Senate and House lawmakers are putting the brakes on the health care reform bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for the first time Thursday said that the Senate will not vote on the legislation until after the August recess. He told reporters it's more important to get it right than to ram through an incomplete bill.
The decision means Congress will not meet President Obama's ambitious deadline for legislation… Continue
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NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) - Three New Jersey mayors and several rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal investigation into political corruption that also uncovered human kidney sales and money laundering from Brooklyn to Israel, authorities said.
Among the 44 people arrested were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, who took office 23 days ago.
Cammarano, at 31 the city's youngest mayor, was… Continue
In a small town in the East African nation of Burundi, a group of people live in fear of being savagely murdered at any moment. They are always on guard night and day maintaining shifts of who keeps watch.
These people are not criminals on the run but victims of mother nature.
They are among a dwindling number of Albinos who have been in hiding since early 2009 when more than a dozen of them were slaughtered for their… Continue
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On April 26, a national public health emergency was declared by officials in the U.S. Departments of Health and Homeland Security. 1,2 We were told it was necessary to declare a national emergency because people were getting sick from a new swine flu virus that began in Mexico and might cause a deadly influenza pandemic.
So far, the vast majority of people who get sick with swine flu have symptoms that are no worse than the regular flu and recover completely.… Continue
Remember when they called it “swine flu”? The first pandemic flu in 41 years was quickly renamed “H1N1” in its early days after the pig industry, in damage-control mode, proclaimed loudly that people couldn’t get sick from eating pork. And they said that it looked like the flu was spreading worldwide from person to person—not from pigs to people.
More than two months after the initial outbreak, it’s still not clear how the flu started. The most accepted… Continue
Austrian journalist Jane Bürgermeister, who recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several… Continue
President Obama's "science czar," John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have… Continue
Rev. Ted Pike
National Prayer Network
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
In order to preserve the federal hate bill from Presidential veto, this morning the Senate passed the McCain-Levin amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 58 to 40. This satisfied President Obama’s demand that 7 to 12 F-22 Raptor fighters be excluded.
The President has repeatedly warned that if Congress sends him a DOD bill… Continue
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Russian and Chinese military forces are taking part in a five-day joint exercise, one of the biggest of its kind.
The “Peace Mission 2009” drill was officially started on Wednesday in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk by Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolay Makarov and his Chinese counterpart Chen Bingde.
About 3,000 army and air forces personnel, 300 armored vehicles and 45 aircraft will take part in the maneuvers at the Taonan military… Continue
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Swine flu hits young aboriginal residents hard, expert says
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CBC NewsAboriginal communities have been harder hit by swine flu than others,… Continue
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This is only going to be up here for a week or so, I thought Penn and Teller did a great job showing how ridiculous the 2012 Armageddon is. If you have Showtime and I'm guessing most people do now a days you might have seen it already and this is just "time shifting" for you. Ok I think the lawyers will leave me alone if the copyright blood hounds smell this.
History Channel Ancient Aliens 2009 HD 720p
Make sure to hit the HD button on the video to watch it in full quality. I don't know if this is going to get pulled so watch it now if your going to watch it.…
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