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Monday, February 8th
NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement NEW!
As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.
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Recession chugs on, except in government NEW!
White House apologists were quick to point to the unemployment rate decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent as evidence that the recovery is gathering momentum and that President Obama's policies -- especially his $787 billion economic stimulus bill Congress approved last February -- are "working." But the back story behind the figures provides cold comfort.
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Residents Fumed Over Weekend Alcohol, Firearm Ban NEW!
Residents in King were fumed over the weekend after a state of emergency declaration restricted the sale of alcohol and the carrying of firearms in vehicles.
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Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West: Khamenei NEW!
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
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Sunday, February 7th
EDITORIAL: Obama's outrageous bank tax
The Obama administration has some pretty lame justifications for more taxes. Take its continued push for new taxes on banks. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday that the tax should be passed because it will help recoup the "outrageous" bonuses for AIG employees.
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Prominent Grapevine pastor linked to luxury
DALLAS — Not long ago, the Fellowship Church in Grapevine was one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the nation. Its pastor, Ed Young, was making national headlines by encouraging married couples to have more sex.
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Saturday, February 6th
NASA, Google Deal: Corporate Fascism at its Finest
The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks — the guys that are more skilled at network warfare than just about anyone on the planet. So, in a sense, it’s only natural that Google would turn to the NSA after the company was hit by an ultrasophisticated hack attack. After all, the military has basically done the same thing, putting the NSA in charge of its new “Cyber Command.” The Department of Homeland Security is leaning heavily on the NSA to secure .gov networks.
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All bases required to offer morning-after pill
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon for the first time will require military bases worldwide to offer emergency contraception or the so-called morning-after pill, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Dr. Jeffrey Long’s Near-Death Experience Research a “Game Changer” for Science
Science has studied the near-death experience for more than 20 years. Most research has concluded NDEs are real and unexplainable, but scientists have been slow to accept consciousness beyond death. A new scientific study by Jeffrey Long, M. D. may change that. The research compiled in his new book, Evidence of the Afterlife, represents the largest, most comprehensive study of near-death experience and according to the study's author is, "a real game-changer".
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Nuclear missile threats to U.S. mount
North Korea is expected to deploy a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching parts of the United States in the next decade, despite two long-range missile flight-test failures, according to the Pentagon's ballistic-missile defense review.
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Pink Ouija Board Targeting Young Girls Riles Critics
A pink version of the popular Ouija board game has some critics seeing red. The children's sleepover staple — sold by Hasbro since 1967 — now comes in hot pink, an edition released two years ago that gets tweens to call on "spirits" to spell out answers to life's pressing questions. It's designed for young girls ages 8 and older, but some say the mysterious product is a "dangerous spiritual game" that opens up anyone, particularly Christians, to attacks on their soul.
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Planned Parenthood President Lands Spot on Ford Foundation Board
NEW YORK, February 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Ford Foundation has announced that Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will join its board of trustees when they reconvene in May.
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Congress OKs $1.9 trillion boost in debt limit
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The House on Thursday approved a record $1.9 trillion increase in the cap on how much the government can borrow.
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Hedge fund manager Sprott sees gold at US$1,500
Eric Sprott, whose Sprott Hedge Fund increased more than fivefold in nine years, said gold may rise to US$1,500 an ounce this year and US$2,000 within two years as the U.S. government takes measures to counter the credit crunch.
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China threatens world health by unleashing waves of superbugs
China's reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according to leading scientists.
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Syria: We're ready for peace or war
Issuing fierce criticism of apparent threats from Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a Tishreen editorial said, "The path to destruction could lead to the moment that Israel will comply with its leaders, who have villainy flowing through their veins."
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Iran nuclear issue the 'top global security threat'
MUNICH, Germany (AFP) – Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme poses the greatest threat to international security, US National Security Advisor James Jones warned on Saturday.
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Friday, February 5th
Tea Party Fireworks: Speaker Rips McCain, Obama, 'Cult of Multiculturalism'
Ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo Suggests 'Civics, Literacy Test' Would Have Foiled Obama's Election; High-Priced National 'Tea Party' Convention Stirs Debate Among Factions
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Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans
PRINCETON, NJ -- More than one-third of Americans (36%) have a positive image of "socialism," while 58% have a negative image. Views differ by party and ideology, with a majority of Democrats and liberals saying they have a positive view of socialism, compared to a minority of Republicans and conservatives.
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Thursday, February 4th
Egyptian sources: Israel prepares to strike Iran from Gulf and N. Iraq
Arab voices were fanning Middle East war fever Wednesday night, Feb. 3. debkafile's military sources report that not only are Syrian leaders beating war drums - Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem said in Damascus: "Israelis, do not test the power of Syria since you know the war will move into your cities" - but Egyptian military sources have put out information purporting to outline Israel's preparations to strike Iran.
