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A gene known to cause infant epilepsy is “owned” by a medical company–that’s right a company owns some of the genetic material in a newborn baby’s body. To test a baby for Dravet syndrome, doctors must pay one medical company for the right. “Dr. Deepak Gill . . . said if he could test in-house … Read more
A woman in Massachusetts has been held in jail for 10 years without a trial. “The right to a speedy trial had to take a back seat to the more important right of having a fair trial.” Really? And what if she is acquitted? What if she is convicted and sentenced to less than 10 … Read more
Under the command of a US general, NATO will combine their news operations–Public Affairs Office and Information Operations–with their information deception operations or “Psy Ops”. Until now, only Psy Ops used outright lies. For the US military and NATO truth is a casualty of war.
The US FDA original said it did not have enough data to determine a safe level of melamine in foods, especially baby foods and formula. But when some US products tested positive for melamine, the FDA suddenly announced safe levels for consumption. The agency does not have any data to support their claims, but they … Read more
An airline employee smuggled 14 guns on a plane from Orlando to Puerto Rico. Analysts all say that the current airport security system is a joke because airport employees can easily bring weapons on planes.
“‘Current U.S. counter- narcotics policies are failing by most objective standards,’ the report says. ‘The only long-run solution to the problem of illegal narcotics is to reduce the demand for drugs in the major consuming countries, including the United States.’”
“As same-sex marriage stalls in California and a U.S. recession looms, Massachusetts and Connecticut are carving out an economic niche for gay and lesbian weddings — and the spending that comes with them.”
“In the not too distant future, a person in need of a heart transplant could be offered a pig’s organ. That’s the hope of a group that met in China last week to agree global guidelines for the first clinical trials of ‘xenotransplants’.”
The parliament passed a security deal that allows US forces to stay in Iraq past the expiration of the current security deal in December 2008, but it must also be passed by the Iraq President’s Council, and then it must pass a national referendum by July 2009. In short, there is no deal but US … Read more
“An Israeli government effort to make good on a five-year-old commitment to the US and Palestinians to rein in settlement expansion in the West Bank is coming under legal fire at home.”