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Taliban attacks strike at the heart of occupation
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Israeli army crosses into Lebanon: "An intense Israeli build-up of forces during the past 24 hours has been observed along the eastern sectorof the Blue Line, with mobile and fixedpatrols," said NNA.
Fighting in Somalia displaces 63,000
01/19/10 09:54 PM, EST
In just the past 19 days, an estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia by fighting involving government forces and militias, combined with "general insecurity," the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday.
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China and eurozone fears hit risk appetite
Global Markets Overview: Monetary tightening in China and and worries about the eurozone periphery knock stocks and the euro, taking the shine off generally positive US earnings.
But Americans should be aware that when Iran becomes the next target, it will be a blow to the U.S. economic recovery.
US Debt Clock
| Buffett hits at Kraft’s ‘bad’ Cadbury deal |
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who is the largest shareholder in Kraft, criticised the US food group’s £11.6bn agreement to buy Cadbury as “a bad deal”.
Mr Buffett told CNBC, the US business television network, that he had “a lot of doubts” over the Cadbury purchase. He said he would have voted against the deal had Kraft sought shareholder approval. |
No, not just fluoride, which is bad enough - much of our drinking water, in the U.S., Canada and U.K. at least, is contaminated with Prozac and a "vast array" of other drugs.
We don't just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf.
Greece cancels order for swine flu Greece has canceled the remaining order for about 8 million batches of the vaccine against the deadly swine flu, local media said citing the government sources.
Greece has previously ordered over 11 mln batches to vaccinate its entire population, and has received 3.6 mln batches, worth 25 mln euro ($36 mln) from that order.
‘The state will pay only for vaccines which have been received so far’, local TV quoted Health Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou as saying on Monday.
It’s something the CDC won’t admit.
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Chavez: US uses earthquake to occupy Haiti: "There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that’s what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover," he warned.
By Stephen Lendman profiteers ready to capitalize on disaster; Pentagon blocking aid
By Joseph Zernik
Interest in the case management system of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arose following the jailing and hospitalization of two senior attorneys, who had filed complaints pertaining to allegations of corruption of judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Data surveys demonstrated that up to half of the entries included false and misleading data.
New Brunswick news
General Al-Zahrani grieves for his son, but at the end of a lengthy interview he paused and his thoughts turned elsewhere. ‘The truth is what matters’, he said. ‘They practiced every form of torture on my son and on many others as well. What was the result? What facts did they find? They found nothing. They learned nothing. They accomplished nothing’. Turkey: Israel is strategic ally with shared interests
By Barak Ravid, Jack Khoury and Amos Harel
January 18, 2010 - Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul on Sunday publicly put an end to a week-long row that threatened already tense ties between Israel and Turkey, saying his country would remain strategic allies with Israel for as long as necessary. "We are living in the same area, although we don't have common borders, we have the same interests," Gonul told reporters following a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak |
This image from the IPCC’s AR4 report was included with claims of Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035. That claim has now been disproven. The image also shows that glacial retreat was occuring long before the industrial age.(IPCC)
EXCERPT FROM CHRIS HEDGES’ NEW BOOK ‘EMPIRE OF ILLUSION’ AND WHY MILLIONS OF FANS GET THEIR DOSE OF ‘REAL LIFE’ FROM PRO–WRESTLING TV
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From Jason Miller: Bite Club protested KUMC’s primate torture and murder yesterday.
I just sent this email message and link to my blog post about our protest to the University of Kansas Medical Center officials (whose contact info is listed at the bottom of the Bite Club post--please contact them and tell them to stop torturing primates!)
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