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Comment by truth on July 22, 2009 at 12:16am

Goldman Sachs Vice Chair asked to take key US State Dept. post

GAO says Pentagon didn't break rules on propaganda


When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquit... and would be paying a $25 million fine, observers were astonished at the lightness of the sentence.

Between 1997 and February of 2004, Chiquita made $1.7 million in payments to a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), in regions where it had banana-growing operations. During that period, AUC conducted a “dirty war” against Colombia’s left-wing FARC guerrillas, marked by widespread murders of union leaders and farmers, as well as trafficking in cocaine and heroin.

Mass flu vaccination would be madness
22 July 2009, by Richard Halvorsen (The Times)

The current threat of swine flu doesn’t justify a gamble on a vaccine that has not been fully tested

9/11 decision allows judges to toss civil suits they disfavor

Report: Iqbal case cited by lower courts 500 times in just two months

In just two short months, a little-noticed case involving a former detainee’s lawsuit against two Bush administration officials may have become what one attorney called “the most significant Supreme Court decision in a decade” affecting U.S. civil litigation.

Louisianian C4L Members Confronts Kathleen Sebelius About Bilderber...


A Taiwanese government-funded research team today unveiled a chemic...

The National Taiwan University team said the compound — which it has named “VirusBom” — can be made into a hand wash, a spraying agent or integrated into fabrics like facial masks to effectively kill a variety of viruses. The NTU announcement comes amid the rapid spread of the swine flu virus. More than 98,000 cases have already been recorded worldwide, and more than 700 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.



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