By E. Nelson
Poll: Who Should Be The Leader Of The GOP To Take Them Out Of The Wilderness?
Who should remain on the island as head of the GOP party?
By Nancy Tobi
America Needs A Voting Rights Movement
In America today, nearly 90% of the nation's voters have their voting rights violated in just about every single election: local, state, and federal. To quote the popular bumper sticker: "If you're not outraged you're not paying attention." We need to restore basic voting rights in America and it will take all of us to do this.
By Mary MacElveen
Suffolk Cty., NY: High School Children Should Not Be Used As Drug Informants
As a mom, I do not wish to get a phone call from anyone that either of my children have been taken from me long before their time. That is my greatest fear for all of the children who attend any high school in Suffolk County, NY.
By Stephen Lendman
Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web Of Debt:" Part I
Federal Reserve debt entrapment 101
By Nancy Tobi
America Needs A Voting Rights Movement
In America today, nearly 90% of the nation's voters have their voting rights violated in just about every single election: local, state, and federal. To quote the popular bumper sticker: "If you're not outraged you're not paying attention." We need to restore basic voting rights in America and it will take all of us to do this.
By Waldopaper
Goering Mocks Us.
"See? You are no better. You are not even different." He indicts us right back beyond death and across time.
By Robert Braunstein
Hypocrisy Or Democracy?
Poem, Society Government, Policy, Justice
By Nicola Nasser
When, Where The Pope Inspires No Hope
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal, in an interview provided by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and published by Zenit.org on April 22, acknowledged that the Pope's trip has undoubtedly a "political dimension": "We mustn't fool ourselves: there is a 100% political dimension"
By E. Nelson
New "Survivor" Ad Encapsulates The Plight Of The GOP 
New parody ad by the DNC highlights the current plight of the GOP and the remaining 21% of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Miss California Is Right To Scream About Beauty Contest Hypocrisy
Miss California nee Carrie Prejean is right to scream foul at the scalp hunters who want hers after the pictures of her clad in revealing pink drawers with her back turned to the camera in a suggestive pose ripped around websites. Miss USA Beauty pageant organizers wasted no time in very publicly saber rattling Prejean with the threat of snatching her Miss California crown away for violating the "ethical and moral" standards
By Press Release
Doctors Challenge Exclusion Of Single-Payer From Health Care Debate 
Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer system–also known as Improved Medicare for All–directly confronted Senators at the Senate Finance Committee roundtable on health reform today. The single payer advocates wanted to know why single-payer experts were being excluded from the roundtable of fifteen witnesses.
By Kevin Zeese
Why I Was Among Eight Health Care Advocates To Get Arrested In The Senate Yesterday
The Senate Finance Committee is excluding single payer advocates from their hearings. They only want to hear from the insurance industry, HMO's and pharmaceuticals -- the corporations that caused the health care crisis. As a result, yesterday eight of us protested by telling the truth in the senate. We were all arrested but hopefully, a new phase of the movement for a real national health plan has started.
By Fifth Column Press
Sex And Censorability On Amazon.com 
ONE CLICK AND YOU'RE DONE: The low-down and dirty on Amazon ranks, with an in-depth account of censorship and economic sabotage by the world's largest online retailer, dating as far back as January 2008.
By Stephen Pizzo
Serious Lapse In Judgment Indeed
Here's a bit of change we didn't bargain for: DOJ: Torture Memos Just "Serious Lapses of Judgment" New York Times - An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they should not be prosecuted, according to government officials briefed on its findings. (Full Story)
By CODEPINK
In The Name Of Mothers Around The World 
The author, co-founder of the grass-roots peace and justice movement CODEPINK and board member of the Women's Media Center, calls on us to honor Mother's Day as it was originally intended-by the abolitionist, feminist and pacifist Julia Ward Howe.
By Chris Hedges
Buying Brand Obama
Brand Obama offers us an image that appears radically individualistic and new. It inoculates us from seeing that the old engines of corporate power and the vast military-industrial complex continue to plunder the country. Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different, but brands that are different.
By Ray McGovern
Rudman: Deus Ex Machina On Torture
The announcement in mid-March that CIA Director Leon Panetta had picked former Sen. Warren Rudman to act as CIA "liaison" with the Senate Intelligence Committee during its "review" of interrogation and detention practices has drawn virtually no criticism from the Fawning Corporate Media.Yet,it is a dead give-away as to how congressional leaders plan to go through the motions for a year or so, and then let everyone off the hook
By Arthur Shaw
Unspeakable Bloodthirsty Scum Has The Nerve And Conceit To Accuse Venezuela
US imperialism isn't interested in "combating terrorism," for US imperialism is terrorism. US imperialism doesn't combats itself; thus, US imperialism doesn't combat terrorism.
By Stephen Soldz
New Article Elucidates Military Psychologists' Complicity In Detainee Abuse And "ethics" Coverup
A new story on Salon and ProPublica provides further details of military psychologists' complicity in US torture. Despite any personal reservations, they helped implement the administration plan to reverse-engineer SERE-based torture techniques. The American Psychological Association then appointed the same military psychologists to formulate its "ethics" policy on interrogation support.
By Bobby Ramakant
World Asthma DaY: Asthma Control Is Appalling In Countries
The Global Burden of Asthma Report, indicates that asthma control often falls short and there are many barriers to asthma control around the world. Proper long-term management of asthma will permit most patients to achieve good control of their disease. Yet in many regions around the world, this goal is often not met.
By George Washington
Facing The Shadow
We can do it.
By Brasch
People. People Who Don't Need People
People Magazine has again put out its Most Beautiful People List. And, once again, it believes it has divine wisdom in an ethnocentric sort of way.
By Dinesh Sharma
What Do Barack Obama And Slumdog Millionaire Have In Common? 
What does Barack Obama and Slumdog Millionaire have in common?
By Democrat
At Least One Challenge Still Ahead For Specter
Switching parties is one thing, but in states like Pennsylvania with complex and fragile computerized voter registration systems, Specter is advised not to take his official registration change for granted. And Democratic leaders working to coronate Specter as the overwhelming choice of Pennsylvania Democrats, who have watched Specter close-up for more than 30 years, should not take rank-and-file voters for granted either.
