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[This is torture plain and simple. Not only that, what is the hospital doing mixed up in the middle of it? Not only that I will let you in on a little secret. The guy had to urinate eventually. No one can retain their urine forever. The only reason they were forcibly trying to cathterize him and then giving him electric shocks was because they didn’t want to wait around, or else possibly they just wanted to torture him. But let’s give them the benefit of a doubt and suppose they were just impatient or somehow forgot that people must eliminate their waste products eventually whether they want to or not.]
A police officer twice used a Taser stun device on a drug suspect who was restrained to a hospital bed because the man refused to give a urine sample to medical staff, authorities said.
Antonio Wheeler, 18, was arrested Friday on a drug charge and taken to an emergency room after telling officers he had consumed cocaine, police said.
Because Wheeler said he had used the drugs, Florida Hospital officials wanted a urine sample. A police affidavit said Wheeler wouldn't provide a sample on his own, so workers tried to catheterize him to get one.
The police document said Wheeler was handcuffed to a hospital bed and then secured with leather straps after he refused to urinate in a cup. When medical staff tried to insert a catheter to get the sample, Wheeler refused and began thrashing around, the affidavit said.
At one point, police officer Peter Linnenkamp reported, he jumped on the bed with his knees on Wheeler's chest to restrain him. When Wheeler still refused to let the catheter be inserted, Linnenkamp said he twice used his Taser, which sends 50,000 volts into a target.
"After the second shock (Wheeler) stated he would urinate and calmed down enough to be given the portable urinal," Linnenkamp wrote.
At the request of Police Chief Michael McCoy, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the incident.
Linnenkamp, who has more than 18 years on the force, has no history of disciplinary problems, said Sgt. Barbara Jones, a department spokeswoman.
He has been relieved pending the investigation's outcome. Jones said officers in such suspensions usually are paid.
In a Tuesday interview at the Orange County jail, Wheeler acknowledged that he aggressively resisted efforts to insert the catheter because he was scared it would hurt. He said the police officer told him the catheter would be necessary if he wouldn't or couldn't urinate on his own.
"I feel I was basically raped," Wheeler said.
Said Amnesty International USA spokesman Edward Jackson: "If this had taken place in China, it would be an egregious violation of human rights, and the public would be outraged.
"I hope that they don't allow the fact that it happened on U.S. soil deter from the fact that this may very well be a case of torture."
Florida Hospital spokeswoman Melanie Trivento said in a statement Wednesday that hospital officials wouldn't be able to comment on the case until they have thoroughly reviewed it.
"This is a very unusual situation and we are examining all of the circumstances surrounding the incident," the statement said.
Earlier, another hospital spokeswoman, Samantha O'Lenick, said she could not speak specifically about the Wheeler case but said hospital protocol calls for urine samples whenever patients say they have taken drugs or alcohol.
Wheeler was being held on $7,500 bail on charges including possession of cocaine with intent to sell, escape and resisting without violence.
http://www.rense.com/general63/maninhospitalbedtasered.htm
Runaway white commercial farmers from Zimbabwe who have settled in Zambia have managed to record an all-time high bumper harvest of tobacco in Zambia.
According to the Tobacco Association of Zambia's executive director, Jewette Masinja, Zambia is set to harvest more than 52 million kilogrammes of the golden leaf, as compared to last year's national harvest of 14.3 million kilogrammes.
In an interview with Daily News Online yesterday, Masinja said Zambia was set to earn US$83 million from the sale of the crop, up from US$26 million which it earned last year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/displacedfarmersgive.htm
Crude oil futures prices rose above $55 a barrel Wednesday, anchored by a weak dollar, strong demand and jitters ahead of next week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Analysts said the rally is also speculative in nature, though they conceded that prices were likely to remain high so long as the global economy continues to grow.
"There is no shortage anywhere," said James Cordier, president of Liberty Trading Group in St. Petersburg, Fla.
http://www.rense.com/general63/barrel.htm
First it was Los Angeles, then it was Chicago. And now it's the borough of Queens in New York City.
The nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has been forcibly thrown out of the nation's three largest cities due to its low wages, bad benefits and anti-worker policies.
