HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act. This bill prohibits regulations promulgated from regulatory agencies from going into effect unless passed into law by Congress in the way in which the Constitution designates. Under Article I of the Constitution, the Congress of the United States, our elected representatives, are the ones given the exclusive power to make laws. In violation of the non-delegation doctrine, about 90% of all law created by the…
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Exercise to simulate flu pandemic
By Mike Wynn
August 3, 2009
It will start with a few scattered cases. But as people shake hands or cough without covering their mouths, it could spread to thousands of victims within a matter of days.
Businesses may have to close, Clark Regional Medical Center could become overrun, and grocery stores might run short on supplies.
That’s the scenario public…
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A third man has died of pneumonic plague in north-western China where a town of more than 10,000 people has been sealed off, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8183335.stm
The 64-year-old man was a neighbour of the first two people to die from the plague in Ziketan in Qinghai Province.
Police have set up checkpoints around Ziketan, as medics are…
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Added by Tara on August 4, 2009 at 11:15am —
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A poster depicting President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger's "Joker" character from "The Dark Knight" has sparked controversy after it appeared on the streets of Los Angeles.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 6:37PM BST 04 Aug 2009
The poster shows the US president with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick above the caption "socialism", in an apparent attack on the US president's efforts to reform health care and stimulus…
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Added by Tara on August 4, 2009 at 6:24pm —
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Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
By Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were…
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Added by leilei on August 4, 2009 at 9:48pm —
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BoingBoing Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 2, 2009
James Grimmelman sez:
"The Associated Press -- which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles -- doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain.
I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they…
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Added by Marklar on August 5, 2009 at 2:31am —
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Added by Farida Magdalena Gillot on August 5, 2009 at 6:00am —
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By Charlie Sorrel from
wired news
As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes.
£400 million ($668 million) will be spent on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of…
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Added by Fred Black on August 5, 2009 at 6:08am —
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By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
A juxtaposition of several simultaneous events this week indicates just how difficult it is going to be to achieve any meaningful progress in Arab-Israeli peace talks, when the heart of the conflict is land that Israelis and Palestinians both claim as their ancestral patrimony. The four events are the American drive to secure confidence-building measures from the Arabs in return for Israel’s freezing of its…
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Added by Tara on August 5, 2009 at 9:22am —
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Two Russian nuclear attack submarines have been patrolling off the eastern coast of the United States in a rare move that has alarmed the Pentagon.
One of the two submarines has remained in international waters just 200 miles (320 kilometers) off the coast of New York City, while the second sub left and moved south to make a port call in Cuba, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The US government and the military have so far refused to comment on the…
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Added by Tara on August 5, 2009 at 9:42am —
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One way I’ve come to visualize the Occupation is to imagine the indigenous Onondaga Nation in Onondaga County (NY), a Nation that white settlers long ago reduced to a fraction of its former territory. But to make the situations more comparable, suppose a 25-foot wall separated the Onondagas from the surrounding white-controlled county. Imagine that the Onondagas risked being shot from sniper…
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12160.org NEEDS YOU !!
Please Donate to 12160.org if you can! For the Expansion of the Network.
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Added by truth on August 5, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Solving Problems~Resolving Self
Day after day, year after year, the same problems exist. Centuries of existence are behind us – the problems of the past are the problems of the present. Mankind looks to ideals such as “World Peace” and sets out to create it. Lot’s of people write about it, talk about it, most people want it. But we don’t have it. We’ve had periods of peace at different times in different places that lasted, as long as they lasted, until things dissolved…
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FEMA Announces Creation Of "Children's Working Group"The working group will allow FEMA and its partners to explore and implement planning and response strategies specific to children
throughout the agency and ensure that during a disaster the unique
needs of children are not only considered, but fully integrated into
how FEMA administers this support to states and the…
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Added by truth on August 5, 2009 at 2:06pm —
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hi my name is nina , i am singer for peace , truth and Love , and Jesus ofcourse ,
i am on tour singing and talking peace...i don't spend much time on the computer because we R in the studio rehearcing for the tour and working on the new album , please check out my info and our tourdates @ my webites www.ninahagen.com , www.myspace.com/whymeohlord , www.apocalypse-no.net and my blog : http://ninahagen.beeplog.de
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Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on August 1, 2009 at 4:53pm —
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By Susan Heavey, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Wednesday ordered Pfizer Inc and GlaxoSmithKline PLC to add strong "black box" warnings on their anti-smoking drugs to highlight the risk of serious mental health problems, including suicidal thoughts.
The warnings, which must be added to Pfizer's Chantix and Glaxo's Zyban, follow more than five thousand reports of depression, hostility and other behavioral changes, the Food and Drug…
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Added by Tara on August 1, 2009 at 11:59am —
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