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Scranton, news, obituaries, sports and shopping | thetimes-tribune.com | The Times-Tribune :#tcot and #fltcot "Six of the eight genetic segments of this virus strain are purely swine flu and the other two segments are bird and human, but have lived in swine for the past decade, says Dr. Raul Rabadan, a professor of computational biology at Columbia University."

Judge Fines Three Visiting Campaigners for Illegally Voting in Ohio - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com :#tcot and #fltcot"Thirty-two-year-old Daniel Hausman of New York City, 50-year-old Amy Little of New Paltz, N.Y., and 30-year-old Yolanda Hipppensteele of California pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor illegal voting charges."

My Way News - World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu :#tcot and #fltcot "From Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic - and some say debatable - measures to combat swine flu."

#tcot and #fltcot It used to be "Buy American" to help America. No more--Buy G.M. and destroy the American way!

UAW, Chrysler and Fiat reach concession deal :#tcot and #fltcot "Chrysler LLC cleared another major obstacle to its survival Sunday when it reached a tentative deal for concessions with the United Auto Workers union."

Swine Flu Could Become More Dangerous - Yahoo! News UK :#tcot and #fltcot "'It's quite possible for this virus to evolve... when viruses evolve, clearly they can become more dangerous to people,' said Keiji Fukuda, of the global health watchdog."

Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak - Bloomberg.com :#tcot and #fltcot "The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not."

Vote caps decade-long gay marriage fight in Conn. :#tcot and #fltcot "A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended late Wednesday when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot."

AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US :#tcot and #fltcot "For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future."

FDA OKs 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds#tcot and #fltcot

Pelosi Said She Knew Harman Was Wiretapped : #tcot and #fltcot"'Haim Saban has been a friend of mine for many years,' she said, adding that their friendship and political partnership persisted even though they disagreed on some issues, such as the war in Iraq."

Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says - NYTimes.com : #tcot and #fltcot"President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists."

Father of 'Slumdog Millionaire' star Rubina Ali tries to sell his daughter! | The Dish Rag | Los Angeles Times : #tcot and #fltcot"The father of “Slumdog Millionaire” child star Rubina Ali is reportedly trying to sell his beautiful little daughter for £200,000, or roughly $300,000."

The Associated Press: Obama offers olive branch to Bolivia : #tcot and #fltcot"Bolivia's leftist president was headed to the airport Sunday when Barack Obama gave him what he requested the day before: public repudiation of an alleged attempt on his life. The U.S. president went out of his way at a news conference capping a 34-nation hemispheric summit to respond to Evo Morales' plea. 'Specifically on the Bolivia issue,' said Obama, 'I just want to make absolutely clear that I am absolutely opposed and condemn any efforts at violent overthrows of democratically elected governments, wherever it happens in the hemisphere.'"

LegalNewsline | Obama to target credit card companies :#tcot and #fltcot "'He's going to be very focused, in a very near term, on a whole set of issues having to do with credit card abuses, having to do with the way people have been deceived into paying extraordinarily high interest rates that they wouldn't have paid if they knew what that they were getting themselves into,' Summers said in an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press' program."

Gethuman - Home Page#tcot and #fltcot When you're tired of wasting money and time due to phone systems that require you to press 10 or more options in order to reach a real person and spending many minutes or even hours on hold, consult the GetHuman database of secret phone numbers and codes that immediately get an actual, live person on the line for customer service at nearly 1000 major companies.

Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies' :#tcot and #fltcot "Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations."

FDIC: Failed Bank List#tcot and #fltcot

B.O. has left us no choice but to "Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis"

The Associated Press: Experts: Possible ransom may protect US hostage :#tcot and #fltcot Ransom--is this what are country is now--a bank for Muslim terrorist? "An American hostage held by armed Somali pirates in a tiny lifeboat may be protected by a lucrative — and possibly growing — ransom on his life, experts said Friday."

$45 a day :#tcot and #fltcot "The US federal debt trend seems to have settled at a $200 billion increase per month. This sounds like chicken feed as a trillion has become the new billion in the heads of the hoi polloi . However, a $200 billion increase per month works out at $45 a day for every working tax-paying American."

Dutch TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden#tcot and #fltcot

Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers - Telegraph :#tcot and #fltcot "An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an 'Easter spectacular' of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe."

Rove Calls Biden 'Liar' After VP Boasts of Scolding Bush - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com : #tcot and #fltcot"Aides to former President George W. Bush are challenging the veracity of Vice President Joe Biden's claim this week of having privately castigated Bush."

San Jose police: Sabotage caused phone outage in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz counties - San Jose Mercury News : #tcot and #fltcot"John Britton, a spokesman for AT&T, said it appears somebody opened a manhole in South San Jose, climbed down eight to 10 feet and cut four or five fiber-optic cables.Britton also said there was a report of underground cables being cut in San Carlos."

AP source: Spies compromised US electric grid :#tcot and #fltcot"Spies hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service, exposing potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities in key pieces of national infrastructure, a former U.S. government official said Wednesday."

AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering : #tcot and #fltcot"The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air."

Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override :#tcot and #fltcot "Vermont, which invented civil unions, on Tuesday became a pioneer again as the first state to legalize gay marriage through a legislature's vote, suggesting growing popular acceptance of the idea."

Actor resurfaces in White House after "suicide" :#tcot and #fltcot "Hollywood star Kal Penn has swapped television's 'House' for the White House. The 31-year-old actor, who made his mark as the pot-smoking Kumar in the 'Harold and Kumar' feature film comedies, will become associate director in the White House office of public liaison, Entertainment Weekly reported on Monday."