The latest ejection came Feb. 23, when the Vornado Realty Trust decided to develop a large shopping complex in the borough --but without a 132,000-square-foot Wal-Mart as its centerpiece.
Wal-Mart denied it had a deal with Vornado, but it was con-tradicted by community leaders and the chair of the New York City Council's Land Use Committee, which must approve such deals.
"We welcome Vornado's decision that Wal-Mart will not be part of its development in Queens," said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, part of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
UFCW is leading a nationwide drive to unionize Wal-Mart--and to publicize its low wages, bad benefits, labor law-breaking and discrimination on the job.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2016&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
When they first saw it walking toward a tree line near their farm in Tecumseh Township on the morning of Feb. 27, Jeff and Tracy Hedrick thought the large tan animal was a dog. When it turned around, they realized it was a big cat.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/cougar9e_20050309.htm
FBI agents and police are conducting a criminal investigation into why drops of potentially toxic liquid mercury were found Monday in the Stryker Building on the rolling desk chairs about to be used by City Council
http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news1_030905mar09,0,1214966.story?coll=va-news
[See now we know the government over there doesn’t really want to let these people go. So what will happen? I bet you as soon as these guys are out walking around the government will just toss a hand greande into a sewer near one of their houses and then come crying “terrorism! terrorism?” and try to make out how as soon as these guys were released they were right back at their terroristical ways and throw them back in jail.]
A terror suspect held without charge since 2001 has been freed on bail, with eight more suspects due to be released.
The Special Immigration Appeal Commission (Siac) said the Algerian, known only as 'A', was being freed on condition he wears an electronic tag.
Siac said similar bail was granted "in principle" to eight further detainees, and a tenth, 'G', under house arrest, was to have his conditions relaxed.
The 10 were held under anti-terror laws which ministers are trying to replace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4335367.stm
The dollar extended its slide against most currencies on Thursday on concerns over global central bank reserve diversification, a widening U.S. trade deficit and this week's dive in bond prices.
Having slumped to multi-month lows against its major counterparts on Wednesday, the dollar suffered another blow on Thursday after Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told parliament that, generally speaking, diversity in foreign exchange reserves was a good thing.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7869060
[Why would the so-called “Anti-Defamation League” be promoting homosexuality? What does that have to do with supposedly combatting anti-semitism?]
After the video, first-graders and kindergartners will do an exercise from the "We are Family" teacher's guide, developed by the Anti-Defamation League.
A representative from the Anti-Defamation League said the controversy over the DVD is overshadowing the positive message of the video.
"The purpose is to provide materials and resources for kindergarten, first grade that really promote diversity and respect," said Beth Yohe with the Anti-Defamation League.
But the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family does not agree. It's reviewing the video right now and say they are concerned the DVD and its teachers' guide is really a way to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.
In January, the Focus on the Family vice-president Dr. Bill Maier was quoted as saying "To have Big Bird and Cookie Monster and Elmo tied to an effort to propagandize kids in the public schools about homosexuality, I think should concern all parents
Focus on the Family issued a statement Thursday, saying, "We were not surprised to see no mention of homosexuality in the teachers' guide we reviewed, even though media who saw an earlier draft of the document noted that it contained several references to same-sex parents.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/4271503/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/march2005/100305sweatinginairport.htm
[Is this a typo? A man-made flu from 1933, and it is turning up in pigs now?]
Samples taken from South Korean pigs contain genes from a human flu virus created by scientists in 1933, and one American flu researcher says the sequences could represent a dangerous situation for humans.
The World Health Organization, which monitors the worldwide spread of flu, is remaining mum until researchers finish an investigation of the pig samples.
...
Henry Niman, founder of Recombinomics and a researcher who has sleuthed the spread of bird flu and its changing genetic makeup for two years, says the investigation is moving too slowly. If pigs in Korea are carrying a man-made human flu, authorities should take action immediately to prevent it from spreading.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66824,00.html?tw=wn_4techhead
[This is not “misappropriation”. This how these companies stay in business. Someone gives them money and then they sell you out like a jail house stool pidgeon. They don’t care who the money comes from, if there is a problem from it it goes on your head, not theirs.]
