BOSTON -- Dental experts are warning that too much fluoride could be a bad thing for babies.
NewsCenter 5's Liz Brunner reported Wednesday that if you're a parent, you may have noticed Nursery Water. It's fluoridated water and bottled for babies. It's marketed as a way to help prevent tooth decay.
Dental experts said there's no doubt that fluoride is the best way to fight cavities, but they warned that parents should not be giving any fluoridated water to infants un... (more)
A 16-year-old from Stavanger has become the first Norwegian charged with illegal file-sharing for distributing copyright protected material via the Internet.
Police in Rogaland aim to get the accused a suspended sentence of 60 days in jail and a fine of NOK 4,000 (USD 644). In addition the boy's parents face a six-figure fine for compensation from the music and film industry, newspaper Dagbladet reports on its web site.
"We are very pleased that the police have take... (more)
Evidence from a senior Iraqi court official provides compelling evidence that Americans took all mobiles except two used openly by "high-ranking government officials". This confirms that the mobile phone video was not recorded secretly, but was done openly and with government approval, and that the Americans controlled who was allowed in with any mobile phone. This reinforces the belief that both the making, and the leaking of the video, was deliberate black propaganda to further inflame the c... (more)
The UN said today that it would launch an investigation after the Daily Telegraph reported allegations that UN personnel have abused children in southern Sudan.
Members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Sudan are facing allegations of raping and abusing children as young as 12, The Daily Telegraph reported today.
The abuse allegedly began two years ago when the UN mission in southern Sudan (UNMIS) moved in to help rebuild the region after a 23-ye... (more)
The UN is to investigate itself again after it was revealed by the London Telegraph today that more than twenty different cases of child sex slavery involving UN staff have been reported in southern Sudan.
Many adults in Iraq believe the coalition effort has been negative, according to a poll by the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies and the Gulf Research Center. 90 per cent of respondents think the situation in their country was better before the U.S.-led invasion.
The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 3,000 American soldiers have died during the military operation, and more than 22,500 troops have been wounded i... (more)
• Detainees seen "chained hand and foot ... with no chair/food/water"
• Prisoners "urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours"
• Witness saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape"
• Witness saw detainee draped in an Israeli flag
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI on Tuesday released documents showing at least 26 of the agency's employees witnessed aggressive mistreatment and harsh interrogation tec... (more)
Fresh from winning a $2 million settlement in a suit against the FBI for wrongly tying an Oregon lawyer to the Madrid bombing case, Jackson Hole attorney Gerry Spence warned Tuesday of growing fascism in America.
Spence was the lead attorney in a case brought by Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield against the FBI for his arrest in the case that saw 191 people killed in Spain. The FBI began investigating Mayfield after computers said his fingerprints came close to matching a print found... (more)
As political media buzzed about whether or not Senator Barack Obama's admission eleven years ago that he used cocaine as a teenager would hurt his political prospects, Fox News ran a segment on "Obama's Cocaine Confession." Their conversation took an unusual turn, however, when Fox reporter Kirian Chetry said President Bush had also admitted to using cocaine.
Obama "talks very candidly, as did our current president, who admitted to using cocaine, correct? [Others demur] Well, who... (more)
When federal immigration officials booked Camp Dodge as a temporary detention facility for people arrested at Swift & Co., they planned to house up to 1,100 undocumented workers for as many as 10 nights, a government contract shows.
That would have cost U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement $32,000 - but immigration officials stayed at the state military training site in Johnston for fewer days and housed about 500 people.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After numerous refusals over three and a half years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has released the first known public copy of the U.S.-Mexico Social Security Totalization Agreement. The government was forced to make the disclosure in response to lawsuits filed under the Freedom of Information Act by TREA Senior Citizens League, a 1.2 million-member nonpartisan seniors advocacy group.
AUSTRALIA'S spy agency was tricked by Israel into believing Bob Hawke was the target of a Palestinian assassination plot, the former Palestinian ambassador to Australia said today.
Cabinet documents from 30 years ago released today, Bob Hawke, then Labor Party and ACTU President, faced the possibility of assassination at the hands of Palestinian militants for his strong pro-Israel views.
But former Palestinian ambassador for Australia and the South Pacific Ali Kazak... (more)
Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.
A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.
Cheers from 250 to 300 supporters greeted seven New Orleans police officers who turned themselves in today to face charges for a deadly shooting on a bridge days after Hurricane Katrina hit. "Each of the indicted men faces at least one charge of murder or attempted murder in the shootings of six people on the Danziger Bridge on September 4, 2005, less than a week after the hurricane hit," Associated Press reports.
A key Democratic U.S. senator reveals that the government turned down his request for documents pertaining to the White House's treatment of detainees, Congressional Quarterly is reporting.
"The Justice Department has rebuffed a Senate request for documents related to the Bush administration's policy on the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, particularly those held by the CIA," writes Keith Perine for CQ.
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) "requested th... (more)
FIJIAN military dictator Frank Bainimarama yesterday suspended the country's top judicial figures as he stepped up a campaign of beatings and intimidation of opponents.
The defence forces leader and self-appointed president has presided over a wave of reported arrests of critics and pro-democracy supporters since he ousted prime minister Laisenia Qarase in a bloodless coup on December 5.
The Australian's sources and local Fijian media outlets have reported almost da... (more)
Would-be illegal immigrants planning to cross the desert and enter the United States on foot are to be given hand-held satellite devices by the Mexican authorities to ensure they arrive safely.
Those who get lost or fall sick during the dangerous four-day crossing will be able to activate the device, to alert frontier police on both sides of the border.
The satellite tracking service will require would-be illegals to register their intentions b... (more)
A growing number of companies are developing Global Positioning System technology to track friends and family, using devices like watches and cellphones. But Miami entrepreneur Sayo Isaac Daniel says those systems are flawed.
You can forget to carry your phone, and you can forget to wear a watch, but you can't leave the house and forget to put on your shoes.
Daniel has developed shoes embedded with GPS technology that can locate the wearer anywhere in the world. His... (more)
Like a blue-blood version of a Mob family with global reach, the Bushes have eliminated one more key witness to the important historical events that led the U.S. military into a bloody stalemate in Iraq and pushed the Middle East to the brink of calamity.
The hanging of Saddam Hussein was supposed to be – as the New York Times observed – the “triumphal bookend” to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. If all had gone as planned, Bush might h... (more)
Saddam Hussain was one of the 20th century's most notorious tyrants, though the death toll he racked up is probably exaggerated by his critics. The reality was bad enough.
People often write to Empire Burlesque in search of an answer to one of the great conundrums of these modern times, namely: "Why are the American people such suckers? How could they – or, to be more exact, how could a significant number of them – ever have fallen for the transparent bullshit of such third-rate goobers as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all the rest? How could the American people be so ignorant and misinformed about what goe... (more)
