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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

30 Mar - News Teams Picks

Cover of the Yiddish children's book Yingl Tzi...Image via Wikipedia



This Week on Current TV:

Wednesday

  • Vanguard:Correspondent Christof Putzel travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe's growing appetite for cocaine is funding the growth of West African crime syndicates. Tune in at 10/9c for the full episode. 
Thursday
  • infoMania:Sergio counts down the top 5 R&B/Hip Hop songs. And Brett covers pranks of Viral Video Film School. Catch all this and more Thursday at 10/9c.

  • The Rotten Tomatoes Show:Hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of "How to Kill a Dragon," "Hot Tub Time Machine," and "Chloe." And Ed Norton runs down his five favorite films.Tune in at 10:30/9:30c. 
  • SuperNews!:The hipsters trip out over the monolith, Liberty tells Sam his military is just too big; Darren's Dad doesn't understand his iPhone apps; Jeff Goldblum teams up with Out of Control Pubes to fight crime, and President Obama says F**k it. Catch the full episode at 11/10c.
Every Weeknight
  • Max and Jason "Still Up":This week, Max and Jason delve into the hipster lifestyle, look at the unusual side of life in foreign countries and present the various sides of modern Jewish culture. Check it out! Weeknights at Midnight/11c.



Koch Industries funds climate change deniers, Greenpeace reports

( I honestly don't see how you can tell the sides apart : arguing falsehoods about each other's views discredits both )




Ahead of state-wide vote, marijuana legalization battle heats up in California



Pharma Planning to Dump Experimental and Controversial Vaccines in Public Schools

The golden calf of public health was smashed in this recent flu season as many in the United States outright rejected the H1N1 vaccine. Pharmaceutical companies are now holding the bag, as millions of doses of the vaccine are rotting on shelves or being discarded as hazardous waste. Or are they? The manufacturer may find it more cost effective to dump them into the arms of our public school systems.

Parents would revolt if they knew that the pharmaceutical industry, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Disease Control have allocated millions of dollars in funding to establish vaccine clinics in the public schools. Pumping children with experimental vaccines in public school is about to be pursued as a matter of policy. 





War on whistleblower: CIA spies on WikiLeaks for 'Pentagon murder cover-up' exposure?







Breaking News: Supreme Court Blocks TX Execution





Bill Clinton Apologizes to Haiti

The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.

Decades of inexpensive imports – especially rice from the U.S. – punctuated with abundant aid in various crises have destroyed local agriculture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to feed themselves.

While those policies have been criticized for years in aid worker circles, world leaders focused on fixing Haiti are admitting for the first time that loosening trade barriers has only exacerbated hunger in Haiti and elsewhere.

They're led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton – now U.N. special envoy to Haiti – who publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice.

"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10. "I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."

Clinton and former President George W. Bush, who are spearheading U.S. fundraising for Haiti, arrive Monday in Port-au-Prince. Then comes a key Haiti donors' conference on March 31 at the United Nations in New York.

Those opportunities present the country with its best chance in decades to build long-term food production, and could provide a model for other developing countries struggling to feed themselves.




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