Archive for May, 2013
Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
May 2nd, 2013The piece indicates that Hart had an eleven-year-old daughter. I couldn’t find any other original coverage of his death. All of the sources that I found link back to this Truthout piece. Via: Truthout: An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. […]
Fed Will Maintain $85 Billion a Month Asset Purchasing Program
May 2nd, 2013In other news: Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters. China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt, a number that has grown since the data set was […]
Obama Regime to Ship Arms Directly to Syrian Rebels
May 1st, 2013The U.S. has been supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels for months through third countries. Let’s just get over this nonsense about pretending that it hasn’t been happening all along. Via: Washington Post: President Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more aggressive U.S. leadership […]
‘Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law
May 1st, 2013Via: ABC: A new poll finds that many Americans are confused about the health care overhaul legislation commonly called “Obamacare.” The Kaiser Family Foundation released results of a non-partisan study today finding more than 40 percent did not even know the law was in place. “Four in ten Americans (42%) are unaware that the ACA […]
Saudi Arabia Warned U.S. About Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012
May 1st, 2013Update: Saudi Arabian Ambassador to U.S. Denies Story: Hmm. Via: Daily Mail: The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its government warned the U.S. about accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. According to a highly placed source who spoke to MailOnline, the Saudis sent a written warning about Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland […]
Gonorrhea Superbug
May 1st, 2013Via: MSNBC: “Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,” Christianson said. “This is very dangerous.” “It’s an emergency situation,” said William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. “As time moves on, it’s getting more hazardous.” This gonorrhea strain, HO41, was […]
