Shoe Trial Postponed…A lawyer of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaydi, who threw a pair of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad two weeks ago, ruled out a trial session for his defendant tomorrow.

Bush’s Time at Ranch in Crawford, Tex., Coming to Quiet End…The sun is setting on this rural [...]

Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware…“With the Christmas holidays just past and opening up your electronic presents may get you all excited, but not for a selected lot of people who got the Mercury 1.5″ Digital Photo Frame from Walmart (or other stores)…

Giant US air travel data suck fails own privacy tests…But gets cleared [...]

from Warrick at the Wash. Po.:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. [...]

http://www.projectcensored.org…

# 1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8. [...]

http://waronyou.com…
via: SOTT
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:34 UTC
Just in case you thought it was fine to eat Genetically Modified foods (better identified as “FrankenFoods”), along comes a study which makes it clear that you are eating this make believe non-food at your own peril and, worse yet, you are feeding it [...]

http://www.lemonde.fr…
h/t: truthout
Thursday 11 December 2008
by: Joëlle Stolz, Le Monde
Raise the alarm for Mexican corn’s biosecurity: a molecular study conducted by Mexican, American and Dutch researchers demonstrates the presence of genes from genetically modified organisms (GMO) among the varieties of traditional corn cultivated in the remote regions [...]

http://www.globalresearch.ca…
by David Gutierrez
Global Research, November 9, 2008
NaturalNews - 2008-11-03
The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use.
Under a legal argument known as “pre-emption,” the FDA’s approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility [...]

http://www.nytimes.com…
By GARDINER HARRIS
In the belly of an industrial district south of Lyon, France, just past a sulfurous oil refinery and a synthetic vanilla plant, sits a run-down, eight-story factory that makes aspirin, the first pharmaceutical blockbuster. The Lyon factory is the last of its kind. No other major facility in Europe or the United States [...]

http://www.alternet.org…
By Michael M. Hughes, Baltimore City Paper
Posted on October 16, 2008, Printed on October 16, 2008

“Working with these drugs was like the third rail. You don’t touch that without damaging your career.”
Sandy Lundahl lies on a couch, her eyes covered with a dark cloth mask. She’s listening to classical music through enormous headphones: Brahms’ Symphony [...]

alternet
h/t: informationliberation.com
By Elaine Shannon
The chemical industry has spent years trying to suppress information about a certain chemical. Will Congress help the public know the true dangers?
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global chemical industry.
Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They’ve been in the [...]