• Two more officers join suit challenging Obama's citizenship There are some more twists and turns this morning in the ongoing saga of an Army reservist who has challenged his ordered deployment to Afghanistan by arguing that President Obama is not a legal...
• Journalist Fired Over Flu Pandemic Lawsuit (against WHO) Comment: Corporations (which banks are) take orders from the government. To get an idea of what I am talking about, here is an example: Henry Paulson, former U.S. Secretary of ...
• Study finds racist police brutality on the rise (PSL) -- The number of complaints against New York police officers in 2009 has increased by 11 percent over the same period in 2008, a New York Civil Liberties Union report finds. The number of...
• Congress Urged to Probe Claims 'Racial Extremists' Infiltrating the Military (The Intelligence Daily) -- A prominent civil rights organization called on Congress Friday to investigate growing evidence that racial extremists are infiltrating the US military in order to ensure...
• Americans doubt insurance plans will cover cancer Fewer than half of all Americans trust that their health insurance plans would pay for the full costs of cancer treatment and nearly two-thirds falsely believe Medicare would not pay anything,...
• Traffic congestion dipping as economy falters Drivers are spending less time stuck in rush-hour traffic for a second straight year, the first-ever two-year decline in congestion as high gas prices and the economic downturn force many Americans...
• Honduran military told to turn back Zelaya's jet Related: Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.Honduras' exiled president took off for home in a Venezuelan jet in a high-stakes attempt to return to power, even as the interim...
• Guerrilla gardening grows like a weed When Kelda Miller finishes work, she rides around Puyallup, Wash., tending vegetable beds at offices, a church, some apartment blocks. In season, she'll pick fruit or greens, then head to her Sumner,...
• 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in...
• Saudi, Libyan leaders top gift-givers to US When U.S. presidents and their diplomats meet some Arab leaders, they come away with more than an earful about foreign policy. They also get exquisite baubles, objects of gold, robes, art -- even a...
• US Supreme Court says child's rights violated by strip search A school violated the privacy rights of a 13-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by school officials looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills, the US Supreme Court ruled on...
• For tortured detainees, U.S. considered life sentences on boats "Enhanced," "robust," and "special," words once used for vegetables, acquired entirely new dimensions during the White House years of George W. Bush. Jane Mayer's The Dark Side describes how torture...
• Court OKs dumping gold mine waste in lake The Supreme Court has upheld a federal government permit to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby lake, even though all its fish would be killed.By a 6-3 vote Monday, the justices say a...
• FTC to patrol bloggers Product reviews, payments under fire Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon. What some...
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