Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations. A special report on global leaders: The world's water-coolers. US Agriculture Department Acknowledges Poisoning Birds in South Dakota. Authorities have solved the mystery of the death of thousands of birds in South Dakota and come up with a surprising killer: the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Inhabitants in Yankton were surprised when they found hundreds of starlings lying frozen on the streets and in the city's Riverside Park, MSNBC reported. Some people thought the birds had simply left it too late to fly south for the winter. Now, the USDA says it set out poisoned bait for the birds after a local farmer complained that they were defecating in his animal feed. "They say that they had poisoned the birds about 10 miles south of Yankton, and they were surprised they came to Yankton like they did and died in our park," says Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel. There has been a string of mass animal deaths so far this year, from dead fish in the Detroit River to red-winged blackbirds falling from the sky in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Sponsored Links "Lethal means are always a last resort," Woods said. Arizona Shooter Jared Loughner Targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Back in 2007. "He was a political radical" "He was left wing" "As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal" Loughner's leftwing high school friend Caitie Parker ("I went to high school, college, & was in a band with him") We know Loughner was a political radical back in 2007, according to his high school friend, college friend, bandmate and fellow liberal Caitie Parker.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Jared Loughner targeted Giffords as far back as 2007. There was no Tea Party in 2007, or Palin (who has officially replaced George Bush as the Left bogeyman), so what will the media spin? Nothing. Facts are irrelevant! Pump out the propaganda. After the shooting, investigators searched a safe connected to the shooting suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, and found a letter apparently sent to him by Ms.
Another thing. Was Loughner added after the shooting? AZ Rep Gifford Subscribed to Shooter's You Tube Channel Sun (Before It's News)This story is going from tragic to weird. Witches threaten Romanian taxman after new labour law. 6 January 2011Last updated at 05:29 ET Romania's witches vow to take revenge on tax-hungry politicians. Self-declared witches in Romania are preparing to curse the country's rulers publicly for taxing their profession under an amended labour law. Poisonous mandrake plants are due to be hurled into the River Danube and queen witch Bratara Buzea has devised a spell involving cat dung and a dead dog. Income tax of 16% and health and pension payments have been imposed.
It was not immediately clear how car valets and driving instructors, also taxed for the first time, would react. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote They [MPs] steal and they come to us asking us to put spells on their enemies” End QuoteAlisiaRomanian witch Their professions, along with those of witch, astrologer, fortune teller and embalmer, were not listed in the previous labour code, and therefore not subject to tax. Witchcraft, widely regarded in Europe as superstition, continues to fascinate some Romanians. Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Facebook, and the Next Bubble? Simon Johnson, the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is the co-author of “13 Bankers.” Goldman Sachs is investing $450 million of its own money in Facebook, at a valuation that implies the social-networking company is now worth $50 billion.
Goldman is also creating a fund that will offer its high-net-worth clients an opportunity to invest in Facebook. On the face of it, this might seem just like what the financial sector is supposed to be doing – channeling money into productive enterprise. The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly looking at the way private investors will be involved, but there are more deeply unsettling factors at work here. Remember that Goldman Sachs is now a bank-holding company – a status it received in September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, in order to avoid collapse (see Andrew Ross Sorkin’s blow-by-blow account in “Too Big to Fail” for the details.)
Unfortunately, so far no one has taken up this approach. AdSweep - An ad blocker for your favorite web browser (like Adblock) Neoliberalism: All the Taxes of Social Democracy, None of the Fun. Tom Geoghegan (in Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?) Defends the advantages of the European model of social democracy against the American neoliberal model. No doubt the usual suspects on the Right feel compelled to defend the honor of the American cowboy capitalism that’s prevailed since 1980 or so, as a meaningful approximation to the “free markets” they’re always going on about.
Those of us on the free market Left, of course, will point out that what the talking heads at CNBC and the Wall Street Journal editorial page call the “free market” is anything but. But Geoghegan does a pretty good job of advancing that argument himself. His remarks at several places in the book suggest that American neoliberal capitalism is not only statist, but that — measured even in terms of the sheer size and cost of government — it’s just as statist as German social democracy.
