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Taliban kill five polio aid workers

The Taliban murdered five women polio health workers in a series of attacks in Pakistan today.
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Orly Taitz Loses Obama College Records Suit In California Court

Orly Taitz, the California dentist and attorney who has gained notoriety for her relentless efforts to prove that President Obama is inelegible for office, suffered another blow last week when an Orange County judge rejected her attempt to retrieve Obama’s college records. As first reported by the school’s student paper, the Occidental Weekly, Taitz had filed a legal motion to compel Occidental College to release transcripts and other records from when Obama was an undergraduate there in the late ’70s and early ’80s, alleging that Obama was not born in the United States and is currently using a fake social security number. The private college’s counsel, Carl Botterud, pointing to privacy concerns, deemed Taitz’s case “frivolous” and “without merit.” The self-proclaimed “queen of the birthers” then argued that the matter of Obama’s alleged foreign birth was important enough to overrule privacy laws. “Your opposition will constitute Obstruction of Justice, Aiding and Abetting in the elections fraud in forgery and treason in allowing a foreign citizen to usurp the U.S. Presidency with an aid of forged IDs and usurp the civil rights of the U.S. citizens,” Taitz wrote in an email to Botterud ahead of their court date. “At any rate your opposition and your attempt of intimidation and your allegiance or lack of allegiance to the United States of America is duly noted. Just make sure not to forget to bring with you Mr. Obama’s application, registration, and financial aid application.”Read More…
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Grayson: Walmart is ‘the largest recipient of public aid in the country’

Representative-elect Alan Grayson (D-FL) said Monday that he will put mega-retailer Walmart squarely in his sights during the next Congress for the company’s liberal use of public assistance programs to supplement their workers’ wages. Speaking to Current TV host Cenk Uygur on…

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UN: Migrants send double the amount of foreign aid back but little of it benefits the country

Migrant workers from the world’s poorest countries sent home $27 billion (21 billion euros) in 2011 despite the global financial slowdown, but developing nations are failing to benefit fully from the cash, the UN said Monday. Remittances “could prove particularly valuable for…

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#OpIsreal – Anonymous stands by Palestine in this time of war

Greetings World For far too long, Anonymous has stood by with the rest of the world and watched in despair Read More

EU budget dispute blocks €25 million in aid to jobless workers

A dispute over the EU budget has led to the blocking of 25 million euro worth of aid for over Read More

EU pledges aid after Hurricane Sandy damage

(BRUSSELS) – The European Union said Sunday it was ready to support recovery efforts for Caribbean residents affected by Hurricane Read More