CNN 1991 Live Story Filmed in A Studio

Why would they fake it? Wouldn’t be easier to make real news on real places instead of faking them?

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The Bailout in Plain English

The plan calls for the government to buy from firms up to $700 billion in troubled assets — mainly mortgage-backed securities — whose values declined as the housing market imploded. The goal is to stabilize the companies and prompt them to lend again.
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NATO accused of sheltering Afghan heroin trade

Since NATO forces invaded Afghanistan, the production of heroin in the country increased by 2.5 times and Afghanistan has become the world leader in heroin production. Eighteen tonnes of heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Russia each year.
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Chinese Say They’re Building ‘Impossible’ Space Drive

Chinese researchers claim they’ve confirmed the theory behind an “impossible” space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they’re right, this might transform the economics of satellites, open up new possibilities for space exploration – and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space.
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Russians Leak Secret Bush Report: No 2008 Elections

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is reporting in the Kremlin over the past several days that the Bank of England has received from the United States Federal Reserve Bank a notice that President Bush is preparing to declare an Economic Emergency during the week of October 5th and will further announce that the American Presidential election due to be held on November 4th will be indefinitely suspended.
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Oct. 1st Military starts Martial Law Mission

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
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Bush to keep ‘grim’ war report secret until after election

A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is “grim” will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says.
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Homeland Security Department Testing Thought-Crime Detector

US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.
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US asks G7 nations for help

Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, turned to Canada and other Group of Seven industrialized countries Sunday to back a sweeping financial relief package to alleviate stresses in the banking system that carries a fast-rising price tag of well over US$700-billion.
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Nationwide: Yet more ‘tent cities’ popping up

RENO, Nevada (AP) — A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.

Then others appeared — people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.

Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a “tent city” — an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.
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