MARKETWATCHWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - A key congressional committee approved
legislation on Thursday that would allow for government audits of
Federal Reserve monetary policy as well as how much the central bank
has lent and will lend to specific banks in response to the financial
crisis, despite major opposition from the central bank. The measure,
introduced by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has the support of 309 members of
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PAK TRIBUNEIn the wake of the massacre at Fort Hood Texas , two principal theories have emerged to explain the conduct of the accused shooter, identified by the U.S. Army as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist of Jordanian-Palestinian ancestry. One of these theories is embraced by left liberals and other supporters and acolytes of the Obama regime, and argues that Major Hasan is a sincere and devout Muslim who was the victim of a tragic contradiction between his religious faith and ... Read Full Story
RELATED: THE STRANGE CASE OF JOSEPH MOSHEAccording to Europe Business Blog: "Joseph Moshe, the dual national (Israeli-American) Mossad biowar expert, who was attacked and seized by Federal Agents and LAPD in mid-August in California, after speaking to Dr. True Ott on his national radio show and warning of a plot by Baxter International to spread a Plague from Baxter's Ukrainian lab, IS BEING HELD IN THE PATTON STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL IN CALIFORNIA. Next Court Date is 01/25/2010............ ... Read Full Story
RAW STORY - JOHN BRYNEBush Administration memos released by the White House on Thursday provide new insight into claims that American agents used insects to torture the young children of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.In the memos, released Thursday, the Bush Administration White House Office of Legal Counsel offered its endorsement of CIA torture methods that involved placing an insect in a cramped, confined box with detainees. Jay S. Bybee, then-director of the OLC, wrote th... Read Full Story
POPSCIIn The People's Republic of China, it's no secret that the Party controls just about everything. But as Beijing suffers through its second major snowstorm this season, residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies. After all, while the storm came as a surprise to residents, the government knew about it all along. In fact, the government caused it.China has long tinkered with Mother Nature's waterworks, even establishing a state organ -- the Beijing Weather M... Read Full Story
MEDPAGE TODAY - Kristina FioreThe American Medical Association has changed its policy on medical marijuana, urging the federal government to review the drug's status as a top-tier controlled dangerous substance.The new policy, adopted Tuesday at its semiannual House of Delegates meeting in Houston, also calls for further studies of marijuana "and related cannabinoids in patients who have serious conditions for which preclinical, anecdotal, or controlled evidence suggests possible efficacy" of... Read Full Story
APPresident Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." He said those who died on the nation's largest Army post deserve just... Read Full Story