By Barbara Peterson
HR 814 Supports CAFOs And Restricts Individual Animal Ownership 
HR 814 lays the national traceability system referred to in HR 875 out in no uncertain terms. This traceability system applies to all livestock, chickens, and eggs, and is supposed to safeguard our food supply. The problem is, no one other than concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) can reasonably comply with its requirements.
By Marc McDonald
Forget Michael Savage, When Will Britain Ban George W. Bush?
So Michael Savage has been banned from entering Britain? If Britain really wants to do its society a favor, it will ban George W. Bush, who is guilty of vastly greater crimes than any of the two-bit assholes that it included on its newly published immigration blacklist. In fact, Britain ought to ban all the members of the Bush Crime Family, from Dick Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz to Donald Rumsfeld.
By The Candid Blogger
$100 Million Raised For Bush Memorial Library At SMU
Former President George W. Bush has set a fundraising goal of some $300 million for his "presidential library"(an oxymoron), and policy center in Dallas. Bush reportedly has raised $100 million in 100 days. Of course, with all the money he stole from the People in the form of huge tax cuts to his wealthiest friends (the same CEO's who walked away with HUGE bonuses, I guess he earned himself a commission.
By Pete Latona
Why Obama's Economic Plan Will Fail
How many times have we been told not to put all of our eggs in one basket? Yet, we sure seem to be placing a lot of eggs in President Obama's basket and then we sit back waiting for him to scramble them up and serve them to us on a platter. If we think one person can rescue us from this financial mess, we better think again
By George Washington
U.S. Votes For 9/11-Style Commission To Probe Financial Crisis 
Here we go . . .
By Mike Palecek
2008 DNC Remembered: Interview With Daphne Webb 
It was intense to witness first hand what a police state looks like. They were traveling in packs - no less than three together at any time, but the norm was over five - everywhere they went. Our common theme was this: We will not surrender the fight. We have to do something. It takes courage to do this under a false Orange Alert, with fifty cops in riot gear all round you.
By Moral Compass
Campaign Finance Is Just Another Term For Bribery
This article goes into the reasons private campaign financing distorts our political process. It is keyed off of the defeat on May 1st, 2009 of the Bankruptcy Reform Bill in the Senate--a defeat the required Democratic votes to occur. This article calls for public campaign financing and explains why corporations are so powerful in political financing and the legal decisions that led to this state of affairs.
By Ed Tubbs
Girding For The Healthcare Fight: Are You Ready?
It was his second reason that, as someone who is rapidly approaching Medicare age, was a dump truck unloading its tons of bricks on me. "I can't name a single doctor in the region who wants to take Medicare patients.
By Frosty Wooldridge
The Great American Garbage Patch
In my forty years of Scuba diving around the world, I've seen our pristine lakes and oceans turn into trash cans for humans. Millions of tires, nets, plastic, glass and metal containers roll around the ocean floor like 'creatures' out of place.
By David Glenn Cox
Stray Cats
I watch the sun go down reluctantly. This world offers little, and I have little to offer in return. I have lost everything, so as the birds sing at daylight's demise, I hear no music. The world has lost its music for me. It is just an endless grind with a police siren in the distance.
By Suzana Megles
Precious Lives
Sometimes we don't realize how precious are the lives of our companion animals until we are about to lose one.
By Megan Kargher
Corporate Swine Project Significant Profits For Toxic Flu Vaccines 
Disease is big business and pharmaceutical corporations are cashing in on the destruction of health worldwide. Akin to their sinister forbearers at IG Farben, who were convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trails, today's pharmaceutical corporations are now perpetuating genocide on a global scale.
By Robert Naiman
Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible 
Until this week, it seemed like the conventional wisdom in Washington was that stopping U.S drone strikes in Pakistan was outside the bounds of respectable discussion. That just changed - or it should have. Counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen has told Congress that U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are backfiring and should be stopped.
By Dave Lindorff
First Victim On Road To Abu Ghraib: Rumsfeld Was Behind Torture Of John Walker Lindh
Document shows that Rumsfeld ordered interrogators to "take the gloves off" in questioning Lindh in Afghanistan as far back as late 2001.
By Vi Ransel
The High Cost Of Refusing To Die
You may wish to rage against the dying of the light, or perhaps you'd rather stop beating a dead horse and die like a hero going home.
By Jesse Hamilton
An Iraq Veteran's Reasons For Opposing The Army Experience Center
The Army Experience Center is an abomination. It epitomizes the turn for the worse that the military was forced to take over the last 8 years. It is misleading, it targets impressionable minors, and it propagates the glorification of war.
By Marti Oakley
Rep. DeLauro: Ever Hear Of The US Constitution? 
Open Letter to Rep. Rose DeLauro. HR 875, part of the new food "safety" bills, includes massive and extremely punitive punishments and fines for non-specific violators most of which would be leveled against small and independent producers, family farms and non-corporate operations. Yet foreign food imports are exempted.
By Allen L Roland
America's Dilemma / The Need For Moral Courage
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change: Robert F Kennedy
By ALONE
In Search Of A Metaphor To Combine What We've Seen In America, Myanmar, Gaza, And Elsewhere This Past Year
I have found a metaphor from Bertolt Brecht which I hope crystalizes this point in history. Do we masses want to allow judges and leaders who are unjust and not really very smart determine how our country and world is run? Let's get thinking alike and do something now.
By Allen L Roland
Purton, Non-Separability And The Unified Field
Mike Purton's theory of non-separability whereas he establishes that all matter is permanently interrelated is, in reality, a Unified field of love and soul consciousness, which exists beyond time and space, and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite: Allen L Roland
By Ben Dench
Is It Right To Speak Up Against Christianity?
Is it right to speak up against Christianity?
By Rory OConnor
Babes In TortureLand 
While speaking recently at Stanford University, where she steadfastly defended the Bush Administration's "enhanced interrogation" policies, ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice revealed herself to be a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Richard M. Nixon School of Government.
