans to build support for identity cards by introducing them among 'guinea pig' groups, such as airport staff and students, are in crisis after 10,000 airline pilots vowed to take legal action to block them and opposition swept through Britain's universities and councils. (10/13/2008)
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Russia said U.S. ships could only stay in the Black Sea for 21 days according to the Montreux Convention, and warned if they do not leave by then Turkey would be responsible. (8/29/2008)
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Russia and China are coordinating proposals on a new global currency that could replace the US dollar as a reserve currency to prevent a repeat of the global economic crisis, the Kremlin said on Monday. (3/31/2009)
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Russia was rocked today by some of its strongest protests yet as thousands rallied across the vast country to attack the Kremlin's response to the global economic crisis.
The marches, complete with Soviet-style red flags and banners, pose a challenge to a government which has faced little threat from the fragmented opposition and politically apathetic population during the boom years fuelled by oil. (2/1/2009)
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The downward spiral of U.S. housing prices still has a way to go and homes were overvalued by between 8 percent to 20 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to research by an International Monetary Fund economist published on Friday. (7/27/2008)
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Tartous is being dredged and renovated to provide a permanent facility for the Russian navy, giving Moscow a key military foothold in the Mediterranean at a time when Russia's invasion of Georgia has led to fears of a new cold war. (10/8/2008)
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The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that crucifixes in Italian schools violate the religious rights of both children and parents. (11/12/2009)
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Last weekend, that heroically diligent US meteorologist Anthony Watts noticed that something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website that shows how much sea-ice there is in the Arctic. Without explanation, as he reported on his Watts Up With That website, half a million square kilometres of ice simply vanished overnight. (12/21/2008)
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North Korean diplomats abroad have been ordered to stay close to their embassies and await an important announcement, according to a Japanese newspaper. The news has prompted speculation that North Korea's officials are to be informed that Dear Leader Kim Jong-il has died or that Pyongyang is carrying out its threat to sever all ties with South Korea. (10/19/2008)
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George Bush is expected to summon Gordon Brown and other European leaders to an emergency summit to discuss the economic crisis. The prospect of a high-level global meeting came as the US central bank launched a new bid to unfreeze credit markets by effectively lending billions of dollars to US companies. The Federal Reserve moved after lending in the commercial paper market - where companies raise money from the open money markets - all but ceased, raising a serious threat to many American businesses' operations. (10/7/2008)
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday delayed Chrysler's sale of most of its assets to a group led by Italy's Fiat, but didn't say how long the deal will remain on hold. (6/8/2009)
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A new battlefront has erupted in the war between Alpine School District and its detractors -- this time centered in the volcanic combination of religion and democracy.
The new battle centers on a link on the district's Web page that was quietly removed on Feb. 16. Titled America: Republic or Democracy? the link led directly to an essay by William P. Meyers, a California-based writer who heralds his belief that Jesus Christ is one in a long string of historic vampires. (2/25/2010)
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The number of Britons who have died after contracting swine flu has almost doubled in two days to 14, officials said yesterday. (7/10/2009)
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The consumer price index fell 0.4pc in March from a year before, and 0.1pc from the previous month, the Labor Department said in Washington. Output at factories, mines and utilities dropped 1.5pc last month, when the share of industrial capacity in use slid to 69.3pc, the Fed said.
Today’s figures signal deflation, or prolonged price declines, is the bigger danger, and underscores calls by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, for inflation to remain “quite low for some time”. (4/16/2009)
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Iranian state radio is quoting the country's defense minister as saying Iran's military capabilities "increased remarkably" after the construction of a new submarine. (8/12/2008)
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Chloe Buckley, the six-year-old swine flu victim, died of septic shock following a bout of tonsillitis, it has emerged. (7/21/2009)
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Russia announced an overhaul of its strategic nuclear forces and army yesterday, in the clearest sign yet that Moscow may be preparing for a possible full-scale military confrontation with the US and Nato. Speaking after Russia carried out its biggest military exercises since the cold war, Dmitry Medvedev, the president, said Russia would build a space defence system and a fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020. This is very significant. Right now the present Russian leadership believes that a war with Nato is very much possible, Pavel Felgenhauer, a Moscow-based defence analyst, told the Guardian. This is the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that the Russian military is actually preparing for an all-out nuclear war with America. (9/27/2008)
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MSNBC and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) are reporting that Gov. Palin met this afternoon with the board of directors of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman to, in the words of one McCain campaign official cited by MSNBC, put “the American Jewish community at ease over her understanding of US-Middle East relations.” “I think it speaks volumes that she keeps an Israeli flag on the wall of her office,” RJC’s executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico in an e-mail. (9/3/2008)
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A second wave of countries will fall victim to the economic crisis and face being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, its chief warned at the G7 summit in Rome.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's warning comes amid growing concern that at some point in the next year a major economy could have to seek support from the Fund. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who was yesterday attending the Group of Seven leading finance ministers' meeting in Rome, said: I expect a second wave of countries to come knocking. (2/14/2009)
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The cost of hedging against losses on European government bonds jumped as Standard & Poor's cut Greece's credit rating after threatening to downgrade Ireland, Portugal and Spain. (1/15/2009)
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The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks. (10/6/2009)
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With the American housing market in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Bush is authorising new legislation to pave the way for massive new government intervention designed to slow the slide. "The losses for the financial system from people walking away could be of the order of one trillion dollars when the entire capital of the US banking system is only $1.3 trillion. "You could have most of the US banking system wiped out, so this is a total disaster."
(8/6/2008)
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Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, has warned that more banks and financial institutions could end up being bailed out by governments before the credit crunch is over. He added that the insolvency crisis will come to an end only when house prices in the US even out.
(8/5/2008)
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The concept of dark energy was created by cosmologists to fit Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity into reality after modern space telescopes discovered that the Universe was not behaving as it should.
According to Einstein's work, the speed at which the Universe is expanding following the Big Bang should be slower than it actually is and this unexplained anomaly threatened to turn the whole theory upside down. In order to reconcile this problem the concept of dark energy was invented. (8/18/2009)
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For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth's atmosphere — but no longer. (6/11/2009)
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China is rapidly developing a highly modern military that will be the equal of Western armies with the ability to operate anywhere in the world. (9/29/2008)
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China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said. (2/26/2010)
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for global leadership as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow national interests in the face of hard economic times. I see a danger of nations looking more inward, rather than toward a shared future, he said at the opening of the UN General Assembly's annual debate. (9/23/2008)
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An article by the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats claiming that Islam is the biggest threat to Sweden since World War II is tantamount to hate speech, according to legal experts.
According to Åkesson, “today’s multicultural Swedish power-elite are totally blind to the dangers of Islam.”
He goes on to claim that more than ten Muslim terrorist organizations have established themselves in Sweden, that Sweden has the most rapes in Europe, and that Muslim men are highly overrepresented among the perpetrators.
“As a Sweden Democrat, I see this as our greatest external threat since World War II and I promise to use all my power to change the trend during next year's election,” writes Åkesson. (10/22/2009)
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Russia is planning to create a dedicated military force to help protect its interests in the disputed Arctic region.
The presidential Security Council has released a document outlining goverment policy for the Arctic that includes creating a special group of military forces. The report was released this week and reported by Russian media on Friday. (3/28/2009)
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A popular bicycle rental scheme in Paris that has transformed travel in the city has run into problems just 18 months after its successful launch. (2/17/2009)
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In the last decade, we experienced the growth of the greatest number and size of asset bubbles in history made possible by a bubble in instruments that Warren Buffett has labeled “financial weapons of mass destruction.” Now that this mother of all bubbles is breaking, who can afford to pick up the tab? A very comprehensive article about derivatives, credit default swaps and banking, including what has happened and what likely will happen in the future. (10/21/2008)
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After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control over the way the network is run and allow foreign governments more of a say in the future of the system. (10/2/2009)
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A senior financial source said: There is a real urgency about this in Government and it is the main thing the Treasury is focused on.
Britain's banks are expecting to be told their fate by the Treasury on Sunday afternoon, with news about what form a bad bank would take.
Most believe a bad bank will still not be enough, and that it may be accompanied by the Government taking further equity stakes in lenders.
What is clear is that the Government is set to become a major stakeover in banks for the next decade or more. (1/16/2009)
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He'd like to create what he calls an FDIC-like federal insurance program for municipal bonds. Jurisdictions issuing debt would pay premiums into the insurance fund, and in return the federal government would guarantee the debt against default. (4/21/2009)
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Baltic Dry Index, air cargo traffic has plummeted as a result of the global recession, according to the latest figures released by the aviation industry... The slump, described as free fall by Giovanni Bisignani, IATA's director general, is even worse than that which followed September 11, when much of the global fleet was grounded.
(1/29/2009)
Views: 349The price of key industrial metals has fallen further over the last four months than occurred during the worst years of Great Depression between 1929 and 1933, according to research by Barclays Capital. (12/3/2008)
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A coal fired power-plant in Oregon has started a pilot project to curb pollution by using algae to harvest greenhouse gases and make fuel and other useful products. How does it work? Just like you and I breathe in oxygen to make energy, algae breathe in carbon dioxide to make energy. So, if you capture all that carbon dioxide and feed it to the algae, they grow. Algae are particularly oily little buggers so after they’ve matured they can be squeezed to make oil. The leftover algae carcasses can then be converted to ethanol and used as feed for livestock. (10/3/2008)
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Interpol, the global police organisation, said Monday it will provide enhanced technical and advisory support to the United Nations in the world body's peacekeeping missions worldwide. (10/12/2009)
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Now that the U.S. and Swiss governments have resolved a longstanding dispute about disclosing the identities of secret Swiss bank accounts, the holders face an acute dilemma: Do they confess their tax-evasion sins and possibly give up a large portion of their offshore accounts? Or do they stay quiet, hoping to avoid detection, but risk far greater penalties or even criminal prosecution if exposed to authorities? (8/15/2009)
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Spread betting companies have reported a huge wave of short euro trades in the last two weeks, leading to speculation that a significant correction in the currency will come in the next few months. (3/9/2009)
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A group that supports the stand The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints took on California's Proposition 8 took out a full-page ad in today's New York Times. (12/6/2008)
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While the G20 summit is almost certain not to create a new Bretton Woods system overnight, countries led by Britain and France want an enhanced role for the International Monetary Fund, to improve surveillance of complex financial markets and help prevent such excesses building up in future. They also favour increased funding for the IMF. (11/15/2008)
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The nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics is suing President Bush, the governor of Wisconsin and other officials over the federal law designating a National Day of Prayer. The Freedom From Religion Foundation sued Friday in U.S. district court, arguing that the president's mandated proclamations calling on Americans to pray violates a constitutional ban on government officials endorsing religion. (10/4/2008)
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee say they will review allegations the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq. He also reveals details of his lengthy conversations with the late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto and her frustrations with the Bush administration in the months before her assassination, and discloses the previously unknown case of an interrogation “cell” beneath the White House. (8/13/2008)
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Guns made and kept in Utah would be exempt from federal regulations under a measure passed by the Utah Legislature Wednesday, despite concerns over an expensive legal fight at a time when the budget is already stretched thin. (2/11/2010)
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President Barack Obama has taken powers to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from cars, factories and power plants across the United States.
The news dramatically improves the prospects of reaching a new agreement to combat global warming at the climate summit which opened in Copenhagen on Monday.
His administration formally declared that the gases endanger the public health and welfare of the America people empowering its Environment Protection Agency to regulate them across the country under the country's Clean Air Act, without having to get a hotly-contested climate bill through the US Congress. (12/10/2009)
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How much could Donald Rumsfeld make from this swine flu panic, anyway? Rumsfeld is the highest profile figure associated with Gilead Sciences Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!gild/quotes/nls/gild (GILD 46.44, +0.27, +0.59%) , the California biopharma behind the Tamiflu vaccine. He is the company's former chairman, and at the last disclosure a few years back still held a stake in the company worth somewhere up to $25 million.
The biggest beneficiary to the world's dilemma with the H1N1 virus is Gilead Sciences, says a report from research firm BWS Financial, Inc. Gilead will be in a sweet spot if swine flu turns into mass panic, it says. We believe (Gilead) remains the true investment on the H1N1 theme. (10/19/2009)
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It is a world of encrypted laptops, unmarked mail and the briefest stops in multiple hotels. Accusations by US prosecutors this week shed a fascinating light on the allegedly cloak-and-dagger world of UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank. A grand jury in Florida has charged one of UBS's top executives, Raoul Weil, with helping 17,000 Americans to avoid tax by safeguarding their money in secret Swiss bank accounts. (11/15/2008)
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Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility on Polish soil. The admission comes after a report found the CIA had operated prisons for terror suspects in Poland and Romania. (9/7/2008)
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Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. 'The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,' the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched. (3/27/2007)
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One of the avid proponents who is arguing that gold price will surge past $2,000 soon is the legendary commodities investor Jim Rogers. Rogers, chairman of Singapore-based firm Rogers Holdings, says gold prices are booming because currencies across the world are dropping and the US dollar is collapsing. His latest forecast: gold will touch double the current price-around $1,150. Meaning, Rogers says gold will surge to $2,300 per ounce in the coming months. (11/28/2009)
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Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls. Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: We're not paying for your crisis. Alexis Passadakis, 31, an activist from the group Attac, tells SPIEGEL what's wrong with the system. (2/27/2009)
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Ukraine inflamed mounting East-West tensions yesterday by offering up a Soviet-built satellite facility as part of the European missile defence system. (8/18/2008)
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Law and order began to break down in Haiti yesterday as constant gunshots were heard across the capital and shops were looted. (1/14/2010)
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We Europeans are used to this, she said. We have voluntarily given up many of our powers to Brussels and to the European Union. But our American partners find it much more difficult to hand over powers to the International Monetary Fund or to any other international organisation.
