UN meeting on food prices seeks transparency
Associated Press ROME — Delegates at a special U.N. meeting prompted by worries over high food prices were discussing Friday a grain export ban by…
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Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA’s Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex
Big Alcohol’s decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect its bottom line is simply politics as usual. Paul Armentano NORML Deputy Director Alternet It…
Warning over malicious computer worm
Joseph Menn and Mary Watkins Financial Times A piece of highly sophisticated malicious software that has infected an unknown number of power plants, pipelines and…
The ‘Moneyless Man’: Why I Live Without Money
Mark Boyle – GETTY Images Mark Boyle Huffington Post If someone had told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and…
The Immorality of Government Inflation
Sean Ritenour Lew Rockwell Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve are at it again. The most recent policy statement by the Federal Open Market Committee…
Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace
Ministers were asked if money earmarked for schools, hospitals and low-income families could be used to meet soaring fuel bills Robert Verkaik — The Independent The…
Oxytocin – the love hormone – could cure shyness
Vial of Oxytocin Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY Richard Alleyne The Telegraph Scientists have discovered that the hormone oxytocin could help wallflowers overcome awkwardness in social situations The chemical…
Alaska’s New Gold Rush
Now this is an Alaskan cabin! Louis James, Senior Editor Casey’s International Speculator Alaska is one of the most prospective and yet most underexplored…
Evidence of Solar Scientists Raise Fears of Imminent Ice Age
Brazil Snow Storm Aug. 2010 John O’Sullivan Suite 101 New study by American solar experts identifies a sharp fall in sunspot activity since 2007 that…
The Esoteric Interpretation of “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Vigilant Citizen Pan’s Labyrinth” is a profound movie telling the story of a young girl’s quest to escape the cruelties of Spanish Fascism. The movie also contains…
5 Reasons to IGNORE Collection Agencies, The Henchmen of the Banking Mafia
John Galt Activist Post I wrote an article a while back titled 5 Reasons NOT to Pay Your Credit Cards. Understandably, many e-mails came in…
A brainwave for catching a criminal?
A new study suggests criminals can be detected by measuring a brainwave known as P300. In tests it worked remarkably well, but can we really…
Lauderdale man’s home sold out from under him in foreclosure mistake
(Robert Duyos, Sun Sentinel / September 19, 2010) Harriet Johnson Brackey Sun Sentinel When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months…
Ahmadinejad tells U.N. most blame U.S. government for 9/11
Louis Charbonneau Reuters Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was behind the attacks of September 11,…