If you've wanted to be part of a powerful effort to bring Bush-era officials to justice for their crimes, now is your chance. We've joined a national effort to reach out to the people of Spain, whose courts are considering prosecuting six of Bush's lawyers under international law. Our campaign includes an open letter and ads in prominent Spanish newspapers and billboards.



Even though the Obama administra tion has… Continue

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into an uptick in young children having febrile seizures following a flu shot. There have now been 36 confirmed reports of such seizures during the current flu season.



All of the seizures took place less than a day after the children were given Fluzone. Fluzone is currently the sole flu shot recommended for very young children in the U.S.



Google News reports:

"The [FDA] said…

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Bugs to Bernanke: That's all, folks!

 

China on Track to Become Top Gold Buyer

 

China's gold imports are estimated to have more than doubled from a year ago in the run-up to Chinese new year, putting the country on track to overtake India as the world's largest consumer of the precious metal.

The growth in demand is being attributed in part to Chinese families giving each other gifts of gold instead of traditional red envelopes…

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Smashed TV Makes Pretty Necklace

Jeweler Alexis Dove imports glass from piles of smashed TV sets in Afghanastan and turns them into beautiful necklaces. Who says the Taliban are all bad?

the pre-tv generations archive

White Dot is compiling an archive of memories and advice from the last generations to grow up without…

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CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. [Updated with video]

"My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from…

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A UN human rights official has been roundly condemned for suggesting that the US government may have orchestrated the September 11 terrorist attacks. Richard Falk, a retired professor from Princeton University, wrote on his blog that there had been an “apparent cover up” by American authorities. He added that most media were “unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events” on 9/11, despite it containing “gaps and contradictions”. And he…

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In the 78th edition of the Reality Report, we draw the direct parallels America shares with Hitler's Germany and provide the solution to avoiding their terrible fate.



We take a look at Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk where he discusses what a new found interest in the Constitution could mean for America. CEO of Euro… Continue

The president of the Federal Re serve Bank of New York doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.



The entire Fed regularly observes what it calls a "blackout period" starting one week before Federal Open Market Committee meetings and lasts until the Friday after those meetings.



In case you don't know, FOMC meetings are where the Fed decides whether to change interest-rate policy.



But there is also a communiqué released just hours after the meeting concludes in which…

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LAW OF THE LAND 

Ninth Circuit ignores Supreme precedent in Mojave case

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has… Continue

This is a longer post than normal – but trust me, there’s a damn good reason for that. If you don’t read a single one of my other posts, read this one.

This post is not about some fringe character. It’s a review of a serious book written by a professor who lectures in mainstream education and is involved in compiling the IPCC reports. The book is published by a respectable publisher for a recognized academic institute

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By: Fred Branfman



"Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them." -- Julian Assange, 2007 blog… Continue

May 18, 1958 WALLACE: This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell of earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, twenty-seven years ago, wrote "Brave New World," a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. We'll find out why, in a moment.





Good evening.…

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Due to public outcry regarding the recent remarks of Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus blaming the current financial crisis on a Zionist conspiracy and making statements that Adolph Hitler was controlled by these same Zionists, the Metropolitan felt the need to clarify his remarks today in his own words below:

On the occasion of the concerns raised by the European Jewish Congress with regard to my interview with the…

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