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An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates
"An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates By Vindu Goel When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company...Mt. Shasta celebrates the Fourth on the streets and in the skies
"By Steve Gerace Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Sun Jul 06, 2008, 12:44 PM PDT Story Tools: Email This | Print This Mount Shasta, Calif. - Smokey skies cleared the morning of July 4, 2008, as if...Exxon $2.5 billion oil spill ruling overturned
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska. The...
Couch Potato and the asthma risk
Research shows that children who watch five hours of TV a day increases their chance of developing asthma. Reason being that by sitting for hours leads to shallow breathing by the kids. " Researchers... Failed bomber's wife guilty of staying silent about terror plot
The wife of one of the failed suicide bombers, Hussain Osman, is facing jail forfailing to tell police of his plans. The woman, 32-year-old Yeshi Girma, is a Muslim convert and allegedly knew of the plot before it was attempted."The wife of failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman...Free Money and Food. These countries can plant and pay their farmers fine
"Africa: Food Summit Calls for More Investment in AgricultureAllAfrica.com - 22 hours agoThe Summit on soaring food prices, convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has concluded with the adoption by acclamation of a declaration calling on the...Pentagon pushes out top Air Force civilian, officer
Defense secretary Robert Gates has announced a big shake-up at the Pentagon, with the highest-profile casualty being chief of staff General Michael Moseley. The news comes after some high-profile screw-ups, including...Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000
"Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people diedin Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disasteron a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just...UPDATE:Josef Fritzl - transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten ...
UPDATE: TUESDAYA 73-year-old Austrian man who has admitted locking up his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children is due to appear before a magistrates court later today.Josef Fritzl was transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten to a court in... Afghanistan: 10 Billion Dollar Food Aid Scam
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAnd this surprises everyone? If not despot dictators skimming large amounts of cash of 10 to 20% for themselves to prop up their salaries and lifestyle to safely tuck away... Manslaughter charges sought on air crash
"French judges have been asked to put Continental Airlines on trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000 that killed 113 people. Prosecutors in Pontoise outside Paris requested that the US airline, two of its employees and two key men in the... BBC ADMIT THAT THE "MISHCON NOTE" IS THE FULCRUM POINT FOR BOTH SIDES AT THE ...
"The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is planning an updated programme in its 'Conspiracy Files' season to be shown on the same night the Diana Inquest verdict is delivered at London's High Court. In the first... Man's Death Linked to Cotton Swab Use
As an avid fan of q-tips (technically called cotton swabs), this was an especially disturbing story. A montreal man is dead after perforating his eardrum with a cotton swab, which caused an infection from his outer... CIA blames extremist for Bhutto killing
This news broke less than two hours ago and frankly isn't too surprising."WASHINGTON - The CIA has concluded that a Pakistani tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister... Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist?
" By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted January 17, 2008. Meet the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.According to Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., House Resolution 1955, otherwise known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of...
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