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Theologian: Most Christians Infected with Prosperity Gospel
Most professing Christians in America are infected with at least some measure of the health and wealth gospel, said one theologian.
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Pennsylvania State Capital Mulls Bankruptcy as a Budget Option
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases and asset sales as options to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year, the chairwoman of a City Council committee said last night.
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Tight times put gravel on the road
High costs and tight budgets have prompted communities in Maine, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Vermont to convert or consider converting their cracked asphalt roads back to gravel to cut maintenance costs, officials in those states say.
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Forget Polls, Here’s Tangible Proof the Obama Honeymoon is Over
One sign that Washington, D.C., had been home to Obama Mania was the number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise. Every street corner, it seemed, had Obama wares (or Obama wear) for sale. Now, however, most of the winter caps for sale are not emblazoned with the Obama logo. T-shirts depicting our president as a dunking Michael Jordan, a victorious Muhammad Ali, or saber-baring Luke Skywalker (yes, these shirts all existed) are nowhere to be found.
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Justice Defends Ruling on Finance
In expansive remarks at a law school in Florida, Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday vigorously defended the Supreme Court’s recent campaign finance decision.
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White House Prepares for Possibility of 2 Supreme Court Vacancies
Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring.
Associate justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are seen during a Supreme Court group...
Associate justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are seen during a Supreme Court group photograph, Sept. 2009 in Washington. Court watchers believe either or both could decide to step aside and give President Obama his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court.
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health. That would give the president his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court.
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Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many
This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric.
More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.
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Mortgage lenders pursue homeowners even after foreclosure
Former homeowners may still be on the hook if there's a difference between what they owed on their mortgage and what the bank could sell it for at auction. And these "deficiency judgments" are ticking time bombs that can explode years after borrowers lose their homes.
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The Subtle Nationalization of the Banks and Housing Market – How the Taxpayers Support the Banks through Pseudo Nationalization. We Own the Financial
I was amazed at how many people got all worked up when the idea of nationalizing the banks came up. These people fail to pay attention to the fact that we’ve already nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and these two giants essentially hold up the entire edifice of the secondary mortgage market. But no one in their right mind is buying those risky mortgage backed securities anymore right? Well we have a program for that too with the Federal Reserve nearing its stated buying cap of $1.25 trillion in mortgage backed securities. In other words, we’ve already nationalized the mortgage market except unlike nationalization, we get the worst junk pushed to taxpayers while the banks enjoy record profits and nothing really fundamentally changes.
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Is US bullying Toyota on recall?
CHICAGO — The US transportation chief's public rebukes of Toyota's handling of a massive safety recall have raised eyebrows, given the US government's major stake in rivals General Motors and Chrysler.
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Obama administration steps up pressure on Toyota
The Obama administration stepped up the pressure on Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday to address a range of safety issues as investors and consumers reacted to the deepening crisis for the world's largest automaker.
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The war on Toyota
Toyota's experience looks like it could become even worse than Audi's, mainly because bashing Toyota serves the national economic interest of the United States, U.S. auto makers, union leaders and others whose economic ideas tend toward nationalism. U.S. jobs for U.S. workers employed by U.S. companies.
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Colonel tells cadets 'lack of respect' for pagan site will not be tolerated
A top official at the Air Force Academy warned cadets Wednesday that religious discrimination “will not be tolerated” — an admonishment that came nearly three weeks after an airman reported that someone left a large wooden cross at the site of a pagan worship area.
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Cross found at academy pagan worship site
An Air Force Academy staffer who helped build a worship area for pagans and other Earth-centered religions says he and others are the victims of a hate crime because someone placed a wooden cross at their site.
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Wednesday, February 3rd
Army-sponsored report suggests new 'police force'
A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal government create a rapid deployment "Stabilization Police Force" that would be tasked with "shaping an environment before a conflict" and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency
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What is Obama’s Real Education Agenda?
In the aftermath of Obama’s controversial speech to America’s school children, it is a good time to take a look at the agenda his regime has planned for America’s public schools and let me assure you, it’s an agenda that all Americans should be concerned about.
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Top uniformed officer: Gay ban should be lifted
WASHINGTON (AP) - The military's top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."
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Federal Watchdog: TARP Program Opens Way for Deeper Economic Meltdown
Neil Barofsky, the man tasked with overseeing the administration of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), told Congress in a report released Sunday that the bank bailouts have cleared the path to another financial crisis -- potentially even more grave than the 2008 crisis.
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It’s Official: Obama’s Spending Today Dwarfs FDR’s Depression-Era Spending
In his budget message to Congress released Monday, President Barack Obama repeatedly compared the economic situation he “inherited” to the Great Depression of the 1930s when Franklin Roosevelt was president. But the new budget data released by his own Office of Management and Budget reveals that in one way Obama is making the current era distinctly different from the Great Depression: He is spending vastly more money than Roosevelt did.
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