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  Soft drink additive damages DNA: report posted by staff report via colonel cola, 2007-05-27 10:08:20
The singularly profit driven Corporations have lied and lied regarding food additives, tobacco and climate changing pollutants. They only respond to VERY LARGE financial disincentives. A drive to sign up whole populations for a class action against these polluters is a great start for future mental and physical health.
This action may also reveal the combination of additives in foods and the water supply that impairs the human will. Never before in human history have entire populations become so subservient, helpless and passive in the most alarming circumstances. The apathy and complacency witnessed today in the face of horrendous illegal wars, pollution induced climate change/GLOBAL warming, to name the two most catastrophic events, is beyond comprehension.
Hit them hard and hit them in the pocket, the "class" of the action should include the entire population -- you and your children have been poisoned! (full story)
health related / international
 Why the US Government Is Hated All Over the World posted by Fred Reed via rialator, 2007-05-23 09:33:31
Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were. (full story)
peace/war / international
Bush reviving the nuclear threat posted by William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan via rialator, 2007-05-23 09:20:15
April 30, 2007 -- Only days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn that nuclear-armed terrorists could "blackmail the free world and spread their ideologies of hate and raise a moral threat to America." This alarmist vision was accompanied by the White House's release of "A National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which painted a picture of a "troubling potential WMD terrorism nexus emanating from Tehran." The administration is building the case for war against Iran--a job made easier by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent announcement that Iran can now enrich uranium on an industrial scale--despite the fact that many Iran-watchers and nuclear experts consider their claims of enrichment capacity to be an overblown boast. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Bush Authorizes New Covert Action against Iran posted by Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report via rialator, 2007-05-23 08:43:28
The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. (full story)
imperialism / international
Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world posted by Amnesty press via rialator, 2007-05-22 12:41:40
(London) Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual assessment of human rights worldwide. (full story)
social/political / international
Al-Qaeda’s Waiting Game posted by Michael Scheuer via rialator, 2007-05-20 20:36:02
Americans tend to forget that while we were surprised by the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was not. The attacks’ exact date was known to bin Laden and two or three others only six days before Sept. 11, 2001, but they had long known the attacks were coming. Thus al-Qaeda was able to move important operatives, archives, material, and other assets out of Afghanistan in advance. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
 My Darling Boy ... posted by Associated Press via rialator, 2007-05-16 12:14:23
My darling baby boy, before you talk or walk, Uncle has provided you with a gun ..
Corrupting children is a heinous criminal act; who but America would poison infants?
To the soldier who raped and slaughtered children I say, my darling boy you had no chance! (full story)
peace/war / international
What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding? posted by Elizabeth DiNovella via rialator, 2007-05-12 23:10:08
When it was announced that the Dalai Lama was coming to Madison in May, a few of my friends snatched up the pricey tickets right away. I had heard the Dalai Lama speak five years ago during his last visit, and it was so difficult to hear him that I decided to stay out of the ticket-buying frenzy this time around. But when a friend of mine (a Maoist no less!) called me last Friday morning to offer me free tickets to the public talk that afternoon, I couldn’t resist. (full story)
social equality/unity / international
Warming triggers `alarming' retreat of Himalayan glaciers posted by Tim Johnson via rialator, 2007-05-12 22:53:28
KAROLA PASS, Tibet - The glaciers of the Himalayas store more ice than anywhere on Earth except for the polar regions and Alaska, and the steady flow of water from their melting icepacks fills seven of the mightiest rivers of Asia. (full story)
environment / international
Global Military Alliance: Encircling Russia and China posted by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya via rialator, 2007-05-10 10:33:17
Although Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan are not formally members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), they are linked through military partnerships, affiliated governments, a network of partnerships, and bilateral agreements with the United States and Britain. (full story)
imperialism / international
Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off posted by Tariq Ali via rialator, 2007-05-10 10:11:50
Tony Blair's success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate actor, he turned out to be a crafty and avaricious politician, but without much substance; bereft of ideas he eagerly grasped and tried to improve upon the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. But though in many ways Blair's programme has been a euphemistic, if bloodier, version of Thatcher's, the style of their departures is very different. Thatcher's overthrow by her fellow-Conservatives was a matter of high drama: an announcement outside the Louvre's glass pyramid during the Paris Congress brokering the end of the Cold War; tears; a crowded House of Commons. (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
The Madness of War Profiteering in Iraq posted by Robert Greenwald via rialator, 2007-05-10 09:58:01
The following is Robert Greenwald's testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering: (full story)
imperialism / international
 Aussie software pirate extradited posted by Kenneth Nguyen via rialator, 2007-05-06 19:33:22
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.
Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years in an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. (full story)
injustice/law / international
 IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal posted by Mark Weisbrot via rialator, 2007-05-04 17:06:30
Venezuela’s decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in the United States as just another example of the ongoing feud between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration. But it is likely to be viewed differently in the rest of the world, and could have an impact on both institutions, whose power and legitimacy in developing countries has been waning steadily in recent years. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Dick Cheney's Banker Grantham Sees World Bubble posted by William Pesek via rialator, 2007-05-03 22:32:48
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- You'd expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
"From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips -- it's bubble time,'' he writes in Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.'s latest quarterly letter titled, "The First Truly Global Bubble.'' (full story)
social/political / international
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