U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control – United Nations – FOXNews.com
By George Russell Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a “global...
DNA Deception
by Emily Ramshaw When state health officials were sued last year for storing infant blood samples without parental consent, they said it was for medical research into birth defects, childhood cancer and environmental toxins. They never said they were turning over hundreds of dried blood samples to the federal government to help...
Scahill: Blackwater used shell company to defraud US government | Raw Story
By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer Blackwater set up a shell company to “defraud the government” by leading it to believe it wasn’t contracting with the notorious security contractor, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill says. “In Afghanistan, they set up this shell company, Paravant, in collaboration...
Lobbying run amok: Eight health care lobbyists for every member of Congress
President Obama met with 22 high-ranking lawmakers on Thursday to discuss health care reform and how to accomplish it. But if newly released information about lobbying in 2009 is any indication, the private sector and its interests may already be secured. For every member of Congress, there were eight lobbyists working to influence...
Al Gore Is Lying Low — for Good Reason
By Rex McBride Maybe Al Gore’s been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he’s not defending it in public, not even when it’s falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it. Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of...
Woman, 61, arrested for asking ‘why’
By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1:06 p.m. Thursday, February 18, 2010 Four women, two of them well into middle age, were discussing funeral plans for a friend when an Atlanta police officer told them to move. Three did but one asked “why.” In answer to her question, Minnie Carey, then 61, was handcuffed,...
EU officials call for international conference to discuss Palestinian state
Paris, France, February 23, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his call for the creation of a “viable” Palestinian state but has not ruled out the possibility the international community could recognise a new state before its borders were set. Speaking after a meeting with...
Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time
By Casey Johnston We’d like to think of ourselves as dynamic, unpredictable individuals, but according to new research, that’s not the case at all. In a study published in last week’s Science, researchers looked at customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers moved...
VA to reconsider benefits for ill Gulf War vets
WASHINGTON – The Veterans Affairs Department says it will look again at the rejected claims of veterans who say their Gulf War service caused a mysterious illness, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said the decision is part of a “fresh,...
Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers
By Tony Romm The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack. The...
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that...
Justice Department Reveals More Missing E-Mail Files
By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — Large batches of e-mail records from the Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation techniques are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try to trace the disappearance. At a Senate...
Reid Bullish on Climate Bill
By Kate Sheppard Does John Kerry have good reason to be so optimistic about a climate bill? The Washington Post reports that he’s getting strong signals that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a bill ASAP, indicating that senators might be closer to a deal on climate and energy than many people around Washington have...
How Obama Screwed Volcker
by Charlie Gasparino Barack Obama owes Paul Volcker a lot, but he apparently owes the fat cats on Wall Street even more. That’s the only reasonable conclusion that can be made from the president’s timely and, in some ways, bizarre about-face on the former Fed chairman’s plans to reform the financial industry and prevent...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Warns Congress That The Federal Reserve Will Not “Print Money” To Pay For The Exploding U.S. National Debt
On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress that the Federal Reserve does not plan to “print money” to help Congress finance the exploding U.S. national debt. In fact, Bernanke told Congress that the U.S. could soon face a debt crisis as bad as the one in Greece if the U.S. government...
Fannie Taps Treasury for $15.3 Billion More After a 10th Loss
By Dawn Kopecki Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Fannie Mae will seek $15.3 billion in U.S. aid, bringing the total owed under a government lifeline to $76.2 billion, after its 10th consecutive quarterly loss. The mortgage-finance company posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $16.3 billion, or $2.87 a share, Washington-based Fannie...
23,000 now expected to lose jobs after shuttle retirement
BY RICK NEALE VIERA — The local economic forecast tied to President Barack Obama’s proposed NASA budget keeps growing bleaker. Revised projections now show that about 23,000 workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will lose their jobs because of the shuttles’ retirement and the new proposal to cancel the development...
Scientist eyes 39-day voyage to Mars
A journey from Earth to Mars could soon take just 39 days, cutting current travel time nearly six times, a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency NASA has said. Former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says reaching the Red Planet could be dramatically quicker...
Israel approves 600 new Jerusalem settlement homes
Israel has given the green light for 600 new homes in a Jewish settlement in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, the Haaretz daily reported on Friday. The development in the Pisgat Zeev neighbourhood, which has been planned for some years, was approved with modifications by the interior ministry’s Jerusalem district urban planning...
Israelis rush to join Mossad after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh killing
Would you be prepared to cross-dress? And kill a guest in an adjacent hotel room? If the answer to these questions is a resounding “yes”, and you can also act, enjoy luxury international travel with a twist and can carry off a convincing Irish or Australian accent, then the job could be yours. The Israeli spy agency Mossad...
