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United Future World Currency Program THE WORLD IN A COIN The world in a coin. This is our vision, our hope. It is a necessity and a challenge. What seems an impossible dream becomes an inevitable historic, economic and social process. It is an event which is intertwined with the fate of human evolution. A single currency becomes the premise for an increasingly global planet. A virtual currency capable of speaking a single, comprehensible language to foster humankind's innate desire to go farther, to surpass boundaries, and move towards true principles of peace, freedom, brotherhood and understanding beyond issues of...

Agriculture leaders, as well as farmers and ranchers, are watching the outcome of the many congressional bills that are being discussed on Capitol Hill. They question whether farmers and ranchers will survive if additional permits and taxation are implemented. Two of the issues currently being discussed are the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) that is included in House Resolution (HR) 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, and the probable taxation of cattle by means of changes in the Clean Air Act. Those who have followed the NAIS controversy may have read editorials written by Henry Lamb, chairman of...

The South Carolina spree murderer has been identified. He had been paroled only two weeks earlier and had a 25-page criminal record, including armed robbery, burglary and assault. He was surprised during another burglary and shot dead by police in North Carolina, ending a reign of terror in which five people were murdered. They included an 83-year-old woman and her daughter, a farmer, and a storeowner and his 15-year-old daughter. A police official waved the thick rap sheet at TV cameras and demanded to know why someone with such an extensive criminal record had been released yet again. It was...

The California Legislature is getting back into the Proposition 8 fight with a bill that would recognize possibly thousands of same-sex marriages performed outside of California before the measure was passed. SB 54 , introduced late last week by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, also would ensure that gay and lesbian couples who have married in other states or countries since Nov. 5 -- when Prop 8 became official -- receive all the rights and obligations opposite-sex California couples enjoy, with the exception of the designation of "marriage." The bill faces its first test today in the Assembly Judiciary Committee,...

Gun-rights advocates have won victories in several states in recent months allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public parks, taverns and their work places. So it came as a surprise to Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield that he couldn't persuade his colleagues to pass a law allowing students at public colleges to carry concealed firearms on campus. The bill died this spring in the Republican-controlled legislature -- one of 34 straight defeats nationwide for people who believe a gun wouldn't be out of place in a college student's knapsack. aucous debates over the parameters of the Second Amendment...

Honduras's ousted president says he will demand the removal of the interim government within 24 hours during talks aimed at solving his country's crisis. Manuel Zelaya was speaking ahead of the talks in Costa Rica. The interim government, which is also taking part, says it intends to ensure Mr Zelaya returns to Honduras to face trial for abusing the constitution. The exiled president has the backing of world leaders, including US President Barack Obama. Judging by the comments in advance of these talks their mediator, Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, has an almost insurmountable challenge ahead of him. He has...

Poll: Besides electing someone else, what's the best way to get the attention of Congresscritters? A Daily Poll.

Fiorina seems to be prepping for a bout with Boxer Former Hewlett-Packard chief and McCain economic advisor seems to be getting ready to seek the Republican nomination for the senator's job in 2010. Michael Finnegan July 8, 2009. Carly Fiorina, whose rocky tenure as chief executive of Hewlett Packard ended with her firing, is making serious preparations to run next year for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Fiorina's candidacy would be her first foray into elective politics and would turn California's Senate contest into one of the most closely watched in 2010. In a state...

SNIPPET: "Aleem N. is then accused of then having transported the equipment and money to al-Qaida contacts in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Sermet I. visited Aleem N. many times at his apartment in the town of Germersheim in western Germany, prosecutors said. The German of Pakistani heritage, who has been identified by his family as Aleem Nasir, went on trial in December in Koblenz, also charged with membership in Al Qaeda. A verdict is expected next Monday. In another linked case, prosecutors in March charged 31-year-old Omer O. with membership in Al Qaeda on allegations he was collecting money and...

Hey the daily show just did a skit implying that Obama is a pompous elitist and is not paying attention to real issues that actually matter. Apparently Obama reads Urdu poetry while Rome burns. The skit ends with Jon yelling, "Just Fix the Economy!!" Even the farout Libs and MSM are starting to get-it. Obama's ship is sinking fast

The UK is heading for an "energy crunch" after new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea dropped 57pc in the first half of this year. A report by Oil & Gas UK, the industry group, showed that companies are cutting back on new projects as costs rise and funding is scarce during the recession. Investment in the industry fell to £4.8bn last year, down £1.2bn over the last two years, and it could drop below £3bn next year. The report estimates that £5bn a year is needed to maintain exploration.

