Dennis Loo writes on the World Can't Wait website that President Obama's Department of Justice has pressed the Court of Appeals to rule that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay torture Camp are not 'persons' and they are not entitled to the rights of 'persons' and that if the Court does find that they are indeed 'persons’, then the US officials who ordered and carried out torture should be immune from prosecution ...

     Several scientific studies have shown that the electromagnetic fields that surround high voltage (HV) power lines have adverse effects on humans, plants, and animals.      The effects linked with these fields include: increased irritability, fatigue and headaches, higher cholesterol levels; hypertension; tremors of extremities; hyperhidrosis (extreme sweating); ulcers; possibly reduced sperm counts in ...

"American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of ...

The United States is the world's second largest pork producer and pork production has been growing at quite a clip. From 2000 through 2006, US pork production expanded 15.8%. Only China, the world's largest pork producer and consumer, grew faster. When it comes to the global pork trade, China distorts the picture only because it is so dominant. In 2006, China accounted for 48% of total world hog production. ...

    I've been in Lending and Real Estate for nearly 30 years in California.  What I have been witnessing in the news gives new meaning to the word FIASCO.   Some of this, does not have to be brain surgery.  I cannot believe what has been going on the last 7 months.  Here's the deal, we had good regulations in place on our lending policies in and around 1997.  We had sub prime lending policies that made sens ...

"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." -- Ian Williams Goddard Russ Baker in his book, "Family of Secrets", asks...how is it that W , who had an unimpre ...

America's multi-billion-dollar corporations use illegal bookkeeping techniques to defraud the government out of millions of dollars and then fire employuees who report the fraud. It is a federal contracting system that encourages overruns, inefficiency, and fraud as reported by Common Cause in March, 1983. It was the number 10 censored story of 1983. Rockwell International, one of the nation's largest space ...

A Black President Doesn’t Mean Racism is gone in America By Peter Phillips Racial inequality remains in the US. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. According to a new Civil Rights report published at UCLA, “Reviving the Goal of an Integrat ...

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the September 11 attacks. In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled that there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in ...

Although a serious matter, I thought I would lighten things up with this observation about margarine that I was sent today via e-mail. I must note that there are no links to the actual studies so if you are able to confirm these allegations with any such sources it is much appreciated. If this is true, it is just another example of how we are all being subject to the corporations regardless of what it might ...