Rationing and policy didn't give us the healthcare we have today, it will not provide us proper healthcare tomorrow.
Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the
event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has
uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area
branch of the American Red Cross.
Yahoo is helping us to prepare for "Zombie Vampire Attacks."
Legislation intended to combat cyber threats may itself become a
threat to civil liberties. On Thursday, the House of Representatives
passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a
vote of 248 to 168.
After experiencing the traumatizing death of her daughter to kidney
failure just three days after her daughter was born, Sofia Gatica from
Argentina became determined to find out what killed her daughter. Her
conclusion? Monsanto’s genetically modified soy fields that surrounded
her neighborhood, laced with damaging insecticides negatively affecting
nearby neighborhood children and adults alike.
Spain’s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions”, a
minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in almost
two decades and Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s debt by
two notches.
The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable.
Mitt Romney may have all but locked up the Republican nomination
with his victories in the East Coast primaries this week, but Ron Paul
and his army of acolytes aren’t ready to give up the fight just yet.
The United States will push to modernize NATO, deepen alliance
partnerships and hammer out details of the Afghanistan withdrawal at an
upcoming summit, White House officials said Thursday.
An entire way of life is rapidly dying right in front of our eyes. The
family farm is being systematically wiped out of existence in America,
and big agribusiness and the federal government both have blood all over
their hands.
Europe's debt crisis is threatening a political order that has been
built up over the course of more than a half century. It is still
entirely possible--indeed likely--that the European single currency will
not survive the crisis. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has
predicted that if the euro collapses, the European Union will crumble
with it. The destruction of the EU would, in turn, remove the
organization around which postwar European politics has been
constructed.
America’s most sophisticated stealth jet fighters have been quietly
deployed to an allied base less than 200 miles from Iran’s mainland,
according to an industry report, but the Air Force adamantly denied the
jets’ presence is a threat to the Middle East nation.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Thursday for a
federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any
type of vehicle on any road in the country.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) in the European parliament
has announced it cannot support the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA).
A remote-controlled helicopter the federal government has allowed
University of Connecticut researchers to fly on campus can make its own
in-flight decisions.
But the drone chopper — a 6-foot, battery-
powered helicopter called “Maxi Joker 3” — won’t be buzzing dorms or
snapping spring break photos.
The House passed the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill on
Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and throwing the issue
squarely into the Senate’s lap.
In a week that Spain can't wait to end, the country was just hit with the bad news bears Trifecta
Google on Tuesday unveiled what it affectionately referred to as
its “Loch Ness Monster” of products, a long-rumored cloud-based file
storage service called simply “Google Drive.”
Teachers hurled insults like "bastard," ''tard," ''damn dumb" and
"a hippo in a ballerina suit." A bus driver threatened to slap one
child, while a bus monitor told another, "Shut up, you little dog." They
were all special needs students, and their parents all learned about
the verbal abuse the same way — by planting audio recorders on them
before sending them off to school.
The trial of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik has
today entered its second week, with many interesting but chilling
details having been revealed about the bombing in Oslo and subsequent
shootings on the island of Utøya.
In February of this year, the S&P warned that student loans may be
the next bubble to burst in US economy. Moody's also issued a similar
warning in 2011.
Patients in Minnesota and possibly other hospitals have been greeted
with the unpleasant sight of bill collectors seeking payments for
medical services.
Four current and former Transportation Security Administration
screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and
looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine,
methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at Los
Angeles International Airport, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Board OKs elimination of nonteaching jobs as budget ax swings again
Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small
dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with
guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods
we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention.
In an astonishing bit of unexpected news, a senior State Department
official has announced, “The war on terror is over.” This stems from
the idea, reports the National Journal, that, “it is no longer the case,
in other words, that every Islamist is seen as a potential accessory to
terrorists.”
The retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos
showing waterboarding says in a new book that he was tired of waiting
for Washington’s bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American
lives.
The Pentagon is to create a new spy service to focus on global
strategic threats and the challenges posed by countries including Iran,
North Korea and China. The move will bring to 17 the total number of
intelligence organisations in the US
Wal-Mart has been on the march across Latin America over the last
20 years. America's largest private employer is now also the leader in
all of Latin America.
The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to
the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of
destroying records requested by prosecutors investigating the deadly
2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst environmental
disaster in U.S. history.
This highlights the most interesting but least discussed aspect of
the international monetary system—the hidden role of gold. The
organization itself has the third largest gold hoard in the world, over
2,800 tons, just behind the United States and Germany. It's interesting
that the International Monetary Fund still has this much gold since it
officially stopped counting gold as an international reserve asset in
1973. However, individual nations continue to include gold in their
reserves for internal purposes.
Experts from the science and research center of Russia’s Defense
Ministry are testing a unique electromagnetic weapon with non-lethal
effects, Interfax news agency reported Tuesday. As the center’s
director, Dmitry Soskov said, the weapon would be most effective in
local conflicts, where there is no solid frontline. It would also be
very useful while suppressing mass riots in cities.
The Pentagon is planning to ramp up its spying operations against
high-priority targets such as Iran under an intelligence reorganization
aimed at expanding on the military’s espionage efforts beyond war zones,
a senior defense official said Monday.
A decade from now, airborne radiation levels in some parts of
Fukushima Prefecture are still expected to be dangerous at above 50
millisieverts a year, a government report says.
Funding stopped for USAID program that trained students in the
Philippines to work in offshore, English language call centers serving
U.S. companies.
While U.S. businesses are still reluctant to invest in new plants
and jobs in the United States, many are pouring money into China. But
not for the reasons you'd think.
A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United
States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as
more Mexicans now leave the United States for Mexico than the other way
around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.
Turkey has refused to allow Israel to take part in a NATO summit
next month because the Jewish state has not apologized for the 2010
killing of Turkish activists in a raid on a ship taking aid to
Palestinians, a Turkish official said on Monday.
From driftnet surveillance to data mining and link analysis, the
secret state has weaponized our data, "criminal evidence, ready for use
in a trial," as Cryptohippie famously warned.
Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived
radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable
to earthquakes.
The truth is that the U.S. economy is not coming anywhere close to
producing enough jobs for the hordes of new college graduates that are
entering the workforce every year.