White House officials have now done two readouts on what went down with President Obama and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at their meeting here in Moscow on Tuesday morning. The assessment: No major drama, at least not that they are talking about yet. We had wondered if Putin might try to exhibit some manliness to, you know, one up the new kid on the block. After all, we’re talking about a guy who once tranquilized a tiger in front of the cameras. When President Bush visited Putin’s house a few years ago, the then-Russian prez tried to show Bush...

Thursday, July 02, 2009 By LORI STABILE lstabile@repub.com BELCHERTOWN - Ellen M. Majka was inside her home on Prescott Hill when she saw a bald eagle swoop down into her neighbor's yard. It was the first time she saw a bald eagle in the neighborhood. But even more surprising was what she saw in its talons when it flew back up - a black cat. "I've never seen anything like that in my life. I was shocked. I said, 'Oh my God,'" Majka said. The incident happened early, just after 6 am. on June 23. According to eagle experts, a...

Port statistics are revealing. They were a leading indicator before the production collapse in the Japan, Europe, and the US over the winter, and they may be telling us something again. Amrita Sen at Barclays Capital says the number of Baltic Dry ships waiting to berth — mostly in China and Australia — has begun to fall after peaking at 154 in mid-June. The Capesize Iron Ore Port Congestion Index (a new one for me, I must confess) is replicating the pattern seen a year ago just before the commodity boom tipped over. “The anecdotal evidence we are hearing is...

The U.S. expects to send $1.5 billion in stimulus money Thursday to hundreds of communities around the country to prevent homelessness, including $1 million for Fresno to dismantle tent cities and move residents into privately owned apartments. The novel experiment is one of hundreds of projects to be funded under the stimulus law intended to jump-start the economy. It will help people like Lana Meranda and her husband and stepmother, who have been living under a tarp enclosure with their pitbull puppy, Lucky, for 10 months, after a series of job losses and, in her stepmother's case, cancer. "We can't...

ETROIT (AP) -- Some members of the Detroit City Council say they're unhappy with billboards throughout the city that boast Colt 45 malt liquor "works every time." The council spent part of Tuesday looking at ways to regulate such advertising after residents complained they were offended by the billboards featuring a cartoon representation of actor Billy Dee Williams. Councilwoman JoAnn Watson says, "This is killing our community." Watson says she's worried the billboards are targeted specifically at Detroiters, calling it "an issue of racism and perversity."

One of the most poignant criticisms of the stimulus when it was being debated was that most of the stimulus was not going to be spent until 2010 and beyond. Here we had a president proclaiming that the economic apocalypse was upon us. Then, he proclaimed we had no time to debate the stimulus. Yet, the president's own estimations pointed out that the stimulus would take years and years to spend. The argument I just made about the slow nature in which the stimulus would be spent was made effectively during the stimulus debate. At the same time, the country...

The mother of a California seventh-grader forced to remove her pro-life T-shirt is suing school administrators, claiming that her daughter's First Amendment rights were violated. Anna Amador says the principal at McSwain Elementary School, a K-8 school in Merced, Calif. ordered her daughter to take off the T-shirt she wore to school on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day" in April 2008. The shirt displays two graphic photos of a fetus in the womb with the word "growing" under the images. A third box is black, and features the word "gone." The complaint alleges that school principal Terrie Rohrer, assistant principal C.W....

Prior to the administration of Barack Obama, the reasons given for the Islamist hatred of the United States was they were threatened by our values, lifestyle and freedoms. That's why the United States was called the great Satan. We are leaders in the world of non-believers. Take for example this from James Taranto's WSJ Column: Now and then a terrorist actually takes the trouble to explain his motives. London's Daily Telegraph reports on the trial of the man who allegedly (and now confessedly) murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh: Mohammed Bouyeri, a baby-faced 27-year-old with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, broke his...

This is a brand new video from the House Republican Conference, the same folks that brought us the tongue-in-cheek production featuring House Minority Leader John Boehner and a bloodhound with noses to the ground, searching for stimulus jobs. This video, however, is not so tongue-in-cheek, and presents the hard reality of the failure of the so-called "stimulus" plan championed by Barack Obama and the Democrats and defended to this day. It also shows the Doctrine of Constructive Obstructionism in action. Because the House Republicans offered alternatives, unified behind them, and refused to budge when it came to the Democrats' plans...