Coke plant ordered shut in south IndiaIn a major setback for the Coca-Cola company, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board has ordered the company's bottling plant in south India to "stop production of all kinds of products with immediate effect."
The Coca-Cola company, in direct contravention of Indian laws, had resumed "trial" operations at its Plachimada bottling facility in southern India on August 8, 2005. The bottling plant, one of Coca-Cola's largest, has been shut down since March 2004 because of community o... (more)
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Powerful explosion rocks Beirut shopping mallA powerful blast hit a shopping center in the Zalka neighborhood in north Beirut late Monday, causing extensive damage and wounding at least three people, Lebanese security and Red Cross sources said.
Security sources said that the small device was placed in the car park of the Promenade Hotel in the Zalka, a mixed residential and commercial area, Reuters news agency said.
Zalka residents said that clouds of black smoke were billowing into the sky near a hotel.
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No Proof Found of Iran Arms ProgramTraces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined.
"The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions," said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of anonymity.
Scientists from the... (more)
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Tube CCTV: Was there a cover-up?Scotland Yard has been plunged into a damaging new 'cover-up' row over missing CCTV footage from the station where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot.
London Underground sources insisted that at least three of the four cameras trained on the Stockwell Tube platform were in full working order.
This appears to contradict police assertions that 'technical problems' meant no footage exists of the innocent Brazilian's final moments before he was killed by marksmen after be... (more)
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Cracking the Case: An Interview With Sibel Edmonds Scott Horton: [P]erhaps your case is tied in with the AIPAC spy scandal?
"Sibel Edmonds: Absolutely. And I cannot go into any details. … But even the AIPAC spy scandal, as far as I'm reading today, is just touching the surface of it. It's going only to a certain degree. It doesn't go high enough, in what it involves and how far it goes, and that's as far, and the best – as far as I can explain."
Listen to Scott's interview with Sibel Edmonds: Stream... (more)
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When Tyranny is LawThe US introduced Patriot Acts and violated all international laws after 9/11 to fight “terrorism.” After 7/7, the British government went one step further to the extreme to fight “extremism.” It proposed many laws, contravening the established legal principles, human rights and all norms of moral decency.
The stress on the need for more and more laws gives us the impression as if it was the lack of laws that lead to “terrorism” in the first pla... (more)
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G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since '01This year is already the deadliest for American soldiers in Afghanistan since the war of 2001, and the violence is likely to intensify before the nation's legislative elections on Sept. 18.
Four soldiers were killed Sunday, meaning that 13 have been killed in August alone. Sixty-five Americans have been killed this year.
The latest four were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in the south. Three others were wounded in that bombing, the American military s... (more)
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No Proof Found of Iran Arms ProgramTraces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined.
"The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions," said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of anonymity.
Scientists from the United S... (more)
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Bush Tells Veterans That Iraq Policy Will Make U.S. SaferPresident Bush defended his policy in Iraq today, a crucial moment for that emerging country, telling a gathering of veterans in Utah that the struggle to build a new nation amounts to "the first war of the 21st century."
The president left his ranch in Crawford, Tex., to fly to Salt Lake City, where he told an audience from the Veterans of Foreign Wars that the sacrifices of Americans in Iraq would be remembered just as the heroism shown in World War II and Korea was commemorated... (more)
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Al Martin: Pat Robertson Remark Roils the MarketsDid Pat Robertson make money by publicly calling for the murder of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela?
Political-economic analyst Al Martin says, "Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the Sep. dollar cntracts."
Martin, whose website Insider Intelligence.com specializes in market trading advisories, says that "Robertson sufficiently roiled the markets by creating a political rift. This was a problem which in... (more)
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Venezuela Rejects US Religious Leader´s Call to Assassinate ChavezVenezuela´s Vice President José Vicente Rangel accused Tuesday US religious broadcaster and former presidential candidate Pat Robertson of making terrorist statements by suggesting that American agents assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
The high ranking official stressed that how Washington responds to Robertson´s remarks would put its anti-terrorism policy to the test.
"It´s huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at... (more)
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New Jersey bans smoking in private college dormsIt was all the evidence that state legislators needed to drive home the point.
Just two weeks after a state ban on smoking in college residence halls was introduced, a Drew University student smoking a cigarette sparked a dormitory fire in February.