This world will only be a peaceful and good world if we have more of a world order and more multilateral co-operation, she said. (11/10/2009)
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The Secret Service is strained by a drastic increase in threats to President Obama (10/22/2009)
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A 13-year-old boy's vow to resist chemotherapy by punching or kicking anyone who tries to force it on him will present doctors with a tough task if they can't change his mind. (5/19/2009)
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The top executive of General Electric Co. said Wednesday he couldn't predict when the recession would end or how bad it will be, but said the global economic crisis has fundamentally reset the way companies do business and capitalism itself. (4/22/2009)
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Rep. Ron Paul has introduced the Parental Consent Act to protect families from mandatory mental health screening -- a thinly-veiled attempt by Big Pharma to drug expectant mothers and new moms with dangerous psychiatric drugs. (5/3/2009)
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Russia will stage its largest air force war games since Soviet times next week in the latest stage of the Kremlin's strategy to show off the country as a military superpower reborn. The aerial exercises, which will take place close to American airspace in Alaska, are part of a month-long war game known as Stability 2008 that Russia claims is the biggest for 20 years. As the bombers take to the air next week, Russian ships will also be conducting exercises in the North Sea and the Baltic as well as in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. A flotilla of war ships is also sailing to the Caribbean for joint exercises with Venezuela, Washington's greatest foe in South America, which will come within a few hundred miles of the US coastline. (10/5/2008)
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In the case of a station, the gates would only shut if somebody tries to board without a tag.
On a bus, the technology would mean that the driver could demand payment is somebody tries to walk past a reader without the electronic tag.
The electronic tag could be fitted as a chip on a plastic card - which would remain in the passenger's pocket - or be embedded into a mobile phone. (12/29/2009)
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The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. (7/4/2009)
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In the nearly four weeks since Election Day, gay activists and thousands of their supporters have rallied outside Mormon temples around the country, protesting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' support for California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to make same-sex marriage illegal in the Golden State (12/1/2008)
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The UK capital's demotion from its current second place is part of a predicted new world order for financial centres after the recession which has seen traditional players facing increased competition from emerging economies in the East, according to the research for law firm Eversheds. (12/15/2009)
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Doctors at University College Hospital in London have given Reinbach the most advanced therapies, including a one-off treatment with an artificial liver from San Diego, Calif. But all have failed and they believe only a transplant will save him.
Reinbach, from Dagenham, Essex, does not qualify for an organ because official guidelines state that heavy drinkers must prove that they can be abstinent outside the hospital before they are considered. But his condition is so severe that he cannot be discharged to prove he can remain sober. (7/23/2009)
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NASA has confirmed that the Phoenix Mars Lander has identified one of the crucial ingredients for life in a soil sample. "We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, one of the lead scientists monitoring the mission. (8/1/2008)
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Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says "Our banking system is a safe and a sound one." If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it. (7/24/2008)
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Rotterdam police are trying to develop a portable scanner which will allow them to see through people's clothing and look for concealed weapons, the NRC reports on Friday. (1/8/2010)
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Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez's government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought. (1/4/2010)
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After a week at camp, the kids were supposed to come home more understanding, but they also returned as burgeoning political activists. (7/27/2009)
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This gets me mad. Anyone that has tried to purchase fish that is not labeled Product of China can relate. (3/9/2010)
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PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says.
The warning comes as the US scrambles to redeploy its military forces and diplomats in an attempt to stem rising violence and anarchy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
We have to face the fact that if Pakistan collapses it will dwarf anything we have seen so far in whatever we're calling the war on terror now, said David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer who was a specialist adviser for the Bush administration and is now a consultant to the Obama White House. (4/13/2009)
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This city is considering joining a rising number of others across the country that are imposing criminal penalties on kids who skip school to hang out at the mall or on local street corners. (3/26/2009)
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As drug cartels continue to terrorize Mexico, Texas officials are planning for the worst-case scenario: how to respond if the violence spills over the border, and what to do if thousands of Mexicans seek refuge in the United States. (2/13/2009)
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The top climate science advisor to the German government has proposed that everyone on the planet should have a personal CO2 budget and be forced to pay a tax if they exceed it, adding that westerners have already exceeded their allocations and should pay climate reparations to poorer countries. (9/8/2009)
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The panic in world financial markets has led to sharp falls in share prices and led to the contraction of credit markets. BBC News looks at how key indicators around the world have moved as recession fears grow. (12/21/2008)
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Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos informed Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Friday of Spain's plan to amend legislation that granted a Spanish judge the authority to launch a much-publicized war crimes investigation against senior Israeli officials. (1/30/2009)
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The Internal Revenue Service plans to start regulating paid tax preparers, requiring them to register with the government, pass competency tests and adhere to ethical standards. (1/4/2010)
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Mauricio Fernandez was being sworn in again as mayor of San Pedro Garza Garcia, one of northern Mexico's most exclusive communities, when he announced to his cheering supporters: Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today in Mexico City.
However, speculation that Mr Fernandez might have had something to do with the death of Hector Saldana arose when it emerged that the barefoot, blindfolded corpse of Black Saldana had not been found until three and a half hours after the mayor's speech, according to Mexico City prosecutors. The body - which was found hundreds of miles away - was not identified until two days later. (11/7/2009)
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More than a half-million unemployed people gave up looking for work last month. If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the unemployment rate rose to 17 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994. (10/2/2009)
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Health officials are trying to change the tone of sex education by urging teachers to emphasize that sexual relations can be healthy and pleasurable instead of simply explaining the mechanics of sex and warning about diseases. (7/15/2009)
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It was initially believed that they could have caught the disease through fleas on rats attracted by poor living conditions in their forest hideout.
But there are now claims the cell was developing the disease as a weapon to use against western cities.
Experts said that the group was developing chemical and biological weapons. (1/22/2009)
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From the people that brought you GE Capital’s participation in the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program - FDIC is now insuring 'Stored Value Cards'. (11/14/2008)
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Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends. (8/12/2009)
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Moody's and Standard & Poor's are reviewing the UK's rating in light of the Chancellor's revelation in the Budget that national debt will reach £1.4 trillion over the next five years. Spain, Ireland, Greece and Portugal have already been downgraded. (4/24/2009)
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Supermarket food prices are soaring, with the price of key items rising at several times the rate of inflation, figures show. The price of fresh food has risen by 12 per cent since the start of the year, while meat and fish now costs 23 per cent more on average. Meanwhile chicken and ham have risen by 42 and 45 per cent since January, placing the former staples out of many consumers' price range. (9/7/2008)
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Director Oliver Stone's upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries Secret History of America promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler in context. (1/9/2010)
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If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
NY Times Article (MUST READ) (1/7/2010)
Views: 329North Korean ship reportedly suffers heavy damage as each side blames the other for violating disputed sea border. (11/10/2009)
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Consumer confidence shot higher in May, but a continued slide in home prices served as a reminder that consumers may not yet be ready to flock to stores. (5/26/2009)
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The EU has increased its pressure on the US to reconsider the Buy American clause in the $800bn (£567bn) economic recovery package now before Congress. (2/3/2009)
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Defense strategists place their stakes on high-tech weapons. Nearly all superpowers of the world conduct their works in the development of such weapons. It transpired recently that Russian scientists developed a generator, the capacity of which is comparable to that of a nuclear unit. It is a genuine scientific breakthrough, and it is already clear that the defense industry will not be the only field where the new super device is going to be used. The devices generating such power – billions of watts – used to be very large in size before. This appliance has a very short impulse, which makes it possible to have it on a desk with the ability to generate electromagnetic impulses comparable to a huge water power plant. (9/7/2008)
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The Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers is this weekend locked in talks with a group of foreign government-backed investment funds in an effort to secure billions of dollars in new equity capital. The acceleration of the negotiations, which Lehman wants to have wrapped up before it reports third-quarter earnings in mid-September, underlines the urgency with which one of the US banking industry's most venerable names is seeking capital. (8/31/2008)
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Japan’s space agency is planning to construct a solar power station in space and use it to beam energy down to Earth using lasers. (11/10/2009)
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In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders to set up an international investigation to find out the truth about the war in South Ossetia. I couldn't agree more. But I think the results of an honest investigation would reveal a very different truth than what President Saakashvili claims. I know this because I was in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on Aug. 7 when Georgian troops marched into the city and killed my friends and neighbors. I also have good reason not to trust what Saakashvili says. For three days before the attack I had been getting calls from many Georgian friends warning me to get out. They said Saakashvili was planning an attack. Most of the Georgians living in South Ossetia left because they knew what was coming. (10/7/2008)
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Nearly two and one half weeks [before the earthquake], I was awakened at around 4 a.m. by just such a prompting. I did not hear a voice, but the thought was as clear as if it had been in the form of spoken words: 'There is going to be an earthquake. Prepare your missionaries.' I sat up in bed and immediately remembered Elder Scott's counsel. That morning I told Larry what had happened. He immediately set to work organizing our missionaries to prepare for an earthquake. (3/7/2010)
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What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball. (7/25/2009)
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Cheney tried to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens following 9/11. And unaccountable-DoJ-attorney-for-all-illegal-unConstitutional-seasons John Yoo was happy to supply a legal memo for him, describing how the U.S. Constitution could be entirely ignored by any President at any whim. That Memo had concluded that the President had authority to deploy the U.S. military against American citizens on U.S. soil. Far worse, it asserted that in exercising that power, the President could not be bound either by Congressional statutes prohibiting such use (such as the Posse Comitatus Act) or even by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which --- the Memo concluded --- was inapplicable to what it called domestic military operations. (8/6/2009)
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Debate rages over the endgame for the Great Recession. The broad consensus of policy makers, financial market participants, business leaders and academics concurs that the world is in the midst of its worst decline since the 1930s. In making that comparison, there is a presumption that another depression is a distinct possibility if immediate steps aren’t taken to contain the downward spiral.
This debate misses the point -- and dangerously so. While I have been as bearish as anyone over the past several years, I would still assign a very low probability to a 1930-style depression for the U.S. and the broader global economy. Monetary and fiscal authorities have made it quite clear that they are prepared to do everything in their power to avoid such an outcome. Ultimately, I suspect they will get their way.
Yet there is a serious and worrisome risk to this policy strategy. By fixating on the anti-depression drill, authorities are failing to address the root cause of the current crisis and recession -- the lethal unwinding of unsustainable global imbalances. (4/20/2009)
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Helicopter Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers. (3/20/2009)
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Janet Napolitano, 51, is President Obama's new Homeland Security Secretary. She spoke with SPIEGEL about immigration, the continued threat of terrorism and the changing tone in Washington. (3/16/2009)
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At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease. (8/24/2009)
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The tax-exempt bond market costs the U.S. government $36 billion a year in forgone taxes. Replace the exemption with a credit and the government would lose less. (8/19/2009)
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U.S. House of Representatives votes for the $700 Billion bailout. (10/3/2008)
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A group of the world's biggest hedge funds are planning to sue the Financial Services Authority for millions of pounds of losses incurred as a result of the regulator's ban on short-selling last week. Lawyers are being galvanised on behalf of a raft of hedge funds which claim the financial watchdog has illegitimately extended its powers and caused wide-spread capital destruction. (9/21/2008)
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President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would purchase dozens of Russian tanks, in a move signaling growing military ties between the two countries that have frequently clashed with Washington. (8/6/2009)
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Whether it's around the dinner table or sitting front of the TV, U.S. families say they are spending less time together. (6/16/2009)
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Corn ethanol is no better fuel than gasoline, and it may even be worse for air quality, according to a new University of Minnesota study. (2/9/2009)
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With the unemployment rate in South Florida rising, Miami Fire Rescue was inundated with hundreds of applications for only a few positions.
Hector Mirabile, the director of employee relations at the City of Miami offered a harsh reality of the job application process. There are 35 openings that we have, he said. We will accept 750 qualified applications who will compete for those 35 positions. (2/3/2009)
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A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment.
(7/20/2008)
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It looks like Monopoly money, but the colorful currency created by collaborators in the western Massachusetts town of Great Barrington is legal tender. (4/9/2009)
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UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies.
A new Global Reserve System -- what may be viewed as a greatly expanded SDR (Special Drawing Rights), with regular or cyclically adjusted emissions calibrated to the size of reserve accumulations, could contribute to global stability, economic strength and global equity, the panel said. (3/26/2009)
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Russia would come under crippling financial pressure and may need to raise money externally if oil languishes at an average of $30 a barrel over the next two years, the World Bank predicted Friday. (12/19/2008)
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Linens 'n Things will close all 317 of its remaining stores in 48 states, including nearly a dozen throughout Washington, after finishing going-out-of-business sales. The bankrupt New Jersey-based retailer was unable to find a buyer willing to take over the locations as a going concern. It already has closed 218 stores this year. (10/18/2008)
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More than 50 ships, including large ferries reportedly carrying thousands of passengers, were stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea Thursday evening, and many were not likely to be freed for hours, Swedish maritime authorities said. (3/4/2010)
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Civil liberties and privacy are being eroded at a breathtaking rate by European Union governments, according to a report. Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised the EU's post-9/11 security strategy as a frightening grab for every aspect of individual information. (9/11/2008)
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President Barack Obama said his grandmother’s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a “sustainable model” for health care. (8/12/2009)
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The [UK] government will increase its top rate of income tax to a higher than expected 50 percent from next year, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday as he delivered the government's annual budget...
