Five out of nine local staff from the UK embassy detained in Tehran have been released, Iranian officials say.
Iran's media earlier said local employees at the UK mission were held over their role in protests against June's disputed presidential election.
A federal judge sentenced Bernard L.
Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes extraordinarily evil.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30madoff.html
The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little.
It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
Rep.
Sally Kern's, famous for comparing gays and lesbians to terrorists, has proposed the "Proclamation for Morality" in which she blames the nation's current economic and other problems on gays, abortion, divorce, and all around lack of Christian faith. She also mentions Obama and blames him for promoting a gay agenda.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sally-kerns-proclamation-morality
On a 5-4 vote, the court ruled with the firefighters. One Hispanic and 19 white firefighters (the Ricci of Ricci vs.
DeStefano) say they were denied promotions after passing an exam. The city of New Haven (and Mayor John DeStefano) threw out the test results because no minorities scored high enough for a promotion.
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http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/New-Haven-Firefighters-Wait-for-Ruling.html
"In his most recent editorial, O'Reilly has exposed both his ignorance and his appreciation for officially-sanctioned speech.
It should come as no surprise that the top "personality" on the Fox Propaganda Network would harbor such notions given their reputation as the media mouthpiece for the Republican Party."
A town in Michigan has its own Little Mermaid, undoubtedly inspired by the famous statue in Copenhagen.
The sculptors heirs now want the Americans to pay up.
THOUSANDS RETURN TO THE STREETS IN TEHRAN The continuing liveblog of the Iranian Opposition
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/28/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_221946.html
Bars, pubs, and taverns of the world can hold as much history as any museum and present as much drama as any theater. Members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com) have come up with a list...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE55P0WX20090626?rpc=64
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) Bernard Madoff, mastermind behind the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever, on Monday faces the possibility of spending the rest of his natural life in prison.
Madoff is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Manhattan before Judge Denny Chin, who could sentence him to as many as 150 years in federal prison.
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/26/news/economy/madoff_sentence/index.htm
LIMBAUGH: "He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina.
He didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle and said "What the hell? The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/limbaugh-blames-sanfords_n_220993.html
Grassroots Organizations Are Blasting Congress For Voting On Bills Without Fully Reading Or Understanding Them
Source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/24/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5110850.shtml
Britain's banks remain over-indebted, highly vulnerable and harbour growing funding gaps which leave them susceptible to future shocks, the Bank of England has said.
Studies consistently show that by margins of 60% or more, women tend to be the ones who pay the family bills and balance the checkbook.
Give your finances the same TLC you give to the rest of your family.
Source:
http://kiplinger.com/features/archives/2009/05/money-tips-for-moms.html
Saaed Mortazavi, an Iranian prosecutor who was responsible for ordering over 100 newspapers closed and dozens of bloggers and journalists arrested, tortured and in some cases, killed, has been empowered to interrogate Irans opposition leaders, according to published reports.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/25/iran-empowers-butcher-to-interrogate-opposition-leaders/
ne staff member at the National Library of Scotland has provoked a political row after he was ticked off by employers for decorating his desk with several Scottish flags. The result was an e-mail to all staff warning that such nationalistic displays could "intimidate non-Scottish colleagues".
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/39No-saltires-please--they.5394201.jp
To help you follow all the major Republican sex scandals of the past few years.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/06/sex_scandal_flow_chart.php
The U.S. economy shrank slightly less in early 2009 than previously thought, the government reported on Thursday, though there was widespread weakness in activity and demand was soft. Gross domestic...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55N2KV20090625?rpc=64
Want to run an ad during the Simpsons? It will cost you more online than it will on broadcast TV.
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/167344/the_simpsons_worth_more_on_hulu_than_fox.html
Nico Pitney's LiveBlog of the Iranian election 25th June 2009
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/iran-uprising-live-bloggi_n_220598.html
The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission final report is grim reading, especially the finding that prisoners report more rape committed by guards than by other prisoners.
Source:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/25/guards-are-the-worst.html
This is beyond belief! The world must stand up against such brutality! Women of Iran: remove your head scarfs in silent peaceful protest! Men of Iran: Refuse to work! Hold your girlfriends hands in peaceful protest!
(Reuters) - Two U.S.
Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Housing/idUSTRE55L39120090622?rpc=64
NKorea threatens US; world anticipates missile
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear_91
A severe U.S. recession will bottom out this year, but any recovery will be weak due to anemic markets and shrunken consumer wealth, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Wednesday. ''In this...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55N1IX20090624?rpc=64
I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout.
Email me with any news or thoughts. Send me instant messages at nico.pitney@gmail.com or njpitney on AIM. Scroll down for news related to the front-page headlines. Local Iran time is 8 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/iran-election-live-bloggi_n_220128.html
The Weeds-like drug ring bust was almost blown after an internal leak, and a prominent Chinese restaurant owner -- his food beloved by President Bush -- was implicated.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mullahs rule supreme.
They are the country's conservative clerics; the guardians of the Islamic revolution and its ideologies. They're loyal only to God and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.protest.faces/index.html
Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) now has 242 co-sponsors, and the numbers keep growing! At the same time, HR 1207's companion bill in the Senate, S 604 ...
I adhere to the foreign policy of our Founders, who advised that we not interfere in the internal affairs of countries overseas.
I believe that is the best policy for the United States, for our national security and for our prosperity. I urge my colleagues to reject this and all similar meddling resolutions.
A 30-year jail sentence to a former interior minister accused of tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill before they were slaughtered..................................
An Iranian couple is trying to learn why their son was fatally shot in the head in Tehran.
He wasn't politically active and hadn't taken part in the turmoil that has rocked Iran for over a week.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571865270639351.html
Iranian state television today reported that the country's top electoral authority has ruled out annulling the results of the disputed 12 June election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was named the winner.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/23/iran-guardian-council-results
Two Metro subway trains collided between stations north of downtown Washington, D.C., during afternoon rush hour Monday, killing at least two people, a Metro representative said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/22/washington.subway.crash/index.html
The relatives want to rebury the warrior, who died in 1909, near his birthplace in New Mexico but the justice department has asked a federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit.
A controversial law in Massachusetts could go national if Congressman Barney Frank gets his way.
Source:
http://wbztv.com/local/marijuana.federal.penalty.2.1052437.html
The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html
Neda Agha Soltan was an Iranian woman whose alleged killing by Basij militia during the 2009 Iranian election protests was captured on video by bystanders.
The graphic videos were posted on the Internet, and her name quickly becoming a rallying cry for the pro-reform demonstration. Neda means "voice" in Persian.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neda_(Iranian_protester)
A substitute gym teacher turned into a schoolyard bully after he got into a fight with an 11-year-old Westchester student over a dodgeball game, called him a "crybaby," and put him in a chokehold, New Rochelle police said.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06172009/news/regionalnews/school_bully__aged_58_174609.htm
The 4,000-square-meter (yard) cavern, buried 10 meters beneath the desert near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho, was dug about 2,000 years ago and was in use for about half a millennium, archaeologist Adam Zertal said.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/ts_nm/us_palestinians_israel_archaeology
The tyrants are on the run from the people, keep the truth coming, the world know and Iranians know we as a people are behind them.
HUGE new expose of the Scientology cult by the St.
Petersburg Times! High-ranking defectors (Rathbun, Rinder, others) tell all about the cult's insane, violent leader David Miscavige.
Source:
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009/reports/project/
Incredible proof of Iran's illegitimate government.
Source:
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/28782/eyewitness-from-tehrans-streets
GRAPHIC Two perspectives of a woman gunned down during protests in Iran.
This is 2 video combined, Originals were http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmi-LePl894 & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlehNLfk90c WATCH SOON THESE ARE BEING BLOCKED & REMOVED to keep it quiet.
MPs were accused yesterday of a massive cover-up of their expenses after the Commons authorities released hundreds of thousands of claims documents and receipts with huge sections of detail blacked out.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/mps-expenses-censorship-black-out
Live-blogging the Iran uprising -- latest news, video, and pictures from Saturday.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/_215189.html
David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world/asia/21taliban.html
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remained defiant today in the face of vote-rigging allegations as he condemned the protests that have rocked the country since last week's disputed elections.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/19/iran-elections-ayatollah-ali-khamenei
Do the big global banks need to be cut down to size? That question has been hovering, half-stated, over the financial system ever since Bear Stearns blew up.
