Frank & Chris Show News Updates

Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:50:10 +0000

Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al’s Gore’s much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and [...]

Aborted fetus cells used in beauty creams

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:47:33 +0000

A San Francisco cosmetics company has ignited an outcry among pro-lifers for including an unexpected ingredient in its anti-aging creams: skin-cell proteins from an aborted fetus. Children of God for Life, a watchdog group that monitors the use of fetal material in medical products, called last week for a boycott of all treatments manufactured by Neocutis [...]

Sanhedrin to UN: Goldstone Will Bring Judgment Upon You

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:14 +0000

The Sanhedrin has warned the UN General Assembly not to hold a plenum debate this Wednesday on the anti-Israel Goldstone Report. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN’s member states, the Sanhedrin warns that continued consideration of what it calls the “hostile, fallacious, and malicious” Goldstone document will bring upon the world [...]

U.S. Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’: Spec Ops Report

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:42:09 +0000

CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a “National Manhunting [...]

UCLA Study: The Internet Is Altering Our Brains

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:37:44 +0000

Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds. The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults. As the brain ages, a number of structural and functional changes occur, including atrophy, or decay, [...]

Sucre, The New Latin American Currency To Replace US Dollar For Intra-Regional Trade

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:10 +0000

Cumbre AlbaOn Saturday, October 17, 2009, ALBA (Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas) announced the creation of a new intra-regional currency, named the Sucre, which will be rolled out starting in 2010 in non-paper format. The currency is named after Jose Antonio de Sucre, who helped Venezuela fight for independence from Spain two hundred years [...]

Goldman Trumps Government Again In CIT Flop

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:33:59 +0000

CIT Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy Sunday afternoon, after getting approval on most of the details from its creditors. At risk, though, is $2.3 B in taxpayer bailout money, much of which is unlikely to ever be recovered, thus making it the single biggest loss for TARP. CIT is the fifth-largest bankruptcy in the history of [...]

Goldman owed $1 billion if CIT goes bankrupt: report

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) would be due a $1 billion payment if troubled commercial lender CIT Group CIT.N were to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said Goldman would be owed the payment under a $3 billion rescue finance package it [...]

Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:53 +0000

Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering. Researchers have been able to convert into crude video footage the brain activity stimulated by what a person is watching or recalling. The breakthrough raises the prospect of significant benefits, such as allowing people [...]

SOMETHING IN THE AIR: Capitol to be filled with livid Americans

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:26:18 +0000

Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an “Emergency House Call on Congress” to stop the House from passing the Democrats’ health-care bill this week. A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at noon to [...]

ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:21:33 +0000

Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern. Maybe “epidemic” is a better word. Each one of the videos below is creepier than [...]

Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:27:40 +0000

In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students dropped a mouse into a plastic basin. The mouse sniffed the floor curiously. It didn’t seem to care that a fiber-optic cable was threaded through its skull. Nor did it seem to mind that the right half of its motor cortex had been reprogrammed. One [...]

Worlds Largest Pyramid Discovered - Lost Mayan City Of Mirador

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:21:19 +0000

GRASSROOTS REBELLION PICKING UP STEAM

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:15:17 +0000

There’s nothing like a concentrated dose of liberalism to work like smelling salts on the American public. Here we are almost one year into the Obama presidency and gun sales are still running hot in the midst of a recession. Political novices are getting involved and taking off work to rally at Tea Parties - even to [...]

Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building Social Networking Surveillance System

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:12:20 +0000

Social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché. It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth of these technologies. One [...]

SEC and Homeland Security need Web backup, GAO says

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:09:34 +0000

Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday. The department does not even have a plan to start work on the issue, the General Accountability Office said. But the Homeland Security Department accused [...]

Police on high alert at disputed Jerusalem shrine

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:06:53 +0000

Hundreds of Israeli police patrolled Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site on Monday, a day after fierce clashes with Palestinian protesters turned the quiet hilltop compound into a battleground. The complex, claimed by both Arabs and Jews, was quiet Monday, but after weeks of sporadic violence around the site, police were on high alert. Beefed-up patrols could be [...]

Amnesty says Israel curbing water to Palestinians

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:04:55 +0000

Human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday that Israeli restrictions prevented Palestinians from receiving enough water in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The report said Israel’s daily water consumption per capita was four times higher than that in the Palestinian territories. “Water is a basic need and a right, but for many [...]

Kremlin warns against wrecking Russia with democracy

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:03:17 +0000

The Kremlin’s chief political strategist warned in an article published on Monday that Russia risked collapsing into chaos if officials tried to tinker with the political system by flirting with liberal reforms. Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov said it was clear Russia was falling behind in many areas of economic development and that the [...]

America Moving from Kingdom of Cash to Socialism Slowly but Surely

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:01:08 +0000

Obama’s decision not to build the Missile Defense System in Poland and the Czech Republic and his Noble Prize have not yet been comprehended from a philosophical viewpoint. It’s time to do it. Power of Money against Power of Spirit The last turning point similar to the current one happened approximately 400 years ago. The Western European [...]

Newspaper circulation drop accelerates April-Sept

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:58:43 +0000

US newspaper circulation down 10.6 percent as rate of decline accelerates amid rising prices Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales. Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September [...]

Season of false starts for news organizations

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:57:10 +0000

A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened It’s been a rough season for non-news. The recent spate of hoaxes and premature stories exposes a dangerous fault line for journalists in the [...]

Swine Flu Vaccine Scarcity Stirs Anger in U.S. Communities

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:52:18 +0000

San Diego health officials said that the county expected to run out of swine flu vaccine yesterday after receiving only 25 percent of the 411,000 doses anticipated for October, as reports of shortages nationwide mount. New shipments may arrive “in the next week or two, we hope,” said Jose Alvarez, a spokesman for the San Diego [...]

Obama Daughters Get Swine Flu Shots

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:50:26 +0000

The Obama girls have gotten their swine flu shots. The White House has been weighing how to address public interest in whether the first family has been vaccinated against H1N1, or swine flu. The administration posted the answer on its Web site on Tuesday: President Obama and his wife, Michelle, will “wait until the needs of the [...]

Assurances on Swine Flu Vaccine

Frank — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:48:11 +0000

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promised that, despite delays, there would eventually be enough swine flu vaccine for all Americans. “The vaccine is coming out the door as fast as it comes off the production line,” she said. The secretary appeared on three morning television news programs to deliver the assurance. Slow growth [...]