(Telegraph) – Next week marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Jeremy Paxman pays tribute to one of England’s greatest writers. Continue reading
Daily Archives: June 5, 2009
MSM: FDA weighs risk of antipsychotic drugs for kids
(Reuters) – Three antipsychotic drugs appear to work in children and teens but their risks must be weighed as the makers aim to promote the medicines for youth, U.S. drug reviewers said in documents released on Friday. Continue reading
MSM: WHO backs anti-diarrhoea vaccine
(BBC) – The World Health Organization says a vaccine which can prevent a diarrhoea and vomiting virus should be given to all children as a routine vaccination. Continue reading
Cottonseed Nutrient Halts Growth of Brain Cancer Tumors
(NaturalNews) – Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most dreaded, and most hopeless, diagnoses a doctor can give a patient. It’s not only the most malignant form of brain tumor, but it grows rapidly and is usually quickly fatal. Continue reading
The Grim Picture of Obama’s Middle East
(Noam Chomsky) – A CNN headline, reporting Obama’s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads ‘Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world.’ Perhaps that captures his intent, but more significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or more accurately, omitted. Continue reading
Obama’s Speech – America’s Violent Extremism
(Paul Craig Roberts) – What are we to make of Obama’s speech at Cairo University in Egypt? Continue reading
House Bill Proposes Commission to Explore National Servitude
Back in November, after sweeping the election, Obama’s crew removed language from his official website calling for mandatory service for all Americans. “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year,” the site said before the document was scrubbed in response to criticism. Continue reading
HR 1207 Now Up To 190 Co-sponsors
On record so far on www.thomas.gov.
Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes. Continue reading
Video: Ron Paul – House Floor – 6-4-09
(CSPAN) – No End To Secret Prisons!? Ignoring Habeas Corpus!? No Penalty For Torture!? Continue reading
Obama Administration Targets Environmental and Animal Rights Activists As Eco-Terrorists
What began under George Bush continues under Barack Obama – targeting dedicated activists with “one of today’s most serious domestic terrorism threats,” according former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterterrorism John Lewis before a Senate panel in May 2005. Called “eco-terrorism,” it grew out of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that created the federal crime of “domestic terrorism” and applied it to US citizens as well as aliens. Continue reading
CDC Advisor Pockets 29 Million to Push Vaccines
(NaturalNews) – Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) received at least $29 million from his share of royalties for Merck’s Rotateq vaccine after using his position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ensure that childhood vaccination with the vaccine became compulsory. Continue reading
MSM: One in seven scientists say colleagues fake data
(Times) – Faking scientific data and failing to report commercial conflicts of interest are far more prevalent than previously thought, a study suggests. Continue reading
US proxy war continues in north-west Pakistan
The arrival of Obama administration special envoy Richard Holbrooke in Pakistan on Wednesday serves to underscore that the massive military operation taking place in the country’s north-west is a proxy war on behalf of US imperialism. Continue reading
Our Economy Is Going to Keep Tanking Until We Stop Shoveling Billions to Rich People
For the past eight months, we have been a nation focused on bailouts and bankruptcies. For the past ten years, we have been a nation ignoring massive wealth transfer and wealth concentration through a rigged Wall Street. Continue reading
Media Disinformation and the “Iranian Threat”
The great, international, demonic, truly frightening Iranian threat Continue reading
Securitization: The Biggest Rip-off Ever – Financial Deregulation has Opened Up A Pandora’s box
Is it possible to make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits on securities that are backed by nothing more than cyber-entries into a loan book? Continue reading