In order to help pay for additional support for people now, I have decided that the new rate will be 50 percent and will come in from next April -- a year earlier. (4/22/2009)
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Inheritance and estate taxes tend to be fairly high, which is one of the reasons controversy surrounds them. The exact rates vary from state to state, but inheritance taxes tend to be set up on a progressive scale. The more valuable the estate, the higher the tax rate. (1/27/2009)
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Family homes in Detroit are selling for as little as $10 (£6) in the wake of America's financial meltdown. (3/12/2010)
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Good news: we were all able to testify against the bill today, and we gave them a response they weren’t expecting. There were 10 of us who spoke out against it, ZERO who spoke in support. Members from Campaign for Liberty, Ohio Freedom Alliance, We Are Change Ohio, John Birch Society, Institute for Principled Policy, Constitution Party of Ohio, and the Libertarian Party of Ohio showed up in support, most of them testified. (12/11/2008)
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Israel is drawing up plans to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and is prepared to launch a strike without backing from the U.S., an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.
Officials in the Israeli Defense Ministry told The Jerusalem Post that while they prefer to act in consultation with the U.S., they are preparing plans that would allow them to act alone.
It is always better to coordinate, a senior Defense Ministry official told the newspaper. But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination. (12/4/2008)
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More than half of children taking Tamiflu to combat swine flu suffer side effects such as nausea, insomnia and nightmares, new research claims. (8/4/2009)
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(7/27/2009)
Views: 318 - User Comments: 0 - The Pentagon has removed a controversial question from its anti-terrorism training exam that labeled “protests” a form of “low-level terrorism,” calling the question “poorly worded.” (6/18/2009)
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The leaders of Russia and China agreed to expand use of the ruble and yuan in bilateral trade to lessen dependence on the U.S. dollar a day after they took part in the first summit of the so-called BRIC countries...
Russia, the world’s biggest energy supplier, wants to start selling oil to China in rubles, said Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who is also chairman of OAO Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil company. Energy sales in rubles are a “strategic” issue for Russia, he said, adding that oil exports to China over the next 20 years will surpass $100 billion. (6/17/2009)
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Dozens of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist groups in Somalia.
Officials are especially concerned that some of the men may be destined to return to the U.S. after they have received terrorist training.
The missing young men have been the focus of some attention since late October, when Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen, died in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia. Ahmed was a 1999 graduate of Minneapolis's Roosevelt High School. (12/4/2008)
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European Union officials expect Ireland to cave in and hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Autumn 2009. (9/11/2008)
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Foreign money, which up to now has focused its attention on investing in iconic commercial real estate - like Barneys New York and the Chrysler Building - is now moving to scoop up tens of thousands of discounted foreclosed homes across the country. (8/12/2008)
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Israel's defence minister has warned of his country's readiness to act against Iran if it feels threatened. (7/11/2008)
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President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to spend our way out of this recession until more Americans are back at work. (12/8/2009)
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Note to hotel managers: unless you want it to be altered forever, remove that Bible from Sir Ian McKellen's bedside drawer before he shows up. (11/3/2009)
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Truly this is the age of Greenfinger: Billionaire Bill Gates has patented the idea to halt hurricanes by decreasing the surface temperature of the ocean.
The patent calls for a large fleet of specially equipped ships which would mix warm water from the ocean surface with colder water down below, according to five new patents that include Microsoft's chairman as a co-inventor. That could then reduce or perhaps eliminate the heat-driven condensation which hurricanes feed upon, thus significantly reducing their intensity. (7/13/2009)
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Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define and regulate marriage as it sees fit, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said. The 1996 law denies federal recognition of gay marriage and gives states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. (7/8/2009)
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Sacramento's homeless rate is rising fast. With more foreclosures, jobs lost and full shelters, all you have to do is walk downtown or cruise the American River and you'll meet people who are homeless for the first time.
The sea of tents along the American River is hard to miss, and their number is growing. (3/1/2009)
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Ukraine's ruling pro-Western coalition has officially collapsed, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament says. President Viktor Yushchenko has been involved in a long-running dispute with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The president's Our Ukraine bloc left the coalition earlier this month. Parliament now has 30 days to try to form a new ruling coalition. (9/17/2008)
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Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby's bedroom in his mother's Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall. (4/30/2009)
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Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday-a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers. (8/21/2009)
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Hundreds of Brown students had asked the Providence, R.I. school to stop observing Columbus Day, saying Christopher Columbus's violent treatment of Native Americans he encountered was inconsistent with Brown's values. (4/8/2009)
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MILLIONS face being struck down by a deadly winter vomiting bug sweeping the country. Scores of hospitals have been forced to close wards to new patients as they struggle to cope with the influx of norovirus sufferers. One of London’s leading hospitals has even had to turn away 999 emergency patients after being overwhelmed with cases of the virus, while another hospital has drafted in GPs to cover for staff hit by the bug. As the crisis deepens, health campaigners are warning that hospitals face going into “complete meltdown” over Christmas and New Year. (12/15/2008)
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The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide victory in Saturday's election. (9/6/2008)
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European credit markets are flashing the most serious warnings signs in a year as the yields on risker bonds rise sharply and a string of companies cancel share flotations, raising fears that the recovery may falter in coming months. (2/26/2010)
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China extended its position as the world’s leading food producer in 2008, when its agricultural production jumped 30%, measured by value, World Trade Organization data show. (2/25/2010)
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Thousands of panicked South Pacific islanders raced away from coastlines after a series of strong earthquakes rocked the region and generated a small tsunami Thursday, just over a week after a massive wave killed 178 people in the Samoas and Tonga. (10/7/2009)
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The multi-billionaire, who is an informal advisor to President Barack Obama, conceded the economy had approached close to the worse case possible. He also warned that recovery would not come quickly. Acknowledging his own failure to foresee the scale of the crisis, he admitted: It's fallen off a cliff. Not only has the economy slowed down but people have really changed their habits like I haven't seen. (3/12/2009)
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It’s over for Mervyns. The Hayward retailer said Friday that it would close its remaining 149 locations. The stores will remain open through the holiday season with liquidation sales. Mervyns previously planned to close 26 underperforming locations. The 59-year old chain, with a California-heavy store base, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the end of July, but proved unable to gain any traction on its turnaround efforts. (10/18/2008)
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An intruder who broke into a Lincoln County woman's home was killed early Friday when the woman armed herself and shot him.
Donna Jackson, 57, was asleep when she heard Billy Dean Riley pounding on her back door about 12:45 a.m., Sheriff Chuck Mangion said. (12/9/2009)
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By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell. (10/19/2009)
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Health officials have confirmed a case of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, the leading pharmaceutical weapon against the new virus. (6/29/2009)
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The number of cases of insulin-dependent diabetes among children under five is expected to double in the next 11 years, according to experts. If present trends continue, by 2020 the number of children with type 1 diabetes will be twice the number it was four years ago. (5/29/2009)
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A leading energy analyst is telling clients these days to prepare for crude oil to retreat back below $65 per barrel over the next three years. (8/15/2008)
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Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857. (7/9/2009)
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WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve on Monday said it had agreed to inject 70 billion dollars into financial markets amid turmoil following the bankruptcy of Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers. (9/15/2008)
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The oil price rebounded this morning after Opec announced a surprise cut in production in an attempt to halt the recent decline in the cost of a barrel of crude. Having fallen by almost 30% in the last two months to the fringes of the symbolic $100 mark, US crude jumped by over a dollar to $103.30 this morning. (9/11/2008)
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Authorities lifted a curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday.
Other restrictions include a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person's own premises. (2/8/2010)
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We are now in the middle of a parabolic spike up, he said in his latest confidential note to clients. (8/13/2009)
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Supply gap could mean oil hits $200 a barrel
By Russell Hotten
Last Updated: 10:40pm BST 07/08/2008
Only a collapse in the global demand for oil can save economies from a supply crisis and crude prices reaching more than $200 a barrel, according to a report out today.
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The Bank of England has slashed interest rates to the lowest level on record and pledged to pump up to £150bn of new money into the economy as it embarks on a radical new policy to fight recession. (3/5/2009)
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US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from collapse.
I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system, Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision to make sure the economy doesn't collapse. (12/17/2008)
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Throughout the sub-prime crisis, each step appears to have been reasonable and proper, but in fact each one was expanding and accumulating risks, said the commentary by Yi Xianrong, an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a leading government think-tank. The People's Daily is the ruling Communist Party's official paper. (10/9/2008)
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Sponsored by Senator Daniel Akaka, the bill would transfer a percentage of public-owned lands to a native Hawaiian government within the state of Hawaii. The legislation would collect some 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians scattered across the country into a newly affiliated tribe, eventually endowed with the powers of a sovereign state, including freedom from state taxes and regulations and separate police power. (12/17/2009)
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Children educated at home are twice as likely to be known by social services and four times more likely as young adults to be out of work, education or training than those who go to school, MPs have been told.
MPs on the cross-party select committee for children, schools and families asked the head of a government inquiry into home education and the schools minister to defend calls for tougher rules on parents who teach their children at home.
In his review published in June, Kent's former education director Graham Badman recommended that all home educators register with their local authority. Councils should be given powers to refuse registration if a child is believed to be at risk, he said.
Badman also called for parents to be asked for a 12-month plan detailing what they would be teaching their children. (10/13/2009)
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This week brought new indications that any economic “recovery” in the US will not be shared by the working class. What is emerging is a protracted period of extremely high unemployment and growing social misery, which will be used to further slash wages, increase productivity and lower the standard of living and social position of the working class. (8/3/2009)
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Russia is deploying the threat to sell a game changing air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new cold war with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. (8/31/2008)
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The US money supply has experienced the sharpest contraction in modern history, heightening the risk of a Wall Street crunch and a severe economic slowdown in coming months. Data compiled by Lombard Street Research shows that the M3 ''broad money aggregates fell by almost $50bn in July, the biggest one-month fall since modern records began in 1959. (8/26/2008)
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Boredom could be shaving years off your life, scientists have found. (2/7/2010)
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Two Tu-160 Russian strategic bombers landed Wednesday at an airbase in Venezuela to take part in military exercises, Russian news agencies reported, citing the Russian defence ministry. (9/11/2008)
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Advertisements looking for people to sign up for the unpaid environmental volunteer jobs have been posted across the country in recent months. Critics said the scheme is encouraging a Big Brother society where friends and neighbours will be encouraged to snoop on one another. (8/31/2008)
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Views: 307 - User Comments: 0 - Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are drawing up plans to toughen oversight of the financial industry and considering introducing another economic-stimulus package in the wake of the government's decision to buy stakes in major U.S. banks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is mulling recommendations from several economists that Congress act on an economic-recovery package that would cost taxpayers $300 billion, according to congressional aides, equivalent to about 2% of the country's gross domestic product. (10/15/2008)
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Air fares are expected to rise dramatically after it emerged that 60m seats will be cut in the run-up to Christmas.
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A rising number of Chinese provinces are preparing to introduce power rationing as electricity supplies lag behind demand amid harsh winter weather, local media reported on Friday, citing Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission. (1/15/2010)
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Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been spoken in main stream media about this threat to humanity. Yet, according to the projections based on figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a minimum of 3 billion people will die from the Codex mandated vitamin and mineral guideline alone. (7/31/2009)
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Swine flu vaccine delays reported by Novartis AG, Sanofi Aventis SA and Baxter International Inc. shouldn’t postpone availability in October, health officials said. That won’t be soon enough for kids going back to school. (7/23/2009)
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The purpose of this essay is to highlight petroleum inventory issues likely to cause shortages this fall. Several events can create instant, grave shortages. Following is an incomplete list of known risks. There are still more unknown risks of unknown magnitude. As explained below, gas lines will be accompanied by a price jump of about $1.50 per gallon, even if crude oil does not increase in price.
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We covered this in February, but suddenly there's a surge in interest in China's public debt situation.
Wha? Public debt in China? Don't they have trillions and trillions of foreign exchange reserves? (3/9/2010)
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My ten-year-old daughter loves So You Think You Can Dance. I suspect most eight to eighteen-year-old girls do. So, my question to the producers of this hit show is: Why are you pointing my daughter to a web page asking her to work at Planned Parenthood? (10/15/2009)
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We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, without any exception, will be vaccinated against the flu, Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said after a ministerial meeting. (8/4/2009)
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“The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen,” Sylvain Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York, told The New York Times. “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.” (12/29/2009)
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Health care in France is often held up as a model the U.S. might follow. Yet the French have their own problems that show there's no such thing as a free lunch - or a free doctor's visit. (8/27/2009)
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The British economy has entered deflation for first time in almost half a century, heralding a fall in wages and freeze in pensions, experts warned. (4/21/2009)
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Britain is heading for economic depression for the first time since the 1930s, economists have warned.
Families must brace themselves for a slump of far greater severity and longevity than the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s, they warned. They said the current crisis will be of a scale to rival the biggest peace-time crisis in modern history — the Great Depression. (1/23/2009)
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said falling U.S. home prices are ``nowhere near the bottom'' and the resulting market turmoil isn't showing signs of abating. (8/1/2008)
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Supermarkets were stripped of essentials today as weathermen predicted further snow and a prolonged period of freezing weather.
Bread, milk and salt to treat frozen pathways are among the item being swept from the shelves as customers stocked up.
Tesco in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, had several empty aisles today lunchtime, including most bread, toilet rolls and even frozen goods. (1/18/2010)
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Professor Roubini, of New York University's Stern business school, believes that while such a major change is some way off, the Chinese government is laying the ground for the yuan's ascendance.
Known as Dr Doom for his negative stance, Prof Roubini argues that China is better placed than the US to provide a reserve currency for the 21st century because it has a large current account surplus, focused government and few of the economic worries the US faces.
