Gordon Brown to push for ‘Tobin tax’ after Wall Street crackdown Wall Street banks to step up Britain’s campaign for a new global transaction tax on financial products. of the actions taken by the Austin Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to ensure the shut down of Texas Gun Shows in central Texas. to the Texas Capitol building on news that a man, identified as Fausto Cardenas, had started shooting for no apparent reason.
met with the nation’s top defense company executives, including the CEOs of those mega-military-industrial combines Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and called for a “closer partnership.” deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
new global taxes on e-mails, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions, has charged that she was given only selective information at group meetings, that deliberations were rushed and that group was “manipulated” by the international pharmaceuticals industry.
his thoughts on where the U.S. stands as a nation and what the future holds. Bush-era warrantless wiretapping programme, prompting suggestions the US government is now able to mount mass surveillance operations unhindered by the courts or constitution.
quake-devastated Haiti, a senior US military commander said Thursday. Putin warns against despotism, chaos in Russia totalitarianism and despotism but said Russia must not adopt a similar political system to its neighbour Ukraine. Senator urges security review after Capitol shooting Houston man allegedly fired several shots while standing on the Texas Capitol’s south steps Thursday, apparently moments after visiting the lawmaker’s office.
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Saturday, 23 January 2010
The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as
further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers.
Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30,
the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most
intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began.
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad has once again stated that the September 11 attacks
were a staged event, rejecting claims that his comments are a publicity stunt.
The Pentagon has gone into damage control mode after
Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to confirm that security contractor
Blackwater is operating in Pakistan.
With Democrats still reeling from a stinging setback in the Senate,
President Barack Obama told a crowd here Friday that his health care plan
has “run into a bit of a buzz saw” but that he’ll continue to fight.
Prominent NASA global warming alarmist Dr. James Hansen has endorsed an
eco-fascist book that calls for cities to be razed to the ground, industrial
civilization to be destroyed and genocidal population reduction measures to
be implemented in the name of preventing climate change.
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