Kissing: Spread The Love, More Like Spread The Germs

According to a hypothesis posed by British scientists from the University of Leeds kissing, a kiss, et al. is less about spreading the love and more about spreading germs. Not to dash all of your romantic comedy...

Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices

Katrina will, I am sure, show itself as a real blight in American history - but as this story shows, will it also show that patients were euthanised by the very people who are writing and passing laws that will negate most civil law suits?"Anna Pou, defended herself on...

Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius has not only given immunity to the makers of Tamiflu and Relenza for injuries stemming from their use against swine flu, she has granted immunity to future swine flu vaccines and “any associated...

Obama administration supports Saudi immunity in 9/11 lawsuit

" The Obama administration has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to protect Saudi Arabia and four of its princes from being held accountable for their alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the...

Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops. To leave in 2011?

" Iraqi officials say the draft calls for U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 unless the Baghdad government asks them to stay. But legal immunity for U.S. soldiers under Iraqi law has emerged as...

Internet group sues US govt for electronic eavesdropping

George Bush has been spying emails and other electronic data to check on the war on terror. But now an american non profit organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and other senior members of his...

Reid Blocks Online Predator Bill to Help Obama

"This Congress hasn't accomplished all that much, so you'd think they'd be eager to pass a no-brainer such as bipartisan legislation to protect kids from online predators. You'd be wrong. Last December, the House passed the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation Online Act by...

Iraqi FM: SOFA draft text ready

Speaking from Switzerland, the Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari informed there was agreement on the US-Iraqi draft of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). This security pact has been negotiate for a long time...

Italian MPs approve immunity law

Veni Vidi Vici, an absolute power for Mr. Berlusconi.. The Next Untouchable Actor... " Italy's parliament has given its final approval to a controversial immunity bill put forward by Prime Minister...

UN not guilty in Srebrenica case?

Hague’s International Criminal Court  has declared it  had no jurisdiction to judge UN failure to protect Muslim in Srebrenica in 1995. But such declaration does not meen UN is not responsible. According to a CSM article, this is Europe's only genocide since World...

Obama Votes "Yes" As Senate Approves Telecom Immunity and New Eavesdropping R...

UPDATE: The Washington Post has what I think is one of the best summaries of this incident, along with the issue of  the anger Jackson's son, Jesse Jackson, Jr, openly spoke out about."Speaking near a Fox...

Immunity Lifted for U.S. Contractors in Iraq

I'm surprised, but relieved the US has agreed to this. I wonder what the ramifications of would be.Blackwater, KBR, Triple Canopy, Titan, CACI and countless other Private Military Companies/Contractors (PMCs) have been operating as privately contracted mercenaries inside...

TNI chief suggests govt renegotiate NAMRU-2

"National Defense Forces (TNI) Chief Gen Djoko Santoso has suggested that the Indonesian government renegotiate its cooperation with the US Naval Medical Research Unit-2 (NAMRU-2).Speaking to the press after attending a function marking the swearing-in of constitutional...

The Immunity Deal

"Republicans and Democrats in Congress reached a breakthrough compromise yesterday on a bill that would dramatically revamp the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Most significantly, the draft...

US issues threat to Iraq's $50bn foreign reserves in military deal

"By Patrick Cockburn–The Independent, Friday, 6 June 2008–The US is holding hostage some $50bn (£25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an...

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