The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is close to letting into our food supply meat and milk from cloned livestock and their offspring. This is a really bad idea, and worth complaining about; they have asked for comments. An easy way to send them in is by going to the site set up by the True Food Network. The final decision will not be made until the beginning of April.
The FDA claims that cloned meat and milk are safe, in fact so muc... (more)
John Pilger and David Munro look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international arms dealing. Won a Bronze Apple in the category of 'Domestic and International Concerns', National Educational Film & Video Festival, Oakland, California, 1995; Certificate... (more)
A leading expert on Osama Bin Laden has officially gone on the record saying that he believes the so called "9/11 Confession" tape, released shortly after the attacks, is an outright fake that has been used by US intelligence agencies to deflect attention from “conspiracy theories” about 9/11.
Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program, joined Kevin Barrett last Friday on his radio show (gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first ... (more)
More than five years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the full impact of that day is still unknown. First responders who rushed into the collapsing buildings are dealing with health issues they believe could be just the tip of the iceberg.
CBS 2 spoke to many who now say they are dead men walking.
First responders charged toward ground zero on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, united in their mission.
"I saw the second plane hit, both towers come down," V... (more)
Key quote
"It is the number of hours and the age at which they start which produces the biological effects. It is because of the medium, not the message, that these effects are occurring." - DR ARIC SIGMAN
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IT HAS long been blamed for creating a nation of couch potatoes. But a new report today claims that Britain's love affair with television is causing far more damage - both physically and psychologically - than previously thought.
In the Vietnam War protest song, “Five to One,” Jim Morrison of The Doors sings:
The old get old/And the young get stronger
May take a week/And it may take longer
They got the guns/But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah/We’re takin’ over
In my youth, I took solace in the whole “we got the numbers” thing. The very idea filled with me hope . . . but little did I know, the ones with the g... (more)
The BBC's Conspiracy Files documentary about 9/11 was a tissue of lies, bias and emotional manipulation from beginning to end. Producer Guy Smith should be ashamed of himself for inflicting this travesty of yellow journalism upon the 9/11 truth movement and he is assured to encounter a vociferous and outraged response in its aftermath.
You can watch the one hour show below via Google Video.
The Downing Street adviser whose revelations sparked the cash for honours scandal accused Tony Blair of driving him to the brink of suicide.
Des Smith said he was treated like Dr David Kelly after he told a newspaper reporter that people donating money to the Prime Minister's city academies project could expect to be awarded honours.
The headmaster, who had been close to members of Mr Blair's inner circle, says he was 'hung out to dry' by Mr Blair ... (more)
This story was written for CBSNews.com by Amman, Jordan-based reporter Kristen Gillespie.
In the middle of the empty, rocky desert on Jordan's easternmost flank, a group of fabric tents flap loudly in the winter wind. It's a small camp set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) before the war with Iraq began in the spring of 2003.
The mass exodus of Iraqis anticipated in the weeks after Saddam Hussein's regime fell didn't materialize,... (more)
Let's say your teenager is a habitual truant and there is nothing you can do about it. A Washington area politician thinks he might have the solution: Fit the child with a Global Positioning System chip, then have police track him down.
"It allows them to get caught easier," said Maryland Delegate Doyle Niemann (D-Prince George's), who recently co-sponsored legislation in the House that would use electronic surveillance as part of a broader ... (more)
There are signs of rebellion in several state legislatures against the Real ID Act, the federal law that springs from the disputed findings of the 9-11 Commission.
Liberal and conservative groups are gearing up for a fight in the coming months to keep this contentious measure from creating the first-ever national ID card in U.S. history. The Real ID Act is supposed to be implemented in May 2008, creating new national drivers licenses to function as a vir... (more)
Tibetan monks suffer harassment and imprisonment at the hands of the authorities, who attempt to force them to renounce the Dalai Lama.
They are rarely able to talk openly about their experiences under Chinese rule. But The Daily Telegraph used new rules relaxing reporting restrictions in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics to meet monks without information ministry minders being present.
"The situation here is tense," said one monk. "We have ... (more)
Police are planning to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to take photographs of demonstrators participating in unauthorized protests.
The new machines are based on military models currently in use abroad but are adapted to meet local requirements, a National Police Agency official said. The high-tech machines will incorporate an image detector allowing officers to effectively ``see’’ the face of a person wearing a mask.
Having trashed the Bill of Rights at airports (and everywhere else, for that matter), Our Rulers hope to palm off a parody on us: the "Passengers’ Bill of Rights." They’re using the Valentine’s Day fiasco at JFK International Airport as cover.
While ice and snow pelted New York City last Wednesday, passengers crammed aboard JetBlue planes waited for take off. They sat...and sat....and sat. Nor did the air... (more)
Today on CNN, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow claimed that members of Congress who have warned about the possibility of a military strike against Iran may be “trying to protect Iran.” Watch it:
Numerous military and regional experts agree that there is no military solution for Iran. They say it would be “disastrous for the United States,” “empower reactionaries [i... (more)
“Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.” --W. Lance Bennett
“The Bush majority on the FCC has bowed to the interests of the big cable and telephone companies to strip away, or undo, the Internet’s basic DNA of openness and non-discrimination.” --Bill Moyers... (more)
Living near a bus stop or corner shop and even enjoying "peace and quiet" will lead to a hike in council tax for householders, under Government plans.
The tax on "nice neighbourhoods" is being planned as part of the council tax revaluation, with proposals expected within weeks.
Secret manuals by the Valuation Office Agency, an arm of HM Revenue and Customs, used in the controversial 2005 council tax revaluation in Wales, reveal... (more)
Ministers plan to force all adults to travel miles at their own expense to fingerprint scanning units so their details can go onto an identity card database. From 2009, everyone will have to attend one of 69 "interview centres", whose locations are revealed today for the first time.
People without their own transport, such as the elderly and the less well off, will be hit hardest by having to make round trips that in some cases will be more than 100 miles. Somebody living in Cambr... (more)
American preparations for invading Iran are complete, Dan Plesch reveals. Plus Rageh Omaar's insights from Iran and Andrew Stephen on fears George Bush's administration will blunder into war
American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons... (more)
The first major effort by the George W. Bush administration to substantiate its case that the Iranian government has been providing weapons to Iraqi Shiites who oppose the occupation undermines the administration's political line by showing that it has been unable to find any real evidence of an Iranian government role.
Contradicting recent claims by both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates that U.S. intelligence had proof of Iranian governm... (more)