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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Rhode Island to Shut Down State Government for 12 Days 'Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri proposed Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue. The shutdown would force 81% of the roughly 13,550-member state work force, excluding its college system, to stay home a dozen days without pay before the start of the new fiscal year in July.' Read more...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Yet More Questions For  Mandelson 'Mutual connections, 'chance' meetings and social back channels are often what make the diplomatic and economic worlds go round. But Lord Mandelson's Adriatic vacations with his rich friends are in danger of becoming an annual cause celebre. Last summer they resulted in ' Yachtgate'  -  his vicious spat with Shadow Chancellor George Osborne over what was said on their high seas holiday in Corfu with controversial Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. This year the Business Secretary faces growing speculation over his part in the release last week of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. The backdrop to this fresh controversy is a very familiar matrix of exotic faces and locations.' Read more...

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Webster Tarpley-Obama's False Flag-Waiting In The Wings

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Half of GPs Refuse Swine Flu Vaccine Over Testing Fears 'Up to half of family doctors do not want to be vaccinated against swine flu. GPs will be first in the line for the jabs when they become available but many will decline, even though they will be offering the vaccine to their patients. More than two thirds of those who will turn the jab down believe it has not been tested enough. Most also believe the flu has turned out to be so mild in the vast majority of cases that the vaccine is not needed.' Read more...