Homeschooling Mom Under Scrutiny by New Jersey Family Court From a usually home education friendly state, New Jersey, comes news of the legal criticism of a homeschooling mother's right to educate her children at home. Justice Thomas Zampino of the Family Division of the New Jersey Superior Court seeks penal charges against Tara Hamilton, college graduate and mother of seven, for homeschooling her children. This follows an apparently bitter divorce and charges by the non-custodial parent Stephen Hamilton that the children were not receiving an adequate ... (more)
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ABC: Rove Suggested Firing All U.S. Attorneys From ABC:
New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House....
White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters Tuesday that Miers had suggesting firi... (more)
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Can KSM's Confession Be Believed? Little in the just released confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the presumed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is new. The U.S. government long ago cataloged those alleged crimes based on extensive interrogations of Mohammed and other prisoners held in the CIA's controversial and now liquidated overseas prisons. But the transcripts of Mohammed's hearing — part of proceedings that began last Friday at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — are the first time... (more)
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Danish scientist: Global warming is a mythCOPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 15 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific.
University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph.
It is generally assumed the Earth's atmosphere and oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 ... (more)
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'Friendly fire' widow's Bush plea British "friendly fire" victim Matty Hull's widow has appealed to US President George Bush to help find out the truth about her husband's death.
Susan Hull, 30, said when she met Mr Bush in November 2003 he asked if there was anything he could do to help.
An inquest is being held into how 25-year-old Lance Corporal of Horse died at the hands of a US A-10 "Tank Buster" plane in southern Iraq.
Mrs Hull said: "He assured me that he would do all he could... (more)
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Beaten, blinded but defiant in face of MugabeStruggling to stand upright and with a deep gash on the side of his head, Morgan Tsvangirai was brought before a Zimbabwean court yesterday.
But the opposition leader refused any further medical treatment until all his fellow detainees were allowed to go to hospital.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean opposition leader, appears at court in Harare yesterday
Mr Tsvangirai arrived at the magistrates' court in the capital, Harare, with about 50 others, i... (more)
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Experts close the lid on 'suitcase nukes'Jack Bauer may lose 24 hours of sleep worrying about suitcase nukes, but should his viewers?
Probably not, nuclear weapons experts say.
Nuclear bombs cleverly concealed in suitcases don't exist in real life. Even so, they have long been a popular Hollywood plot point.
The lethal luggage — or what non-proliferation experts prefer to call portable nuclear devices — have been featured in action thrillers, including 1997's The Peacemaker with ... (more) This propaganda was debunked long ago by the blogging community. |
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Forty-Nine Percent of U.S. Students Binge Drink March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Forty-nine percent of U.S. college students indulge each month in binge drinking or drug use, abusing them at rates far higher than in the general population, according to a report.
About 1.8 million students met the medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence in 2005, 2 1/2 times the national level, as they sought to relieve stress, improve mood or enhance performance, said the report, released today by the National Center on Addiction and Substanc... (more)
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Propaganda and the Politics of PerceptionWar propaganda glorifies military indoctrination as the highest form of patriotism while simultaneously demonizing the enemies of the state.
Adolf Hitler realized the power of propaganda to mould and shape public opinion. Hitler wrote a highly informed essay on the powers of propaganda in his political autobiography, Mein Kampf.
Modern governments employ propaganda to incite public outcries for war in order to advance their agendas in foreign policy.
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The Silence of the Lambs? Proof of US orchestration of Death Squads Killings in IraqTestimony of Iraqi torture victim confirms the presence of US personnel at the infamous Jadiriyah bunker
Probably everyone remembers the discovery of the Jadiriyah detention facility in November 2005. US troops were reported to have uncovered the prison in their hunt for a missing person, only to discover some 170 detainees in horrific conditions, many of them clearly the victims of obscene tortures. Although it was admitted that the facility belonged to the inter... (more)
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Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why Babies will be assessed on their gurgling, babbling and toe-playing abilities when they are a few months old under a legally enforced national curriculum for children from birth to five published by the government yesterday.
