ASPARTAMEAspartame is the most controversial food additive in history. The most recent evidence, linking it to leukaemia and lymphoma, has added substantial fuel to the ongoing protests of doctors, scientists and consumer groups who allege that this artificial sweetener should never have been released onto the market and that allowing it to remain in the food chain is killing us by degrees.
Once upon a time, aspartame was listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent. Today ... (more)
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Animal organs 'will soon be used for transplants'The transplantation of organs from animals to humans could soon be a reality, scientists said yesterday.
Speaking at the BA Festival of Science in Dublin, Dr Anthony Warrens, of Imperial College, London, said xenotransplantation, the process of transplanting organs from one species into another, could soon ease the shortages in body parts.
There are about five times more patients than organs available for transplant.
Dr Warrens said he would have been... (more)
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Texas Fires Lawyer After Story on RoveA staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Elizabeth Reyes, 30, of Austin said she was fired Tuesday after she was quoted in a Post story that ran Sept. 3 about tax deductions on Rove's homes in the District and in Texas.
Scott Haywood, a spokesman for Texas Secretary of State ... (more)
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Defeating terror may mean giving up rights, MI5 warnsTHE head of MI5 has publicly backed Tony Blair’s warning that the rules of how Britain combats the threat of terrorism have to change.
In a break with tradition, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, Director-General of MI5, allowed a confidential speech that she had given to Dutch intelligence officers to be published on the agency’s website yesterday. She gave a warning that an erosion of civil liberties might be necessary to stop more British citizens from being killed by t... (more)
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FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes in '04Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.
“Some Homeland Security sources said FEMA's efforts to distribute funds quickly after Fran... (more)
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Where’s Osama?It has now been four years since the largest foreign terrorist attack within the United States, and the war on terror, for all its expensive destruction and rebuilding overseas and attacks on civil liberties at home, has still failed to apprehend the presumed chief culprit behind 9/11.
Bush is probably too preoccupied with the horrendous aftermath of Katrina – surely doing everything he can to deliver "millions of tons of food" to the victims – to worry about the l... (more)
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College bars Christian from sharing faith: Religious expression not 'cultural, educational, social or recreational'A man barred from speaking about his Christian faith on a New York state college campus filed a civil-rights lawsuit claiming violation of his free-speech rights.
Officials at Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, N.Y., told Greg Davis of Indian Lake, N.Y., that he needed to file a facilities use permit application to speak about his faith with students in a public, grassy area on campus in October 2003.
But when he did so, his application was denied becau... (more)
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U.S. import prices up, export prices downHigher energy prices boosted the cost of U.S. imports 1.3 percent in August, slightly higher than expected.
Meanwhile, export prices slipped 0.1 percent last month after a 0.1-percent rise in July, the Labor Department said Friday. Most analysts had forecast export prices to hold steady in August.
The 1.3 percent rise in import costs, which slightly exceeded economists' expectations of a 1.1-percent upturn, was driven by a 7.1-percent rise in crude oil and petroleum... (more)
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Total Gun Confiscation of Law Abiding Citizens Begins: Federal forces lead criminal gangs of police in America-killing gun grab“The balloon has gone up, the shoe has dropped. Anyone doubting the criminal intentions of the social engineer control-freaks in Washington need only look at middle-class neighborhoods being stormed by black-masked wearing jackboots on a mission to steal guns.
This is a precedent setting case for national gun confiscation. This is a clear declaration of war by the Federal Government against the American people. This is exactly how Lexington and Concord started the Revolution... (more)
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Terror "suspects" to be fitted with "tracking devices"TERROR suspects could be fitted with tracking devices and anyone who preaches violence could be thrown in jail under tough anti-terror laws unveiled by the Howard Government yesterday.
The laws, which need the support of the states, will also mean more security cameras on Australia's transport networks.
And any traveller who leaves a bag unattended at an airport could find themselves fined or even jailed if the offence is considered malicious.
The law... (more)
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Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying GoonsDr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go f*ck yourself" on Sept. 8, that's the least we can do.
Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he writes can be considered harsh by some – personally what I've heard is very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ... (more)
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Babies show signs of crying in the wombAn infant's first cry may occur not in the delivery room, but in the womb, researchers have found.
With the help of video-recorded ultrasound images, the investigators found that a group of third-trimester fetuses showed evidence of "crying behavior" in response to a low-decibel noise played on the mother's abdomen.
