Global community unites against tobacco industry interference

Declaration at treaty meeting affirms priority of public health over tradePUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY – As the host country for this week's tobacco control treaty meetings braces for a legal challenge from Philip Morris International (PMI) to its graphic cigarette warning...

Argentina: Past and Future

The last member of the brutal junta that led Argentina from 1976 to 1983 has kicked the bucket. Unwept, unhonored and unsung.No, don't tell me to speak nothing but good of the dead; they spoke nothing good of the thousands of people they murdered. And don't tell me not to...

Environment and Technology

As the interest in environmental matters rise due to ever-more-frequent disastrous weather events, also becomes manifest the separation in public mind between technology and environmentalism. There are some people who want to hear nothing about the environment and make...

Bullying - The Sharks Are Out

The Gordon Brown is a bully story has opened up a new market for the plethora of educational and workplace consultants. The last ten years has seen more and more money devolved from Local Education Authority...

Girls ruined for life by porn industry

"Many people think that pornography has no victim. They argue that unlike the clients who sleep with prostitutes or pimps preying on the victims of human traffickings, they are doing nothing but watching a movie, which was nothing but a created fantasy.  The reasons for...

Oilsands Unfairly Targeted: Conference Board Report

The Alberta Oil Sands have been a bone of contention for environmentalists for some time.  Greenpeace, Al Gore and even President Obama have thrashed the Alberta Oil Sands.  A favorite name for...

Japan inks pact for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project

New Delhi: During the 3 day visit of India, Japanease Prime Minster Yukio hatoyama signed ambigious Rs. 3.6 lakh crore Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. "The DMIC is conceptualised as a global...

Possibly the recession was a blessing? B-F is spinning that coin

Grab your coffee, once again the babel fish invites you to his way of thinking. Come savor the flavor of the Fish’s view of the other side of a very oily war worn coin.   Many activists like myself, have...

My rantings on climate change and coffee

Pollution, pollution yep its disgusting and its happening every where, some of my neighbors here in the Philippines throw their rubbish in the local creek. The local Barangay Captain (Head Councilor of the...

Potentially deadly infections in consumers of oyster

The FDA suspended its proposal on the processing of raw oysters.  FDA backs down on raw oyster proposal Last month, the  FDA  planned a proposal to mandate the processing of...

Who is Responsible, GM, ACORN or Both?

By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com From 1959 through the seventies Consumer advocate Ralph Nader went after the automobile industry for safety issues in American vehicles.  He wrote, “The Safe...

Japan's PM, Yukio Hatoyama to keep electoral promises.

By, Uwe Paschen. Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister intends to keep his electoral promises in spite of resistance on several fronts. Japan’s Democratic Party just won last August National...

U.S. House Prices Keep Climbing with a 1.2% Rise in June

Integrated Asset Services(www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360 House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June.   With June’s gains--the...

Confessions of a City girl: Barbara Stcherbatcheff lifts the lid

This sexy lady spills the blooming beans, she is a beauty with brain's and it would seem is lifting the male dominant lid to bare the slimy truth. " “When you think about people starving in the Third World,...

Could Hyperinflation Happen?

Theoretically, yes. Hyperinflation is a scary thought. Technical definitions vary, but while it could be argued that mild inflation can be a sign of a growing economy, hyperinflation is certainly never a good...

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