Two new instances of data theft were revealed this week, including one at Seisint, a competitor of ChoicePoint, which has been at the center of identity theft and data security in recent weeks.
Information on 32,000 individuals from Seisint's database apparently was accessed through misappropriation of legitimate customer identifications and passwords, the company said yesterday. Seisint provides background check data to businesses, government and law enforcement.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=32120
[This would seem to indicate the white supremacist they tried to pin these murdes on actually had nothing to do with it.]
A man who committed suicide after a traffic stop left a note and other evidence indicating he killed the husband and mother of a federal judge in Chicago, but the case is not closed, police said on Thursday.
There is "plenty of information out there pointing to this individual as the offender," Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline told a news conference. The note the man left in his van indicated he was in the judge's home on the day of the Feb. 28 killings and he was among a number of people due to be questioned in the case, he added.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ssui.htm
[A kibbutz is a kind of Israeli commune in case do not know.]
Israeli company Palsen Sasa has won a contract to armour US military vehicles in Iraq, company sources said Tuesday.
Under the terms of the contract, the Sasa kibbutz company in the northern Galilee region will provide armour for 2,000 trucks and other vehicles. It will supply kits that can be assembled on site by US troops serving in Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general63/weap.htm
[I remember when I was younger I think I got into an argument with someone about whether it was better to have a peaceful society or always be armed and ready for war or something, I can’t quite recall what it was about. But I remember saying as an example it would be economically and just generally impractical to have civilian jetliners fooling around with aerial dogfights or trying to dodge missiles.
You can’t run a volume, commercial business under those kinds of conditions because no one wants to be banging around in a crowded passenger compartment while the captain is blasting away with his Gatling gun or whatever.
I still think that is true, but apparently the USG is determined to put my argument to the test.
I think it would be cheaper for us for the government to just admit they can’t prevent people from having the desire and ability to shoot missiles at civilian jets in this country. Maybe they could explain how they lost 100 surface to air missiles in Central America for eaxmple. Or how they lost all those surface to air missiles in Afghanistan.
I don’t think the solution is for the government to require jets to have anti-missile devices on-board, because where did the bad guys get the missiles from? Our government. What we need is a requirement that the people in the government have anti-stupidity devices in board.]
"We should have one level of security to protect the American people," Safley said. "If we're screening passengers, we certainly need to screen employees who have access to aircraft and baggage. And not screening cargo on all-cargo carriers invites disaster."
The Department of Homeland Security is studying how it might be able to adapt anti-missile technology, which is common on military aircraft, for use on U.S. commercial airliners to thwart shoulder-fired rocket attacks by al Qaeda or others.
http://www.rense.com/general63/avvv.htm
[Now for stolen elections no one has even a halfway around the clock vigil. For horrible mass murder on the public dime no one comes out at all. But for these cars people will stage a 23 day sit-in.
And yet GM is claiming no one wants these cars and they aren’t ever going to mass produce them. This is clear evidence that they don’t want them to succeed. Obviously these customers place more value in these electric cars than they do in say, democracy, for example, or the comfort of their own homes. How many people stage sit-ins for any product anywhere under any circumstances?
Even deathly ill people who need treatment rarely stage sit-ins to get care.
By the way I have seen these cars and they are pretty nice.]
The morning is too chilly for her flirty purple skirt and pink top, so former "Baywatch" actress Alexandra Paul wraps her bare legs in a fleece blanket and settles down for a long sidewalk vigil in Burbank, Calif. Passersby on scooters toot their horns, and a security guard smiles and waves as he walks by. Both he and the actress are there for the same reason: to keep an eye on a parking lot full of colorful, two-door cars behind a nondescript suburban office building.
Those cars are rarities, the last surviving batch of rechargeable electric coupes built by General Motors Corp. in the late 1990s. Paul and a band of homemakers, people with desk jobs, engineers, Hollywood activists and car enthusiasts are 23 days into a round-the-clock vigil aimed at keeping GM from destroying the cars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21991-2005Mar9?language=printer
[This is a major discovery, I didn’t think the brain did anything at all.]
