On February 23, the Federal Times reported on HR 875, a bill that would grant the FDA sweeping new powers to regulate food. It was introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro and arrived shrouded in hype, specifically the hysteria surrounding a recent salmonella outbreak linked to products from Peanut Corp. of America. Read more...
Criminalize Organic Farming? EXCUSE ME?! BILLS: HR 875 and S 425
Barack Obama has only been president for six weeks, but there is a surprising amount of ire, anger, even outrage that he hasn’t yet solved the problems of the U.S. economy, that he hasn’t saved us from the increasingly tragic devastation wrought by the clownish ideas of right-wing conservatives and the many long years of radical Republican misrule. Read more....
"If only I'd followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars, provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars." Brutal, but utterly hilarious. Read more...
Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children
A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received "half a dozen" requests for the service, which is based on a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. Read more...
In an interview with CNET News, Dart said that the kind of sex services being advertised on Craigslist frequently involves minors as well as people forced into prostitution against their will. The federal lawsuit filed by Dart's office claims that Craigslist's erotic section is a powerful marketing tool for pimps and prostitutes and makes it easier for criminals to elude police. Read more...
The country lost another 650,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate jumped to 8.1 percent as companies continued to slash payrolls in the face of an unyielding recession.
The unemployment rate is now at its highest level since late 1983 and last month was the worst month for job losses in some 50 years. Read more...
Protests erupt and government attacks 'white man's court' after president is charged with Darfur war crimes
Hundreds of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets of Khartoum today after the international criminal court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant war crimes in Darfur. Read more...
by De Wet Potgieter DIRTY TRICKS AND DIRTIER GERMS
As details of South Africa's CBW program emerge, tales of abuse and evil boggle the mind. These are among the cases that have emerged thus far:
* Using black units as guinea pigs. Confidential military sources have suggested that members of the 31st Bushmen Battalion and other black units in the old SADF were used as guinea pigs for experimental drugs while they were treated for diseases and wounds in 1st Military Hospital in Pretoria. Read more...
A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe.
"It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today. They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now."
He did not provide proof of his claims, but said cells from the three fathers, who were sterile, allowed the cloning to be carried out.
The women's egg cells were impregnated in a laboratory through a method called "nuclear transfer," he said. Read more...
A new study underscores the severity of racial bias in drug-related law enforcement. According to Human Rights Watch, African Americans were arrested as much as five-and-a-half times as whites on drug charges every year for the past three decades. The trend dates back to 1980, the earliest date with complete data. Read more and listen to story...
Why you could soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish builders for the privilege of driving on American roads.
The one thing everyone agreed on was that the Indiana deal was just a prelude to a host of such efforts to come. Across the nation, there is now talk of privatizing everything from the New York Thruway to the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey turnpikes, as well as of inviting the private sector to build and operate highways and bridges from Alabama to Alaska. More than 20 states have enacted legislation allowing public-private partnerships, or P3s, to run highways. Robert Poole, the founder of the libertarian Reason Foundation and a longtime privatization advocate, estimates that some $25 billion in public-private highway deals are in the works—a remarkable figure given that as of 1991, the total cost of the interstate highway system was estimated at $128.9 billion. Read more...
Economics professor Stuart Crane notes that there are two means used to collateralize loans to governments and kings. Whenever a business firm borrows big money its creditor obtains a voice in management to protect his investment. Like a business, no government can borrow big money unless willing to surrender to the creditor some measure of sovereignty as collateral. Certainly, international bankers who have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to governments around the world command considerable influence in the policies of such governments. But the ultimate advantage that the creditor has over the government or ruler is the threat that if the borrower steps out of line the banker can finance an enemy or rival and can even create an enemy by such means. Therefore, if you want to stay in the king-financing business, it is wise to have an enemy or a rival waiting in the wings to unseat every ruler to whom you lend. If the king does'nt have an enemy, you must create one. Read more...
