Investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon has passed a 98-page complaint to prosecutors that accuses former Attorney General Alberto R.
Gonzales and five others of being the legal architects of system that allowed torture in violation of international law, human rights lawyer Gonzalo Boye told CNN.
Check it out here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/29/gonzales.spain.gitmo/index.html
The cosmetic surgery business is booming in China as a hyper-competitive labor market has job hunters altering their looks to get an edge with potential employers. "They may not say it openly, but during the process they will pick the prettier one," said Stephanie Yang, who underwent a plastic surgery procedure to help her woo potential employers.
Read the full story here:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinaplastic30-2009mar30,0,4977370.story?track=rss
Even as Merrill Lynch & Co. bled money and warily eyed a merger with Bank of America, company executives were preparing for a windfall.
Following the federal government's promise of $10 billion in TARP funds to buoy the ailing firm, Merrill paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses: a package 22 times larger than compensation given by AIG.
Link:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Merrill_Lynch_bonuses_20_times_greater_0330.html
A new article by Evan Thomas(on Paul Krugman) describes perfectly the role of that magazine, its reporters, and our media stars generally.
Link:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/29/newsweek/index.html
One member of the press corps, however, brought up the fact that marijuana legalization is a serious subject to many people, particularly with Mexico right now, and when Gibbs didn't really respond, the reporter asked him to explain "Why?" "Why he feels that way about legalizing marijuana?"
He brought a tin can full of marijuana cigarettes that he picks up at his pharmacy each month and showed them to a room full of astonished state legislators during the hearing.
Shortly after his presentation, he found himself surrounded by four burly state security officers....
From:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2005/02/18/irvRosenbergAndTheCompassi.html
No good deed ever goes unpunished:"Authorities in an impoverished Palestinian refugee camp have shut down a youth orchestra, boarded up its rehearsal studio and banned its conductor from the camp after she took 13 young musicians to perform for Holocaust survivors in Israel"
The full story is here:
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_PALESTINIANS_ORCHESTRA?SITE=RIPAW&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-03-29-14-39-16
China's hi-tech 'death van' where criminals are executed and then their organs are sold on black market. China executed 1,715 people last year, so one more death would hardly be remarkable.
The headline in todays New York Times article sums up perfectly why so many cops feel threatened by photographers: When Evidence From Surveillance Cameras Leads to Charges Against Officers.
Check it:
http://carlosmiller.com/2009/03/25/why-police-officers-fear-cameras/
WASHINGTON DC " Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008.
The full story is here:
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258
The size of our national economy this year is roughly $15 trillion.
The size of the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) market is $64 trillion. The whole world GDP is about $56 trillion. How could the CDS market be larger than the world GDP combined? That doesn't make any sense.
Check it out here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/27/713698/-The-Real-Crime-in-the-BailoutNaked-CDS-Deals
The Bank of North Dakota is the only state-owned bank in the nation.
It also earned record profits last year, showing that "socialized" banks can actually out-compete the likes of BofA and Wachovia. Mother Jones interviews the bank's president, who says the socialism label has "been thrown at me many times" but that now he's getting the last laugh.
Link source:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/how-nation’s-only-state-owned-bank-became-envy-wall-street
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said amid "historically unprecedented" flooding in the Red River valley between the states of Minnesota and North Dakota, the federal government had readied itself to house and feed 30,000 people for up to a week.
Link source:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_prepared_to_shelter_30_000_flood_03272009.html
Russia has released plans to create a dedicated military force to patrol the Arctic, where it is laying claim to billions of tonnes of hydrocarbons. President Dmitry Medvedev said in September that the region must become Russia's strategic resource base for the 21st century.
Read the full story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/28/russia-gas-oil-arctic-nato
The top officials in the Obama administration still believe in the magic of the financial marketplace and in the prowess of the wizards who perform that magic.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27krugman.html
Brazils President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on white people with blue eyes and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white peoples mistakes.
The leftist leader is clearly a racist.
Check it out here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae4957e8-1a5f-11de-9f91-0000779fd2ac.html
Australia has rejected a Chinese state-run firm's $1.7bn (1.2bn) takeover bid for Australia's Oz Minerals because of national security concerns.
Five Insurance Ads That Make Us Forget How Much We Hate AIG
Source:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/lists/five-videos/funny-insurance-ads-032309?src=digg
Rep.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced legislation that would "bar the dollar from being replace by any foreign currency.
