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set for ‘big bang’ financial clean-up
The Obama administration is gearing up for a “big bang”
announcement next week that will combine a bank clean-up with measures
to reduce home foreclosures and probably steps to kick-start credit
markets.
When
you watch these ads, the ads check you out
Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery
store and there’s a slim - but growing - chance the ad is watching
you too.
Peres
says Israel kills for ‘democracy’
Israeli President Shimon Peres says the war on Gaza was not “an
ugly story”, insisting that the global condemnation of Tel Aviv
is unjust.
Bush
officials authorized torture of US citizen, lawyers say
Attorneys for US citizen Jose Padilla — who was convicted of material
support for terrorist activities in 2007 — say that high-level
Bush Administration officials knew their client was being tortured during
the time he was held an enemy combatant in a South Carolina brig, because
of the command structure and that then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
employed in approving harsh interrogation tactics.
Survivalist:
Left of center now joining our ‘growing’ movement
Rawles, 48, is one of a rising number of “survivalists”
— Americans hunkering down for what they predict will be a nightmare
of economic failure, mass terrorism, pandemics and social chaos.
Plans
to Create ‘Bad Bank’ Are Running Into Problems The Obama administration may still announce
a plan next week to prop up ailing banks, but significant questions
remain about key measures of the plan, as well as where the funding
will come from, a source says.
Israel
hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’
Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan
Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known,
also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical
“Greater Israel.”
CO2,
Temperatures, and Ice Ages
It is generally accepted that CO2 is lagging temperature in Antarctic
graphs. To dig further into this subject therefore might seem a
waste of time. But the reality is, that these graphs are still widely
used as an argument for the global warming hypothesis. But can the
CO2-hypothesis be supported in any way using the data of Antarctic
ice cores?
Defense
Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
The Defense Department has established a "civilian expeditionary
workforce" that will see American civilians trained and equipped
to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.
Protester
Knocked Out Cold by Nightstick-Wielding Thug Cop
From the land of the free - a protester is knocked out cold by a
coward cop’s nightstick. The protester was obviously posing
no physical threat to the cop - who should go to jail for assault
with a deadly weapon.
