Natalie Merchant speaks out against Hydrofracking
Singer/songwriter and former front-woman of 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, will join others in song and word next month against the dangers of shale gas hydrofracking in a New York state benefit concert promoting the Fingers Lakes CleanWaters Initiative. “Hydrofracking poses the greatest threat to clean drinking water in New York and Pennsylvania right now,” the [...]
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
January 31, 2012 by Staff
Filed under Lifestyle, News, Science, Uncategorized
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.
Google+ Changes Enhance User Experience
Google is on the march to make its newest product, Google+ more effective and user-friendly as a social marketing tool.
Drug-Resistant TB Infecting Europe
With Cholera ravaging the earthquake ravaged lands of Haiti, the World Health Organization (WHO) now reports that drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis are making rounds in Europe, and has made the London borough of Brent, home to Wembley Stadium and the headquarters of brewer Diageo Plc, western Europe’s tuberculosis capital. More new cases each year arise [...]
Earthquakes Rattle Japan, Cuba, California
The USGA reported a 6.2 earthquake off Japan’s coast Thursday, along with a 6.0 quake striking off of Cuba’s coast. While reports are still coming in, no tsunami warnings have been issued in either location, and no injuries or damage have been reported. Southern California was also struck by an earthquake today, with a 3.5 [...]
High Radiation Levels Found in US Drinking Water, Milk
Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday. Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels [...]
Google settles $500m Fed Investigation into Advertising Practices
August 25, 2011 by Staff
Filed under Business, Science, Technology
Google Inc. has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a U.S. government investigation into the Internet search leader’s distribution of online ads from Canadian pharmacies illegally selling prescription drugs to American consumers. The settlement means Google will not face criminal prosecution for accusations that it improperly profited from ads promoting Canadian pharmacies that illegally [...]
