HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA’S Marshall Space Flight Center has named Irma C. Burden director of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Continue reading
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FAA: Human Space Flight Requirements for Crew and Space Flight Participants
[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 97 (Monday, May 20, 2013)] [Notices] [Pages 29425-29426] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-11964] DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Human Space Flight Requirements for Crew and Space Flight Participants AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection Continue reading
Libertarian Party: Don't waste time investigating IRS, abolish it NOW along with income tax
The presidential administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B Continue reading
ADB Provides $100,000 to Marshall Islands For Drought Relief
ADB Provides $100,000 to Marshall Islands For Drought Relief Efforts MAJURO, REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS (20 May 2013) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $100,000emergency grant to the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to help fund drought relief efforts in the northern areas of the Marshall Islands. On 19 April 2013, the Government declared a state of emergency for the northern islands, which was later elevated to a state of disaster on 8 May, in response to the persistent drought which has exhausted rainwater supplies and made groundwater from wells unsafe to drink. Water scarcity has also contributed to outbreaks of water-borne disease. Continue reading
Health care costs push off baby boomers' retirement plans
More baby boomers are pushing back their retirements and working longer, even as the recovery of the stock market replenishes portfolios that were depleted during the recession. The reason: health care expenses. Continue reading
America Your freedom At Risk! New Calls To Stop IRS From Enforcing Obamacare Law – Wake Up America – Video
America Your freedom At Risk! New Calls To Stop IRS From Enforcing Obamacare Law – Wake Up America Bachmann: “Literally, the decision of our life death may very well be in the hands of the IRS” Your Government Is Lying To Us We Are In Danger Of Loosing Our Freedom! We Will No Longer… Continue reading
Campaign to protect NZ's beaches
Protecting the country’s beaches is the aim of a campaign being launched by the Greens today. The aim is to stop risky deep sea drilling and it’s being supported by surfing champion Mischa Davis and rowing champ Rob Hamill Continue reading
John Stossel – Free Market or Government Medicine: What Will Be The New Way? 4/25/13 – Video
John Stossel – Free Market or Government Medicine: What Will Be The New Way? 4/25/13 April 25th This video may contain copyrighted material. Continue reading
Sir Richard Branson Urges Islands to Transition to Clean Energy as Foundation for Marine Conservation
NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Saint Lucia signs up for the Carbon War Room’s ‘TenIsland Renewable Challenge’ Saint Lucia announced its intention to move towards a clean energy future by becoming the next pioneering economy to join Carbon War Room’s Ten Island Challenge, today at the Caribbean Conservation Summit held on Necker Island, co-hosted by Sir Richard Branson, the Prime Minister of Grenada, and Premier of the British Virgin Islands. “Solving the energy challenge and marine conservation challenge in theCaribbeango hand-in-hand. I am very pleased thatSaint Luciahas decided to join the Challenge-and hope more neighbouring islands will follow,” said Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Continue reading
Press freedom – and its limitations
Western democracies, like the US, are seen as safe havens for press freedom. Yet, the ongoing AP scandal suggests that surveillance of journalists is no taboo Continue reading
Sanchez: Eugenics
ONE would think the Philippines is secretly apartheid South Africa, or worse, under Adolf Hitler’s Aryan populated Germany the way many Filipinos in social media treated Nancy Binay. No, I skipped my vote for her Continue reading
Scottish News: '10,000 jobs' in islands renewables
May 15 2013 Renewable energy projects could create more than 10,000 jobs on the Scottish islands by 2030, according to a Government-commissioned report. An independent study found investment in wind, wave and tidal energy would bring significant socio-economic benefits to the Western Isles, Shetland and Orkney and could establish Scotland as a world leader in marine technologies. But the expense and difficulty of accessing the National Grid means the Government needs to weigh up the cost and benefits of developing renewable energy on the islands against other sources of electricity , the report said. Continue reading
Editorial Board: Damage to press freedom likely outweighs national security gain
WHEN THE Justice Department launched its investigation of alleged leaks of national security information by the Obama administration a year ago, we were skeptical. The history of such probes is mainly a tale of dead ends and unintended negative consequences. Continue reading
Libertarian party's senate candidate smokes marijuana in Hamilton park
HAMILTON Staring off into Veterans Park, the Libertarian candidate slowly raised the marijuana cigarette to his lips and took a deep breath. As photographers snapped pictures, his wife captured video of Don DeZarn on a cellphone and asked him who it was for Continue reading
UN Arrives In Drought-Affected Marshall Islands
UN Disaster Assessment Team Arrives In Drought-Affected Marshall Islands New York, May 10 2013 – A United Nations disaster assessment team has arrived in the Marshall Islands to help the Government respond to a severe drought affecting its northern islands, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. Assessments are ongoing in the country, where a state of disaster was declared on 7 May, according to a report issued by the OCHA Regional Office for the Pacific Continue reading
SA takes longer to achieve tax freedom day
TAX freedom day this year in South Africa, falling on Thursday, comes four days later than last year and almost a month later than in 1993, when it was on April 13, says Garth Zietsman, statistician at the Free Market Foundation. It points to the day when South Africans stop paying their tax obligations to the government and enough wealth has been produced to meet the countrys tax burden. The foundation predicts that tax freedom day will be even later next year given government spending, the deficit and rising government debt Continue reading
UTC Aerospace Systems – Motor Drives Systems Centre hosts Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP – UK Minister of State for Business …
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ –UTC Aerospace Systems recently hosted the Rt Hon Michael Fallon MP Minister of State for Businessand Energy at its Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK facility on May 7. The visit was an opportunity for UTC Aerospace Systems to update the Minister on the aerospace work being performed at the site and to officially open the redeveloped Technology House. The facility has approximately 160 employees, and is a new addition to the Hemel Hempstead business community having recently relocated Continue reading
Excalibur, Libertarian Parties vying for your vote
Related Stories and Links VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) Havent decided which party to vote for May 14? Continue reading
Oregon Medicaid Study Points Out Failings of U.S. Health Care
Rick Bowmer / AP Ora Botwinick examines Dahlia Arbella, 5, at the North Portland Health Center in Portland, Ore., on June 18, 2012 Among all the criticisms of President Obamas health care reform law, the most salient may be that the Affordable Care Actfocuses on access to insurance at the expense of cost and quality care. A new set of results from a study on Oregons Medicaid program supports this critique and offers a window into the broader shortcomings of the U.S Continue reading
Future of health care is big issue missing from campaign
But the prospect is diminishing that governments will be able to meet that demand without significant reforms to the way we provide care and the infusion of a lot more money than taxpayers seem willing to provide to keep afloat the public system as we now know it. Continue reading