The cure for Hillary's health problem
• Mark YannoneWealth confiscators will bludgeon us mercilessly to get our consent to government health care. We are prepared.
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France puts a cork in alcohol sales to youth
• APLawmaker voted to approve an amendment to a vast hospital bill that would ban the sale of alcohol to teens under the age of 18 and fine violators up to $9,400. They also voted to forbid the overnight sale of alcohol at gas stations, thought to be a p
Feds spending millions on Kennedy legacy in Mass.
• AP[this is incredible] More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
The Martial Law Mind-Set<br>by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateWhile Archimedes is rightly revered for his many imperishable contributions to science, he could also be considered the first recorded victim of lethal police brutality. A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the doomed but wo
Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
• Blacklisted NewsA newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause.
Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 C
• NaturalNewsHow could this company (Baxter Labs) have accidentally mixed LIVE avian flu viruses (both H5N1 and H3N2, the human form) in this vaccine material? They did this to 100,000,000 doses.
Mish: Boomers' Future Went Down The Drain
• Michael Shedlock / MishThe report details how the collapse has left the majority of those around retirement-age almost completely reliant on entitlements. The net worth of median households in the 45 to 54 age bracket has dropped by more than 45 percent since 2004, to just
Breaking News: U.S. Tax Receipts Cliff Dive to 14 Year Low
• Calculatedriskblog.comU.S. federal government budget widened to $192.8 billion in February ... the second largest monthly deficit on record ... receipts dropped 17% to $87.3 billion, the lowest since February 1995.
Texas lawmakers clash over GOP push for voter ID law
• McClatchy NewsA partisan showdown over legislation requiring photo identification to vote unfolded in the Republican-led State Senate as the chamber's leading Democrat denounced the bill as a "recipe for catastrophe" that would echo a "history o
U.N. report says U.S. rendition policy broke international law
• McClatchy NewsA U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international law for the so-called extraordinary renditions and subsequent alleged torture of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration's global war on terro
Loan should allow Mo. family to stay in cave home
• APAn eastern Missouri family expects they'll be able to stay in their home built inside a cave after accepting an offer of a private mortgage contract. A New Jersey-based business offered a 15-year loan with a low interest rate that should allow th
Voting right in Congress for D.C. snarls in gun politics
• McClatchy NewsA law to grant the District of Columbia voting membership in the House of Representatives , which seemed like a certainty two weeks ago, was stuck in the House, mired down by arguments over guns, school vouchers and other issues.
Budget Deficit Reaches $765B in 5 Months
• APLower tax revenue and massive government spending on the bank bailout pushed the federal deficit to $765 billion in the first 5 months, well on its way to hitting the Obama administration's projection of a record annual imbalance of $1.75 trillio
Pakistan bans rallies, arrests 100s before march
• AP[falling "allies"] Pakistan rounded up hundreds of opposition activists and banned protests in two provinces hoping to thwart an anti-government march on the capital, saying it would not allow "the law of the jungle" to cause i
Former Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 times
• APGerman prosecutors said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.
SEC Head Says 'Uptick Rule' May Be Reinstated
• AP[its coming] Dramatic changes in the global economy may merit restoring a federal rule aimed at preventing a massive plunge in a stock price caused by a rush of short sellers, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said.
French want to rejoin NATO
• APPresident Nicolas Sarkozy forcefully defended his intention to return France to the heart of NATO's military command after 43 years away and insisted that staying outside the alliance's highest echelons any longer would weaken France.
Denatured Plutonium
• arcleinThis is a pleasant piece of rather good news. This innovation allows us to effectively take bomb grade plutonium out of the market forever. At least we hope so. Inspection and vigilance has been largely successful but still allows for a rogue stat
Global Warming Trends
• arcleinWhen I commenced this blog two years ago, global warming had been with us for at least a decade and perhaps realistically for twenty years. It was indisputably warmer but is had also stabilized near the top end of the natural range as demonstrated in
Madoff Will Plead Guilty to All Charges
• AP[this is weird] Bernard Madoff could be facing his final hours of freedom after acknowledging that he will plead guilty to charges that he engineered one of the largest investment scams in U.S. history and was ready to face a prison sentence of up to
Geithner: Global Action Needed to Combat Recession
• google.com/hostednews/ap/Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the global recession is deepening and urged strong actions by all major nations to combat the downturn.
Greenspan’s Denial: Creating The Housing Bubble
• Ritholtz.comSince I’ve been critical of the unstable monetary policy of Greenspan, Bernanke and the Fed for many years, I can’t help myself but to respond to Greenspan’s editorial today in the Wall St Journal, where he pleads ‘not guilty’ for causing the housing
Monsanto's dream Bill, HR 875
• OpEdNews via Rense.comHR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto. WELL, DUH!
Bernanke To CFR: New Financial Authority Is Needed
• Prisonplanet.com/“We must have a strategy that regulates the financial system as a whole, in a holistic way, not just its individual components,” Bernanke said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hannity suggests Christianity compatible with torture
• Rawstory.comYou know what, I don't have any problem taking his head sticking it underwater and scaring the living daylights out of him and making him think we're drowning him," declared Hannity, "and I'm a Christian."
U.S. Army: Soldiers on the Street in Alabama to Respond to Shooting
• InfoWars.comThe U.S. Army dispatched soldiers to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, a small southern town where a rampaging gunman killed 10 people on Tuesday. This obvious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act prohibiting the federal uniformed services from
UK House Prices Will Plummet
• moneyweek.com/newsIn other words, we are entering a bull trap – just as we did in 1991, when there was a brief rally before further declines. We are nowhere near capitulation. That is still to come.
Slavery Epidemic
• arcleinWhile disease will usually kill off the very young and the very old with the exception of influenza allowing easy replenishment, slave trading preferentially takes the young adults with a full working life ahead of them. Rather obviously, if you con
Arrests of Right-to-Die Officials Draw Notice to Assisted Suicide
• NY TimesAn undercover state investigator told a right-to-die network that he wanted to kill himself. In response, he later testified, officials of the network planned to have him asphyxiate himself with a helium-filled face mask while holding down his arms.
Somali Americans Recruited by Extremists
• Washington PostSenior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and their potential role in the disappear
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