News.com.au

FACEBOOK will roll out a new location-based service in April, the New York Times reports.

The new service means that Facebook's 400 million-plus users will be able to see the locations of their friends in addition to their status updates.

The social networking giant plans to unveil the new feature at its annual development conference in late April.

The Times, citing people familiar with the company’s plans, said Facebook will provide its own service direct to its users and will also open up its Application Programming Interface (API) to other developers so that users of those services can share their location with their Facebook friends.

The company’s location-based service was reportedly not targeting smaller, popular location-based start-ups like Foursquare, but was instead aimed at competing with Google in the market for small-business advertising.

Facebook was founded by the now 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard University dorm room in 2004. The Palo Alto, California-based company employs 1200 people.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook, which turned cash flow positive last year, could see revenue of between $1.2 billion and $2 billion ($1.31bn - $2.18bn) this year.

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TNRA reports on the Cyber Safety picnic/protest against the Australian government's proposed mandatory ISP filter held at Parramatta Park, 6 March 2009.

The ISP filter has been compared to the most draconian forms of censorship seen anywhere in the world.

Show your support for an open internet. Take action!

More info on how to take action here:
http://openinternet.com.au/take_action/

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Steven Wardill
March 7, 2010

Courier Mail

ONE of the architects of the Bligh Government's plan to sell state assets, Treasurer Andrew Fraser, would retain his Brisbane seat despite a major voter backlash over the decision.

However, new research has revealed up to 25 of Mr Fraser's Labor colleagues would be joining jobless queues after the next election if asset sales proceed.

The research, commissioned by anti-privatisation unions, polled five seats across Queensland about voting intentions and reaction to asset sales.

Conducted by UMR Research, the results revealed widespread anger over asset sales remained while there was significant exasperation with the way the state is managed.

But the polling found Mr Fraser would retain his seat of Mt Coot-tha, bucking the downward trend being experienced elsewhere.

According to UMR, Labor's primary vote in Mt Coot-tha has fallen 2 per cent but Mr Fraser would still win with the same margin he achieved at the last election.

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At the Treason in America Conference on 3/6/2010, ABC News decided to drop by and "cover" the event.

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On 6th. March in Parramatta Park NSW Greens and Member of the Legislative Council NSW Lee Rhiannon MLC speaks against the proposed mandatory filtering scheme proposed by the Federal Labor Government.

The Parramatta rally/picnic was part of a National Day of Action against the proposed mandatory filtering scheme of the Federal Labor Government.

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Yahoo News

WASHINGTON – There are emerging signs that the suspect in a Pentagon subway station shooting may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The suspect, John Patrick Bedell, died after exchanging gunfire with two police officers.

In an Internet posting, a user named JPatrickBedell wrote he was determined to see justice for the 1991 death of a Marine in California. The death was ruled a suicide but has long been the source of coverup theories. The writer said the case would be a step toward revealing the truth behind 9/11.

The user also railed against enforcement of marijuana laws.

The screen name can be linked to the suspect in Thursday's attack through documents about a marijuana arrest that were posted on the site, which match the date of birth of the shooter and official court records available online.

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CBS News

Parents of Pentagon Shooter Warned Police

The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

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Brisbane Times

Hundreds of Australians could now take legal action against US pharmaceutical giant Merck after a judge found its arthritis drug Vioxx was not fit for sale because it doubled the risk of heart attack.

Federal Court judge Christopher Jessup awarded $287,000 in compensation today to Victorian grandfather Graeme Peterson, who claimed the drug caused him to have a heart attack in 2003.

Mr Peterson, 59, sued Merck claiming he was no longer able to work because of the heart attack.

Judge Jessup found Vioxx was "not of merchantable quality" and was not fit for the purpose of arthritic relief.

"I have concluded that across a population the consumption of Vioxx about doubled the risk of heart attack," Judge Jessop said.

"I have held that because Vioxx involved about a doubling of the risk of heart attack, it was not reasonably fit for the purpose of being used for the relief of arthritic pain."

Outside the Federal Court in Melbourne, a spokesman for Merck said the company disagreed with today's judgement and would appeal.

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News.com.au

Under the plan, the Commonwealth will strip back $50 billion of GST revenues from the states and territories, becoming the majority funder of all public hospitals and taking full control of GPs and frontline health services in Australia.

For the first time the Government would directly pay hospitals to deliver treatment to patients.

It would also fund up to 100 per cent of the cost of primary healthcare outpatient services provided to public hospital patients.

