http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/05/army_militarydonors_050408w/
Military donations to anti-war candidates rise
Brendan McGarry | May 4, 2008
Republicans receive the largest slice of presidential campaign contributions made by military members and their spouses, but leading anti-war candidates are getting a substantial cut, too, according to an independent analysis of political contributions. (more…)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html
Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Geoffrey Lean | April 20, 2008
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/05/pick-up-your-magic-wand-and-lets-do.html
Pick up Your Magic Wand and Let’s Do some Magic.
Smoking Mirrors | May 4, 2008
No doubt most of us have heard of a factor called ‘home court advantage’ in relation to sporting events. In some sports this is a bigger factor than in others. That it is a truth is undeniable. It’s an interesting fact that if a smaller dog attacks a larger dog on its home turf that the larger dog will generally be driven off. We’ve seen this in war zones like Vietnam and the present day Middle East conflicts where more superior armed invaders have been driven back or had their advantage neutralized because they were fighting an ‘away war’. I was thinking about ‘home court advantage’ earlier and in the process a number of things came into my mind about it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=563764&in_page_id=1811&in_a_source=
How scientists plan to recreate the Big Bang with the 7,000-ton Atlas detector
Daily Mail | May 4, 2008
This huge tangle of wires and metal is the kind of machine scientists have been dreaming of for generations: one that will take them back 13 billion years to the dawn of time and the Big Bang.
Known as the Atlas detector, it sits in the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, where physicists plan to recreate the conditions that existed after the cataclysmic cosmic event they believe made our universe.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3867838.ece
Humans ‘to grow replacement body parts’
Lois Rogers | May 4, 2008
THE British doctor who pioneered test-tube babies has forecast that within decades stem-cell technology will make it possible to grow replacements for virtually any part of the human body.
Robert Edwards, 82, said the emerging field of regenerative medicine would enable a patient’s own cells to be used to build hearts, livers and kidneys, complete with their own blood supply, to replace diseased organs.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/04/29/bc-gas-prices-carbon-tax.html
B.C. gas prices to rise 2.4 cents with carbon tax
CBC News | April 29, 2008
The high price of gasoline is about to get higher in B.C. once the provincial government’s carbon tax is fully implemented.
Starting July 1, the price of gas will increase 2.4 cents a litre, and by 2012 it will be 7.25 cents more. And heating your home will also cost more with an extra 2.8 cents tax on both natural gas and furnace oil.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/04/mccain_proposes.html
McCain proposes League of Democracies to bypass U.N.
Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence | April 29, 2008
Sen. John McCain says that if he’s elected president, he wants to create a worldwide “League of Democracies” to “revive democratic solidarity” and bypass gridlock at the United Nations.
http://donttasemeblog.com/2008/04/7-year-old-boy-removed-from-fa.html
7 Year Old Boy Removed from Father and Placed in State Custody Over mistaken Order of Hard Lemonade
Phil Leggiere | April 30, 2008
U of Michigan professor unfamiliar with Mike’s Hard Lemonade orders his son a lemonade at baseball game. After boy is discovered by a security guard sipping the bottle police and child protective services remove boy to foster home.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-5-2/70075.html
China’s Organ Harvesting Confirmed By a Former Detention Center Prisoner
Li Jie | May 2, 2008
In early 2006, The Epoch Times first exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s crime of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. Since then new evidence continues to surface.
http://www.infowars.com/?p=1914
Geraldo Calls for Florida Gov to Investigate Palfrey “Suicide”
Kurt Nimmo | May 4, 2008
Near the end of Alex Jones’ appearance on Fox News’ Geraldo at Large, host Gerald Rivera calls for Florida governor Charlie Crist and his attorney general Bill McCollum to “investigate the apparent suicide of Debra Jeane Palfrey because if these three people (Alex Jones, former judge Jeanine Pirro, and former prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle) are all agreed — and I tend to agree with them — this is too stinky to pass the stink test.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3867880.ece
MI6 chief visits Mossad for talks on Iran’s nuclear threat
Uzi Mahnaimi | May 4, 2008
THE head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett, is to visit Israel later this month as Britain forges closer links with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
Iran’s nuclear programme is expected to be high on the agenda in an intelligence-sharing process described by Israeli officials as a “strategic dialogue”. It is building on long-standing cooperation between MI6 and Mossad, both of which have extensive spy networks in the Middle East.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3866947.ece
The awfully nice guys allowing US torture at Guantanamo Bay
Rod Liddle | May 4, 2008
The interrogation room in Guantanamo Bay, Christmas Eve 2002. Detainee 063 – an Al-Qaeda suspect called Mohamed al-Kahtani, who may or may not be that sought-after 20th 9/11 hijacker – is crying in his chair. It is his 33rd day of continuous interrogation – a month with almost no sleep – and the interrogators have started up with the white noise again and are pouring water over his head.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/04/14-structural-engineers-have-now.html
14 Structural Engineers Now Publicly Challenge Government’s Explanation for Destruction of the World Trade Center
George Washington Blog | April 9, 2008
A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also this)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050302047_4.html
Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels
Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated
Craig Whitlock | May 4, 2008
ADEN, Yemen — Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.
http://www.commercial-news.com/local/local_story_123134627.html
Bush needs to take an econ class
Barbara Greenberg | May 2, 2008
I’m no economist — never have been, never will be.
I’m sure I had to take at least one econ course in college, but I don’t remember much about it. When I watched a new series of TV commercials that featured cameos by economic experts, the only name I recognized was Adam Smith. And I was remembering the original, not this guy.
