18 April - Morning News Notes

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Are Neutrinos the Interstellar Internet Broadband Communications of the Future?

 

dad2059.wordpress.comWhen SETI was set up back in the 1950s, it was assumed that advanced technological civilizations would be bright with radio waves, broadcasting signals in all directions. And as these civilizations...

Weekend Feature: "Space is 4D" -- Theory Claims that Time is Not the 4th Dimension

 

www.dailygalaxy.com

 

Einstein never interpreted time "t" as a fourth dimension of space. Space is not 3D + T, space is 4D. With clocks we measure numerical order of material change. This numerical order is the only time that exists in a...

Sloganizing Atheism: Creation

 

freethoughtblogs.com

New Sloganizing Atheism! Sloganizing Atheism is a response to the elebenty gazillion in-your-face religious billboards, church signs, bumper stickers, t-shirts or other propaganda that I see every day. It is an offense that religious privilege allows these advertisements to be accepted and go...

 

6-Year-Old Girl Handcuffed, Taken To Jail For Misbehaving at School [video]

 

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Smirking Chimp

Jack Lessenberry in today's Chimp: "Twenty or so years ago, the extreme right wing in this country began pouring out exaggerations, smears and hatred of a kind virtually unknown before. They were aided in their ability to do this by an explosion of media access. Standards got looser still, and our political discourse became more and more coarsened. Rick Santorum charged that President Obama 'would go down in history here as the president who has embraced radical Islamic groups,' which is a scary lie."

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 18 April 2012 | The Smirking Chimp

 

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Murder, Suicide and Financial Ruin: How the Class War Is Destroying Americans' Lives | World

 

www.alternet.org

 

The financial fraudsters, the One Percenters, fleece the most vulnerable -- military families, minorities, low-income people -- to generate their fast riches. 

 

Kony 2012: Ugandans Criticize Popular Video for Backing US Military Action in Central Africa

 

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DemocracyNow.org - We look at the controversial video, "Kony 2012," that targets Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a group notorious for kidn...

 

How We're Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns on Dissent in the Middle East | World

 

www.alternet.org

 

A global, for-profit system binds together US weapons companies, repressive governments in the Middle East and taxpayer money.

 

Tax Day Doesn't Belong to the Tea Party Anymore

 

www.huffingtonpost.com

 

This year, if you say "Tax Day" and "social movement," the Tea Party isn't necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. And if you go looking for a protest, you'll likely find folks protesting against the tax evaders of the top 1 percent.

 

 

Guest Post: Giant Banks Now 30% Bigger than When Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law Was Passed « na

 

www.nakedcapitalism.com

 

Commentary on current economic and financial news.

 

 

 

Police Nab Former MD Of InterContinental Bank Over Bank Loan Fraud Relating To Senator Bukola Saraki

 

saharareporters.com

Mr. Alabi was arrested based on a petition submitted to the unit by the brother of a whistleblower who was allegedly assassinated by hired killers for revealing shady dealings involving the once powerful governor of Kwara state, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

 

Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan to Evacuate 40 Million Revealed

 

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Japanese diplomats told Russia that 40 million people may need to be relocated to the Kuril Islands if radiation causes evacuations. The European Union Times

 Prevent Disease  ( added to My Yahoo! )
Our Food Industry In 8 Words: We Think We Can Do Better Than Nature
April 18, 2012 | Sustainability | M.Torres
The problem with our food industry and big agriculture goes far beyond foods which are genetically modified, irradiated, pasteurized, homogenized, enriched, refined, toxically preserved, or grown with antimicrobials, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or any other "cide." The problem is actually in our minds and how we think about food and nature itself. We are filled with knowledge but no wisdom. We think there will never be consequences to our superiority complexes in how we treat nature.

Everything Is A Lie: The Deliberate Intent To Deceive People Is At An All Time High

The H1N1 Vaccine Is A Much Greater Risk To Your Health Than The Flu Itself

The Facts, Stats and Dangers of Soda Pop

Soy Lecithin: How It Negatively Affects Your Health And Why You Need To Avoid It

VO2 Max: How Fit Is An Athlete?

Hogwash Alert: One Flu Shot To Protect All Humans From All Flu Strains For Ten Years?  Awaken Your Brain: Coming Alive to Vibrant Well-being and a New Reality  Free Energy Is An Absolute Imperative For The Future Of The Earth And Humanity  How Dangerous Is Fluoride To Your Health?  Never Be Sick Again: Understanding Disease Flaherty pants on fire This is not a "back office" operation. This is a federal laboratory that has evolved since 1916. It's mandate, explained on this page (for as long as it lasts): The Centre for Plant Health provides testing, virus indexing, therapy, and technology development for viruses and pests of grapevines, treefruits and other crops. It is also the only post-entry quarantine lab in the country for imported plant species. It was tasked with preventing the introduction and spread of plant virus to and to detect forest invasive insect species. It was the only one in the country. Gone. UnSafeWay Safeway says no   www.newsreview.com   Signature gatherers hoping to qualify an initiative that would require the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms have reported confrontations with the managers of local Safeway supermarkets.   Georgia signs welfare drug-testing bill into law | The Raw Story   www.rawstory.com   Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal has signed House Bill 861 into law, a controversial measure which will require drug testing of all applicants for public assistance, according to the Associated Press. The Social Responsibility and Accountability Act was passed by the state’s deliberative bodies in vo... Unhappy with the failed war on drugs, some Latin American leaders are calling for the decriminalisation of narcotics. Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who is leading the charge, recently began openly advocating for decriminalisation of recreational drug use. Boldly, Pérez has labelled the war on drugs an abject failure and charges that the crusade costs Central American nations hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as well as the loss of tens of thousands of lives. I expect the South Americans to move on this and do a Portugal. The point is, should this come to pass, we may see the melt-down of the American conservatives as they have to face a public failure of a cherished delusion.    ( Hah. They knew it was b.s. from the get go. That's why scientific 'advisors' are there... to give a veneer of credibility...like other cons. Why let that get the fact it's nonsense and criminalizing what people do to their own bodies get in  the way of a fantastically lucrative scam? I wonder how long it will be until the state again requires the cultivation of smack ? )    Anger follows Rutger's decision not to grow marijuana Rutgers officials maintained the drugs illegal status with the U.S. government would jeopardize as much as $552 million in federal grants, contracts, and loans the school relies on annually.   Forces of Habit   Florida Considers Changes to Mandatory Sentencing for Drug Crimes Florida Legislature Looks at Better Criminal Identification Procedures Money Transmitting: An Increase in Prosecutions and Seizures of Funds Closing Florida’s Office of Drug Control May Increase Drug Crime Cases Florida Grand Jury Calls for Tougher Public Corruption Laws Collateral Consequences Of Criminal Convictions An Increase in Efforts to Enforce Financial Fraud Crimes

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