Get the low-down here:
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/03/26/bachmann-bill-would-ban-global-currency/
Today, in the historic first online town hall, the President mocked one of the top questions about whether legalizing marijuana would help improve the economy and job creation.
Check it out here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-gilliam/pot-saved-my-life-mr-pres_b_179585.html
In 1986, he masterminded a plan"which was never executed"for Scientology to get into the "MONEY and VOTES game" in order to "create power" for Scientology and win influence Washington, D.C.
Check it out here:
http://gawker.com/5185380/sarah-palin-advisers-secret-scientology-plot-to-take-over-washington
We can make over 25,000 things with it.
Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal? Because as history shows, industrial Hemp was the REAL target when Cannabis was made illegal, but a racist reefer madness fear campaign would not have worked against it as well as it did 'marihuana'.
Under the guise of "national security" by means of "intellectual property" protections.
Read the full story here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yPmtQDWZ1s
Rolling Stone: The Dirty Dozen. Meet the bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis - and the officials who let them get away with it
Link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26868968/the_dirty_dozen/print
In a little-noted agency hearing, the CIA admitted that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez rigged his recall referendum in 2004.
So why does he still merit global recognition as a democratically elected leader?
If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, "it would be the shortest investigation in history," said constitutional scholar and George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley. -=W/ VIDEO=-
Link source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_get_low_grade_on_0324.html
If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, "it would be the shortest investigation in history," said constitutional scholar and George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley. -=W/ VIDEO=-
Read the full story here:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_get_low_grade_on_0324.html
If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, "it would be the shortest investigation in history," said constitutional scholar and George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley. -=W/ VIDEO=-
Link source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_get_low_grade_on_0324.html
If Obama would step out of the way and allow prosecutors to look at evidence of alleged Bush administration war crimes, "it would be the shortest investigation in history," said constitutional scholar and George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley. -=W/ VIDEO=-
Link source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Turley_Obama_get_low_grade_on_0324.html
Austrian officials have made plans to stop people visiting the house where monster Josef Fritzl imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years.
The cellar where Fritzl carried out his crimes is to be filled in with concrete.
Read the full story here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163862/Fritzl-basement-filled-concrete-stop-ghoulish-tourists-flocking-photos.html
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, told the European Parliament that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market." Calls Us policy a "way to hell"
From:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/EU-presidency-US-economic-apf-14737788.html
The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Groups financial products unit, to Edward M.
Liddy, the chief executive of A.I.G.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html
Could this old plan be implemented to reduce the UK's population by 30 million, as will be outlined by Jonathan Porritt, one of Gordon Browns leading green advisers in his plan to build a sustainable society this week? Worse...could this be implemented globally?
Read the full story here:
http://larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_kissinger_food.html
Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on " black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt " the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago.
She was 13 and in eighth grade. An assistant principal, enforcing the schools anti-drug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen..
Get the low-down here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html?_r=2
After his daughter's resignation as CEO, the last three months had not been too generous for Hugh Hefner.
The latest news is that Playboy Enterprises Inc. is closing its Manhattan office and laying off employees as it struggles with falling advertising revenue and a gloomy economic climate..
Read the full story here:
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/business/story/Playboy-Enterprises-closing-NYC-offices/_6_Qoogd-U-757JSwHaCIQ.cspx
Under the recently issued Obama administration rules (which some were hoping wouldn't appear) lobbyists seeking an administration member's time to discuss a "Recovery Act" project must submit their requests in writing to be posted online...
Openness will restore confidence - both here and abroad - that the U.S. now practices what we preach.
Read the full story here:
http://realitytax.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/information-in-the-open-changes-the-way-business-was-done-in-dc/
OReilly never mentioned to his viewers how he scored that interview with me.
He never contacted me for a statement or the chance to appear on his show before deploying his harassment machine. Instead, he sent his producers to stake out my apartment, follow me for two hours, and accost me while I was on vacation...
In 2005, after pushing out the Justice Department lawyer who had overturned President George W.
Bushs claimed authority to abuse war on terror prisoners, his administration reinstated key elements of the memos granting Bush virtually unlimited powers over the detainees, according to a list of still-secret documents.
