Our canine allies
Their aim then was to CHANGE Filipinos' outlook towards dogs. That dogs OUGHT to be respected and their talents recognized, especially in the field of Search and Rescue. That they can be MEN'S PARTNERS in the SERVICE FOR HUMANITY .
http://www.phk9sar.org/aboutus.html
THE PHILIPPINES is the most disaster-prone country in the world, according to a Brussels-based research center study in 2000.
For American Renee J. Speltz, a nonexistent canine search and rescue team in an area where 70-80 percent of natural disasters occur was simply unthinkable. And so, despite a barrage of well-meaning naysayers and numerous other obstacles, she established from scratch two years ago Asia-Pacific's first and only K9 search and rescue group.
http://news.inq7.net/lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=28076
[Submarine?]
I quickly exited and noticed a cylinder-shaped object about 1/2 mile from us protruding from the water. It was sticking straight out of the water about 45-50 feet and looked to be about 4 feet wide.
http://www.rense.com/general63/crew.htm
An organization representing up to half a billion Christians worldwide has encouraged its member churches to divest from companies that participate in "illegal activities" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://www.rense.com/general63/divest.htm
Israel Air Force Commander-in-Chief Major General Eliezer Shakedi said Monday that Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran in light of its nuclear activity.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rie.htm
[This chicken is actually half dionsaur.]
http://www.nst.com.my/Gallery/200501073.JPG/view
TWO members of an Italian heavy metal band called Beasts of Satan were jailed yesterday after they confessed to taking part in three ritual slayings.
Andrea Volpe and Pietro Guerrieri had confessed to roles in the 1998 killings of Chiara Marino, 19, and Fabio Tollis, 16, in woods outside Milan. Five other members of their suspected Satanic cult have been ordered to stand trial in June.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=202752005
[I have read a lot of stories like this where the people go to a farm house or a barn, or some other kind of farm-y type place out in the middle of nowhere. One of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes is on a train going by some nice peaceful looking cottages in the middle of nowhere and he remarks how he suspects them of being filled with all kinds of evil deeds because they are so far from everyone else that there is no one to know if something bad happens there.]
Detectives tracked down another woman who said she was ritually abused by the same clerics in similar scenarios, though the accusers did not know each other.
Teresa Bombrys, 43, said she was taken to a farm house in the late 1960s by Chet Warren and forced to watch "these rituals."
She told The Blade in a recent interview: "I know it's hard for people to really understand this, but it was real. It happened, and I've lived with it for most of my life." She said she believed her abusers wanted to scare her and other children and to create an atmosphere so bizarre no one would believe them.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/NEWS08/502200352/0/NEWS17
A Hawaii state lawmaker is drawing protests over a bill that would ban the slaughter of dogs and cats for food.
http://www.nbc4.com/family/4217647/detail.html
[This sounds like typical English engineering.-”Powered by 5,160 D-size batteries”]
Lost: much loved robot submarine, last seen under 200 metres of Antarctic ice last Wednesday, answers to the name Autosub - reward.
The £1.5m British unmanned research sub was investigating the waters below the Fimbul ice shelf when it became trapped. Scientists don't know what went wrong, but say the submarine is stuck and unlikely to be recovered.
[Maybe their Queen can help them out with missile defense. Unfortuantely, I think this will only be a minor bump on the road to a unified “North American” military.]
After a political uproar, Canadian officials made clear on Tuesday the country will not sign on to a controversial U.S. missile defense system, a decision likely to be seen as a snub to President Bush.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0223-07.htm
The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm's war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name — Bush.
William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, uncle of the president and youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI stock options last month with a net value of nearly half a million dollars.
"Uncle Bucky," as he is known to the president, is on the board of the company, which supplies armor and other materials to U.S. troops. The company's stock prices have soared to record heights since before the invasion, benefiting in part from contracts to rapidly refit fleets of military vehicles with extra armor.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0223-05.htm
Recent studies confirm that cell and cordless phone microwave can:
* Damage nerves in the scalp
* Cause blood cells to leak hemoglobin
* Cause memory loss and mental confusion
* Cause headaches and induce extreme fatigue
* Create joint pain, muscle spasms and tremors
* Create burning sensation and rash on the skin
* Alter the brain's electrical activity during sleep
* Induce ringing ! in the ears, impair sense of smell
* Precipitate cataracts, retina damage and eye cancer
* Open the blood-brain barrier to viruses and toxins
* Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells
* Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells
* Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels
* Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes
http://www.rense.com/general63/FACTS.HTM
[Yet more tales from the so-called “War on Terror”. In this episode we learn about White House security arrangements.]
