There are so many parents in this free-spirited, unconventional small town who won’t get their kids vaccinated that federal researchers are paying money just to hear their side of things. On Saturday, 80 locals will get $50 apiece to talk about their worries over the risks of childhood shots. “One of the basic tenets of [...]
In response to public outcry, the ambitious proposal to create the Trans-Texas Corridor network has been dropped and will be replaced with a plan to carry out road projects at an incremental, modest pace, a state transportation official announced today. “The Trans-Texas Corridor, as it is known, no longer exists,” said Amadeo Saenz Jr., executive [...]
Israel’s False Flag Operations Know No Bounds One thing that truly made me ill while perusing the photos of the world-wide anti-Israel protests in the last few days is the repeated use of Hamas flags/posters, as if Hamas is somehow fighting for the freedom of the Palestinians. Give me a god damn break… For those [...]
There are so many things that We The People need to protest. It is clear that changes will not be made until we take a stand. We need protests like that of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 60’s. Like the issues of those days, changes were not made until the American people united in [...]
So much for biometrics and immigration security: A South Korean woman managed to fool a million-dollar fingerprint reading machine in Japanese border controls using a simple piece of tape stuck to her fingers. It happened at Tokyo airport. The woman has repeatedly entered Japan using the same trick without anybody noticing. Japanese officials say that [...]
Dear George W. Bush, Congressman Barney Frank said recently that Barack Obama’s declaration that “there is only one president at a time” over-estimated the number. He was referring to the economic crisis. But where are you on the Gaza crisis where the civilian population of Gaza, its civil servants and public facilities are being massacred [...]
Chickenpox jab for all children and pregnant women By Fiona Macrae The government is considering combining the chickenpox jab with the MMR triple vaccine Children and pregnant women could be routinely vaccinated against chickenpox. Options being considered by government advisers include combining the jab with the MMR triple vaccine, creating a four-in-one shot. The Joint [...]
The banker’s and bomb maker’s media is already hard at work choosing the 2012 Republican presidential candidates for the people of the United States. Chris Matthews of MSNBC gives us the usual list of neocons and neo-liberals who pass for Republicans these days such as Bobby Jindal, Charlie Crist, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Sarah [...]
Despite the fact that fascism and repressive state security services dominated Europe — East and West — at different points in the 20th century, a new culture of surveillance is spreading, slowly, across the region again, using tools that the Nazis and the KGB never had. The U.S. and Britain stepped up their internal surveillance [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers pushed Thursday to offer reparations to thousands of victims of a forced sterilization program now recognized as a shameful part of U.S. history. A state House panel recommended the state give $20,000 to victims of the eugenics program, which sterilized about 7,600 people between 1929 and 1975 who were [...]
NEW YORK Journalists and many others (rightly) lionizing the late W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official, for his contribution as “Deep Throat” in helping to bring down Richard Nixon, should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau’s notorious COINTELPRO domestic spying-and-burglary campaign. He was convicted in 1980 [...]
SYDNEY, Australia – A proposed Internet filter dubbed the “Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited [...]
The media has been having fun demonizing the UAW, one of the former titans of union power in the USA. Sure, we bashed the execs for taking private jets to beg for our money, but this has seldom been seen. Union-bashing has been a religion to many for years. I support the freedom of the [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a survey of a random sample of U.S. emergency physicians, virtually all said they believed that law enforcement officers use excessive force to arrest and detain suspects. The sample included 315 respondents. While 99.8 percent believed excessive force is used, almost as many (97.8 percent) reported that they had [...]
Before all the Xmas BS gets in the way, an end-of-year essay of sorts is in order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets, descends into the abyss. Look at [...]