Source:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72bf1538-5c35-11de-aea3-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Donors who earn much less and want to see their contributions put the best possible use often think so, but there is ample reason and data to believe otherwise.
An interesting analysis from Slate.
Conservative and Republican National Committee attacks on ABC for refusing their ads to respond to next week's planned ABC-White House healthcare special are being met with a stiff push back from the network which says it doesn't accept the type of ads Obama opponents want to air.
"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr.
Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."
Source:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/17/health/main4527996.shtml
The latest news, videos, pictures, and tweets, streaming in real time.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/_n_215189.html
After law enforcement recently pressured Craigslist to be more vigilant in keeping prostitutes from advertising on the site, CEO Jim Buckmaster turned the tables: He began accusing alt-weekly newspapers of unfairly benefiting from Craiglist's misfortunes.
Good list of Andy's reviews, well worth a look...
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http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/author.cgi?C=122094
-- He was appointed with fanfare as the public watchdog over the government's multi-billion dollar bailout of the nation's financial system.
But now Neil Barofsky is embroiled in a dispute with the Obama administration that delayed one recent inquiry and sparked questions about his ability to freely investigate.
Source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-tc-nw-inspectors-0617-0618jun18,0,5718990.story
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
Source:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090618/D98T1AR00.html
The following map shows averages by state, so you can see how you stack up to the rest of the country.
Source:
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/average-credit-scores-by-state/
The plan would give the government new powers to seize key companies whose failure jeopardizes the financial system, as well as creation of a watchdog agency to look out for consumers' interests.
The Obama administration this week will propose the most significant new regulation of the financial industry since the Great Depression, including a new
Source:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-financial-regs16-2009jun16,0,4262249.story
Talk about a recession double whammy.
It's bad enough that you've been working harder with less prospect of getting a raise. Now it feels as if you can't even afford to get sick.
One week after declaring that the United States cannot afford the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq financially or spiritually, Ohios Democratic Rep.
Dennis Kucinich, a staunch anti-war crusader, took aim at Congress for not taking a more active role in any of the war on terror fronts.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/16/kucinich-another-106-billion-and-all-we-get-is-a-lousy-war-2/
Health officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult-sex movies had contracted HIV since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect employees in California's multibillion-dollar pornography industry.
Source:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2009334074_porn13.html
The latest news, photos, videos, and tweets on the election unrest in Iran.
Seven people were killed after they reportedly attacked a military post in central Tehran.
Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi had told followers that he will "pay any cost" to contest the country's presidential election results, but said he had little hope his challenge would succeed.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/16/iran.elections.protests/index.html
The retirement plans of many Americans went out the window in the past year due to the economic downturn, a new survey finds.
A lot of folks now are looking at Plan B, and Plan B means working more and working later in life. It's not unlike what our great-great grandparents planned for, back before the concept of retirement came into vogue.
Source:
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090615-ds-retirement-plans.html
The Federal Reserve, already arguably the most powerful agency in the U.S. government, will get sweeping new authority to regulate any company whose failure could endanger the U.S. economy and markets under the Obama administration's regulatory overhaul plan.
In a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, former Halliburton unit KBR complained that it will be at a competitive disadvantage to win large-scale international contracts because it is being forced to comply with U.S. laws.
Here are some helpful hints for businesses interested in earning some extra cash by going green.
Source:
http://kiplinger.com/businessresource/summary/archive/2009/greentips_money.html
The savage Mexican drug war.
Crumbling state budgets. The election of a president who said, "Yes " I inhaled." These developments are kindling unprecedented optimism among the many Americans who want marijuana legalized. Doing so could weaken cartels profiting from U.S. pot sales, save billions in enforcement costs, and generate billions in taxes.
Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_7aIzdypWz2A-dtVHeJ8VZ7vLFAD98R92S80
Allegations of vote-tampering and electoral fraud began in Iran even before voting had finished.
What is the evidence that the poll may have been rigged?
Source:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1904645_1904644,00.html
Amazing video of Iranians rioting in the streets after the election. Don't miss this!
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http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/06/iran-on-fire.php
I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have been all about.
Lots of splotchy boys who can't get a date are given guns and told they're special.
The president of Iran's own election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid and called for a do-over.
