Iran Nuclear Talks in Baghdad (tags)
Iran
Oops! Lobbyist accidentally exposes nasty tactics (tags)
Since 1998, The Competitive Enterprise Institute has received nearly $1.5 million in donations from ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company. Now they're gunning for Senators in favor of legislation to combat global warming.
LAX in your future? X-Rays may be used on you (tags)
this article is disturbing; furthermore, there is no such thing as a "save" level of ionizing radiotion exposure and any statement or claim to the contrary is a flat-out lie. Don't take my word for it. Look at what John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D has written -- he is one of the founding fathers of nuclear physics and medicine, an old "cold warrier" that has come out in the open with truth ... he is the Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California (Berkeley) and former Associate Director of the Livermore National Laboratory (1 of our countries two leading labs for nuclear weapons development), and author of four scholarly books on radiation health effects. So please, all you fucking trolls out here .. get a grip... this is real science and for once, put your body before your distorted idea of what is love of country -
Israeli poison gas attacks (tags)
According to Article 147, to "willfully caus[e civilians] great suffering or serious injury to body or health" is a "grave breach" of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the most serious type of war crime. There appears to be prima facie evidence that "great suffering" and "serious injury to body and health" were "willfully" inflicted on Palestinian civilians during the gas attacks conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces.(62)
The Israeli poison gas attacks (tags)
After a few minutes, the gas started to smell. "Like mint," several people said. One resident later recalled that, "the smell was good. You want to breathe more. You feel good when you inhale it." A girl reported that "its taste was like sugar. The smell was sweet."(4)
New Chairman of 9/11 Commission (tags)
Now you would think that being a business partner of the brother in law and alleged financier of "Enemy No. 1" would be considered a bona fide "conflict of interest", particularly when your mandate --as part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate "Enemy No. 1".
Daniel Pearl and The Paymaster of 9/11 (tags)
It was supposed to be the key chain of evidence linking the September 11 hijackers to Osama bin Laden - a wire transfer of $100,000 to lead hijacker Mohamed Atta. Yet less than five months later, the man initially fingered as the paymaster of 9/11 would be sitting in a Pakistani jail, accused of a wholly different crime - the murder of Daniel Pearl.