Archive for April, 2011
Chicago School Bans Lunches Brought from Home; Students Must Eat Cafeteria Food; Exceptions Made for Medical Reasons
April 11th, 2011Napoleon Dynamite from dazedcracker on Vimeo. Via: WREG: At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their […]
Egypt: Blogger Gets 3 Years for Criticising Military
April 11th, 2011The U.S. is the master of meet the new boss, same as the old boss, so watch as “democracy” goes on to be basically Mubarak by other means. —Egypt Protests: America’s Secret Backing for Rebel Leaders Behind Uprising? It’s the new, NEW freedom. Via: AFP: A military court has jailed a blogger for three years […]
Fallout Risks in Europe No Longer ‘Negligible’
April 11th, 2011The concern is with pregnant women and infants. For whatever it’s worth, here is Google’s French to English translation of the document, Contamination de la France par les rejets de la centrale de Fukushima Daiichi: QUELS SONT LES RISQUES? Via: EurActiv: The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer “negligible,” according to […]
GMOs Linked to Organ Disruption in 19 Studies
April 11th, 2011Via: Institute for Responsible Technology: A new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) corn or soybeans leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from 19 animal studies, Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and others reveal that 9% of the measured parameters, including blood and urine biochemistry, […]
The Hidden Job Crisis for American Men
April 11th, 2011Recovery. Via: Business Week: The March jobs report released on Apr. 1 seemed like the best in years. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis released a statement noting that the four-month drop in the jobless rate, to 8.8 percent from 9.8 percent, was “its largest decline since 1984.” Behind the headlines, though, statistics on jobs are […]
Iceland: Voters Reject Icesave Payback Referendum
April 11th, 2011I’m sure this situation isn’t going unnoticed in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Via: CityWire: Britain and the Netherlands plan to sue Iceland for €4 billion (£3.5 billion) paid to Icesave depositors after the country voted against the payment of the money for a second time in a referendum. Almost 60% of Icelanders voted against a […]
Japan: 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Fukushima
April 11th, 2011Via: BBC: A powerful earthquake has hit north-east Japan, exactly one month after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The 7.1-magnitude tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning, and forced workers to evacuate the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The epicentre of the quake was in Fukushima prefecture, and struck at a depth of just 10km (six miles). […]
Bill Gross: Skunked
April 11th, 2011Via: Pimco: …the true but unrecorded debt of the U.S. Treasury is not $9.1 trillion or even $11-12 trillion when Agency and Student Loan liabilities are thrown in, but $65 trillion more! This country appears to have an off-balance-sheet, unrecorded debt burden of close to 500% of GDP! … …the only way out of the […]
China’s Ghost Cities
April 11th, 2011Madness on afterburner, comrade. Via: Dateline: Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns. It’s all part of the government’s efforts to keep the economy booming, and there are many people who would love to move […]
The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces
April 11th, 2011If any component of this is noteworthy, it’s the scale. The core of this is as old as the hills. Many of the TwitFace kids today haven’t even heard of the The Mighty Wurlitzer, but every crop of kids that fascists harvest are generally ignorant of who they’re actually serving, and there’s a fresh crop […]