Every nursery, childminder and reception class in Britain will have to monitor children's progress towards a set of 69 government-set "early learning goals", recording them against more than 500 development milestones as they go.
At five, each ... (more)
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Strong Suspicions of Toxicity in One GMO CornAllowed to go on the market in France and Europe, MON 863, a transgenic corn invented by Monsanto, has been at the center of a controversy over its innocuousness for over two years (April 23rd, 2004, Le Monde). These debates could resume after the March 13th publication in "Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology" of a study suggesting this genetically modified organism (GMO) is toxic to the liver and kidneys.
According to this work, consumption of MON 863 corn ... (more) Related: Who Controls the Food Controls the People |
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Matt Drudge rules their world...and spreads a Big Lie on IraqLet's start by stating the obvious -- all Americans, regardless of their views on the war in Iraq or on politics in general -- don't want to see even one more of our countrymen and women killed over there.
And any legitimate news that U.S. troop deaths are sharply down, in a way that is statistically significant, would be welcomed with open arms by all. And such news would also have to become part of the Great National Debate over what happens next in the region.
Ma... (more)
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California City Wants World's Strictest Smoking BanCouncil members in the northern California city of Belmont are set to introduce what many consider the world's toughest municipal ban on smoking.
The ordinance, which was presented to the city council Tuesday night would ban smokers from apartment buildings, parks, all city sidewalks and streets and anywhere within about 6 metres of a business entrance, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
The hearing in the city just east of San Francisco was packed with... (more)
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Government Eco-Snoopers To Inspect HomesHomeowners who refuse to make their properties energy efficient will face financial penalties under drastic government plans to transform Britain into the world's first 'green' economy.
Ministers yesterday promised deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions that they warned would mean everyone in the country having to 'live, work and travel differently'.
They compared the scale of change that was necessary to reduce emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 to the industrial revo... (more)
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US pressurizing Pak to get its support for attack on Iran: GulISLAMABAD: Former ISI Chief, Gen (retd) Hameed Gul has said that the Untied States is paving the way to use Pakistan's territory for its expected attack on Iran in order to shift the blame of its failure in Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Talking to a private TV Channel, Gen (retd) Hameed Gul said that NATO forces have intensified their activities on Pak-Afghan border as they are frustrated due to their failure in Afghanistan.
Former ISI Chief has said that US backed Karza... (more)
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Suckered Again: Abandonment of Vets is a Military TraditionNEW YORK--Americans were dismayed to learn that soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq--"fallen heroes," as network news calls them--were being warehoused in Building 18, a rat- and roach-infested satellite of the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center.
Disbelief turned to disgust with the disclosure that injured veterans are going bankrupt and losing their homes because the Veterans Administration (V.A.) holds up their benefit checks for years on end. Surely the men and women who fi... (more)
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Is There A Secret To The 9/11 Insurance Battle? A major insurance company is holding back from paying Larry Silverstein insurance money he says he is still owed from the destruction of the World Trade Center complex, the question is why?
Reuters is reporting: Mr Silverstein, who leased the downtown site destroyed on September 11, 2001, claims Allianz still owes him $US553 million ($A708. ... (more)
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Fake Congressional Opposition to War The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops. Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to more moderate voices taking over their seats because voters want change and expect new faces to deliver starting with the top issue on voters' minds in recent polls - Iraq. A majority of the public demands it, protests and heated rhetoric continue building over it, and the Congress is about to disappoint again ... (more)
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More Bloodshed In Shanwei, China CHINA—At noon on March 11, another large- scale conflict broke out in Shanwei, Guangdong Province. Villagers fought with hired thugs over a land dispute involving a power plant construction site. About 70 villagers were shot to death in the Shanwei Massacre on December 6, 2005, in strife over this same power plant.
Just over a year after the Shanwei Massacre, Shanwei Power Plant has just started operating, and the company has been rushing the final stages of its constructio... (more)
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