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The man who wrote, told, and laughed at His “Joke” the rape of Sarah Palin’s 14 year-old Daughter still has a Job at CBS?

France to ask EU to suspend flights to Mexico…
FEAR: AIR FRANCE crew refuse to board flight…
WHO: Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152…
*Moving closer to pandemic…
** RAISING ALERT TO LEVEL 5 OUT OF 6…
CDC: 91 confirmed cases in USA…
EGYPT ORDERS CULL OF ALL PIGS…
*FARMERS RIOT…
Germany, Austria confirm cases…
UK to leaflet every house…
OBAMA SAYS SCHOOLS WITH CASES SHOULD CONSIDER CLOSING…
Phoenix police wearing gear to protect against flu…
California Marine has swine flu; 30 quarantined…

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Source: Reuters
GENEVA, April 29 (Reuters) - World Health Organization director-general Dr. Margaret Chan raised the pandemic threat awareness level to 5 out of 6 on Wednesday, meaning the world is at imminent risk of a pandemic from H1N1 swine flu.

“I have decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5,” Chan told a news briefing.
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A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.

Hours after the incident, a furious Bloomberg called the photo-op “insensitive.”
“First thing is I’m annoyed - furious is a better word - that I wasn’t told,” he said. “Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination. Poor judgment would be a nice ways to phrase.”

Bloomberg said federal officials notified the NYPD and another city official, whom he declined to identify, of the flight plan.

“Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to,” he said. “The good news is it was nothing more than an ill considered, badly conceived, insensitive photo op - with the taxpayers’ money.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the strain of swine flu and is prepared to distribute a quarter of the U.S. stockpile of 50 million doses of anti-viral medications in places around the country where swine flu has been located or may be expected to spread, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a briefing at the White House.

Travel advisories have not been issued by the State Department, Napolitano said, nor is the United States going to screen passengers on flights arriving from Mexico. She said funds have been freed up in case a larger response is needed.

Hand-washing, mask-wearing and other measures will help prevent the spread, Napolitano said explaining how the public can help slow potential contaminations.
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What idiots are stupid enough to have a ‘Gay’ man judging the beauty of women?

I’m very proud of Miss NC, but I must say that I’m far more proud of Miss CA’s answer…

Turns out that Miss CA is truly beautiful…

BEIJING — China called for the creation of a new currency to eventually replace the dollar as the world’s standard, proposing a sweeping overhaul of global finance that reflects developing nations’ growing unhappiness with the U.S. role in the world economy.
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WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is “deeply disappointed and concerned” after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley suggested on Monday that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.
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AIG Execs Hire Armed Guards
A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn’t show up at all.
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The U.S. military in Baghdad confirmed Monday that an American fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone over Iraq last month.
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Seventy-nine percent (79%) of U.S. voters now say the military should be used along the border with Mexico to protect American citizens if drug-related violence continues to grow in that area.
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A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.

The chief of staff of Russia’s long range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, also said Cuba could be used to base the aircraft, Interfax reported. …
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Troubled insurer American International Group (AIG: 0.4815, 0.0626, 14.94%), which is 79.9%-owned by the federal government, will pay $165 million in retention bonuses on Sunday to those at the division that has drawn most of the heat for the company’s near-collapse.
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This is the spa and hunting trip on your dime group. Now they want to get your money, even though they had to come and beg for your money to go to the spa and stay afloat. A real President would put them in prison just for the spa and hunting trips they took after taking your money.

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because
the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets
the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to
get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

WASHINGTON — America’s recession “probably” will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday in a rare television interview.
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WASILLA, Alaska — Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, have broken off their engagement, he said Wednesday, about 2 1/2 months after the couple had a baby.
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BEIJING — China’s Defense Ministry has demanded that the U.S. Navy end surveillance missions off the country’s southern coast following a weekend confrontation between an American vessel and Chinese ships.
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A San Francisco police union has accused former domestic terrorist William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground, and his wife in a 1970 bombing that killed one sergeant, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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The martial arts clothing company TapouT confirmed that co-founder Charles “Mask” Lewis died in the car wreck shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday in Newport Beach. Police say the Ferrari apparently collided with a Porsche and spun out of control
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WASHINGTON — Congress on Tuesday cleared for President Obama’s signature a $410 billion measure to fund the government, a measure denounced by most Republicans as an example of reckless spending.
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