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Science Advisor Repeats “Geoengineering” Talking Point
One of President Obama’s top science advisors spoke again of the
need to consider “geoengineering” the planet in the name
of preventing global warming at a speech at MIT yesterday, despite publicly
reversing his initial support of such measures last week.
US
troops may stay longer in Mosul: commander
US troops could stay in violence-wracked northern Mosul beyond a June
30 deadline for withdrawing from Iraqi cities if Baghdad asks them to,
a US brigade commander said Tuesday.
US
retail sales see surprise fall
Sales at US retailers fell in March after two months of rises, indicating
that rising unemployment has reduced consumer spending.
9/11
Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11
The senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission - John Farmer - says that
the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11, echoing the
assertions of fellow 9/11 Commission members who concluded that the
Pentagon were engaged in deliberate deception about their response to
the attack.
Somali
pirates take 22 crewmen hostage
Somali pirates on Tuesday took 22 crewmen from the Philippines hostage
when they hijacked a Greek cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, Greece’s
merchant marine ministry said.
Report:
Bush officials to be indicted for sanctioning torture
Scott Horton from The Daily Beast reports that Spanish prosecutors will
seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking
Bush administration officials for the sanctioning of torture at Guantánamo
Bay, with the public announcement expected on Tuesday in Madrid.
Government,
Big Pharma Push Bill to Drug America’s Mothers
It’s called the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act and if
passed it will turn countless women into lifelong customers for
Big Pharma. It was killed in the Senate last year but it was reintroduced
in January of this year. Democrat Senator Robert Menendez from New
Jersey, home to a large number of drug companies, and Democrat Richard
Durbin are the main sponsors of the bill in the Senate (S. 1375).
Council
spends £60,000 snooping through bins on early morning raids
A council sends snooping officials to rifle through the rubbish
of taxpayers at a cost of £60,000 a year. ‘Bin police’
have been going through wheelie bins in ‘dawn raids’
in a bid to establish what type of rubbish was being thrown away.
China
Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds
Reversing its role as the world’s fastest-growing buyer of
United States Treasuries and other foreign bonds, the Chinese government
actually sold bonds heavily in January and February before resuming
purchases in March, according to data released during the weekend
by China’s central bank.
Cybersecurity
Act would give president power to ’shut down’ Internet
A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the
federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared
emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private
network administration. Forget
Star Wars. It’s Back To Colonial Warfare
There are a lot of unhappy campers at the Pentagon right now. US
Defense Secretary Robert Gates chose last week to present a controversial
new budget that will affect the course of US foreign and military
policy for decades to come.
The
Rush Towards Socialism – and How To Stop It
It only took the Obama administration a couple of weeks to prove
that the national leadership of the Democratic Party is guided by
totalitarian-minded socialists who seek to create an omnipotent
government.