White House press secretary Scott McClellan originally told reporters that Guckert was properly allowed into press briefings because he worked for an outlet that "published regularly." But that's when the questions were about Talon. More recently McClellan offered up a new rationale. Asked by Editor and Publisher magazine how the decision was made to allow a GOPUSA correspondent in, McClellan said, "The staff assistant went to verify that the news organization existed." (Emphasis added.)
That, apparently, was the lone criterion the press office used when Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) approached it in February 2003 seeking a pass for White House briefings. Not yet working for Republican-friendly Talon News, which came into existence in April 2003, Guckert, using an alias and with no journalism experience whatsoever, was writing on a voluntary basis for a Web site dedicated to promoting Republican issues. To determine whether Guckert would gain entrance to the press room, normally reserved for professional journalists working for legitimate, recognized and independent news organizations, the press office simply logged on to the Internet and confirmed that GOPUSA "existed," and then quickly approved Guckert's access. In a White House obsessed, at least publicly, with security and where journalists cannot even move between the White House and the nearby Old Executive Building without a personal escort, Guckert's lenient treatment was likely unprecedented.
...
In other words, it appears that Guckert, who often cut and pasted White House press releases and posted them on Talon as "news," did not even have an editor. As Media Matters for America noted, Talon "apparently consists of little more than Eberle, Gannon, and a few volunteers."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0223-26.htm
Simply, small subsistence farmers are unable to sell to the chain stores because they cannot meet the stores’ conditions. At the same time the big companies are murdering the local markets that used to sell the farmers’ products.
“The stark danger is that increasing numbers of them will go bust and join streams of desperate migrants to America and the urban slums of their own countries,” the Times reported.
Look for some of them, coming soon to a food bank near you.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0223-30.htm
[As ye sow, so shall ye reap. We are too quick to kill. It seems like it is the solution to every problem. I have noticed with surgeries at the hospital it seems like if anything goes wrong their first instinct is “cut it out”, get rid of it, throw it away. I do not really see any effort to actually heal anything. If they can’t throw a drug at something they cut it out. Maybe somewhere else in the hospital they do something witha ctually healing and repairing things, but I am not seeing it.
This is the same kind of thing I think. Once they get through with the ducks it will be the pigeons, then geese, then crows, then seagulls, or chickens [again], or pigs [again] or whatever.]
Hello, Jeff - Whenever we consider killing millions of a species we must bear in mind that each species of animal, insect, plant etc has its place in nature and removing a species or a large number of that species sets the stage for disaster.
The experts tried to curb Chronic Wasting Disease in a specified sector in Wisconsin. That action did not work, CWD spread outside of the perimeter. India soon learned that the die offs of vulture populations caused an increase in rabies and other diseases. Without the vultrues, carcasses of dead animals littered towns and villages and wild dogs gatered feasting on the carcasses. Rabies increased dramatically as well as vectored diseases like Japanese Encephalitis.
Removing large numbers of species will upset the fragile balance of nature, and, in my opinion, will not curb Avian Influenza.
Patricia Doyle
...
Thailand, where a high rate of infection has been found in ducks, plans to slaughter about 2.7 million free-range ducks, the FAO said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/tk.htm
[Maybe the Pentagon could just not hire out the military at all. Maybe they could devote some time to actually training and equipping our soldiers correctly and taking care of them and their families. Why should Joe Blow the director get to boss around an aircraft carrier and Joe Blow off the street will get shot in the face just for trying to go near the very same aircraft carrier?
I seem to recall it costs something like a half million or a million an hour to operate an aircraft carrier. If we let someone film on one [or a submarine or whatever] that is a subsidy to the film maker out of the pockets of the American taxpayer of probably millions of dollars over the course of say one day of location shooting.]
n Operation Hollywood, which SBS screens on Tuesday, filmmaker Emilio Pacull follows up an investigative study by film industry journalist Dave Robb on the help producers have sought from the military over the years. Robb, who worked for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, says he found himself obsessed with the minutiae of these negotiations with the boys with ships, tanks, materiel, information, bases, access to land, troops and some very real-looking fireworks.