By Kathy Malloy
Cinco De Meglomaniac
there is one entity that is immune to the effects of the economic devastation at this once great media conglomerate -- Clear Channel's most Famous and Anointed Employee Rush Limbaugh! Jabba the Host peers down from his Golden EIB Everything and his belly shakes with mighty waves of laughter at the pink-slipped peons who scatter beneath his wealthy weight.
By Mike Malloy
The Savage Weiner
Weiner is simply one act from a whole institution of radio talk freaks here in the U.S. who are known for their hate speech, their vile comments where it concerns poor people, the ill, the homeless, and those incapable of defending themselves against the ravings of a violent thug like, well, Weiner. This guy even -- on occasion -- out-hates Limbaugh!
By Roger Shuler
Is Alabama GOP Governor Caught Red-Handed?
Bob Riley, Alabama's Republican Governor, apparently has cut several deals that sound a lot like the one that landed Don Siegelman, a Democrat, in federal prison. What are the chances that the Justice Department will scrutinize Riley?
By Ellen Theisen
'Daily Voting News' For May 05, 2009
Congratulations to the Florida activists who succeeded in killing a really bad bill! The debate on the Voting Rights Act and photo ID continues. Happy Cinco de Mayo....
By Jason Leopold
Top CIA Officials Were Given Daily Torture Updates Of Zubaydah
CIA interrogators provided top agency officials in Langley with daily "torture" updates of Abu Zubaydah, the alleged "high-level" terrorist detainee who was held at a secret "black site" prison and waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to newly released court documents obtained by The Public Record.
By Press Release
Doctors Arrested At Senate "Roundtable" On Healthcare
Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer health system --also known as improved Medicare for All--directly confronted senators at a Senate Finance Committee "roundtable" on health reform today.Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has stated on multiple occasions that single payer is "off the table" of health reform. As advocates spoke up today, he joked that he needed more police.
By Dean Baker
Outsourcing The Bosses: The Lesson Of Fiat-Chrysler
If we compare wages for assembly-line workers in Europe and the United States, there would not be much difference between the pay of UAW members and their counterparts in Europe. However, there would be a very large difference between the multi-million dollar pay packages of the top executives at the US companies and their European counterparts. The pay gaps persist among the more highly paid engineers and management personnel
By Robert Parry
The Need To Hold The GOP Accountable
Congressional Republicans voted almost unanimously against every major piece of legislation that Obama proposed to address short- and long-term national problems. It was, as some observed, like watching the arsonist who set the fire throwing rocks at the firefighters who tried to put out the blaze. Which brings us to the central role of George W. Bush's younger brother Jeb at a Saturday event in Arlington, Virginia....
By Cathy Lynn Pagano
Scorpio Full Moon, May 8-9, 2009
This is my favorite full Moon of the year. I'm a Taurus you see and love this most beautiful time of the year, with the bushes flowering and all the trees greening. And of course it's also Wesak, the full Moon under which the Buddha was born, achieved enlightenment and finally passed from this world which he had so much compassion for.
By David Swanson
An Even Worse Bybee Memo
Jay Bybee wrote another memo that nobody has noticed, one purporting to authorize crimes far worse than torture, the same crimes the torture was itself intended to create false justifications for.
By Chris Bowers
Is President Obama Putting Net Neutrality At Risk?
There is a disturbing possibility that President Obama has put his excellent open media and network neutrality platform at risk with his latest--and last--Democratic FCC appointment, Mignon Clyburn.
By Tom Hayden
Ten More Things You Can Do To Oppose War In Afghanistan
This early period of Obama's presidency is an opportunity to rebuild Afghanistan. It is a chance to become clearer than "out now," while still using the same force in opposing the war. In addition to education on the specifics of the administration's plan and the after-effects in Afghanistan, take these concrete steps to build infrastructure from the bottom up.
By George Washington
Support Our Troops: Prosecute Torture
Please think this through . . .
By Kenneth Briggs
A Supreme Decision
On May 1st, Supreme Court Justice Souter officially announced his intention to resign.
By Hans Bennett
The Angola Three: Torture In Our Own Backyard
"My soul cries from all that I witnessed and endured. It does more than cry, it mourns continuously," said Black Panther Robert Hillary King, following his release from the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 2001, after serving his last 29 years in continuous solitary confinement...Together, Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox have spent more than 100 years in solitary confinement.
By Robert Parry
'One More Bubble!'
When I took an editing job at Bloomberg News in March 2000, my arrival coincided with the bursting of the Internet bubble. As once-hot IPOs tanked and the Nasdaq crashed. I would joke to other editors that what the U.S. economy needed was "to build a better bubble." Then, to my amazement that was pretty much what happened, except that the bubble moved from the peripheral world of dot.com to a cornerstone of the economy
By William Fisher
Torture Detainees Shoot Obama In Foot
We're all paying a high price for W's legacy!
By Carol Jenkins
Marilyn French, 1929 To 2009 
A brilliant feminist theorist, her 1977 novel, The Women's Room, connected with millions of women who had no way before of claiming their anger and discontent. And, as Women's Media Center President Carol Jenkins tells us, Marilyn French was a tender and caring friend.
By George Washington
Was Torture Really Part Of A Religious Crusade?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
By Ben Dench
How We Know That Christianity Is Not True
Is Christianity true?
By Mary MacElveen
Swine Flu: Keeping It In Perspective In Relation To Other Diseases
Is this a case of making much a do about nothing? No, since people were infected and in the case of that toddler in Texas; death occurred. I just think we need to keep this flu in perspective with other diseases which have taken the lives of so many people and will continue to do so.
By Dr. Dennis Loo
Four Times In Eight Sentences
Condi Rice does her best Hermann Goering impression in front of a class of fourth graders yesterday.
By Richard Heinberg
Somebody's Gotta Do It 
Is the world better off because we're trying to save it? Well, maybe I'm biased, given what I do for a living. As disappointed as I sometimes get about the near-futility of trying to wake my fellow citizens up to the fact that we're collectively driving straight toward history's biggest cliff, I don't see anything better to do with my time.
By Howard Garrett
Anti-submarine Warfare Training Kills Marine Life
We citizens in our newly awakened democracy must choose between escalating threats of submarine warfare worldwide and killing vast populations of whales, fish, birds and turtles, or demanding a moratorium on further anti-sub training and ultimately improved relationships and treaties with current designated adversaries.
