Now on RGTV News:

Iraq: Turkey launches an attack,
Israel: Friday ritual of protesting the wall for three years,
UK: British army accused of abusing prisoners,
Cuba: First Person perspective on surviving with an embargo,
Mauritania: Refugees return after 20 years,
Every Woman looks at women around the world overcoming repression and abuse,
Egypt: Riz Khan on government transparency issues halting business growth,
Big problems with current ways of measuring economic success,
China: Clean rapping to get past government restrictions...

Now on RGTV News:

Russia: Fears Kosovo independence will set a precedent,
Tanzania: Hidden intentions to U.S. President Bush's visit,
Zimbabwe: Inflation at 66,000% due to printing more money,
Denmark: Arson and riots continue uncontrolled,
Thailand: Shooting massacres national morale,
India: Punjab dam plan stealing from citizens,
Afghanistan: Inside Story on possible NATO defeat,
US: Clip from "Zeitgeist" on the truth of Vietnam War,
Barcelona: Click takes a look at new mobile technology...

via Slashdot:

US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens

"A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns. The plan is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about it. While some internal agencies have had access to spy satellite imagery for purposes such as assisting after a natural disaster, this would be the first time law-enforcement would be able to obtain a warrant and request access to satellite imagery."

Now on RGTV News:

Mumbai: Clashes with migrant workers,
UK: Flourishing sex trade,
Argentina: New elicit drug Paco epidemic,
Bolivia: Flood emergency,
Northern Africa: People and Power on the widespread terrorism,
India: Inside Story on organ trafficking racket,
UK: Two teens report on normal bodies vs. models,
Media gold rush for money in mobile technology,
UK: Testing RFID for airport baggage,
Riz Khan on love and sex with robots,
Australia says sorry to Aborigines...

Now on RGTV News:

Denmark: Death threat to cartoonist,
Lebanon: No improvement in power cuts,
Chad: Displaced lives,
Afghanistan: Deadly winter,
Kenya: Children orphaned by violence,
UK: Campaign against use of 'mosquitoes' frequency only heard by youth,
Kosovo: One cadet's hopes for their future,
Russia: I knew Boris Yeltsin,
Egypt: Inside Story on Coptic discrimination,
One on One with maverick controversial director,
Afghanistan: Aspiring star gets to finally sing,
Scotland: Opposing a wind farm,
Riz Khan on making technology work,
UK: Cars that avoid collisions,
France: Cars that run on air,
YouTube stops Scientology...

Now on RGTV News:

Iraq: Olberman on the reality on the ground in Iraq,
US: The Dollar vs. The Euro,
Iran: Outcry over hangings,
Mexico: The squatters' battle to live,
Mexico's business of kidnapping,
Afghanistan: Natural healing through "fortune tellers",
Israel: The Fabulous Picture Show with the West Bank Story,
Middle East: Inside Story on Arab education,
Spain: Software firms' mobile plans,
Google Analytics Tutorial...

Now on RGTV News:

Gaza: Israeli missile hits teacher instead,
Uruguay: Argentinian paper mill blockade cuts deep,
UK: Archbishop supporting religious diversity in law,
UK: Tony Blair eying international leadership position,
France: Martial arts answer to improving poor neighborhoods,
US: Inside Story on US Presidential candidates' stance on Iraq war,
Australia: Japanese "scientific" whaling goes too far,
US: Space shuttle Atlantis launch,
UK: Bionic knee generates power...

Now on RGTV News:

Kenya: SMS peer pressure fueling violence,
Iraq: Child training videos,
Afghanistan: The battle for Kandahar,
Iran: Their perspective on US elections,
Italy: Snap elections due to parliamentary dissolution,
Israel: Case closed on 7-year-old police brutality without resolution,
UK: People and Power on UK's broken promise to migrant workers,
Pakistan: Inside Story on improving combat presence,
Russia: 15-year-old composer...

Fat People Cheaper to Treat, Study Says

By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer

LONDON (AP) -- Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars.

[ More at Wired ]

And Now on RGTV News:

Chad: Violence escalating,
Israel: The return of terror,
Mexico: Americans going across the border for medications,
Sri Lanka: Colomobo halts so protesters can march,
Iraq: Inside Iraq on very unstable situation,
Inside Story on real Iraqi death count,
US: Cheating to Live on deplorable health care system,
UK: Active plants signify fundamental weather shift,
One on One with serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-loannou...

 

Now on RGTV News:

Egypt: Border to Gaza closed for now,
Sri Lanka: Colombo railway suicide bomber,
Chad: Civilians caught in the conflict,
Mexico: Prison-born children,
Brazil: Rio carnival's worst secret,
US: People and Power on homeless ignored by political frenzy,
UK: Protest against Eco-Town,
Abu Dhabi: Master of Horses...

Now on RGTV News:

Afghanistan: Suicide bomber assassination attempt,
Fears for Afghanistan's future,
UK: Human trafficking,
UK: The European Guantanamo,
Brazil: Holocaust parade float banned,
Germany: Baby hatch deaths spark debate,
Egypt: Inside Story on the Gaza to Rafah crossing,
Thailand: 101 East on stem cell human guinea pigs...

Now on RGTV News:

Lebanon: War report blames Israel military,
EU: International price gouging,
Kenya: Monasterial sanctuary,
Myanmar: Second revolutionary rising (yay monks!),
Pakistan: Riz Khan on what lies ahead,
Spain: People and Power on immigration fueled corruption,
Africa: GPS helps pygmies save home,
Author at Google on the "Mind of the Market"...

