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Through its various agencies and treaties, the United Nations seeks to undermine individual, as well as national sovereignty. |
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The financial events that have taken place in the U.S. and around the world over the last few months are, in many ways, no surprise. |
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It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realised. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic. |
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Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge. It sounds impossibly idealistic—but he is making progress |
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The Pentagon is pioneering micro technology for just about every device, from 10g video cameras to tiny atomic clocks on a chip |
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Reserve soldiers training for terror attacks, disasters on home soil |
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China will transform its military training based on mechanized warfare to that based on informationized warfare, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at a parliament session Thursday. |
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Russia is working to develop anti-satellite weapons to match efforts by other nations, a deputy defense minister was quoted as saying Thursday. |
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Raytheon announced Monday it has finished performance tests on an infrared missile-warning sensor capable of scanning an entire hemisphere from a single space-based telescope. |
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The private meeting is highly unusual because Mr Obama will not be on a State visi |
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About one in eight U.S. households, a record share, ended 2008 behind on their mortgage payments or in the foreclosure process as job losses intensified a housing crisis spawned by lax lending practices, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday |
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For those who argue that the rate of growth of economic activity is turning positive--that economies are contracting but at a slower rate than in the fourth quarter of 2008--the latest data don't confirm this relative optimism |
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European banks face a US dollar “funding gap” of almost $2 trillion as a result of aggressive expansion around the world and may have difficulties rolling over debts, according to a report by the Bank for International Settlements |
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Former Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams is currently undergoing formation in the order of the Knights of Malta, one of the Catholic Church’s oldest and most prestigious organizations, despite his record of supporting unlimited abortion and same-sex “marriage.” |
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The numerous failings fuelled speculation that the attack might have been, at least in part, an "inside job". In previous terror attacks in Pakistan, the perpetrators appeared to have considerable intelligence about their targets. Car bombers have struck at army and anti-terror police headquarters in the past two years without the slightest hindrance. |
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors receives daily reports on loans to banks and securities firms, the institution said in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Bloomberg News. |
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Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday. |
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Army chiefs are planning to use robots to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefield. The mechanical surgeons and nurses - controlled remotely by humans over a satellite link - would be able to administer anaesthetic and perform life-saving operations in a mobile 'Trauma Pod'. |
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Puerto Rico's governor says more than 30,000 public employees could soon lose their jobs. |
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NEW powers to secretly search homes and computers of people suspected of crimes ranging from murder to organised theft are wider than those now used against suspected terrorists.The new covert search warrants would give police up to three years to delay informing targets they had carried out a raid on their property. |
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As TV makers ready 3-D models, a company called Dynamic Digital Depth claims its automatic 2-D-to-3-D conversion algorithms could help replace conventional TVs. |
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IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings. |
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Italy's Red Cross yesterday began its biggest vaccination programme since the second world war to immunise thousands of gypsy children in 50 or so camps around Rome. The operation began at Casilino 900, which is believed to be one of the largest gypsy settlements in Europe. |
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A virtual reality helmet that recreates the sights, smells, sounds and even tastes of far-flung holiday destinations has been devised by British scientists. |
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Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide “legal” rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties. According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state. |
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Countrywide ex-president's new company seeks to make money from economic rescue. |
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A new operation appears to have been launched in the mass media mind control complex to make people believe that FEMA camps do not exist. |
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China is aggressively accelerating the pace of its manned space program by developing a 17,000 lb. man-tended military space laboratory planned for launch by late 2010. The mission will coincide with a halt in U.S. manned flight with phase-out of the shuttle. |
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Tokyo is preparing to deploy warships in the Sea of Japan with orders to shoot down any missile fired by North Korea that approaches Japanese waters or the mainland. |
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Following three months of investigation, California's secretary of state has released a report examining why a voting system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold Election Systems) lost about 200 ballots in Humboldt County during the November presidential election |
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A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe. |
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed to generate $5 billion in profit during the worst year in Wall Street history by trading over-the-counter fixed-income derivatives, two people with knowledge of the results said. |
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Erik Prince’s decision Monday to relinquish his role as chief executive officer underscored how hard the company now called Xe — pronounced like the letter “z” — is working to bury the Blackwater brand and move its focus further away from the security contracting that severely tarnished its reputation. |
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Under the program, the Fed will buy securities backed by different types of debt including credit card, auto, student and small business loans. The credit crunch -- the worst since the 1930s -- has made it much more difficult for people to obtain such financing , and those that do can be socked with high rates. |
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The memos provide a detailed glimpse into the thinking of Bush's Justice Department legal advisers. They embraced the view that President George W. Bush, acting alone, had the authority to override the other branches of government. |
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The Chinese government more than tripled its investments in the US stock market to $99.5bn (£70 bn) just months before the financial crisis, it has emerged. |
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Because digital video is cheap, Gates suggests putting cameras in classrooms to record regularly in all public schools |
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In an October 2001 memo released today, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may ignore the Bill of Rights in the process of doing so. |
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a newly-formed affiliation with the United States Power Squadrons (U.S. Power Squadrons) to support Citizen Corps, FEMA's grassroots effort to strengthen community preparedness through civic participation |
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Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have developed a "mega-laser" that may soon be used to probe the secrets of extrasolar planets. |
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SOCOM oversees the various special operations commands of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marines. It conducts both covert and overt missions, including unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance and psychological, direct action, counterterrorism and anti-narcotics operations. |
