Wikinews Shorts: February 5, 2007
A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, February 5, 2007.
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WHO’s reaction to H1N1 influenced by drug companies, reports claim
Sunday, June 6, 2010 Reports suggest the World Health Organisation’s declaring a swine flu pandemic was an error driven by drug companies, and lead to unjustified fear. A year after the swine flu pandemic was declared, stocks are left unused and governments try to abandon contracts, pharmaceutical companies have profited at least £4.6billion from the sale of vaccines alone. Reports by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) and the Council…
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When Does It Make Sense To Hire A Worker’s Compensation Lawyer In Newark, De?
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Excavator Nz Excavator Auckland byAlma Abell Many people who are injured at work do not need to hire a lawyer. The worker’s compensation system usually works well. The goal is to make sure workers get the medical treatment that they need without delay. It doesn’t matter who caused the accident. For example, an employee traveling to another office on a motorbike who gets into a Motorcycle Accident is…
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Wikinews interviews Darcy Richardson, Democratic Party presidential challenger to Barack Obama
Friday, November 25, 2011 U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate Darcy Richardson of Florida took some time to answer a few questions from Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn. Richardson, 55, is a political activist that helped form the New Democrats in 1989 and founded the progressive Battleground Blog earlier this year. He is also a political historian, and has authored six books covering third parties and presidential elections, including A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign…
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Glenn Beck loses domain name case over parody website
Saturday, November 7, 2009 American political commentator Glenn Beck has lost his case against a satirical website which parodies him, in a ruling from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The website argued Beck’s actions to shut it down were an attempt to silence free speech. On Friday, the website’s creator sent a letter to Beck saying he would voluntarily turn over the domain name to him. Florida resident Isaac Eiland-Hall created…
Financial Services
Average Retirement Income Crisis
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Life Insurance Crm Software Best Crm For Insurance Agents By Mark Walters The average retirement income for baby boomers is projected to give them a near poverty level lifestyle. That’s shocking! I just don’t get it. People in the U.S. seem so intent on spending ever nickel earned today without a thought to how they will finance their retirement. Warnings to our aging population have been published many…
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Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer
Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, London and Paris, befriending artistic luminaries such as Salman Rushdie and Sir Ian McKellen while writing about a family where…
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Los Angeles commuter train collides with freight train; over two dozen killed
Saturday, September 13, 2008 At least 25 people have been killed and many more injured when a Metrolink commuter train collided yesterday afternoon with a Union Pacific freight train in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles. Around 250 firefighters have responded to the accident scene. Estimates are that 350-400 people were on the number 111 commuter train which departed from Los Angeles’ Union Station at 3:35pm PDT. The collision occurred on Friday at about 4:25pm…
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American Samoa received eight minutes warning before 2009 tsunami
Friday, September 24, 2010 People in American Samoa were given only eight minutes warning that a tsunami, which killed 32 people in the unincorporated territory, resulting from the 2009 Samoa earthquake, was approaching. A report published by the United States Congress admits that the warning was issued sixteen minutes after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck Samoa. The tsunami killed nearly 200 people in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga. The report, written by the National Research…
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Senior Active Community Living In Omaha Will Make Your Every Day Seem Like A Vacation!
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Music Tours Europe Art And Music Tours Europe byAlma Abell Living in carefree community with others is the stuff of which many dream, especially when they find themselves deep in the daily groove of career building, child raising and home keeping. Sometimes it seems that what with the job and the commute, the kids and their needs, the effort it takes to keep the house clean and meals…