News & Society
Six Years later – A Failed Presidency
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the ...
Governments are preparing to face a global pandemic
By Fabiola Groshan · 18 years ago
The World Health Organization are considering to send a national report next month and advise the government to think about stockpiling vaccine against H5N1 because a possible global pandemic could begin at any time now. ...
Scientists Genetically Modify Tobacco Mosaic Virus to Fight Crop Pests and Mosquitoes
By James Wachai · 18 years ago
The field of crop genetic engineering continues to mesmerize me, and I am sure everybody else, who has followed closely the proliferation of genetically modified crops. The ingenuity of scientists working in this field, and ...
Federal Disability Retirement and the Agency Cover of Accommodation
By Robert Mcgill · 18 years ago
"A man who acts without knowledge is a man who merely acts."
-- From "Compendium of Sage Verses"
I am receiving too many phone calls from people who have been fooled by his/her Agency that ...
President Bush and the GREAT MYTHS of Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
What a world we live in. Let's look at Iraq. We know the President said ostensibly that the reason for invading was to find weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Saddam Hussein from using them. ...
FDA Advisors Found to Have Financial Ties to Product Under Review
By Cathlene Martinez · 18 years ago
In a recent report by Bloomberg, it was found that six doctors set to be on an FDA advisory panel, had financial ties to companies that produce stent heart devices which are currently up for ...
Mayor Bloomberg says, “Shooting Unacceptable”
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Several days ago, an unfortunate shooting took place in New York City. A team of five undercover police officers were sitting in a van outside a strip club doing surveillance. There was an additional officer ...
New Medicare Advantage Plan Costing You Money
By Joshua Daly · 18 years ago
In a new study by the Common Wealth Fund, it was found that moving seniors to private Medicare HMO’s are costing taxpayers 5.2 billion dollars per year. The study found that coverage through a Medicare ...
What can Be Done To Fight Suicide Terrorism?
By Obono John Obono · 18 years ago
Terrorists use suicide attacks to instill a feeling of helplessness in the population--the notion that they have no way of protecting themselves against such attacks. These feelings strike a blow to public morale, creating fear ...
Indicted Eco-Terror Teacher Has a History of Arson Instruction
By David Martosko · 18 years ago
SAN DIEGO – Animal-rights and environmental extremist Rodney Coronado, charged on February 22, 2006 with teaching other activists how to build firebombs during an August 2003 speech, gave a similar tutorial at Washington, DC’s American ...
The Rosia Montana Dilemma
By Jaks Lloyd · 18 years ago
The Road to Democracy
Romania was beggared during the autocratic rule of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the 70s and 80s and after his violent overthrow in 1989 struggled to become a truly democratic ...
Lost in Translation: California Community Dispute Resolution Programs Denied Funding
By Elizabeth Moreno · 18 years ago
In 1986, the California legislature enacted a statute to fund a Dispute Resolution Program. In enacting this statute the Legislature recognized that the resolution of many disputes is unnecessarily costly, time consuming and complex when ...
JFK Conspiracy and Other Historical Secrets
By Gersiane De Brito · 18 years ago
The prophecies of Nostradamus, today popularly believed to be the work of a charlatan, are given new life in Morten St. George's Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking. St. ...
Iraq and the Misery Index
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan's run for the Presidency he created a "Misery Index". This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as ...
New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
On Election Day, the American people spoke very strongly that the direction the President and the Republican Party was taking America towards, is not the direction the country wanted to go in. Presidents are not ...
Chinese: Adapting the Past and Facing the Future
By Jeff Stats · 18 years ago
Half a century ago nobody could even imagine the pace of growing that China is experiencing right now. Back then it was simply a country with a devastated by war economy that was just starting ...
From Verbalism and Vocalism to Vandalism: Graduation of Anti-Agribiotech Activism in India
By Dr. C Kameswara Rao · 18 years ago
A few years ago activists, allegedly belonging to the Karnataka Rytha Sangha, the State farmers’ organization, burned Mahyco’s trial Bt cotton fields in Karnataka, India.
On October 28, 2006, in Rampura village in Karnal, Haryana ...
Pay Rises Go Straight Up
By Alison White · 18 years ago
Next year, the private sector will surely be affected by the rising inflation. According to a recently published report, wages bills will be pushed up between 3% and 4.5% next year.
Pay researchers from Income ...
Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than ...
The Energy Crisis : Headlines in the 60's and 70's
By Danna Schneider · 18 years ago
All the rage in the revolutionary years of the 1960's and 1970's were the smaller, more compact vehicles. It's the time during which we saw the first emergence of awareness of our planet, what we ...