Everywhere chemicals’ in plastics alarm parents
SAN FRANCISCO - Consider the BornFree baby bottle. It’s made from a plastic five times as expensive as the one routinely used for baby bottles. It has to be shipped all the way from Israel. And its retail price - $9.50 - is about triple that of a conventional bottle. It’s also a big seller in stores catering to parents who want the safest possible environment for their babies, stores where items labeled “bisphenol A-free” and “phthalate-free” line up next to the...
October 31, 2007
Gold ‘will rocket to more $1,000 an ounce’
The gold price will soar to more than $1,000 per ounce over the next five years as dwindling supply of the precious metal combines with increased demand, Credit Suisse has forecast. The investment bank believes that gold, which earlier this week rose to a 28-year high of $795 an ounce, will reach $1,050 an ounce by 2012. “In the current environment, upward pressure on the price of gold is being driven by the economic environment surrounding the US economy, in particular the strength of the...
October 31, 2007
Immunity for Blackwater guards provokes anger
Democrats have criticised the Bush administration for giving partial immunity to bodyguards from the Blackwater private security firm. They say the move equates to a failure to hold the contractors responsible for the killing of 17 civilians in Iraq last month.Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the immunity deal another example of “the amnesty administration”. “In this administration, accountability goes by the boards,” said Senator Leahy, who...
October 31, 2007
To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders
The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.According to those officials, Bush and his advisers blame Democrats for the holdup of Judge Michael B. Mukasey’s nomination to be attorney general, the failure to pass any of the 12 annual spending bills, and what they...
October 31, 2007
Ron Paul supporters are attempting a one day 10 million dollar cash infusion into the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign coffers.
Ron Paul supporters are attempting a one day 10 million dollar cash infusion into the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign coffers.The plan has been circulating on various internet websites for 1 hundred thousand people to make a 1 hundred dollar donation on November 5th. If Paul’s supporters follow through they will give Ron Paul a one day pop of 10 million dollars. The amazing part about the fund raising drive is that Ron Paul’s campaign said they had nothing to do with...
October 31, 2007
Republican Ron Paul Airs First Ads
WASHINGTON (AP) - Underdog Ron Paul is airing the first TV ads of his presidential campaign, hoping to capitalize on a fundraising surge and promote his blend of anti-war, anti-spending libertarianism in New Hampshire.The two 30-second spots are part of a $1.1 million series of five ads that the Republican congressman intends to air in the state in November and December. One ad, called “Catching On,” features New Hampshire residents voicing their support, including a self-described undeclared...
October 31, 2007
Canadian officials call for surveillance cameras to be placed in terror suspect’s home
TORONTO: Canadian officials took the unprecedented step of asking a judge to install closed-circuit video cameras inside a terrorism suspect’s home.Government lawyer Donald MacIntosh said Monday that he hopes the Federal Court will approve the heightened surveillance for Mahmoud Jaballah, an Egyptian asylum-seeker who Canadian officials have accused of being a “communications link” in al-Qaeda’s 1998 African embassy bombings. MacIntosh said he knows of no jurisdiction that...
October 31, 2007
Weapons Industry Dumps Republicans, Backs Hillary
The U.S. arms industry is backing Hillary Clinton for President and has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party. Mrs Clinton has also emerged as Wall Street’s favourite. Investment bankers have opened their wallets in unprecedented numbers for the New York senator over the past three months and, in the process, dumped their earlier favourite, Barack Obama.Mrs. Clinton’s wooing of the defence industry is all the more remarkable given the frosty relations between...
October 31, 2007
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
From the company that brought you the C programming language comes Hancock, a C variant developed by AT&T researchers to mine gigabytes of the company’s telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes. An AT&T research paper published in 2001 and unearthed today by Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker shows how the phone company uses Hancock-coded software to crunch through tens of millions of long distance phone records a night to draw up what AT&T calls “communities...
October 31, 2007
For Neocons, Iran Aim Is Still Regime Change
Vice President Dick Cheney and his neoconservative allies in the George W. Bush administration only began agitating for the use of military force against Iran once they had finally given up the illusion that regime change in Iran would happen without it.And they did not give it up until late 2005, according to a former high-level Foreign Service officer who participated in the United States discussions with Iran from 2001 until late 2005. Hillary Mann, who was the director for Persian Gulf and Afghanistan...
October 31, 2007
The Raw Story- Congress requests special counsel on rendition
- Did Rove bolt from the country to avoid testifying?
- Journo: FISA vote 'step toward fascism'; ACLU sues gov't
- Impeach bill: Bush lied America into war
- US: Real or not, Iranian missile tests must stop
- Poll: Turnout expected to skyrocket in November
- After FISA flip, Obama vets Dodd for VP
- Group: Obama finance disclosure less than Bush
- McCain questioned about PNAC, 9/11
- Poll: Obama up 48-40
- Antiwar
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
- The Narrative Versus the News
- Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
- Big Three Block Iran Attack
- Bush Covered Up Musharraf Ties With al-Qaeda, Khan
- Kosovo Casts Shadow on South Ossetian Standoff
- Double Standards in the Global War on Terror: Anthrax Department
- Please Mr. President, Don't Make Promises to Fools
- Who Started Cold War II?
- Arar Faces Uphill Legal Battle
- Truth News
- The Matrix & Other 9/11 Hollywood Symbolism
- Did Tom Clancy’s “lucky assertions” foretell the Georgia Conflict of 2008 in 2001 and the SPP of 2005 in 2004?
- We Are Change L.A. questions Dennis Kucinich about 9/11
- Fmr President Ford secretly told FBI about panel’s doubts on JFK murder
- Flashback: U.S.-Georgia training begins amid Russia strain
- Pentagon closes controversial intelligence unit
- What the Iraq Forgery Says About 9/11
- Chemical Traces of High Explosives in WTC Debris
- Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
- Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