By Stephen Unger
The Need For People-Friendly Research & Development 
We live in an age of rapid progress in science and technology, with new applications announced at an amazing rate, as well as detrimental side effects. Scientific and engineering resources are largely controlled by private corporations, deployed mainly to maximize profits rather than serve the general public. We should to expand both in-house government R&D facilities and public funding of university research.
By Ralph Lopez
Connell's Sister Now Doubts Plane Crash Was Accident
With the investigation and prosecution of Bush officials for torture unexpectedly and dramatically being pushed onto the front pages by Americans outraged at revelations of innocent victims, counter-productiveness in the war on terror, and methods reaching into pure sadism, it remains to be seen if the previous invincibility of the Bush administration has been sufficiently weakened to allow congress to investigate.
By Www.VoterGA.org
Conflict Of Interest - GA SoS To Use Unverifiable Voting In Bid For Governor
Now the only apparent defense that Georgians have to avoid a major conflict of interest in the 2010 elections is a law suit pending before the GA Supreme Court.That suit challenges the legality and constitutionality of current GA elections based on admissions collected from the state's own expert witnesses during depositions.These admissions include the lack of an independent audit trail that was legally required,inability to
By Stephen Soldz
American Psychological Association Ethics Policy-maker Endorses Torture
Military psychologist Bryce Lefever tonight endorsed the military and CIA's use of torture techniques developed by the military's SERE program. Lefever's ethical opinions are especially important as he was one of the military psychologists the American Psychological Association turned to to formulate its "ethics" policy regarding psychologist participation in interrogations.
By Ellen Theisen
Daily Voting News For May 4, 2009
The recent international flavor of the Daily Voting News continues today. India also wrestles with questions of voter ID and accessibility for people with disabilities.In the Philippines,the bidding to select a single vendor for the Election Automation Process, touted to make future Philippine elections "fraud-proof"-, began today.
By Joan Brunwasser
Interview With Legal Schnauzer's Roger Shuler, Part Two
One of my goals from the start was to make Legal Schnauzer about more than my little case--to connect my experiences to larger problems with our overall justice system. The reporting on the Minor case probably is where I've been able to do that the most.If some measure of justice is achieved in that case, then my time as a blogger/citizen journalist will have been worth it.
By Kindra Muntz
It's Official. We WON. IT'S OVER! 
Harmful election bill SB956 and its companion bill HB7146 that the Republican leadership in the FL House and Senate tried to push through the legislature in the last two weeks of the legislative session--HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.These bills would have limited the number of IDs that voters could use at the polls,restricted voter registration efforts,hamstrung petition-gatherers,and put almost all power over elections in the hands of
By Sibel Edmonds
In Congress We Trust... Not 
Jane Harmon told a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two former officials of AIPAC. The Israeli agent pledged to help lobby for Harman to become chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee. The Duopoly unites in blocking public attempts to investigate Congressional crimes. It's all for one and one for all.
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Inspectors Find Safety Problems At Nuclear Weapons Complex
A McClatchy news article reports about substandard construction materials used by contractors at nuclear weapons sights.
Pakistan Prepares To Invade The Swat Valley
People crammed into cars and buses and headed south after the local government told residents to leave Swat before a government military offensive. On Sunday, black-turbaned Taliban fighters seized control of Mingora, Swat's capital.
Driver Painting Nails Kills Motorcyclist
A ABC news report about a woman painting her nails kills a motorcyclist in Illinois.
Close Encounter With A Gator And The Violence Within
As soon as I turned the corner of Caya Costa that led into Pelican Bay, all I could see were mangrove trees in front of me. I wondered why my husband said I could walk around an island without sand on one side, and I was still clueless to the fact that I had treaded into brackish water-where salt and fresh unite.
Spanish Judge To Probe Israel's Deadly Gaza Strike
MADRID - A Spanish judge on Monday decided to go ahead with a probe into alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza by top Israeli military figures despite a request by public prosecutors that he shelve the case.
Textbooks Bogged Down In Afghanistan
A ABC/AP news article reports about the lack of textbooks in Afghan schools.
The Real Story Behind Van Goh's Severed Ear
A ABC news article from Germany reports how historians claim van Goh lost his ear in a fight with Paul Gauguin.
Senate Democrats Deny Specter Committee Seniority
Democrats placed Specter in one of the two most junior slots on each of the five committees for the remainder of this Congress, which goes through December 2010. Democrats have suggested that they will consider revisiting Specter's seniority claim at the committee level only after the midterm elections next year.
Political Economy: Promises, Promises & Blue Dogs
No doubt, the fact that Congress is essentially giving the president everything he asked for explains 16 of the 17 Democratic nay votes on the budget, 13 of which were cast by Blue Dogs. (One of the others came from Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, who probably thought the president should have gotten more than he requested.)
Pete Seeger Carries Us On
Amy Goodman: The legendary folk singer is a living history of the 20th century's grass-roots struggles for worker rights, civil rights, the environment and peace. Powerful, passionate performances and tributes rang out from the stage, highlighting Seeger's enduring imprint on our society.
Environment Emerges As A Major Casualty In Gaza
GAZA CITY - Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war.
Homeland Agency Pulled Back Extremism Dictionary
WASHINGTON - The same Homeland Security Department office that categorized veterans as potential terrorists issued an earlier report that defined dozens of "extremists" ranging from black power activists to abortion foes. The report was nixed within hours and recalled from state and local law enforcement officials.
Mexico Charters Plane To Fetch Quarintined Nationals
A BBC news article reports Mexico has chartered a plane to bring home quarantined nationals stranded in Hong Kong.
Economist Richard Wolff Of The New School On Workers
A video: "....even if the auto unions get some seats on the boards of Chrysler and General Motors, the pressure will be immense to reduce wage levels dramatically, thus setting lower pay standards for other parts of the industrial sector."
Bush Officials Try To Alter Ethics Report
Former Bush administration officials have launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to urge Justice Department leaders to soften an ethics report criticizing lawyers who blessed harsh detainee interrogation tactics. The effort began in recent weeks, the sources said, and it could not be determined how many former officials had reached out to their new counterparts.
