Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has gone, hat in hand, to health industry officials, asking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama’s landmark health-care law, two people familiar with the outreach said.
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A nationwide ammunition shortage has police departments across the country counting their bullets. It’s no different in Proctor, where the Chief says he was told he’d have to wait months, even a year to get more ammo.
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Abby Martin talks to former MI5 agent and Whistleblower, Annie Machon, about the her experience from the inside, the roll of intelligence in global affairs, and the impunity for government crimes.
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Massive violent protests against the education system in Chile have continued for years. Protesters are fed up with the largely privatized and very expensive schools, a legacy of Pinochet’s neo-liberal experiments.
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Somehow she scares me more than usual. She is now a honored guest at a G8 meeting, check it out. I fear we are going to see a lot more of Angelina in the international political arena for the coming years.
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Two years after Nato’s intervention, the militias are still terrorising the country. But hey, who cares? As long as the oil flows…
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Researchers at Virginia Tech announced Thursday that their latest breakthrough in hydrogen extraction technology could lead to widespread adoption of the substance as a fuel due to its ease of availability in virtually all plant matter, a reservoir previously impossible to tap.
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This week, Japanese and European scientists began assembling an advanced nuclear fusion testing facility northeast of Tokyo in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture. The site is on Japan’s Pacific coast 143 kilometers (89 miles) south of Fukushima Daiichi.
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Very little news comes out of Algeria, the nation values it’s independence since it’s bloody war against colonial power France. Oil and gas rich Algeria is a likely target in the new colonization of Africa by the West.
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Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg.
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