For example, Americans are taxed about four-fifths as much as western Europeans. Translations for this article: Parag Khanna. By Parag Khanna Financial Times | December 28, 2010 Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia; Islam spreading its influence; a Europe replete with crises of legitimacy; sovereign city-states holding wealth and driving innovation; and private mercenary armies, religious radicals and humanitarian bodies playing by their own rules as they compete for hearts, minds and wallets.
It sounds familiar today. But it was just as true slightly less than a millennium ago at the height of the Middle Ages. In recent years it has become conventional wisdom that the post-cold-war world will see rising powers such as China and Brazil create what international relations experts call a “multi-polar” order. In fact, the world we are moving into in 2011 is one not just with many more prominent nations, but one with numerous centres of power in other ways. This was a truly multi-polar world. Of course, no analogy is perfect. Silibinin. Silibinin (INN), also known as silybin (both from Silybum, the generic name of the plant from which it is extracted), is the major active constituent of silymarin, a standardized extract of the milk thistle seeds, containing a mixture of flavonolignans consisting of silibinin, isosilibinin, silicristin, silidianin and others. Silibinin itself is mixture of two diastereomers, silybin A and silybin B, in approximately equimolar ratio.[1] Both in vitro and animal research suggest that silibinin has hepatoprotective (antihepatotoxic) properties that protect liver cells against toxins.[2][3] Silibinin has also demonstrated in vitro anti-cancer effects against human prostate adenocarcinoma cells, estrogen-dependent and -independent human breast carcinoma cells, human ectocervical carcinoma cells, human colon cancer cells, and both small and nonsmall human lung carcinoma cells.[4][5][6][7] Pharmacology[edit] Toxicity[edit] Complementary and alternative medicine[edit] Biotechnology[edit]
The role of niacin in detoxification. Niacin is a water-soluble B vitamin – vitamin B3 - and the common name for 2 very different compounds: "nicotinic acid" and "niacinamide". High doses of niacin (as nicotinic acid) can lower cholesterol levels (although the exact mechanism of action is still not known). The other form of niacin (nicotinamide or niacinamide) does not open blood vessels wider nor provide a cholesterol-lowering effect. Niacin and detoxification of fatty tissues Until the Ron Hubbard purification program was developed, no one had even yet recognized that these oil soluble toxins had such long-term effects in the body.
An important characteristic of the Hubbard detoxification program is the use of niacin. Niacin has the well-known effect of causing "vasodilation", often called the niacin flush, which is an opening of the small blood vessels, the capillaries, so that more blood flows through them. These are the blood vessels which are of most value in reaching fatty tissues. The niacin "flush" Niacin safety . 1. Cops Pay $4,000 to Man Who Flipped Them Off | Threat Level.
A suburban Oregon police department is paying a local man $4,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit in which he claimed he was pulled over for flipping off the cops in traffic. Twice he saluted with his middle finger while driving, and was pulled over each time by a Clackamas County patrol officer, resulting in what he said was a tongue lashing and “bogus” citations that were later dismissed.
He sued (.pdf) in March. “It was just time to settle,” the plaintiff, Robert Ekas, said in a brief telephone interview Thursday. The retired Silicon Valley systems analyst declined to elaborate. Edward McGlone III, the counsel for Clackamas County, just outside Portland, said the local government settled (.pdf) rather than litigate for “business reasons.” “It was just cheaper than proceeding in the case at this point,” he added.
McGlone, too, declined to elaborate. There’s no law against directing to police what might be the world’s oldest insulting gesture. Photo: davidsonscott15/Flickr See Also: Why Are the Feds Cultivating Their Own "Homegrown Terrorists"? December 12, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The FBI caught another homegrown terrorist this week, except like many recent plots the agency has “uncovered,” the attack was a plant, a plan concocted by the FBI itself. It’s the latest in a growing number of terrorism plots that the FBI stirs up by infiltrating communities and helping to devise attack plans. The recent case involves 21-year-old from Baltimore named Antonio Martinez, who’d reportedly converted to Islam, changed his name to Muhammad Hussain and planned to blow up a bomb outside a military recruitment center in Baltimore.