Cashing In On 'Government Sachs'
The fact that the chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank made millions off his secret purchase of Goldman Sachs stock, "in violation of Federal Reserve policy," as the WSJ put it, at a time when the New York Fed was ostensibly overseeing the antics of the Wall Street firm, has barely registered a blip of outrage. And it was facilitated by Geithner. These jackals belong in jail.
Lawmakers Seeking Consensus On Social Security Overhaul
Key lawmakers from both parties have held tentative talks about overhauling the Social Security system, and Congress could turn its attention to the federal retirement program as soon as this fall if a bipartisan consensus emerges, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said yesterday.
Perpetuating A Debunked Obama Myth
The myth that Bush "respected" the office in a way that Obama doesn't, lives on.
Maine Governor Signs Gay-marriage Bill
Maine's governor signed a bill on Wednesday legalizing same-sex marriage, paving the way for the northeastern most U.S. state to become the fifth in the nation to allow same-sex marriage.
The GOP Plans To Protect Health Insurance Executives And The Current "For Profit Healthcare" System
Mike Allen at Politico has intercepted a new Republican playbook by strategist Frank Luntz that lays out the Republican talking points to defeat Obama's healthcare reform and maintain the status quo and the enormous profits that are going to the Health Care Insurance CEO's by denying coverage to patients, denying payments to doctors and denying claims.
Bayer Shouldn't Be Making & Storing The Same Toxic Chemical In WV That Killed Thousands In Bhopal. Why Is That Even A Qu
Four lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board President John Bresland requesting an investigation into Bayer's continued use of the highly hazardous chemical methyl isocyanate (MIC, also sometimes abbreviated as MIS) in light of last year's deadly explosion at a West Virginia chemical facility.
Interrogation Memos: Inquiry Suggests No Charges
An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they should not be prosecuted.
ADP Estimates U.S. Companies Cut Fewer Jobs As Recession Eased
Payrolls fell by an estimated 491,000 workers last month, less than economists forecast and the fewest since October, figures from ADP Employer Services today showed. March's reading was revised to show a reduction of 708,000 workers, down from a previous estimate of 742,000.
U.S. May Add Shots For Swine Flu To Fall Regimen
The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign that could entail giving Americans three flu shots -- one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe.
Dems Nix Money To Close Gitmo, Say Plan Needed First
House Democrats told the president Monday he won't be getting money to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until he has a "concrete program" for shutting it down and moving its prisoners.
Gaza Environment Emerges As A Major Casualty
Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war. Over 20,000 buildings and 5,000 homes were destroyed, rubble has yet to be cleared as a
AIG Bonuses Four Times Higher
AIG now says it paid out more than $454 million in bonuses to its employees for work performed in 2008. That is nearly four times more than the company revealed in late March when asked by POLITICO to detail its total bonus payments. At that time, AIG spokesman Nick Ashooh said the firm paid about $120 million in 2008 bonuses to a pool of more than 6,000 employees.
Swine Flu Likely To Return To U.S. Next Winter
Many experts are predicting that the current outbreak of swine flu, much like the regular seasonal flu, will subside during the summer months and reappear in the fall. That return could come with a vengeance, or not. Ed Note: Probably? May be likely? It could happen? Or not? Sheesh!
Interrogators May Have Killed Dozens Of Detainees
A Alternet news article reports that dozens may have been killed at the hands of Interrogators.
Can The Pope Bring The Peace?
SYMBOLIC gestures are the tools of any leader's trade, but nowhere do they spell the difference between life and death quite like the Middle East. For example, the visit in 2000 by Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, to Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of two Islamic shrines, helped set off the second intifada.
Looking Back On The Greatest Depression
Who's to blame for the current Financial Crisis? Is it You, Mr. Taxpayer? Or can a Forensic approach to this crime reveal the perpetrators? Read it and see for yourself...
The Socialist-Syndicalist Plan For GM
General Motors has announced a plan for a new ownership structure. The US government will swap debt for equity and take at least half ownership in GM. This amounts to socialization of a large part of the domestic means for automobile production. The UAW will swap debt for equity to cancel out the debt "owed" by GM to a union-run trust. Worker ownership of 39% of this company is syndicalism, plain and simple.
UN Blames Israeli Army For Gaza War Attacks
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations inquiry Tuesday blamed Israel for six serious attacks on UN buildings during its Gaza offensive, drawing fury from Israeli officials who accused the UN body of bias.
Who Will Stop The AIPAC Jews Before It Is Too Late?
While I was being tackled by security guards at Washington's Convention Center during the AIPAC conference for unfurling a banner that asked "What about Gaza?," my heart was aching. I wasn't bothered so much by the burly guards who were yanking my arms behind by back and dragging me-along with 5 other CODEPINK members-out of the hall. They were doing their job.
Young Americans Losing Their Religion: New Research Finds Number Who Claim No Church Has Risen Sharply
Historically, the percentage of Americans who said they had no religious affiliation (pollsters refer to this group as the "nones") has been very small -- hovering between 5 percent and 10 percent. However, Putnam says the percentage of "nones" has now skyrocketed to between 30 percent and 40 percent among younger Americans.
Israeli Activist To Be Jailed For Caring
Nawi is not a typical rights activist. A member of Ta'ayush Arab-Jewish Partnership he is a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent who speaks fluent Arabic. He is a gay man in his fifties and a plumber by trade. Perhaps because he himself comes from the margins, he empathises with others who have been marginalised - often violently.
Leaders Of Iran And Syria Vow To Back 'Palestinian Resistance'
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The leaders of Iran and Syria reaffirmed their support on Tuesday for what they characterized as "Palestinian resistance," a defiant message to the United States and its Middle East allies, which are uneasy over American efforts to forge closer ties with Iran.
Afghans To Obama: Get Out, Take Karzai With You
In Iraq, the US occupation was always going to end badly. The occupation was never popular among Iraqis. In Afghanistan there were greater opportunities. The Taliban regime was always hated by the great majority, who were glad to see it fall. Karzai's dysfunctional state of warlords and criminals opened the door for the Taliban's return.
