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NEWS     FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009   NEWS
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Senate Bill Fines People Refusing Health Coverage
Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines will raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals. Las Vegas Sun

Job Cuts In June Deeper Than Forecast
Employers in the U.S. cut more jobs than forecast in June and the unemployment rate rose to the highest in almost 26 years, offering scant evidence the Obama administration’s stimulus package is putting Americans back to work. Payrolls declined by 467,000 last month following a 322,000 drop in May, according to Labor Department figures released today in Washington. The jobless rate rose to 9.5 percent, the highest since August 1983, from 9.4 percent. Bloomberg
VOA VIEW: The government's false forecasts are being trumped with false reports - unemployment is actually over 12%.

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White House To Hold H1N1 Flu Summit
Members of President Obama's cabinet will hold a H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit next week to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan will host the all-day event on Thursday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. CBS

Obama Says Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Opened Doors For Freedom, More Work Remains
President Barack Obama says the Civil Rights Act opened doors for freedom but inequities remain on the legislation's 45th anniversary. On Thursday, Obama released a statement praising the 1964 law that ended legal discrimination. Obama says Americans must continue to break down barriers to equality and fulfill the promises of that legislation. Obama says the act won passage because Americans of all backgrounds "stood up, sat down, and marched in freedom's cause" together. Newsday
VOA VIEW: The the barriers to equality are now holding back white males.

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Cash-Strapped California Sets Interest Rate On "IOUs"
California officials, facing a cash crisis without a state budget agreement, approved on Thursday a 3.75 percent interest rate and an October 2 maturity date for registered warrants, or "IOUs," the state will issue in lieu of payments to vendors, local agencies and individuals. The first tranche of IOUs will be printed Thursday afternoon and will be sent primarily to taxpayers owed tax refunds, according to State Controller John Chiang's office. Reuters

Obama Health Czar Directed Firms In Trouble
Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. Several of the companies were investigated for alleged kickbacks or engaging in other illegal billing schemes, while others were accused of serious violations of federal quality standards, including one company that failed to warn patients of deadly problems with an implanted heart defibrillator. Several of the cases ended with substantial fines paid to the federal government, even though the companies admitted no wrongdoing. MSNBC
VOA VIEW: Most of Obama's appointees are rogues and misfits.

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Cancer Victim Who Told Sad Story To Obama Is Democrat Party Volunteer
President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday. Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job. The president hugged her -- she's a volunteer for his political operation -- and called her "exhibit A" in an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans. CNS News
VOA VIEW: Exhibit "A" is unrealistic promises.

U.S. Home Prices Seen Down Over 40 Percent
U.S. housing prices will fall by a double-digit percentage from already beaten-down levels, resulting in an overall 40 percent plunge by the time foreclosures peak in the second half of 2010, Barclays Capital economist Michelle Meyer said. Meyer issued her forecast two days after the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes showed for April an 18.1 percent year-to-year decline, compared with 18.7 percent in March, in the rate of home price declines in 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas. The indexes have tracked the prices of U.S. single-family homes since 1987. Reuters

U.S. Won’t Close CIA ‘Black Sites’ For Now
The government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantanamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges, a prosecutor said Thursday. David Raskin told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that the United States would preserve the locations for now even though it does not plan to use at trial any statements Ahmed Ghailani made while he was in the custody of any other government agencies. MSNBC

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VA Silent On Compensating For Endoscopic Mistakes
An attorney for veterans potentially exposed to HIV and other infections by colonoscopies at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals said his clients are waiting to hear if they will be compensated for mistakes that led to congressional hearings and new VA spending on patient safety. A spokeswoman for the VA declined to comment about prospects for compensation. Katie Roberts said the more than 10,000 veterans who have been getting follow-up blood checks since February have the option of filing a complaint in a claim just like other VA patients. Las Vegas Sun

FDIC Says Buyers Should Hold Banks For Three Years
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said private-equity firms acquiring failed banks should hold them for three years, double the time imposed in the latest transaction, to prevent “flipping” them for short-term profit. The proposal was among a half-dozen announced today by the FDIC as buyout firms such as Blackstone Group LP and Carlyle Group seek a bigger role in the banking industry. Bloomberg

Missing U.S. Soldier Sold To Clan
A missing U.S. soldier thought to have been captured in southeastern Afghanistan has been sold to a militant clan, a U.S. military official said Thursday. The unidentified senior military official told CNN the soldier, whose name was not released, was captured along with three Afghan soldiers and then sold to a militant group led by warlord Siraj Haqqani. UPI

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Biden Makes Surprise Trip To Iraq
Vice President Joe Biden has landed in Iraq for an unannounced, two-day visit with U.S. troops and the Iraqi leadership. According to a pool report, Biden plans to "try to reestablish contact with Iraqi leaders and try to help foster efforts at political reconciliation" during the trip. Biden will meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad al-Samarrai. CBS

Treasury Seizes Assets Of Extremist Organization
The Obama administration on Thursday authorized the seizure of assets belonging to an extremist organization in Iraq and an Iranian backer of insurgents, saying both are responsible for deadly attacks in Iraq. The Treasury Department is targeting Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and the Iraq-based group Kata'ib Hizballah for committing, directing or supporting acts of violence in Iraq against U.S. and Iraqi forces. In a separate move Thursday, the State Department designated Kata'ib Hizballah as a foreign terrorist organization. Newsday

Congressional Travel Tab Swells In Recent Years
Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50 percent jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. Fox News
VOA VIEW: Democrats like to spend taxpayer's money on anything.