On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.Read more...
One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States. Read more...
Cash-rich tourists from mainland China are coming to the United States to cruise neighborhoods with a lot of foreclosures or unsold developments. They are looking for bargain-basement buys. These recent home-buying tours to the U.S. have become one of the most popular tour group packages in China. Listen to report...
The CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other U.S. treatment of terror suspects, far more than previously acknowledged, the Obama administration said Monday as it began disclosing details of post-Sept. 11 Bush-era actions. The interrogations were a highly contentious issue during the administration of President George W. Bush, with many Democrats and other critics saying that some methods used amounted to torture... Read more...
Footage has been released of a 15-year-old girl being subjected to a vicious assault in a US police cell.
The video of the incident was released by prosecutors in the US city of Seattle.
A 31-year-old officer, Deputy Paul Schene, has pleaded not guilty to assault.
The incident, last November, happened after the girl was brought in during an investigation into vehicle theft, according to court documents. Read more...
Haitians began arriving in South Florida about 50 years ago, but were denied the same rights and treatment as more favored immigrants like Europeans. Fleeing repressive dictatorships hardly mattered during years under "Papa" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier or when military dictatorships ran the country.In September 1963, the first boatload claiming persecution arrived but were denied asylum and deported. Decades later, it's the same. After a 1991 coup deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, thousands of Haitians fled to America. Most were intercepted at sea and sent home while around 300 were detained at Guantanamo because tests showed they were HIV positive.
Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles-based non-profit autism organization, today announced that the United States Government has once again conceded that vaccines cause autism. The announcement comes on the heels of the recently unsealed court case of Bailey Banks vs. HHS. The ruling states, “The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine…a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to PDD [Autism].” Read more...
Contact: Peter Nilsson, President, Performance Public Relations for Generation Rescue 858.880.5466 ×227 and peter@performpr.com
For a person with depression and anxiety, exercise may seem like something that is hard to include in an already difficult life. Depression often results in a lack of energy and increased feelings of tiredness, so the thought of getting ready, out the door, and exercising might seem overwhelming. However, exercise has been proven to be beneficial to mood and to help ease the symptoms of depression. Read more....
The government is expected to come to AIG’s rescue for a fourth time as the mega-insurer prepares to announce the biggest quarterly loss by a single company in the history of the world. Read more...
Prof. Dyson defends Atty. General Eric Holder on his statement that America is a nation of cowards when it comes to discussing Race relations. Both Pat Buchanan and the guest host of Hardball brought to light, in their position to Atty. Generals Holder's comments, that white America is either clueless or so racist in their world view that they believe that the Black community is in the condition that it is in because it is inferior or because of a genetic flaw.
This is the cruxes of the issue when it comes to race. Blacks have not, for the most part pushed the issue of Racial inequality and inequity. Of course there are freedom fighters like The Honorable Minister Farrakhan, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson who have exposed the racial inequality and inequity. They have all been vilified and demonized by the white media. Other Black elected officials, intellectuals, and professionals have grossed over the issues of race, convincing the masses of Blacks that race relations have improved, with phrases like; we have come along way, but we still have a long way to go.
How far have Blacks come in America? There is an old saying, "The more things change the more they stay the same." There is another little known saying, "Things are change so they can stay the same." This is the situation with race relations.
The Black nation is now more in danger of extinction than ever before. We suffer all across the board; health care, economics, family, education and the list goes on. This is not because the Black community is inferior, lazy, immoral, this is do to the historical injustice, inequality and inequity that the Black community has suffered since being brought here as slaves. Slavery still exist today, it has be morphed, altered, and modified by social engineers, government policies, public relations or propaganda machines called advertising firms to keep the Black community chasing the illusion that one day we will be equal in America.
Freedom, justice and equality will only come about for the Black community when we unite, pull our resources and do for self. As long as we continue to rely on government, believe that time will make things better or/and rely on the charity of white people, we will continue to go down the road of destruction.
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