Congresswoman Barbara Lee : Press Releases : Congressional Delegation to Hold Daily Press Briefing in Havana :#tcot and #fltcot "The other members of the delegations are Reps. Mel Watt of North Carolina, Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Mike Honda of California, Bobby Rush of Illinois and Laura Richardson of California. The purpose of the visit is to discuss bilateral relations and review policies related to trade and commerce with Cuba, and discuss cultural, health and academic exchanges."

Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: 'How can we help President Obama?' | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times : #tcot and #fltcot"The aging, ailing, cigar-smoking icon Fidel Castro had three members of Congress visit with him today in Havana, which resulted in the bearded one asking, 'How can we help President Obama?' In an effort to improve the relationship between Cuba and the U.S., Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) and Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) were the first U.S."

Obama ends Europe trip with tour of Istanbul mosque :#tcot and #fltcot "Taking off his shoes as tradition requires, Obama stepped into the 17th-century Sultanahmet Mosque in the ancient heart of Istanbul, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid tight security in the area."

NKorea shows footage of healthy leader Kim Jong Il#tcot and #fltcot

Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing - USATODAY.com : #tcot and #fltcot"A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money."

CBC members praise Castro - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com : #tcot and #fltcot"“It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable."

EDITORIAL: Barack takes a bow - Washington Times : #tcot and #fltcot"In a shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate, President Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah at the Group of 20 summit in London last week."

"“Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country — I know, because I am one of them,” he noted to applause." B.O.

Obama sells himself to sell U.S. - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com :#tcot and #fltcot "He spoke little of his childhood in Indonesia, or his Muslim relatives. He battled rumors that he is Muslim. He struggled to appear not as somehow exotic but as the everyman."

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN REPEALED By DICK MORRIS Published on DickMorris.com on April 6, 2009 Printer-Friendly Version On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London. The joint communiqué essentially announces a global economic union with uniform regulations and bylaws for all nations, including the United States. Henceforth, our SEC, Commodities Trading Commission, Federal Reserve Board and other regulators will have to march to the beat of drums pounded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a body of central bankers from each of the G-20 states and the European Union. The mandate conferred on the FSB is remarkable for its scope and open-endedness. It is to set a "framework of internationally agreed high standards that a global financial system requires." These standards are to include the extension of "regulation and oversight to all systemically important financial institutions, instruments, and marke...

Okay America, enough is enough. I know we have the "tea party" movement, and I know there are "March on Washington" movements, but I want to encourage each of you to call the White House EVERY SINGLE DAY and let your voice be heard. I personally call every day, and I really let 'em have it. Don't make bomb threats, don't do anything illegal . . . but you have a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to voice your opinion, and I encourage you to do just that. My goal is to cause 1,000 phone calls per day within one month and 5,000 phone calls per day within 90 days. We can do it. If you care about this country, and I know you do, pick up the phone and CALL! Do whatever else you are doing too, but CALL THE WHITE HOUSE!!! make your voice heard! If it's just a few of us nothing will change. If enough of us call, write letters, protest, and VOTE . . . we can "change" back to the America we were before "THE mESSIAH" scammed his way into the White House ....

NewsBusters.org | Exposing Liberal Media Bias :#tcot and #fltcot "At an April 4 news conference in Strasbourg, France (White House transcript here), President Obama referred to a language that doesn't exist (bold is mine; HT to DrewM at Ace of Spades):"

Asian countries call for global currency - Wikinews, the free news source :#tcot and #fltcot "Leaders and central banks in Russia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Kazakhstan have called for an international currency system. Speaking on April 1 in advance of the G-20 summit in London, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev argued that the international finance system needed a 'new construction' including 'new currency systems', saying that such a new system could be the purpose of a revamped IMF and World Bank. The IMF was originally founded in 1946 as the overseer of the Bretton Woods system, which from its founding until the 1970s tied the western world's currencies to the US Dollar, which was in turn backed by gold. Russia's proposal was for the new currency to serve as a reserve currency, one which would take the place of the dollar, euro, and other heavily-traded currencies as an international standard of exchange."

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Obama declares US not at war with Islam :#tcot and #fltcot "ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States 'is not and will never be at war with Islam.' Calling for a greater partnership with the Islamic world"

US Banks 'Basically Insolvent': Soros - Economy * US * News * Story - CNBC.com :#tcot and #fltcot "'I think the dollar is now under question and I think the system will need to be reformed, so that the United States will be subject to the same discipline as is imposed on other countries,'"

W.H. team discloses TARP firm ties - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com : #tcot and #fltcot"W.H. team discloses TARP firm ties"

Racetrack computer memory "within 10 years," say researchers : "A new kind of computer memory, called 'racetrack' memory, looks set to replace the hard disk as the standard method of storing information on home computers."

As Crisis Loomed, Geithner Pressed But Fell Short :#tcot and #fltcot "In September 2005, Timothy Geithner made one of his most visible moves as a supervisor of the U.S. banking system. He summoned the nation's top financial firms and their regulators to streamline an antiquated system that threatened Wall Street's boom."

Lawmakers Have Long Rewarded Their Aides With Bonuses - WSJ.com#tcot and #fltcot

What Does One Get a Queen? - Political Punch : "#tcot and #fltcot Photos from President Obama's Inauguration # Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and # Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address"