His report, a page-by-page study of scripts submitted by the studios to the Pentagon, reveals an intriguing pattern of censorship and propaganda. For Hollywood, acceptance of this system means the difference between "full co-operation" and no co-operation. For the military, it involves maintaining an idealised image of the forces, their behaviour, their view of the world, the superiority of their form of patriotism, and for that matter, their reasons for going to war.
So why, they would argue, should the Pentagon spend its money on pacifism or promoting the darker side of the soldier's world? Why reward a Platoon when The Green Berets is what you're after?
Among those with an opinion in Operation Hollywood are Australian director Phil Noyce, Phil Strub from the US Department of Defence, historian Lawrence Suid and Joe Trento, author and president of the anti-war Public Education Centre. This, they all agree, is a world where lines, plots and nationalities are changed so that film producers can gain access to expensive military hardware.
In the 1995 James Bond movie Goldeneye, for example, the original script had a US Navy admiral betraying state secrets. This was changed to make the traitor a member of the French navy. After that the military's co-operation was forthcoming. Pacull and Robb takes us from the pedantry to the powerful in examining the changes to scripts. They list the producers and the movies that have fallen into line and show how the military's script editors work. Interestingly, it's not the censors who come under fire here quite so much as those co-operative, self-censoring filmmakers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/A-dirty-little-secret/2005/02/19/1108709445835.html?oneclick=true
In 2000, in a letter written in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is Academic Medicine for Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: No. The current owner is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of industry into medical education and the almost complete domination of continuing medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal.
http://www.rense.com/general63/asp.htm
Pierre Cole seemed high on killing. Cole, a soldier in Iraq, called his dad from overseas to boast about gunning down enemies in a firefight in 2003.
"He was on cloud nine," said his father, Willie Cole. "'Hey, I got a couple of them,' " he said. " 'I let loose.'"
Willie Cole -- a former military police officer who served in Panama when the United States deposed President Manuel Noriega in 1989 -- was shocked.
"It disturbed me, his reaction to the loss of life," said Willie Cole, a caterer in the south suburbs. "I said, 'Regardless of what you're over there for, the other guy is fighting for something, too. You have to respect that.'"
But Pierre Cole tuned out his dad.
"He commented to me, 'Fuck it. I'm glad it's him, not me.'"
Now Pierre Cole, 22, is back from Iraq and facing a murder charge in Cook County Criminal Court for allegedly killing a West Side store owner, In Taik Jung, during a botched robbery Oct. 14.
Pierre Cole was on leave from Iraq. His father and others wonder if Cole's military experience played a role in the slaying.
Seven other soldiers from the same base -- Fort Riley, Kan. -- also have been charged with murder, for other killings, since August.
http://www.rense.com/general63/GIS.HTM
[Illegal immigration and brain parasites. I don’t watch the evening news, but I bet this wasn’t on it. Yet another chapter in the so-called “War on Terror”. This is the part where we check people’s shoes at the airport, but if they want to comeinto the country on foot they can bring in anything they can drag, carry, or smuggle.]
The poorest illegal alien migrants set up shantytowns on the U.S. side of the border. They feature no sanitation of any kind. No toilets. No showers. No clean water. Disease proliferates unchecked. In 1985, 185,000 Mexican and South Americans inhabited those shantytowns. By 1995, they numbered 500,000. By 2000, according to the New York Times, they totaled one million. At the current rate of growth, they will grow to 20 million in the next 16 years. As they expand and move into the United States, they carry many diseases including the parasite Taenia solium.
...
As one who visited the colonias in El Paso last year and filmed them, I can tell you the New York Times reporter could not adequately describe the kind of horrible, pathetic, disease ridden misery I witnessed. It is so grossly offensive; you want to vomit not only physically but also emotionally. This is another aspect of Third World Momentum stampeding into our country a breakneck speed. It's happening because most Americans think they are safe, think their Congressmen and Senators are protecting them. They would be deadly incorrect!
The tapeworm had previously been eradicated in U.S. pork via animal husbandry techniques. However, it's rampant in the Third World. Since that world is immigrating into America at an unprecedented rate of speed, the parasite is moving along with them and passed among people. One of the greatest tragedies of losing our sovereignty will be the passage of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement.
....
The recent cause for alarm stemmed from the death of a 17-year-old girl, who, as an infant, had immigrated with her parents from Mexico to Oregon. She complained of severe headaches. A CT scan revealed the parasite in her brain tissue. She died. An examination showed the tapeworm had grown in her brain to a point where it killed her.
http://www.rense.com/general63/third.htm
Following are examples of freedoms which President Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress have already expunged (as reported by the Associated Press):
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records questions.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gov.htm
Mount St. Helens has shown an upswing in volcanic activity over the past two days, U.S. volcano scientists reported.
