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 be facing a mandatory H1N1 vaccination program, I started receiving email from soldiers,...
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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 key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration...
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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 provide a glimpse of the early struggles between the FBI and the Pentagon...
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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 Our People in Pakistan,” the original tape was released on July 12th in...
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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 workers (HCWs) at two sites in western Ukraine. The government website shows a...
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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 the lapdog media has been preceded with the word “unexpected,” as if...
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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 weeks, according to a published report.
“If statistics went back so far, the...
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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 cost – both in dollars, $1.2 trillion, and political capital – but Democrats...
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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 he would also cancel debts of African countries.
“We will help Africa build up...
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