Read the full story here:
http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/791-how-torture-became-administration-policy-during-bushs-second-term.html
"Were going to have 135 million Hispanics in the United States by 2050, heavily concentrated in the southwest.
The question is whether were going to survive as a country."
Check it out here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/24/712489/-Buchanan-still-scared-of-the-scary-Latinos
If you're an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.
[White House economics adviser Larry] Summers, says a longtime Geithner colleague at the New York Fed. "You have Dodd, Geithner, Summers, but there were other, more senior political people involved in this mess, and their names aren't being mentioned.
Why isn't anyone asking Rahm Emanuel, 'What meetings were you in?' 'What did you and the Presiden
Source:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/23/plenty-of-rahm-at-the-aig-tabl
The Obama administration is using a multi-pronged attack to get at the heart of the nation's financial crisis " a mountain of toxic assets weighing on banks' balance sheets.
Link source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bank_rescue
If Barack Obamas bank rescue plan fails, it is unlikely that Congress will come up with more funds to do what should have done in the first place.
Link source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/opinion/23krugman.html
Lippert says sales and customer count has increased markedly since the change, and he's looking at adding more staff. Lippert spoke Tuesday with John Roberts on CNN's "American Morning" about how he came up with the idea and how customers have reacted.
Check it out here:
http://www.bloggersbase.com/articles/world-affairs/politics-and-opinions/cafe-owner-thrives-with-no-pricing-policy/
The media tends to attribute Gaza's decline solely to Israeli military and economic actions against Hamas.
But such a myopic analysis ignores the problem's root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at cementing the Palestinian people's status as stateless refugees to use their suffering as a weapon against Israel.
The full story is here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25212480-17062,00.html
If a federal energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) were adopted, one that demanded a electricity reduction of 15-percent and a natural gas reduction of 10-percent, 262 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions could be prevented.
That is the equivalent of taking 48 million cars off the road for one year.
Source:
http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/23/energy-efficiency-could-save-us-168-billion/
Worth reading this review before buying.
Link source:
http://r.ecommended.com/product/102/maverick-money-makers
Why Conservatives should insist on overturning cannabis prohibition in New York: cut wasteful spending, restore respect for law enforcement, grow a sustainable economy without large government stimulus
Pension trustees and insurance company portfolio managers look away now.
Your increased commitment to government bond holdings in recent times is about to blow up spectacularly. At least, that is the view of Ron Paul, the US congressman who ran against John McCain in last years Republican Party presidential nomination.
Check it out here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ee3e07f0-16b2-11de-9a72-0000779fd2ac.html
Reading, writing, and diving to the floor when gunshots are heard are all part of the routine for second-graders.
Principal Jose Posada, a Marine in the first Gulf War, said he didn't see as much action in Iraq as there's been in the neighborhood in recent weeks. "We're caught in the middle of it."
Get the low-down here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez22-2009mar22,0,2583393.column?page=1
An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the military's conduct during the assault on Gaza two months ago.
The witness statements of the 15 soldiers who have come forward to describe their concerns over Operation Cast Lead appear to corroborate claims of random killings and vandalism.
Link source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/22/israel-palestinian-territories-war-crimes
In light of Obamas victory, one might be tempted to [the lies and smears] pass.
That would be a mistake. For the effects of that campaign remain with us. Whats more, the campaign itself is still going on.
Check it out here:
http://www.cjr.org/essay/unamerican_1.php?page=1
It's not often you come across such a stark contrast of hackery versus journalism - outside of a supermarket check-out line anyway, but yesterday's stories from Politico and Reuters offer a case study in the difference between sensationalizing talking points and reporting the facts.
Check it out here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/19/710754/-Hackery-(Politico)-vs.-Journalism-(Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI addressed more than 30,000 Angolan youths on Saturday to revive their faith in a nation where evangelicals are gaining ground, but the event was marred by a deadly stampede that killed two.
Link:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25224089-5006003,00.html
President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W.
Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable.
The full story is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090321/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_budget
The transition that's taking place in the news publishing industry -- from print to online -- is a healthy step in technology-driven evolution, though there will undoubtedly be some short-term pain.
The loss of print newspapers is akin to the loss of the horse and buggy. The Internet offers the potential for broader and deeper news reporting.
