Archive for February 9th, 2010

CNN 2/4/10 By Elizabeth Cohen When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis. While grateful to have the information — Isabel received further testing and she...
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Raw Story 2/9/10 By Stephen C. Webster Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants the public to believe that his motives in helping the United States invade Iraq were completely pure. The reasons for an inquiry into his government’s actions, he argued during a recent interview, stem merely from an “obsession” to uncover a grand “conspiracy” to take...
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Raw Story 2/5/10 Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed last year and...
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Russia has attacked a US decision to site interceptor missiles in Romania, saying the move imperils Barack Obama’s much-vaunted “reset” of relations between the two countries and the final stages of nuclear arms reduction talks. Telegraph 2/9/10 By Andrew Osborn The Kremlin said it was taken aback by news that Romania’s top military body had agreed to host...
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All Gov 2/9/10 By Noel Brinkerhoff For some Americans it’s no questions asked. Bring your millions of dollars looted from foreign treasuries and spend lavishly in the United States, or simply stuff it into domestic bank accounts, including bundles of cash smuggled in on the persons of world leaders.   The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations latest report...
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Infowars 2/8/10 By Kurt Nimmo Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate and now the darling who plays guitar on Fox News, wants to engage in mass murder. “The U.S. should support an Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear installations if the Jewish state, fearing diplomacy has failed, ultimately takes that course of action, stated former...
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VOA News 2/9/10 Iran says it has begun enriching uranium to a higher level, defying international efforts to curb its nuclear activity. Iranian state media reports the process started at Iran’s Natanz facility Tuesday in the presence of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. Iran told the IAEA Monday of its plans to enrich uranium to 20 percent in...
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ABC News 2/6/10 By BEN QUINN To borrow a phrase from counter-terrorist parlance, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s alleged plot to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day was a “game changer.” As a reluctance to introduce body scanners at airports eases, two countries deploying them nationwide this month include Britain, reportedly a key setting for the Nigerian student’s...
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Gold Seek 2/1/10 On 9 December 2009 Representative Ron Paul introduced H.R. 4248 the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009.  This Act has the potential to impact the investment world more than any other legislation that has been enacted for decades.  The impact on the bond market, Treasury market, stock market and general economy would...
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Anti-War.com 2/8/10 By Jason Ditz Facing massive Shi’ite protests in the streets, an Iraqi appeals panel backpedaled on last week’s ruling, reinstating the election ban on some 500 opposition candidates. Last week the court panel ruled that the 500 candidates were eligible to run in the March vote, and that the evidence against them would be examined after...
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