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Mass. Senate approves pandemic flu prep bill

The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that has languished in the Legislature before the recent swine flu outbreak.

Maytime in the Rain

APRIL HAS SHOWERED ITSELF AWAY AND MAY IS FLOWERING ALL AROUND THE BUDS ARE POPPING IN THE TREES AND LIFE IS STIRRING UNDERGROUND

Obama’s job, deficit claims are iffy

President Barack Obama turned the page on 100 days in office with an iffy boast about job creation and claims of fiscal prudence that are hard to square with his spending.

UK suffers largest job losses in EU

The UK suffered the largest job losses in Europe in the first three months of this year, a new report has revealed.

America’s Photo Gallery

The Canada Free Press (CFP) America’s Photo Gallery page is a place to come to in these quickly changing times.

Connecticut BBB Warns Against Swine Flu Scams

Wallingford, CT - Based on reports from online security experts, Connecticut Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be on the lookout for fraudulent e-mails and Web sites trying to take advantage of the current swine flu outbreak.

North Pole Sea Ice twice as thick as expected

Radio Bremen The research aircraft "Polar 5" today concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada. During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed. The result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected.

Child molester back at work at Hawaii Legislature

-Andrew Walden With the recent media attention to Maui Democrat Rep Joe Bertram’s April 1 court room antics in support his “friend” 52-year-old child predator Mark Marcantonio, Hawaii’s other legislature-connected molesters might be expected to keep a low profile. Not Leon Rouse. Sources in the Legislature confirm that Rouse, a convicted child molester, was rehired earlier this year to work as office manager for Democrat Legislator Rida Cabanilla and has worked for her all session. Rouse may be the only Legislative employee anywhere in the US to have a criminal record as a child molester.

The Almost Messiah!

Public outrage forced an artist to cancel the April 29 unveiling of his latest painting “The Truth,” which depicts President Obama posing like Jesus did on the cross with a crown of thorns on his head. Painter Michael D’Antuono, who had planned to show the work at New York’s Union Square Park on Obama’s 100th day in office, told National Review Online that he was surprised by the number of people who complained about the religious symbolism because he had intended it as only a political piece.

Randy Hillier to open up Beer and Wine Distribution

Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington, PC Leadership candidate, announced today he would allow competition to the foreign owned Beer Store.

Political Police

The figure being bandied about in the media is that police are now up to 10,000 “uses” of the registry per DAY, (not year.) This is a phony contrived figure by having a computer generated “hit” for every police use of a computer, from traffic tickets to minor misdemeanor records.

Stock futures tumble on swine flu concerns

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is headed for a lower open as worries about swine flu unsettled markets around the world.

Members of the military are far from threats

Gwinnet Daily Post Never as I made my way across the sands of Omaha Beach, through the "hedge rows" of Normandy, France, to the battle of St. Lo, the frozen and snow covered Ardenne Forest during the Battle of the Bulge then on to Berlin did I envision that those of us in the military would one day be labeled right-wing extremists and a potential threat to our country by own Homeland Security Department.

Taliban shave men for listening to music

TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.

US declares public health emergency

WASHINGTON: The United States declared a public health emergency yesterday amid an outbreak of 20 confirmed cases of swine flu and will screen visitors arriving from infected countries, officials said.

Americans told to wear masks as swine flu spreads round globe

Churches stood empty in Mexico City yesterday and football matches were played to vacant stadiums, as soldiers and health workers patrolled the subway in an effort to prevent the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu.

Pork industry assures customers pork is safe

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. pork producers, responding to a swine flu outbreak that has escalated into a public health emergency, said Sunday their product is safe and that consumers cannot catch the virus by eating properly cooked food.

Texas officials ‘aggressively’ look for swine flu

SAN ANTONIO — Texas health officials on Sunday were asking hospitals and doctors to take samples from flu patients so they could aggressively survey for a new strain of swine flu that has killed dozens of people in Mexico and sparked fears of a global pandemic.

The West Coast Plot: An “Inconvenient Truth”

Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced interrogations stopped terrorist plots, most would support the CIA program. A recent Pew poll showed that 71% of Americans believe that there are circumstances under which torture (not just enhanced interrogations, but actual torture) is justifiable to get information from captured terrorists.

Six ‘mild’ cases of swine flu confirmed in Nova Scotia, B.C.

Health officials in Nova Scotia and British Columbia are reporting “mild” cases of swine flu, the first confirmed Canadian cases since an outbreak of the illness began in Mexico several days ago.