Small collapses of hot rock from the south end of the lava dome -- which is growing at a rate of about 15 feet per day -- have sent several ash clouds upward and over the rim of the mile-wide crater, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientists at Johnston Ridge Observatory, about five miles northeast of the volcano
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050223-015306-6230r
[It’s no wonder OJ got off. They didn’t even have video of him killing his wife.]
A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050224/pl_afp/usiraqfallujah&cid=1521&ncid=1480
[Get ready to batten down those hatches.]
South Korea's decision to sell most of its U.S. government bonds triggered similar moves in East Asia and hammered the U.S. currency's value.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050222-101328-6410r.htm
Analysts, however, pointed to the dollar's inability recently to extend that rally despite positive economic and corporate data, and highlighted the fact that many of the US's economic problems had not disappeared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4287413.stm
[Operation: Save Wall Street, day 87]
Under the president's proposal, when you retired you would not be able to start spending the money in your private account until after you bought an annuity, a financial contract in which you hand over a lump-sum payment and, in return, get a monthly stream of income for life. The upside of buying such an annuity would be that you'd be protected against outliving all of your money. The downside is that even if you died immediately after retirement, the most your heirs would inherit would be the amount that remained in your private account after you had paid for the mandatory annuity. (If you lived longer, of course, you might well need to spend the remainder to supplement the annuity's low monthly payout. )
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23wed1.html?ex=1109826000&en=cc4d6d8a8363c5e7&ei=5070
[Maybe they can buy a new law that 145 thousand people isn’t enough for a class action lawsuit.]
The recent security breach at data aggregator ChoicePoint that exposed at least 145,000 consumers to identity theft and renewed a call for regulation of the data industry will likely leave victims of the breach twice bitten -- first from the identity theft itself and second from thwarted attempts to recover damages for their losses if they decide to seek recourse.
Legal experts say that people who suffered losses as a result of the breach will find it difficult to get compensation from ChoicePoint for selling their personal data to con artists, even if the victims can prove that ChoicePoint was negligent in screening customers who purchased their data. That's because courts have been unwilling to penalize companies when victims of identity theft are not their direct customers.
...
"There is a lot of political support behind consumer frustration in this area," said Charles Merrill, a New Jersey-based attorney who focuses on information technology cases. "I think that information security liability may be the next 'toxic tort' -- like asbestos. The time is right for it."
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66685,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
[How many times can I write “so-called ‘War on Terrorism’” in one day?]
The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the translation unit of the Bureau's Washington Field Office.
...Edmonds is suing the FBI, claiming she was fired for bringing to light these problems -- which have been identified by several inquiries as significant contributing factors to the success of the Sept. 11 plot.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050222-072936-1680r.htm
Billions and billions and billions of dollars have already been poured into responding to the tsunami but only one part of it ... can be in any way accounted for at this stage," Mr Wright said.
"Nobody to the best of my knowledge, really has the faintest idea what's actually been given or what it's all going to do."
http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,9353,12337209-1702,00.html
[I saw a letter from the uS Office of Personnel management lying around at work the other day. It made me wonder why they would be writing to a hospital so far away?
As to the draft, I hope I do not have to keep ointing out the 13th Ammendment to the Constitution says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Isn’t a draft involuntary servitude? ]
The US Army is beginning to face the same sort of recruiting problems that have already plagued the National Guard and Reserve, The Washington Post reported Monday. Since the Army's fiscal year began last October, it has only signed 18.4 percent of its target of 80,000 new recruits. That's less thanlast year's and well below the 25 percent target the Army had set for itself to meet by this time.
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0222/dailyUpdate.html
Several parts of Roeder’s Heinz Kerry article mirror pieces on the same topic by Reuters and Fox News.
Fox News: “Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1973, then got her library sciences master’s degree and worked as a school librarian until 1977, the year she married George W. Bush.”
Talon: “Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1973, then earned a master’s degree in library sciences and worked for the following four years as a school librarian. In 1977, she married George W. Bush.”
Reuters: “Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist and heiress to a Heinz ketchup fortune of more than $500 million.”
Talon: “Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist and heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune valued in excess of $500 million.”