Read the full story here:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Why-Its-OK-for-Newspapers-to-Die-66560.html
Do you know how many former Bush administration officials have been sentenced with jail time? The answer is a whopping eight, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow pointed out Wednesday night.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Maddow_At_least_eight_Bush_officials_0319.html
Colver said the district could end up eliminating as many as 60 of its 1,200 teaching positions next year if they don't get to keep the money.
Read the full story here:
http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/729506.html
[with Persian captions] President Obama's special video message for all those celebrating Nowruz, or "New Day." This year, the President wanted to send a special message to the people and government of Iran, acknowledging the strain in our relations over the last few decades.
After committing his administration to a future of honest and respectful
The full story is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_utC-hrjI
More evidence that CNN is going to have to find a new strategy fast or risk becoming a cable news also-ran: In the month of March so far, the Time Warner-owned network has come in fourth place
Link source:
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2009/03/20/cnns-march-ratings-so-far-more-lamb-than-lion
Excellent piece!
Check it:
http://www.truthout.org/031909J
According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans & violate most other Constitutional protections.
The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated.
In a time of free checking and banks on every corner, who pays to get a check cashed?
Link:
http://www.delsquacho.com/blog/2009/03/18/check-cashing/
U.S.
President Barack Obama is considering a plan that would double the size of Afghanistans security force to about 400,000 troops and police officer to stabilize the nation, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Check it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090319/ts_nm/us_afghan_usa_security
House lawmakers voted 328-93 to slap heavy taxes on employee bonuses at insurance giant AIG and at other companies that have received large bailout packages from the government.
Votes on either side of the argument Thursday were fraught with political peril. "This is nothing more than an attempt for everyone to cover their butt up here"" Boehner
Check it out here:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/house-vote-taxing-aig-bonus-bonanza/
Instead of rewarding AIG, giving solvent companies additional capital, companies that have a proven track record of fiscal responsibility, would allow those companies to expand and hire additional staff providing jobs to the recently unemployed.
Source:
http://theinformationparadox.com/2009/03/18/rewarding-goofus-while-ignoring-gallant/
Galbraith offers a compelling argument on why the current economic crisis is comparable to the Great Depression, and requires radical governmental intervention of a similar proportion that the Obama administration has not yet confronted. In short, a response that will not be enacted through "bipartisan" support.
The full story is here:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0903.galbraith.html
Jim Mellons lives beside a run-down, abandoned, foreclosed home but it's not the appearance or even his property values he's worried about. "I looked over and there was a double-basketball sized ball of bees on that window over there," said Mellons.
The full story is here:
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/mar/17/bees-move-foreclosed-home-port-st-lucie/
The White House wants to review Bush's order to shut down a UMass scientist's pot-growing operation.
The research, which a DEA judge ruled to allow more than two years ago, would build the medical case for marijuana.
Read the full story here:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cda_20090318_1850.php
Why do we keep giving out the Nobel Prize for Evil? It just gives companies like AIG an incentive to be evil.
"That's your attorney general talking about selling out the second amendment and your rights for the benefit of the benefit of Mexico," Lou Dobbs said on his Feb. 25 program.
But Dobbs must be a lonely man at CNN. The rest of the network took Holder's statement as its cue,
The full story is here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/colleen-raezler/2009/03/18/cnn-parrots-mexican-claims-u-s-guns-fuel-drug-wars
Having gotten into card debt and then climbed out of it, we've learned many of the causes of this financial pain.
The fact is, we can talk ourselves into using our credit cards in ways that will hurt our finances down the road. So here are 10 lies we tell ourselves that get us in credit card debt and keep us there.
There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, thus, of which the American people are almost completely unaware.
For that matter, few within the government who were not directly involved are aware either.
Check it out here:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/03/some_truths_abo/
Restrictive rules for patents and copyrights result in the detrimental monitoring of citizens, according to the Swedish Pirate Party, which is fielding 20 candidates in this summers European elections.
Laura Llanes does not regret buying her aunt marijuana, even though it has cost her a job as police dispatcher.
She was stunned, nevertheless, when she was fired last week after admitting she bought the marijuana to help relieve her aunt's suffering through breast cancer and chemotherapy. Medical marijuana is legal in 13 states, but not Illinois.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fired-dispatcher-marijuana-1mar17,0,5756031.story
"Pranav Veera, 6, can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office.
He can say the alphabet backward. Give him a date back to 2000, and he'll tell you the day of the week . . ."