Medea Benjamin: Who Will Stop The AIPAC Jews Before It Is Too Late?
What makes my heart ache is thinking about the traumatized children I met on my recent trip to Gaza, and how their suffering is denied by the 6,000 AIPAC conventioneers who are living in a bubble-a bubble where Israel is the victim and all critics are anti-Semitic, terrorist lovers or, as in my case, self-hating Jews.
Outbreak Bad Luck For One Hong Kong Business
A CNN article describes how both 1(H1N1) and SARS have affected on Hong Kong business.
Someone Needs To Give Jane Harman An Award For This
Greenwald: "Former OLC official James Hirschhorn and former New Jersey Attorney General and state Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero wrote as explicit an endorsement of presidential lawlessness as can be imagined, entitled "Torture memos and the Bush administration: Time to move on." I asked that they be interviewed. Their reply:"Mr. Verniero and I believe that the piece speaks for itself and will have to decline"
Why Presidents Need Contrarians
On the night of April 27,the president invited to the White House some of his administration's sharpest critics on the economy, including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz. Over a roast-beef dinner, Obama listened and questioned while Krugman and Stiglitz, both Nobel Prize winners, pushed for more aggressive government intervention in the banking system.
UN Report Issues Critical Report On Gaza Fighting
JERUSALEM – A new United Nations report criticizes Israel for attacking U.N. installations during the Gaza campaign, according to an Israeli description Tuesday of the still unreleased document, which it called "tendentious and entirely unbalanced."
Pakistan Expects Up To 500,000 Refugees From Swat
Fighting between Taliban militants and troops in a northwestern valley triggered an exodus the government said Tuesday could see 500,000 people flee and signaled the end of a peace deal in the area widely criticized as a surrender to the extremists. Hundreds have already fled the Swat Valley, adding to the hundreds of thousands of existing refugees driven from other regions in the northwest over the last year of fighting....
Gay Boy Wins Right To Wear Dress To High School Prom
A South Florida boy wouldn't take no for an answer, calling WSVN's Help Me Howard hotline. Once TV anchor Patrick Fraser got involved, the school principal admitted they could not require students to conform to gender-based attire. Video included.
Where's The Justice At The Justice Department?
There is apparently a difference between a Palestinian patriot and Americans spying for Israel. One group has a powerful lobby in Washington, and the other has nothing, except the urging of that powerful lobby to go after any Palestinian activist with criminal charges or anything else they can get their hands on.
KBR Connected To Alleged Fraud, Pentagon Auditor Says
KBR, the Army's largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, is linked to "the vast majority" of suspected combat-zone fraud cases that have been referred to investigators, as well as a majority of the $13 billion in "questioned" or "unsupported" costs, the Pentagon's top auditor said yesterday.
US Climate Change Denier James Inhofe Joins Al Gore In Fight Against Soot
A former aide to Inhofe went so far as to suggest that his staff had been duped into allowing him to support the review. A blogger on the liberal website Daily Kos suggested he had been afflicted with "sudden onset dementia".
Afghan Effort Is Mullen's Top Focus
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, designated the war in Afghanistan as the military's "main effort" -- or most important combat mission -- while acknowledging that fighting "isn't over" in Iraq, where 136,000 U.S. troops still serve.
Fox News Repeatedly Caught Cropping, Manipulating Video
A Huffington News article reports how fox News has been caught repeatedly tweaking its video's.
40 Million Nonbelievers In America? The Secret Is Almost Out
A Alternet article talks about the growing secularism movement in the USA.
Afghan Taliban Spokesman: We Will Win The War
A CNN Nick Robertson interview with Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid
Obama Seeks End Of Corporate Tax Break To Raise $190 Billion
"I want to see our companies remain the most competitive in the world," Obama said. "But the way to make sure that happens is not to reward our companies for moving jobs off our shores or transferring profits to overseas tax havens."
Oppose The Creation Of Spiritual Heritage Week
The resolution, H.RES. 397, would put Congress on record as "recognize[ing] the religious foundations of faith on which America was built are critical underpinnings of our Nation's most valuable institutions and form the inseparable foundation for America's representative processes, legal systems, and societal structures."
Could Asia Pull The World Out Of Recession?
A CNN news article talks about the rising economic power Of China and India.
SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not
The recent stunning but not unexpected revelations regarding Jane Harman by the Congressional Quarterly provide us with a little glimpse into one of the main reasons behind the steady decline in the integrity of Congress. But the story is almost dead--ready to bite the dust, thanks to our mainstream media's insistence on burying 'real' issues or stories that delve deep into the causes of our nation's continuous downward slide.
UN Pushing Israel Toward Legal Proceedings
After the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) compound became the target of GPS-guided Israeli mortars on January 15, the UN set up a commission to bring Israeli human rights violations in Gaza out into the open. A member of the American delegation at the UN described the report as "unprecedented in its gravity towards Israel."
Murtha's Nephew Got Millions In Government Contracts
A Huffington Post article reports about how Pa. Rep. Murtha's nephew received millions in government no-bid contracts.
Navy Unveils New Pirate Fighting Ship
A Fox news article talks about the newest Navy ship.
Hedges: Buying Brand Obama
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. It's about being happy consumers, being lulled into supporting a lot of things not in our interest.
Deadly Games
An article by a man who "studies war no more." This describes the Army games for boys in Philadelphia, recentlly described on OpEdNews. Camillo "Mac" Bica, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His focus is in ethics, particularly as it applies to war and warriors.
Pakistani Army Flattening Villages As It Battles Taliban
Chinglai, Pakistan - The Pakistani army's assault against Islamic militants in Buner, in northwest Pakistan, is flattening villages, killing civilians and sending thousands of farmers and villagers fleeing from their homes, residents escaping the fighting said Monday.
Analyzing Obama's War Budget Numbers
. If Congress enacts Obama's request, total war spending will come to $144.6 billion for Fiscal Year 2009 (which ends on September 30, with Fiscal Year 2010 beginning on October 1). This compares to the $186 billion war spending in 2008. Obama's proposed war budget for 2010 is $130 billion. [T]he three main components of the war budget: Personnel costs; Operation and Maintenance costs, and Procurement costs
Mafia Invest In Sicilian Wind Farms
A Huffington Post article reports about Mafia ties to wind farms.
