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Updated:
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Passes Bill With “Global Bailout” Provision The House has passed a war funding bill which had tagged onto
it a completely unrelated provision to hand over $5 billion to secure
$108 billion in loans to the IMF.
Obama
blocks list of visitors to White House
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors
to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that
a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence
policy decisions.
Government
Readies Schools As Mass Vaccination Clinics
The government is telling schools across the country to prepare to be
used as clinics for mass vaccination programs set to be instituted later
this year, according to an Associated Press report.
Rutgers
Professor Warns Geoengineering Could "Create Disasters," Global
Famine
Debate surrounding the possibility of geoengineering the earth's climate
by lining the atmosphere with aerosol particles has moved from idle
speculation to serious consideration, and was a core topic of discussion
at a recent National Academy of Sciences workshop.
ACLU
lawyer: On torture, Obama breaking transparency promises
The Obama administration, as evidenced by the court-ordered release
of CIA documents on Monday, is breaking campaign promises for increased
transparency, ACLU attorney Ben Wizner said Monday night. Instead, he
analogized, Obama is merely continuing Bush-era secrecy surrounding
the prior administration’s torture program.
No
More Murderous Rip-Offs
Statement on Conference Report of HR 2346, FY 2009 War Supplemental
Appropriations.
‘US
planted Taliban in Pakistan’ The US has interfered in Afghanistan since 1960s and increased
its role in 1980s after the former Soviet Union invaded the country
in 1979, a Pakistani journalist says.
CBS
Editorial Urges Internet Providers Remove “Hate Speech” James von Brunn, the accused Holocaust museum shooter, has
predictably become the poster child for attacking the First Amendment
and conducting a purge of free speech on the internet.
Time
for ‘new world order’: Brazilian President
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between
nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.
China
sells US bonds to ’show concern’
A decision by China to reduce its US Treasury holdings suggests
concern about the US attitude towards its economic woes, Chinese
economists were quoted as saying in state media Wednesday.
BRICs
May Buy Each Other’s Bonds in Shift From Dollar Brazil, Russia, India and China are considering buying each
other’s bonds and swapping currencies to lessen dependence
on the U.S. dollar as their leaders meet for a summit in Russia’s
Ural Mountains.
How
Different are the U.S. and Iran?
The West is rightly horrified by the scenes of police violence against
protesters in Iran. But how different is America?
Brazil
finds new strain of H1N1 virus
Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus
after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute
said Tuesday.
Ed
Schultz: Dick Cheney ‘will do anything’ for power
CIA director Leon Panetta stirred up controversy last week when
he was quoted in an interview as saying that former Vice President
Dick Cheney, in his criticism of the Obama administration, almost
seems to be “wishing that this country would be attacked again,
in order to make his point.”
