CBC News | An Ottawa city councillor wants to call in the Armed Forces to help conduct swine flu vaccinations.

Guardian | A judge found Nicholson’s views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions

Recombinomics | The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago.

CNN | Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court.

Guardian | Money paid by rich countries to fight global warming will have to “be scaled up” from the $100bn a year on offer, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said today.

AFP | “Only in cooperation with Russia and the United States can Europe play its role in the global process of creating a new world order,” said Gorbachev.

Guardian | Facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.

Bloomberg | India’s central bank bought 200 metric tons of the metal from the International Monetary Fund, heightening speculation about more official purchases.

The First Post | The Lisbon Treaty is in line with the country’s constitution, and President Vaclav Klaus now has no option but to ratify it.

Recombinomics | A hotel in the mountain resort of Sinaia was closed Sunday after 40 Romanian and foreign law students meeting for a conference caught swine flu, officials said.

Bloomberg | The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Ukraine today to investigate an outbreak of respiratory disease that’s sickened a quarter of a million people.

CNN | Observers say Karzai’s real test will be whether he can form a government that is seen as legitimate in the eyes of the Afghan people and the international community.

Wall Street Journal | The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

Mail Online | A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death

The Age | A promising young Canadian singer and musician has died after two coyotes attacked her while she was hiking alone in a national park in Nova Scotia.

News.com.au | An outspoken Kiwi politician has proposed a new solution to the country’s child abuse problem – pay the “appalling underclass” not to breed.

Financial Times | Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the European Union’s first full-time president were in serious trouble late on Thursday.

Bernama | One of the students, a freshman, was accused of uploading groundless rumors about flu vaccination on an Internet web site, claiming all vaccinated people, particular teens, would die.

Daily Express | A son hailed a hero for tackling two teenage burglars, stabbing one of them to death, was charged with murder.

Mail Online | One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed ’slow euthanasia’.

Daily Express | The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.

Alex Newman | Recent surveys indicate that most Americans do not believe global warming is a serious problem or even caused by human activity at all.

Shirat Devorah | Last week it was announced that George Soros (the man who helped bring us Obama) had pledged $1.1 billion to fund “Climate Change initiatives”.

New York Times | Ban Ki-Moon says we all agree “climate change is an existential threat to humankind.”

Reuters | The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.

Bosnia is heading for a new civil war as a constitutional crisis threatens to cause the collapse of the political system, the country’s leaders have warned.

Anthony Gregory | The immediate threat is so-called “cap and trade,” a scam to legalize and normalize pollution, regulate industry and impose massive costs onto the American people.

Telegraph | Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is the only EU leader who has not yet completed ratification of the treaty.

Fox News | Book authors studied the carbon emissions created by pets, including the ingredients in their food and the land required to grow it.

Webster Tarpley | “I object when our leaders claim that we the people are obliged to pay debts we never incurred.”

Henry Lamb | Dissent is worse than a dirty word at these U.N. meetings.

The Sun | French leader Nicolas Sarkozy is demanding a special EU summit next month to crown Tony Blair the first President of Europe.

Sydney Morning Herald | Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man on Tuesday as he approached Middle East envoy Tony Blair, shouting “You are a terrorist”.

Telegraph | He said failure to tackle the problem would not only result in hundreds of thousands of deaths every year due to floods and droughts, but a greater economic crisis than the recent recession.

NoWorldSystem | A Total bureaucratic, technological slave-grid… in other words, hell on earth.

Telegraph | Brown said the consequences of uncontrollable temperature rise would be greater than the impact of the two world wars and the Great Depression.

Reuters | The court action also precedes U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to China next month.

New York Times | Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Communist Party, Russia’s rulers have hit upon a model for future success: the Communist Party.

RIA Novosti | Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.

ABC News | Angry French farmers blocked the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris early this morning to call attention to the difficulties their sector is going though.

VOA News | Thousands of people are fleeing Pakistan’s South Waziristan region in anticipation of military operations against insurgents.

NOWopolis | It seems it is more important to protect a wealthy politician/businessman than to allow a journalist to ask inconvenient questions.

American Policy Center | There is no evidence whatsoever to support such claims.

The Guardian | Documents reveal Italian dictator got start in politics in 1917 with help of £100 weekly wage from MI5.

BBC | For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

PRNewswire-USNewswire | INTERPOL and the United Nations have partnered to secure international commitments for greater support for the role of police in peacekeeping operations worldwide.

Times Online | Are we ready for this sort of health care system in America?

Times Online | Diplomats are calling for the impeachment of Vaclav Klaus and even his country’s expulsion from the European Union because of his obstinate refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty.

In The Fallout | This morning, Americans were greeted with a shocking example of real-life Orwellian doublethink.

Rob Kall | We have a “peace price winning” president about to commit tens of thousands more troops to a never ending war in a country that has never been defeated.