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Missile Attacks On Pakistan To "Dramatically Increase": Report
A British newspaper says that officials in contact with the US State
Department have been briefed on plans to intensify military attacks
on Pakistan, despite strong objections to the policy from the Pakistani
government.
NKorea
orders military on combat alert
North Korea put its military on combat alert Monday as US and South
Korean forces started a major joint exercise which the communist nation
has branded as a prelude to invasion.
Yadlin:
‘Iran crossed nuclear tech threshold’
In a chilling indication that Iran’s arms program is advancing
steadily, Israel acknowledged for the first time that Teheran had mastered
the technology to make a nuclear bomb on the same day that the Iranians
announced they had successfully tested a new air-to-surface missile.
‘The
collapse of America is unavoidable’
America must work on starting a new economy and not restarting the old
one or it will resemble the former Soviet Union, says author and blogger
Dmitry Orlov.
NY
Times: Mileage Tax Would 'Track Where Motorists Have Been' A New York Times article about the different test studies being
conducted as a precursor to the introduction of a CO2 or mileage tax
admits that cars will contain tracking devices that will record where
motorists have been.
No
Political or Judicial Support for 2A
I fear there are a large number of gun owners and supporters of the
Second Amendment (2A) who believe there still remains in the Congress
some support (fear of not being reelected if they vote for gun control)
for 2A.
Web-savvy
Obama ‘rarely’ reads blogs, says they’re misleading
Although he owes his current job in part to the Internet’s unique
networking and communications tools – and his campaign’s
unprecedented ability to raise money online – President Obama
“rarely” reads blogs because he considers some of them misleading
and simplistic.
Dalai
Lama Says Last Year’s Riots Staged by CCP Police
As the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day approaches, Tibet’s
spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, warns that Tibetans are dissatisfied
with China’s rule and conflicts may erupt at any moment.
Bill
to “Ban” Organic Farming
The bill legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal
guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything
other than being food police for the federal dept.
Your
Hard-Earned Money is Being Shipped to France, Germany and China
In addition, your money is probably being given directly to sovereign
wealth funds (that is, the investment arms of foreign monarchies
and tyrannical governments such as Saudi Arabia), since they were
some of the biggest counterparties who bought credit default swaps
from AIG.
Pupils
think Auschwitz is a beer
Some schoolchildren believe Auschwitz is the name of a type of beer
or a religious festival, rather than the notorious concentration
camp.
Czech
leader joins meeting of climate change deniers
It is billed as the largest ever gathering of climate change deniers,
a convention that kicked off last night with a title suggesting
global warming is a thing of the past, and a guest list that includes
a hurricane forecaster, a retired astronaut and a sitting European
president.
Britain
‘nation of form fillers watched by quarter of world’s
CCTV cameras’
Britain has become a bureacratic and authoritarian state watched
over by a quarter of the world’s CCTV cameras, a study of
Labour’s decade in power claims.
Was Hamas the work of the Israeli Mossad?
While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible
relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive
and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception
of the Islamic movement.
