Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin will be visiting Iran in the autumn, to sign an agreement to construct a key railway link in the proposed International North-South transport corridor, (INSTC), Voice of Russia reported yesterday.

Americans are using fewer medical services, according to a review in the Wall Street Journal, showing that the number of patient visits, drug prescriptions, and procedures were all down in the second quarter 2010, from a year ago.

In its July 22 report, "Establishing a New Normal," the American Civil Liberties Union establishes that the Obama administration has continued and even intensified many of the Bush-Cheney police-state measures, while adding a few of its own.

A group of U.S. civil rights organizations, including the National Urban League, the NAACP, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Law, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct Adjudicatory Subcommittee presented its statement of alleged violations carried out by Rep. Charlie Rangel, after a concerted effort by the Obama White House and the Democratic Leadership to pressure the Congressman to plead guilty had failed.

United Space Alliance, which trains the astronauts, and services the Space Shuttle fleet and prepares it for launch, has begun notifying about 900 employees in Florida of lay-offs that will start Oct. 1. There will also be nearly 500 layoffs in Texas, and 14 in Huntsville, or over 1,400, just in the next few weeks.

The just-established U.S. National Oceans Council, reportedly to be headed by Anti-Science Director John Holden and the Council on Environmental Quality's Nancy Sutley, is only one flank of the Obama team's intended imposition of the WWF's policies of eliminating human life, and the biosphere, itself, through control of water policy.

Appearing on ABC's morning talk show "The View" on Thursday, when asked about his background, which includes a Black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people."

After delaying its hearing for one hour amidst press reports of a potential deal, which Rangel repeatedly denied was the case, the House Ethics Committee at 2 p.m. issued a statement of alleged ethics violations committed by Rep. Charlie Rangel. In support of the alleged violations, the Committee issued a statement of 273 alleged facts.

Rep. Charles Rangel sent a strong, if indirect, message that he will continue to fight against the assault coming from Wall Street and the Obama team, in a short presentation before the Urban League.