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‘Secret Team’ Airlines? Dominican republic: Authorities investigate “mysterious” plane vanished from radar
Dominican Today/SOTT
Santo Domingo – Intelligence agencies investigate how a “mysterious” aircraft took off from Higüero International Airport with fake registry and a flight plan initially to Port-au-Prince, but once in flight changed course toward South America, vanishing from radar screens.
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Shorter Question Everything
Russia
Russia’s envoy to NATO has sharply criticized the alliance’s shift away from fighting drug trafficking in Afghanistan, saying the resulting surge in heroin smuggling is endangering Russia’s national security.
In an interview late Thursday, Dmitry Rogozin also highlighted the lack of cohesion within NATO, saying Moscow is worried about declining public support in Europe for the [...]
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Drill will simulate shooting at Metro station
February 24, 2010 – 8:07am/WTOP.com
hat tip~ Legitgov
FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, Md. – If you see lots of police and hear commotion at the Friendship Heights Metro station late Wednesday night, relax. It’s just a drill.
But it is a drill that will simulate gunfire between two shooters in the station, with multiple passengers injured or killed.
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Angie Sanselmente Valencia, Lingerie Model, Runs One Of The World’s Largest Drug Gangs, Police Say (PHOTO)
HuffPo
Angie Sanselmente Valencia is a stunning young lingerie model who, authorities believe, is also the leader of the one of the world’s largest drug gangs.
As the Telegraph reports, an international arrest warrant has been issued for 30-year-old Valencia, who is believed to be on the run in either Mexico or Argentina.
Bringing a little glamor [...]
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Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’
Raw Story
US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.”
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There’s been a coup, [...]
Shorter Question Everything
Haiti
Obama Right to Tap Bush for Haiti Aid Effort
Like a child who begrudgingly has to invite his weird cousin to his birthday party, there are some things a president simply must do. So it must have been when President Obama asked George W. Bush to join with U.N. special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton to [...]
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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions
Guardian/Rajeev Syal
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Shorter Question Everything
US
President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill [2010 National Defense Authorization Act] Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]. The new ‘hate crimes bill’ expands the [...]
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Georgian ‘mafia boss’ slips net