Scientists say they may have discovered a previously unknown form of diabetes, after finding the brain produces insulin as well as the pancreas.
Unlike other types of diabetes, the form - dubbed type 3 by the US Brown Medical School team - is not thought to affect blood sugar.
http://www.rense.com/general63/studysuggesttype3.htm
[This is what “decadent” is really all about.]
This is pay per view slaughter," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States. "It's almost beyond what anyone could imagine."
SB 1028 would prohibit any computer-based hunting sites from operating in the state. It would also technically ban Californians from engaging in the practice, although there is no practical way to enforce that provision.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/10/MNGHOBN6LT1.DTL
Skinner: McDonald's Eyes Unusual Outsourcing Strategy
Sprechen Sie North Dakota? McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) on Thursday said it will join the ranks of such firms as IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Maytag (nyse: MYG - news - people ), and Perot Systems (nyse: PER - news - people ), and seek better service through outsourcing. But the service to be tendered from faraway is an unlikely one: Drive-thrus. Earth's No. 1 restaurant chain said it is weighing the use of faraway call centers to take diners' orders, in a drive to upgrade drive-thru service. McDonald's Chief Executive Jim Skinner spoke to analysts at the Bear Stearns Retail, Restaurants & Apparel Conference in New York, where Reuters quoted the CEO as saying, "If you're in L.A. ...and you hear a person with a North Dakota accent taking your order, you'll know what we're up to." Call center workers boasting "very strong communication skills" could aid in honing the accuracy of order-taking, thus reducing the time it takes patrons to complete the course of the drive-thrus, the eatery said.
http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/03/10/0310autofacescan10.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
[It remains to be seen if Gunderson even really said this, it is interesting though.]
Gunderson said, "I think Jeff Gannon is Johnny Gosch, and I think he planned this to get even with them for screwing up his life from age 12 on." Gunderson suspects Gannon's planned book, as reported by the Russian press, "will be truthful and he will expose these people."
http://www.total411.info/2005/03/ex-fbi-gunderson-gannon-is-gosch.html
[The people in DC don’t care about your misfortunes or disasters. You better come through with the dough or they’ll fix you good.]
The bill would make it much harder for families in distress to write off their debts and make a fresh start. Instead, many debtors would find themselves on an endless treadmill of payments.
The credit card companies say this is needed because people have been abusing the bankruptcy law, borrowing irresponsibly and walking away from debts. The facts say otherwise.
A vast majority of personal bankruptcies in the United States are the result of severe misfortune. One recent study found that more than half of bankruptcies are the result of medical emergencies. The rest are overwhelmingly the result either of job loss or of divorce.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/opinion/08krugman.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fPaul%20Krugman&oref=login
[There is no effort to bring them in at night, it is just a coincidence that that is what happens in every case.
I should have called this blog “coincidence”.]
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Operation Truth, an advocacy group for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, said the nighttime-only arrivals of wounded, along with the restrictions on coffin photos and other P.R. tactics, are designed to hide from the public the daily flow of wounded and dead. "They do it so nobody sees [the wounded]," Rieckhoff said. "In their mind-set, this is going to demoralize the American people. The overall cost of this war has been … continuously hidden throughout. As the costs get higher, their efforts to conceal those costs also increase."
...
Capt. Herbert McConnell, a spokesman for Andrews Air Force Base, said that while it's true the flights of wounded arrive only at night, the schedule is not designed to minimize images of wounded soldiers. "There is no conspiracy, I can tell you that. I am absolutely sure there is no effort to bring them in under the darkness of night," McConnell said. "There is nothing shady going on here.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon55.html
[More on Israel bank scandal.]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3056061,00.html
he United States has withdrawn from an international agreement that guarantees jailed foreigners the right to talk to consular officers, a protocol that has been used by opponents of capital punishment, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7859607
[The point of this “news” article is just to kepp the Al-Qaeda brand in the public mind. Like when a certain bleach company puts on an info-mercial even though they have nothing new to offer. It is just to remind people bleach is out there and you shoudl expect to encounter it. The same with Al Qaeda here. Don’t forget they exist.]