In a column in the New York Times, Prof Roubini warns that with the proposal for a new international reserve currency via the International Monetary Fund, Beijing has already begun to take steps to usurp the greenback. (5/15/2009)
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Two months after H1N1 flu vaccine was first distributed to public health districts around the country, people 65 and older with serious medical conditions still can't get vaccinated. (11/30/2009)
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A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold Bible studies in their home, 10News reported. (5/28/2009)
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Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city.
Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend.
The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hitmen fighting for lucrative smuggling routes. (3/3/2009)
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, President-Elect Barack Obama's choice for chief of staff in his incoming administration, is co-author of a book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America, that calls for, among other things, compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25. The following excerpt is from pages 61-62 of the 2006 book:
It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service. ...
Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs. (11/8/2008)
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A perfect storm could be building for US election day on November 4 because of a combination of sky-high voter interest, new ballot machines and a shortage of poll staff, the independent Pew group warned yesterday. The launch of the 77-page report came as legal clashes over voter registration and hours-long queues formed outside booths set up for early voting in states across the US. Voting is now underway in 46 of the 50 states, though election day is still almost a fortnight away. (10/24/2008)
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The European Union and Russia formally got their relations back on track Wednesday when French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, met for talks on a common future. Sarkozy also proposed a summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to be held at the end of 2009 to discuss (Russian) proposals and those of the European Union for new concepts of a pan-European defence. For his part, Medvedev urged the convening of a special forum at which the leaders of all European states and the leaders of key organisations in the Euro-Atlantic area could take part. (10/13/2008)
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An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph found that three quarters of local authorities have used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 over the past year. The Act gives councils the right to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions. Derby council made sound recordings of a property after a complaint about noisy children. (9/7/2008)
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President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit. (2/11/2010)
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Twenty years ago this week, a pair of previously unknown scientists stunned the world by announcing they'd done the impossible by achieving nuclear fusion in a lab flask at room temperature.
Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons quickly became celebrities as the news media hailed them for discovering a cheap source of nearly limitless power. But it all fell apart as other scientists couldn't duplicate their results, and the pair later admitted they'd made mistakes in the experiments.
Now a U.S. Navy researcher, speaking on the anniversary of their announcement and in the same city where they made it, thinks Fleischmann and Pons may have been right. (3/26/2009)
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Yesterday's changes reduce the interest that AIG will be required to pay taxpayers, while increasing taxpayer risk by exchanging some debt for equity. AIG will receive access to another $30 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for a total of up to $70 billion, and on better terms. The New York Fed will also reduce the rate it charges AIG on a revolving credit line, and forgive some of AIG's debt in exchange for interests of up to $26 billion in two AIG life insurance subsidiaries. The New York Fed will also loan up to $8.5 billion to vehicles holding pools of AIG life insurance policies. (3/3/2009)
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Police in Baltimore today made what is believed to be the first arrest in a civil disobedience program aimed at supporting homeowners who refuse to vacate their foreclosed homes.
An activist with ACORN — the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now — faces criminal charges after breaking into a home in southeast Baltimore on Thursday to protest the foreclosure crisis sweeping the country. (2/23/2009)
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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has called for concerted action to break the stranglehold of the US dollar and create a new global structure of regional powers... The one reserve currency has become a danger to the world economy: that is now obvious to everybody, he said in a speech at the World Economic Forum. (1/29/2009)
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Gold is poised for a dramatic surge and could blast through $2,000 an ounce by the end of next year as central banks flood the world's monetary system with liquidity, according to an internal client note from the US bank Citigroup. (12/3/2008)
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As the man in charge of the world's biggest exchange for companies, banks and hedge funds to trade permits to emit carbon dioxide, Birley is fed up with the environmentalists' charge that dirty capitalists should not profit from the global effort to tackle climate change. (11/30/2009)
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The list ranks the 50 most populous U.S. cities by the ratio of job postings to unemployed citizens. (8/18/2009)
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OPEC again revised down its estimate for world crude demand on Wednesday, saying a devasting contraction in consumption would keep prices under pressure in the months ahead.
In the coming months, the market is expected to remain under pressure from uncertainties in the economic outlook, demand deterioration and the substantial overhang in supply, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wrote in its latest monthly report. (4/15/2009)
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Britain today called on the EU to suspend talks on closer ties with Russia in protest at its invasion of Georgia. In light of Russia's actions we should suspend negotiations on a successor to the partnership and cooperation agreement, said a spokesman for the prime minister, Gordon Brown. (9/2/2008)
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A principal and an athletic director in Florida could be charged with crimes and spend six months in jail after they prayed before a meal at a school event, the Washington Times reported. (8/15/2009)
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China may press for the sale of the entire gold reserves of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise money for the least developed countries. (4/16/2009)
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Britain's honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation's beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables. (8/13/2008)
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Going into last Friday it sounded as though China's National People's Congress would be pretty benign, with few major restrictions on lending announced.
But this sounds significant, and it suggests, perhaps that the country's central leaderhip is concerned about the deteriorating financial health of its local governments. (3/9/2010)
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Chalk up another 500 jobs to the list of jobs President Obama will need to create or save. (12/9/2009)
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Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. (1/28/2009)
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Even if Russia's call for a global currency failed to gain much traction at a G8 summit, President Dmitry Medvedev took home a coin meant to symbolize that the dream may one day come true. (7/12/2009)
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The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove - tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center. (7/1/2009)
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US industrial companies such as Eastman Kodak, media firms such as Univision Communications and carmakers including Ford and General Motors have a 45% chance of going bust in the next 12 months, according to a report published today.
In a new Bottom Rung list, credit ratings agency Moody's names 283 American companies that it says may file for insolvency in the medium term. (3/12/2009)
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Quote by William Cohen, Secretary of Defense
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Views: 294 - User Comments: 0 - An overgrown lawn could cost a homeowner $1,000 a day.
A plan to quadruple the penalty from the current maximum of $250 per day for a first violation is scheduled for consideration at Tuesday night's town council meeting. (11/18/2009)
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Britain's power to govern itself is to be surrendered increasingly to Brussels after the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified. The treaty, which will come into force within a few weeks, will create the first president of Europe, as well as a European foreign minister, and will end Britain’s right to veto new EU rules in more than 40 policy areas. (11/4/2009)
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Despite a few green shoots in the economy and a rocketing stock market, many large companies are still struggling to avoid bankruptcy. (9/23/2009)
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The premiers of Russia and China slammed the U.S. economic system in speeches Wednesday, holding it responsible for the global economic crisis.
Both focused on the role of the U.S. dollar, with China's Premier Wen Jiabao calling for better regulation of major reserve currencies and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calling over-reliance on the dollar dangerous. (1/29/2009)
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The long-held assumption that US assets - particularly government bonds - are a safe haven will soon be overturned as investors lose their patience with the world's biggest economy, according to Willem Buiter. (1/6/2009)
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Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski said on Wednesday that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel, and there is a chance gasoline prices could drop as low as $1 per gallon by early next year. (12/4/2008)
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This week, HeraldTimesOnline.com will launch its new gun permit database. You’ll be able to search gun permit records by county, city or town and street. (12/8/2009)
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HUMAN EVENTS has learned from staff sources that Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa) is about to announce his switch to the Democratic Party. (4/28/2009)
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Russia has raised the stakes in the international scramble for the Arctic by announcing it will boost its military presence in the region to protect its 'national interests'. (7/17/2008)
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A second mortgage credit crunch that will send UK house prices into a new tailspin is looming, economists and credit experts have warned. (2/16/2010)
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President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government's military preparations for a possible armed conflict with neighboring Colombia. (12/8/2009)
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President Barack Obama spoke of seeing glimmers of hope in the economic outlook for the first time since the current downturn began, while Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said he was witnessing tentative signs that the sharp decline in economic activity may be slowing. (4/14/2009)
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Very broad powers outlined. Financial institutions become agents of the federal government. Specific prohibition against reviewing actions of Treasury Department and against being subject to any court of law. (9/21/2008)
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First of all you walk into the White House, in the West Wing, and there are picture all over, I mean everywhere! Of President Obama! I mean, of his life in the first year as president of the United States. Now I don't know if that's the way it is with every president, but it was almost a shrine. I mean, well, here's a picture of Obama the president with his kids over here. There he is getting on Air Force One. Here he is with some military people. Here he is on the line working the line at one of his campaign stops. I mean, just, it was just one picture after another! (laughs) (2/4/2010)
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Lindsey's latest information from inside sources. Hyperinflation will be rampant within 2 years to the point 'the dollar will be dead.' 'After two years you will be so poor you will not be able to do anything.' The elite have used the devil's messiah or a long-term system of deception to take away America's God in order to destroy them and take control of the world.
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Views: 290 - User Comments: 0 - The Obama administration will scrap the controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday. (9/17/2009)
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Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000. (8/26/2009)
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As police clashed with activists, the US was pledging strong support for an overhaul of governing power within the IMF to give key emerging-market countries a role in how it operates. (4/27/2009)
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Friends and enemies alike saying the same thing... The global economic crisis is a result of the comprehensive failure of extreme capitalism, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday as he took aim at bulging executive pay packets. The centre-left Labor Party leader named greed and fear as the twin evils at the root of the financial sector collapse, which began in the United States and swept the world. What we have seen is the comprehensive failure of extreme capitalism -- extreme capitalism which now turns to government to prevent systemic failure, Rudd told the National Press Club in Canberra. (10/15/2008)
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The Environmental Protection Agency concluded Friday that greenhouse gases linked to climate change endanger public health and welfare, setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws. (4/17/2009)
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'We lost 2 billion dollars and like any other business we have to stay afloat.' And to keep from sinking, the United States Postal Service is considering cutting thousands of jobs nationwide. Lavelle Pepper with the post office in Shreveport says they too are feeling the affects of the same disease hitting the country... a struggling economy. 'We employ about 685,000 people. If we do layoffs it would include clerks, carriers, mail handlers across all crafts.' (11/10/2008)
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The Senate passed a health insurance overhaul on Thursday morning, 60-39, as both Democrats and Republicans held unified in their positions on the massive bill that mandates coverage for about 9 percent of the U.S. population now without insurance.
How did your senator vote? (12/24/2009)
Views: 288Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California. (3/5/2010)
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Storms swept through western Europe at the weekend, killing up to 50 people in France and threatening further damage as powerful winds and torrential rains moved north, officials said. (3/1/2010)
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CBSNEWS anchorwoman and 60 MINUTES contributor Katie Couric faces a dramatic pay cut at the network, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT. (2/3/2010)
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Mexico City has become the first city in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage, giving gay couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.
The bill passed the capital's local assembly by 39 votes to 20 yesterday as supporters chanted: Yes, we could! Yes, we could! (12/24/2009)
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Beijingers woke up Sunday morning to a city turned white with snow that came far ahead of the winter. It was only in the later part of the day that one learned that 186 doses of silver iodide went into persuading the clouds to release snow flakes. (11/1/2009)
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Clinton said the U.S. would be as transparent as possible.
We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered, she said, calling missile defense another area for deep cooperation between our countries. (10/14/2009)
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Its vivid colour is clearly designed to appeal to youngsters. But this watch is really aimed at their parents.
For its key selling point is a satellite positioning system that locates the wearer to within ten feet.
The makers claim the GPS tracking device will offer anxious parents peace of mind and allow children the independence to go out to play on their own.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1214320/The-satellite-link-keeps-watch-children.html#ixzz0RTOPwRTd (9/18/2009)
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The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. (5/4/2009)
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Now that the House, in a historic vote, has passed the Senate's health care bill and sent it to the president's desk, state lawmakers and attorneys general already are lining up to challenge its constitutionality and wage an outside-the-Beltway war against it in the courts. (3/22/2010)
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Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown (2/22/2010)
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He will be nominated by EU leaders in Brussels if, as expected, Ireland backs the hated Lisbon Treaty in tomorrow's referendum. (10/1/2009)
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The United Auto Workers union would eventually own 55% of the stock in a restructured Chrysler LLC under the deal reached by the union and the auto maker, according to a summary of the agreement that was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
Fiat SpA eventually will own 35%, and the U.S. government and Chrysler's secured lenders together will end up owning 10% of the company once it is reorganized, that summary said. (4/28/2009)
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A measure in President Barack Obama's health care plan could allow for special interest groups like Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion services provider, to operate health care clinics, at taxpayer expense, inside America's public schools. (8/19/2009)
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US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner confessed on Wednesday that he had not read the plans by China's central bank governor for a super-sovereign reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund, but nevertheless let slip that Washington was open to the idea. Whoops.
China's proposal is to activate the IMF's power to issue Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The IMF would be groomed as de facto central bank for the planet. The SDRs would gradually become an accepted means of payment. Call it the 'globo' (3/26/2009)
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The level of debt in the UK is disturbing, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said. (12/21/2008)
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Chief Justice John Roberts has just released an opinion refusing to block D.C.'s same-sex marriage law from taking effect tomorrow. Opponents of the law had asked the Supreme Court to step in and issue a temporary delay so they could hold a city-wide referendum on the issue before the law took effect. (3/3/2010)
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Cars sit in traffic on a highway. The Dutch government said Friday it wants...
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a green road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill, the transport ministry said in a statement. (11/14/2009)
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When two brand new, shiny black Mercedes SUVs bearing a Hardin Police Department logo drove through the main thoroughfare of Hardin, Mont., last week, people took notice. (10/8/2009)
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The Bank of England has summoned the City's leading economists to an unprecedented meeting in Threadneedle Street, as the pound plunges amid growing confusion over its radical Quantitative Easing (QE) policy. (9/24/2009)
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Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play a vital role in cutting edge technology, from hybrid cars and catalytic converters, to superconductors, and precision-guided weapons. (8/25/2009)
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The D.C. Council Tuesday gave final approval to legislation recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions and paved the way for an effort to allow such unions to be performed in the nation's capital - an effort one council member said could prompt civil war in the city. (5/6/2009)
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Thousands of men, women, and children dragged from churches and slashed. This has been India's reality for the last four weeks. The genocide of the Christian minority in the country once called the world's greatest democracy has been as much brutal as neglected by the international community. The 20 million people who admit to believing in Jesus Christ are on the brink of physical extermination. (10/9/2008)
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Incredible discussion of recent conversation with elite insider about the near-term impact of oil policy on the US economy and the world. Says he was told oil would drop to $50 per barrel.