And this just in (Thanks Michael!):

NH Diebold Voting Machines Hacked

NH Primary Sham Chain of Custody

From Chris Gupta:

Water Toxicity - Hydrofluorosilicic acid

To the City of Waterloo Council Members:

Fluoride is now everywhere.  It is in the air we breathe and in the food and beverages we consume.  It is impossible to eliminate our body?s systemic ingestion of fluoride.
 
"In 1997, the EPA estimated that Americans were ingesting nearly five times more fluoride than in 1971 - from food and drinks alone."
Smith G. 2001, Why Fluoride Is An Environmental Issue, Earth Island Institute, 22^nd meeting of the ISFR, August 24-27

Here is a list, not complete by any means, on the adverse health effects (click each title for ref. or go to www.waterloowatch.com to get the full reports):

Fluoride And The Brain
Fluoride And Cancer
Fluoride And Children
Fluoride And Dental Fluorosis
Fluoride And Hypersensitivity
Fluoride And Kidneys
Fluoride And Skeletal Fluorosis
Fluoride And Thyroid Function
Fluorosilicate Toxicity
Fluorosilicates Increase Blood Lead Levels

The above is bad enough, adding insult to injury, an untested industry waste product Hydrofluorosilicic acid which includes traces of arsenic and lead is being used to fluoridate the water - Fluoride also increases the up take of Aluminum and possibly other toxic metals!

From Wired:

Jan. 29, 1998: A Warning on Nicotine, Straight From the Horse's Mouth

By Tony Long 01.29.08 | 12:00 AM

RJ Reynolds CEO Steven Goldstone told the National Press Club on April 8, 1998, that Joe Camel had been officially deemed dangerous for the American public.
Photo: AP / Marquette

1998: A tobacco company executive admits for the first time, under oath, that nicotine is addictive and poses a health risk. He stops short of saying it can kill you.

Testifying before the House Commerce Committee, Steven Goldstone, then the CEO of RJR Nabisco ("RJR" originating with longtime cigarette-maker RJ Reynolds), agreed that nicotine is addictive, "under the way that people use the term today."

And Today's RGTV News:

Egypt: Last day to get into Rafah,
UK: Child trafficking investigation,
Iraq: Neighborhood watch,
Turkey: Freedom of religion,
Kenya: Hacked to death or burned alive,
Cambodia: Deporting the problem,
Indonesia: Supreme Suharto justice,
Food giant to award diplomas,
Author at Google on how systems learn...

Today, Dubya gave his State of the Union Address, and it looks like just about everyone on my f-list has gone political. Which is awesome =)

I've changed my mind about Obama. And this article is why. That doesn't mean I am going to vote for him, but I wouldn't be too bothered if he won.

Lifehacker has an interesting article on Applying Unix Philosophy to Productivity. Interesting mashup.

Slashdot has a bitty on stripping down Vista to bare bones.

I would've done more with this, but I've been on Twitter all day - which is how I discovered a lot of this stuff. I tell you, human hand-picking is WAY better than RSS.

Wish me luck on the Lifehack.org application =)

Yale Lecturer Advises: Flush the Prozac and Hack Your Own Happiness

Sometime in the 1990s, the concept of better living through chemistry turned a corner, thanks to drug companies' efforts to synthesize antidotes for every possible mood swing. So writes Yale lecturer Charles Barber in his new book, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation. An OCD sufferer himself, Barber spent a decade working in places like New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He knew something was wrong when he discovered that his colleagues' perfectly functional, $300-an-hour Upper West Side clients were taking the same potent pills as his own schizoid, homeless, crackhead patients. "I would spend part of the day in shelters dealing with seriously ill people," Barber says. "Then I'd go to cocktail parties and find out that the people there were on the same medications." He proposes that we just say no to multinational drug peddlers and heal ourselves with cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies — "talk therapy" techniques that minimize pill pushing, dispense with Freudian dream analysis, and engage patients in actively reprogramming their own brains. It's like "a highly selective carpentry of the soul," Barber writes — therapy as self-engineering.

[ More at Wired ]





And now on RGTV News:

Kenya: Extreme escalation in violence,
Thailand: Religious school crackdown,
Israel: Hakeem passes but revolutionaries never die,
US: Sex offender signs,
India: Ayurvedic medicine,
UK: Scientists knocked out of Gemini project,
Satellite could fall to Earth,
How to protect yourself from being hacked...

...if it's the last thing that we ever do...


Now on RGTV News:

Lebanon: Beirut bomb assassination,
Kenya: Protesters now arming themselves,
Israel: Gazans break into Egypt again,
Afghanistan: Pakistanis seeking refuge,
Azerbaijan: Oil wealth kept from the people,
US: Listening Post on election media frenzy ignoring what's important, (as usual!)
Egypt: Inside Story on who benefits as Gazans flood in,
Today's data storage options,
'Click' on the people formerly known as 'the audience'...

Now on RGTV News:

Not Just US: Economic weak links making market crash worse,
Gulf: Labor reform to limit human slavery,
France: How $7.5 Billion disappeared,
Denmark: People and Power say something is rotten,
Philippines: 101 East on the mirage miracle,
US: Charter vs public schools,
US Air Force survival school tips,
MySpace proves hard to leave...