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Central Figure in CDC Vaccine-Autism Cover-Up Absconds With $2M
HuffPo/SOTT
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Huffington Post
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:03 EST
A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are investigating Dr. Poul Thorsen, who [...]
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Amnesty report condemns US death rates of women in childbirth
Those from poor, African American and Native American backgrounds most at risk
Sarah Boseley/Guardian
The death rate of women giving birth in the US is worse than in 40 other countries, including nearly all the industrialised countries, Amnesty International said today in a report that describes the country’s approach to maternity care as “disgraceful and scandalous”.
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Dubai
Interpol joined an international task force investigating the Dubai assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The international policing organization also said it was convinced of the broad, international scope of the crime.
The notices, short of international arrest warrants but a request to Interpol members to detain the named people for extradition, bring to 27 the [...]
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Palin jumps border for Canadian health care
There is so much that’s phony about this woman that this really doesn’t come as a surprise to me. Irony doesn’t even begin to touch upon it. She’s a flat out hypocrite, a liar, as dishonest as the day is long. That a bunch of right wing Canadians are hanging on this twits every word [...]
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Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock-Up Pregnant Women
Lynn M. Paltrow
Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women
HuffPo
On Thursday, a Utah legislator withdrew a bill that would allow sentences of up to life in prison for a woman who experiences a miscarriage or stillbirth as a result of her “reckless” behavior. This move has been attributed to a “firestorm” of opposition. [...]
Cantor: We need ‘to get more people uninsured’
David Edwards and Gavin Dahl/RawStory
Republican House Whip Eric Cantor may have made a Freudian slip Sunday when he told NBC’s David Gregory that the GOP wants to “get more people uninsured.”
VA to reconsider benefits for ill Gulf War vets
AP/Roguegovernment
The Veterans Affairs Department will re-examine the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended.
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US: Utah
Why does it always seem to be Utah?
Utah criminalizes miscarriage, mangages to become worse at being a state
Utah, the most comically awful state in the union, is now becoming substantially worse, in a decidedly non-comical way. Both chambers of the state legislature passed new legislation that will define miscarriages due to reckless behavior as criminal homicide, which could result [...]
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Iraq
The U.S. military has prepared contingency plans to delay the planned withdrawal of all combat forces in Iraq, citing the prospects for political instability and increased violence as Iraqis hold national elections next month.
Under a deadline set by President Obama, all combat forces are slated to withdraw from Iraq by the end of August, and [...]
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Kissinger admitted to hospital with virus