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=112
http://www.phk9sar.org/aboutus.html
THE PHILIPPINES is the most disaster-prone country in the world, according to a Brussels-based research center study in 2000.
For American Renee J. Speltz, a nonexistent canine search and rescue team in an area where 70-80 percent of natural disasters occur was simply unthinkable. And so, despite a barrage of well-meaning naysayers and numerous other obstacles, she established from scratch two years ago Asia-Pacific's first and only K9 search and rescue group.
http://news.inq7.net/lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=28076
[Submarine?]
I quickly exited and noticed a cylinder-shaped object about 1/2 mile from us protruding from the water. It was sticking straight out of the water about 45-50 feet and looked to be about 4 feet wide.
http://www.rense.com/general63/crew.htm
An organization representing up to half a billion Christians worldwide has encouraged its member churches to divest from companies that participate in "illegal activities" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
http://www.rense.com/general63/divest.htm
Israel Air Force Commander-in-Chief Major General Eliezer Shakedi said Monday that Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran in light of its nuclear activity.
http://www.rense.com/general63/rie.htm
[This chicken is actually half dionsaur.]
http://www.nst.com.my/Gallery/200501073.JPG/view
TWO members of an Italian heavy metal band called Beasts of Satan were jailed yesterday after they confessed to taking part in three ritual slayings.
Andrea Volpe and Pietro Guerrieri had confessed to roles in the 1998 killings of Chiara Marino, 19, and Fabio Tollis, 16, in woods outside Milan. Five other members of their suspected Satanic cult have been ordered to stand trial in June.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=202752005
[I have read a lot of stories like this where the people go to a farm house or a barn, or some other kind of farm-y type place out in the middle of nowhere. One of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes is on a train going by some nice peaceful looking cottages in the middle of nowhere and he remarks how he suspects them of being filled with all kinds of evil deeds because they are so far from everyone else that there is no one to know if something bad happens there.]
Detectives tracked down another woman who said she was ritually abused by the same clerics in similar scenarios, though the accusers did not know each other.
Teresa Bombrys, 43, said she was taken to a farm house in the late 1960s by Chet Warren and forced to watch "these rituals."
She told The Blade in a recent interview: "I know it's hard for people to really understand this, but it was real. It happened, and I've lived with it for most of my life." She said she believed her abusers wanted to scare her and other children and to create an atmosphere so bizarre no one would believe them.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/NEWS08/502200352/0/NEWS17
A Hawaii state lawmaker is drawing protests over a bill that would ban the slaughter of dogs and cats for food.
http://www.nbc4.com/family/4217647/detail.html
[This sounds like typical English engineering.-”Powered by 5,160 D-size batteries”]
Lost: much loved robot submarine, last seen under 200 metres of Antarctic ice last Wednesday, answers to the name Autosub - reward.
The £1.5m British unmanned research sub was investigating the waters below the Fimbul ice shelf when it became trapped. Scientists don't know what went wrong, but say the submarine is stuck and unlikely to be recovered.
[Maybe their Queen can help them out with missile defense. Unfortuantely, I think this will only be a minor bump on the road to a unified “North American” military.]
After a political uproar, Canadian officials made clear on Tuesday the country will not sign on to a controversial U.S. missile defense system, a decision likely to be seen as a snub to President Bush.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0223-07.htm
The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm's war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name — Bush.
William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, uncle of the president and youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI stock options last month with a net value of nearly half a million dollars.
"Uncle Bucky," as he is known to the president, is on the board of the company, which supplies armor and other materials to U.S. troops. The company's stock prices have soared to record heights since before the invasion, benefiting in part from contracts to rapidly refit fleets of military vehicles with extra armor.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0223-05.htm
Recent studies confirm that cell and cordless phone microwave can:
* Damage nerves in the scalp
* Cause blood cells to leak hemoglobin
* Cause memory loss and mental confusion
* Cause headaches and induce extreme fatigue
* Create joint pain, muscle spasms and tremors
* Create burning sensation and rash on the skin
* Alter the brain's electrical activity during sleep
* Induce ringing ! in the ears, impair sense of smell
* Precipitate cataracts, retina damage and eye cancer
* Open the blood-brain barrier to viruses and toxins
* Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells
* Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells
* Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels
* Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes
http://www.rense.com/general63/FACTS.HTM
[Yet more tales from the so-called “War on Terror”. In this episode we learn about White House security arrangements.]
