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- some results of fascist 'new' labour's stupidi ...The arrogant foolishness of Gordon Brown, Ed Balls and the rest of the socialist rabble exposed again.
- this year's top ten seeded riders | the Tour d ...The riders to watch, but never forget Contador who _will_ probably be riding.
- on the cambridge five | behaviour and intellig ...What these well-known 20th-century English traitors had in common besides their Soviet spy-masters.
- notes on an old engraving of arras cathedral | ...Replicating the strange perspective that makes the building appear to be bent back.
- italy hasn't learned from the 'trial' of galil ...Clearly, Italian seismologists should have the ability to out-think god.
The Parallel Parliament
- Advancing CivilizationIt suddenly dawned on me yesterday that I might be getting anachronistic. Once a year I smoke dad’s old pipe as a way of remembering him. Sitting on the porch swing, I recalled the smell of that pipe when I was a boy, listening to him as he expounded on some of his war experiences [...]
- No LabelsI was fascinated to read Susan Delacourt’s recent blog posting “Chretien: The Modern Conservative?” in which she points to some of the ironies in the Manning Centre’s recent conclusion that Canada is surely becoming more Conservative. Pollster Allan Gregg, one of the participants, made an observ ...
- Critical MassThomas Friedman of the New York Times didn’t win the Pulitzer Prize three times for being cute. His insights on issues such as world trade, the environment, Middle East developments, and foreign affairs have made him a force with which to be reckoned. Yesterday, in an article titled “The World i ...
- Progressives On A PinThere were a good number of messages from the last post about a Conservative MP bemoaning the lack of institution building in this country. The preoccupation was on the identity of the MP when it should have been on the cause of his disillusionment. In the broader Canadian political context we a ...
- A Knight’s Tale“I miss you in this place. I so badly wanted a better form of politics, but now it’s all about power, and who has it, and not participation.” This email popped up on my iPhone a couple of days ago from a Conservative MP who’s tired of the same-old, same-old. We shouldn’t be surprised at [...]
Vaccine Awakening
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccinationby Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine FailuresUPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalismby Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
2020 Science
- The safety of nanotechnology-based sunscreens ...A few weeks ago, I set Friends of the Earth a challenge - What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? The challenge came out of an article from FoE on nanomaterials and sunscreens, which I subsequently critiqued o ...
- Knitting scienceSitting in a meeting on informal science education recently, I was intrigued to see a respected academic working on her knitting. And she wasn’t the only one. Now I may have had a something of a sheltered life, but in over twenty years of attending scientific conferences and workshops, I thi ...
- Smart science, biopunks and nanoparticles – Au ...I‘m going to be taking a break from 2020 Science over the next few weeks, as I finally make the move with my family from DC to Ann Arbor. But rather than let the blog languish, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to revisit some of my old posts. So through August, [...]
- Smart science for the 21st centuryIn February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering. These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...
- I’m breathing in nanoparticles, so why aren’t ...This was based on a piece I originally wrote for Nano Today – the blog was a slightly extended version of what was published. Although it was written two years ago, it’s still surprising how few people realize that breathing in nanoparticles is an everyday fact of life, and that to make sense ...
Reader Supported News
- Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-MailExcerpt: "On Friday, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails Ms. Palin sent as governor, mostly using private accounts, are to be released in response to public records requests first made in 2008.... Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed thro ...
- Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-MailExcerpt: "On Friday, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails Ms. Palin sent as governor, mostly using private accounts, are to be released in response to public records requests first made in 2008.... Ms. Palin's past and personal life have since been scoured in depth by news outlets (and exposed thro ...
- Bigger Than Blackwater: Arming the UAEHannah Gurman reports: "Coverage so far has centered on Prince and his notorious company. But the full story of the UAE's employment of foreign companies to build up its military and defense goes well beyond Blackwater/Xe and includes a virtual who's who of Western defense companies." The Int ...
- Bigger Than Blackwater: Arming the UAEHannah Gurman reports: "Coverage so far has centered on Prince and his notorious company. But the full story of the UAE's employment of foreign companies to build up its military and defense goes well beyond Blackwater/Xe and includes a virtual who's who of Western defense companies." The Int ...
- Olbermann's Exit: The Inside StoryMarisa Guthrie writes: "Now with a bigger paycheck but a smaller network, the stand-up-to-management bad boy unloads for the first time about MSNBC, Jeff Zucker, why he's not talking to Rachel Maddow and his plan for Countdown 2.0 on Current TV." Keith Olbermann talks about leaving MSNBC and ...
War Resisters League
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in KabulThe above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West CoastFrom February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two StatementsIn the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. IslamophobiaAs Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
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