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`World`s Biggest Music Promoter` Pete Bennett Dies

The most well-connected man in music leaves us; Pete Bennett was there for everything.

(NEW YORK) - Pete Bennett, who brought 'The Rolling Stones' and 'The Who' to the US; and promoted musical greats like The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, has died in New York.

Information is still coming in, but we understand he passed away around 10:00 a.m. EST.

Embarrassing Post-Election Reactions

It is okay for people to disagree with the President on policy issues, but it is not okay for people to keep trying to discredit the man as a legitimate American.

(TAMPA, FL) - Thankfully the election of 2012 is finally over. Not only did President Obama win the popular vote, but he also won the Electoral College by a significant margin.

To the surprise of the online conspiracy theorists living in fantasyland, the earth did not fall off its axis...

What if the Mayans are Right?

Will everything just go “bang?” Will death hurt? Will it be fast?

(PORTLAND, OR) - What will you do if the Mayans are right? What if the world really ends on December 20th, 2012? Will you decide not to make your car payment?

Will you decide not to make your house or apartment rental payment?

Who is the Middle Class?

The middle class supplies jobs and they fill jobs according to the rhetoric. The middle class deserves the tax breaks and need good educations at reasonable prices.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - It's sad that Barak Obama had to be the first black to be elected president.

Ever since he got into office, Obama has been leaning over backward to avoid being patronising, or looking like it, to African Americans.

Women, Mother Earth & the Environment

Human rights are non-negotiable. They are God-given and self-evident.

(BOSTON) - In the past, I have written about the connection between the women’s hijab and the struggle for protecting environmental resources. Hijab - beyond religion - is a political statement saying, “I will not be commodified.”

Women’s bodies are essentially part of the earth’s resources. Her offspring can either thrive or become endangered. That is one reason why it is important to protect women.

The Poverty of Relative Deprivation

Give a man a spade and he'll plant a seed. Give him a horse and plow and he'll plant a crop.
Give him a tractor and he'll drive to the nearest liquor store
- Ancient Peace Corps rubric.

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Julius Grodinsky was a wise man who was once a prof at The Wharton School in Philadelphia, at whose feet I was first introduced to the early marvel of Texas Instruments, not to mention the alchemy made possible by mixing bourbon and sweet vermouth.

He also delivered a universal truth, as valid in 1960 as it is today...

Consumer Action Has Launched a `Know Your Card` Website to Help Consumers

The website's homepage presents key payment card changes, explains how they could affect cardholders and offers tips to help consumers make the right moves.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Consumer Action launched its new website to help consumers understand the new laws and other changes regarding credit, debit, prepaid, and gift cards.

The website's homepage presents key payment card changes, explains how they could affect cardholders and offers tips to help consumers make better decisions.

GoPro Big-Wave Addicts / Season Two Kicks Off - Episode 1

Follow Eric's 2012/13 Big Wave Adventures in the Pacific Northwest, as he and his established crew continue to search and tow into monster size waves.

(GIG HARBOR, WA) - It has been a slow start for the 2012/13 Big Wave Season in the Pacific Northwest but there have been a couple of fun warm up swells for the local tow-in crews and paddlers.

Follow Eric Akiskalian, Keith Galbraith and Shawn Throdarson as they begin filming for the second season of Big Wave Addicts and launch episode no. 1.

Hypocrisy

'Double-dealers’ should thoroughly disinfect their fingers before pointing them at another’s fleck.

(LOS ANGELES) - ‘Hypocrites’ are indulged in severe ‘mental lying’, as they brag on a certain notion, while in ‘reality’, they would actually be doing the ‘reverse’ of what they claim to be doing.

It is a form of ‘mental lying’, from which, not only these ‘phonies’ evidently cannot flee.

Hurray for Gurdon and Yamanaka, Nobel Prize Winners for Pro-life Medicine

Yamanaka created four types of genes that supply cells with their pluripotentiality, in other words, the same capacity that embryonic stem cells have.

(MADRID) - The research studies carried out by John B. Gurdon (Anglo-Saxon) and Shinya Yamanaka (Japanese) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. These two scientists are considered of being the fathers of cellular reprogramming.

They have achieved to create cells that behave identically to embryonic cells, however, without having to destroy human embryos.