White House press secretary Scott McClellan originally told reporters that Guckert was properly allowed into press briefings because he worked for an outlet that "published regularly." But that's when the questions were about Talon. More recently McClellan offered up a new rationale. Asked by Editor and Publisher magazine how the decision was made to allow a GOPUSA correspondent in, McClellan said, "The staff assistant went to verify that the news organization existed." (Emphasis added.)
That, apparently, was the lone criterion the press office used when Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) approached it in February 2003 seeking a pass for White House briefings. Not yet working for Republican-friendly Talon News, which came into existence in April 2003, Guckert, using an alias and with no journalism experience whatsoever, was writing on a voluntary basis for a Web site dedicated to promoting Republican issues. To determine whether Guckert would gain entrance to the press room, normally reserved for professional journalists working for legitimate, recognized and independent news organizations, the press office simply logged on to the Internet and confirmed that GOPUSA "existed," and then quickly approved Guckert's access. In a White House obsessed, at least publicly, with security and where journalists cannot even move between the White House and the nearby Old Executive Building without a personal escort, Guckert's lenient treatment was likely unprecedented.
...
In other words, it appears that Guckert, who often cut and pasted White House press releases and posted them on Talon as "news," did not even have an editor. As Media Matters for America noted, Talon "apparently consists of little more than Eberle, Gannon, and a few volunteers."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0223-26.htm
Simply, small subsistence farmers are unable to sell to the chain stores because they cannot meet the stores’ conditions. At the same time the big companies are murdering the local markets that used to sell the farmers’ products.
“The stark danger is that increasing numbers of them will go bust and join streams of desperate migrants to America and the urban slums of their own countries,” the Times reported.
Look for some of them, coming soon to a food bank near you.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0223-30.htm
[As ye sow, so shall ye reap. We are too quick to kill. It seems like it is the solution to every problem. I have noticed with surgeries at the hospital it seems like if anything goes wrong their first instinct is “cut it out”, get rid of it, throw it away. I do not really see any effort to actually heal anything. If they can’t throw a drug at something they cut it out. Maybe somewhere else in the hospital they do something witha ctually healing and repairing things, but I am not seeing it.
This is the same kind of thing I think. Once they get through with the ducks it will be the pigeons, then geese, then crows, then seagulls, or chickens [again], or pigs [again] or whatever.]
Hello, Jeff - Whenever we consider killing millions of a species we must bear in mind that each species of animal, insect, plant etc has its place in nature and removing a species or a large number of that species sets the stage for disaster.
The experts tried to curb Chronic Wasting Disease in a specified sector in Wisconsin. That action did not work, CWD spread outside of the perimeter. India soon learned that the die offs of vulture populations caused an increase in rabies and other diseases. Without the vultrues, carcasses of dead animals littered towns and villages and wild dogs gatered feasting on the carcasses. Rabies increased dramatically as well as vectored diseases like Japanese Encephalitis.
Removing large numbers of species will upset the fragile balance of nature, and, in my opinion, will not curb Avian Influenza.
Patricia Doyle
...
Thailand, where a high rate of infection has been found in ducks, plans to slaughter about 2.7 million free-range ducks, the FAO said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/tk.htm
[Maybe the Pentagon could just not hire out the military at all. Maybe they could devote some time to actually training and equipping our soldiers correctly and taking care of them and their families. Why should Joe Blow the director get to boss around an aircraft carrier and Joe Blow off the street will get shot in the face just for trying to go near the very same aircraft carrier?
I seem to recall it costs something like a half million or a million an hour to operate an aircraft carrier. If we let someone film on one [or a submarine or whatever] that is a subsidy to the film maker out of the pockets of the American taxpayer of probably millions of dollars over the course of say one day of location shooting.]
n Operation Hollywood, which SBS screens on Tuesday, filmmaker Emilio Pacull follows up an investigative study by film industry journalist Dave Robb on the help producers have sought from the military over the years. Robb, who worked for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, says he found himself obsessed with the minutiae of these negotiations with the boys with ships, tanks, materiel, information, bases, access to land, troops and some very real-looking fireworks.
His report, a page-by-page study of scripts submitted by the studios to the Pentagon, reveals an intriguing pattern of censorship and propaganda. For Hollywood, acceptance of this system means the difference between "full co-operation" and no co-operation. For the military, it involves maintaining an idealised image of the forces, their behaviour, their view of the world, the superiority of their form of patriotism, and for that matter, their reasons for going to war.
