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http://www.rttnews.com/2024044/obesity-is-a-bigger-problem-globally-than-hunger.aspx?type=hnr

Strange for both these news items to pop up at the same time . . .

You must've missed the article the other day where the Secretary of Defense called Climate Change a threat to national security.

http://www.rttnews.com/1877434/climate-change-a-threat-to-national-security-panetta.aspx?type=usp

It's still very, very scary: rttnews.com .

Airspace violations happen all the time. Usually all that happens is planes are scrambled to intercept and escort the offending craft out, and a formal protest is filed at the embassy of the country who did the violating. Iran is just milking this for all that it's worth. (Which is not to say they're unjustified in doing so, if the drone was in fact on a spying mission rather than malfunctioned and flew over on its own. Unfortunately that's probably something we'll never know for sure.)

The only way to realize that is to ignore facts.

GlaxoSmithKline Q3 Profit Rises On Vaccines, Japan - Update
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/TopStories.aspx?Id=1742735

GlaxoSmithKline is just one company. Go look-up financial announcements from other big pharmaceutical companies, such as Baxter.

Pharmaceutical companies (the "big pharma" label is childish) do have a strong incentive to focus their attention on the more wealthy, if less serious, medical conditions of the developed world. Vaccines are far from being a loss-leader.

Well, at least in Canada they aren't keeping the oil. http://www.rttnews.com/Content/QuickFacts.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1100896%20&Category=Quick%20Facts

There have been persistent reports in the Indian press over the last 3 days that Nasa's Moon Minerology Mapper on board India's Chandrayaan-1 had found water, and that the Thursday press conference would reveal it. Glad to have the embargo lifted early. http://www.examiner.com/x-21670-Houston-Space-News-Examiner~y2009m9d22-Did-Chandrayaan1-confirm-ice-on-the-Moon http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1074265

Slashdot material will also cover accusations of LimitNone being a M$ proxy and the perills of non free software in general. The senseless accusations you are talking about will be half covered by the Wintel trade press as they did with the SCO case.

The statement:

People need to realize that Google is just another large publicly traded corporation that will do whatever it takes to increase its revenue, even if that means risking its reputation among developers." is right out of the M$ FUD book.

The alleged theft is laughable:

The lawsuit alleges that Google's product, called "Google Email Uploader" steals gMove's look, feel and functionality.

There were also Vague accusations of "trade secret theft" but there are several excellent free software tools that have been getting this kind of information for years. No further details were given by business wire. Let's look for more, shall we?

• Wired, same stuff Google has not had time to look over the suit and comment.
• CNet, same kind of thing with market size and potential price thrown in for fun.
• TechTree bare facts, no Google comment.
• The Inquirer does better with a brief statement of facts, without Google comment.
• The Wall Street Journal adds insight by noticing that there is a conflict of interest between small companies and large ones in any business relationship but only applies this wisdom to Google. No comment from Google.
• There are many echos in other papers and blog space which contain even less information than the Slashdot summary.
• Something to spook clueless investors about "another" billion dollar suit for Google without background information about the frequency of such things.

So, we see a one sided media blitz, complete with stock market "advice", but completely lacking in input from Google, technical insight and other information. These are M$ hallmarks.