Check it out here:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-03-12-younggenius_N.htm?csp=usat.me
A very funny but very true short clip.
Why are there drugs being pushed by the pharmaceutical companies w/ stated side affects of death when marijuana is illegal!?!?
Coming through an apartment's back door, an Ottawa County deputy allegedly shined a flashlight into the student's face, causing him to raise his right hand in front of his eyes.
The officer, whose name was not released, fired a single bullet into Derek Copp's chest. The 20-year-old said he had no idea the man was an officer. -=W/ VIDEOS=-
Check it:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/MI_cops_shoot_unarmed_20yearold_marijuana_0316.html
Europe is facing at least as severe a slump as the United States, yet has failed to respond effectively to the downturn.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/opinion/16krugman.html
The president said that he has instructed Timothy F.
Geithner to pursue every single legal avenue to block bonuses to the insurers top executives.
Link source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/us/politics/17obama.html
Josef Fritzl, accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering her children, has pleaded guilty to rape and incest but not guilty to murder.
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries.
Only the willfully ignorant could have seen Bernard Madoffs fund as a good investment.
Check it out here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/14nocera.html
An Obama economic adviser described the A.I.G. situation as outrageous but said the government had limited ability to scale back the bonuses.
For all the anti-tax swagger and the occasional stunts by personalities like KFI's John and Ken, the reality is that conservative talk radio in California is on the wane.
The economy's downturn has depressed ad revenue at stations across the state, thinning the ranks of conservative broadcasters.
The full story is here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-talkradio15-2009mar15,0,39114.story
Two months into his presidency, it is far too soon to make any judgments about Barack Obama's prospects.
All we really know is that he has assembled the rudiments of an administration and launched a batch of ambitious but unproven initiatives.
Link source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302274.html?referrer=digg
An American activist who participated in a Palestinian 'solidarity' demonstration is in serious condition Saturday after an Israeli soldier shot him in the face with a high-velocity tear gas canister.
He underwent surgery early Saturday. -=W/ VIDEO=-
From:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Video_of_American_allegedly_shot_by_0314.html
VEEDERSBURG, Ind. (AP) - A couple who ran a baby-sitting service out of their home videotaped themselves performing sex acts with children, some as young as 2 months old, police said Friday.
The full story is here:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96TIN7G4&show_article=1
AUSTRIAN police said they have broken an Internet child porn ring that stretched across 170 countries, charging nearly 200 men and confiscating 14,000 computers, hard drives and diskettes.
From:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25185214-401,00.html
A Texas man who was arrested Thursday on drug charges after construction workers witnessed him on his hands and knees, eating mud and growling like a dog is being monitored today inside the DeSoto Detention Center.
Link source:
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090313/NEWS03/90313023/0/sports10
Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned.
Link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5904637.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164
A pledge by US President Barack Obama to tighten gun control laws has led to firearms sales soaring across America.
Manufacturers are struggling to keep up with demand, and many gun shops running low on stock as the US public buys weapons in anticipation of tighter controls.
The full story is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4990836/Barack-Obama-fuels-gun-buying-boom-with-pledge-to-tighten-laws.html
Conservative commentators Glenn Beck and Bill OReilly regularly rail against President Obamas budget which would fix the Bush tax system.
Maybe its because Bill OReilly and Glenn Beck benefit tremendously from the broken status quo. According to a new analysis, Glenn Beck and Bill OReilly each save $400,000 under the current Bush tax system.
Source:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/13/beck-billo-taxes/
The Japanese, rightly concerned about a possible North Korean attack, have exercised their right to self defense of their airspace. This is a perfect example as to why regional missile defense is essential to global safety and security.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/north-korea-japan-nuclear-missile
Six weeks after his Vice President stated that the economy "is worse, quite frankly, than everyone thought it was," Obama told the nation that the economy is 'not as bad as we think.'
Link source:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96SP30G5&show_article=1
As the economic tsunami continues to rage across the planet, the near universal refrain has been that joint action is needed to pull us out of the crisis.
But when it comes to stimulus spending, the United States and Europe have taken different paths, jeopardizing hopes of a united front to combat the downturn.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1884881,00.html
It seems that everyone in the world knows that the excessive spending being done by the administration is destructive except the administration.
