The alleged incident
“So prepare for the coup of the century
Be prepared for the murkiest scam
Meticulous planning
Tenacity spanning
Decades of denial
Is simply why I’ll
Be king undisputed
Respected, saluted
And seen for the wonder I am”
Sound familiar? No, it’s not who you’re thinking of. That’s Scar, the evil lion from Walt Disney’s “The Lion King”.
====
In Andersen's lab, Rizzuto's goal is to take the technology they've perfected in animal studies to human clinical trials. "I've already met with our first paralyzed patient, and graduate student Hilary Glidden and I are now doing noninvasive studies to see how the brain reorganizes after paralysis," he says. If it does reorganize, he notes, all the technology that has been developed in non-paralyzed humans may not work. "This is why we think our approach may be better, because we already know that the primary motor area shows pathological reorganization and degeneration after paralysis. We think our area of the brain is going to reorganize less, if at all. After this we hope to implant paralyzed patients with electrodes so that they may better communicate with others and control their environment.
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12660.html
[Note, note- “There is even a provision for educational efforts to promote a sense of North American unity.”
I would like to personally apologize for foisting two of our jackass governor’s off on you.
But I would also like to know if you want anymore? We have several more of the same calibre down here, and we would be more than happy to send them along.]
Criticism of Manley's scheme is possible on many levels, but my chief criticism is that the authors simply do not understand that no country can make a binding deal of this nature with the United States. It is simply impossible. Yes, America's government might well sign an agreement, but the agreement would shortly prove worthless, except in just those portions with visceral appeal to Americans. This conclusion comes neither from prejudice nor mordant humor but from having lived half my life in each country and being a serious student of history.
The point of the scheme is to avoid the massive back-ups in trade and travel that occurred in the aftermath of 9/11 by creating what would be effectively a single border for the countries of North America. Canada and Mexico would give up their independent decision-making regarding circumstances of entry, including for refugees, an area of international affairs where Canada has been far more generous and humane than the United States in past decades. There is even provision for educational efforts to promote a sense of North American identity.
...
Former Governor Weld of Massachusetts, who also sat on the trilateral panel, called the proposal daring and spoke against those who would "hide their heads in the sand." Well, all I could think of is American border guards stationed alongside Canadians in places like Nova Scotia, seizing bananas from lunch bags. Governor Weld is oblivious to the real concerns of his country's northern neighbor which are more about Canadian heads being shoved into the sand than anyone hiding there. But then Weld is a conservative former governor from the same state that gave Canada the most obnoxious American Ambassador ever appointed, another former conservative governor, Mr. Cellucci, a man with no grace who has specialized in travelling around Canada telling Canadians what their policies should be. His recall wasn't requested surely only because the government already felt intense displeasure from Washington over its decision not to contribute troops to the killing fields of Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general63/nightmare.htm
The influenza epidemic that struck Haskell County that January was unusually virulent. Adults who were normally safe from morbidity of the flu suddenly succumbed to the virus-- often dying from pneumonia within days of its onset. By March, the rash of deaths had petered out and would have gone unnoticed if it hadn’t been for the intervention of a little conflict that spilled from the furthest reaches of the Austrian Empire to the rest of the earth: World War One.
http://www.midwesttechjournal.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=389
Anti-immigrant sentiment appears to be growing in the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday, and he urged U.S. officials to act quickly to control movements like the 950-member-strong Minuteman Project on the Mexico-Arizona border
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0316fox-ON.html
[Better wake up before they cut out cheerleading altogether.]
He said it's hypocritical for educators to teach sexual abstinence, while condoning all sorts of bumping and grinding on the sidelines.
Under the Houston Democrat's bill, the state education commissioner could reduce a school district's state funding if it knowingly permits sexy cheerleading.
http://www.local6.com/education/4297280/detail.html
I'm sure Mike's family hasn't seen that article, or they'd know the military is ramping up a unit called "Mortuary Affairs," adding a second unit for the first time since the Korean War. Now why do you suppose the US military needs more gravediggers?
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=5258
Someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to produce a document accusing journalist and activist William Arkin of serving as a spy for Saddam Hussein.
The Pentagon says the supposed Defense Intelligence Agency cable is a forgery. Arkin says it's "chilling" and is demanding an investigation. The NBC News military analyst says he became aware of the bogus document when a Washington Times reporter called about the spying allegation and sent him a copy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45614-2005Mar17.html?referrer=emailarticle
[Maybe the Italians really are leaving.
