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The OLC "torture memos": thoughts from a dissenter
Tue, 04/21/2009 - 9:17am
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http://shadow.foreignpolicy
By Philip Zelikow
I first gained access to the OLC memos and learned details about CIA's program for high-value detainees shortly after the set of opinions were issued in May 2005. I did so as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's policy…
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WHO dismisses theory alleging lab origin of A/H1N1 flu virus
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-15 05:09:38 Print
GENEVA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday dismissed a theory raised by an Australian researcher that the A/H1N1 flu virus currently circulating around the world was created in a laboratory.
"In fact the evidence suggests that this is a naturally occurring virus, and not a laboratory-derived virus," Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO's acting…
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RSOE EDIS - Pandemic Monitoring System
Budapest, Hungary
2009-05-18 09:28:53 - USA
Event ID: USA-2009.05.18-170
Date & Time: 2009.05.18 09:28:01 [UTC]
Area: USA, State of Arkansas Little Rock
Status: Confirmed infection(s)
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A man who died in a Little Rock hospital this weekend could be Arkansas' first death from the H1N1 virus. The Pulaski County coroner say the victim was a 28-year-old man. The victim suffered from flu-like symptoms…
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that church leaders can keep their tax-exempt status and speak out on social issues.
The decision comes in response to a complaint against a group of Texas pastors, but churches can still not endorse or oppose political candidates.
Social and Political Issues from the Pulpit
Pastor Wally Sherbon strolls the campus of Regent University each Wednesday, repairing and meditating on his Sunday…
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Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence
Tom Jefferson, coordinator1
1 Cochrane Vaccines Field, Anguillara Sabazia, Roma 00061, Italy jefferson.tom@gmail.com
Each year enormous effort goes into producing influenza vaccines for that specific year and delivering them to appropriate sections of the population. Is this effort justified?
Viral infections of the respiratory tract impose a high burden on society. In the last half of the 20th…
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Friday, May 15,
A vote on President Barack Obama's controversial judicial nominee is set for next week.
CBN News learned Friday that the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote May 21 on the confirmation of District Judge David Hamilton.
Hearings for Hamilton's approval began last month, and has sparked a great debate surrounding his background.
The Indiana judge gained criticism from conservatives, who labeled him an "extreme liberal"…
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry's secession comment resonates near and far
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Harry Cabluck / Associated Press
GOP Gov. Rick Perry faces reelection in 2010. His biggest primary threat is moderate Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
He kicks off a national firestorm about Texas seceding, which, he clarifies, he's not in favor of. His real target: a potential primary challenge next year from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
By Mark Z. Barabak
May 18,…
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H.R.2346
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Reported in House)
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
National Security Council
salaries and expenses
For an additional amount for `Salaries and Expenses', $2,936,000, of which $800,000 shall remain available until expended and $2,136,000 shall remain…
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The city of Salerno has entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM) with the aim of creating a Smart City. Salerno is the third Italian city to create an Innovation Board with IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. Last month, IBM and the cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia announced similar initiatives.
Salerno is a modern city in southern Italy. The city's management is planning citizen-focused…
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Sy Hersh did claim Cheney ran “an executive assassination ring”
posted at 11:04 am on May 19, 2009 by Legal Insurrection
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By KEN THOMAS and PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writers Ken Thomas And Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writers – 9 mins ago
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama plans to propose the first-ever national emission limits for cars and trucks as well as average mileage requirements of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 — all costing consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle.
Obama's plan couples for the first time pollution reduction from vehicle tailpipes with increased efficiency…
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http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/18-May-2009/US-special-squad-killed-Benazir
NEW YORK (Online) - Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister…
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Group claims attorneys misused licenses in interrogation tactics memos
Complaints have been filed against: John Yoo, Judge Jay Bybee, and Stephen Bradbury who authored the torture memoranda. As well as attorneys who advised, counseled, consulted and supported those memoranda including Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, William Haynes II, Douglas Feith, Michael Mukasey, Timothy Flanigan, and David Addington. These detailed…
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Alternet
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports at 8:50 AM on April 20, 2009.
Harman was allegedly heard saying she'd 'waddle into' the AIPAC case in return for support for her bid to become chair of the Intelligence Committee.
This is a huge story:…
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Gun-grabber Rep. Carolyn McCarthy Introduces “No Fly, No Buy Act”
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
May 17, 2009
In 2007, then Democrat member of the United States House of Representatives, Rahm Emanuel, told the gathered at the annual Stand Up For a Safe America event sponsored by the Brady Center that if your name is on the terrorist no fly list you will not be allowed to own a gun.
May 15, 2007. Then Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) now Chief of Staff for Obama…
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