U.S. 'Hits The Pause Button' On Aid To Honduras
The United States put some teeth in its diplomatic signals to Honduras Thursday, stopping some aid programs temporarily to the Latin American country as it grapples with its two-president crisis.State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States already "hit the pause button" on some aid programs, even before State Department lawyers make a final ruling on whether to halt assistance. CNN

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Judge Dismisses Case Against Cyber Bully
A federal judge in Los Angeles Thursday dismissed charges against Lori Drew, the Missouri woman whose online deception had been blamed for a teenager's suicide. U.S. District Judge George Wu said the three misdemeanor counts Drew was convicted of would apply to anyone who violated a Web site's terms of service statement, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. UPI

In Possible Signal To Iran, Israel Sends Subs Through Suez Canal
After a long hiatus, the Israeli Navy has returned to sailing through the Suez Canal, recently sending one of its advanced Dolphin-class submarines through the waterway to participate in naval maneuvers off the Eilat coast in the Red Sea. IDF sources said the decision to allow navy vessels to sail through the canal was made recently and was a definite "change of policy" within the service. In 2005, then OC Navy Adm. David Ben-Bashat decided to stop sending Israeli ships through the canal due to growing threats in the area. Jerusalem Post

Obama 'Not Reconciled' To Iranian Nukes
"I'm not reconciled with [Iran's possession of nuclear weapons], and I don't think the international community is reconciled with that," US President Barack Obama said Thursday in an interview with the Associated Press, ahead of a trip to Moscow. Scheduled to depart next week on a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana, the US leader praised Moscow for its cooperation in attempting to persuade North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear development programs. Jerusalem Post

WHO Warns Swine Flu 'Unstoppable'
 The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit. The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. BBC

US Urges Russian Break From Past
President Barack Obama has said Russia must understand that "old Cold War approaches" to relations with the US belong in the past. The president said he would convey this to Vladimir Putin during talks in Moscow next week. Mr Obama said the former Russian president - now prime minister - "still has sway" in Russia. Earlier Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he was hopeful of finding new ways to co-operate with the US. BBC

Brown Finally Admits That There Will Be Cuts In Public Spending
Gordon Brown changed his tune on public spending last night, admitting Labour would have to cut Government programmes, as he tried to refocus his attack on the Conservatives. The Prime Minister insisted that Labour would secure economic growth, efficiency savings, asset sales and public-sector reforms to protect frontline services which would be at risk under a Tory Government. But he said it would be "fine" for other programmes to be "cut" and that Labour would face "hard choices". Independent

Britain's Banks Are On Life Support, Says Miles
News of modest improvements in the availability of credit in the economy were accompanied yesterday by warnings from Bank of England policymakers about the fragility of the recovery, and the success of the Bank's policy of quantitative easing. David Miles, a recent appointment to the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee and a former adviser to the Government on housing, told the Treasury Select Committee that any economic growth was likely to be "anaemic" and that the banks were on "life support". Independent

US Marines Pour Into Helmand In Biggest Offensive Against Taliban For Five Years
The US poured 4,000 marines into Afghanistan's Helmand province today in its biggest operation for five years to try to wrest the poppy-filled river valley permanently from the Taliban. In helicopters, armoured vehicles and on foot, the marines fanned out to Afghan villages in two districts previously dominated by insurgents in a mission codenamed Operation Khanjar (Sword Strike). Guardian

Obama's Hardline Stance On Settlements Could Be A Game Changer For Israel
Barack Obama chose his battleground carefully. Americans may seem to instinctively support what they regard as plucky little Israel besieged by terrorism, and Congress may still be the Jewish state's best political shield. But even in the US there are not many who are prepared to publicly defend the ever-expanding Jewish colonies annexing chunks of the West Bank and sealing off East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied territories as Israel seeks to put its control of the city beyond negotiation. Guardian

Anger Really Does Cause A Rush Of Blood To The Head
The claim that anger provokes a rush of blood to the head is more than just an old wives' tale, according to new research.  Blood flow to the brain increased significantly in people experiencing mental stress, according to a series of experiments at the University of Southern California. During the experiments, 58 volunteers were put through a series of tasks designed to cause mental strain, including recalling moments where they felt anger, reading and arithmetic tests. Ultrasound imaging techniques showed that arteries in and around the brain dilated when volunteers became stressed, causing a rush of blood to the head. Telegraph

US Says North Korean Missile Launches Are 'Provocative Act'
"The North Koreans said they were going to launch these missiles. I don't I don't think that's surprising that they've launched these missiles," Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman. said. "I take the North Koreans at their word that they're going to continue their provocative actions." North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the US Independence Day holiday. Telegraph

New Class Of Black Holes Discovered
Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now. Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least 500 times that of our Sun. Researchers from the Centre d’Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in France detected the middling hole in a galaxy about 290 million light-years from Earth. Wired

Japanese Official Chosen To Head UN Atomic Watchdog
A Japanese diplomat with a lengthy record of working on disarmament and non-proliferation issues will be the next chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog after winning a secret ballot today against two other candidates. The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, meeting at the IAEA’s headquarters in Vienna, chose Yukiya Amano as Director General to succeed Mohammed ElBaradei when he steps down at the end of November. UN News

Human Rights Experts Join Chorus Of UN Condemnation Over Coup In Honduras
Four independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced serious concern over the situation in Honduras following last weekend’s coup d’état, calling for the immediate restoring of democracy in the Central American country and the lifting of curbs on fundamental freedoms. The experts said they were especially disturbed by reported arrests, threats and acts of harassment against human rights defenders, journalists and social leaders. UN News

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