No one was injured, but Drew rang up thousands of dollars in repairs and 150 students were temporarily displaced. The blaze also prompted school officials to reconsider the institution's policy permitting students to smo... (more)
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FBI Agents' 'Wedding' Is a Bust for GuestsAfter their wedding guests had streamed into Atlantic City, N.J., for the festivities Sunday aboard the yacht Royal Charm, the happy couple surprised them all — by having them arrested as part of an alleged international Asia-based organized crime syndicate.
Unbeknown to the attendees, many of whom came from China for the occasion, the supposed bride and groom were FBI agents. The government said Monday that the pair had spent four years investigating a sophisticated rackete... (more)
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Scientists make first step towards growing human lungs for transplantScientists have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells into lung cells, taking a first step towards building human lungs for transplantation.
According to research to be published in the journal Tissue Engineering, the team from Imperial College London, took human embryonic stem cells and 'directed' them to convert into the type of cells needed for gas exchange in the lung, known as mature small airway epithelium.
Dame Professor Julia Polak, from Imperial... (more)
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Errors of Commission: The hijacking of the probe into the 9-11 hijackersWhether or not U.S. military intelligence was prevented by Pentagon superiors from alerting the FBI to the presence of Mohammed Atta in 1998, there is little doubt the U.S. was well aware of the infamous hijacker by then. The Republican right wing is raising the Atta issue at a time when Bush is sinking in the polls, people are fed up with Iraq, and there are continuing questions about the administration's handling of 9-11 and the war on terror. One way to take some of the heat off is to shift t... (more)
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Young Conservatives Facing Heat for Billboard CampaignPennsylvania Republicans are threatening the Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania (YCOP) for sponsoring a public information campaign exposing a hefty pay raise passed for lawmakers, judges and top executive-branch officials.
On July 7 at 2 a.m., state legislators voted to give themselves a pay increase of more than 30% without debate. YCOP is demanding repeal.
Lawmakers offended by the group, made up of Pat Toomey supporters—whose efforts nearly ousted U.S. Se... (more)
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Pig disease hits 11th HK victim A 62-year-old woman has been stricken with the deadly swine-born streptococcus suis bacteria - just 24 hours after the SAR authorities announced the territory's 10th victim - it was confirmed Tuesday.
And, in an indication of growing concern on the mainland, Shenzhen was put on high alert following the death of one of four infected persons in Guangdong province Monday, suggesting that dangerous meat may be traded across the country. All four had handled infected meat, according t... (more)
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65 out of 490 girls at area high school pregnantThere are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant, according to a recent report in the Canton Repository.
The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.
School officials are not sure they what has caused so many pregnancies, but in response to them, the school is launching a three-prong educational program to address pregnancy, prevention and parenting.
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Hill peak in sight for Mars roverThe US space agency's robotic rover Spirit is approaching the summit of a hill it has been climbing on Mars since the end of last year.
It now has less than 70m to drive in order to reach the peak of "Husband Hill" on the Red Planet and should complete the climb this week.
When the rover gets there, it will take photos of what should be a spectacular view and scout for sites of interest.
The twin robots Spirit and Opportunity have been on Mars since J... (more)
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They Shall Be ReleasedThere's a new batch of photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and these are reportedly far worse than the sickening originals. Naturally, the Pentagon is trying to block their release.
The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request in October 2003 to make public 87 photographs and four videos depicting prisoner abuse in Iraq. The Pentagon originally argued that releasing the images would violate the Geneva Convention rights of the detainees; a supreme irony considering that th... (more)
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UTAH RAVERS TREATED LIKE TERRORISTS! UTAH RAVERS TREATED LIKE TERRORISTS! EVOL INTENT'S ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT!
Originally Posted by knick evl ntnt
Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops.
So, we got to the show a... (more)
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Rave Bust In Utah County Has Party Goers Crying FoulHundreds of party-goers are crying foul over a safety sweep at a rave party late Saturday night.
Swat members from Utah County busted the rave at Diamond Fork in Spanish Fork Canyon. At least 60 people were arrested for various offenses.
Many who attended the rave are upset because they say authorities used excessive force to shut down the party. According to the Utah County Sheriff's office they didn't use excessive force but took the necessary measures to control ... (more)
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