Tamiflu to Add Warning on Psychiatric Risks

Tamiflu flu treatment must carry information warning of potential risks of psychiatric side effects, U.S. regulators said. The Food and Drug Administration approved a labeling revision to include information on those risks after reports of self-injury and mutilation among Japanese patients using the drug, the agency said today in an e-mailed statement. Most of these side effects were reported in children.The new label will urge doctors to monitor patients with influenza for signs of abnormal behavior immediately after they begin taking Tamiflu. While the “relative contribution of the drug to these events is not known,” the regulators said the labeling revision is intended to mitigate the potential risks. – bloom

He moveth his tail like a cedar

Is the text of Job (40:14-24) a reference in the bible to a dinosaur, or is it a reference to something else?

Chinese submarine stalks US carrier: report

A Chinese submarine approached a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has reported. The newspaper said the encounter highlighted China’s continuing efforts to prepare for a possible future conflict with the United States despite the administration’s efforts to try to boost relations with the Chinese military.

The submarine encounter with the USS Kitty Hawk and its battle group also is an embarrassment to the commander of US forces in the Pacific, Admiral William Fallon, who is engaged in an ambitious military exchange program with China, the report said.

Citing unnamed defense officials, the paper said the Chinese Song-class diesel-powered attack submarine shadowed the Kitty Hawk undetected and surfaced within five miles of the carrier on October 26.

The surfaced submarine was spotted by a routine surveillance flight by one of the carrier group’s planes, The Times said. – yahoo

Israel Detonates Tactical Nuke Bunker Buster in Lebanon?

The special report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The measurements were carried out by two Lebanese professors of physics – Mohammad Ali Kubaissi and Ibrahim Rachidi. The data – 700 nanosieverts per hour ? showed remarkably higher radiocativity then the average in the area (Beirut = 35 nSv/hr ). Successivamente, on September 17th, Ali Kubaissi took British researcher Dai Williams, from the environmentalist organization Green Audit, to the same site, to take samples that were then submitted to Chris Busby, technical adisor of the Supervisory Committee on Depleted Uranium, which reports to the British Ministry of Defense. The samples were tested by Harwell?s nuclear laboratory, one of the most authoritative research centers in the world. On October 17th, Harwell disclosed the testing results – two samples in 10 did contain radioactivity.

On November 2nd, another British lab, The School of Oceanographic Sciences, confirmed Harwell?s results ? the Khiam crater contains slightly enriched uranium. Rainews24 also took a sample taken by Dai Williams for testing by the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Ferrara. The testing – which is still ongoing – found an anomalous structure: the sample?s surface includes alluminium and iron silicates, normal elements in a soil fragment. Yet, looking inside, estremely small bubbles can be found with high concentration of iron. Further testing will clarify the origin of these structures: what seems to be certain at the moment is that they are not caused by a natural process.

What kind of weapon is this? …Researcher Dai Williams believes this is a new class of weapons using enriched uranium, not through fission processes but through new physical processes kept secret for at least 20 years. – globalresearch

Good Morning Don LaFontaine

The guy who is the voice you’ve heard so many times…

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Street entertainer gains world’s first magic degree

He doesn’t play Quidditch, speak Parseltongue or ride a Thunderbolt broomstick, but Owen Lean has the world’s first BA based on magic.Not since Noel Purcell sang “Grafton Street is a wonderland with magic in the air” have Dubliners been so enchanted. Indeed, Mr Lean’s lecturers at Trinity College were so impressed with the 23-year-old’s street magic show that he took his final exam on his pitch in Dublin’s shopping district.”My lecturers were wonderfully wild and eccentric people who were perfectly happy to let me write about street performance as an art form, as well as writing a 7,000-word dissertation on the relevance of close-up magic in modern day society”, Mr Lean, a theatre studies student, said.

His interest in the dark arts began when he bought a trick deck of cards. Before long he was scouring the dusty underpass beneath London’s Charing Cross station looking for a magic shop straight out of Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley. “I kept going back and buying books, teaching myself to do more and more,” he said. – independent

Drunken elk terrorises Swedish schoolchildren

A drunken elk is terrorising children at a school in southern Sweden. “That could be the problem. We could be dealing with a boozy elk,” Jan Caiman, a police officer in Molndal, told the national news agency TT. The elk was probably eating fermented apples in a garden and had become inebriated, Caiman said. Elk can weigh as much as 500 kilos (1,100 lb) and personnel at the school described the erratic male as “completely mad”.

“The children are really scared,” the receptionist at the school near Molndal in southern Sweden told the Gothenburg Post. Caiman said police had contacted hunters and that if the elk did not calm down, it could be shot. – reuters

Chemical pollution ‘responsible for silent pandemic of brain damage’

MILLIONS of children worldwide may have suffered brain damage as a direct result of industrial pollution, scientists said yesterday.

An explosive report from researchers in the United States and Denmark talks of a “silent pandemic” of neurodevelopmental disorders caused by toxic chemicals spilling into the environment.

They include conditions such as autism, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation and cerebral palsy.

The scientists identified 202 industrial chemicals with the potential to damage the human brain, and said they were likely to be the “tip of a very large iceberg”. More than 1,000 chemicals are known to be neurotoxic in animals, and are likely to be harmful to humans.

The researchers made an urgent call to tighten worldwide controls, and for a “precautionary approach” to testing. – more

Thief tricked by David Copperfield pleads guilty

One of three teenagers charged with attempting to rob illusionist David Copperfield as he left a performance has pleaded guilty.Terrance Riley, 17, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for three counts of robbery with a weapon and one count of attempted robbery. He will be housed with other inmates under the age of 21.

Circuit Judge Edward Garrison also ordered Riley to testify against his two co-defendants, his brother Dwayne Riley, 18, and Markeith Jones, 17.

Copperfield, 50, and two female assistants were walking from the Kravis Center to their tour bus when they were approached by the teens April 23. The assistants handed over money and a cellphone, but the illusionist turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing, although he was carrying his passport, wallet and cell phone.

“He said in depositions that he had things on him, but it wasn’t difficult to make it seem like there was nothing there,” prosecutor Sherri Collins said. – cnn

Free Shi Tao, Imprisoned for Emailing Information Overseas

Shi Tao wrote for the Contemporary Trade News. Using his Yahoo! account, he emailed a US-based website, sharing the details of an internal government directive barring media reports that could fuel unrest during the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen. Shi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities.” Disturbingly, Yahoo! provided information to the government for his prosecution. Call on the Chinese Government to release Shi Tao from detention immediately and unconditionally. – amnesty