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Campaign Repeatedly Tapped Elite Donors
Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000
each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite
set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing
his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis
shows.
Secret
List of U.S. Military Bases to Replace Gitmo
The U.S. military has prepared a list of U.S. military bases that could
be used to house as many as 250 detainees currently being held at the
U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, military officials tell ABCNews.com.
Another
Great Depression
I don’t like to start any new year on a gloomy note. I am by nature
an optimist, but I am also a realist who readily faces facts. Right
now those facts are not very pretty and suggest to me that the world
has entered into another Great Depression. Here are some shockers about
the US economy that are worth pondering.
This
Year: Global Insolvency?
The forecasters at Leap2020 (who have been right in many of their predictions,
but wrong in large calls such as the timing of the collapse of the dollar)
are predicting that 2009 will be an unfolding year of worldwide insolvency.
Chrysalis
Nutritionist Stephen Heuer Arrested by Federal Marshalls in FDA Raid
Both the FTC and FDA are turning up the heat on nutrition-oriented companies
and websites, resorting to arrests at gunpoint to enforce “nutritional
illiteracy” across America by imprisoning those who accurately
describe the health benefits of nutritional products they sell.
Internal
investigation clears Pentagon of propaganda violations
An internal investigation has cleared the Pentagon of violating
a ban on domestic propaganda by using retired military officers
to comment positively about the war in Iraq in the US media.
Video
shows evidence of phosphorus bombs in Gaza Video showing injuries consistent with the use of
white phosphorus shells has been filmed inside hospitals treating
Palestinian wounded in Gaza City.
Mumbai
witness says she was taken to US, questioned Anita Uddaiya, the woman who saw the six terrorists involved
in the November 26 terror attacks arrive in the city, claims she
was taken to the US and questioned by investigating agencies there.
Is
Army covering up friendly fire deaths?
From World War II through Desert Storm, the percentage of American
combat deaths reported from friendly-fire during conflict has remained
remarkably consistent: 12-14 percent in World War II, 10-14 percent
in Vietnam, 13 percent in Granada, 12 percent in Desert Storm (the
invasion of Panama is the exception, at 6 percent).
War
and crowds complicate Obama inaugural security Barack Obama's inauguration as the first U.S. black
president will take place on Tuesday amid unprecedented security
aimed at protecting him as well as the record crowds expected to
attend.