(7/31/2008)
Views: 283 - User Comments: 4 - Switzerland's justice minister warned in an interview on Sunday that top bank UBS could collapse if sensitive talks with the United States over a high-profile tax fraud investigation fall through. (1/31/2010)
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Does that sound like an exaggeration? Read on. If you’re like me, you’ll be amazed and disgusted at the attacks on people of faith who are only expressing their religious consciences through the ballot process, and are doing so in the most all-American ways: Grassroots organizing and small financial donations. (11/3/2008)
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Oil prices spiked more than $25 a barrel Monday—the biggest one-day price jump ever—as anxiety over the government's $700 billion bailout plan, a weak dollar and an expiring crude contract ignited a dramatic rally. (9/22/2008)
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Leaked documents said to have been drawn up by the Home Office and seen by the Sun newspaper say cameras which can see through clothes could be built into lamp posts to trap terror suspects. (1/8/2010)
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Have your checkbooks and credit cards ready. There's a price for health care security -- particularly for solid middle-class households, who wouldn't get much help with premiums. (12/10/2009)
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AN outspoken Kiwi politician has proposed a new solution to the country's child abuse problem - pay the appalling underclass not to breed. (11/5/2009)
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Al Gore's scheduled December 16th speech with the auspicious title Climate Conclusion has been canceled amid the scandal of Climategate. About 3,000 Danes had tickets for the Berlinske Media event that was announced in August. Al Gore has been the poster child for Global Warming, but has been under scrutiny from scientists who argue against the findings of humans' involvement in our climate. (12/5/2009)
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A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. (4/7/2009)
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I’m tired of rallies. I want to fight! So said Tim Burga, operations director of the Ohio AFL-CIO, addressing the hundreds who had braved the cold Feb. 20 to attend a Pass It Now rally for health care reform at the SEIU Local 1199 hall here. (2/23/2010)
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The dollar slid against high-yielding currencies, led by the Australian dollar, as China reported a surge in manufacturing and investors bet factory production in the U.S. accelerated. Oil, copper and gold climbed. (11/2/2009)
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Ben's going to have a lot of explaining to do when he gets back from London. He flew out there to tell them the economy is worse then admitted? He probably knew he'd get raked over the coals if he said that in front of Dr Paul and the financial committee. (1/15/2009)
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Ads proclaiming, Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake, will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday. (11/12/2008)
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The bishops of England, Wales and Scotland denounced the European Commission's planned Equal Treatment Directive as wholly unacceptable because, they said, it would force Christians to act against their consciences.
The directive is aimed at harmonising and enforcing a ban across the 27-member bloc on discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, age, religious belief and disability outside the scope of employment law. (8/6/2009)
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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is moving to allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department. (3/5/2009)
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In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions. Military representatives claim that the unit, now referred to as the Consequence Management Response Force, is only supposed to assist in responding to terrorist attacks or natural disasters, but that hasn’t stopped numerous civil liberties advocates from speculating just how closely the military will be involved with law enforcement issues falling under a state’s jurisdiction. (11/8/2008)
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The German economy is on the brink of the abyss, says the IMK institute in Dusseldorf. The country's GDP could contract by 3.5pc next year... We are reaching depression levels here. (12/23/2008)
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IT WAS once regarded as one of the biggest environmental threats to the planet. Now there is mounting evidence that the ozone hole above the Antarctic has been protecting the southern hemisphere against global warming. (1/27/2010)
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Britain is facing the prospect of widespread power cuts for the first time since the 1970s, government projections show. (9/1/2009)
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Senior Chinese leaders have privately voiced fear over the soaring US budget deficit and are increasingly looking to diversify from the dollar, a Republican congressman said. (6/9/2009)
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The City of London has suffered a dramatic collapse in its core business as global lending falls at the steepest rate since records began, according to new figures from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). (12/9/2008)
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Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. (7/11/2008)
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 119.15 points, or 1.7%, to end at 7062.93. The blue-chip benchmark ended down 937.93 points, or 11.72% on the month -- the worst percentage drop for February since 1933, when it fell 15.62%. (2/27/2009)
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In his final acts of clemency, President George W. Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.
Bush's decision to commute the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who tried to cover up the shooting, was welcomed by both Republican and Democratic members of Congress. They had long argued that the agents were merely doing their jobs, defending the American border against criminals. They also maintained that the more than 10-year prison sentences the pair was given were too harsh. (1/19/2009)
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Latvia's coalition government has collapsed after failing to tackle a crippling economic crisis. (3/21/2010)
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Parents' organizations in Spain are fiercely protesting the curriculum of the Socialist government’s required education course, “Education for the Citizenry,” after it was revealed that in one Spanish city, students are being taught that sex can be freely practiced, even with animals. (2/7/2010)
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The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression. (1/6/2010)
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On Tuesday December 1st 2009, Retired Navy Commander Walter Fitzpatrick III will present the evidence behind his treason complaint against Obama/Soetoro to all thirteen members of a Tennessee Grand Jury in Monroe County Tennessee. (11/30/2009)
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The American Medical Association's much-touted endorsement of the House health care reform bill has triggered a revolt among some members who want the endorsement withdrawn.
Some members are outraged that the group's trustees made the endorsement without the formal approval of the organization's House of Delegates. (11/7/2009)
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Preliminary research suggests the seasonal flu shot may put people at greater risk for getting swine flu, CBC News has learned. (9/25/2009)
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On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years. [Update] (12/8/2008)
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Driven by a sour economy and skittish consumers, U.S. business bankruptcies saw their sharpest quarterly rise in two years, jumping 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008, according to an analysis by McClatchy.
(7/19/2008)
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Bracing for fall return to public schools (7/9/2009)
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About 100,000 people have taken part in protests in Dublin city centre to vent their anger at the Irish government's handling of the country's recession. (2/23/2009)
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Greece has been in turmoil for 11 days. The mood seems to have turned pre-insurrectionary in parts of Athens - to borrow from the Marxist handbook.
This is a foretaste of what the world may face as the crisis of capitalism - another Marxist phase making a comeback - starts to turn two hundred million lives upside down.
We are advancing to the political stage of this global train wreck. Regimes are being tested. Those relying on perma-boom to mask a lack of democratic or ancestral legitimacy may try to gain time by the usual methods: trade barriers, sabre-rattling, and barbed wire. (12/23/2008)
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In this 28th edition of the GEAB, LEAP/E2020 has decided to launch a new global systemic crisis alert. Indeed our researchers anticipate that, before next summer 2009, the US government will default and be prevented to pay back its creditors (holders of US Treasury Bonds, of Fanny May and Freddy Mac shares, etc.). (10/24/2008)
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In the 13 months that Barack Obama has been the occupant of the Oval Office he has been the subject of an extraordinary outpouring of emotion from the American electorate. At the start it was largely adulatory, though more recently the adoration has been drowned out by a cacophony of criticism from tea party activists, birthers, global-warming deniers and viewers of Fox News. At the same time, largely hidden from view, there has been a layer of antagonism towards Obama that lies well beyond the boundaries of reasonable political debate. (3/8/2010)
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A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center. (2/23/2010)
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Bank of America and Barclays Capital, two leading oil traders, have told clients to brace for crude above $100 (£64) a barrel by next year, before it pushes relentlessly higher over the decade. This is a stark contrast from recessions in the 1980s and 1990s, when it took years to work off excess drilling capacity built in the boom. (2/19/2010)
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asked Congress to increase the $12.1 trillion debt limit on Friday, saying it is critically important that they act in the next two months. (8/10/2009)
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Greece should sell some of its uninhabited islands to raise cash to avoid bankruptcy, two German parliamentarians from Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition suggested on Thursday. (3/4/2010)
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion plan to buy devalued assets from financial companies is 'a joke' because it doesn't go far enough to calm markets, said Kenichi Ohmae, president of Business Breakthrough Inc. Ohmae, nicknamed 'Mr. Strategy' during his 23 years as a McKinsey & Co. partner, called for a $5 trillion 'international facility' to be made available to financial institutions. The system could be modeled on one used by Sweden during its banking crisis in the early 1990s, he said. (9/24/2008)
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President Barack Obama is poised to abandon attempts to broker bipartisan health care reform and instead push through proposals using only the votes of Democrats. (8/19/2009)
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a punch that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. (2/8/2010)
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France’s constitutional court rejected a proposed tax on carbon emissions, saying a web of exemptions violated the principal of equality and rendered efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions ineffective. (12/30/2009)
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The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline says it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccine for fear it may trigger life-threatening allergies. (11/24/2009)
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ANGRY residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk. (2/11/2009)
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It's not preferable, but all major U.S. financial companies will eventually be under government control because the alternative is so much worse, Hugh Hendry, chief investment officer at hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, said Friday. All financials will be owned by the U.S. government in a year, Hendry said. I bet you. (11/30/2008)
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China's reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according to leading scientists. (2/10/2010)
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Maj Gen Amos Yadlin, the head of Israeli military intelligence, told a parliamentary committee hearing in Jerusalem that the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip now had the capability to hit targets as far away as 37 miles from the tiny Palestinian territory.
The disclosure, which was immediately contested by Hamas, could be used to build a case for renewed military action in Gaza in the future, although the likelihood of any immediate confrontation appears remote. (11/4/2009)
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Foreclosure filings were up 32 percent from the same month last year, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. More than 360,000 households, or one in every 355 homes, received a foreclosure-related notice, such as a notice of default or trustee's sale. That's the highest monthly level since the foreclosure-listing firm began publishing the data more than four years ago.
Banks repossessed more than 87,000 homes in July, up from about 79,000 homes a month earlier.
Nevada had the nation's highest foreclosure rate for the 31st-straight month, followed by California, Arizona, Florida and Utah. Rounding out the top 10 were Idaho, Georgia, Illinois, Colorado and Oregon. Among cities, Las Vegas had the highest rate, followed by the California cities of Stockton and Modesto. (8/14/2009)
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Barack Obama inherits an economy already contracting at an annual rate of 6pc, much like the mid-Depression year of 1931 (-6.4pc) (1/26/2009)
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The flaw allows criminal gangs to take control of people's computers and steal their personal information when they visit websites that have been corrupted by malicious hackers.
It is believed that as many 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week.
Microsoft said that it had detected attacks on machines using Internet Explorer 7, the most widely-used version of the browser, but that other versions are potentially vulnerable. (12/16/2008)
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The Prime Minister appeared to join other leaders - notably U.S. President Barack Obama - in acknowledging that we're on the cusp of a new world order, one in which Asian countries will play ever larger and more powerful roles. (11/16/2009)
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A Mexican drug lord reputed to be hiding in mountains has been named the world's 41st most powerful man - ahead of French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Russia's Dmitry Medvedev. (11/12/2009)
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THE world's top central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets. (2/5/2010)
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The above description is a dramatization of real events that happened recently in Springfield, Missouri, where the state has decided to spend considerable taxpayer resources running a sting operating against a family that was caught dealing -- gulp! -- raw milk in a parking lot. (12/7/2009)
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Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu. (8/13/2009)
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While one NASA scientist says man-made catastrophic climate change will cause an apocalypse, another says hysterical pronouncements about carbon dioxide emissions are unwarranted and overblown. (10/14/2008)
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Vint Cerf, the man who helped invent the system and one of the world's leading computer scientists, said that the web does not have enough unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other. He said that when the internet protocol (IP) addresses do run out, the connectivity of the internet will be damaged and some computers will not be able to go online. This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can't have more subscribers, he said. (9/26/2008)
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The Treasury Department is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for Chrysler that could come as soon as next week, people with direct knowledge of the action said Thursday. (4/23/2009)
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A strong 6.3-magnitude aftershock hit off the Chilean coast Wednesday, triggering new fears in the southern-central town of Concepcion just days after a massive 8.8-magnitude quake devastated the region. (3/4/2010)
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The ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night accused the White House of withholding information on the Fort Hood attack.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) said administration officials delayed briefing members of Congress about the alleged gunman, raising red flags about what the White House was hiding. (11/14/2009)
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PRYING EYES ON THE WEB (6/1/2009)
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Some Utah legislators are eyeing a bill aimed at preventing the federal government from regulating guns in the state.
Montana's Legislature recently passed a bill that Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed into law that would exempt guns made in the state and kept within its borders from federal regulations, including registration, background checks and dealer-licensing. (5/7/2009)
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A clutch of political and labour leaders in Germany have raised the spectre of civil unrest after the country's leading institutes forecast a 6pc contraction of gross domestic product this year, a slump reminiscent of 1931 and bad enough to drive unemployment to 4.7m by 2010. (4/24/2009)
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n voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama's intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under controversial Senate rules. (3/1/2010)
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It's 70 years since WWII rationing was brought in and many pass comment on the contrast between the current obesity epidemic and those healthier days of dearth. But how did people handle rationing and could we use the lessons to fight obesity now? (1/8/2010)
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Kyoko Okawa, founder of Japan's new Happiness Realization Party, has pledged to attack North Korea if elected.
