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HOW did America wind up in its worst financial crisis in decades? Sen. Barack Obama explained it this way last week: 'When sub-prime-mortgage lending took a reckless and unsustainable turn, a patchwork of regulators systematically and deliberately eliminated the regulations protecting the American people.'
The programs aren't substitutes for U.S. curricula, but educators familiar with them say they provide a lifeline for adult students with little formal education by helping them become literate in Spanish — and by extension, English.
The son of imprisoned former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was indicted this week on four new counts of torture, and other ancillary crimes. 'Chuckie' Taylor, who commanded his father's palace guard, named the Dragon Forces, is presently serving time in a US prison for a passport violation, and was already facing torture and other criminal charges for his role in torturing civilians whilst his father ruled Liberia. His case is the first known prosecution under a recent US law which prohibits US citizens from committing torture overseas. The Defendant was born in the United States whilst his father was a student in Boston.
Investigators now believe the bombing on Sep. 21 that killed dozens and left massive damage at the Islamabad Marriott, including a gaping hole in the ground in front of the building, was a crude form of a device that intensifies and enhances an explosive – a thermobaric bomb, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
(Compiler's note: This scary story may just help explain why some very high ranking politicians are bent on ignoring the loud demands of the American people. What else are we NOT being told. rca)
Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud is considered in some intelligence circles as a threat as big as, or bigger than, even Osama bin Laden. His rise from a relatively little known entity in South Waziristan to the head of a full-fledged Taliban movement in Pakistan has not only grave repercussions for local security, but also for the Global War on Terror. The rise of this movement in Pakistan is not just a local disturbance, but the phenomenon of Taliban resurgence after their post-2001 setback in Afghanistan, and with Baitullah as a protégé of Mullah Omar taking charge, has international implications as well.
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won't disclose.
