One child is a full-time job - but SEVEN, including two sets of triplets, all before you are 17 years old… Continue reading
Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officers search door-to-door at scene of fatal shooting.
Thousands stranded, schools locked… Continue reading
Americans who dug deeper into their pockets for groceries last year will face sticker shock again this year when shopping for food, experts said on Thursday.
“There’s going to be real food inflation in this… Continue reading
One of the most common justifications for consumer-driven medicine is reduced health care costs. The reasoning here is two-fold:
- Since they’re high-deductible and low premium, consumer-driven health plans require more out-of-pocket spending. Consumers are more cost-conscious
“Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy
There’s one thing for sure: 2008 isn’t anything like politics as usual.
The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point)… Continue reading
Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about
A school has been forced to remove CCTV cameras they installed in the students’ toilets after furious protests from pupils and parents.Hundreds of outraged students petitioned against the cameras after they spotted them… Continue reading
A blunder by officials has left wanted killers and rapists free for a year, it has been revealed.
Some have committed further offences, and now a major manhunt is under way to stop them… Continue reading
Treasure hunters claim they have may have found a haul of looted Nazi gold said to be part of a Russian collection that was dubbed the “eighth wonder of the world” before… Continue reading
Foreigners coming to Britain are to face a new “immigrant tax” under Government plans to try to make them help pay for the schools and hospitals they use, ministers are to announce.… Continue reading
At this point, it’s not even controversial to say that the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are a sham. The current chief judge there has written that the military tribunals have “credibility problems.”… Continue reading
AlterNet
In New York City, the Department of Homeland Security is training New York City firefighters to assist in gathering intelligence information during routine inspections and emergencies.
In November, the Associated Press reported that in New… Continue reading
Shocking police station video of an argumentative woman who
ended up unconscious in a pool of her own blood with two black
eyes, a broken nose and broken teeth did not lead to criminal
charges against the cop… Continue reading
Banks quietly borrow $50 billion from Fed
Banks in the United States have been quietly borrowing “massive amounts” from the U.S. Federal Reserve in recent weeks, using a new measure the Fed introduced two… Continue reading
Feb 19
What Do We Stand For?
Paul Craig Roberts
Americans traditionally thought of their country as a “city upon a hill,” a “light unto the world.” Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the… Continue reading
A batch of old documents linked to the assassination of President John F Kennedy has been found in an old safe at a Dallas courthouse.They include what appears to be a transcript of a… Continue reading
Mass fingerprinting, biometric passports, identity cards and international identity databases will not protect Britain and other European countries from terrorists or criminals.
This startling admission comes in… Continue reading
Feb 17
The Dumbing Of America
“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today’s very different United States… Continue reading
With the mortgage crisis reaching critical mass, it’s time for Americans to see past the media reports that are keeping them in the dark. Take Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Foreclosures have… Continue reading
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more… Continue reading
Cauliflower cheese will never be the same again.Scientists have developed amazing variants of vegetable where the traditional white florets have been changed to a garish orange, purple and green.
The “rainbow cauliflowers” are said to taste… Continue reading
A tiny and almost skeletal figure slumped against the white pillow, the image is a haunting one.Even more so because just a month before this shocking picture was taken Molly Darby, 94, walked… Continue reading
UPDATE: The Senate late Thursday afternoon passed a stimulus bill that adds tax rebates for 20 million elderly people excluded from the House version, as well as 250,000 handicapped veterans. Senate Democrats failed by one… Continue reading
I’ve startled a bug scientist. “Yeah, now I’m nervous,” said Mike Hoffmann, a Cornell University entomologist and crop specialist who spends his days with cucumber beetles and small wasps. But he’s also in charge of… Continue reading
Car and truck repossessions this year are headed for the highest level in at least a decade, thanks to easy credit and a faltering economy, says an economist for one of the… Continue reading
President George W. Bush shocked world energy producers in 2006 when he pledged to slash America’s reliance on Middle East oil.But today one of every two barrels of oil consumed in the United States… Continue reading
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is talking with Yahoo about business deals, including one that would combine News Corp.’s MySpace with Yahoo.
The giants of the Internet… Continue reading
The exam results and personal details of every 14-year-old in England are to be put on an electronic database for the rest of their lives.
Under Government plans to be unveiled today, each pupil will… Continue reading
Two controversies are swirling in the autism world. The first is over the safety of vaccines as they may relate to the cause/onset of this life altering disorder. The recent airing of ABC’s Eli Stone… Continue reading