So why, they would argue, should the Pentagon spend its money on pacifism or promoting the darker side of the soldier's world? Why reward a Platoon when The Green Berets is what you're after?
Among those with an opinion in Operation Hollywood are Australian director Phil Noyce, Phil Strub from the US Department of Defence, historian Lawrence Suid and Joe Trento, author and president of the anti-war Public Education Centre. This, they all agree, is a world where lines, plots and nationalities are changed so that film producers can gain access to expensive military hardware.
In the 1995 James Bond movie Goldeneye, for example, the original script had a US Navy admiral betraying state secrets. This was changed to make the traitor a member of the French navy. After that the military's co-operation was forthcoming. Pacull and Robb takes us from the pedantry to the powerful in examining the changes to scripts. They list the producers and the movies that have fallen into line and show how the military's script editors work. Interestingly, it's not the censors who come under fire here quite so much as those co-operative, self-censoring filmmakers.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/A-dirty-little-secret/2005/02/19/1108709445835.html?oneclick=true
In 2000, in a letter written in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is Academic Medicine for Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: No. The current owner is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of industry into medical education and the almost complete domination of continuing medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal.
http://www.rense.com/general63/asp.htm
Pierre Cole seemed high on killing. Cole, a soldier in Iraq, called his dad from overseas to boast about gunning down enemies in a firefight in 2003.
"He was on cloud nine," said his father, Willie Cole. "'Hey, I got a couple of them,' " he said. " 'I let loose.'"
Willie Cole -- a former military police officer who served in Panama when the United States deposed President Manuel Noriega in 1989 -- was shocked.
"It disturbed me, his reaction to the loss of life," said Willie Cole, a caterer in the south suburbs. "I said, 'Regardless of what you're over there for, the other guy is fighting for something, too. You have to respect that.'"
But Pierre Cole tuned out his dad.
"He commented to me, 'Fuck it. I'm glad it's him, not me.'"
Now Pierre Cole, 22, is back from Iraq and facing a murder charge in Cook County Criminal Court for allegedly killing a West Side store owner, In Taik Jung, during a botched robbery Oct. 14.
Pierre Cole was on leave from Iraq. His father and others wonder if Cole's military experience played a role in the slaying.
Seven other soldiers from the same base -- Fort Riley, Kan. -- also have been charged with murder, for other killings, since August.
http://www.rense.com/general63/GIS.HTM
[Illegal immigration and brain parasites. I don’t watch the evening news, but I bet this wasn’t on it. Yet another chapter in the so-called “War on Terror”. This is the part where we check people’s shoes at the airport, but if they want to comeinto the country on foot they can bring in anything they can drag, carry, or smuggle.]
The poorest illegal alien migrants set up shantytowns on the U.S. side of the border. They feature no sanitation of any kind. No toilets. No showers. No clean water. Disease proliferates unchecked. In 1985, 185,000 Mexican and South Americans inhabited those shantytowns. By 1995, they numbered 500,000. By 2000, according to the New York Times, they totaled one million. At the current rate of growth, they will grow to 20 million in the next 16 years. As they expand and move into the United States, they carry many diseases including the parasite Taenia solium.
...
As one who visited the colonias in El Paso last year and filmed them, I can tell you the New York Times reporter could not adequately describe the kind of horrible, pathetic, disease ridden misery I witnessed. It is so grossly offensive; you want to vomit not only physically but also emotionally. This is another aspect of Third World Momentum stampeding into our country a breakneck speed. It's happening because most Americans think they are safe, think their Congressmen and Senators are protecting them. They would be deadly incorrect!
The tapeworm had previously been eradicated in U.S. pork via animal husbandry techniques. However, it's rampant in the Third World. Since that world is immigrating into America at an unprecedented rate of speed, the parasite is moving along with them and passed among people. One of the greatest tragedies of losing our sovereignty will be the passage of the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement.
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The recent cause for alarm stemmed from the death of a 17-year-old girl, who, as an infant, had immigrated with her parents from Mexico to Oregon. She complained of severe headaches. A CT scan revealed the parasite in her brain tissue. She died. An examination showed the tapeworm had grown in her brain to a point where it killed her.
http://www.rense.com/general63/third.htm
Following are examples of freedoms which President Bush and his fellow Republicans in Congress have already expunged (as reported by the Associated Press):
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigations.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records questions.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
http://www.rense.com/general63/gov.htm
Mount St. Helens has shown an upswing in volcanic activity over the past two days, U.S. volcano scientists reported.
