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FBI Can Now Interrogate of Americans Without Any Links to Terrorism
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: FBI, domestic surveillance, domestic interrogation, Michael Mukasey, spying, terrorism )

Ombretta
- 21 hours ago - washingtonpost.com
The excuse for new "guidelines" allowing the EFF-BEE-EYE to pull all kinds of dirty tricks on unsuspecting innocents is "the guidelines are necessary to fulfill the FBI's core mission to predict threats and respond even before an attack takes place." HAH!
Obama and Acorn: Indefensible Links
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Obama, Barack Obama, ACORN, voter fraud, corruption, community organizing )

Ombretta
- 1 day ago - clevelandleader.com
Obama has been attempting to whitewash his long and documented connection with ACORN, a community organizing and "reform" group involved in voter registration fraud. But the evidence is out there, and no amount of rationalization will explain it away
Does Your Medicare Plan Offer Your Neighbor a Better Deal?
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, Medicare, health care plans, Florida, nonprescription drugs, universsal health care programs )

Kactus
- 4 days ago - bulletin.aarp.org
companies don't offer the same benefits in his hometown of Delray Beach, a Palm Beach County community, as they do in Miami, only about 50 miles away. He is furious. Read on....!!
Homework Around Him, Boy-12, Killed in Drive-By Shooting
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, IL, MO, children, boy, drive-by shooting, deaths )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - cnn.com
Books, pencils found near body of Delarrian Davis Marcus Powell charged with first-degree murder in drive-by shooting Powell, 27, was wanted for another shooting, police said
Aspirin, Ibuprofen May Cut Your BREAST CANCER Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, breast cancer, breast cancer studies, aspirin, Ibuprofen, cancer risks, cancer preventions, NSAIDs, heart disease, heart problems, USA, UK )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - cnn.com
Women taking aspirin had 13% lower risk of breast cancer, study finds..ibuprofen had 21% lower risk. Study: 2.7 mil women in 38 separate studies. BUT...NSAIDs have been linked to risk of heart problems. More studies in the UK on this issue.
Phoenix, AZ: Criminals Targeted in U.S. "Kidnap Capital"
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, Arizona, drug smuggling profits, Mexican border, smugglers, criminals, criminal underworld, illegal narcotics smuggling )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
Criminal underworld have long enjoyed the hot money profits from illicit smuggling of drugs and people over the border from Mexico. Now kidnappers stalk THEM, wanting a piece of their proceeds! Kidnap rings snatching the criminals, illegal human smuggling
Crisis Forcing Debt-Saddled Americans to Budget--BIG TIME!
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, budgets, budgeting, learrning to control spending, society, getting out of debt, poor economy, no money, living small-scale )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
"I know for many of us saving is a foreign concept," Lizbeth Sanchez, a manager at financial counseling service Balance told the crowd. "It's not easy to save because the way our culture works, the person who dies with the most stuff wins, right?"
Can't Afford to Eat Healthy Anymore? Join the Rest of Us!
Health & Wellness  (tags: Economy, food prices, eating healthy, cheaper processed food, credit crunch, eating habits )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - haverhillecho.co.uk
Haverhill debt counselling charity has revealed that people's diets are suffering as they turn to cheaper processed foods in their bid to cope with the credit crunch; people's eating habits have changed because of the current financial problems...
U.S. Girls Percentage Getting HPV & Meningitis Vaccines
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, vaccines, young girls, HPV vaccine, Meningitis vaccine, genital warts, cervical cancer risks, teenage girls, at risk age-groups )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
Girls aged 13-17, rec'd. Gardasil vaccine last year to protect against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer & genital warts in young women and girls aged 9-26; 1/3 got meningitis vaccine, too.
Carbon Tax Seen as Best Way to Slow Global Warming
Environment  (tags: USA, carbon tax, global warming, climate tax, trade markets, caping taxes, world's energy system )

Kactus
- 3 days ago - reuters.com
Climate taxes, not cap and trade markets alone, will lead to the vast technological changes the world's energy system needs to fight global warming, a top U.S. economist reports today.
 
 
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