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Nationwide vaccination programs expected to be instituted this fall following WHO declaration of swine flu pandemic status

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The government is telling schools across the country to prepare to be used as clinics for mass vaccination programs set to be instituted later this year, according to an Associated Press report.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-readies-schools-as-mass-vaccination-clinics.html

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 13:28

Geoengineering Could "Create Disasters"

National Academy of Sciences debates spraying aerosols into upper stratosphere to combat global warming

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Debate surrounding the possibility of geoengineering the earth’s climate by lining the atmosphere with aerosol particles has moved from idle speculation to serious consideration, and was a core topic of discussion at a recent National Academy of Sciences workshop.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/rutgers-professor-warns-geoengineering-could-create-disasters-global-famine.html

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 13:24

Holder stumps for new “hate crimes” law

MSNBC

06/16/09

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that recent killings show the need for a tougher U.S. hate crimes law to stop ‘violence masquerading as political activism.’ ‘Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed brazen acts of violence, committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable,’ Holder told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs...

http://tinyurl.com/n9z6d5

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 10:46

Lawsuit: White House won’t release visitor records

USA Today

06/16/09

The Obama administration is declining to release documents that would identify visitors to the White House, embracing a legal position taken by the Bush administration, according to a watchdog group that filed a federal lawsuit over access to the records. The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed its lawsuit after being denied access to Secret Service records, including White House entry and exit logs, that would identify coal and energy industry visitors...

http://tinyurl.com/lyxrj6

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 10:39

U.S. credit card defaults rise to record in May

U.S. credit card defaults rose to record highs in May, with a steep deterioration of Bank of America Corp's (BAC.N) lending portfolio, in another sign that consumers remain under severe stress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090615/bs_nm/us_creditcards

From Information Clearing House

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 10:32

Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program

The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39868prs20090615.html

CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows

An al-Qaeda associate captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing.

http://snipurl.com/k96hr

From Information Clearing House

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America and Torture Have a Long and Painful History

Ben Ehrenreich, The Los Angeles Times: "Perhaps we protest too much. Torture, after all, is a venerable American tradition. We were waterboarding captives in one of our earliest wars of occupation, the Philippine-American War, which cost as many as 1 million civilian lives. In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt himself wrote with laconic praise of 'the old Filipino method.'"

http://www.truthout.org/061909T?n

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rudkla - 17. Jun, 10:27