The president of the new party is her husband Ryuho Okawa, founder of the Buddhist-based Happy Science religious movement which since launching 23 years ago today has 200 temples in Japan, claims 10 million followers across the country – including 100 MPs - and a further one million overseas.
Most unusually, the party's policies are formulated on the basis of visions of the future that present themselves to Mr Okawa – who claims to be Buddha reincarnated – during hours of daily meditation. (8/13/2009)
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The stately senator from South Carolina sees America's unique centuries-old system of freedom dying out.
I would think it's time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations, he told us last week.
The power of the people is there. Freedom is in the people's hands right now, and it's about to slip through. (2/23/2009)
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President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out more pieces of an economic plan he says would add 3,000 miles of electrical lines, increase security at 90 ports and double the United States' renewable energy capacity within three years. (1/24/2009)
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Beneath the rubble and tragedy of Haiti lies what some geophysicists believe may be one of the globe’s richest zones for oil and gas hydrocarbons outside the Middle East.
Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/tradingdesk/archive/2010/02/04/haiti-s-untapped-oil-gas-and-mineral-wealth.aspx#ixzz0eodsbdnz
The Financial Post is now on Facebook. Join our fan community today. (2/6/2010)
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In an interview with Politico, former Senate Republican leader Bob Dole says he would like to see Gen. David Petraeus run for president as a 2012 version of Dwight Eisenhower. (9/18/2009)
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Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention. (8/18/2008)
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There's been many letters and symbols used over the last year to describe the shape of the U.S. economic recovery. There's the strong V-shaped recovery; the square root shaped recovery to connote a strong recovery followed by a period of flat to no growth; and the W-shaped recovery favored by those believing in a double dip recession. (2/17/2010)
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The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves. (1/6/2010)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the military and civil militias today to prepare for war as a deterrent to a U.S.-led attack after American troops gained access to military bases in neighboring Colombia. (11/9/2009)
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A recent meeting of the national oil companies in Beijing had predicted oil prices would fall to about $40 a barrel, Fu Chengyu, chief executive of China National Offshore Oil Corporation, told a conference in Barcelona. (11/19/2008)
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The United States needs new weapon systems, including missile defenses and other advanced military capabilities, to deter and counter China's steady buildup of nuclear and conventional arms, according to a draft internal report by a State Department advisory board. (10/1/2008)
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Two preteens assaulted a woman walking home through a playground as part of a violent game called Catch and Wreck, in which children identify targets they think are homeless and then beat and rob them for fun, police said Tuesday. (3/23/2010)
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Debt deflation is tightening its grip over the entire global system. Interest rates are creeping towards zero in Japan, America, and now across most of Europe... We are beyond the extremes of the 1930s. The frontiers of monetary policy are being pushed to limits that may now test viability of paper currencies and modern central banking. (12/19/2008)
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Jerusalem’s Temple Institute takes biblical statement ‘build me a Temple and I shall dwell amongst you’ literally, enlisting hundreds of teens for this endeavor (8/1/2008)
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Britain's rail signal workers have voted to strike in a row over jobs and changes to working practices, their union said on Friday, raising the threat of a first national rail strike in 16 years. (3/19/2010)
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I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades. (10/12/2009)
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The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modeled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate. (12/16/2009)
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A decision by China to reduce its US Treasury holdings suggests concern about the US attitude towards its economic woes, Chinese economists were quoted as saying in state media Wednesday. (6/17/2009)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare public rebuke of central banks, suggested the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the U.S. and Britain have gone too far in fighting the financial crisis and may be laying the groundwork for another financial blowup. (6/3/2009)
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The first round of Toledo police layoffs, in which 75 officers were let go, may already be having an affect on gun ownership. (5/27/2009)
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Words associated with Christianity, the monarchy and British history have been dropped from a leading dictionary for children.
Oxford University Press has removed words like aisle, bishop, chapel, empire and monarch from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like blog, broadband and celebrity. Dozens of words related to the countryside have also been culled. (12/8/2008)
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World markets suffered massive losses Monday, striking four-year lows, as panic-stricken investors doubted whether a Wall Street bailout package would stem the global financial crisis. London, Frankfurt and Paris all tumbled more than six percent approaching the half-way mark while a 15-percent dive in Moscow forced a halt to Russian trading. We have a seriously weak and fear driven market at our hands, said Tom Hougaard, chief market strategist at City Index. It is anyone's guess where we will end the day. (10/6/2008)
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The Obama administration is considering an overhaul of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would strip billions in bad loans and create a new home-loan organization. (8/5/2009)
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China's banks are veering out of control. The half-reformed economy of the People's Republic cannot absorb the $1,000bn (£600bn) blitz of new lending issued since December.
Money is leaking instead into Shanghai's stock casino, or being used to keep bankrupt builders on life support. It is doing very little to help lift the world economy out of slump.
Fitch Ratings has been warning for some time that China's lenders are wading into dangerous waters, but its latest report is even grimmer than bears had suspected. (6/29/2009)
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Lehman Brothers was on Thursday night in talks with potential buyers – including Bank of America – in a last-ditch attempt to stave off collapse after investors gave a thumbs-down to its survival plans. Shares in Lehman, which had halved in value this week, plunged a further 41.8 per cent on Thursday as uncertainty rose about the bank’s ability to continue as an independent entity. (9/11/2008)
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Half the world economy, including the UK, is in recession or on the brink, according to research from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank has warned that the world's major economies, including the US, Japan, the eurozone and the UK, are either in recession or face significant recession in the months ahead. (8/22/2008)
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First Greece was told to sell islands to pay off its debts, now the German tabloid Bild has reminded George Papandreou of the two countries' differences (3/5/2010)
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Very lively video interview with Max Keiser about Goldman Sachs and the Fed and their role in creating financial terrorism. Also discussion about corruptness of the Bank of International Settlements, importance of gold and the need for new worldwide reserve currency and global governance. (7/18/2009)
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Since World War II, U.S. military dominance has underpinned the Asia-Pacific region's prosperity and relative peace. So it's cause for concern when one of America's closest allies sees that power ebbing amid unstable nuclear regimes such as Pakistan and North Korea and the expanding military power of China. (5/8/2009)
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The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step
today by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the
federal government to completely totally void and warning that
certain future acts will be viewed as a breach of peace with the
states themselves that risks nullifying the Constitution.
This act by New Hampshire is a clear warning to the federal
government that they could face being stripped of their power by the States (presumably through civil war!)
The remarkable document outlines with perfect clarity, some basics
long forgotten. For instance, it reminds Congress That the
Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a
power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current
coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offences against the law of nations, slavery, and no
other crimes whatsoever;. . . . . therefore all acts of Congress
which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution are altogether void, and of no force;
Federal gun crime laws? Void. Federal drug crime laws? Void. The
gazzillion other federal criminal laws that deal with anything other
than the specific enumerated crimes? ALL VOID. (2/4/2009)
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House Republicans succeeded in scuttling a bill to delay the transition, which is scheduled for Feb. 17, less than two days after the Senate unanimously passed the plan. (1/28/2009)
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County welfare directors are in shock at the very idea of getting rid of CalWORKs, which has been widely viewed as one of the most successful social programs in the state's history, said Bruce Wagstaff, director of the Department of Human Assistance in Sacramento. (6/8/2009)
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The British economy sank deeper into deflation last month to the lowest level in more than 60 years as the effect of falling house prices and lower mortgage repayments escalated. (5/19/2009)
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Swiss consumer prices fell 0.4pc in March (year-on-year). Swiss CPI will be minus 1pc at least by July, nearing the level where spending psychology changes. By the time you have a self-feeding spiral, it is too late.
This is something that we must prevent at all costs. The current situation is extraordinarily serious, said Philipp Hildebrand, a governor of the Swiss National Bank. (4/6/2009)
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Congressman Ron Paul again took the opportunity to lecture Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on sound money principles at this morning’s House Financial Services Committee hearing, warning that the financial crisis cannot be solved by merely creating credit out of thin air.
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Views: 254 - User Comments: 0 - Full remarks as prepared for delivery and provided by the McCain campaign of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as she accepts the 2008 Republican vice presidential nomination on Sept. 3, 2008, at the Xcel Energy Center in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (9/3/2008)
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The US economy's recovery risks being hampered by the creation of a new army of long-term unemployed, whose number has more than doubled in the past 12 months. (2/5/2010)
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More than $70 billion in wealth left New Jersey between 2004 and 2008 as affluent residents moved elsewhere, according to a report released Wednesday that marks a swift reversal of fortune for a state once considered the nation’s wealthiest. (2/4/2010)
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After witnessing a gay pride march, committed Christian Pauline Howe wrote to the council to complain that the event had been allowed to go ahead.
But instead of a simple acknowledgment, she received a letter warning her she might be guilty of a hate crime and that the matter had been passed to police. (11/1/2009)
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The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes. (10/7/2009)
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President Barack Obama said Friday his administration had saved the US economy from catastrophe and the worst of the recession may be over, after a surprise drop in the unemployment rate. (8/7/2009)
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The International Monetary Fund could run out of cash to firefight the economic crisis in as little as six months, its managing director has warned. The Fund is seeking pledges from nations with large current account surpluses and foreign exchange reserves to donate it cash to help bolster troubled countries. (2/10/2009)
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Residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss printing their own money. The idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending. The result, supporters hope, would be a bustling local economy, even as the rest of the nation deals with a recession. (12/5/2008)
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SOME days you have to ask yourself, My God, what if these people were Republicans? (5/6/2009)
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North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated communist country. (10/24/2008)
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Like many stores in Europe, the Coop chain of supermarkets in Switzerland does not specify whether goods are genetically modified - because none are. But a wave of food-price inflation may help wash away popular opposition to so-called Frankenstein foods. (7/16/2008)
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They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot.
They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren't inclined toward any crime until the informant began recruiting them. (3/19/2010)
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Japanese share prices plunged 9.38 percent Wednesday, the biggest loss in more than two decades as panic-selling erupted over the global financial crisis. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 index dived 952.58 points to end at 9,203.32. At one point the index was down 9.81 percent. It was the worst day for Asia's largest bourse since a 14.9 percent plunge on October 20, 1987 in the wake of the Black Monday crash in the United States. (10/8/2008)
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UniCredit has alerted investors in a client note that Britain is at serious risk of a bond market and sterling debacle and faces even more intractable budget woes than Greece. (3/14/2010)
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In just a few weeks, at its meeting in February, the Bank of England's monetary policy committee has to decide whether to continue with quantative easing, writes George Trefgarne. (12/30/2009)
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Chicago and Cook County residents aren't the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a tax whistle-blower plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago's business community. (10/27/2009)
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For the first time in more than three decades Social Security recipients will not receive a benefit increase, formally known as a cost of living adjustment (COLA), in 2010, federal forecasts show, The New York Times reports. (9/24/2009)
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Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details -- there's no specified limit on what's available or unavailable -- to the Health Choices Commissioner. The purpose, again, is to verify affordability credits. (8/27/2009)
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The number of UK homes repossessed last year rose 54pc to a 12-year high of 40,000, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show. (2/20/2009)
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Japan, China and other holders of U.S. government debt must quickly reach an agreement to prevent panic sales leading to a global financial collapse, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the Chinese central bank. 'We are in the same boat, we must cooperate,' Yu said in an interview in Beijing on Sept. 23. 'If there's no selling in a panicked way, then China willingly can continue to provide our financial support by continuing to hold U.S. assets.' An agreement is needed so that no nation rushes to sell, 'causing a collapse,' Yu said. Japan is the biggest owner of U.S. Treasury bills, holding $593 billion, and China is second with $519 billion. Asian countries together hold half of the $2.67 trillion total held by foreign nations. (9/26/2008)
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Vice President Cheney bluntly warned Russia Sunday night to halt its deadly offensive against Georgia, even as the conflict escalated with new attacks on airports and civilians. (8/12/2008)
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In an interview with The Real News Network, filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin discussed her recent film 'The World According to Monsanto.' The documentary exposes Monsanto's controversial practices, which range from concealing knowledge of toxicity of PCBs to producing genetically modified seeds and related herbicides. (7/8/2008)
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Power shifts to create a new world order are quite popular today among the Political Class. We may be seeing the final phases of a shift back to the days when political leaders can force populations to treat them as Gods and rights will be replaced by pseudo-religious obligations. (11/19/2009)
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Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage. (11/4/2009)
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The Defense Department is forming a civilian expeditionary workforce that will be trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of military missions worldwide, according to department officials.
The intent of the program “is to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements,” according to a Defense Department statement.
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed Defense Department Directive 1404.10, which outlines and provides guidance about the program, on Jan. 23.
View the DoD directive (1/31/2009)
Views: 248Homosexuals and their supporters in California are vowing to fight the passage of a state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. Even as the last votes were being counted, the American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents of Proposition 8 filed a challenge with the state Supreme Court. They contended that it cannot be used to undermine one group's access to rights enjoyed by other citizens. (Read earlier story: Major pro-family victory in California) The city attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco also filed a request with the Supreme Court to invalidate the amendment's approval, arguing that it deprives homosexuals of constitutional rights. (11/6/2008)
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Ministers led by Peter Mandelson are considering a power grab at the independent company at the centre of UK's internet infrastructure, The Register can reveal. Mandelson's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has asked Nominet, which is in charge of the .co.uk registry, to justify its independence from Whitehall. (11/1/2008)
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The image of banks locking their doors to keep customers from making withdrawals during a bank run is what immediately came to mind when we heard that Citigroup was telling customers it has the right to prevent any withdrawals from checking accounts for seven days.
Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change, Citigroup said on statements received by customers all over the country. (2/22/2010)
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A heavy rainstorm that pounded Southern California's wildfire-scarred foothills with heavy rain moved on without causing major damage Monday, but not before prompting evacuations, cutting power to thousands and forcing even Disneyland to close several hours early. (1/18/2010)
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Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018. (1/15/2010)
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A Court of Queen's Bench judge has ruled an anti-gay letter written by a former Alberta pastor in 2002 was not a hate crime and is allowed under freedom of speech. (12/5/2009)
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Workers of the world unite is the rallying cry of Marxist revolutionaries. This mantra is so well-known and specific to it's cause (communism), there's no way it can be taken out of context. (11/13/2009)
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday said 'we will ... maybe undo' a measure passed by voters Tuesday stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry. 'It's unfortunate, obviously, but it's not the end,' Schwarzenegger told CNN. 'I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area.' (11/10/2008)
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Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior than among those who have tamer viewing tastes. (11/3/2008)
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Russia test-fired long-range ballistic missiles Sunday as President Dmitri Medvedev pledged to build up the country's armed capabilities. This shows that our shield is in order, Medvedev said Sunday at Plesetsk. We will build up our armed capability, which means we will acquire new weaponry while also launching traditional ballistic missiles. (10/13/2008)
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Horrified security experts claim BURGLARS taking secret snaps of revellers could find out their addresses. (3/1/2010)
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The three earthquakes that rattled Tokyo this week increased concerns among residents that the first major temblor in 86 years, the so-called Big One, may soon strike the world’s biggest city. (8/14/2009)
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While the economic sun was shining, most other economists scoffed at Roubini and his predictions of imminent disaster. They dismissed his warnings that the sub-prime mortgage disaster would trigger a financial meltdown. They could not quite believe his view that the US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would collapse, and that the investment banks would be crushed as the world headed for a long recession. (10/27/2008)
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The state has been paying bills with unfunded vouchers since October. A fifth of buses have stopped. Libraries, owed $400m (£263m), are closing one day a week. Schools are owed $725m. Unable to pay teachers, they are preparing mass lay-offs. It's a catastrophe, said the Schools Superintedent.
In Alexander County, the sheriff's patrol cars have been repossessed; three-quarters of his officers are laid off; the local prison has refused to take county inmates until debts are paid. (3/1/2010)
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Much noise this morning surrounding the news that Goldman Sachs (and a number of other banks) allegedly helped Greece to hide the full scale of its ballooning government debts through financial jiggery-pokery over the past decade or so. Eurostat has now demanded an explanation from the Greeks for $1bn of currency swaps it says it was unaware of (though Greece seems to be insisting the authorities did know). (2/15/2010)
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If the U.S. dollar collapsed under the weight of proposed Obama administration trillion dollar budget deficits into the foreseeable future, holders of U.S. debt would face substantial losses that the Financial Times estimated would devastate Asians' hard-earned wealth and terminate economic globalization.
The basic idea is to turn Asian savings, China's in particular, into real business interests rather than let them be used to support U.S. over-consumption, Yu Qiao wrote, reflecting themes commonly suggested by Chinese government officials. While fixed-income securities are vulnerable to any fall in the value of the dollar, equity claims on sound corporations and infrastructure projects are at less risk from a currency default. (10/22/2009)
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So how much will President Barack Obama's budget cost us? The projected 2010 budget of $3.552 trillion can be found on page 114 of the New Era of Responsibility budget here.
The US Census bureau estimates that the current US population is 304,059,724. Dividing the $3.552 trillion by that gives us close to the $11,833 that Drudge came up with. ABC's Jake Tapper reports that there wil be $989 billion in new taxes over the next decade.
I'm an American taxpayer and the starkest figure is what this could cost me. The latest figure I could find for the number of US taxpayers is 138,893,908 returns in 2007 here. By my reckoning, that's $25, 573.48 each. (2/26/2009)
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This weekend a select team of 33 pastors in 22 states will be preaching on politics in a direct challenge to a federal tax statute that forbids churches from interfering with political campaigns. The pastors are participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday as part of an effort called the Pulpit Initiative developed by the Alliance Defense Fund, an organization of lawyers dedicated to defending religious liberty. The ADF believes that pastors have a First Amendment right to speak on politics if they choose, and that by using its tax authority to limit pulpit content, it is the government, and not the preacher, who is violating the separation of church and state. (9/27/2008)
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Internet critics, made bold by their uncensored criticism of the Games’ opening ceremony, are seeking new targets. The mystery of the half-filled stands at many events at the 2008 Olympic Games has been solved, according to Chinese internet users, who say it is the result of a policy to prevent the gathering of large and possibly uncontrollable crowds. (8/18/2008)
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Obama has offered a budget that does nothing to address the nation's serious short- or long-term fiscal problems. Indeed, it makes them worse. By doubling the national debt over pre-recession levels, he'd push America toward a tipping point -- where rising debt levels will become too large for global capital markets to absorb. This could trigger a financial crisis, an interest-rate spike and gigantic tax hikes. (2/2/2010)
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Black Death Bacteria Can Spread From Human To Human (8/11/2009)
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Obama's campaign headquarters in Lake City, Fla., has posted a victory sign in its window stating, To God be the glory. Great things he has done. Obama. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. (11/8/2008)
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The world's biggest and most expensive scientific experiment has been hit by a last minute legal challenge, amid claims that the research could bring about the end of the world. The device is designed to replicate conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and its creators hope it will unlock the secrets of how the universe began. (8/31/2008)
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The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the privilege of building a huge trade deficit. (10/6/2009)
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An end to technical recession in France, Germany, and Japan because Q2 ( and undoubtedly Q3 to come) ekes out a rise from a collapsed base does not mean anything – except that zero interest rates worldwide, and a massive fiscal stimulus that is pushing public debts towards 100pc across the OECD states (and cannot easily be repeated once the first sugar rush subsides), has mercifully prevented the Great Contraction from turning into an immediate catastrophe. (8/26/2009)
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The turmoil in the financial markets has taken hold of the strategically important trade in long-term interest rate derivatives, pushing rates to levels once thought to be a 'mathematical impossibility'. Such interest rate swaps are the most widely traded over-the-counter derivative and are crucially important for insurers, pension funds and other companies that need to fund liabilities decades into the future. (10/25/2008)
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The largest U.S. market-based system for addressing climate change would be created under a plan released today by a group of Western states and Canadian provinces. The Western Climate Initiative, a collaboration of seven Western states including California and four Canadian provinces, has vowed to cut emissions by 15 percent of 2005 levels by 2020. The group plans to create a regional cap-and-trade program starting in four years that requires polluters to have permits for emitting carbon dioxide. (9/24/2008)
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Starting Tuesday, New Yorkers will be able to buy new driver's licenses containing a radio chip that will let them travel between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico without a passport. (9/17/2008)
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All dogs are to be compulsorily microchipped so that their owners can be more easily traced under a crackdown on dangerous dogs to be unveiled today. (3/8/2010)
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Very few people realize that the worst epidemic ever to hit America, the Spanish Influenza of 1918 was the after effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign. (7/15/2009)
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Lundin Petroleum AB announces that its Morskaya-1 exploration well in the Lagansky block, situated in the northern Caspian Sea has encountered a major oil accumulation in the Aptian and Neocomian sandstone reservoirs. (7/3/2008)
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Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. (7/12/2009)
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The financial storm that crossed the Atlantic into Europe is exposing limits of economic coordination within the 27-nation European Union that belie the bloc's history. the weekend failure of the region's four economic heavyweights - France, Germany, Italy and Britain - to follow the U.S. in crafting a unified financial bailout is raising alarm among officials and analysts, who worry that the European Union is also buffeted by Washington-style partisanship. (10/5/2008)
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A group of citizens is outraged at a growing number of sexually explicit children's books offered at local public libraries – including stories about lap dancing, touching, oral sex, gay relationships, love triangles and masturbation. (9/5/2008)
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President Barack Obama is expected to publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday. (2/20/2010)
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Credit card defaults will probably set records this year as more delinquent accounts are turning into losses for lenders, Fitch Ratings said in a November report. (4/23/2009)
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World Bank being investigated for 3 year on going cover up in Albania (2/9/2009)
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Andrew Wesbecher moved to London from New York in 2006 to sell software to banks and hedge funds. This month he joined the exodus of American expatriates fleeing high taxes and the city’s shrinking financial industry. (8/26/2009)
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Various Levels of Alert Signify the Threat of Novel Viruses (4/27/2009)
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Violence from Mexican drug cartels has spilled over into Texas, state Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said Monday. (2/24/2009)
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New legislation backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would allow Russian authorities to label any government critic a traitor—a move that rights activists said Wednesday was a chilling throwback to times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The bill, which is expected to become law, would expanded the definition of treason to include damaging Russia's constitutional order, sovereignty or territorial integrity. That, rights activists said, would essentially let authorities interpret any act against state as treason—a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. (12/17/2008)
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Oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel today for the first time in three and a half years as the slowdown in the global economy dragged down demand for fuel. (11/20/2008)
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Councils and health authorities are to be given the right to access e-mail and internet records under surveillance powers to be introduced next year, the Home Office said yesterday. (8/13/2008)
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In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say. (7/8/2008)
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Greek police clashed with demonstrators protesting sweeping budget cuts Friday as the government sought support from Germany to help it avoid default, only to be told not to expect a single cent. (3/5/2010)
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The awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? (10/9/2009)
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The UK's economy will shrink by 2.5pc in 2009 - a significantly worse year than any experienced either in the early 1990s or the 1970s, a number of economists warned. (12/23/2008)
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The United States may be on course to lose its 'AAA' rating due to the large amount of debt it has accumulated, according to Martin Hennecke, senior manager of private clients at Tyche. 'The U.S. might really have to look at a default on the bankruptcy reorganization of the present financial system' and the bankruptcy of the government is not out of the realm of possibility, Hennecke said. (11/12/2008)
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Nearly two dozen House liberals have signed onto a bill introduced this past week that would prohibit an increase of troops in Afghanistan. (10/5/2009)
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Gold has surged to an all-time high against the euro, sterling, and a string of Asian currencies on mounting concerns that global authorities are embarking on a Zimbabwe-style debasement of the international monetary system. (2/18/2009)
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GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground. (11/4/2008)
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New oil sands extraction technology, the uncertainty of future access to Middle East oil and the expectation that high prices are permanent have combined to shift the focus of future U.S. oil supplies to Canada. The higher extraction costs for heavy oil and bitumen is outweighed by relatively lower exploration costs. It’s hard not to find oil in the three oil sands areas in northern Alberta that collectively hold about 14 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, roughly equivalent to those in Saudi Arabia, the world’s No. 1 producer. (9/16/2008)
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California voters are beginning to ask deeper questions about Proposition 8 and wondering what will happen if same-sex marriage is permanently legalized. The answers are unsettling. Consider these consequences if Prop 8 fails. (9/8/2008)
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Seventy-five years after it was launched during the Great Depression, the bank regulator and insurer is facing its biggest challenge in decades. Many banks in Georgia and across the nation have been battered by the slumping economy and troubled loans to home builders, developers and homeowners. Hundreds could fail, some industry experts predict. That could force the agency to make good on its promise to insure most customers' checking and savings deposits up to $100,000 and some retirement accounts up to $250,000, putting pressure on its insurance fund. (8/25/2008)
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Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring. (2/4/2010)
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Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror. (9/24/2008)
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Two remarkable developments took place recently that are extremely relevant to students of Bible prophecy. For the first time in 1,600 years, the Israeli Sanhedrin was re-established. It occurred in Tiberius, the site of the Sanhedrin's last meeting in AD 425. These religious authorities believe it was necessary to re-establish the Sanhedrin because only this properly ordained body of sages can authenticate a Messiah when he comes. There is a growing expectation of the long-awaited Messiah to appear among devout Jews. The rebirth of the Jewish state and recapture of Jerusalem has increasingly influenced this conviction. On Feb. 9, just a few weeks after the Sanhedrin's re-establishment, another enormously important development took place. The religious sages began to consider the rebuilding of the Temple and reinstitution of ancient animal sacrifices as prescribed in the Law of Moses.
(8/1/2008)
Views: 232 - User Comments: 0 - The RAND Corporation, one of the most fecund research arms of the Military-Industrial-Homeland Security Complex, has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities.
The SPFOR (to use the inevitable acronym) would be a “hybrid” military/law enforcement unit created within the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for use “in a range of tasks such as crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups” — both abroad, in UN-directed multilateral military operations, and at home, as dictated by the needs of the Regime. (1/18/2010)
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A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. (7/25/2009)
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When it comes to the First Amendment, Team Obama believes in Global Chilling.
Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a chilling effect on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them. (7/14/2009)
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South Carolina lawmakers have delayed voting on whether to charge obese public employees higher premiums in the state health insurance plan.
A Senate Finance subcommittee delayed its vote Tuesday. Republican Sen. Greg Ryberg of Aiken said he would be willing to rewrite his bill as a way to reward healthy residents rather than punish overweight workers. (2/11/2009)
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Hailing Barack Obama's win as a victory for the working class, the Communist Party USA is calling on the president-elect to carry out his promises, including his noted commitment to 'spread the wealth.' 'We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views,' the publication states. (11/11/2008)
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The oil market is starting to suffer from oversupply, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman said on Friday, days before a key OPEC meeting on crude output levels. (9/5/2008)
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Carbon dioxide is essentially harmless to human beings and good for plants. So now will you stop worrying about global warming?
Utah's House of Representatives apparently has at least. Officially the most Republican state in America, its political masters have adopted a resolution condemning climate alarmists, and disputing any scientific basis for global warming.
