Wikipedia Launches Page Controls To Check Facts

Wikipedia is changing how members contribute to online articles. The current system allows anyone to write and edit articles without revision, but will in the future require articles about people and certain organizations to be checked by an editor before they get published. ...

The Web world - do you know what your children are doing?

A study by Web world security giant, Symantec, indicates that our children are spending a lot more time on the internet than most parents believe, begging the question, 'do you know what your children are doing?' The...

Is Goldman Sachs The Baddest of Them All?

Mark Faulk of The Faulking Truth Weighs In"- The Goldman Gang   by Mark Faulk     It's the stuff that Hollywood movies are made of; a greedy heartless mega-conglomerate...

What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You

" Paul Armentano  What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You Posted June 24, 2008 | 04:20 PM (EST) ...

Suit Filed Against Company That Employed Metrolink 111 Engineer

After admitting they were at fault, now Metrolink is trying to sue the company that employed the homosexual train engineer who was text messaging little boys when he crashed the Metrolink, killing 25 people.  Check it out."October 26, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) It has been...

The women who ran for Open Borders

Volunteers made freedom of movement the issue on the 5k women's challenge. If you find immigration laws as backward, restrictive and repulsive as we do, you can join our Open the Borders campaign, support the...

Beijing unveils new traffic controls

Beijing has decided to permanently implement some of the stiff traffic controls that it has originally enforced during the August Olympics.  Return to normality following the end of the games has prompted...

Japan party set to choose new PM

Japan is set to elect a new Prime Minister. The outspoken former foreign minister Taro Aso is most likely to take over the reins from Yasuo Fukuda, who suddenly quit this month leaving a policy vacuum as the...

Beijing Aims to Clean Indoor Air Pollution

Washington Post today reveals that Beijing aims to be the GREEN OLYMPICS.   " Beijing’s bad luck with weather and geography compounded the city’s heavy industrial pollution. Olympic organizers are...

Disgruntled Hacker Takes Control of San Fran Computer Network

Well this is quite interesting. A computer engineer, disgruntled with his job working as a system administrator for San Francisco's brand new computer network, is holding the system hostage, even as he sits in jail.Terry Childs took exclusive control of the system and was...

'De-glamorise' smoking, say doctors

"Tougher controls are needed to "de-glamorise and de-normalise" smoking among young people, doctors' leaders said.Laws should be introduced to make it compulsory for anti-smoking adverts to be shown before films...

MEDUSA - Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise

Do these companies think of the Acronym first then try to make up words to fit to it."A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ...

Man in wheelchair charged with drinking and driving

I personally do not know the exact rules and law to this, but drinking and operating a motorised vehicle can definitely be quite hazardous. Getting hit by a wheel chair is definitely not fun, but they could also...

How to reduce fuel consumption amidst skyrocketing gas

"Gas prices keep skyrocketing. But there is a lot a motorist can do to reduce fuel consumption. There are quite a few easy and inexpensive maintenance steps that can be taken to add miles to every gallon and save...

Taiwan complains of media controls at China talks

Both Chinese and Taiwanese media struck a hopeful note about the meeting today between China and Taiwan, which it considers a break-away province. Much of the discussion, however, centered on media controls. Many analysts consider it inevitable that Taiwan will have to become...

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