Source:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/followup-on-earlier-posts.html
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixons start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
Weve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs, Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle told me.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html
Mock not.
As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.
Source:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/the-revolution-will-be-twittered-1.html
Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird population. After dropping poison onto...
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE55D0GG20090614?rpc=64
60 years after Orwell wrote 1984 and was destroyed by the book, a chilling reminder that his sinister vision is almost reality
Students at a UK grammar school used bricks to spell out a certain word for a certain bit of male anatomy on the school's roof.
Then it was spotted by satellite, in a Google Earth image.
Source:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/etc/090612-curse-word-roof-spotted-from-space.html
Brazilian and French crews begin to locate debris and bodies from the Air France Airbus tragedy
Source:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1903392,00.html
Rep.
Barney Frank, the powerful House Democrat from Massachusetts, introduced a bill Thursday to allow states to make their own medical marijuana laws free of federal interference.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/frank-pushing-bill-to-leg_n_215077.html
According to the Daily Kos, Iran's opposition leader has been placed under house arrest as rioting is becoming out of control.
She politely disputes the contention that she had not lived up to her contract, but declines to speculate on why she lost her crown.
More to the point, she will not back down, and is looking in only one direction: ahead.
Source:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cprejean/2009/06/11/official-statement-by-miss-carrie-prejean/
Andy Bland answers the burning questions about this product - is it as scam? Is it worth buying? Find out inside...
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http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1683939
Charles Arthur in the guardian tech blog further criticises the claims file sharing is costing 12bn/year.
Proposes another reason the music industry is losing money.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy
Andy Bland dives into Forex System Affiliate and answers the questions that matter - is it a scam? Is it worth buying? Find out inside...
Source:
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1683929
After months of activism and lobbying by Congressman Ron Pauls supporters, House Resolution 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, will move out of committee to be debated by the full House of Representatives.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/11/us-house-to-debate-ron-pauls-audit-the-fed-bill/
MEXICO CITY " In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents in one of Mexicos biggest cities " a stark display of the tensions caused by a crackdown on drug corruption among the countrys lawmen.
Millions of people in Iran are getting ready to vote in elections to decide whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should stay in power.
Ahmadinejad's blunt antisemitism and Holocaust denial have become one of the issues in this presidential race and might cost him dearly in the election.
U.S. foreclosure activity for May ebbed from April's record, but mortgages still failed at a staggering pace as President Barack Obama's rescue programs had not had time to fully take root, RealtyTrac said on...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55A0NS20090611
Fox News host Sheppard Smith has provoked a bit of a civil war over the Holocaust Museum shooting today by saying that the Homeland Security report about right wing extremists was a warning and that it was right.
He said the right went bonkers over the report, and then Ralph Peters went on Neil Cavuto's show to attack Smith for defending the report
Johanna Ganthaler and her husband Kurt were on holiday in Brazil and were supposed to take Air France flight 447 back to Paris but they decided to take another flight.
The two pensioners had barely managed to digest the terrible tragedy they had managed to avoid when they involved in a car accident which killed Johanna.
Beyond the sniping between Democrats and Republicans about how the government racked up so much debt, there is enough blame to go around.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/business/economy/10leonhardt.html
Pablo Picasso's grandson on Wednesday voiced confidence that a sketchbook of 33 drawings stolen from a Paris museum would be recovered thanks to the Internet and expert police work.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090610/en_afp/entertainmentartfrancecrimepicassolead
At least two people are said to have been wounded Wednesday afternoon when a gunman opened fire at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Police said a person walked into the museum armed with a rifle, and shot a security guard.
U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies according to the Justice Department.
The Federal Reserve's balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional audit, Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, told CNBC.
Democrats appeared in jeopardy of losing their majority in the State Senate on Monday in what would be a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for a party that has controlled the chamber for barely five months.
Source:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/revolt-could-imperil-democratic-control-of-senate/
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An al Qaeda suspect accused in the 1998 U.S.
Embassy bombings in Africa was transferred from Guantanamo Bay Tuesday for prosecution in a New York court, the Justice Department said. Ahmed Ghailani will become the first...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5581MS20090609?rpc=64
The congressional panel investigating what happened to all that bank bailout money has issued a subpoena to the Federal Reserve, asking them to hand over all documents relating to the takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank of America...