The FBI deployed an informant to pose as an accomplice by adding Martinez as a friend on Facebook and communicate with him through Facebook messages. The case is the second since Thanksgiving and one of many more over the past decade, in which the federal government has deployed informants to “catch” terrorists inside the country. As U.S. Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility. Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News. For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: "If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot. " As for the artists themselves, many were ex- communists barely acceptable in the America of the McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to receive US government backing. Why did the CIA support them? The US government now faced a dilemma. Surgeon General: No Amount of Smoking Is Safe. Report Details Biology of Smoking’s Dangers Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Dec. 9, 2010 -- Even a single cigarette poses health risks. That’s the latest conclusion from the U.S. surgeon general in a new report on the health effects of smoking. The report, released Thursday, suggests for the first time that even small amounts of smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke can have health consequences, particularly in people with pre-existing disease.
“This report concludes that damage from tobacco smoke is immediate,” said U.S. Smoking’s deadly effects are well-known. Continue reading below... Obama administration officials said their report lays out for the first time the damage smoking can do at the cellular and organ level. That can mean an increased risk of a heart attack, even from secondhand smoke, particularly in people who already have cardiovascular disease. Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque. IRVINE, CALIF. - Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys. "This is Farouk al-Aziz, code name Oracle," he said into the keys as he sat in his parked car in this quiet community south of Los Angeles.
"It's November 13th, 4:30 a.m. And we're hot. " The undercover FBI informant - a convicted forger named Craig Monteilh - then drove off for 5 a.m. prayers at the Islamic Center of Irvine, where he says he spied on dozens of worshipers in a quest for potential terrorists. Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the FBI has used informants successfully as one of many tactics to prevent another strike in the United States.
Agency officials say they are careful not to violate civil liberties and do not target Muslims. In the Irvine case, Monteilh's mission as an informant backfired. He had helped build a terrorism-related case against a mosque member, but that also collapsed. S Person of the Year: You. Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial. LOS ANGELES — Opening statements in the first-of-its kind Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial were delayed here Wednesday after a federal judge unleashed a 30-minute tirade at prosecutors in open court, saying he had “serious concerns about the government’s case.” “I really don’t understand what we’re doing here,” US District Judge Philip Gutierrez roared from the bench.
Gutierrez slammed the prosecution over everything from alleged unlawful behavior by government witnesses, to proposed jury instructions harmful to the defense. When the verbal assault finally subsided, federal prosecutors asked for a recess to determine whether they would offer the defendant a deal, dismiss, or move forward with the case that was slated to become the first jury trial of its type. A jury was seated Tuesday. Among the judge’s host of complaints against the government was his alarm that prosecutors would put on two witnesses who may have broken the law. “I apologize to the court,” Chiu said at the end. LeeZu! Tutorials. Deadlier Than Scanners: TSA To Spread Flesh-Eating Bacteria. Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 25, 2010 Now that the TSA’s new pat down procedures include reaching inside people’s clothing and directly touching their skin and genitals, communicable diseases are set to soar, with doctors warning of a new wave of infections that will pose a greater risk to public health than any statistical probability of being a victim of terrorism.
The TSA’s new pat down procedures threaten to unleash an epidemic of communicable diseases, presenting a threat more deadly than the radiation travelers will be exposed to if they pass through a naked body scanner. This will undoubtedly lead to thousands of deaths of people with weak immune systems in the long term. The controversy again highlights the fact that the body scanner and pat down procedures, through the spread of infectious diseases like flesh-eating bacteria, will kill more people than they will protect through the speculative prevention of any terror attack. “Anything can be transmitted. Sen. TSA turns off naked body scanners to avoid opt-out day protests. How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Meal. W.C. Varones: TSA's Nude Scanners, Former Homeland Security Head Chertoff, and How Our Government Works.
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