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Archive for November 24th, 2009
Government has been taking newborn DNA samples without parents’ permission
CBS– Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails
CBS
11/24/09
By Declan McCullagh
A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.
Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said on Monday the leaked correspondence suggested researchers “cooked the science to make this thing...
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Study: CEOs cashed in before Wall Street meltdown
Raw Story
11/24/09
By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
The CEOs of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the two investment banks that collapsed during last year’s financial meltdown, walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation even as the company’s shareholders lost everything, says a new report from Harvard Law School.
The top five executives at...
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Police: Census worker found with “Fed” written on body staged death to conceal suicide
USA Today
11/24/09
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Authorities are saying a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with “fed” scrawled on his chest committed suicide and staged his death to look like a homicide.A news release from Kentucky State Police said Tuesday that Bill Sparkman died at the same location where his body was...
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Russia Today covers Climategate email scandal
Russia Today/ Youtube
11/24/09
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Climategate Fallout: Interview with Dr. Tim Ball on the CRU Emails
Before It’s News
11/24/09
Dr. Tim Ball, former university professor and now environmental consultant, is one of the leading climatologists who remained skeptical of the climate control claims. With the release of the University of East Anglia emails, he had some very pointed comments in this interview with the Corbett Report…
Some comments in this video interview...
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Climate change scientists launch defense of Climategate emails
The Examiner
11/23/09
Some of the world’s top climate change scientists have found themselves having to defend their internal communications after thousands of emails were exposed on the Internet last week. The emails, stolen from Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, show the inner workings of the elite group of scientists and have those...
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U.S. lawmakers trade shots over war tax proposal
Canada.com
11/23/09
WASHINGTON — It’s being called the “tax for troops” proposal, and it’s thrown yet another wrinkle into President Barack Obama’s deliberations over America’s strategy for Afghanistan.
Two senior Democratic lawmakers said they want to impose a new “war surtax” on Americans to pay for any additional armed forces deployed to Afghanistan under Obama’s forthcoming decision...
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Obama Quietly Backs PATRIOT Act Provisions
Anti-War.com
11/24/09
By William Fisher
With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA PATRIOT Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.
And it is reportedly doing so over the objections of some prominent...
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Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan
The Nation
11/24/09
By Jeremy Scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch...
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