NATGO to Air Documentary on Italian Cruise Ship Disaster

Tapping into the nation’s growing fascination with “disaster porn,” National Geographic Channel (NGC) announced this week that it will air the first U.S. documentary detailing the Italian cruise ship disaster in a moment-by-moment — still raw — account, told primarily through the eyes of those who experienced it. Premiering Sunday, February 12, at 7 p.m. [...]

Cheap baby formulas just as healthy as expensive brands says experts

According to Nielsen data, more than $688 million was spent on advertising baby formula and other baby products from September 2010 to August 2011.

Plastic bag ban kills 8800 jobs says activist group

AUSTIN, Texas – The the American Progressive Bag Alliance believes that the ban on plastic bags is hurting job growth. “8,800 Texan jobs are threatened by the proposed ordinance to ban and tax plastic bags,” the group wrote in a statement issued yesterday. Plastic retail carry-out bags are 100% recyclable and made from clean natural [...]

Homeland Security’s Watching You

Bloggers may not be treated as journalists as far as the government is concerned, as the public learned during the Occupy Wall Street unrest, but that doesn’t stop the government from spying on bloggers as if they were journalists after all and not mere private citizens.

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