Fetuses showed a "startle" response to the noise, along with deep inhalations and exhalations, an open mouth and a "quivering" chin -- all signs of cryi... (more)
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Scientists Discover How Fish Oil Protects the BrainFRIDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Louisiana State University scientists say they have discovered how the fatty acids found in fish oil help protect the human brain from the type of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Their study shows that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in coldwater fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon, reduces levels of a protein known to cause damaging plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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Conditioning Children for the Police State: Playmobil security check pointFrom the Manufacturer
The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint. After placing her luggage on the screening machine, the airport employee checks her baggage. The traveler hands her spare change and watch to the security guard and proceeds through the metal detector. With no time to spare, she picks up her luggage and hurries to board her flight!
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Locals believe Levees were Intentionally blown: Evidence suggests there were "cracks" in levees that were intentionally ignored, questions over how they failedSteve Watson/Prisonplanet | September 9 2005
Could the levees in New Orleans have been INTENTIONALLY blown out in order to save sections of the city deemed to be more important?
The locals certainly seem to think so, yet, as usual, the mainstream media is barely picking up on this wave of opinion, so it is left to us once again to bring the issue into the open.
When Katrina hit, it drifted 15 miles to the east of... (more)
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Some Urge Greater Use of Troops in Major DisastersThe breakdown of local and state agencies that tried to respond to Hurricane Katrina has spurred fresh debate about whether disasters of such magnitude ought to be turned over to the U.S. military and other federal authorities to manage at the outset.
National plans developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks rest on the notion that police, fire and other emergency groups are best positioned to serve as first responders. Federal agencies are supposed to function as backu... (more)
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Bush surrounds Louisiana with armed Mexican troopsAs the White House unsuccessfully insists on seizing control of the Louisiana National Guard to institute full-blown martial law in New Orleans, it has brought in foreign troops moving on the Western and Eastern borders of the state.
Washington Post/AP Thursday, September 8, 2005; 4:31 PM is peddling the government line that the soldiers are unarmed, but does note that the Mexican Navy has brought hardware to the Mississippi Gulf Coast:
LAREDO, Texas -- A Mexican army convo... (more)
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Flood survivors expelled by forceMost of the hurricane survivors who volunteered to leave New Orleans have now gone from the city, officials say.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 people are believed to remain, despite the mayor's compulsory evacuation order.
Police officers have denied using force to clear the flooded city, but say they may start to do so.
Meanwhile, an opinion poll suggests that two-thirds of Americans think the president could have done more in the aftermath of Hurricane K... (more)
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State checks out Glasgow base as evacuee siteMontana's Commerce Department director flew to Glasgow Tuesday afternoon for an on-site assessment of the housing and ancillary facilities at the former Glasgow Air Force base.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has offered the base as a possible relocation center for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Tony Preite said his first purpose was to assess the number of available dwellings that might be used as temporary homes for the thousands of people displaced by the storm that decimated... (more)
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UK firm picketed over Guantánamo 'torture' shacklesIn the late 18th century the company made "Nigger collars" for restraining slaves in America. Today, it makes the shackles that hold the inmates of Guantánamo Bay.
Yesterday, the Birmingham handcuff and baton manufacturer Hiatt & Company was picketed by human rights activists wearing orange jumpsuits in protest at its continued export to the US of handcuffs and other products used to hold prisoners at Camp X-Ray on the US naval base at Guantánamo, Cuba.
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Taser gun arrest video circulatedCANTON — The brother of a man who died after police used a Taser gun during his arrest gathered reporters at the Stark County Courthouse on Thursday to voice his family’s disapproval of last week’s grand jury decision not to indict the officers.
Two police officers were called to the home of Shawn Pirolozzi on June 13 after residents reported seeing a bloody and naked man running into traffic and jumping on cars. Police said that when the officers arrived, he att... (more)
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Concern at effects on civil libertiesPROPOSED counter-terrorism laws had the potential to undermine free speech and propel the nation towards a police state, civil libertarians warned yesterday.
Australian Council for Civil Liberties chairman Terry O'Gorman cautiously supported some measures in the Howard Government's package, including greater access to airline passenger information and increased stop, search and question powers for police.
But he expressed concern about the introduction of control orders and... (more)
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Big Brother on Hamburg's Reeperbahn?Hamburg wants to install surveillance cameras on the city's red-light drag, the Reeperbahn, to fight violent crime. The plan comes at a time when Germany is mulling expanding existing security measures.
Better known for its strip joints, bordellos, casinos and smoky watering holes, Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn is also a hotbed of violent crime.
Last year, incidents of bodily harm jumped by 19 percent in the port city's St Pauli district while drug-related crimes w... (more)
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