Crowe said that at some point the FBI "thought the threat had probably or had possibly been overstated, and then they started to question their sources ... ."
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/03/09/al_qaeda_may_have_targeted_oscar_winner_crowe_1110369232/a
A police officer twice used a Taser stun device on a drug suspect who was restrained to a hospital bed because the man refused to give a urine sample to medical staff, authorities said.
Antonio Wheeler, 18, was arrested Friday on a drug charge and taken to an emergency room after telling officers he had consumed cocaine, police said.
Because Wheeler said he had used the drugs, Florida Hospital officials wanted a urine sample. A police affidavit said Wheeler wouldn't provide a sample on his own, so workers tried to catheterize him to get one.
The police document said Wheeler was handcuffed to a hospital bed and then secured with leather straps after he refused to urinate in a cup. When medical staff tried to insert a catheter to get the sample, Wheeler refused and began thrashing around, the affidavit said.
At one point, police officer Peter Linnenkamp reported, he jumped on the bed with his knees on Wheeler's chest to restrain him. When Wheeler still refused to let the catheter be inserted, Linnenkamp said he twice used his Taser, which sends 50,000 volts into a target.
"After the second shock (Wheeler) stated he would urinate and calmed down enough to be given the portable urinal," Linnenkamp wrote.
At the request of Police Chief Michael McCoy, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the incident.
Linnenkamp, who has more than 18 years on the force, has no history of disciplinary problems, said Sgt. Barbara Jones, a department spokeswoman.
He has been relieved pending the investigation's outcome. Jones said officers in such suspensions usually are paid.
In a Tuesday interview at the Orange County jail, Wheeler acknowledged that he aggressively resisted efforts to insert the catheter because he was scared it would hurt. He said the police officer told him the catheter would be necessary if he wouldn't or couldn't urinate on his own.
"I feel I was basically raped," Wheeler said.
Said Amnesty International USA spokesman Edward Jackson: "If this had taken place in China, it would be an egregious violation of human rights, and the public would be outraged.
"I hope that they don't allow the fact that it happened on U.S. soil deter from the fact that this may very well be a case of torture."
Florida Hospital spokeswoman Melanie Trivento said in a statement Wednesday that hospital officials wouldn't be able to comment on the case until they have thoroughly reviewed it.
"This is a very unusual situation and we are examining all of the circumstances surrounding the incident," the statement said.
Earlier, another hospital spokeswoman, Samantha O'Lenick, said she could not speak specifically about the Wheeler case but said hospital protocol calls for urine samples whenever patients say they have taken drugs or alcohol.
Wheeler was being held on $7,500 bail on charges including possession of cocaine with intent to sell, escape and resisting without violence.
http://www.rense.com/general63/maninhospitalbedtasered.htm
Runaway white commercial farmers from Zimbabwe who have settled in Zambia have managed to record an all-time high bumper harvest of tobacco in Zambia.
According to the Tobacco Association of Zambia's executive director, Jewette Masinja, Zambia is set to harvest more than 52 million kilogrammes of the golden leaf, as compared to last year's national harvest of 14.3 million kilogrammes.
In an interview with Daily News Online yesterday, Masinja said Zambia was set to earn US$83 million from the sale of the crop, up from US$26 million which it earned last year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/displacedfarmersgive.htm
Crude oil futures prices rose above $55 a barrel Wednesday, anchored by a weak dollar, strong demand and jitters ahead of next week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Analysts said the rally is also speculative in nature, though they conceded that prices were likely to remain high so long as the global economy continues to grow.
"There is no shortage anywhere," said James Cordier, president of Liberty Trading Group in St. Petersburg, Fla.
http://www.rense.com/general63/barrel.htm
First it was Los Angeles, then it was Chicago. And now it's the borough of Queens in New York City.
The nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has been forcibly thrown out of the nation's three largest cities due to its low wages, bad benefits and anti-worker policies.
The latest ejection came Feb. 23, when the Vornado Realty Trust decided to develop a large shopping complex in the borough --but without a 132,000-square-foot Wal-Mart as its centerpiece.
