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Report: Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code | Threat Level | Wired.comA programmer who claims he produced software that detected hidden terrorist messages in Al Jazeera broadcasts was apparently responsible for a false alert in 2003 that grounded international flights. The 2003 incident raised the government’s security level, according to a remarkable story ...
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Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.comRuss Kremer, shown with one of his free-roaming pigs on his farm in Frankenstein, Mo., was gored by the tusk of a boar and got a strep infection that didn't heal even after two months of multiple antibiotics. The answer was flowing in the veins of the boar. The animal had been fed low doses of ...
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The Associated Press: 22 million missing Bush White House e-mails foundComputer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the ...
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White House Pushes Back on Climate Change Email Controversy - Political PunchPresident Obama's science adviser, Dr. John Holdren, faced a barrage of questions yesterday from Republican Members of Congress about a series of hacked emails at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit that climate change skeptics have seized upon as evidence that the whole concept ...
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AP NewsBreak: China holds, mistreats US geologist - Yahoo! NewsSometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit. He rolled up his sleeve, revealing the burns where his interrogators pressed lit cigarettes into his arm. Xue also had ...
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Geithner: some bailout funds to help lower debt - AOL Money & FinanceTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government's $700 billion bailout program will end "as soon as we can," and that part of it will be used to lower the soaring federal debt. During a sometimes contentious Joint Economic Committee hearing that included one lawmaker calling on ...
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The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America | World news | The ObserverAll these women express a mood of conservative discontent that is becoming increasingly vocal and, some experts warn, extreme. The Republicans have been kicked out of power in the White House and Congress. The party is becoming more white and southern at the same time as national demographic ...
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Wall Street Gets H1N1 Vaccine - ABC News"Greed goes beyond just money," said Dr. Michael Coates, professor of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., of the news, which first appeared in a BusinessWeek article on Monday. "We have neither the seasonal nor the H1N1 vaccines for our patients. I had ...
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Cheney Blood Lust - Page 1 - The Daily BeastCheney's "dithering" salvo was just the latest attack on Obama from the former vice president and his daughters. Lee Siegel on a family crusade worthy of Ancient Greece. Cheney’s public belittling of Obama, his near-seditious claims that Obama is working against the country’s best interests and ...
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POLITICO CLICK: Friends push Ailes for president - Mike AllenFriends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political arena for real by running for president in 2012, top sources tell POLITICO. "Ailes knows how to frame an issue better than anybody, and that's what we need now," says one Ailes friend who is encouraging ...
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