Check it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_us_economy
Like a dieter who allows himself just one more slice of cake before starting to count calories, President Obama signed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, then pledged to get tough on congressional earmark spending -- next time.
The Washington Post criticizes Obama for not following through on his campaign pledge to end earmarks.
The full story is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031203259.html?referrer=digg
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's marijuana bill - innocuously named "Assembly Bill 390" - has now been shunted into the pipeline, like so many other bills dealing with issues such as roads or schools (that don't spur mile-long threads at marijuana-legalization listservs).
Link:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/03/marijuanupdate_ammianos_legali.php
Darrin Sanford was convicted in 1998 of luring minors with sexual motivation, and was sentenced to probation.
After release from jail in January, following a probation violation, Sanford was fitted with a GPS tracking unit. Sanford was wearing the device when he tried to rape Licy Nipp before beating and stabbing her to death.
The full story is here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/sex.offender.gps/index.html
As the crime scene tape starts to come down in this small Southern town, the residents are leaning on one another for comfort and the strength to move on. "It's what community is about, isn't it? Crying together.
Holding each other," a pastor said. It's hard for many to believe the shooting rampage could happen in this town of about 2,100 people.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/alabama.rampage.recovery/index.html
Palin campaigned for VP as an earmark foe, but Alaska will receive $140 million in earmarks in the just-passed spending bill.
Not only is Palin not turning them down, she REQUESTED a few. Including a $1 million airport to nowhere.
Link:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/sarah-palin-earmark-hypocrisy
Despite halts on new foreclosures by several major lenders, the number of households threatened with losing their homes rose 30 percent in February from last year's levels, RealtyTrac reported Thursday.
Check it out here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_bi_ge/foreclosure_rates
A state security official says the 17-year-old gunman who went on a rampage at his former school and killed 15 people had warned of his plans in an Internet chatroom the night before.
Reich said Thursday that the suspect wrote: "You will hear from me tomorrow, remember the name of a place called Winnenden."
Link source:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-12-germany_N.htm
Sean Hannity's religion doesn't get in the way of his support for torture. "You 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."
From:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hannity_suggests_Christianity_compatible_with_torture_0311.html
It's reasonable to yearn for the boom days of yore, when the Dow Jones industrial average was topping 14,000.
Alas, those days aren't returning anytime soon. That economy collapsed because it was erected on a rickety foundation of debt, leverage, speculation and interest rates held unreasonably low by the Federal Reserve.
Link source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/11/politics/otherpeoplesmoney/main4858348.shtml
The American Civil Liberties Union released a comprehensive report today examining widespread abuses that have occurred under the USA Patriot Act, a law that was rushed through Congress just 45 days after September 11.
Since the passage of the controversial national security law, the Patriot Act has led to egregious government misconduct.
President Obama will name Seattle Police Chief R.
Gil Kerlikowske as the nation's drug czar today, ending a long search that was slowed as details of drug arrests involving Kerlikowske's son came to light. Perhaps this will signal a new, compassionate direction for U.S. drug policy, one where drug users aren't viewed as evil or immoral.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031003631.html
Representatives for Judicial Watch, which obtained e-mails and other documents showing the requests, say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has treated the Air Force as her "personal airline."
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/10/study-pelosi-repeated-requests-military-aircraft/
Ron Paul has introduced H.R.1207: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 to Congress and its been referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. According to Campaign for Liberty, The Fed has so far resisted attempts to provide information on how it is spending the bailout money and
Link:
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/joseph-onorati/ron-paul-bill-to-audit-the-fed
A gunman shot and killed at least eight people in a small town in southeastern Alabama and one more on the road before he was killed, police said.
"U.S. officials say the Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan is a former prisoner at the Guantanamo detention center.
Pentagon and CIA officials say Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul was among 13 prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007."
Get the low-down here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gepueqQ9a2V5zxXES7DoGnVhSFHwD96REDRO0
President Barack Obama's proposal to reach out to moderate Taliban will fail to end the Afghan insurgency as it is inflexible Taliban leaders who are orchestrating the war, not moderates, analysts said...
Check it out here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5282D220090309
Bipartisanship neatly tucked its head under its wing shortly after Obama took office this past January.
Decorum lasted for about a half a second, before the GOP realized where they had landed...smack dab in the middle of a powerless party, devoid of leadership!
