Entries for March 2010
USA TODAY | For more than a decade, two opposing views of the technology used for genetically engineering crops have fought for the hearts and minds of the world's farmers.
At best, they've come to a standoff.
The technology allows scientists to genetically manipulate common crops such as ...
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Yes, Oliver Stone is suddenly America's hottest market timer, as well as the voice of the inner "American Soul," warning investors of a collapse. Remember the Crash of 1987? One-day 23% drop. Happened just before his 1987 "Wall Street" film hit the theaters.
H...
Reuters| Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said an allocation of $50 million in funds made under the Recovery Act would be taken away from the ill-starred SBInet program, which seeks to mesh video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies into a high-tech system to detect smugglers.
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Yahoonews | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather pr...
rt.com | A group of people who posed as Russian Orthodox priests and performed fake holy rituals for money has been arrested in St. Petersburg.
The swindlers had a constant supply of clients thanks to links with a morgue’s administration. Relatives of the dead were lured by their adverts, claimin...
Londontelegraph | Norrie May-Welby, 48, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990, at the age of 28.
After becoming unhappy as a woman, May-Welby decided to become a “neuter”. The 48-year-old is now officially recognised as a person of no specific gender.
May-Welby emigrated to Austr...
LONDON (AFP) - London's Gatwick Airport has apologised after a man wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Freedom or Die" was asked to turn it inside-out because it could be threatening, a spokesman said Monday.
Lloyd Berks, 38, was stopped by security officers as he headed for a family skiing holiday ...
SouthCoastToday | The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously dismisse...
washingtonpost.com | Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.
The decision by the Government Ac...
Presstv | People in Afghanistan have protested against the killing of civilians by the US-led forces.
Protesters took to the streets in the eastern province of Kunar on Monday to condemn the killing of ten Afghan civilians by American troops.
They also demanded that the perpetrators of the a...
RevBillytalen | We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues.
A single belief system can sweep across culture and change us all. Christianity did this, and Marxism...
businessandmedia.org | If there’s a drought – it’s global warming. When there’s a hurricane – it’s global warming. If there are heavy snows or even blizzards – it’s somehow global warming. And amazingly, the latest round of rainy and windy weather in the Northeast, well that’s consistent with this p...
beforeitsnews.com | Nashville, TN – Andrew Hoffman, author of the new book “The New World Order And The Eugenics Wars – A Christian Perspective”, continues his discussion from last week, providing details of the specific institutions and techniques Satan and his dark spiritual minions use to enslave...
gmwatch.org | VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Genetically modified food crops could be used as "weapons of infliction of hunger and poverty" if they are managed unjustly, said the new head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Cardinal Peter Turkson told Catholic News Service March 9 that he wou...
michaelmoore.com | Washington - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who became a household name for protesting outside of former President Bush's Texas ranch, is now camping out on the soggy grounds of the Washington Monument in an effort to draw attention to her cause.
Sheehan, whose son was killed i...
blogspot.com | The following video should be required viewing for every member in Congress, every teacher in the United States, and every parent with children in public education.
The video is 40 minutes long but I assure you that watching it will be time well spent. The video compares the U.S. p...
Veteranstoday | The “war on terror” has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured dozens, hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians, bombed poor villages off the map and turned on its own citizens. We hold mock trials, hire mercenaries and have covered up so many crimes...
thebostonchannel.com | AMESBURY, Mass. -- Fluoride is added to the water most of us drink because the government believes it's a safe and inexpensive way to prevent tooth decay.
However, Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns ab...
yahoo.com | PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.
It's time to start cashing them in.
For more than two decades,...
rt.com | One of Georgia's main TV channels has sparked panic and protests after broadcasting a fake news report that Russian troops were advancing towards the capital Tbilisi and President Saakashvili had been killed.
Many viewers missed a short warning that the thirty-minute report was a mock-up...