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Parkinson's Disease: One door closes, another opens
On: Parkinson’s Disease: a personal narrative - So soon it seems that my disease has gone from being a nuisance to becoming life-style transforming. Muscle strength is lower but yet because of a high protein and calorie diet my weight is improved by... 153 views | 70 recommendations | 11 comments
Mystery Vessel boarded near Victoria: People smuggling?
A breaking news story from CHEK-TV in Victoria, British Columbia at 5 pm Pacific Time:The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stopped and boarded the Ocean Lady early this morning. With coastguard support and a Canadian warship escort the vessel docked at Ogden Point at... China's aid practice: An example in the Pacific Islands
An Opinion on China’s “aid” practice: From the Pacific Islands’ ”Matangi Tonga Online” contributor Fergus Hanson, author of the 22 July 2009 story “China: influence in the Pacific” wrote: ""China has stepped up its aid program to the Pacific, but until... Say NO! to more Canadian CF-18 fighter bombers in Afghanistan
Politics: Source Ceasefire.ca petition to Conservative Government in Ottawa.Stephen Staples, president of the Rideau Institute on International Affairs speaks to yet another Canadian government crises-in-the-making and urges all supporters of ... Parkinson's Disease, and Cataracts. Part 2
A personal account: Finally I am able to work a little at the computer, with increasing comfort, after operations to have cataracts removed from both eyes. Fortunately, I was called to have the second operation appointment brought forward by three weeks which I... Fearful of Nighttime Dark
A Poem: - Fearful of the approach of nighttime darkTo walk, to hide, to sleep, and waitFor the morning dawn of light and lies; Is there no escape from political pretense?Not for me, nor mine, the corporate bonus.We believed that to vote the system changes.It does! For the... 51 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Organic Food: Promoted or Persecuted?
Dr. Elmar Ritzinger is the head of the Directorate for Sustainability and Rural Development in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management. He spoke at Minneapolis University, as part of the Centre for Austrian Studies... 107 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
Parkinson's Disease, and Cataracts
A personal account:- My appointment this morning (Friday 9 April) with my ophthalmologist was labeled ‘routine’. The outcome was far from routine: The doctor’s examination confirmed that the cataracts, mild six months ago, now required surgical attention in... 260 views | 40 recommendations | 4 comments
China: Economic Investment Equals Political Influence
Story revised: - The Chinese government has been investing heavily throughout the world for many years to build its own industrial and economic infrastructure, consequently, its political stature within China has grown, as have its financial reserves.One global strategy to...
created by peter.reardon | 35 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago
289 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
289 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Balkans: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) Study
peter.reardon on the ‘scars of war’:- This study is but one outcome of the Bosnian war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (ptsd), it was welcome news personally that this emotional disorder is being...
created by peter.reardon | 35 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago
496 views | 14 recommendations | 7 comments
496 views | 14 recommendations | 7 comments
China "Implores" US to Ensure Safety of its Assets. Part 2 of 2
peter.reardon on maritime information as “assets” not included… So what was an unarmed US navy surveillance vessel doing in “International waters” that requires a US Destroyer to escort the civilian, (CIA?) crew if it is not violating the sovereign rights of... IRA plotting to kill Princes William, Harry: Report
According to a report released, on Monday 16 March by the Press Trust of India in London and published in the Hindustan Times of India "" The security in the cover for Britain's Princes William and Harry has been stepped up over fears that IRA terrorists are plotting to... China "Implores" US to Ensure Safety of its Assets. Part 1 of 2
By peter.reardon on China’s financial and military assets: - It is left to the imagination of the general public to guess what the fine print spells out under the conditions of America’s loan, actually a US government treasury bond purchase, of one-trillion dollars.... [H]ow easy and quick it is to become poor.
peter.reardon: on poverty and the fallacy of corporate bailouts: - How useful to have this World Bank report available in support of the poorest in society!The article, by Marina Litvinsky and published by IPS would at first glance seem to be essential reading for... 72 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Ambassador’s peace wish for Israel, nothing for Palestinians…
peter.reardon: Opinion Israeli ambassador to London, Ron Proser’s sentiment for peace was almost diplomatic, had he only included Palestinians with ‘the people of Israel’. Instead he said: " "The basic simple goal of the people of Israel is to be allowed to live... 136 views | 11 recommendations | 0 comments
