Tag: congress
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ground zero: liquid jackboot, new world odor & more
listen/subscribe to @clydelewis on @kxlnews weeknights 9-12 1984-2011: a jackboot stomping on the human face forever* ground zero tv: dec1 – live pepper spray demo: liquid jackboot to the face* shtf: the new odor of the ages* ground zero tv: dec5 – newt, nazis, the occult & the new world order* world control & the…
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12/1 defcon: sopa, carrier iq & you
comedy of errors led to false ‘water-pump hack’ report* flashback: feds deny water utility hack* hackers target united nations development program website* crack this code & become a british spy* sopa on the ropes? bipartisan alternative to ‘net censorship emerges* critics line up to bash maker of secret phone-monitoring software* does your smartphone run carrier…
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12/1 newspurge: if we make it through december
biowars/envirohealth: extreme weather records in 2011, ‘bare-knuckle’ years ahead* oklahoma continues string of recent mild earthquakes* santa ana winds rattle nerves in california* ‘national level exercise’ disaster drill derailed by disasters* delegates say it’s too early to give up on cop17* US settles suit from widow of 1st anthrax victim* white powdery substance in inmate’s…
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ground zero: extinction directive & a crisis in confidence
listen/subscribe to @clydelewis on @kxlnews weeknights 9-12 world war 3: a crisis in confidence* ground zero tv: nov30 – extinction directive* extinction directive: police states of america* previous: nuclear winter, cold war 2.0
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senate bill to turn US into battlefield, vote on #ndaa looms
s.1867 ‘national defense authorization act’ creates police state* from presstv: American rights activists have slammed the US Senate for gearing up to vote on a bill on Monday that would define the whole of the United States as a ‘battlefield’ and allow the military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge…
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super congress debt committee an unsurprising fail
deficit supercommittee officially admits failure from forbes: In a statement released after the bell, the so-called budget deficit Supercommittee officially announced it failed to produce $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade. Their failure, anticipated by many, led to a substantial market plunge on Monday and will supposedly trigger the automatic sequester proposition,…
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california rep. speier takes ‘food stamp challenge’
lawmaker, faith leaders try living on $4.50/day – like 1 in 7* from patch: A total food budget of $4.50 a day may be tough to swallow, but Congresswoman Jackie Speier plans to try. Starting Monday, the Peninsula Democrat will begin a five-day challenge to live on a food stamp budget. Participants, including faith leaders,…
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mexico’s president works to lock in the drugwar
calderón provokes dispute with opposition party from nytimes: As the twilight of his presidency sets in, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is striving to lock in the militarized approach to drug cartels that has defined his tenure, pushing aside public doubts and pressing lawmakers to adopt strategies he hopes will outlast him. Mr. Calderón has…
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US weighed use of cyberattacks to weaken libya
from nytimes: Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes. While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have…
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Latest Government Shutdown Crisis Averted… For A Month
The US Senate passed a spending measure late Monday that for the third time this year averted a government shutdown over spending disagreements.
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schumer calls for clear juice concentrate standards
from fox 23 news: U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the FDA to put in place clear standards for imported fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and step up inspection of concentrates from countries that use toxic, inorganic arsenic in their pesticides, or with high levels of environmental contaminants. Schumer pointed out that, although…
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obama accused of waging ‘class warfare’ with millionaire tax plan
from foxnews: A top House Republican accused President Obama of appealing to Americans’ “fear, envy and anxiety” by pushing a new tax rate on people making more than $1 million annually, saying the “class warfare path” will only hurt the economy. “Class warfare … may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten…
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alaska senator @lisamurkowski to push ban on frankenfish
from newsminer: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski plans to offer an amendment that would ban genetically modified fish. Murkowski’s office says the issue of so-called “frankenfish” came up during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday. Murkowski urged the committee to impose a ban on genetically modified fish when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s budget came…
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labor day 2011: what are we celebrating, the lack of jobs in america?
from the economic collapse blog: If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011. So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy. But your day may be coming soon. This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating.…