I remember I read this news interview way back when, somethig to do with Bosnia. It was with some English military type. He said something like, “It’s getting to the point where the Americans always provide all the hi-tech gadgets and we British provide the jolly good infantry.”
The “jolly good infantry” line always sticks in my head.
Hey England, where’s that jolly good infantry? Let’s have some more.]
Britain could send more troops to Iraq to fill the gap left by the proposed withdrawal of Italian soldiers, General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the Army, has said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=621577
[So now they are sending the terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia. In the unlikely event any of them are actually terrorists, they will now be conveniently located in the world financial headquarters of Muslim terrorism. Good thinking.]
What has been glimpsed in Afghanistan is a radical plan to replace Guantánamo Bay. When that detention centre was set up in January 2002, it was essentially an offshore gulag - beyond the reach of the US constitution and even the Geneva conventions. That all changed in July 2004. The US supreme court ruled that the federal court in Washington had jurisdiction to hear a case that would decide if the Cuban detentions were in violation of the US constitution, its laws or treaties. The military commissions, which had been intended to dispense justice to the prisoners, were in disarray, too. No prosecution cases had been prepared and no defence cases would be readily offered as the US National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers had described the commissions as unethical, a decision backed by a federal judge who ruled in January that they were "illegal". Guantánamo was suddenly bogged down in domestic lawsuits. It had lost its practicality. So a global prison network built up over the previous three years, beyond the reach of American and European judicial process, immediately began to pick up the slack. The process became explicit last week when the Pentagon announced that half of the 540 or so inmates at Guantánamo are to be transferred to prisons in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html
[If they institute a draft for women, this will be the story of every family in America. They already have a draft in Israel and this kind of thing happens all the time.]
Two years later, DeVante's optimism changed. On September 18, 2002, DeVante says she was raped by a senior officer at his house on base. She says she was told to meet him there to discuss a matter. But shortly after she arrived, she says, the officer forced himself on her. Now, with the help of Memphis lawyer Javier Bailey, she's suing the Army for $9 million.
"The first person I spoke with [after the alleged incident] was Master Sergeant Sharon Opeka in Public Affairs. She told me in order to save my career and to save my family any heartache, I shouldn't say anything about it," says DeVante. "They didn't help me in any manner. They didn't send me to counseling. They put me into another unit, and then they began to harass me."
http://memphisflyer.com/content.asp?ArticleID=20&ID=7058
Be prepared for the murkiest scam
Meticulous planning
Tenacity spanning
Decades of denial
Is simply why I’ll
Be king undisputed
Respected, saluted
And seen for the wonder I am”
Sound familiar? No, it’s not who you’re thinking of. That’s Scar, the evil lion from Walt Disney’s “The Lion King”.
====
In Andersen's lab, Rizzuto's goal is to take the technology they've perfected in animal studies to human clinical trials. "I've already met with our first paralyzed patient, and graduate student Hilary Glidden and I are now doing noninvasive studies to see how the brain reorganizes after paralysis," he says. If it does reorganize, he notes, all the technology that has been developed in non-paralyzed humans may not work. "This is why we think our approach may be better, because we already know that the primary motor area shows pathological reorganization and degeneration after paralysis. We think our area of the brain is going to reorganize less, if at all. After this we hope to implant paralyzed patients with electrodes so that they may better communicate with others and control their environment.
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12660.html
[Note, note- “There is even a provision for educational efforts to promote a sense of North American unity.”
I would like to personally apologize for foisting two of our jackass governor’s off on you.
But I would also like to know if you want anymore? We have several more of the same calibre down here, and we would be more than happy to send them along.]
Criticism of Manley's scheme is possible on many levels, but my chief criticism is that the authors simply do not understand that no country can make a binding deal of this nature with the United States. It is simply impossible. Yes, America's government might well sign an agreement, but the agreement would shortly prove worthless, except in just those portions with visceral appeal to Americans. This conclusion comes neither from prejudice nor mordant humor but from having lived half my life in each country and being a serious student of history.
The point of the scheme is to avoid the massive back-ups in trade and travel that occurred in the aftermath of 9/11 by creating what would be effectively a single border for the countries of North America. Canada and Mexico would give up their independent decision-making regarding circumstances of entry, including for refugees, an area of international affairs where Canada has been far more generous and humane than the United States in past decades. There is even provision for educational efforts to promote a sense of North American identity.
...