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Russia launched a carrier rocket on Saturday to send a military satellite into orbit, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. |
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Is the world ready to let private military and security contractors participate in U.N. peace operations? When I ask this, I'm not talking about Hollywood celebrities calling for the firm formerly known as Blackwater to work in Darfur. |
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European scientists are starting to identify tangible health concerns associated with the use of nanoparticles in consumer products. Academic health experts within the European Union's scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks have raised some serious problems in a new detailed paper |
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Leaders sign agreement for an Asean community within next six years, with EU-style agreement planned by 2015 |
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from the but-will-they-be-able-to-spot-political-corruption? dept |
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Steel and chemical factories, once the muscle of Ukraine’s economy, are dismissing thousands of workers. Cities have had days without heat or water because they cannot pay their bills, and Kiev’s subway service is being threatened. Lines are sprouting at banks, the currency is wilting and even a government default seems possible |
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. is in the position to provide more help to Mexico in the fight against drug cartels operating near the U.S. border. |
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Brown will meet Obama on Tuesday and address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Aides say he has both to demonstrate to a sceptical British public that he commands the respect of the president, and to persuade the American political establishment that global action is needed to rescue the US economy. |
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Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began. |
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Exploding pension fund shortfalls are blowing billion-dollar holes in the balance sheets of some of the Chicago area's biggest companies, forcing them to make huge contributions to retirement plans at a time when cash flow and credit are already under stress. |
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These show how the FBI traced the spores used in the attacks to a single flask at a US government lab, but they don't explain why the FBI made Ivins - who worked at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) - the chief suspect. |
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Mysterious Vaccine Court created in 1986 by the pharmaceutical industry, with the support of Congress, rules in favor of Bailey Banks against HHS. |
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The real estate market in Manhattan has become so unnerving to buyers that some are forfeiting six-figure deposits rather than close on deals they have made. |
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Brown says tougher regulation needed on global scale |
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A former member of an Israeli assassination squad has broken his silence for the first time. He spoke to Donald Macintyre |
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During the FIU New World Order Summit, a professor at the school named Dr. Mark B. Rosenberg raised the concern during a panel session about the possibility of a military coup taking place in the United States by the year 2012. This was not theorizing, he was simply citing a study that took place at the Army War College. |
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Gordon Brown has vowed to forge a “global new deal” with Barack Obama when he meets the new US president for talks in Washington this week. |
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Billionaire Warren Buffett said the economy will be “in shambles” for the rest of this year as financial firms take losses tied to reckless loans made during the housing boom. |
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We Are Change RI and Boston team up again to confront another NWO scumbag. This time John “it’s cool to torture children” Yoo is asked questions at Brown University. He dodges them with a catlike skill. |
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A variety of experts forecast continued doom and gloom for Russia’s economy, which has hit the skids since oil prices began plunging last year. |
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Will the economic and financial crisis degenerate into violent social explosions? Tomorrow, will there be civil war in Europe, the United States and Japan? That's the rather alarming conclusion that the experts of European think tank LEAP/Europe 2020 lay out in their latest bulletin dated mid-February. |
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The "mobile urban jails" will be used in targeted areas such as those rife with knife crime and anti-social behaviour or where there is no police station nearby. |
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And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb |
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Despite the problems of the ruble and the weak oil price in recent months for the Russian economy, the Russian Government is pursuing a very active foreign policy strategy. |
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The economy contracted at a staggering 6.2 percent pace at the end of 2008, the worst showing in a quarter-century, as consumers and businesses ratcheted back spending, plunging the country deeper into recession |
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Abuses began to pick up in December after Obama was elected, human rights lawyer Ahmed Ghappour told Reuters. He cited beatings, the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet paper and over-forcefeeding detainees who are on hunger strike |
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President Barack Obama says he has no intention of reimposing the doctrine, but Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., say they still need a guarantee the government would not establish new quotas or guidelines on programming. |
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Previous Ban Expired in 2004 During the Bush Administration |
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The president and his CIA chief seem to be reading Foreign Policy Magazine, which recently suggested that the incoming administration change the nature of the daily intelligence updates to the White House |
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Iran/Contra whistleblower Celerino “Cele” Castillo III was scheduled to report to prison on March 5, but the power of justice has intervened on his behalf. |
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Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police. |
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If you were thinking that the only things we have to be concerned about include wars, famines, and economic crashes, think again. |
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Senior Pentagon officials have had to promise they will keep the details of the US military budget secret as the Defense Department prepares to make tough cuts on weapons programs, a spokesman said on Wednesday. |
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he “absolutely” loves the idea of holding a constitutional convention to overhaul state government. |
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Reliance on drones technology is creating an unusual new generation of soldier, such as Private Joel Clark, a teenager who flunked out of high school but became one of the best drone pilots in the US navy |
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The Justice Department announced Wednesday that authorities had arrested more than 730 people across the country in a 21-month investigation targeting Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and its infiltration into U.S. cities. |
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Antidepressant drugs, already known to cause sexual side effects, may also suppress the basic human emotions of love and romance. |
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Leaders of the G20 developed and emerging countries should not backtrack on their agreement last year to fight protectionism when they meet in London in April, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday. |
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A former Estonian defence ministry official who sold Nato secrets to Russia has been sent to jail for 12 and a half years after a secret trial |
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The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholam Reza Aghazdeh said the plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr could come on line within the next few months after Russian announced construction had been completed |
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A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records. |
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