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Weapons Grade Uranium Found In Scrap Metal That Is Being Used For Home Furnishings

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Health, World  /  2 Comments

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Bloomberg Going shopping? Don’t forget your wallet and credit card. Or Geiger counter. The discovery of radioactive tissue boxes at Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY) stores in January raised alarms among nuclear security officials and company executives over the growing global threat of contaminated scrap metal. While the U.S. home-furnishing retailer recalled the boutique boxes from [...]

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Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

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Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone via SOTT Here’s yet another form of hidden bailout the federal government doles out to our big banks, without the public having much of a clue. This is from the Wall Street Journal:     Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are lining up to become landlords to cash-strapped Americans [...]

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China issues order demanding lawyers to pledge allegiance to Communist Party

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

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Reuters China‘s Justice Ministry has ordered lawyers to take a loyalty oath to the Communist Party, in an unusual move that has drawn condemnation from attorneys worried about the government’s attempts to rein them in. The ministry issued a notice on Wednesday demanding that first-time applicants and lawyers who want to renew their licenses have [...]

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Bo Xilai Fired; The Great Firewall Of China Is Down?

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The Epoch Times Following the dismissal of Bo Xilai as the Party head of the giant central-western city of Chongqing, a clampdown has been taking place in mainland China: some officials are coming under investigation for corruption, Maoist websites are being shut down, and Maoist commentators are getting the sack. At the same time, a [...]

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The Pirate Bay to Fly ‘Server Drones’ to Avoid Law Enforcement

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Science & Technology, World  /  No Comments

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US News One of the world’s largest BitTorrent sites is going to put servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones in order to evade authorities who are looking to shut the site down The world’s largest and most resilient BitTorrent site plans to redefine “cloud computing” with a plan to move at least some of its servers [...]

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Fed earned $77 billion last year — second-highest figure ever

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Market Watch The Federal Reserve and its district banks said Tuesday it earned $77.4 billion last year, down from $81.7 billion in 2010 but the second-highest level in the central bank’s history. The bumper earnings allowed the Fed to distribute $75.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury, also the second-highest level ever. The earnings was derived [...]

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Coup in Beijing, Says Chinese Internet Rumor Mill

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  1 Comment

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The Epoch Times Over the night of March 19 and early morning of March 20, Bejing local time, a message about a large number of military police showing up in Beijing spread widely across microblogs in mainland China. UPDATE 2: Bo Xilai Placed Under House Arrest, Reports Suggest The key figures in the action are said [...]

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Pentagon war game forecasts U.S. would be pulled into a new war if Israel strikes Iran

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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Yahoo News A classified Pentagon war game this month forecast that an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would likely draw the United States into a wider regional war in which hundreds of American forces could be killed, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The war games’ results have “raised fears among top American planners that it [...]

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Russia Is Sending 20,000-25,000 Troops To Its Southern Regions: Report

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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Business Insider Multiple unconfirmed reports have suggested that Russia is sending between 20,000 and 25,000 federal troops to its southern region of Dagestan. The reports come from Moscow-based analyst group Caucasian Knot and Dagestan-based news group Chernovik, who cited local police officials and reports of a large convoy seen en-route. Official sources are confirming a smaller movement of troops. [...]

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If a President Has a Power to Assassinate You…

By   /  March 21, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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Michael S. Rozeff Lew Rockwell.com In this blog, I want to focus only on a few, not all, of its implications. If a president of the U.S. has a power to assassinate American citizens, then, logically, this means that he also has punitive powers that stop short of killing, since killing is for most of [...]

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The Royal Decrees…umm…Executive Orders…of Barack Obama

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By Daisy Luther Inalienably Yours Someone needs to take away Barack Obama’s pen. During his three year “reign”, he has signed 113 Executive Orders. What exactly is an Executive Order?  The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it for us: A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of [...]

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Of Statesmen, Bankers, and Long-tongued Liars

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W.R. McAfee, Sr. The PPJ Gazette London’s international bankers who own and control the Bank of England (BOE), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland—where the world’s central banks draw—as well as the rest of the world’s central banks, are rapidly consuming what few independent central banks remain. In 2000, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, [...]

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