| Juergen and Rosemary Dudek of Archfeldt, Germany, were sentenced to 90 days in prison in July 2008 because they homeschool their children. | |
| U.S. banks are earning money again, but they're writing fewer business loans, threatening a fragile economic recovery. | |
| As has already been widely noted, the minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting reiterated the Fed’s eagerness to reverse, not extend, policy | |
| A magazine run by the Chinese government has revealed the existence of a network of secret detention centres or "black jails" in Beijing where inmates are often beaten or tortured. | |
| A U.S. journalist was grilled by Canadian border officials for 90 minutes Wednesday. Officials demanded to know if Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman was going to speak against hosting the Olympic games in Canada. | |
| The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The "deeply worrying" law comes ahead of the UN climate talks which start on 7 December and are ... | |
| Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said. “One cannot rule out -- as a tail risk -- a case where this ... | |
| Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. | |
| US nuclear doctrine, missile defence in Europe and NATO expansion | |
| Countries that have historically friendly relations with the United States on Thursday will begin issuing passports to residents traveling abroad complete with facial-recognition software and digital chips. | |
| Trading ground to a halt on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for several hours today after its electronic trading system was hit by a major technical hitch. | |
| Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”. | |
| British Prime Minister Tony Blair was told ten days before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs likely remained "dismantled," but the prime minister continued to insist that Iraq was producing chemical and biological weapons, a British inquiry heard Wednesday. | |
| Over the past three years, allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation have consistently sent additional forces to Afghanistan following the deployment of US reinforcements, he said. | |
| Google, the online search engine, will put photographs of thousands of treasures from Iraq's national museum on the internet early next year. Source: http://www.blacklistednews.com/ | |
Friday, November 27, 2009
BlacklistedNews.com | Breaking Headlines - November 27, 2009
