Prison Planet
11/6/09
Fort Hood Shooting ‘Oddities’
Lori Price
Citizens For Legitimate Government
Saturday, Nov 7th, 2009
Curiouser and Curiouser: -Video surfaces of alleged shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, attending Homeland Security Task Force conference –Major Hasan’s name appears on page 29 of The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute’s ‘Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next Administration‘ –Proceedings Report...
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Al Jazeera
11/6/09
After an army psychiatrist killed 13 people at a US military base in Texas, concerns are being raised about the mental health of the military staff.
Families of soldiers at the Fort Hood base say Thursday’s shootings are just a symptom of a much wider and increasingly urgent problem.
There have been dozens of suicides...
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The Goal Is Freedom: Let’s Ignore Congress
The Freeman
11/6/09
By Sheldon Richman
I spent a good part of Wednesday night closely skimming — my conscience won’t let me type “reading” — the Republicans’ alternative healthcare “reform” bill. It’s 219 pages of legalese. I know it’s one-tenth the size of Speaker Pelosi’s bill, but that doesn’t make for...
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The Independent
11/7/09
One of Britain’s leading ethical travel operators has launched a scathing attack on the carbon offset industry and has decided to stop offering offsets to its customers as a way of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Justin Francis, the founder of responsibletravel.com, said he had decided to abandon offsets because he believes they...
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Al Jazeera
11/7/09
Seven Saudis and an unknown number of Houthi fighters have been killed as Saudi forces battle Yemen rebels for the fifth straight day, medics have said.
Saudi commanders said troops were shelling suspected Houthi positions on Saturday and plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the Jebel al-Dukhan peak that marks the frontier near the border...
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Says Iran the Ones Who Are Really Bluffing
Anti-War.com
11/6/09
By Jason Ditz
Amid speculation that Israel’s threats to attack Iran, which have persisted for years, are just a bluff, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon insisted that the threat of an attack is very real.
“The one who’s bluffing is Iran,” insisting Ayalon, but since Iran isn’t the...
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Campaign For Liberty
11/6/09
On Friday, Congressman Ron Paul and Dr. Rand Paul appeared on The Glenn Beck Show with guest host Andrew Napolitano to discuss the Republican Party’s future, third parties, and the important of putting principle over politics.
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Chron
11/6/09
WASHINGTON — The suspected Fort Hood shooter has participated in homeland security conferences since 2008 at George Washington University while based in the Washington area.
Most recently, Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan was listed as an attendee in January for a conference on new security priorities for the Obama administration.
Frank Cilluffo, director of the university’s...
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Prison Planet
Crytogon
Comment: A description of the building where the victims were standing would be helpful. He fired 200-400 times and hit 40 people. You’d think it would take 10 seconds to fire 50 bullets with an automatic gun, much less aiming and pulling a trigger. Why was there no cover for people to run...
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Daily Tech
11/6/09
CEO at leading parts supplier: “Energy independence…ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive”
It’s no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in full swing, hybrid sales saw their first drop in years. Faced with tough new fuel economy restrictions, auto executives had come up...
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