ABC News: Officials: Pet Food Poison May Have Been Intentional

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

ABC News: Officials: Pet Food Poison May Have Been Intentional
April 19, 2007 — For the first time, investigators are saying the chemical that has sickened and killed pets in the United States may have been intentionally added to pet food ingredients by Chinese producers.

Food and Drug Administration investigators say the Chinese companies may have spiked products with the chemical melamine so that they would appear, in tests, to have more value as protein products.

Officials now suspect this possibility because a second ingredient from China, rice protein concentrate, has tested positive for melamine. So has corn gluten shipped to South Africa. That means there is a possibility for another round of recalls.

The FDA’s top veterinarian, Stephen Sundlof, says finding melamine in so many products “would certainly lend credibility to the theory that it was maybe intentional.”

—
Amazing.

Carolyn McCarthy

[Error: unknown template video]
Sad. This is exactly why we need the Read The Bills Act (and maybe an Understand the Bills Act)that Downsizedc.org is pushing for. The Congresswoman doesn't understand what is in her Bill.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Airships to tackle Caracas crime

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Airships to tackle Caracas crime
Officials in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, are taking to the air in an attempt to make the city safer.

The council has bought three mini remote-controlled airships which are soon to be launched to look down on the city monitoring criminal activity.

Each has a camera mounted on it, which beams back pictures to a control room.

The Venezuelan capital is regarded as one of the most dangerous cities in Latin America, with gun crime a particular problem.

There were a few strange looks skywards in Caracas as the new mini Zeppelin took to the skies.

Steered by remote control from the ground, the balloon ducked and dived above the buildings, its pilot showing how manoeuvrable the machine can be.

—
This is pathetic. Good ol’ Hugo. What an asshat.

My Way News - Gonzales Rejects Call for His Ouster

Originally published at Twixel.net. You can comment here or there.

My Way News - Gonzales Rejects Call for His Ouster
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confronted a fresh Republican call for his resignation Thursday as he struggled to survive a withering, bipartisan Senate attack on his credibility in the case of eight fired prosecutors.

“The best way to put this behind us is your resignation,” Sen. Tom Coburn bluntly told Gonzales - one GOP conservative to another - at a daylong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

—
It’s amazing news day. This guy is incredible.

Indeed

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007036657420.gif