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May 10, 2007
FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers
The U.S. Senate passed the FDA "drug safety" bill today (S.1082) with a 93-1 vote. A key amendment that would have called for genuine drug safety protections for consumers the Grassley amendment 1039 was defeated by a single vote (47 to 46). The new law deepens financial ties between Big Pharma and the FDA, doubling the amount of money directly paid to the regulator by drug companies, but it fails to explicitly protect foods and nutritional supplements from overreaching FDA regulation efforts.
Leave, or we will behead you
The message comes in the dead of night, a scrawled piece of paper slipped under the door: "If you don't leave, we will behead you." This is what remaining Iraqi Christians face and fear in Dora, Baghdad's vortex of ethnic and confessional cleansing.
US Spook Calls for Web Map Censorship
A director of a US spy agency says that ignorance is bliss and has called for censorship of commercial satellite photos on the Interweb.
Judges weigh charges of cover-up in death
A Salt Lake City attorney's quest to prove his brother was murdered while in federal custody received a boost from judges in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, who expressed serious concern over an alleged government cover-up of the case.
Attorney Jesse Trentadue said in his investigation into his brother's August 1995 death in a federal holding facility in Oklahoma City, he ran across what he claims was a concerted effort by the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice to cover up the circumstances surrounding the death of Kenneth Trentadue.
Jesse Trentadue claims his brother was killed during interrogation by the FBI who thought, in a case of mistaken identity, he was a suspect in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that took the lives of 168 adults and children.
Banks put customers in Swift Catch-22
Bank customers wanting to make international transactions are being asked to sign a waiver to allow their personal details and financial records to be scanned by US anti-terror investigators.
Spying in the Death Star: The AT&T Whistle-Blower Tells His Story
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, sits quietly at the center of a high-profile legal storm hitting the nation's largest telecommunications companies for allegedly helping the government spy on American citizens' phone and internet communications without court approval.
Face recognition next in terror fight
Homeland Security leaders are exploring futuristic and possibly privacy-invading technology aimed at finding terrorists and criminals by using digital surveillance photos that analyze facial characteristics.
The government is paying for some of the most advanced research into controversial face-recognition technology, which converts photos into numerical sequences that can be instantly compared with millions of photos in a database.
Neo-con purge of French intelligence services begins
Only days after the election of neo-con Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, the expected neo-con purge of anti-Sarkozy members of the French intelligence and security services has begun.
Holbrooke: Iraq civil war is raging out of control
Richard Holbrooke, a former senior U.S. diplomat and a possible Democratic secretary of state, on Thursday described Iraq as a "civil war raging out of control" and a foreign policy crisis worse than Vietnam.
Senate Approves New Power for F.D.A. on Drugs
By a vote of 93 to 1, the Senate passed a bill this afternoon that gives the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new power to police drug safety, order changes in drug labels, regulate advertising and restrict the use and distribution of medicines found to pose serious risks to consumers.
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove’s, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
OxyContin: The Giuliani Connection
Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin.
Bring back Taliban to end police corruption, say Afghan truckers
We pay all our bribes to criminals and they are criminals who wear police uniforms," Mr Khan said. "In the daytime they have very smart police uniforms, then in the night they become Taliban and chop drivers' noses and ears off. No real Taliban do this."
Pentagon restricting testimony in Congress
The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, reserving the right to bar lower-ranking officers, enlisted soldiers, and career bureaucrats from appearing before oversight committees or having their remarks transcribed, according to Defense Department documents.
Wal-Mart Sales Decline Is Worst in 28 Years
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted its worst monthly same-store sales results in at least 28 years, tallying a 3.5% decline in April due to this year's early Easter as well as generally challenging economic conditions for consumers.
Powell's Chief of Staff Proposes Impeachment
On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
RFID Chips in Your Money, You Weren't Supposed to Know
Bush Changes Continuity Plan
Administration, Not DHS, Would Run Shadow Government
Putin Is Said to Compare U.S. Policies to Third Reich
Defeat the Media Clones
So how does the Establishment deal with a Ron Paul candidacy? What else did you expect? By ignoring him as much as possible.
US trade deficit leaps to 63.9 billion US dollars
The US trade deficit jumped to 63.9 billion US dollars in March, boosted by rising oil prices, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
The March trade gap was higher than analysts' forecasts of 60 billion, after a deficit of 57.9 billion US dollars in February.
Is There Really a War Going On?
Woman's plea from death row: I'm innocent
Sitting on Iraq's death row is a 25-year-old woman convicted in the slayings of three relatives. She says her husband carried out the killings and fled. She confessed to being an accomplice, she says, only after being tortured in police custody.
Why e-voting won't save democracy
Brian Chess, chief scientist of Fortify Software has gone on record as saying, “As with any computerised system, e-voting machines can be subject to programming errors and malicious tampering. With evidence in the States clearly showing that the voting machine certification process is flawed, how can any citizen be expected to trust this new system?”.
Eternal Return: Burying the Real Story of War - By Chris Floyd
Arrests often overblown, experts say
Wary of a number of federal anti-terror cases that proved to be overblown, two legal experts Tuesday cautioned about attaching too much significance to the arrest Tuesday of six Muslims for plotting to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Jihad in New Jersey
There are plenty of good reasons to be suspicious when the Empire announces something, be that the "mission accomplished" in Iraq or a revelation the FBI had stopped a terrorist plot. Over the past several years, the American public has been fed a diet of lies, which though barely edible provided the illusion of nourishment: Iraqi WMDs, Niger yellowcake, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman…
Goodbye U.S. dollar, hello global currency
CFR chief: Monetary nationalism, sovereignty should be abandoned
The NAU And The Integration Of America
While most people think of history as something that happened before “their time,” many fail to understand that each one of us is in the process of watching history in the making and living it. Most fail to recognize the slow political and economic evolution to move the United States into a hemispheric free trade zone like that of the European Union.
Official: Inmates Forced To Lick Toilets Clean
Prosecutors issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.
Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08
Raids across Germany on G-8 fears
Police raided the premises of leftist groups in cities across Germany Wednesday on suspicion of a plot to attack next month's G-8 summit.
Chevron Seen Settling Case on Iraq Oil
Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators.
CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that the CIA violated the law last year when it failed to inform the panel of "a significant covert action activity."
"Despite agency explanations that the failure was inadvertent, the committee is deeply troubled over the fact that such an oversight could occur, whether intentionally or inadvertent," the panel said in its report on the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill released late yesterday.
Americans Question CIA Actions Before Iraq War
Most people in the United States believe the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to provide genuine information during the months that preceded the coalition effort, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 53 per cent of respondents think the CIA was not very truthful or not at all truthful before the war in Iraq.
Libyan-Saudi Crisis Emerging
A new crisis is emerging between Libya and Saudi Arabia over the role of the two countries in brokering a peace deal in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Libyan President Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi criticized Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for hosting a summit between Sudan and Chad last week, in which a peace agreement was signed. Al-Qadhafi said Libya brokered a similar agreement in the Libyan capital Tripoli in February, and implied that the new deal made a mockery of diplomacy.
Clothing Created to Block Flu, Colds
Nanotech Fabric Grabs Airborne Bugs -- and You Don't Even Have to Wash It
Fears of top UN role for Zimbabwe
Western countries are concerned about the expected appointment of Zimbabwe to head a key UN body, the Commission on Sustainable Development
Running Wild with Mike Gravel
A long-shot candidate has his media moment
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