Program Your Own Money
Once we accept the fact that the money and banks we have grown accustomed to using are not the only ways to generate capital, we liberate ourselves and our businesses from a finance industry that has enjoyed a monopoly over our commerce for much too long.
Swiss Guard Of Pope May Allow Women Into Its Ranks
A Reuters news article describes the Pope's Swiss guard may recruit women.
Afghans Say US Bombing Killed Dozens
A AP news article says the latest bombing sorties in Afghanistan killed dozens of innocent civilians.
Baby Elephant Hit By Train In India
A Times/UK story about an elephant hit by a train in India.
Beer Pong Games Ends With Fatal Shooting
A AP news report about a beer pong game ending in a shooting death.
Chocolate Powered Race Car
A telegraph/UK article about a race car powered by Chocolate and made from carrots and potatoes.
Comedian Don Deluise Dies
A Tampa Bay newspaper article talks about the death of comedian Don Deluise.
Indian Business Students Snap Up Copies Of Mein Kaumpf
A Times/UK story talks about how Indian students think of Hitler as a business management guru.
Salmon Salvation, Perhaps, In Columbia River Basin
A ban on commercial salmon fishing along the Oregon and California coasts for the second consecutive year will cost fishing communities hundreds of millions of dollars. Judge Redden is determined to make government agencies finally follow the Endangered Species Act. Throughout the Columbia Basin, there is "more interest than ever in working to recover these fish," says Michael Carrier, natl resources director (OR).
Garbage Grows Well On The Mexico-Arizona Border
Another couple of steps, and it would have hit the jogger in the head. Athick nylon rope sailed over the wall separating Arizona from Mexico as ifit had wings. A white lifeline with a knot at the end, it hung from the topand dangled to within three feet of the ground.
Church Sues North Coventry For Rights Violation
A federal lawsuit alleges a Chester County township violated a church's rights by preventing it from offering shelter to the homeless. According to the suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the church participated for three years, beginning in 2002, in Montgomery County's "One Night at a Time."
Obama Returns To Bush Era On Guantánamo
Discussing what would happen to the remaining 241 prisoners, Gates announced that the question was "still open" as to what the government should do with "the 50 to 100 - probably in that ballpark - who we cannot release and cannot try." He also announced that the much-criticized military commission trial system, suspended for four months by Barack Obama on his first day in office, was "still very much on the table."
Lieberman Gives Iran Three Months - Or Else
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday that the international community should give Iran three months to respond to diplomatic attempts to curtail its nuclear program – and afterwards take "concrete steps" against Iran.
Egypt: Israeli Nukes 'greatest Threat' To Security
Western policies based on pressuring Iran to give up its nuclear program will fail because they disregard Israeli nuclear capabilities, which is "the first and greatest threat to security in the region," an Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
Biden Tells AIPAC: Israel Must Support Two-state Solution
"Israel has to work for a two state-solution. You're not going to like my saying this, but not build more settlements, dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement ... and access to economic opportunity," Biden told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
At Annual Meeting, Pro-Israel Group Reasserts Clout
More than half the members of the House and Senate attended Monday night's dinner, which featured the group's "roll call" in which the lawmakers all rise. It is a conscious — and effective — effort to demonstrate the group's influence on Capitol Hill.
Can The Neocons Jump To The Dems?
Like the parasite that eventually kills its host, the Republican Party's virtual collapse, in large part because of the failed nation-building adventure in Iraq, has left neoconservatives discredited and facing policy extinction. Unfortunately, neoconservatism will probably live on by changing hosts and infecting the Democrats. Many Clintonians share the neoconservatives' passion for armed social work and nation-building.
Oldest Surface On Earth Discovered
A Live science report about finding the oldest known earth's surface found in the Negev Desert.
Russia Investigates Helicopter Hunt For Rare Goats
A Reuters news article relates to accident of illegal helicopter hunting of rare goats by Russia's elite.
Russian Millionare Has Idea To Overcome The Economic Crises
A Aljazeera.net article reports of a Russian millionaires idea to stave off the economic crises.
Single-payer Healthcare Protesters Disrupt Senate Hearing; Chairman Calls For More Police
Want single payer universal healthcare? Don't try to bring it up in the Senate.
THE ROVING EYE: The Myth Of Talibanistan By Pepe Escobar
Once again, we have a used car salesman for a president selling us that most toxic of all products, war, which CAN only be sold to us by fantasizing about a fear-drenched future. So now, as Pepe Escobar so eloquently points out, we have the demon Taliban, who can't wait to kill us all and rape our women they infer, poised to become the nuclear-armed Taliban/Satan/Al Qaeada/swarthy, dangerous brown-skinned men/Satan/Evil.
AIG Bonuses 4 Times Larger Than Reported
A Politico news article reports that the AIG bonuses keep growing.
Avigdor Lieberman Threatens Action Against Iran If No Progress In 3 Months
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that the West should give Iran three months to respond to diplomatic overtures regarding its contentious nuclear program.
Bee Disease Threatens South African Fruit Exports
A AFP report from S. Africa about a disease wiping out bee colony's.
Hastert Getting $35,000 Per Month To Lobby For Turkey
Justice Department records indicate that Hastert will now be "principally involved" on a $35,000-a-month contract providing representation for the Turkish government. He will work as a subcontractor for another former House speaker, Dick Gephardt, who runs the eponymous Gephardt Group.
Robert Fisk's World: Right To The Very End In Iraq, Our Masters Denied Us The Truth
To the horror of Blair and Bush – the ghastly Saddam did co-operate with them, and the UN weapons team under Hans Blix was about to prove that these "weapons of mass destruction" were non-existent; hence the Americans forced Blix and his men and women to leave Iraq so that they and Blair could stage their illegal invasion.
US Troops Told To Witness For Jesus
US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan's predominantly Muslim population. LtCol Gary Hensley, chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, said, "We hunt people for Jesus. Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our business."
