Archive for November 8th, 2009

The Huffington Post 11/5/09 By Allen McDuffie If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That’s the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine. Shortly after the Pentagon announced that all Armed Services personnel would soon...

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McClatchy Newspapers 11/8/09 By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with...

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The Washington Independent 11/7/09 By Daphne Eviatar The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents...

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The Big News Network 11/7/09 A videotape of Osama bin Laden released on Friday is a repeat of a tape released many months ago. IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring company, says the latest videotape is the Pashto-language version of the previously released tape. Titled “To...

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Federal Jack 11/6/09 Four doctors died of flu in Ukraine’s Ternopol and Lvov regions, Health Minister Vasily Knyazevich said at the Sunday meeting of the operative headquarters for the prevention and treatment of A/H1N1 flu. The above comments describe the death of four health care...

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The Ludwig von Mises Intitute 11/6/09 By Ganesh Rathnam “I see green shoots,” said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes back in March, doing his best rendition of Haley Joel Osment from the movie The Sixth Sense. Since then, every poor economic headline in...

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Lew Rockwell.com 11/8/09

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Raw Story 11/7/09 By Stephen Webster According to figures released by the Department of Labor, the real marker of American unemployment stands at 17.5 percent — a figure which takes into account under-employed workers and those who have not sought work in the last four...

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The Examiner 11/8/09 By Joshua Burns The final vote was close: 220-215. In all, 219 Democrats voted to approve the measure in a largely party-line vote, with 39 Democrats voting no. One Republican supported the bill, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.). The bill has a steep...

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Al Jazeera 11/8/09 The Chinese government has pledged to give African countries billions of dollars in cheap loans at a two-day Africa-China summit in Egypt. Addressing hundreds of Chinese and African businessmen at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, said...

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