Wal-Mart denied it had a deal with Vornado, but it was con-tradicted by community leaders and the chair of the New York City Council's Land Use Committee, which must approve such deals.
"We welcome Vornado's decision that Wal-Mart will not be part of its development in Queens," said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, part of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
UFCW is leading a nationwide drive to unionize Wal-Mart--and to publicize its low wages, bad benefits, labor law-breaking and discrimination on the job.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2016&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
When they first saw it walking toward a tree line near their farm in Tecumseh Township on the morning of Feb. 27, Jeff and Tracy Hedrick thought the large tan animal was a dog. When it turned around, they realized it was a big cat.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/cougar9e_20050309.htm
FBI agents and police are conducting a criminal investigation into why drops of potentially toxic liquid mercury were found Monday in the Stryker Building on the rolling desk chairs about to be used by City Council
http://www.vagazette.com/news/va-news1_030905mar09,0,1214966.story?coll=va-news
[See now we know the government over there doesn’t really want to let these people go. So what will happen? I bet you as soon as these guys are out walking around the government will just toss a hand greande into a sewer near one of their houses and then come crying “terrorism! terrorism?” and try to make out how as soon as these guys were released they were right back at their terroristical ways and throw them back in jail.]
A terror suspect held without charge since 2001 has been freed on bail, with eight more suspects due to be released.
The Special Immigration Appeal Commission (Siac) said the Algerian, known only as 'A', was being freed on condition he wears an electronic tag.
Siac said similar bail was granted "in principle" to eight further detainees, and a tenth, 'G', under house arrest, was to have his conditions relaxed.
The 10 were held under anti-terror laws which ministers are trying to replace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4335367.stm
The dollar extended its slide against most currencies on Thursday on concerns over global central bank reserve diversification, a widening U.S. trade deficit and this week's dive in bond prices.
Having slumped to multi-month lows against its major counterparts on Wednesday, the dollar suffered another blow on Thursday after Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told parliament that, generally speaking, diversity in foreign exchange reserves was a good thing.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7869060
[Why would the so-called “Anti-Defamation League” be promoting homosexuality? What does that have to do with supposedly combatting anti-semitism?]
After the video, first-graders and kindergartners will do an exercise from the "We are Family" teacher's guide, developed by the Anti-Defamation League.
A representative from the Anti-Defamation League said the controversy over the DVD is overshadowing the positive message of the video.
"The purpose is to provide materials and resources for kindergarten, first grade that really promote diversity and respect," said Beth Yohe with the Anti-Defamation League.
But the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family does not agree. It's reviewing the video right now and say they are concerned the DVD and its teachers' guide is really a way to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.
In January, the Focus on the Family vice-president Dr. Bill Maier was quoted as saying "To have Big Bird and Cookie Monster and Elmo tied to an effort to propagandize kids in the public schools about homosexuality, I think should concern all parents
Focus on the Family issued a statement Thursday, saying, "We were not surprised to see no mention of homosexuality in the teachers' guide we reviewed, even though media who saw an earlier draft of the document noted that it contained several references to same-sex parents.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/4271503/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/march2005/100305sweatinginairport.htm
[Is this a typo? A man-made flu from 1933, and it is turning up in pigs now?]
Samples taken from South Korean pigs contain genes from a human flu virus created by scientists in 1933, and one American flu researcher says the sequences could represent a dangerous situation for humans.
The World Health Organization, which monitors the worldwide spread of flu, is remaining mum until researchers finish an investigation of the pig samples.
...
Henry Niman, founder of Recombinomics and a researcher who has sleuthed the spread of bird flu and its changing genetic makeup for two years, says the investigation is moving too slowly. If pigs in Korea are carrying a man-made human flu, authorities should take action immediately to prevent it from spreading.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66824,00.html?tw=wn_4techhead
[This is not “misappropriation”. This how these companies stay in business. Someone gives them money and then they sell you out like a jail house stool pidgeon. They don’t care who the money comes from, if there is a problem from it it goes on your head, not theirs.]
Two new instances of data theft were revealed this week, including one at Seisint, a competitor of ChoicePoint, which has been at the center of identity theft and data security in recent weeks.
