Entries for May 2008

By Todd Hartman | The Rocky Mountain News | May 29, 2008
Shell Oil Co. and the Army have agreed to a settlement with Colorado worth $35 million to compensate for decades of environmental contamination linked to chemical weapons and pesticides manufacturing at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

By Suzanne Kapner | CNN Money | May 30, 2008
With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain.

By Amanda | ThinkProgress.com | May 30, 2008
Over the weekend, Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake visited Alaska with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). While there, they met with Vietnam veteran John Guinn, who questioned the Secretary about the growing problem of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) amongst veterans. Instead of addressing Guinn’s concerns, Peake dismissed them:

Lee Glenndinning | The Guardian | May 29, 2008
The kitchen knife is the most common weapon used in teenage stabbings, Sir Ian Blair said today, as he revealed that close to 200 weapons have been seized since officers stepped up stop and search measures in response to a spate of recent knife crime.

By Richard Esposito and Anna Schecter | ABC News | May 29, 2008
New York AG Says Company Profited From Individuals That May Have Been Tortured or Executed in China. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says the company that has made millions of dollars with U.S. exhibitions of plasticized human bodies used "the remains of individuals that may have been tortured and executed in China."

By Michel Chossudovsky | theEcologistOnline.org | May 22, 2008
Beware the US military’s experiments with climatic warfare, says Michel Chossudovsky. Rarely acknowledged in the debate on global climate change, the world’s weather can now be modified as part of a new generation of sophisticated electromagnetic weapons. Both the US and Russia have developed capabilities to manipulate the climate for military use. 

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Bush signs up for North American Union without vote or consulting congress and against all
recommendations of congress.

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Multiple war protesters interrupt McCain's Speech in Denver. McCain says the protesters disrupted his free speech but free speech is one thing, propaganda is another. It is illegal to propagandize the American people and that is what his war speech is doing.

By Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball | Newsweek | May 28, 2008
A failed restaurant bombing in England last week has raised concerns among U.S. and European counterterrorism officials that Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups are recruiting mentally disabled people to carry out suicide attacks.

The Associated Press | May 28, 2008
An automated message system told parents of a large explosion at a southwest Ohio elementary school, sending moms and dads into a panic before officials could clarify that it was all just a drill.

By Beth Hale | Daily Mail | May 27, 2008
For nearly a quarter of a century, Lourdes Maxwell has celebrated the arrival of summer by putting a paddling pool in the garden. This year, however, her two grandchildren and the children of her neighbours may have to find another way to cool off in the heat. Miss Maxwell's local council has decided that the pool - which is only 2ft deep - needs a lifeguard.

WorldNetDaily.com | May 27, 2008
A federal judge has ordered a 30-month prison sentence for a man whose rifle misfired, letting loose three shots at a firing range, prompting 2nd Amendment supporters to warn their constituents how easily they, too, can become a "gun felon."

By Mike Sheehan | RawStory.com | May 27, 2008
In a new tell-all memoir on sale next week, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan writes that the president depended on propaganda to sell the Iraq war to the American public, The Politico reports.

By Frosty Wooldridge | NewsWithViews.com | May 19, 2008
When you talk to American citizens rather than politically correct editors, publishers, TV producers and talk show hosts, you get to the heart of the matter. As illegal alien migration and mass legal immigration rage into this country like a “Human Katrina”, every American citizen pays financially. Other costs include cultural destruction, linguistic chaos, educational breakdown, incarceration and medical consequences.

Reuters | May 27, 2008
A quick shock from a Taser may have zapped a man's fluttering heart back into a healthy rhythm, doctors reported on Tuesday.