WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it will allow trace amounts of melamine in infant formula. Earlier this week, the agency said it found the industrial chemical in at least one brand of formula sold in the U.S. More here … When melamine was found in Chinese milk we all recognised […]
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With a title like The Devil’s Whore, you just knew Channel 4’s latest costume drama set during the English Revolution (yes, we had one of those) was going to be a bodice-ripping bonkathon. So it was a bit of a shock to see popular TV tackling the politics of one of the most exciting periods
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Roll over Cheech and Chong. East India Dock Company and HSBC (former Midland Bank), your opium-addled drug-running days in China were 2,500 years too late. The world’s oldest stash of marijuana has been found in a shaman’s tomb in the outlands of China. “The region of China where the tomb is located, Xinjiang, is considered
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Convicted felon Conrad Black is begging George Bush’s pardon in the dying days of the presidency. He may be a thieving swine who looted his own empire but it’s nice to see the upper classes still have perfect manners. In prison since March this year for obstruction of justice and defrauding his stockholders, Black has
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Jack Straw at a prison near you You’d think that in paying your debt to society, losing your liberty was enough. But not for hard-man Minister for Injustice Jack Straw who today banned a comedy course for convicts in Whitemoor maximum security prison in Cambridgeshire, a facility holding 500 of the most dangerous prisoners in
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A quickie. The (fascist) British National Party (BNP) membership list has just been published on the internet by someone with a grudge and employers are scouring it fast. I just saw a member of the BNP complaining on BBC1 news … wait for it … that we’re living in … a FASCIST STATE! Result, mate!
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