Archive for February 21st, 2014

Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP News Feb 20, 2014 China reported two more H7N9 cases today, along with one more death, as new information released today put the death toll in the outbreak so far at 112, which is considerably higher than previous indications. The two case-patients are an 81-year-old man from Guangdong province and a... »

ENENews.com February 21st, 2014 NHK, Feb. 21, 2014: Measures fail to stop Fukushima plant leaks — has been coming up with countermeasures to deal with repeated leaks despite the measures, 100 tons of radioactive water leaked on Wednesday and Thursday. Last August, more than 300 tons of highly radioactive wastewater leaked... »

Wendy McElroy Activist Post.com Friday, February 21, 2014 Early immigrants fled Europe to America because the New World offered a glistening promise: the classless society. It was not a society without rich and poor because freedom always produces an inequality of results. It was a society in which people were equal under fair laws... »

Friends suggest Li Junjie was planning to return to Canada days before death leap. Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com February 21, 2014 Friends of the JP Morgan banker who leapt to his death from a high rise building in Hong Kong this week, becoming the 7th financial worker to die under strange circumstances in... »

21st Century Wire FEBRUARY 21, 2014 He seems innocent enough – a twenty-something multibillionaire at the helm of the world’s largest ever social network. But does cool media mogul Mark Zuckerberg actually control the flow of data out of Facebook? Somehow, we don’t think so… “The manpower that Facebook saves is huge…” This is... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/21/2014 Six months ago a “glitch” halted all ATM withdrawals, and Credit and Debit card transactions for Russia’s largest bank but today, the CEO of the huge bank has no such “glitch” to blame: *SBERBANK SEES RUN ON ITS BANK MACHINES IN UKRAINE, GREF SAYS *UKRAINE SITUATION IS PRESSURING RUBLE:... »

GARY LANE Charismanews.com 2/20/2014 Persecution of Christians is rampant all over the globe, especially in the Muslim world but few people are talking about it. More people around the world embrace Christianity than any other religion and Christians are the most persecuted. They face beatings, imprisonment, and even death. And it’s not just happening... »

by Matthew Vadum FrontPageMag.com February 21, 2014 The Obama administration is planning to send what critics characterize as government spies into the newsrooms of the nation’s media outlets. This unprecedented assault on Americans’ First Amendment freedoms is part of the Community Organizer-in-Chief’s political war against the few pockets of media resistance he has encountered... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 02/21/2014 1. Within 48 hours of the signing of this agreement, a special law will be adopted, signed and promulgated, which will restore the Constitution of 2004 including amendments passed until now. Signatories declare their intention to create a coalition and form a national unity government within 10 days thereafter.... »

HeraldNet.com Thursday, February 20, 2014 The H1N1 virus responsible for the 2009 global pandemic is back. State health officials from across the country say the resurgence is resulting in a dramatic rise in flu deaths in young and middle-aged adults and in children this season. While the reported death tolls so far are only... »