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How 'bored' swine flu hotline workers are wasting UK taxpayers' money on booze, games Irish Sun Friday 4th September, 2009 London, Sept 4 : Hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money has been 'squandered' - thanks to the bored workers of dried-up swine flu hotlines in the UK who spend most of their time sleeping, playing cards, boozing and smoking dope. The National Pandemic Flu Service, which started one and a half months ago, had 19 call centres under its aegis to diagnose cases and give advice on the pandemic. However with the stabilization of services and a dip...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's watchdog has recommended "employee-by-employee" action to ensure the agency fixes the breakdowns that allowed Bernard Madoff's colossal fraud to go undetected for years.

In Washington, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina was sharply criticized by both Democrats and his fellow Republicans for shouting “You lie!” during President Obama’s health care address on Wednesday. But here in his strongly Republican Congressional district on Thursday, he was celebrated by many of his constituents for his outburst. “Yeah, it was rude, but somebody needed to say it,” said Susan Wahl, 41, a homemaker in this town of 800 outside Columbia. “Ordinary people can’t just get up and tell Obama he lied. He said something we all wanted to say.” In a state famous for both its...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The government will soon begin to pull back on some support for financial markets, U.S. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner told a congressional oversight panel Thursday afternoon. Geithner said in testimony that the country had moved away from the edge of financial disaster and appeared to moving in the right direction. The Treasury is withdrawing its request for $750 billion more in bank rescue funds that had been included in the 2010 budget request. He said the government will require banks to hold more capital. Since the Bush administration created the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008,...

Did President Barack Obama's speech change your mind about health-care reform? Yes 16.9% No 83.1% Total votes: 532

Video of Iranian-Americans Rally in Dallas, Texas in support of pro-Democracy movement in Iran. Chants are "down with Khamenei" "don't be afraid we are all together". Video here: Here

As soon as I started covering Barack Obama, I knew he was going to be trouble. Not Global Trouble, like W. and Dick Cheney. Or Hanky-Panky Trouble, like Bill Clinton and John Edwards. Or Tedious Trouble, like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. He was going to be the kind of guy who whipped you up and then, when you were all excited, left you flat, and then, when you were deflated and exasperated and time was running out, ensorcelled you again with some sparkly fairy dust. It’s an irritating pattern. Not as puerile as Bill Clinton’s pattern of wasting time...

A man who turned blue after self-medicating for a skin condition says his hue is lightening. Paul Karason, 58, has the strange Papa Smurf look as a side effect of using a silver compound which he used more than a decade ago to treat a bad case of dermatitis on his face. But he told NBC's Today Show that his skin is lightening because he is now using the self-administered doses of colloidal silver less. 'I’m in a place right now where it’s very difficult for me to make my own, and my resources are limited and it’s very expensive,'...

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is a network of nonprofit community groups formed nearly 40 years ago on the premise that banks, corporations and insurance companies, immersed in greed, have kept poor and predominantly minority neighborhoods desperate. Within the past couple months, however, its leaders have been engaged in the more mundane task of spinning a scandal that already has claimed its most visible leader. To longtime ACORN critics, it’s a case of belated just deserts. ***** At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder and chief organizer Wade Rathke and his brother, Dale.

Houston, TX (AHN) - Police in Pasadena, Texas have recovered $2 million worth of stolen goods at three Houston locations upon arresting a suspected burglar that hit J.C. Penneys and other stores in three states. Wednesday's arrest of Ricky Orlando Garcia, 38, came after the burglary of J.C. Penney stores in Fairmont Parkway, Indianapolis, Rosenberg and Covington, Louisiana from June to August. The stores have holes in their roofs where the burglar entered.Other burglaries in Hays and Dallas counties in 2008 are being blamed on Garcia. Burglary charges have been filed against him in Rosenberg, Lafayette and St. Tammany Parish.

Reformists to use last Friday of Ramadan, which marks annual Palestinian support rallies in Tehran, to protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime, including transfer of financial aid to Palestinians in 'disregard for the Iranian people's money' according to the report, supporters of reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi used the social network Facebook and other online forums to urged people to attend the annual Palestinian support rallies, but this time, instead of calling out, "Death to America and Israel" to shout out, "Death to the dictator", in reference to Ahmadinejad. Protestors also plan to express their objection to the financial aid Iran grants...

(Newser Summary) – A New York City group has secured enough valid signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot to force a new investigation into the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A press release from the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now says city lawyers conceded today that at least a requisite 30,000 of some 52,000 collected by the group were legal. “Although the City has an incredibly successful record of shooting down ballot initiatives, we will be arguing from a fresh perspective that reflects the unprecedented events of 9/11,” says a lawyer for NYC CAN,...

NYC Seniors Not Buying Obama Health Reform SpeechMany Tell CBS 2 HD They Are Fine With The Coverage They Have; Others Vow To Never Vote For President Again Reporting Marcia Kramer Sep 10, 2009 8:37 pm US/Eastern NEW YORK (CBS) - During his speech Wednesday night President Barack Obama tried to re-assure senior citizens that their Medicare coverage would be preserved. But some seniors here in New York are still skeptical. The people at the Northeast Bronx Senior Center heard what Obama had to say about health care reform and trying to preserve their Medicare coverage. "The only thing this...

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If President Barack Obama gets what he wants in his health care plan — covering all Americans and barring insurers from denying coverage — some analysts say individuals could wind up paying higher premiums. The Obama plan would impose new costs on insurance companies, which would probably then raise the prices customers pay for coverage. Employers also would likely pass on some of their higher costs to employees. An individual in a typical plan might have to pay up to $780 more for the same coverage in the first year of Obama's plan, estimates Erik Gordon, a health care analyst...

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I intend to photograph the Beck gathering at SAFECO. 9/26/09 As a non violent demonstration., I would like to be accompanied by one or more liberals carrying (legally) holstered (unloaded) firearms. Realistic stage weapons or blank guns are also welcome but I am informed that these will also require carry permits. My object is to provoke discussion and photograph participants. I would carry myself but do not own a gun and I am told it may take several weeks to get a carry permit. Feel free to share. PLEASE ASK PEOPLE TO REPLY HERE.

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TO listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health care in America is the system itself — perverse incentives, inefficiencies, unnecessary tests and procedures, lack of competition, and greed. No one disputes that the $2.3 trillion we devote to the health care industry is often spent unwisely, but the fact that the United States spends twice as much per person as most European countries on health care can be substantially explained, as a study released last month says, by our...