Small collapses of hot rock from the south end of the lava dome -- which is growing at a rate of about 15 feet per day -- have sent several ash clouds upward and over the rim of the mile-wide crater, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientists at Johnston Ridge Observatory, about five miles northeast of the volcano
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050223-015306-6230r
[It’s no wonder OJ got off. They didn’t even have video of him killing his wife.]
A US marine, captured on film killing a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during November's assault on Fallujah, will not be formally charged due to lack of evidence.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050224/pl_afp/usiraqfallujah&cid=1521&ncid=1480
[Get ready to batten down those hatches.]
South Korea's decision to sell most of its U.S. government bonds triggered similar moves in East Asia and hammered the U.S. currency's value.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050222-101328-6410r.htm
Analysts, however, pointed to the dollar's inability recently to extend that rally despite positive economic and corporate data, and highlighted the fact that many of the US's economic problems had not disappeared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4287413.stm
[Operation: Save Wall Street, day 87]
Under the president's proposal, when you retired you would not be able to start spending the money in your private account until after you bought an annuity, a financial contract in which you hand over a lump-sum payment and, in return, get a monthly stream of income for life. The upside of buying such an annuity would be that you'd be protected against outliving all of your money. The downside is that even if you died immediately after retirement, the most your heirs would inherit would be the amount that remained in your private account after you had paid for the mandatory annuity. (If you lived longer, of course, you might well need to spend the remainder to supplement the annuity's low monthly payout. )
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23wed1.html?ex=1109826000&en=cc4d6d8a8363c5e7&ei=5070
[Maybe they can buy a new law that 145 thousand people isn’t enough for a class action lawsuit.]
The recent security breach at data aggregator ChoicePoint that exposed at least 145,000 consumers to identity theft and renewed a call for regulation of the data industry will likely leave victims of the breach twice bitten -- first from the identity theft itself and second from thwarted attempts to recover damages for their losses if they decide to seek recourse.
Legal experts say that people who suffered losses as a result of the breach will find it difficult to get compensation from ChoicePoint for selling their personal data to con artists, even if the victims can prove that ChoicePoint was negligent in screening customers who purchased their data. That's because courts have been unwilling to penalize companies when victims of identity theft are not their direct customers.
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"There is a lot of political support behind consumer frustration in this area," said Charles Merrill, a New Jersey-based attorney who focuses on information technology cases. "I think that information security liability may be the next 'toxic tort' -- like asbestos. The time is right for it."
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66685,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
[How many times can I write “so-called ‘War on Terrorism’” in one day?]
The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the translation unit of the Bureau's Washington Field Office.
...Edmonds is suing the FBI, claiming she was fired for bringing to light these problems -- which have been identified by several inquiries as significant contributing factors to the success of the Sept. 11 plot.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050222-072936-1680r.htm
Billions and billions and billions of dollars have already been poured into responding to the tsunami but only one part of it ... can be in any way accounted for at this stage," Mr Wright said.
"Nobody to the best of my knowledge, really has the faintest idea what's actually been given or what it's all going to do."
http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,9353,12337209-1702,00.html
[I saw a letter from the uS Office of Personnel management lying around at work the other day. It made me wonder why they would be writing to a hospital so far away?
As to the draft, I hope I do not have to keep ointing out the 13th Ammendment to the Constitution says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Isn’t a draft involuntary servitude? ]
The US Army is beginning to face the same sort of recruiting problems that have already plagued the National Guard and Reserve, The Washington Post reported Monday. Since the Army's fiscal year began last October, it has only signed 18.4 percent of its target of 80,000 new recruits. That's less thanlast year's and well below the 25 percent target the Army had set for itself to meet by this time.
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0222/dailyUpdate.html
Several parts of Roeder’s Heinz Kerry article mirror pieces on the same topic by Reuters and Fox News.
Fox News: “Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1973, then got her library sciences master’s degree and worked as a school librarian until 1977, the year she married George W. Bush.”
Talon: “Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1973, then earned a master’s degree in library sciences and worked for the following four years as a school librarian. In 1977, she married George W. Bush.”
Reuters: “Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist and heiress to a Heinz ketchup fortune of more than $500 million.”
Talon: “Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist and heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune valued in excess of $500 million.”
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=112
posted by abu nakba at 2/23/2005 08:33:00 PM
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