Tim Doyle | It began for me on the morning of 9-11-2001and I could never get the images of people leaping out of the World Trade Center Towers[1] together with the onslaught of propaganda and half-truths spewing from the corporate media out of my mind. Additionally, being...
MSN | VATICAN CITY — The Vatican doubled the statute of limitations for sex abuse claims to 20 years Thursday as part of revised rules on the handling of cases involving priests.
Responding to the worldwide clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican issued a new set of rules aimed at cracking down on ...
yahoonews | DETROIT – States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona's immigration law.
Cox, one of five Republicans running for Michigan governor, said M...
moneynews.com | More than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year, as lenders work their way through a huge backlog of borrowers who have fallen behind on their loans.
Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of the year, ...
newswithviews.com | In my book The Rise of Tyranny, I reveal many instances in which drug industry executives have been complicit with FDA political appointees in causing unsafe drugs to enter the market over the objections of FDA medical reviewers. The political angst now expressed over just one of...
cryptogon.com | Dozens of photo-enforcement cameras on freeways throughout the state are coming down this week.
A total of 76 cameras will cease operation on Thursday.
The photo-enforcement program, which was meant to catch speeders on Arizona’s freeways, has been controversial from the beginning....
telegraph UK | Dagong Global Credit Rating Co used its first foray into sovereign debt to paint a revolutionary picture of creditworthiness around the world, giving much greater weight to "wealth creating capacity" and foreign reserves than Fitch, Standard & Poor's, or Moody's.
The US falls...
Foxnews | The NAACP adopted a resolution Tuesday condemning "racist elements" in the Tea Party movement and calling on the movement's leaders to repudiate bigotry, despite claims from Tea Partiers that the measure is just a political ploy.
The nation's leading civil rights group took up the languag...
huffingtonpost.com | A few years back, there was a fear in some parts about black UN helicopters that were supposedly taking part in the planning of an invasion of the United States. While there was no foundation for this fear, there is basis for concern about the attack of another international org...
(Reuters) - Five percent of the population of Key West, Florida -- more than 1,000 people -- have been infected at some point with the dengue virus, government researchers reported on Tuesday.
Most probably did not even know it, but the findings show the sometimes deadly infection is making its way...
stevenjohnhibbs.wordpress.com | From environmentalists and wildlife specialists to fisherman and businessmen along the Gulf Coast the message is the same: BP is not only strangling the news of what is actually occurring in the Gulf of Mexico with the oil disaster but has co-opted key federal regulat...
Fortune | There are those who would argue that the financial crisis was caused by over-enthusiastic worship of the Almighty Dollar. Call it brutal financial karma, but that church is looking pretty empty these days.
A new report from Morgan Stanley analyst Emma Lawson confirms what many had suspect...
cancertruth.org | The BP oil “spill” or “leak” in the Gulf of Mexico is a national nightmare that seems to have no end.In a recent speech, Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Obama) said “There is oil leaking. We need to stop it, and we need to stop it as soon as possible.” Ummmmm...it’s not a leak, Mr. Obama...
abc.com | First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.
First Lady Michelle Obama ...
nationalpost.com | Contact with the weed’s clear, watery sap can be very dangerous, Jeff Muzzi, Renfrew County’s forestry manager and weed inspector.
“What it does to you is pretty ugly,” said Mr. Muzzi. “It causes blisters. Large blisters and permanent scarring. What’s left over looks like a scar ...
Rawstory.com | From the outside, Jerry Erwin's home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors.
But tucked away out of sight in his backyard are the signs of his preparations for doomsday, a ca...
NYTIMES | — In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
NY | On Sunday, June 6th, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition of Americans opposed to Islamic violence and intolerance rallied at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Naturalnews | The official U.S. position on genetically-modified organisms, also known as GMs or GMOs, is that there is no difference between them and natural organisms. Crafted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the position set forth to the Cod...
thedailyinquirer.net | UFO China: Was it really a UFO that caused the shutdown of China’s Xiaoshan Airport for an hour and disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou on Wednesday night?
According to the China Daily, Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at ar...