Information on 32,000 individuals from Seisint's database apparently was accessed through misappropriation of legitimate customer identifications and passwords, the company said yesterday. Seisint provides background check data to businesses, government and law enforcement.
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=32120
[This would seem to indicate the white supremacist they tried to pin these murdes on actually had nothing to do with it.]
A man who committed suicide after a traffic stop left a note and other evidence indicating he killed the husband and mother of a federal judge in Chicago, but the case is not closed, police said on Thursday.
There is "plenty of information out there pointing to this individual as the offender," Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline told a news conference. The note the man left in his van indicated he was in the judge's home on the day of the Feb. 28 killings and he was among a number of people due to be questioned in the case, he added.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ssui.htm
[A kibbutz is a kind of Israeli commune in case do not know.]
Israeli company Palsen Sasa has won a contract to armour US military vehicles in Iraq, company sources said Tuesday.
Under the terms of the contract, the Sasa kibbutz company in the northern Galilee region will provide armour for 2,000 trucks and other vehicles. It will supply kits that can be assembled on site by US troops serving in Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general63/weap.htm
[I remember when I was younger I think I got into an argument with someone about whether it was better to have a peaceful society or always be armed and ready for war or something, I can’t quite recall what it was about. But I remember saying as an example it would be economically and just generally impractical to have civilian jetliners fooling around with aerial dogfights or trying to dodge missiles.
You can’t run a volume, commercial business under those kinds of conditions because no one wants to be banging around in a crowded passenger compartment while the captain is blasting away with his Gatling gun or whatever.
I still think that is true, but apparently the USG is determined to put my argument to the test.
I think it would be cheaper for us for the government to just admit they can’t prevent people from having the desire and ability to shoot missiles at civilian jets in this country. Maybe they could explain how they lost 100 surface to air missiles in Central America for eaxmple. Or how they lost all those surface to air missiles in Afghanistan.
I don’t think the solution is for the government to require jets to have anti-missile devices on-board, because where did the bad guys get the missiles from? Our government. What we need is a requirement that the people in the government have anti-stupidity devices in board.]
"We should have one level of security to protect the American people," Safley said. "If we're screening passengers, we certainly need to screen employees who have access to aircraft and baggage. And not screening cargo on all-cargo carriers invites disaster."
The Department of Homeland Security is studying how it might be able to adapt anti-missile technology, which is common on military aircraft, for use on U.S. commercial airliners to thwart shoulder-fired rocket attacks by al Qaeda or others.
http://www.rense.com/general63/avvv.htm
[Now for stolen elections no one has even a halfway around the clock vigil. For horrible mass murder on the public dime no one comes out at all. But for these cars people will stage a 23 day sit-in.
And yet GM is claiming no one wants these cars and they aren’t ever going to mass produce them. This is clear evidence that they don’t want them to succeed. Obviously these customers place more value in these electric cars than they do in say, democracy, for example, or the comfort of their own homes. How many people stage sit-ins for any product anywhere under any circumstances?
Even deathly ill people who need treatment rarely stage sit-ins to get care.
By the way I have seen these cars and they are pretty nice.]
The morning is too chilly for her flirty purple skirt and pink top, so former "Baywatch" actress Alexandra Paul wraps her bare legs in a fleece blanket and settles down for a long sidewalk vigil in Burbank, Calif. Passersby on scooters toot their horns, and a security guard smiles and waves as he walks by. Both he and the actress are there for the same reason: to keep an eye on a parking lot full of colorful, two-door cars behind a nondescript suburban office building.
Those cars are rarities, the last surviving batch of rechargeable electric coupes built by General Motors Corp. in the late 1990s. Paul and a band of homemakers, people with desk jobs, engineers, Hollywood activists and car enthusiasts are 23 days into a round-the-clock vigil aimed at keeping GM from destroying the cars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21991-2005Mar9?language=printer
[This is a major discovery, I didn’t think the brain did anything at all.]
Scientists say they may have discovered a previously unknown form of diabetes, after finding the brain produces insulin as well as the pancreas.
Unlike other types of diabetes, the form - dubbed type 3 by the US Brown Medical School team - is not thought to affect blood sugar.
http://www.rense.com/general63/studysuggesttype3.htm
[This is what “decadent” is really all about.]
