Tuesday, 27 April 2010 07:10 'Lynne Doyle has just been through six months of hell. The 59-year-old grandmother was interrogated in front of customers at the shop she runs, threatened with a heavy fine and dragged to court to answer for her actions. Her crime? To wedge a cardboard box between two recycling bins because it was too big to fit in the slot.' Read more: Grandmother's Six-Month Court Ordeal for Leaving Cardboard Box Next to Recycling Bin Tuesday, 27 April 2010 07:01 'Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets. Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:57 'Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, said on Monday he would be run for president as the candidate for the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS). Kaczynski is widely expected to sweep to victory at elections on June 20th on the groundswell of growing uneasiness in Poland about the plane crash that killed Lech Kaczynski, two opposition presidential candidates, key opposition party MPs, the central bank governor, the national security chief and the army heads. The decision by Kaczynski to continue to pursue elected office recalls the behaviour of Robert Kennedy after the assassination of his brother John F Kennedy in 1963, who attempted to regain control of the US’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, from the private bankers.' Read more: Killed Polish President’s Brother to Run for Election in June Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:33 'Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed by conventional doctors. One new technology described at the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging allows "pills to be electronically outfitted with transmitters" which would track the patient's compliance with medications and broadcast that information back to government health care enforcers who check for "compliance and efficacy." "Emerging technologies allow pills to be electronically outfitted with transmitters to communicate with the user's wristwatch that shows that the pill has been consumed," said University of Virginia professor Robin Felder at the committee meeting. "Broadband connectivity of these devices would allow the electronic medical record to be updated with regard to medication compliance and efficacy".' Read more: Big Brother to Track Your Medication Compliance With Electronic Transmitters in Pills Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:24 Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:21 'Adderall is a medicine that is prescribed for treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. According to the medication guide for Adderall XR, the medicine has detrimental side effects. These include heart related troubles such as sudden death in patients, who have heart problems or heart defects. It can also result in heart attacks and strokes in adults, an increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Besides these physical side effects the medication also has an adverse impact on mental health. It can lead to worsening of behavior, problems in thinking, augment bipolar disorder or cause the disease, aggressive behavior in all patients. In children and in teenagers, the medicine is linked with fresh psychotic symptoms such as hearing voices, believing in things that are untrue and suspicious or maniacal signs.' Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:13 'S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money. “If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower.' Read more: Department of Homeland Security to Control All Food and Gardening in the USA? Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:02 'The US, the self-proclaimed protector of human rights, has failed to vote in favor of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) at the UN, Kenneth Deer, the representative of US and Canada Mohawk Indians, said that Washington had refrained from recognizing the UN declaration on indigenous rights. Deer described the conditions of the Indians living in the US and Canada as catastrophic, saying that they enjoy the minimum life requirements.' Tuesday, 27 April 2010 05:02 'A recent survey shows some 70% of the German population backs the immediate withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, as Berlin struggles to win support for the unpopular war. The opinion poll conducted by independent research institute Infratest dimap also indicated that some 53% of the Germans surveyed do not believe national security is being defended through the Afghan mission. This comes as a blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been trying to convince the German public that the Afghan mission is directly related to national security.'
Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis to allow guardsmen to patrol streets and help quell violence. Weis said he did not support the idea because the military and police operate under different rules.'
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