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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) today announced that Director Michael R. Bromwich will hold the next two events in a series of fact-finding forums in Houston, Texas and Biloxi, Miss. the week of September 6, 2010. The forums are designed to collect information and views about deepwater drilling safety reforms, well containment, and oil spill response, which Director Bromwich will consider in evaluating whether to recommend any modifications to the scope or duration of the deepwater drilling suspensions announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on July 12, 2010.
RALEIGH, NC - Gov. Beverly Perdue issued the declaration during this afternoon briefing at the state Emergency Operations Center near the state capital. The governor’s declaration covers the entire state of North Carolina.
Perdue also issued Executive Order No. 61 in anticipation of Hurricane Earl’s arrival to temporarily suspend some motor vehicle regulations to ensure the transport of essentials and restoration of utility services as needed.
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Obama, Netanyahu
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“Senseless
slaughter,” says Obama - Hamas calls it "Heroic Operation"
WASHINGTON, DC - Israel demands vengeance today for the murders of four Israeli settlers who were ambushed and shot to death in their car yesterday in the West Bank. Those murders occurred on the eve of scheduled peace talks brokered by President Obama between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas has not only claimed credit for the murders, Palestinians have danced in the streets celebrating what Barack Obama referred to as the “senseless slaughter” of the four Israeli settlers including a pregnant woman.
The complaint, filed Aug. 31, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, also alleges that the defendants, despite numerous warnings, sold for slaughter dairy cows that were treated with drugs contrary to the drugs’ FDA-approved labeling and without a valid veterinary prescription authorizing such use.
Hanna's Rains - Not Surge - Damaged Hundreds of Boats
ALEXANDRIA, VA - Four days before 2008's Hurricane Hanna struck the South Carolina coast and ran up the eastern US seaboard, she was downgraded to a tropical storm. But that still didn't stop the damage to hundreds of recreational boats deluged by the storm's intense rains. And with Hurricane Earl now forecast on a parallel course just eastward of Hanna's old track, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is again urging boaters from the Mid-Atlantic to New England to protect their vessels from the forecasted heavy precipitation.
This week the Army, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard announced a decrease in activated reservists, while the Air Force and Navy announced an increase. The net collective result is 215 fewer reservists activated than last week.
The two-count criminal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Aug. 20, 2010 and unsealed today, charges Hakimullah Mehsud, aka Hakimullah Mahsud, with conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens abroad and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) against U.S. citizens abroad.
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James Lee
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Gunman's Manifesto reads in part: "Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution".
WASHINGTON, DC - An individual identified by Discovery Channel employees as James Lee entered the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Maryland today. The siege is ongoing. Employees and children in a Day Care Center located in the building have been evacuated. There are reports that Mr. Lee has a bomb and is holding hostages. Reports vary on the number of hostages, ranging from 1 to as many as 12.
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Joe Miller wins GOP nomination in Senate primary
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In the biggest upset to date in the current election cycle, unknown Alaska attorney Joe Miller has defeated incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. Miller burst onto the political radar following the endorsement of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.
Miller, a Tea Party candidate working outside of the traditional GOP inner-circle has upset the apple-cart for all those who say the Tea Party will have no impact in November by becoming the first Tea Party backed candidate to upset a sitting U.S. Senator in a head-to-head primary battle. Sarah Palin has proven again to be the conservative candidate’s best friend.
The Arizona Legislature enacted SB 1070 primarily to require that Arizona’s law enforcement officers cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and, pursuant to the State’s broad police powers, to adopt state crimes that mirror existing federal laws. These laws were duly passed by the Arizona Legislature to protect the citizens of Arizona from the federal government’s failure to enforce the immigration laws.
conclusion that a murderous character in a film set for nationwide release this Friday, September 3, 2010, is actually modeled after Arpaio.
President uses the national podium to push his economic agenda
Barack Obama began his remarks by saying, “I know this historic moment comes at a time of great uncertainty for many Americans. We’ve now been through nearly a decade of war. We’ve endured a long and painful recession and sometimes in the midst of these storms the future that we’re trying to build for our nation; a future of lasting peace and long-term prosperity may seem beyond our reach.”
