US drone attack claims 80 lives in Pakistan
By ROHAN SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:02 PM EDT
Pakistani police officers escort detained aides of Pakistani Taliban leader...
More World News[x] Can Italian premier survive latest scandal?Iran police swiftly crush protestUS drone attack claims 80 lives in PakistanBomb strikes Shiite market in Baghdad, killing 69Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1More World NewsISLAMABAD (AP)… Continue
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- China Petrochemical Corp. agreed to buy Addax Petroleum Corp. for C$8.3 billion ($7.3 billion) in the nation’s biggest overseas takeover, gaining oil reserves in Iraq’s Kurdistan and West… Continue
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its eagerly anticipated decision in Nordyke v. King yesterday, holding that the 2nd Amendment protects the individual right to keep and bear arms against violation by state and local governments. (Last year's… Continue
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Billionaire Stanford indicted on fraud charges
Financier due in court; CNBC: Five arrested over alleged $8 billion scam
BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com news services
updated 16 minutes ago
DALLAS - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, was indicted on fraud and obstruction charges Friday. He is set to appear in federal court later in the day on fraud charges after surrendering to FBI agents in Virginia the day… Continue
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Ariz. home invasion suspects tied to border group
By BOB CHRISTIE
Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.…
GENETIC MODIFICATION Swine Flu Created in Lab as Bio-Weapon? According to a UN scientist, the swine flu virus, Ebola and HIV viruses were created artificially as military biological weapons.
Official: Obama wants shareholder say on exec pay
By JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Writer The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:58 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — "An Obama administration official says it will appoint a "special master" to oversee executives' compensation at U.S. companies receiving large amounts of government aid, with the power to reject pay plans deemed excessive."
Soon YOU will be assigned a "Special Master" to oversee your every… Continue
La Grande man vividly recalls attack on U.S.S. Liberty
June 08, 2009 03:34 pm
Bob Schnell of La Grande was one of 254 men aboard the U.S.S. Liberty when it was attacked by Israel 42 years ago today. The Observer/DICK MASONBob Schnell was wounded but did not have time to feel pain.
Forty-two years ago this afternoon Schnell was… Continue
Arsonist Killer Gets Death for 5 Firefighter Murders
Sometimes the system works!! I worked with Mark Loutzenhiser on several fire assignments over the years he was a great guy with a family as were his crew mates I am sure.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames.…
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle--be Thou near them! With them --in spirit--we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns… Continue
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) does not have the fall-back option of running as an independent should he lose his 2010 primary election, giving the senior lawmaker strong incentive to abandon his party this year.
Specter faces an extremely difficult primary race… Continue
(CNN) - A former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush is slamming the decision by an Obama White House official to use lower Manhattan as the location for a low-flying presidential plane… Continue
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Dr. Katherine Albrecht to Head US Media Relations for Ixquick.com
Noted privacy expert will help raise awareness for privacy-friendly search engine.
The world's most privacy-friendly search engine, Ixquick.com, announced today that Dr. Katherine Albrecht will head up the company's US media relations and marketing outreach efforts.
Dr. Albrecht is a respected expert in the privacy arena, with a decade of experience as a privacy researcher, activist, and frequent… Continue
The Most Liberal Court in the land finally says something that makes sense (Sorta)
Excerpts of the 9th Circuit ruling follow:
To summarize, our task is to determine whether the right to keep and bear arms ranks as fundamental, meaning "necessary to an Anglo-American regime of ordered liberty." Duncan, 391 U.S. at 149 n.14 (emphasis added). If it does, then the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates it. This… Continue
Big money
goes around the world
Big money underground
Big money got a mighty voice
Big money make no sound
Big money pull a million strings
Big money hold the prize
Big money weave a mighty web
Big money draw the flies
Sometimes pushing people around
Sometimes pulling out the rug
Sometimes pushing all the buttons
Sometimes pulling out the plug
Its the power and the glory
Its a war in… Continue
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DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...