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High Security for Super Bowl 43
A recent U.S. intelligence report says no credible threat of terrorist attacks has been detected ahead of the National Football League’s Super Bowl on Sunday in Tampa, Florida. But law enforcement officials say visitors will see the heavy security typical of every Super Bowl since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.....
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-31-voa30.cfm?rss=topstories
Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Justifies the Holocaust, Airs Footage, and Declares: “This Is What We Hope Will Happen But, Allah Willing, at the Hand of the Muslims” WARNING: Extremely Disturbing Holocaust Footage
BROWARD COUNTY, FL--Port Everglades was closed to vessel traffic as investigators inspected a suspicious package at a terminal for nearly two hours today. A K-9 unit detected something suspicious in luggage of a passenger who was boarding a ship around 4:30 p.m.
The terminal had to be evacuated and vessels, including several cruise ships were unable to dock. The package contained electronics that caused the dog to be alarmed.
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets
Saturday 31 January 2009
France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battlefield. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment figure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce. New figures from the biggest bank in the Baltic show that the three post-Soviet states there face the biggest recessions in Europe.
It's a snapshot of a single day – yesterday – in a Europe sinking into the bleakest of times. But while the outlook may be dark in the big wealthy democracies of western Europe, it is in the young, poor, vulnerable states of central and eastern Europe that the trauma of crash, slump and meltdown looks graver.
Excerpted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/31/global-recession-europe-protests