UK: Drug Resistance Superflu
…The potent virus, which is more likely to trigger serious complications in patients, is a strain of the previously known H1N1 influenza virus, but cannot be treated with the most common flu drug, Tamiflu.

New Russian law ends jury trials for ‘crimes against state’…President Dmitry Medvedev signs the controversial measure with little publicity. [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US-Japanese research team announced it had isolated three genes that explain why the 1918 Spanish flu, believed to be the deadliest infectious disease in history, was so lethal.
A far better question would be: Why were they looking?

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Scott Ritter
The Guardian
Despite the facts, the vice-president still insists that Saddam Hussein could have produced weapons of mass destruction

An Open Secret?…Kwame Raoul, who succeeded President-elect Obama in his state senate seat, is now coming forward to say that he too got the shake-down from Gov. Blagojevich as he sought appoint to the two remaining years of Obama’s federal senate term. Raoul says he withdrew his name from further consideration because he [...]

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DALLAS, Dec. 12 (UPI) — More than 30 envelopes containing white powder have been mailed to governors’ offices around the United States this week, the FBI said Friday.
The envelopes have also contained notes, Robert E. Casey Jr., special agent in charge in Dallas, said. All were postmarked in Texas.
After field screening, the powder has been [...]

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Robert E. Casey Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Dallas FBI, announces that since Monday at least eight letters containing a suspicious white powder have been received by the offices of governors around the country.
The white powder substance has been field screened and the tests have met with negative results. The white powder substance has been [...]

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By PHILLIP RAWLS
The Associated Press
Monday, December 8, 2008; 11:32 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Suspicious letters containing powdery substances addressed to governors were intercepted in at least six states on Monday, but tests indicated the powder in five of them wasn’t harmful.
The letters were reported in Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island. Though no injuries [...]

FBI agents stage sting to snare corrupt Ill. cops…Duffel bags stuffed with cocaine were delivered by plane to an out-of-the-way suburban airport while two sheriff’s officers provided security. A police officer stood by to guard the cash and keep out the riffraff at a poker game where $100,000 changed hands. And a drug dealer was [...]

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Genetically-modified crops could be grown by the Government in secret locations in an attempt to prevent trials being attacked by saboteurs, it has been reported.
By Jon Swaine
Trials could also be conducted away from the public in the Government’s Porton Down military research site in Salisbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed.

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John Aravosis (DC)
You want pork, let’s talk pork. This is John McCain’s good buddy, George Bush’s pork. And it’s sickening.
Much of the University of Texas medical school on this island suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that will soon house some of [...]