Arizona elections chief seeks proof of Obama's citizenship - Yahoo! News

(Reuters) - Arizona's secretary of state said Friday he had asked officials in Hawaii to verify that Barack Obama was born in their state in order for the president's name to appear on the November ballot in Arizona. Ken Bennett, who is Republican presidential candidate Mitt Rom …

Article From African Newspaper, January 19, 2004, Says Obama a Kenyan in its Headline, but Says He's an American in the Story Below

Kenyan in US Senate Race Nairobi, Jan 19, 2004 (The East African Standard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- An American of Kenyan descent is topping the opinion polls in the race for Senator in the state of Illinois. The result of the latest polls show Mr Barack Obama has ta …

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Military Detention Law Blocked by New York Judge - Bloomberg

Opponents of a U.S. law they claim may subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism persuaded a federal judge to temporarily block the measure. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattanyesterday ruled in fa …

European Commission should be EU government, says Germany

The European Union needs to become more integrated with a common finance policy and a central government, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Wednesday (16 May). "I would be for the further development of the European Commission into a government. I am for the electi …

Militant group claims attack against EU envoy

GREEK MILITANTS have claimed responsibility for an arson attack against the German head of an EU task force to Greece. A car parked outside the home, just outside Berlin, of Horst Reichenbach, head of the European Commission inspection team in Greece, was set alight on Sunday ev …

JP Morgan hit by lawsuit over 'clandestine conversion' that caused $2bn trading loss - Telegraph

JP Morgan shareholders have sued the bank over its $2bn (£1.3bn) trading loss, alleging that a division within the bank had a “clandestine conversion” from one designed to manage risk to one that made multi-billion dollar bets. Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s ch …

Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment | | AlterNet

Norman and Oriane Rousseau were one more couple pushed by a huge, greedy bank to the brink of homelessness. On Sunday, desperate and with nowhere to go, Norman Rousseau shot himself. This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerfu …

Cutting Animal Transport Time Just the Start

EU - The welfare of animals in transport must be improved, but cutting transport time to eight hours must be supplemented by other measures, such as support for local slaughterhouses and meat processing plants, upgrading transport vehicles and full and uniform control of complian …

Cannibalism was likely practiced in Irish famine says leading expert | Irish News | IrishCentral

In the course of the prosecution, it emerged that the family were in such desperate straits that his wife had eaten some of the flesh off the leg of the dead body of her son. The son’s body was exhumed and it was discovered that his flesh was indeed missing. Connolly was i …

Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial - Yahoo! News

OSLO, Norway (AP) — An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people on July 22. Police …

The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio

Stations haven't been playing "Mrs. Robinson" for 32 years just because everyone likes Simon & Garfunkel (although I really do love them!). It's because 80% of stations' playlists match all across the country. So much for thinking that media exposes us to new and different id …

Neotame: 13,000 Times Sweeter Than Sugar And More Toxic Than Aspartame: A Legally Unlabelled Product in "Organic" Foods

When it comes to human health, neotame is in the same dangerous category as aspartame, but it is a deadlier neurotoxin, immunotoxin and excitotoxin. The long-term effects are essentially cell-death.

Rattlesnake bites customer in Wal-Mart

A Wal-Mart customer is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in a garden department of the store chain. Mica Craig said the reptile pounced as he was shopping at the store in the north-western US state of Washington. The 47-year-old stamped on the serpent and was late …

"Unique" EU [Big Brother Ministry of Education-type] research project to help "detect social problems"

BRUSSELS - A new pan-European research project is aiming to connect the archives of Europe’s many libraries, universities and other public institutions in the hope of gaining a better understanding of how society is evolving. "Researchers will be able to access all those d …

Ron Paul all but ends presidential campaign, continues delegate strategy | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Ron Paul announced Monday that his campaign will no longer spend money on presidential nominating contests due to lack of funds, effectively ending his campaign for the Republican nomination. Paul wrote the following in an open letter to supporters:

Doomsday Shelters Make Headlines as Fear of Apocalyptic Events Grow - Yahoo! News

Would you pay between one and two million dollars for shelter against doomsday? A developer of Kansas nuclear missile silos is betting that if you won't, somebody out there will, and he's already sold some of the shelter units to prove it.   AFP reported that developer Lar …

MEPs say little-watched parliament TV should be scrapped

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament's in-house TV, a multi-million-euro project designed to give citizens an insight into the workings of the EU, has been deemed too expensive and watched by too few people to justify maintaining it. Set up in 2008, EuroparlTV gives the unfiltered …

Chinese sovereign wealth fund stops buying European government debt - Telegraph

The eurozone has lost a crucial lifeline as China's biggest sovereign wealth fund said it no longer wanted to buy European government debt.

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