Entries for February 2010
rumormillnews.com | On Feb. 16, Joe Biden more or less "predicted" a terror attack. While alluding to "Al-Qaeda," he added it would be a lone "disgrunted" person with ties to the U.S. The next day, Feb. 17, CBS aired the interview on "The Early Show." The following day, Feb. 18th, was the Aust...
TimesOnline | A model of the US Embassy in Battersea, complete with moat 30m wide and rolling parkland
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NewYorkTimes | February 23, 2010After weathering the nation’s worst run of bank failures in nearly two decades, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced Tuesday that it had added 450 institutions to its list of challenged lenders in 2009 and warned that the industry was likely ...
RussiaToday | Official flight logs released Monday confirm Poland hosted aircraft linked to a CIA program for secretly moving and holding terrorism suspects. It adds to the allegations that the country could have hosted a CIA prison.
The data from a government-run agency was made public after pro...
UKTelegraph | US credit rating at risk "There are ongoing spats between the US and China on so many fronts so you have to assume that this is some sort of implicit threat," said Neil Mellor, a currency expert at the Bank of New York Mellon, who cautioned that it can be hard to read the complex signa...
, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Washington needs "a range of options" to counter the growing nuclear ambitions of Iran, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said U.S. defense planners needed a variety of options to contain Iran, but emphasized the use of diplomatic ...
Presstv | While most people go into a hospital hoping to get well, the new study showed that American hospitals can kill even relatively healthy patients.
Some 99,000 infection-associated deaths are reported each year, half of which can be linked directly to hospital care.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of "problem" U.S. banks jumped 27 percent during the fourth quarter of 2009 to 702, the highest level since 1993 and a sign the industry's recovery is still shaky, regulators reported on Tuesday.
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RussiaToday | President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday convened a meeting on climate change to address ways that Russia can reduce its gas emissions by 25% by the year 2020.
Opening his meeting, Medvedev admitted that the Copenhagen Summit in December was a “failure,...
Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely differen...
DUBAI (Reuters) - New evidence incriminating Israel's spy agency in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai includes credit card payments and phone calls made by suspects, an Arabic-language daily reported on Saturday.
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Washington'sBlog | Believe it or not, the Nazis’ murder of Jews, communists and gypsies using gas chambers was actually an American idea.
As the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in 2003:
the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was cr...
onenewsnow.com | The leader of a Messianic Jewish ministry is pleased that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently proclaimed the fulfillment of the prophecy in Ezekiel, Chapter 37.
Speaking on the recent 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in P...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) believed it had saved over $100 million by convincing U.S. regulators to end a 2007 investigation of sudden acceleration complaints with a relatively cheap floormat recall, according to an internal company document.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch coalition government collapsed on Saturday after the two largest parties disagreed over whether to withdraw the 2,000 Dutch troops from Afghanistan as planned this year.
noonehastodietomorrow.com | Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of America’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.
Rollingstone | Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash
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AOLNews | (Feb. 18) -- The minister in charge of domestic law enforcement and passports in Britain is used to close scrutiny. But the government figured ...