Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Google Latitude Spies on Americans' Exact Geographic Location in Real Time

(NaturalNews) Has the age of electronic stalking begun? Google has announced a new service called Latitude that triangulates the real-time position of any mobile phone user and displays their location online, in real time, for other people to see.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Death of American Leadership

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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counterpunch
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009

Vast numbers of people in the United States and abroad are hoping that President Obama will end America’s illegal wars, halt America’s support for Israel’s massacre of Lebanese and Palestinians, and punish, instead of reward, the shyster banksters whose fraudulent financial instruments have destroyed economics and imposed massive sufferings on people all over the world. If Obama’s appointments are an indication, all of these hopeful people are going to be disappointed.

Obama chose as his Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the man who helped Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, engineer the $700 billion dollar rip off of the US taxpayer, money that was gifted to the banksters who destroyed Americans’ pensions, jobs and health care coverage.

These banksters, and the negligent federal regulators that enabled them, should be put in prison, not handed hundreds of billions of dollars.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Healthy Foods Raise Students' Test Scores

The right food can not only improve the health of children, it can also raise their test scores! A new study released by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Essex University (in the UK) tested the academic effects of a diet championed by UK food guru Jamie Oliver, and it found that the foods significantly increased children's test scores.

Too much television can make children ‘mentally ill’

Excessive exposure makes a child materialistic, which in turn affects their relationship with their parents and their health.

Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office

Two days after taking the helm of a country ready for change after eight years of George W. Bush, President Obama has allowed one controversial "War on Terror" tactic to remain in place: rendition.

Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition — the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. — remains in the CIA’s playbook, thanks to a Jan. 22 executive order issued by President Obama.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Congress sued to remove Obama from White House

A new lawsuit is challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and this one targets Congress as a defendant for its "failure" to uphold the constitutional demand to make sure Obama qualified before approving the Electoral College vote that actually designated him as the occupant of the Oval Office.