Monday, Jan 05th
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One year after the near collapse of the global financial system, this much is clear: The financial world as we knew it is over, and something new is rising from its ashes. Historians will look to September 2008 as a watershed for the U.S. economy.
TVNL Comment: Keeping consumers in constant debt is the strategy that feeds capitalism as we know it. Don't kid yourself. The cycle will crawl back and debt will rule once again.
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An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Tuesday.
The exact nature of the satellite has been kept very secret. No federal agency has laid claim to ownership.
TVNL Comment: How is this permitted? We have allowed our government to become so powerful they can do things like this without telling us what they are doing. Is it a nuclear weapon? Is it a biological weapon system? Is it an experiemt that can accidently lead to our death or the death of the world? Is it meant to spy on us? This is unacceptable and the people of the world and the nation have to wake up and take back control of our lives!
An Israeli human rights group says many more Palestinian civilians were killed in the Israeli military's campaign this year in Gaza than the army admits.
B'Tselem said detailed research showed that out of 1,400 Palestinian deaths, 773 were civilians - many of them children. This contradicts an Israeli army report stating that fewer than 300 civilians died in the fighting earlier this year.
The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama's live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21.
David Steele is a former 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer.
"Pakistan briefed Cheney [about the plans for the terrorist attacks ahead of time] …nations also got wind of this and warned the CIA. We also had two walk-ins to the FBI, one in Orlando, one in Newark, that were dismissed by the FBI because the names were all virgins and not in the FBI data base—the arrogance of stupid bureaucracy."
For sport, they rolled through the streets of Baghdad hurling frozen oranges and water bottles at civilians and nearby vehicles, trying to smash windshields and injure bystanders. Convoying through the city in armored vehicles, the contractors fired their weapons indiscriminately. One member of the Blackwater security team known as Raven 23 regularly bragged about his body count and viewed killing Iraqis as "payback for 9/11."
Antiviral medications such as Tamiflu and Relenza, which are effective in treating the H1N1 swine flu, should be taken only by people hospitalized with the flu or those at high risk for complications from the disease, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
Those at risk include people with underlying health conditions, such as asthma or diabetes, as well as the very young, the elderly, and pregnant women, officials said.
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