Former Governor Weld of Massachusetts, who also sat on the trilateral panel, called the proposal daring and spoke against those who would "hide their heads in the sand." Well, all I could think of is American border guards stationed alongside Canadians in places like Nova Scotia, seizing bananas from lunch bags. Governor Weld is oblivious to the real concerns of his country's northern neighbor which are more about Canadian heads being shoved into the sand than anyone hiding there. But then Weld is a conservative former governor from the same state that gave Canada the most obnoxious American Ambassador ever appointed, another former conservative governor, Mr. Cellucci, a man with no grace who has specialized in travelling around Canada telling Canadians what their policies should be. His recall wasn't requested surely only because the government already felt intense displeasure from Washington over its decision not to contribute troops to the killing fields of Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general63/nightmare.htm
The influenza epidemic that struck Haskell County that January was unusually virulent. Adults who were normally safe from morbidity of the flu suddenly succumbed to the virus-- often dying from pneumonia within days of its onset. By March, the rash of deaths had petered out and would have gone unnoticed if it hadn’t been for the intervention of a little conflict that spilled from the furthest reaches of the Austrian Empire to the rest of the earth: World War One.
http://www.midwesttechjournal.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=389
Anti-immigrant sentiment appears to be growing in the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday, and he urged U.S. officials to act quickly to control movements like the 950-member-strong Minuteman Project on the Mexico-Arizona border
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0316fox-ON.html
[Better wake up before they cut out cheerleading altogether.]
He said it's hypocritical for educators to teach sexual abstinence, while condoning all sorts of bumping and grinding on the sidelines.
Under the Houston Democrat's bill, the state education commissioner could reduce a school district's state funding if it knowingly permits sexy cheerleading.
http://www.local6.com/education/4297280/detail.html
I'm sure Mike's family hasn't seen that article, or they'd know the military is ramping up a unit called "Mortuary Affairs," adding a second unit for the first time since the Korean War. Now why do you suppose the US military needs more gravediggers?
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=5258
Someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to produce a document accusing journalist and activist William Arkin of serving as a spy for Saddam Hussein.
The Pentagon says the supposed Defense Intelligence Agency cable is a forgery. Arkin says it's "chilling" and is demanding an investigation. The NBC News military analyst says he became aware of the bogus document when a Washington Times reporter called about the spying allegation and sent him a copy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45614-2005Mar17.html?referrer=emailarticle
[Maybe the Italians really are leaving.
I remember I read this news interview way back when, somethig to do with Bosnia. It was with some English military type. He said something like, “It’s getting to the point where the Americans always provide all the hi-tech gadgets and we British provide the jolly good infantry.”
The “jolly good infantry” line always sticks in my head.
Hey England, where’s that jolly good infantry? Let’s have some more.]
Britain could send more troops to Iraq to fill the gap left by the proposed withdrawal of Italian soldiers, General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the Army, has said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=621577
[So now they are sending the terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia. In the unlikely event any of them are actually terrorists, they will now be conveniently located in the world financial headquarters of Muslim terrorism. Good thinking.]
What has been glimpsed in Afghanistan is a radical plan to replace Guantánamo Bay. When that detention centre was set up in January 2002, it was essentially an offshore gulag - beyond the reach of the US constitution and even the Geneva conventions. That all changed in July 2004. The US supreme court ruled that the federal court in Washington had jurisdiction to hear a case that would decide if the Cuban detentions were in violation of the US constitution, its laws or treaties. The military commissions, which had been intended to dispense justice to the prisoners, were in disarray, too. No prosecution cases had been prepared and no defence cases would be readily offered as the US National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers had described the commissions as unethical, a decision backed by a federal judge who ruled in January that they were "illegal". Guantánamo was suddenly bogged down in domestic lawsuits. It had lost its practicality. So a global prison network built up over the previous three years, beyond the reach of American and European judicial process, immediately began to pick up the slack. The process became explicit last week when the Pentagon announced that half of the 540 or so inmates at Guantánamo are to be transferred to prisons in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html
[If they institute a draft for women, this will be the story of every family in America. They already have a draft in Israel and this kind of thing happens all the time.]
Two years later, DeVante's optimism changed. On September 18, 2002, DeVante says she was raped by a senior officer at his house on base. She says she was told to meet him there to discuss a matter. But shortly after she arrived, she says, the officer forced himself on her. Now, with the help of Memphis lawyer Javier Bailey, she's suing the Army for $9 million.
"The first person I spoke with [after the alleged incident] was Master Sergeant Sharon Opeka in Public Affairs. She told me in order to save my career and to save my family any heartache, I shouldn't say anything about it," says DeVante. "They didn't help me in any manner. They didn't send me to counseling. They put me into another unit, and then they began to harass me."
http://memphisflyer.com/content.asp?ArticleID=20&ID=7058
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