This is pay per view slaughter," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States. "It's almost beyond what anyone could imagine."
SB 1028 would prohibit any computer-based hunting sites from operating in the state. It would also technically ban Californians from engaging in the practice, although there is no practical way to enforce that provision.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/10/MNGHOBN6LT1.DTL
Skinner: McDonald's Eyes Unusual Outsourcing Strategy
Sprechen Sie North Dakota? McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) on Thursday said it will join the ranks of such firms as IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Maytag (nyse: MYG - news - people ), and Perot Systems (nyse: PER - news - people ), and seek better service through outsourcing. But the service to be tendered from faraway is an unlikely one: Drive-thrus. Earth's No. 1 restaurant chain said it is weighing the use of faraway call centers to take diners' orders, in a drive to upgrade drive-thru service. McDonald's Chief Executive Jim Skinner spoke to analysts at the Bear Stearns Retail, Restaurants & Apparel Conference in New York, where Reuters quoted the CEO as saying, "If you're in L.A. ...and you hear a person with a North Dakota accent taking your order, you'll know what we're up to." Call center workers boasting "very strong communication skills" could aid in honing the accuracy of order-taking, thus reducing the time it takes patrons to complete the course of the drive-thrus, the eatery said.
http://www.forbes.com/facesinthenews/2005/03/10/0310autofacescan10.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
[It remains to be seen if Gunderson even really said this, it is interesting though.]
Gunderson said, "I think Jeff Gannon is Johnny Gosch, and I think he planned this to get even with them for screwing up his life from age 12 on." Gunderson suspects Gannon's planned book, as reported by the Russian press, "will be truthful and he will expose these people."
http://www.total411.info/2005/03/ex-fbi-gunderson-gannon-is-gosch.html
[The people in DC don’t care about your misfortunes or disasters. You better come through with the dough or they’ll fix you good.]
The bill would make it much harder for families in distress to write off their debts and make a fresh start. Instead, many debtors would find themselves on an endless treadmill of payments.
The credit card companies say this is needed because people have been abusing the bankruptcy law, borrowing irresponsibly and walking away from debts. The facts say otherwise.
A vast majority of personal bankruptcies in the United States are the result of severe misfortune. One recent study found that more than half of bankruptcies are the result of medical emergencies. The rest are overwhelmingly the result either of job loss or of divorce.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/opinion/08krugman.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fPaul%20Krugman&oref=login
[There is no effort to bring them in at night, it is just a coincidence that that is what happens in every case.
I should have called this blog “coincidence”.]
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Operation Truth, an advocacy group for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, said the nighttime-only arrivals of wounded, along with the restrictions on coffin photos and other P.R. tactics, are designed to hide from the public the daily flow of wounded and dead. "They do it so nobody sees [the wounded]," Rieckhoff said. "In their mind-set, this is going to demoralize the American people. The overall cost of this war has been … continuously hidden throughout. As the costs get higher, their efforts to conceal those costs also increase."
...
Capt. Herbert McConnell, a spokesman for Andrews Air Force Base, said that while it's true the flights of wounded arrive only at night, the schedule is not designed to minimize images of wounded soldiers. "There is no conspiracy, I can tell you that. I am absolutely sure there is no effort to bring them in under the darkness of night," McConnell said. "There is nothing shady going on here.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon55.html
[More on Israel bank scandal.]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3056061,00.html
he United States has withdrawn from an international agreement that guarantees jailed foreigners the right to talk to consular officers, a protocol that has been used by opponents of capital punishment, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7859607
[The point of this “news” article is just to kepp the Al-Qaeda brand in the public mind. Like when a certain bleach company puts on an info-mercial even though they have nothing new to offer. It is just to remind people bleach is out there and you shoudl expect to encounter it. The same with Al Qaeda here. Don’t forget they exist.]
Crowe said that at some point the FBI "thought the threat had probably or had possibly been overstated, and then they started to question their sources ... ."
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/03/09/al_qaeda_may_have_targeted_oscar_winner_crowe_1110369232/a
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