A centre for interrogation and torture
[Agencies of government repression working through pedophile cults? That could never happen here.]
Chilean prosecutors and human rights activists have long asserted that Gen Pinochet's military government used Colonia Dignidad as a centre for interrogation and torture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370607.stm
[Precisely what are they going to do with their unpowered glide vehicle if they decide not to release the payload? Without some kind of engine the thing is eventually going to wind up sitting on the gorund. Are we just going to leave it there full of nuclear bombs or whatever for someone to come by and pry open the doors and run off with it?]
The Pentagon is developing a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials say.
...
Among the system's strengths is that commanders could order a CAV - an unpowered glide vehicle - not to release its payload ifthey decide not to follow through with an attack, the report said.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05l.html
The Resistance fighters entered the camp by using bayonets to kill three American guards and then cutting through the barbed wire that surrounds the base. Inside, the Resistance fighters attacked three regular Humvees and one armored Humvee, killing eight US troops who were near the vehicles. The Resistance confiscated the four Humvees and drove them out of the American camp, and from there out of the city, taking with them all the weapons, technical equipment, military maps, and communications gear that was in the vehicles.
http://www.rense.com/general63/iqi.htm
An illness that has killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified on Tue 22 Mar 2005 as the rare Marburg virus, which is from the same family [the family _Filoviridae_] as Ebola virus, state and UN officials said. Described as "very virulent" and "very contagious" and transmitted through bodily fluids, the hemorrhagic fever threatens to spread from the northern Uige province to other parts of the country. "This is a possibility. The incubation period is 21 days so we must reinforce the surveillance in neighbouring provinces and especially in Luanda," Vice Minister for Health Jose Van Dunem told Reuters.
http://www.rense.com/general63/iqdi.htm
In 1897, a horned toad was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse in Eastland, TX, as it was being sealed. People remembered the event, but no one thought much of it until 1928, when the courthouse was demolished to make way for a new, Jazz Age model. Three thousand people were on hand to watch the opening of the old cornerstone. Inside lay the horned toad, all right -- flat and covered with dust -- and ALIVE! After 31 years!
The toad was christened "Old Rip" and became a national sensation. He toured the US He met President Coolidge. Local gas stations gave away complimentary toads to customers
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/rip.html
[I have already covered this foolishness in a previous post. Another good website to check out on this is
www.whtt.org
Also check out Matthew 3:9]
Do you see? This means that the war in Iraq is a good thing, because war brings us closer to the Final Conflict. War is what God wants. And nature, that pathetic and disposable handmaiden to humankind's happy bloodlust, is merely the fuel, the playpen, for that happy eventuality. Earth is but a finite resource given by God to humanity and meant to be all used up as fast as possible and the faster we use it all up the sooner Jesus comes. Just like Santa. Only, you know, not.
Put another way: The environment does not matter because the Earth does not matter because all the sinful nonbelievers do not matter and all that does matter is the imminent return of the bloody Christ, and therefore, so what if BushCo supports the most appalling array of environmentally abusive polices in American history? So what if we permanently scar some silly wildlife refuge in Alaska?
http://www.rense.com/general63/caribou.htm
[But you see if the Mexicans come here, they get “free” medical care. ]
Guzan said he was taken to a local Mexican hospital, where he was forced to wait hours for care: "They told me my insurance company was 'red-flagged' ... that I would have to pay between $10,000 and $20,000 cash before they would even treat me."
The hospital claimed that HealthAmerica, Guzan's provider, was blacklisted for not paying on an unrelated case, though HealthAmerica later told Pittsburgh's Channel 4 that the hospital was confusing it with another carrier.
"Luckily," Guzan said, "I had my parents' platinum credit card with a high limit. The owner of the hospital came down and told me my surgery would be expensive. He said, 'It will be at least $10,000 to start. If you can't do that, if you don't have that, feel free to leave and find another hospital.'"
Guzan paid the $10,000 and waited eight hours, foot wrapped and bleeding, to be admitted to surgery. The surgery, he said, took place Wednesday and also lasted eight hours.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=286
Biotechnology critics say the fact that hundreds of tons of unapproved corn were planted in open fields for four years before Syngenta acknowledged the mistake shows that regulators and the industry can't now be trusted to keep genetically engineered organisms from contaminating the food supply.
http://www.rense.com/general63/unan.htm
During the outbreak in Toronto hospitals, health care workers became infected with the virus despite observance of strict infection control precautions. The investigators wondered whether environmental contamination of hospital air or surfaces could explain the ongoing risk of SARS coronavirus transmission to health care workers. To answer this question, they collected patient information and environmental samples from the SARS units of four Toronto hospitals.
http://www.rense.com/general63/airb.htm
Elites realize that unemployment lowers the birthrate. Younger people who are jobless believe they canít afford to have children. So they donít.
For example, the European nations with the highest youth unemployment rates also have the lowest birthrates. http://www.techcentralstation.com/012705D.html A recent study concluded that Australiaís perilously low birth rate was caused by fear of unemployment.
