A prominent investigative journalist says the United States is using illegal weaponry - particularly depleted uranium - during its wars in the Middle East.
Interview with Gareth Porter, investigative journalist.
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House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which would study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes, from disruptions in food and energy supplies to a complete meltdown of the federal government.
The task force would look at the feasibility of:
Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency, if needed. And House members approved an amendment Friday by state Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, to have the task force also examine conditions under which Wyoming would need to implement its own military draft, raise a standing army, and acquire strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier.
The double-hit of infertililty and recession is forcing some wannabe parents to get creative. In the U.S. it costs as much as 100,000 dollars to use a surrogate mother to start a family. But get on a plane, and it could be much cheaper. RT's Priya Sridhar met one such couple.
Greece is teetering on the edge of bankrupcy, the future of bailed-out Portugal is uncertain and the single currency itself could be in trouble. The ranks of people writing off the Eurozone and even the European project itself are only swelling in number. So, perhaps that's why the message for a United Europe is being pushed on an all new platform - the classroom.
A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras and killed more than 350 inmates Wednesday. The blaze began late Tuesday night at the prison in Comayagua, about 75 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
Inmates trapped inside say guards shot at them. Firefighters claim they struggled to enter the prison because shots were fired.
Inmates trapped inside say guards shot at them. Firefighters claim they struggled to enter the prison because shots were fired.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose three-month suspended prison sentence and €10,000 fine was upheld by a Paris appeals court.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose three-month suspended prison sentence and €10,000 fine was upheld by a Paris appeals court.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far right Front National, has been convicted of contesting crimes against humanity for saying the Nazi occupation was not "particularly inhumane".
A Paris appeals court upheld the three-month suspended prison sentence and €10,000 (£8,283) fine handed to Le Pen in 2009.
Le Pen had told the far-right magazine Rivarol in 2005: "in France at least the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km."
He added: "If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees."
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Actress Lucy Lawless is spending her third night on board an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic with a group of protesters.
Actress Lucy Lawless is spending her third night on board an oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic with a group of protesters.
The protesters, including TV actor Lucy Lawless, boarded the Arctic-bound Noble Discoverer and scaled the 53m drilling tower on Friday morning, using locks on the access ladder to barricade themselves on the derrick.
The group of six had a cold and uncomfortable night on Saturday with loud music blasting at 3am and spotlights shining on them all night, Greenpeace New Zealand says on its website.
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Smoking is already banned indoors in public places in most of the country, and in California it is illegal to smoke in parks and playgrounds too.
The town of Rocklin, near Sacramento, could take the draconian regulations further by extending them to private property as well.
The unusual legislation was prompted by a local family annoyed with their neighbour smoking outside and causing smoke to waft near their house.
They claimed their children's health had been jeopardised by second-hand smoke, according to CBS 13.
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Lord Lucan at a West End club in London back in 1973
Lord Lucan at a West End club in London back in 1973
The Countess of Lucan also admitted she still harbours feelings for her husband, despite the fact he beat her savagely with a lead pipe, leaving her with an inch-long scar on her forehead.
She said: "I remember the happy times. I have three children by him. He is still a part of my life and a part of me, even though it was all so long ago.
"If I could have helped him I would have done."
Lucan disappeared in 1974 after bludgeoning Sandra Rivett, the nanny, to death at his home in Belgravia, London. His wife claims he had mistaken Rivett for her in the darkened basement.
The couple had recently been involved in a bitter custody battle and when she entered the room he attacked her but she managed to fight him off and escape.
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In the latest revelation of how the federal government is monitoring social media and online news outlets, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has posted online a 2011 Department of Homeland Security manual that includes hundreds of key words (such as those above) and search terms used to detect possible terrorism, unfolding natural disasters and public health threats. The center, a privacy watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request and then sued to obtain the release of the documents.
The 39-page "Analyst's Desktop Binder" used by the department's National Operations Center includes no-brainer words like ""attack," "epidemic" and "Al Qaeda" (with various spellings). But the list also includes words that can be interpreted as either menacing or innocent depending on the context, such as "exercise," "drill," "wave," "initiative," "relief" and "organization."
Comment: In a way Le Pen is right: France did not suffer as much as other countries like Poland and Russia because its population largely embraced Nazi philosophy.
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