"The [FDA] said…

Bugs to Bernanke: That's all, folks!

China on Track to Become Top Gold Buyer

China's gold imports are estimated to have more than doubled from a year ago in the run-up to Chinese new year, putting the country on track to overtake India as the world's largest consumer of the precious metal.

The growth in demand is being attributed in part to Chinese families giving each other gifts of gold instead of traditional red envelopes…

the pre-tv generations archive

White Dot is compiling an archive of memories and advice from the last generations to grow up without…

CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. [Updated with video]

"My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from…

A UN human rights official has been roundly condemned for suggesting that the US government may have orchestrated the September 11 terrorist attacks. Richard Falk, a retired professor from Princeton University, wrote on his blog that there had been an “apparent cover up” by American authorities. He added that most media were “unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events” on 9/11, despite it containing “gaps and contradictions”. And he…

The president of the Federal Re serve Bank of New York doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.



The entire Fed regularly observes what it calls a "blackout period" starting one week before Federal Open Market Committee meetings and lasts until the Friday after those meetings.



In case you don't know, FOMC meetings are where the Fed decides whether to change interest-rate policy.



But there is also a communiqué released just hours after the meeting concludes in which…

Ninth Circuit ignores Supreme precedent in Mojave case

Mt. Soledad memorial cross

This post is not about some fringe character. It’s a review of a serious book written by a professor who lectures in mainstream education and is involved in compiling the IPCC reports. The book is published by a respectable publisher for a recognized academic institute

And…

May 18, 1958 WALLACE: This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell of earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, twenty-seven years ago, wrote "Brave New World," a novel that predicted that some day the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. We'll find out why, in a moment.





Good evening.…

On the occasion of the concerns raised by the European Jewish Congress with regard to my interview with the…