telegraph.co.uk | The People's Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country's severe problems. Unemployment has now hit 20 per cent and the economy contracted by 18 per cent last year.   The People's Party quit after its...

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NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- New York police said they are trying to figure out why officers have visited an elderly couple's home more than 50 times seeking suspects they had never met. Walter Martin, 83, and his wife, Rose, 82, said police have knocked on their door up to 75 times since 2002 and e...

LONDON, March 19 (UPI) -- Researchers in Britain and Germany say they've created a tiny cloak of invisibility that could someday rival the one worn by fictional wizard Harry Potter. "This is very exciting, because mankind has always thought about being invisible or having invisibility cloaks," lead...

americanthinker.com | What we're seeing in Washington, D.C. is not "politics as usual" with the arm twisting and "horse-trading" that is typical in getting a bill passed; instead, it is ideological warfare. What Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are doing is not legislating; it is an act of tyranny -- overtur...

dailymail.co.uk | Householders could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to comply with complex new rules on refuse sorting. Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings could be banned from landfill sites under government plans to be unveiled today. Families could end up with five different bins a...

rawstory.com | Germany's finance minister says his goverment is considering sending spies to London and New York to monitor the activities of currency speculators. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the German Parliament on Tuesday that he may have to send spies to the world's two most import...

www.roguegovernment.com | Smart electric grids are championed by the federal government, conservation groups and industry as good for the economy and the environment. The digital meters in homes enable measurement and two-way communication with utilities so consumers can trim electricity use. ...

telegraph.co.uk | It is the first time that the number of foreign intelligence gathering officers employed by MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service, has been published. The figure was disclosed yesterday in the annual report of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. ...

alternet.org | It was less than one year ago when acting U.S. DEA administrator Michelle Leonhart publicly declared that the escalating violence on the U.S./Mexico border should be viewed as a sign of the “success” of America’s drug war strategies. “Our view is that the violence we have been seeing...

thehill.com | House Ways and Means Republicans on Thursday assailed a provision in the proposed health care reform bill under consideration this week.  Subcommittee on Oversight ranking member Charles Boustany (R-La.) said the IRS provision in the bill "dangerously expands, in an ominous way t...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) - A union is condemning an effigy of President Barack Obama that was hung upside down by a teacher at a failing Rhode Island high school where he and all his colleagues were fired. The teachers' union said Thursday that the unidentified teacher has verbally apologized to h...

religiondispatches.org | Last month, Virginia lawmaker Mark Cole, a Fredericksburg Republican, sponsored a bill in the House of Delegates to prohibit the involuntary implantation of microchips into human beings. “My understanding—I’m not a theologian—but there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck said Friday that U.S. regulators cleared its vaccine Gardasil to prevent genital warts in boys, a new use for a product already approved to prevent cervical cancer in women. The Whitehouse Station, N.J.-based company said the Food and Drug Administration approved G...

theeconomiccollapse.com | Up until now, the United States has operated under a "fractional reserve" banking system.  Banks have always been required to keep a small fraction of the money deposited with them for a reserve, but were allowed to loan out the rest.  But now it turns out that Fe...

March 15 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama probably would veto legislation authorizing the next budget for U.S. intelligence agencies if it calls for a new investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, an administration official said. A proposed probe by the intelligence agencies’ inspector gene...

reuters.com | Hassan Nemazee, 60, who once ran a private equity firm, admitted in Manhattan federal court to defrauding Bank of America Corp of more than $142 million, Citigroup Inc of $74.9 million and HSBC Holdings Plc of $74.9 million to pay his debt to Citigroup.   During the plea proceed...

wcbstv.com | For hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, the check won't be in the mail -- at least not on time. New York State has stopped paying tax refunds and won't start again until next month. The tax refund delay is part of a bigger cash crunch. Message to New Yorkers: don't start spendi...

presstv.ir | Leaked confidential documents have revealed that senior officials from the former US administration had warned a 9/11 investigation panel against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks. In a letter obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the 9/11 Commission was...

huffingtonpost.com | WASHINGTON — Banks weren't the only ones giving big bonuses in the boom years before the worst financial crisis in generations. The government also was handing out millions of dollars to bank regulators, rewarding "superior" work even as an avalanche of risky mortgages helped cr...