Thursday, 08 April 2010 09:38 ' Customers are being asked to leave a thumbprint when trading in second-hand goods for cash in order to stop criminals making money out of stolen items. A number of second-hand stores in Norwich have agreed to take part in the scheme, launched by local police. A police spokeswoman said the prints would help detectives trace sellers if goods turned out to be stolen. Read more: Second-hand Goods Shoppers told to Leave Thumbprints at Stores in New Police Scheme Thursday, 08 April 2010 09:24 'CNN has some advice for any former students now saddled with excess debt – carry out a decade of social work or join the ranks of the government’s civilian service corps. CNN business news correspondent Stephanie Elam put on the hard sell for government service to viewers of Newsroom. “This is really about helping those people out, getting them ready as far as the choice for best course of study for the financial future,” Elam told viewers. “So you may consider the possibility of enlisting in public service. Demand is really high right now for government jobs …and any remaining debt on federal student loans will be forgiven after you work full-time in public service for ten years.” Elam continued.' Read more: CNN Touts Civilian Service Corps As Way Of Shedding Student Debt Thursday, 08 April 2010 09:09 Thursday, 08 April 2010 08:53 'Paul Reid should be dead. Diagnosed with a rare, incurable lymphoma, he was given five years, seven tops, by his oncologist. But, having cheated death in the Ash Wednesday bushfires, he was not about to surrender his life without a fight. His weapon of choice? Apricot kernels. Thirty a day. Reid turned down chemotherapy, vowing to eat himself well. Today, 13 years in remission, the 68-year-old believes that ''cancer-killing'' properties in the kernels he still eats daily, coupled with a strict vegan diet and prayer, have cured him. ''We're not immortal, but I believe I'll be healthy from taking this direction,'' he says.' Read more: Can Apricot Kernels Keep Cancer at Bay? Thursday, 08 April 2010 08:26 'Beginning one year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced. The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year.' Read more: Cap and Trade: A License Required for your Home Thursday, 08 April 2010 08:11 'For a number of years now, a number of cities in Europe have been experimenting with the removal of all traffic signs – including traffic lights, stop signs, speed limit directives – and with surprising results. Various towns in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, New Zealand – even the UK! – have joined in the experiment. Contrary to the expectations of those who might expect multi-car pileups throughout the cities, traffic accidents have been dramatically reduced (in one town, dropping from about eight per year to fewer than two). Part of the reason for the increased safety relates to the fact that, without the worry of offending traffic sign mandates, or watching for police speed-traps, or checking the rear-view mirror for police motorcycles, drivers have more time to pay attention to other cars and pedestrians.' Thursday, 08 April 2010 07:54 Thursday, 08 April 2010 07:35 'I remember the H1N1 "swine flu" season of 2009 very well. People were rushing out to get vaccinated, scared half to death by the mainstream media which was pushing false reports that the swine flu would kill tens of millions of people and that only a vaccine could save you. The CDC and health authorities were pushing a double-barreled vaccine strategy that demanded people get both a seasonal flu shot as well as an H1N1 pandemic flu shot. Those who questioned the sensibility of vaccines for fighting the flu were attacked as "baby killers" for not kow-towing to the vaccine mythology that drives Big Pharma's profits to record profits nearly every flu season. Fast forward six months (or so) and now we have a new scientific paper published in one of the few remaining honest, independent medical journals out there: BLoS Medicine. The title of this study? Check it out.' Read more: Seasonal Flu Vaccines Increase Risk of Pandemic H1N1 Flu, Stunned Scientists Discover Thursday, 08 April 2010 07:27 'Paul and Lisa Hessey of Bolsover, England, took their two-year-old son Zak to a doctor when he began refusing to eat his mother's cooking and dropped to 17 pounds. "I thought I was ... going to the best people for advice when Zak began to lose weight," his mother said. "Instead they basically accused me of neglecting him and implied it was all my fault." Doctors advised Zak's parents to feed him junk food in order to stem his weight loss. His parents, firm believers in healthy eating, refused.' Read more: British Social Workers take Baby Boy After Mum Refuses to Feed Him Processed Junk Food Thursday, 08 April 2010 07:22 'Although nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being stared at only to find that a person or animal really was looking, Western science has long rejected that the human eye can emit any form of energy. Dr. Ross says his findings move "human ocular extramission," which he also refers to as an "eyebeam," from the realm of superstition to science. "We used our patent pending Electromagnetic Beam Detection System, which includes modified EEG neurofeedback equipment, to prove that the human eye emits an electromagnetic signal that can be measured scientifically," said Dr. Ross. "I hope that future experiments will determine why energy emitted from the eye is so strong and whether it can be harnessed through focused attention".' Read more: Can the Human Eye Actually Emit an Energy Beam? Thursday, 08 April 2010 06:42 'Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has declared a state of emergency in the capital Bangkok and its vicinity, after protesters stormed Parliament. The declaration comes after red-shirted supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra forced their way into the country's parliamentary compound briefly on Wednesday. Some lawmakers fled and several senior government figures were rescued by military helicopters.'
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