United States president-elect Barack Obama has chosen Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a medical correspondent from the American television station CNN, to be the next United States Surgeon General. Gupta, also a neurosurgeon, was reported to be chosen because of his background in broadcasting and skills in communication. He is currently the host of House Call,...
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(Prior report with Brady gun-ban lists: http://www.gunlaws.com/newstuff.htm) The powerful gun-ban lobby has developed its own language to color and disguise its true agenda — the disarming of law-abiding Americans in every way possible, and the end of effective self defense. Their latest set of plans — used as a fund raiser (outlined below) —...
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Heavy rain, combined with melting snow from a previous storm, have caused the US state of Washington to issue the largest evacuation order in the history of the state. Over 30,000 people living along the Puyallup River were informed on Wednesday night to leave their homes due to the flooding, combined with threats such...
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At least four Katyusha rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon, injuring at least five people. The rockets landed just six miles from the Israel-Lebanon border in the Israeli city of Nahariya. Following the attack, the Israeli military fired at least five mortars into Lebanon in an attempt to take out the launch...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the United Nations Security Council to call for Israel to immediately cease aggression in the Gaza Strip. He also called for the lifting of the “suffocating siege” of Gaza. Israel began ground operations in Gaza on Saturday. “I call on the council to take the first necessary step...
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On 13/12/2008, Robert Gates, the US Secretary of Defense, speaking at an international security conference in Bahrain, gave some insight about forthcoming relations between America and Iran. He said, “Nobody is after a regime change in Iran…What we are after is a change in policies and a change in behaviour so that Iran becomes...
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As the cold of winter settles in on the northern hemisphere, all of the hysteria of “global warming,” or its less specific alternative “climate change,” rings increasingly hollow to the general public. Weather patterns of the past decade indicate that the planet has been in an undeniable cooling trend since prior to the new...
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid can be such a tease. On Sunday, the Nevada Democrat suggested that Illinois Gov. Blagojevich’s appointment of Roland Burris to replace The One in what is facetiously called the world’s greatest deliberative body might not be welcomed with open arms. In his trademark high-pitched voice that thrills Canine-Americans everywhere,...
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As the nation prepares for the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the Center for Strategic & International Studies released an important and disturbing report on cybersecurity, cyber-terrorism and other threats that exist within cyberspace. The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, “Securing...
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