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7/10/2009
Obama threatens to veto law decreasing White House secrecy Telling Congress he’ll veto the House Intelligence authorization bill if they include a provision expanding secret congressional briefings to include the full intelligence committees from the current "Gang of 8" congressmembers now (The Raw Story)
Students 1st in Line For Flu Vaccine Mass Campaign Against Pandemic May Begin in Fall - The federal government should get about 100 million doses of vaccine by mid-October, if the current production by five companies goes as planned (Washington Post)
Thought-police is here Rona Kuperboim slams Foreign Ministry’s plan to hire pro-Israel talkbackers - A total of NIS 600,000 (roughly $150,000) will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad (Y Net News)
A democratic dark spot in Indonesia Unless Yudhoyono plans some dramatic changes for his second term, Jakarta's duplicitous laws and reliance on militarized commerce in West Papua will continue to devastate its largest province (Asia Times)
History Beckons As Prez Obama Arrives Tomorrow - “For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.” (Modern Ghana)
Libel and blasphemy bill passed by the Dail The Defamation Bill, which also introduces a new crime of blasphemous libel, will come into operation after it is passed by the Seanad later this week and signed into law by President Mary McAleese (Independent.ie)
The Great American Bubble Machine From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again - But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. (Rolling Stone)
Letter Sparks Investigation of Baxter Vaccine by New Zealand Minister of Health Bright highlights the fact that Baxter is currently facing criminal charges for producing contaminated "bird flu" vaccine that date back to February of this year when it became known that the company had sent out 72 kilos of live "bird flu" virus supplied by the World Health Organization in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four countries (Natural News)
Senators attack carbon tax proposals on US imports Senior Democrat senators said on Wednesday they would change a provision that imposes carbon taxes on imports following warnings that the clause in the House’s cap-and-trade bill could spark a global trade war (Financial Times)
Swiss to stop UBS handing over data in U.S. tax row Switzerland has vowed to prevent UBS from handing over client information to U.S authorities, in an attempt to defend bank secrecy, saying a tax case targeting its main bank is souring diplomatic ties (Reuters)
GAO: Major Security Flaws at Federal Buildings In the past year, investigators successfully smuggled bomb-making materials into ten high-security federal buildings, constructed bombs and walked around the buildings undetected, exposing weaknesses in security provided by the Federal Protective Service (Washington Post)
Papal message seeks "global authority" for economy The United Nations, economic institutions and international finance all had to be reformed "even in the midst of a global recession," he said in the encyclical, a booklet of 141 pages (Reuters)
The Place of Women on the Court Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. (New York Times)
US Should Plan 2nd Fiscal Stimulus: Govt Adviser "We should be planning on a contingency basis for a second round of stimulus," Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a member of the panel advising President Barack Obama on tackling the economic crisis, said on Tuesday (CNBC)
White House: Acquitted detainees may not be released Chief Department of Defense lawyer Jeh Johnson told a Senate committee “that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat,” (The Raw Story)
China tightens Web screws after Xinjiang riot China clamped down on the Internet in the capital of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang on Monday, in the hope of stemming the flow of information about ethnic unrest which left 140 people dead.
The government has blamed Sunday's riots in Urumqi -- the deadliest unrest since the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations -- on exiled Muslim separatists. (Reuters)
First Nations pandemic teams bracing for fall flu carnage A day after Manitoba marked its fifth death from the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, First Nations emergency planners in the province gathered on Monday to talk about how to prevent carnage in their communities this fall, when the flu is expected to surge (National Post)
H1N1 vaccine to be imported into NZ The government is spending millions of dollars to import a swine flu vaccination for front line health workers - even though it has not been licensed yet (TV NZ)
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