Glaxo Smith Kline is starting trials for the H1N1 “swine flu” vaccine on chiildren in Germany in spite of warnings from a virologist that there could be dangerous side effects.
Alexander Kekulé from University (Universität) Halle-Wittenberg told Germany’s FOCUS magazine in an edition to be printed on Sunday that these trials could have significant “side effects” [...]
July 25, 2009
GSK to test its vaccines, classified as bioweapons under EU and US regulations, on children in Germany as programme to mass vaccinate speeds up…
July 25, 2009
Obama Puts Monsanto Lobbyist In Charge Of Food Safety…
Genetically modified foods are not safe. The only reason they’re in our food supply is because government bureaucrats with ties to industry suppressed or manipulated scientific research and deprived consumers of the information they need to make informed choices about whether or not to eat genetically modified foods.
Now, the Obama Administration is putting two notorious [...]
July 25, 2009
Israel uses Hitler picture to sell its settlement expansion…
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, has triggered fresh controversy by urging diplomats abroad to use a 1941 photograph of a Palestinian religious leader meeting Hitler to counter protests against a planned Jewish settlement in Arab East Jerusalem.
The hard right Mr Lieberman ordered the circulation to Israeli embassies of copies of the notorious wartime photograph of [...]
July 25, 2009
Obama administration bars torture investigators from Guantánamo Bay…
Adding to its six-month record of extending the Bush administration’s attacks on democratic rights, the Obama administration is now blocking efforts by human rights investigators from the United Nations to interview detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison.
According to a report Thursday in the Washington Post, two UN human rights researchers, Martin Scheinin and Manfred Nowak, [...]
July 25, 2009
The Heart of the Israel/Gaza Conflict: What Does Gaza Have that Israel Desperately Needs?
Since British Gas (BG) first discovered huge offshore reserves of natural gas in Gazan waters Israel has attempted to dictate and secure the future of these reserves.
At one stage they almost signed up for the entire reserve but then political change took place in Gaza when Hamas came to power. This was a severe blow [...]
July 25, 2009
US ‘will not’ cut cash flow to Israel…
The White House has dismissed speculations that the US is considering economic sanctions to force Israel into freezing its West Bank settlement activity.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Thursday that a remark made by deputy spokesman Robert Wood on Wednesday had been misinterpreted.
“We are not contemplating such action,” said Cowley, highlighting the need for [...]
July 25, 2009
Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky…
THE Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft.
The device is an extension of its controversial Active Denial System, which uses microwaves to heat the surface of the skin, creating a painful sensation without [...]
July 25, 2009
Iran: If Israel attacks us, we’ll hit its nuclear sites…
The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Iran would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities if Israel attacked it, state television reported.
“If the Zionist regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities,” Mohammad Ali Jafari, Guards commander-in-chief, told Iran’s Arabic language al-Alam television.
The Revolutionary Guards are the ideologically [...]
July 25, 2009
Bomb blast kills 4 in Iraq’s Falujah…
A car bomb explosion has killed four people and wounded 12 others in the western Iraqi city of Falujah, a police officer has announced.
The blast targeted offices of a Sunni Arab party in Fallujah, destroying nearby shops and private health clinics in the city on Saturday, the police officer told AFP on Saturday.
He said all [...]
July 25, 2009
US stops giving militant death tolls in Afghanistan…
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing figures showing how many militants have been killed in fighting with US-led forces, officials said Friday.
“Indicating the number of insurgents killed has little relevance to impacting the lives of Afghans,” Rear Admiral Gregory Smith said in an email to AFP.
Smith sent an order last [...]
July 25, 2009
Suicide attackers strike southeastern Afghan city; 7 dead…
KABUL – For the second time in a week, Taliban fighters armed with suicide vests and automatic weapons attacked a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, triggering hours-long gunbattles that left seven militants dead, officials said.
The latest militant attack came less than a month before Afghanistan’s Aug. 20 presidential election. U.S. and NATO forces [...]
