Entries for March 2010
huffingtonpost | A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are inves...
Alternet.org | Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year.
Casias is also a legal medical marijuana patient under Michigan state law. He uses marijuana with the recom...
rumormillnews.com | MCLOUD, OK -- Several residents in McLoud are upset after the city announced a $17 water bill for residents who use a well. According to City Manager Larry Dillon, the small fee will help pay for emergency services such as police officers and fire fighters. Because of an old city...
rumormillnews.com | A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) director Dr. Anatoly Perminov on the United States sudden, and without notice, cancelling of sanctions on Russian state-run industry Glavkosmos and Voenmech Baltic State Technical Universit...
yahoo.com | JERUSALEM - Israeli-U.S. relations have hit a 35-year low over a West Bank settlement plan that threatens to derail peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians, Israel's envoy to Washington was quoted as saying on Monday.
The comments attributed to Ambassador Michael Oren, a noted Middle ...
MOSCOW, March 14 (Reuters) - Some 2,000 people protested against the release of what they said were toxic fumes in a small town on Russia's Pacific coast on Sunday, one of a series of unusually large protests across the country in recent months.
Russians traditionally shy away from public p...
creativeminorityreport.com | You remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist. Well, she was scheduled to appear April 9 at St. John the Evangelist Church hall in Scranton to speak with Pax Christi of Northeastern Pennsylvania. That is, until the Diocese of Scranton got wind of it. Then...not so mu...
USAtoday | States across the nation begin the year facing grim budget shortfalls that could mean a repeat of the service cuts, layoffs or furloughs and higher fees imposed in 2009, a USA TODAY survey shows.
States passed fiscal 2010 general-fund budgets totaling $627.9 billion, 5.4% less than a yea...
Washingtonpost | In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News.
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And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.
With his celebrity f...
sacbee.com | It was every businessperson's nightmare.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really o...
NaturalNews) The government of Denmark has released a 326-page report affirming that endocrine disrupting chemicals are probably continuing to the birth of fewer males and the "feminization" of existing ones.
The report centers on chemicals like PVC, flame retardants, phthalates, dioxins, PCBs an...
farmwars.info | A March 2, 2010 Agriculture Committee hearing televised live on CSPAN gives a clear picture of what’s ahead for domestic farmers, ranchers and herders in the US.. Deputy Secretary Kathleen A. Merrigan cheerfully announced the “new age of enforcement” citing the intent to i...
non-gmoreport.com | For the first time, the US Supreme Court will enter into the ongoing battle over genetically modified crops. The hearing of Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, results from a petition by Monsanto for the Court to review a 2007 federal district court ruling that the Depar...
Source: Telegraph
The once thriving industrial city has suffered a dramatic decline following the global economic crisis.
According to Tim Prophit, a real estate agent, the crisis has led to a unprecedented portfolio of homes, but they are failing to sell.
He said there were homes on the market...
mysanantonio.com | BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of s...
dailyreckoning.com | 03/12/10 Stockholm, Sweden – China’s low debt is one key factor that contributes to the global perception of its strong economic health. The IMF estimates that China’s accumulated gross debt for 2010 is about 22% of GDP, which seems like a drop in the bucket relative to US gross...
rt.com | The Russian Foreign Ministry has fiercely criticized the US State Department report on Human Rights and suggested that they comment on “tortures” and “humiliation” within their own country.
The State Department annual survey on human rights, issued Thursday, blamed Russia for corruption ...
thisistheendoftheworldasweknowit.com | Once upon a time, the United States was a land of unparalleled freedom. The rest of the world envied the freedom that ordinary Americans had to think, say and do what they wanted. But all of that has changed. Now Americans have to...
National Inflation Association | The U.S. government this week reported a record monthly budget deficit for February 2010 of $220.9 billion. Total tax receipts for the month were only $107.5 billion compared to outlays of $328.4 billion. The total U.S. deficit for the first five months of fisc...
AFP | You didn’t see anything about it in the mainstream media, but at a recent conference in San Francisco, more than 1,000 architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9-11.
That...