The measure, which passed by 56-17, has no legal force, though it was predictably claimed by climate change sceptics as a great victory in the wake of the controversy caused by a mistake over Himalayan glaciers in the UN's landmark report on global warming. (2/12/2010)
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The Chinese government has agreed to purchase up to $50 billion worth of International Monetary Fund bonds, the first such notes in the fund's history, the IMF said Wednesday.
The global organization said the note purchase agreement offers China a safe investment instrument, and is part of a broader plan to help the fund weather the economic downturn.
This may spell the decline of U.S. treasury bonds and the move to the IMF reserve currency. (9/3/2009)
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A North Korean official says his country has begun to restore a key nuclear reactor, which would help North Korea to restart its plutonium-based nuclear weapons program. Mr. Hyun said North Korea was restoring the reactor because the US has failed to fulfill its obligations in the treaty. When asked when [the reactor] would be restored, he said: You'll come to know soon. Mr Hyun claimed the process of decommissioning the plutonium-producing reactor at the Yongbyon plant was 90% complete. (9/19/2008)
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The US is negotiating with Georgia and Turkey to establish a naval base at one of the two key Georgian ports of Batumi or Poti, reports say. Russia had previously announced its intention to station its own special forces at the Georgian ports. (9/8/2008)
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Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government. (3/11/2010)
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Bank lending in the US has contracted so far this year at the fastest rate in recorded history, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve may have jumped the gun by withdrawing emergency stimulus. (2/17/2010)
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Our Founding Fathers were collectively the brightest, wealthiest, and most powerful men of their era. They risked everything they had by declaring their independence from what was, at that time, the greatest military and economic power in the world. Quite frankly, we have not had such intellect, innovation, and “testicular fortitude” at the helm of our country since then, and I believe will never see men of such strong backbone in our government again. (11/3/2008)
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Anxious British savers seeking to take advantage of the blanket guarantee on deposits offered by the German Government may be disappointed. Even if it eventually turns out that foreign depositors are covered by the guarantee, UK savers would have to clear some pretty formidable hurdles before they can open a German bank or savings account. (10/8/2008)
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Bank of America, the largest US bank, said on Monday it would raise $10bn in capital and halve its dividend in an effort to ride out the credit crisis.
The moves came as the bank reported third quarter earnings of $1.2bn - a third of the level of a year ago. Ken Lewis, Bank of America chief executive, said it was prudent to raise capital to very substantial levels in this uncertain environment. (10/7/2008)
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Eleven decapitated bodies have been found outside the city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, heightening fears that Mexico's recent descent into violence has reached even heavily protected tourist areas. All the bodies showed signs of torture and were tattooed with star signs and the letter “Z”, suggesting that they had fallen victim to the country's growing drug war, which has left more than 2,700 dead so far this year. (8/30/2008)
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When it comes to religion in China, Christianity is booming. Christian churches, once taboo in the communist country, now have reportedly about 70 million members. So is China on its way to accommodating religious beliefs?
(8/9/2008)
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Young girls consider self-harm to be normal teenage behaviour, according to research by mental health and volunteer organisations published today.
A study of the attitudes of 10 to 14-year-old girls found that two fifths know someone who has harmed herself and many believe it to be an accepted way of dealing with teenage angst. (7/16/2008)
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New foreclosures almost quadrupled in Los Angeles and doubled in Miami in the second quarter, with as much as $5 billion worth of loans going bad in L.A. alone... (7/8/2008)
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Why is the national security community treating the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump. (3/8/2010)
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State agencies would be forbidden from further compliance with the federal Real ID Act under a measure the Utah House approved Thursday.
The move would do nothing to end hours-long waits at state drivers license offices, but could mean that Utah residents won't be able to board airplanes or enter federal buildings in the future. (2/19/2010)
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Hundreds of auto dealers in the New York area have withdrawn from the government's Cash for Clunkers program, citing delays in getting reimbursed by the government, a dealership group said Wednesday. (8/19/2009)
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For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms, that there will be a Second 9/11. Quotations from presidential speeches and official documents abound. (11/9/2008)
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A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall yesterday, so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding
. (10/12/2008)
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North Korea appears to be powering up its nuclear weapons program again as it tested missiles in apparent personnel training and announced plans to reopen its plutonium plant. (10/9/2008)
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Lehman Brothers is planning to axe up to 1,500 more jobs, as part of its desperate struggle to reduce costs, raise money and rebuild its battered balance sheet. (8/30/2008)
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First it was Citibank. Now it's Barclay's and New York City's Chrysler Building skyscraper. Muslim Arabs are buying out collapsing Western banks and businesses and gaining growing international power, but some Arab investors are worried their investments may go down the drain with the American economy.
(7/27/2008)
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Recent town-hall uproars weren't just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once. (9/1/2009)
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Dozens, and potentially hundreds, of gas stations around California are choosing to shut down rather than comply with a state mandate that would require owners to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump. (1/29/2009)
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Thousands of hedge funds are expected to go bust in the next few months, amid fears that the secretive sector of the financial industry will be the next to buckle under the pressure of global market turmoil. Yesterday two major funds in the US revealed they were under pressure. It is estimated that 20-50% of the 10,000 hedge funds worldwide are vulnerable to a squeeze on their funds. (10/19/2008)
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State and federal regulators have reached a $19.4 billion agreement with UBS Financial Services Inc. to settle charges that the firm misled investors into buying bonds that were far riskier than advertised, according to people briefed on the talks. (8/8/2008)
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Oil at $135? That was just the opening skirmish in the “peak oil” wars. The latest smart money? $200 oil in 2010, with gasoline at $7 a gallon. And that is going to turn Americans into car-shunning Europeans once and for all—poor Americans, at least. That’s the latest gloomy forecast from Jeff Rubin at Canadian brokerage CIBC World Markets, who just a few months ago figured $200 oil would be a thing of the distant future—like 2012.
(7/8/2008)
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Lindsey Williams talks about his first hand knowledge of Alaskan oil reserves larger than any on earth. And he talks about how the oil companies and U.S. government won't send it through the pipeline for U.S. citizens to use. This Video was taken on December 08, 2005.
(7/18/2008)
Views: 225 - User Comments: 1 - In order to crawl from beneath crushing debt and reach fiscal solvency, Illinois legislators must choose from a series of options that range from bad to worse, according to a prominent watchdog group. (2/23/2010)
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Greek drivers lined up for gas at the few stations still open Friday as a customs strike against government austerity measures left many pumps running dry. (2/19/2010)
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Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press. (9/17/2009)
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Thailand sank deeper into political chaos yesterday as anti-government demonstrators forced the closure of airports and railway lines, stranding foreign and domestic passengers and increasing fears of yet another military coup. (8/31/2008)
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Views: 223 - User Comments: 0 - An emboldened Hugo Chávez vowed to speed up “the construction of true socialism” in Venezuela after winning the right to stand for reelection indefinitely – a measure that opponents say puts the country on the path to dictatorship. (2/16/2009)
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The Bank of England on Thursday cut interest rates to the lowest level in its 315-year history, taking it into uncharted territory as it attempts to ward off a prolonged recession. (1/9/2009)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is more impaired from the stroke he apparently suffered last month than reports from the region suggest, and the United States and China are holding talks about what to do if the government in Pyongyang collapses, FOX News has learned. (9/11/2008)
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Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street investment bank, is understood to be in talks to sell its entire $40 billion (£21.5 billion) real estate portfolio in a move to stem losses incurred during one of the worst property slumps since the Great Depression. (8/19/2008)
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Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and the source of human rights. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why all people must fight to regain and retain freedoms that have been lost.
(2/18/2010)
Views: 222 - User Comments: 0 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food. (12/29/2009)
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Dai Bingguo, who is standing in for the Chinese president Hu Jintao at the G8 meetings, raised questions over the dominant role of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. (7/12/2009)
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Every time the national debt is spoken of I wonder how the whole thing works. For most of us it's just a jingoistic term thrown around for political purposes. So, in search for that answer, I came across an article that explains the whole situation best. It's a wakeup call for anyone who starts to dig into the inner workings of our Federal Reserve system.
(7/9/2008)
Views: 222 - User Comments: 0 - The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. (11/5/2009)
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What 80 percent of economists call Recovery is a Cover up. Trillions in losses papered over with trillions of phantom dollars printed out of thin air and backed by nothing produce nothing except the mirage of recovery. The dollar's dive and gold's historic high is no mirage. Gold doesn't lie.
In the Autumn Trends Journal® we dispel the recovery as fantasy and show how and why America and much of the world will plunge into the Greatest Depression. The global equity market surge and bankers' bonuses do absolutely nothing for the man on the street. Foreclosures are at an all time high, businesses are going bankrupt, jobs continue to disappear.
While Wall Street cheers, Main Street seethes. The 2nd American Revolution has already begun, and it's much more than a right wing, militia driven movement. Who's behind it, will it be velvet or violent, waged with guns or won by minds?
Across America and around the world, everyone wants to know what's going to happen and nobody knows better than Gerald Celente. Google it up. Celente is today's # 1 trend expert, sought by the major media world wide.
(10/21/2009)
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Views: 221 - User Comments: 0 - China's economy may have ground to a halt entirely between the third and fourth quarters of last year and Japanese exports plunged 35pc in December, underlining the scale of the slowdown in Asia. (1/22/2009)
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Politicians must prepare themselves for the possibility that global economic growth shrinks for the first time since the Second World War, according to the World Bank (12/10/2008)
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A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts. (8/1/2008)
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Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught. (12/3/2009)
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The financial crisis spreading like wildfire across the former Soviet bloc threatens to set off a second and more dangerous banking crisis in Western Europe, tipping the whole Continent into a fully-fledged economic slump. Currency pegs are being tested to destruction on the fringes of Europe’s monetary union in a traumatic upheaval that recalls the collapse of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992. “This is the biggest currency crisis the world has ever seen,” said Neil Mellor, a strategist at Bank of New York Mellon. (10/27/2008)
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The $54trillion credit derivatives market faces a delicate test as $360bn worth of contracts on now-defaulted derivatives on Lehman Brothers are due to be settled on Tuesday. Due to the opacity of the market, which is one of the most complex, least regulated and least understood in the global financial system, it is still not clear how many contracts have to be settled or which institutions will take the ultimate hits once the billions of dollars worth of contracts have been unravelled. (10/19/2008)
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After a Northern Virginia public school system banned books containing a Christian viewpoint on homosexuality from its library shelves, saying the texts might make gays feel inferior, students and parents are fighting back. More than 40 Christian parents and students held a protest Thursday to speak out against Fairfax County public school librarians' decision to refuse titles such as Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting and Someone I Love Is Gay. (10/4/2008)
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Ministers are in talks with supermarkets about emergency food reserves in case fuel protests lead to shortages at shops. The government wants to ensure retailers and suppliers can continue to sell basics such as meat, bread and milk if hauliers bring the country to a halt. (7/7/2008)
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Sunstein's book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading rumors. (11/24/2009)
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I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines watching all of this national debate on healthcare. It is time for me to bring some clarity to the table by explaining many of the problems from the perspective of a doctor. (8/20/2009)
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At least one state coal industry leader said he was shocked by comments Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made earlier this year concerning his plan to aggressively charge polluters for carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. (11/3/2008)
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Climate-gate has struck again: A new investigation reveals crucial flaws in data about climate change, as well as attempts by leading researchers to cover up their own mistakes. (2/2/2010)
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Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.
Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance in Britain, 653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors. (11/10/2009)
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Al Gore, the former US vice-president, delivers an upbeat assessment of the global response to climate change today, saying he believes a political tipping point has been reached which will enable leaders to avert environmental catastrophe.
'There is a very impressive consensus now emerging around the world that the solutions to the economic crisis are also the solutions to the climate crisis,' he says. 'I actually think we will get an agreement at Copenhagen.'
Interesting that the same forces that caused the economic crisis are the ones that caused the environmental crisis. Get rid of them and both of the problems are solved. (3/14/2009)
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The national Alliance Defense Fund says a town code that bars religious assemblies in private homes in the Arizona community of Gilbert is unconstitutional. (3/16/2010)
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., overseeing the dissolution of failed banks at the fastest pace in 17 years, today boosted its 2010 budget 56 percent to $4 billion to manage further shutdowns. (12/15/2009)
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Global stock markets tumbled Thursday on mounting anxiety over a debt default request by Dubai and tighter lending conditions in China, analysts said. (11/26/2009)
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The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster. (11/1/2009)
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Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies, according to research by the London School of Economics. (9/9/2009)
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Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts. (1/27/2009)
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Bank loans and the M3 money supply in the eurozone contracted at an accelerating pace in November, raising the risk that a lending squeeze will choke the region's fragile recovery next year. (12/30/2009)
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Elder Packer left a warning for members of the Church here: “Learn how to receive revelation.” He also said that “troubled times are ahead” and “things are going to change, and change drastically.” He did not go into much detail, but counseled us to pray, as our prayers will be different and less selfish. (11/30/2009)
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The Chinese cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US system - ranging from its secure defence network , banking system, electricity grid to putting spy chips into its defence planes - that it can cause serious damage to the US any time, a top US official on counter-intelligence has said. (4/17/2009)
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the deposit insurance fund could dry up amid a surge in bank failures, as she responded to an industry outcry against new fees approved by the agency.
“Without these assessments, the deposit insurance fund could become insolvent this year,” Bair wrote in a March 2 letter to the industry. (3/4/2009)
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The fact that World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said that China's yuan may become the global reserve currency over the next 15 years assumes significance not just for the world but also for India. It has the potential to make Indian goods relatively more competitive as the Chinese currency today is highly controlled. (11/16/2009)
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Over time, the seductive idea that we should not discuss ³politics² in our LDS Church meetings has gone from correct Church policy to a prejudice against mentioning the principles of free agency at all, except in a preliminary and perfunctory way.
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