To deliver the changes, the Rudd Government wants to establish local hospital networks - small groups of hospitals that will work together to deliver services and achieve economies through bulk purchasing.

The Prime Minister said his plan would be put to the states and territories at the next COAG meeting on April 11.

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NY Times

WASHINGTON — The chief of the International Monetary Fund said Friday that the organization should reorient itself to better detect systemic risks to the global economy and quickly step in with emergency loans when financial crises emerge.

The I.M.F. leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also floated the idea of creating a global reserve currency that could serve as an alternative to the dollar.

After a speech at the I.M.F. headquarters, Mr. Strauss-Kahn said in response to a question about the fiscal crisis in Greece that the fund would be “happy to help if asked” but that the European Union appeared able to resolve the crisis on its own.

“The Europeans, especially the members of the euro zone, want to try to deal with the problems themselves,” Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, said. “I perfectly respect this.”

The I.M.F. has collaborated with the European Union and the European Central Bank in recent days, sending experts to Athens, but the Europeans have taken the lead on demanding that the Greek government impose cuts in public spending and other austerity measures.

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The Australian

RESEARCH by hurricane scientists may force the UN climate panel to retract its claims that greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in the number of tropical storms.

The benchmark 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said an increase in cyclone-force storms since 1970 was probably caused by climate change.

It followed some of the most damaging tropical storms in history, such as Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans, and Hurricane Dennis, which struck Cuba, both in 2005.

The IPCC added that the world could expect a big increase in such storms over the 21st century unless greenhouse gas emissions were controlled. The warning helped turn hurricanes -- also known as cyclones or typhoons -- into one of the most widely cited threats posed by global warming, with politicians including British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and former Us vice-president Al Gore describing them as a growing threat to humanity.

The cover of some editions of Mr Gore's latest book, Our Choice, even depicts a world beset by super-cyclones as a warning of what might happen if carbon emissions keep rising.

However, the latest research, just published in the Nature Geoscience journal, paints a very different picture.

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Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

“The Jersey Girls” support AE911Truth efforts!

— Editor

We’re proud to have the endorsement of The Jersey Girls, who single handedly forced the Bush Administration to convene the 9/11 Commission after one year of inaction following the attacks of September 11

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is proud to be working for and on behalf of the 9/11 victims’ family members, in particular The Jersey Girls. We recommend “9/11 Press for Truth”, which is the story of the Jersey Girls and their struggle for the truth.

We are pleased that Patty and Lorie have signed our petition. We have also received signatures from Josef Princiotta, Manny Badillo, Bob McIlvaine, Ellen Mariani. Let us know if there are any of them we are not listing here!

We have taken a lot of criticism from so called debunkers & unconscious government officials that our work is “upsetting the family members”. Let it be clear that only the truth about the deaths of these innocent people will bring healing to their loved ones. AE911Truth has ever increasing support from them to reveal the truth to the American people.

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Jersey Girls:

February 25, 2010

We must applaud Mr. Richard Gage and his colleagues, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, for their tenacity in seeking to answer lingering questions concerning the total destruction of the World Trade Center complex, in particular buildings 1, 2 and 7.

As with any scientific report, conclusions must be able to be replicated and verified by subsequent public peer reviews. Mr. Gage and his colleagues have attempted to do just that with NIST’s Final Report of the Collapse of the WTC. There seem to be discrepancies and omissions in NIST’s conclusions, which Mr. Gage and his colleagues have brought to light.

With their combined professional training and work experience, this group of professionals is uniquely qualified to address the myriad oddities resulting in the collapse of the WTC high-rise buildings – including WTC 7, which was not hit by an airplane. This chosen course of action by the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, has often come at a high cost to them personally and professionally making this endeavor all the more admirable.

As family members of 9/11 victims, we have been seeking truth and transparency since 200l. Almost nine years later, in spite of the NIST Investigation and the 9/11 Independent Commission, a vast majority of our questions remain unanswered.

It was always our hope that both of these government investigations would uncover the cause of the WTC destruction and any loopholes or lapses in security protocols that could be remedied to protect us in the future. In this case, it was of utmost importance to determine what actually caused the collapses to ensure the future safety of high-rise buildings. Since the government failed to do that, we applaud Mr. Richard Gage and the many other professionals who are spending their own time attempting to seek the truth.

Sincerely,

Patty Casazza
Lorie Van Auken
Mindy Kleinberg
Monica Gabrielle

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