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...sure their slices of the more than $2 trillion health-care pie aren't nibbled by reform. Senate Republicans just introduced "antirationing" legislation to bar the government from using comparative-effectiveness research - "a common tool used by socialized health-care systems" - for cost control. They paused in their usual attacks on Obama's profligacy just long enough to attack his stinginess, warning that he will use evidence as an excuse to micromanage the art of medicine, stifle innovation and deny Americans their right to choose whatever treatments they want - or at least their right to taxpayer reimbursements. (Read "The Year...
...Odinga agreed the situation in Somalia was "really threatening" and needed "urgent international attention." If Mogadishu falls, the consequences will be very grieving, he said. He also appeared to refer obliquely to al-Shabaab threats to attack Nairobi, saying, "Kenya has been affected by this obvious terror." Like Ethiopian leaders, however, Odinga stopped short of publicly committing troops. Reports from Somalia's western border with Ethiopia claimed that Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia on June 22, despite a statement from Addis Ababa that it would not enter the country without an international mandate. Ethiopia invaded Somalia in late...
...That same point was made by many Chinese netizens, whose anger over the attack on Google dominated online forums and billboards following the June 19 airing of a program critical of Google on CCTV. China's "human-flesh search engine" - a vigilante Internet mob that discovers the identities and publishes personal details of those who displease netizens - also swung into action. The group claimed that a Beijing youth, depicted in a CCTV program as a university student who had mounted an anti-Google campaign, was actually a CCTV staff member...
...Speculation that the Google attack was a method of distracting attention from the Green Dam fiasco intensified after a report emerged that Silicon Valley-based Solid Oak Software had sent cease and desist orders warning computer users not to use the Green Dam software, which it said copied parts of one of its programs...
...always been the MEK, which espouses a curious mix of Marxism and Islamist militancy. MEK originally worked with radical Islamist organizations to topple the Shah and rid Iran of what it described as Western imperialism. In the wake of the 1979 revolution, though, the group found itself under attack by its former allies in the new Islamic regime and took up arms. Its military wing was based in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. From there, MEK carried out assassination and terrorist strikes inside Iran and fought alongside Saddam's army in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. (See pictures of Saddam...