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| Latest Posts: Ex-Blagojevich adviser dies before prison term |
| Posted by: Tumbleweed @ Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:18 pm |
This should cause a stir for the conspiricy crowd. [img]http://planetsm
CHICAGO – A week before one of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's closest advisers was to go to prison for fraud, the commercial roofing contractor died at a Chicago hospital, and the mayor of a town where he was found said the death was being investigated as a suicide.
An autopsy was planned Sunday for Christopher G. Kelly, 51, who was discovered Friday night in a lumber yard parking lot in Country Club Hills, a tow...
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| Latest Posts: Obama Considers Bypassing Republicans on Health Care |
| Posted by: Tumbleweed @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:12 pm |
This isn't beyond the realm of possibilities because the Republicans seem heel-bent on delaying any kind of health care reform.
(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders, unable to reach a deal with Republicans in health care, are considering alternatives to a bipartisan bill, Senator Charles Schumer said.
Schumer, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday, said Obama and Democratic leaders are “bending over backwards” to win Republican support. “It’s lo...
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| Latest Posts: Libya Holds Powerful Bargaining Chip in bombers release |
| Posted by: Tumbleweed @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:04 pm |
This could evolve into a huge scandal.
Fury over the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail last Thursday is growing, with the scandal now threatening to engulf British officials, and follow Colonel Muammar Gaddafi on his visit to New York next month for an address to the U.N. General Assembly.
At the heart of the brouhaha are questions over whether Britain decided to release Megrahi in order to gain favorable treatment from Gaddafi on multib...
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| Latest Posts: CIA report: 'Inhumane' tactics used on detainees |
| Posted by: Tumbleweed @ Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:50 pm |
More details are emerging about the treatment of detainees by the CIA.
WASHINGTON – CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mother would be sexually assaulted, newly declassified documents revealed Monday as the government launched a criminal investigation into the spy agency's "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane" practices.
At the same time, the Obama administration anno...
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| Latest Posts: Obama's health care plan helped by drug industry |
| Posted by: Tumbleweed @ Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:41 pm |
One of the surprising factors of health care reform is the strange bedfellows found when alliances are declared.
WASHINGTON – The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.
The White House and allies in Congress are well aware of the effort by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a somew...
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