Archive: May 2007
By Carrie JohnsonWashington PostMay 30, 2007 Four current and former Ernst & Young LLP partners were charged today with conspiracy and other crimes for peddling abusive tax shelters to the accounting firm’s monied clients, the latest advance in the government’s largest-ever tax fraud investigation. Ernst, one of the nation’s four biggest audit firms, apparently has avoided criminal charges, but high-ranking
New England Journal of Medicine (MA)May 3, 2007 By Barron H. Lerner, M.D., Ph.D. During the 1950s, inmates at what was then called Holmesburg Prison, in Philadelphia, were inoculated with condyloma acuminatum, cutaneous moniliasis, and viruses causing warts, herpes simplex, and herpes zoster.(1) For participating in this research, and in studies exposing them to dioxin and agents of chemical warfare,
By Joe StephensWashington Post Staff WriterMay 30, 2007; Page A10 Officials in Nigeria have brought criminal charges against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for the company’s alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic. Authorities in Kano, the country’s largest state, filed eight charges this month related to the 1996 clinical trial, including counts
5/28/2007 Houston — (AP) New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&M University. Lead research Cliff Spiegelman stressed, however, that the research doesn’t necessarily support conspiracy theorists who for decades have doubted
by Heather WokuschAtlantic Free Press 29 May 2007 The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a result, veterans are often told that their debilitating symptoms are “in their head” and can go decades without receiving medical help. That’s not supporting our troops. A
“We’ve got eight bodies in the woods, and that’s not normal … “ Bones fuel murder theories, but police remain cautious By Jim Stratton Orlando Sentinel | May 28 2007 FORT MYERS· The bones are whispering to Heather Walsh-Haney. Laid out on a stainless-steel examination table, they’re hinting at the secrets of death, and the forensic anthropologist is working hard
Blackwater Employees Were Involved in Two Shooting Incidents in Past Week By Steve Fainaru and Saad al-IzziWashington Post Foreign ServiceMay 27, 2007; Page A01 Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between
“Mind control is a made-up term – but yes, it is possible to totally influence a person’s inner world ” – Professor E Mark Stern ReutersMay 18, 2007 CANNES, France (Hollywood Reporter) – “300″ star Gerard Butler will topline “Game,” a high-concept thriller set in the near future. The Lakeshore Entertainment project takes place in a world where mind-control technology
By NICHOLAS BERGINnbergin@thehawkeye.com Kevin Michael Ravelin is charged with starting a fire that burned one of Burlington’s most historic downtown churches, and police have linked him with satanism based on satanic items found on a search of his living quarters. Ravelin, 28, allegedly told his roommate that he didn’t believe in a Christian God and disliked churches, and police said