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Is the swine flu vaccine largely government propaganda? A headline in today's newspaper proclaims "U.S. to vaccinate millions against swine flu." 120 million vaccines are being prepared. Yet the powerfully revealing video clip included in this article from the CBS investigative reporting program 60 Minutes shows how dangerous this can be.

Hundreds died as a result of a swine flu vaccine in 1976 from a very similar mass vaccination drive, while only one person died of the flu itself. Don't miss this powerful 10-minute video clip before making your decision on whether or not to get the swine flu vaccine.

The decriminalization of same-gender intimacy between consenting adults in India is viewed by GLBT equality advocates as a major step forward, but not a cure-all for the societal prejudices faced by Indian gays.

Back in 2005 and 2006, UC Berkeley, the city of Oakland and East Bay Regional Park District were chosen to receive highly competitive federal grants to reduce wildfire hazards in the Berkeley and Oakland hills adjacent to lands burned in a 1991 conflagration that killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,500 homes.

With three pedestrian deaths on East Bay railroad tracks last weekend - two believed to be suicides, and the other possibly someone not paying attention - coming right on the heels of three teen suicides and a bicyclist's death involving Caltrain on the Peninsula in the past two months, it's pretty clear that when trains and pedestrians clash, the ...

A Richmond man was convicted today of first-degree murder and attempted second-degree robbery for the shooting death of 23-year-old Wayne Drummond of Oakland near the University of California at Berkeley campus three years ago.

July 8, 4:38 PM Comment RSS According to a release on the City of Alameda's website, local mayors voted unanimously at the June 10th Alameda County Mayors' Conference to oppose Sacramento's plans to borrow municipal tax dollars.

Mandatory vaccine legislation is being considered to address the swine flu. Yet the risk and dangers of such a vaccine may be greater than the benefits. Here's what Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, has to say.

"Department of Homeland Security officials are declaring that any disease outbreak is a matter of homeland security. Department of Defense officials are defining public demonstrations as 'low level terrorism.' In some states ... doctors have persuaded legislators to quickly pass pandemic influenza legislation that will allow state officials to enter homes and businesses without the approval of occupants; to investigate and quarantine individuals without their consent; to require licensed health care providers to give citizens vaccines and to ban the free assembly of citizens in the state."

Don't miss this very important, educational article.

The real estate resource site lists Berkeley as the 43rd most dangerous U.S. cities, but doesn't list Oakland, or other East Bay cities with more crime.

A prosecutor told jurors today that a Richmond man should be convicted of murder for shooting an Oakland man during a confrontation and an attempted robbery outside a Berkeley bar three years ago.

Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems."Some problems are so big you have to team tackle them," evangelical ...

The CIA's first behavior modification program was Project Bluebird, initiated in 1949. The primary goal of this CIA project was to develop and refine control over the mind and human behavior for the purpose of espionage, counter-espionage, and the clandestine manipulation of global politics.

Many people find it hard to believe that the U.S. government would be involved with any form of mind control. Yet thousands of pages of declassified documents from Project Bluebird and other top secret CIA projects prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that not only was the CIA involved in behavior modification, they were very successful at it.

Two pedestrians died in separate incidents involving the same Amtrak train Friday afternoon, one in Berkeley and another about two hours later in Oakland, Amtrak officials said.

By MICHELLE LOCKE BERKELEY, Calif. - Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold.

July 2, 5:22 PM Comment RSS Gifted singers with sharp minds from UC Berkeley's Young Musicians Program Ellen St.

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco plays with his band at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif.

The corned beef and cabbage: Impeccable. What are the chances that a venerable institution is forced to vacate its beautifully preserved location of 50 years, only to find another historic venue right next door? Last October, family-owned Brennan's -- Berkeley's beloved cafeteria and hof brau -- moved across the parking lot to the Southern Pacific ...

Torture Accountability Action Day was marked in San Francisco and Berkeley by three events: a press conference at the California State Bar Association where 130 ethics complaints against William "Jim" Haynes were filed; a "Bye Bye Byee" rally and filing a judicial misconduct complaint against Bybee with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; and an ...

Despite having autistic spectrum disorder, Sheryl Meeuwsen is enrolled in classes at the College Internship Program in Berkeley, Calif.

Health care corruption is getting far too little media exposure. Upstanding citizens who have faithfully paid their monthly health insurance premiums for decades upon being found to have a major illness for the first time are suddenly losing their health care based on technicalities. The corrupt HMOs are finding legal loopholes which allow them to abandon customers in their time of greatest need.

Following in the footsteps of several other cities like San Francisco, the Berkeley City Council adopted a sweatshop-free ordinance Tuesday night.