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http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/house-committee-subpeonas-federal-reserve/
New York Senate majority changes hands as two Democrats switch parties.
Gov. David Patterson blindsided by the move.
Source:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/revolt-could-imperil-democratic-control-of-senate/?hp
As used in this chapter...(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that - (A)involve acts dangerous to human life
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http://open.salon.com/blog/rob_st_amant/2009/06/01/how_seriously_do_we_take_domestic_terrorism
President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul, as House Democrats discuss a plan to require health insurance for most Americans.
Source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aj5HHIKfogR8&refer=worldwide
Kathleen Wells of The Huffington Post interviews 2008 presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) on the subject of foreign policy.
Dr. Paul discusses how even though the administration has changed, the policies haven't.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-wells/congressman-ron-paul-talk_b_212520.html
In its first report to Congress, the Wartime Contracting Commission presents a bleak assessment of how tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001.
The 111-page report documents poor management, weak oversight, and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.
The Kansas City man charged with assassinating abortion doctor George Tiller in his church a week ago warned Sunday that more violence is coming. "I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal," Scott Roeder said in one of two phone calls to the Associated Press from prison.
By Allan Dowd WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian municipal leaders threatened to retaliate against the ''Buy America'' movement in the United States on Saturday, warning trade restrictions will hurt both countries' economies. The...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE5551NE20090606?rpc=64
GINGRICH: I am not a citizen of the world.
I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator. [...] I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history. We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/06/gingrich-paganism/
The U.S.
Federal Reserve is on track to hire a veteran lobbyist to help manage its relations with Congress at a time of heightened attention to its role in national affairs, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The Fed plans to hire Linda Robertson, who previously worked for now-defunct energy company Enron, as well as the Clinton
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE55460K20090605
"The kid refused to listen," Chief Burton said. "The officer took him by the arm and said, 'You have to go to the office.' The student resisted, pushed the officer.
The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun."
WASHINGTON " Employers throttled back on layoffs in May and cut the fewest jobs in any month since the financial crisis erupted last fall " raising the brightest hope yet that an economic recovery will take hold later this year.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_bi_ge/us_economy
Yet again, blowhard Bill O'Reilly is caught lying.
He wrongly accuses CNN of not reporting about the shooting of two Army recruiters in Little Rock/ Rick Sanchez call him out for his lies and shows that the record proves otherwise.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/05/rick-sanchez-rips-bill-or_n_211971.html
The Obama Administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline to 15% from 10%.
Apparently no one in the Administration has read a pair of new studies, one from its own EPA, that expose ethanol as a bad deal for consumers with little environmental benefit.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389966385274413.html
Claim's Obama said we are a Muslim Nation.
Source:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/4/738674/-Sean-Hannitys-complete-break-with-reality
Thanks to a video captured by a cell phone, a California judge ruled Thursday that enough evidence exists to hold over former transit police officer Johannes Mehserle on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man at an Oakland, California, transit station on New Year's Day.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/04/bart.transit.officer.murder.charge/index.html
The federal government has severed the Internet connection of a company accused of helping criminals serve up a "witches' brew" of nasty content online, from computer viruses to child pornography.
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http://money.aol.com/article/ftc-shuts-allegedly-rogue-internet/515318?cid=5
US President Barack Obama made a major gesture of conciliation to Iran on Thursday when he admitted US involvement in the 1953 coup which overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh...
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Obama_admits_US_involvement_in_Iran_06042009.html
Former Justice Department Attorney John Yoo suggested in no uncertain terms that Bush administration officials sought to legalize torture and that he and his former boss, Jay Bybee, fixed the law around the Bush administrations policy.
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http://pubrecord.org/torture/658-yoo-admits-he-fixed-law-around-bushs-torture-policy.html
OSLO (Reuters Life!) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on Wednesday that billionaires ought to give away most of their wealth to charitable causes, and they would even find they enjoyed it. Gates has given much of his wealth from Microsoft, the...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE55253F20090603?rpc=64
Today the SEC is accusing Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo of fraud.
The writing is on the wall in this LAT story. As the mortgage industry went into a nose dive in late 2006-2007, Mozilo cashed out about $140 million in stock options, becoming one of the highest-paid executives in the country"through aggressive divestment of his own company's stock!
