| Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is satisfied with a proposal by the European Union's Swedish presidency addressing his demands to modify the EU's Lisbon Treaty, his office said on Friday. | |
| The White House is not going to allow the president’s newly created “czars” to testify before Congress. | |
| The pharmaceutical industry spent $110 million in just the first half of 2009 in its efforts to influence health care reform, part of a booming lobbying effort that now has 2.3 drug lobbyists on Capitol Hill for every member of Congress, a new investigative report reveals. | |
| The love hate relationship with credit cards for many Americans is probably leaning more in the hate stage at the moment. | |
| "In 1993, we said that military conflicts have been ruled out, but life has shown this is not the case," AFP quoted Patrushev, as saying on Thursday. | |
| According to sources, the company has arms deals with Blackwater and is importing heavy arms and ammunition for the US company for its ongoing illicit operations in Pakistan. | |
| This could have been made yesterday! | |
| How convenient for the oil barons who conspired with Dick Cheney to carve up the oil fields of Iraq before 911 would give Bush the pretext he would need to attack and invade Iraq, a nation that had nothing whatsoever to do with 911. | |
| The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years. | |
| U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says NATO allies are moving toward sending more troops and civilian aid to Afghanistan. | |
| The House Agriculture Committee approved legislation Wednesday beefing up regulation of the kind of opaque derivatives many blame for causing the financial crisis, but while proponents celebrate, critics say the bill exempts some transactions involving the very institutions -- big banks -- most responsible for the collapse. | |
| A representative of the Senate Armed Services Committee told me today that they hope the national defense appropriations bill, with hate bill attached, will be passed by Friday. Already delayed more than two weeks, there still may be several days for patriots to keep emailing the President, urging veto. | |
| Chris Matthews, Democrat operative and former Carter speechwriter, and Mark Potok, director of the fear-mongering Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, ganged up on Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers the other day on MSNBC. | |
| The United States is pumping out liquidity to try to inflate away its debt, leading to the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, Henri Guaino, a top advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday. | |
| A hand-picked team from CO19, the Metropolitan Police’s elite firearms unit, will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned entire estates into “no go” zones. | |
| Copenhagen is about to become the successor to Kyoto as the synonym for the U.N.’s plan to control climate change. | |
| Karl Marx, who famously described religion as “the opium of the people”, has joined Galileo, Charles Darwin and Oscar Wilde on a growing list of historical figures to have undergone an unlikely reappraisal by the Roman Catholic Church. | |
| A private seminar was held this morning at Schroders Bank to explore the relevance of the Pope’s encyclical on social teaching, Caritas in Veritate, for the financial sector. | |
| Russia on Thursday said it would continue military cooperation with Iran amid widespread unease in the West over Moscow's controversial contract to sell advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Tehran. | |
| Under the worst of circumstances, the report said, the government's maximum exposure could total nearly $24 trillion, or $80,000 for every American. | |
| China's "current strategy is to diversify out of dollars and into commodities," Ferguson says. Furthermore, China's recent pact with Brazil to conduct trade in their local currencies is a "sign of the times." | |
| The dollar slumped to a new 14-month low Wednesday, and it could continue floundering well into next year. | |
| America Now Over 6 Million Jobs Shy of Administration's Projections | |
Friday, October 23, 2009
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