Gates Seeking To Reassure Gulf On Outreach To Iran
Gates on Monday was flying to Egypt, the first stop on a Mideast tour that will include Saudi Arabia. He said part of his mission this week will be to assure the Saudis, particularly, that any U.S. gesture toward Tehran will be for the purpose of improving security throughout the region.
Dahr Jamail: Combat Operations In Fallujah
Apparently, all is not well in Fallujah and al-Anbar province. The US military, having met the fiercest resistance throughout their occupation of Iraq in these areas, is once again conducting combat operations there.
Dilip Hiro: Defying The Economic Odds: The World Melts Down, China Grows
In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a new world order is emerging - with its center gravitating towards China. The statistics speak for themselves. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts the world's gross domestic product (GDP) will shrink by an alarming 1.3% this year. Yet, defying this global trend, China expects an annual economic growth rate of 6.5% to 8.5%.
Fox Defends News Clip Croppings: Calls Them "Selective Factivity"
Ailes claims that the age of many of their fans forces Fox News to be "more efficient" in their use of words. "A lot of the Fox News viewers don't have as much time as younger audiences," admitted Ailes. "Beside nodding off, their death rate tends to be higher than your standard news watcher. It's important to get through our stories as quickly as possible."
4th-Grader Questions Rice On Waterboarding
Rice:"Let me just say that President Bush was very clear that he wanted to do everything he could to protect the country. After September 11, we wanted to protect the country," she said. "But he was also very clear that we would do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations internationally. So the president was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country."
Probe Call Into Afghan "Convert" Row
A Aljazeera. net news article talks about how "Christian" soldiers are wanting to convert Afghan citizens.
U.S. Denies Letting Troops Convert Afghans
KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military denied Monday it has allowed soldiers to try to convert Afghans to Christianity, after a television network showed pictures of soldiers with bibles translated into local languages.
TPM Recalls TNR Article On Sessions' Disturbing History
Given the news of Jeff Sessions' new leadership role, TPM points to a 2002 TNR article on his record on race.
New Stress Trial Balloon Floated
Tthere might be method in the seeming madness of changing dates and shifting sneak previews via favored members of the press as to what the stress tests might entail. Tire out the critics, numb the casual followers, and leave the boosters in firm control of share of mind. Let's face it, the fact that the authorities are allowing banks to negotiate the findings is a very very bad sign.
UPDATE: US Afghan Bibles 'confiscated'
The US military has confiscated copies of the Bible belonging to Christian US soldiers in Afghanistan. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officer in the US military, told Al Jazeera he was not aware of the details of the footage but that the US army was not involved in promoting religion.
Senators Accuse Pentagon Of Delay In Recovering Millions
The Pentagon has done little to collect at least $100 million in overcharges paid in deals arranged by corrupt former officials of Kellogg Brown & Root, the defense contractor, even though the officials admitted much of the wrongdoing years ago, two senators have complained in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
PAUL KRUGMAN: Falling Wage Syndrome
Soon we may be facing the paradox of wages: workers at any one company can help save their jobs by accepting lower wages, but when employers across the economy cut wages at the same time, the result is higher unemployment. But if everyone takes a pay cut, nobody gains a competitive advantage. So there's no benefit to the economy from lower wages. Meanwhile, the fall in wages can worsen the economy's problems on other fronts.
Painting Prostitutes, Pakastani Brushes Off Religious-Hardliners
A CNN news article describes changing conditions inside Pakistan.
Proof The FBI Changed Documents, And Vincent Bugliosi Was Wrong
In 2007, the legendary true crime writer Vincent Bugliosi released Reclaiming History, a Bible-sized book designed to answer all the questions regarding a possible conspiracy in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, his "answers" provoked more questions. This short essay examines both the way Bugliosi dealt with one controversial matter, and the truth about this matter, as recently discovered by the author.
Saudi Arabia Mulls Marriage Ban For Girls Under 18
A Reuters News article reports the Saudi government is considering a ban on marriages to girls under 18 years of age.
Vitamin E May Slow Alzheimer's Disease
A Yahoo news article talks about the benefit of vitamin E in combating Alzheimer's Disease.
What Finland Can Teach America About Luxury
A Christian Science Monitor news report about the differences between what is considered "luxury" between the US and Finland.
Why Are Humans Always So Sick?
A Live Science news article talks about human evolution and disease.
Asian Markets Rise On China Manufacturing Rise
A CNN article on China's economic 1st Qtr. report.
California Professor Probed After Sending E-mail Comparing Israeli's To Nazi's
A FoxNews report about a California college professor being investigated for a e-mail he sent his students comparing Israeli's to Nazi's.
Economics Of The Scooter Vs. The Car
Besides the safety risks and no trunk space. The scooter is something to consider.
Forest Service Closes Caves To Stop Bat Fungus
A AP news article reports the US Forest Service is closing caves to contain the bat fungus.
Karzai Name Ex-Warlord As Running Mate
A CNN article reports Afghan President will have a former war-lord as his running mate.
Bill Gates Funds British Scientists In Unorthodox Health Research
There is a magnet that can detect malaria at the flick of a switch, a flu-resistant chicken, an "antiviral" tomato & a vaccine enhanced with the use of a laser. The ideas are so bold that, as the scientists behind them admit, they can often struggle for funding. Today, though, more than 80 projects at the far edge of innovation in global health research will share millions of pounds of grants to support unorthodox thinking
Sibel Edmonds: In Congress We Trust...Not
Sibel Edmonds explaining Hastert, Harman (and more) coverups: "[In] addition to my case and the plight of National Security Whistleblowers...." "I, like many others, believed that changing the Congressional majority in 2006 was going to bring about some of the needed changes; the pursuit of accountability being one. We were proven wrong. In 2008, many genuinely bought in to the promise of change... they've been let down"
Why Did Porter Goss Finger Jane Harman?
The leak which just keeps on dripping - at least in the blog world. "The sequence of the leaks is telling: First, leak that Harman may have been implicated in this alleged Israeli spy network; then leak the details of the government's reconsideration of the case and voila! Officials reviewing the case must now contend with the prospect of being accused of covering up a scandal involving a lawmaker from the president's party."
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