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http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/09/business/fi-countrywide9
As reported in the Hartford Courant, Hal Turner has been arrested for asking his audience to kill two elected officials and an official from a regulatory agency. Finally, someone is treating the advocates for domestic terrorism the right way.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/3/738617/-Hal-Turner-Arrested!
Questions pertaining to marijuana law reform are among the most popular public policy issues, as voted on by the public, in a new White House online poll.
Most digital cable and direct broadcast satellite systems offer interactive program guides.
Even DirecTV, which is owned by News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, offers the ability to create a customized version of the program guide that includes only the channels you care about. It's not quite as user-friendly as Dish Network, but...
Barack Obama was greeted with an elaborate welcoming ceremony and given an ornate gold necklace by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on his first visit to the country.
The journalist and author, Russ Baker, says he had a taped interview of Bushs onetime biographer in which he says Bush told him he intended to invade Iraq as early as 1999, during his presidential campaign.
The interview with former Bush ghostwriter Mickey Herskowitz took place before the 2004 election.
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http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/03/journalist-bush-iraq-1999/
From Salon's "Ask the Pilot:" Lightning and turbulence.
Did one or a combination of these things cause the crash of Air France Flight 447 over the South Atlantic on Sunday evening? The evidence, scant as it is, suggests it might have.
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http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2009/06/02/askthepilot322/
The 2009 Global Peace Index has just been released, put it together by assessing 23 criteria, including foreign wars, internal conflicts, respect for human rights, the number of murders, the number of people in jail, the arms trade, and degrees of democracy. Secular nations score the highest.
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http://bhascience.blogspot.com/2009/06/atheist-nations-are-more-peaceful.html
Of course this law only applies to law abiding citizens.
Criminals will keep their weapons.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awIn1M4tWxi8&refer=us
Known as the Prince of Pot, Emery has sold millions of marijuana seeds around the world by mail over the past decade. "He's a drug trafficker, plain and simple," said the DEA's Rodney Benson in 2006. "Marc Emery is a significant threat to the United States."
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i4JOyK2cvOGaIGLssoUpOWHmF2IQD98HL4QO0
Colbert the character, a right-wing blowhard on a one-man mission to reeducate the ignorant, is convincing enough that a recent Ohio State University study found that a majority of conservatives polled believed Colbert the man was one of them.
The irony couldn't please him more. "I'm thrilled by it!" he says.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-en-colbert1-2009jun01,0,4191016.story?track=rss
Hyok Kang, who escaped from his oppressive homeland in 1998, provides a unique and harrowing insight into Kim Jong-il's dictatorship, which can build nuclear weapons - but not feed its people
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5412850/North-Korea-the-dead-land.html
It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites...
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http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/china-blocks-twitter-and-almost-everything-else/
The youngest of Kim Jong Il's three known sons is also the most like him in personality and viciousness.
He is now also the heir apparent.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901758,00.html?iid=digg_share
The most recent restrictions for medical Cannabis producers struck down were virtually identical to ones that were found to be previously unconstitutional by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The rules "create an alliance between the government and the black market," to supply medicine for Canadians. "It is time for the vicious cycle to end."
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1650107
We all know that O'Reily is a clown.
But this article raises questions about how much he may be responsible.
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/31/tiller/index.html
An Air France passenger jet with 215 people on board is missing after dropping off the radar over the Atlantic near the Brazilian coast on Monday, a Paris airport official said.
Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama.
But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01/cheney-offers-his-support_n_209869.html
The spectre of 1 a litre petrol is returning to haunt hard-pressed motorists at UK forecourts.
Yes, the Republicans went there. Would the RNC slam them if they had stayed sequestered? Probably. Since that would mean they weren't helping the economy.
Firefighters say 11 people lived in the home: seven adults and four children.
Very little is left to salvage. And this is only the beginning of the family's problems.Firefighters tried to save two young boys who hid in a bathtub to escape the flames, but they just couldn't do it. Mario Angel Cisneros, 5, and David Alexander Cisneros, 4, later died.
Treatment centres say that biker gangs and criminal groups recruit retarded people and use them as henchmen in serious crime.
