By NAOMI R. PATTON
freep.com STAFF WRITER
A Taylor lawyer says he thinks authorities are seeking to discredit his account that an older, well-dressed Indian man helped terror defendant Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Flight 253 from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit without a passport.
Kurt Haskell said Thursday that two FBI investigators who questioned him Tuesday morning asked the same basic questions they asked passengers just after the flight ended. He said he…
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On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels.
They include full transcripts of extraordinarily frank classified interviews in which British Army commanders vent their frustration and anger with ministers and Whitehall…
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Are illegal aliens getting you down? Do you hate them?
The American mantra institutions push market deregulation that transforms foreign economies for the benefit of U.S. businesses. Post-NAFTA Mexicans are now importing U.S. grown corn for their tortillas, as millions of formally subsidized peasant farmers leave the land to seek minimum wage work in the cities of the United States and the slum cities of Mexico. Los Angeles has become the center for the new American sweatshops, as…
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January 1 will usher in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East.
Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on Afghanistan, American combat operations abroad have not ceased for a year, a month, a week or a day in the 21st century.
The Afghan war, the U.S.'s first air and ground conflict in Asia since the disastrous wars in Vietnam and Cambodia in the…
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Botched blast opens up Yemen for AMERICAN WAR
by Ameen Izzadeen
Behind the revelry that welcomed 2010, the reality seems to belie the hopes of billions of people who wished each other a happy and prosperous new year. The reality is that 2010 may not be much different from 2009 which began with much hope but ended in deep disappointment. The disappointments were largely because US President Barack Obama failed to deliver…
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon…
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What Do Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Djibouti, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mali, the Philippines, Romania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Poland, Phillipines, Pakistan, Romania, Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao, Honduras, Columbia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, the Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kosovo, Guam and the Arctic Circle Have In Common?
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Harry Reviews the year and wishes Everybody a Happy New Year and Offers Some Words Of Encouragement For 2010. all news discussed can be found in the archives at
http://harrythomas.info…
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Judge Dismisses Charges in Blackwater Shooting
31 Dec 2009 3:49 P.M. ET
A federal judge dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday that the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it wasn't allowed to see. He said the government's…
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updated 4:57 p.m. PT, Wed., Dec . 30, 2009
WASHINGTON - If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive.
In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing…
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December 14, 2009
By Troy Anderson
Los Angeles Daily News
While the possibility of a nuclear attack in Los Angeles seems almost unthinkable, local officials are inventorying hundreds of old bomb and fallout shelters as part of their preparations for a "radiological or nuclear event."
Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas are drafting emergency plans while…
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by F. William Engdahl
The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the inquiry. The step is a long-overdue move to public transparency of a “Golden Triangle” of drug corruption between WHO, the pharma industry…
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I posted an editorial several days ago titled "Why?" and here's the answer.
No presidential statement or White House press briefing was held on it. In fact, all that can be found about it on the official White House Web site is the Dec. 17 announcement and one-paragraph text of President Obama’s Executive Order 12425, with this innocuous headline: “Amending Executive Order 12425 Designating Interpol as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges,…
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Protesters took to the streets in Afghanistan, burning an effigy of the US president and shouting “death to Obama” to slam civilian deaths during Western military attacks.
Hundreds of university students blocked main roads in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangahar province, to protest the alleged deaths of 10 civilians, mostly school children, in a Western military offensive on Saturday.…
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