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First `World Report on Disability` released

Handicap International calls for solidarity with persons with disabilities in developing countries.

(NEW YORK) - Released by the WHO and the World Bank, new report makes a useful contribution, through a practical approach based on field experience, to the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

A Tax whose Time has Come...

It would be nice to see such additional revenue go towards payment of our national debt instead of into the pockets of Wall Street speculators.

( VADNAIS, HEIGHTS, Minn.) - Some members of Congress are proposing a tax on stock transactions. Such a tax would have very little impact on most of those buying and selling stocks because of proposed tax limitations on ordinary transactions.

A stock transactions tax would incur extra costs mostly to those who are speculating by perpetually buying and selling the same stocks multiple times a day.

What the American Public Shouldn`t Know

U.S. statesmen and politicians have predetermined and programmed plans for the nation of Iran and it's on their agenda to sow the seeds of discord

(TEHRAN) - Many people in the world credulously or perhaps naively believe the tempting claims of U.S. statesmen and politicians who say that their country is a "beacon of freedom" and a "pioneer of democracy."

E.coli and Radiation - Surprise! Surprise!

Irradiation of food would consolidate control of food by the corporations and would be the end of fresh and organic and local food.

(LONDON) - That European e.coli may have been genetically engineered. But there is no question it is doing what serves the interests of industrial agriculture and the food industry.

It has created a rationale ("whether real or promulgated") government officials to come forward on behalf of corporate interests with a "solution" that fresh food be irradiated.

El Toro Marine Awarded 100% Disability

Korean War and Vietnam War veteran totally disabled. Daughter completes successful VA claim on the first try.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Retired Marine Captain Jim Brooks, age 79, is a victim of organic solvent exposure, Agent Orange, and a myriad of other toxic chemical exposures.

Jim Brooks has Alzheimer’s, a fatal brain disease that causes a slow decline in memory, thinking and reasoning skills. A Marine Mustang, Gunnery Sergeant Brooks, a jet engine mechanic, was promoted to 1st Lieutenant during the Vietnam War.

Gabrielle Giffords: Optimal Rehab Leads to Optimal Brain Recovery

Janet M. Cromer is a psychotherapist/healthcare writer.

(CLEARWATER, Florida) - While Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords engages in intensive rehabilitation following the gunshot wound that left her with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), her husband, Mark Kelly, has trained for two high-stakes missions.

Kelly succeeded brilliantly at the first-commanding the space shuttle Endeavor’s mission to the International Flight Station, then safely home.

Todd Spitzer: Irvine`s Great Park Fiasco M.I.A. Politico

Former OC Supervisor, Assistant DA, State Assemblyman, And Macho Man Victims’ Rights Advocate Is Asleep At The Political Watchdog Wheel.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - An Open Letter To Todd Spitzer

Hello, Todd? Is there anybody in there? Just nod once if you can hear me, ok? The dream that was, it just doesn’t even remotely resemble this messy interlude. The old reverie’s kaput, and taxpayers are NOT comfortably numb, we’re really angry and frustrated and confused and wondering who’ll rescue us...

Release of ESG Study on Impacts of POSCO`s India Project

“Tearing through the Water Landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of POSCO project in Odisha, India”

(NEW DELHI) - On 2nd May 2011, Indian Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh finally approved the diversion of over 3,000 acres of forest land, of the 4,000 acres demanded, for a steel-power-port complex of the POSCO India project.

Earlier, Ramesh had approved the environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances that the project had secured in 2007, even though all these clearances were obtained by fraud, and thus illegal...

New Film on Dr. Burzynski Cancer Treatment Free This Weekend Online

New film about cancer treatment could be the most important thing you ever watch.

(SALEM, Ore.) - If there is one piece of information that I would like to be able to get in front of all Americans in one fell swoop, it is the story of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and his non-toxic, cancer treatment program.

This weekend the new film will be available to watch for free for a limited time.

Gurgle, Gurgle

Down the drain...

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Sometimes, late at night, when it is very quiet, I can hear a faint gurgling sound. I wondered what it was and finally realized that it comes in my south window. It turns out to be coming from across the 49th parallel only a hundred or so miles away.

It’s the ominous and unfortunate sound of The Untied States going down the drain.