Get the low-down here:
http://kiddmillennium.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/party-of-no-vs-party-of-know/
Iran has test-fired a new air-to-surface missile, Iranian media reported on Sunday, in the Islamic Republic's latest display of its military capability. The missile test was carried
Check it:
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-38404720090308
An article outlining various techniques to get an appointment including an Introduction via 3rd party, Letter, Cold call, E-mail, Networking Event and Social Media.
Part 1 of 2.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.iq-development.com/blog/sales_techniques_for_new_entrepreneurs_part_1
Hard times hit, and we slowly disappear.
Whole communities are being dismantled by the current recession and may never return.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-straight8-2009mar08,0,3172400.story
Dr Ron Paul on the DL Hughley Show, getting more applause than I've ever heard a Republican get from a democratic crowd! Ron discusses the economy, the bailouts, and the ills of big government.
Forget Rush Limbaugh, this is the voice of 21st century conservatism.
Get the low-down here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQBUQBIFkc
Let the evidence decide. If the police and other supporters of the status quo are confident they are right, they should welcome an inquiry as a chance to silence the critics.
Five people, including a church pastor, were shot inside the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, a police dispatcher told CNN on Sunday.
From:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/08/church.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad says he's resigning.
Check it:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/07/world/AP-ML-Palestinians-Fayyad-Resigns.html
Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty next week to charges that he carried out one of the biggest financial frauds in history, a person close to the case said Friday.
Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_bi_ge/madoff_scandal
Chief executives of leading banks from Japan, Europe and the United States will meet in London to discuss regulation of the financial sector, according to a report.
From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090307/bs_wl_afp/financeeconomyg20banking_20090307065745
In the conservative world, we have a tendency to dismiss unwelcome realities.
When one of us looks up and murmurs, "Hey, guys, there seems to be an avalanche heading our way," the others tend to shrug and say, he's a "squish" or a RINO"Republican in Name Only.
The full story is here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279?digg=1
An ex-UN prosecutor has said that following the issuance of an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, former US President George W.
Bush could -- and should -- be next on the International Criminal Court's list. -= W/ VIDEO =-
From:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ExUN_prosecutor_Bush_may_be_next_0307.html
The renegade clowns who ruined this economy, the Republican right in alliance with big business and some feckless Democrats, have no basis for waging war against efforts to get us out of their mess.
Check it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/opinion/07herbert.html
Jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed.
Check it:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/06/news/economy/jobs_february/index.htm
Seen by Democratic supporters as vital to stabilizing the crumbling U.S. real estate market, the so-called "cramdown" bill has been opposed by bankers, despite amendments made this week to limit its scope, including one restricting it to existing primary residence mortgages, not future loans.
Link source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52482F20090306
GM's problems are rippling to clean energy firms in which the stumbling auto giant is a stakeholder. Coskata, a much-touted biofuels company, is stalled. So, for the moment, is Compact Power, a U.S. maker of lithium-ion batteries.
The full story is here:
http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/03/06/gms-bad-news-clean-energy
"Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill," I find this extremely offensive about a man who has served this country for decades.
You guys picked a winner in that Rush fellow.
The full story is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/06/limbaugh-kennedy-will-be_n_172595.html
Jim Cramer is a crook.
Wall Street is full of crooks. The next time you see CNBC, keep that in mind. They are not reporting. They are trying to sell you something & , quite possibly, trying to manipulate the market. This rabbit hole involves the thugs surrounding Jim Cramer & some of the top financial "journalists" from the NY Times, WSJ, Fortune
From:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/5/16720/74815/703/705113
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that Italy had withdrawn its delegation from the negotiations ahead of the so-called Durban II conference due to "aggressive and anti-Semitic statements" in the draft of the event's final document.
Italy is the first EU country to officially withdraw from the conference, though other nations have threatened not
The full story is here:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236269355448&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Despite what Repub political operatives say, they know Limbaugh is bad for their party -- the smarter among them also must know he's dull, dangerous clown.
The full story is here:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/fears-of-a-clown/
Since California voters passed a ban on gay marriage, some supporters of the measure have found themselves squarely in the bull's-eye of angry gay rights activists.
Link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101460517&ft=1&f=1001
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the expropriation of a rice-processing plant in Venezuela owned by an American food giant because the company allegedly was not distributing rice at government-imposed prices.
Link source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29524732/
