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Unborn US babies are soaking in a stew of chemicals, including mercury, petrol by-products and pesticides, according to a report released today.
Although the effects on the babies are not clear, the survey prompted several members of US Congress to press for legislation that would strengthen controls on chemicals in the environment.
The report by the Environmental Working Group is based on tests of 10 samples of umbilical cord blood taken by the American Red Cross.
They found an (…)

R. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
Not published in The New York Times
by Greg Palast
Judy, Karl Rove ain’t no "source." A confidential source — and I’ve worked with many — is an insider ready to put himself on the line to blow the whistle on an official lie or hidden danger. I would protect a source’s name with my life and fortune as would any journalist who’s not a craven jerk (the Managing Editor of Time Magazine comes to mind).
But the weasel who (…)

In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
Beat prisoners
He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

Blogged by Brad on 7/13/2005 @ 2:45pm PT...
The Ambassador Strikes Back, Answers to the Right Wing Spin Machine *** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE ***
Ambassador Joseph Wilson fired back today at the Rightwing Spin Machine, which, having been issued marching orders late yesterday in a set of talking points from the RNC, is once again hoping to distract from the potentially treasonous crimes that George W. Bush’s top political operative and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove is being alleged to have (…)

Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)

BREAKING NEWS
How the Government Staged the London Bombings in Ten Easy Steps
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet | July 13 2005
Ten Step Method To Staging a Terrorist Attack
1) Hire a Crisis Management firm to set up an exercise that parallels the terrorist attack you are going to carry out. Have them run the exercise at the precise locations and at the very same time as the attack. If at any stage of the attack your Arabs get caught, tell the police it was part of an exercise.
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Did you really think that the rich world is/was recovering lately or perhaps did you miss this excellent essay put up on this site last Aril and entitlled: The New Slavery - The American dream” has been replaced by a whip?
Whatever your response, excuses will not do you any justice whatsoever. Good, now that I have gotten you attention, let’s take a deep breath and take a glance at the true state of the world economy in a few headlines...
Total America’s Debt, liabilities included: (…)

July 13, 2005 — ROVEGATE — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Ken Mehlman has a good reason to come to Karl Rove’s defense. Mehlman’s July 12 RNC talking points memo on Rove and the leak of classified CIA information was not only an attempt to clear Rove but himself as well. When the CIA leak occurred in 2003, Mehlman was the White House political director and he reported directly to Rove, then counselor to the President. Mehlman and Rove were both mentioned in the infamous 2002 (…)

Code Rove By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet July,13, 2005
Okay, keep your eye on the ball: Karl Rove endangered America.
But, you’ve been keeping up, reading, watching TV, and you’ve undoubtedly heard (or will hear) that Karl Rove didn’t say the words "Valerie Plame," or he didn’t mean to blow her cover — or was her cover too threadbare to even matter? — or Joe Wilson’s claims weren’t true, or else he was trying to save a reporter from printing a false story, or ...
... Hey, look over there: (…)

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7...
The Big Lie About Valerie Plame
By: Larry Johnson
From: TPMCafe Special Guests
Jul 13, 2005
The misinformation being spread in the media about the Plame affair is alarming and damaging to the longterm security interests of the United States. Republicans’ talking points are trying to savage Joe Wilson and, by implication, his wife, Valerie Plame as liars. That is the truly big lie.
For starters, Valerie Plame was an undercover operations (…)