Daily Archives: November 24, 2007 »
Additives ‘a risk to children’s health’
Parents have been warned to remove food additives linked to hyperactive behaviour from children’s diets by the EU’s leading expert on the issue. Dr John Larsen, who heads the European Food Safety Authority’s panel
Read More »Japan opposition stands ground on Afghan mission
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan’s opposition stood firm Thursday against resuming a naval mission supporting the US-led “war on terror” in Afghanistan as a ship returned home from the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda
Read More »Incompetence Shall Set Brits Free from Database Hell
The lesson of the Great Data Loss is not that the Brit government and the civil service are incompetent (although they are), but that in a market economy the government can’t hire competent IT
Read More »Time to break free
The Middle East’s oil exporters should end their currencies’ peg to the dollar IN THE past week Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has damned it as a “worthless piece of paper” and China’s premier, Wen
Read More »Depleted Uranium Dust May Kill You
DU May be Causing Global Contamination There are those who believe that the widespread use of Depleted Uranium in weaponry is creating a cloud of low-level (but hazardous) radioactive particles around the world, causing
Read More »Liar cop Blair survives no-confidence vote
Commissioner Sir Ian Blair has won a vote of confidence by members of the Metropolitan Police Authority. The UK’s most senior officer was facing censure after his force was found guilty of health and
Read More »Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request
By Ellen NakashimaFederal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges
Read More »Keating: US able to wage Iran war
Admiral Timothy J. Keating claims the US is more than prepared to wage war on Iran if Washington chooses to launch a military strike. “I don’t think our capability has diminished at all,” Commander
Read More »Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist
Institutionalized Glorification of our Greed and Gluttony: Thanksgiving Reflections of an Anti-Capitalist Gluttony and greed kill more than the sword. —Italian proverb Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821
Read More »Rumsfeld Torture Case Dropped in France
PARIS (AP) – A Paris prosecutor has thrown out a complaint against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture in Iraq and at the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer for
Read More »Loose Change Final Cut Press Conference
This is the official press launch for Loose Change Final Cut. The film is the third and final version of the most downloaded and watched movie in Internet history. The movie explores the events
Read More »Now for ID cards – and the biometric blues
Ben Goldacre Sometimes just throwing a few long words about can make people think you know what you’re talking about. Words like “biometric”. When Alistair Darling was asked if the government will ditch ID
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