Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:33 'Sheriffs in North Carolina are petitioning state legislators to be given access to the database of patients who are in possession of powerful prescription painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff's association fronted the idea last week, saying it would help them make more arrests of people who illegally sell prescription narcotics (painkillers), almost all of which are acquired through doctor prescriptions of FDA-approved drugs.' Read more: Sheriffs Want Database of Prescription Drug Users Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:20 'President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he's hemming and hawing on that. So far, the law he signed earlier this year hasn't had the desired effect. An analysis from Medicare's Office of the Actuary this week said that the nation's health care tab will go up — not down — through 2019 as a result of Obama's sweeping law, though the increase is modest.' Read more: Obama's Health Care Reform Lies Now Starting to Surface Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:15 'I can smell the newest giveaway looming a mile off. The Wall Street bailout, health-insurance giveaway and support of real estate prices rather than mortgage-debt write-downs were bad enough, not to mention the Oil War¹s Afghan extension. But now comes a topper: the $50 billion transportation infrastructure plan that Obama proposed in Milwaukee cynically enough, on Labor Day. It looks like the Thatcherite Public-Private Partnership, Britain¹s notorious giveaway to the City of London underwriters. The financial giveaway had the effect of increasing prices for basic infrastructure services by building in heavy financial fees guaranteed for the banks, who lent the money that banks and property owners used to pay in taxes in more progressive times.' Read more: Now Comes a Topper: Obama's Newest Giveaway to the Banks Tuesday, 14 September 2010 07:09 'Cuba has announced plans to lay off at least one million state employees as part of a move to revive the country's struggling economy. The Cuban Labor Union announced on Monday that half a million of state workers would lose their jobs over the next six months alone. The rest will be eventually fired during the next few years, mounting the total number of those fired to more than a million. Those laid off will be encouraged to become self-employed or join new private enterprises.' Read more: Cuba to Fire One Million State Workers Monday, 13 September 2010 10:27 'Ireland’s National Museum announced on Monday, September 6th 2010, the discovery of fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms. According to the museum ‘it is a finding that asks many questions and has confounded some of the accepted theories about the history of early Christianity in Ireland.’ Its significance may be huge, as the papyrus could be evidence of the first ‘tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church’, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.' Monday, 13 September 2010 10:17 'Commander Allan Gibson, the Association of Chief Police Officers' spokesman on extradition, confirmed that he had written to the Government expressing concern over the European Investigation Order (EIO). Under the measure, agreed by the Coalition in July, foreign police will have the power to order British forces to carry out investigations, house and body searches and surveillance in this country on their behalf. They will also be able to demand Britons' bank records, DNA profiles and other sensitive personal details.' Read more: Police Warn of Impact of European Justice Powers Monday, 13 September 2010 10:05 'Some of the most damning evidence of systematic child abuse by the Roman Catholic clergy to come to light was unveiled today by Belgium's leading authority on paedophilia, who published hundreds of pages of harrowing victim testimony detailing their traumas and suffering. The explosive report by Peter Adriaenssens in the town of Louvain, east of Brussels, lists evidence of 476 instances of child abuse by priests and bishops going back 50 years.' Read more: Belgian Child Abuse Report Exposes Catholic Clergy Monday, 13 September 2010 09:06 Monday, 13 September 2010 08:55 'Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan. Officials said they were aware of “unsubstantiated” claims that troops were buying the illegal drug from dealers and using military aircraft to ship it out the country.' Read more: Probe Into Afghanistan Troops' Heroin Trafficking Claims
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