Lowering the birthrate in the nations of Europe and North America has been a primary objective of elite planners since the end of W.W.II. This depopulation imperative accounts for their coordinated and intense effort to legalize abortion and homosexuality in those countries.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-realunemployment.shtml
Jobless rates fell sharply in the 1990s because more prime-age males (25 to 54 years old) stopped looking for work and thus were not counted as unemployed and gave reasons other than job-search discouragement for their withdrawal from the labor force (personal reasons, keeping house, early retirement, disability, self-employment). “Over the 1990s, even as unemployment was falling, time spent out of the labor force was rising... [and] was so large that total joblessness—which combines the unemployed with those who have withdrawn from the labor force—was as high at the business cycle peak in 2000 as it had been at the previous cyclical peak of 1989, even though the [official] unemployment rate was roughly 2 percentage points lower. In terms of total joblessness, the often-praised boom of the 1990s really represented little in the way of employment progress for American males” (C. Juhn, K. Murphy, and R. Topel, “Current Unemployment, Historically Con- templated,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:2002).
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2004/duboff0204.html
[I notice I haven’t heard any more about that supposed coup in Syria.]
[In Europe they are horrified by the notion of elected sheriffs or judges. But how else can you try to guarantee they will work for the people?
Giving them a lifetime ticket on the government gracy train is hardly the way to get to that point.]
When Congress passed the Brady Bill in violation of the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution, it placed the burden of enforcing it on County Sheriffs. Sheriffs Richard Mack of Arizona and Jay Printz of Montana, declined to enforce the Brady Bill and sued in a federal court.
They won their lawsuit, but not because they were right about the Constitution (which they were). As everyone should know, federal judges don’t care about what the Constitution actually says. They won the case because federal courts realize there is no effective means by which they can compel elected Sheriffs to enforce federal law. And federal judges will not knowingly make an order they cannot enforce.
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The federal government avoids confrontations with State and county governments because it knows it will not win them.
Christians elected these courageous and honorable Judges and Sheriffs to county office. We can elect more of them.
Let’s stop complaining. Let the counterrevolution begin.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-counties.shtml
[I think prices will rise more than slightly. There are only 10 or 15 refinires in the whole country. If one of them even slows down that is going to be a problem.]
The plant in Texas City, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, sprawls across 1,200 acres. About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. The plant employs about 1,800 people in Texas City, a city of about 40,000 people.
Gasoline prices could rise slightly because of the explosion because the plant is such a large gas producer. Gasoline futures rose nearly 2 cents in late trading on news of the explosion.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/23/explosion_hits_texas_petrochemical_plant/
[Talmud teacher convicted of sodomy.]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3059359,00.html
The Russian central bank said on Monday that it had doubled the weighting of euros used to calculate the nominal exchange rate of the ruble from 10 percent to 20 percent at the expense of the dollar.
The weighting of the dollar in the two-currency "basket" had been reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent with effect from March 15, the bank said.
The decision reflects the importance of the European Union in Russian trade and also the strength of the euro.
http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/1054/news/b_15175.htm
[If someone did this to GWB he/she would I think run a very real risk of winding up in prison or worse.]
Marion Baxter, a nurse, asked him, point blank, if he would be prepared to clean patients' backsides for $9 an hour. On another issue, Maria Hutchings, a homemaker, advanced on him across the studio, proclaiming, "That's rubbish, Tony." Debra Kroll, a midwife, told him, "We asked you not to go to war," and demanded an apology for invading Iraq. (He did not give one.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/international/europe/23blair.html?hp&ex=1111640400&en=c3a40c1c4c48dde0&ei=5094&partner=homepage
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has warned former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle that it may sue him for his role in the alleged looting of Hollinger International Inc., the Chicago-based media company once controlled by Conrad Black.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aY248MKyPfdM&refer=top_world_news
Using genetic sequencing, the researchers showed that this second generation of plants had rewritten the DNA sequence of one or both of their HOTHEAD genes. They had replaced the abnormal code of their parents with the regular code possessed by earlier generations.
And when the team studied numerous other genes, it found that the plants had often edited those back to their ancestral form too. "It was a huge surprise," Pruitt says.
The discovery has left geneticists reeling. "It's really quite stunning," says Detlef Weigel, who studies plant genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T?n, Germany. "It's a mechanism that no one had any idea existed."
And geneticist Steven Jacobsen at the University of California, Los Angeles, sums it up even more succinctly. "It's really weird," he says.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_science&Number=293472803#Post293472803
A female military interrogator who wanted to turn up the heat on a 21-year-old Saudi detainee who allegedly had taken flying lessons in Arizona before 9/11 removed her uniform top to expose a snug T-shirt. She began belittling the prisoner who was praying with his eyes closed as she touched her breasts, rubbed them against the Saudi's back and commented on his apparent erection.
After the prisoner spat in her face, she left the room to ask a Muslim linguist how she could break the prisoner's reliance on God. The linguist suggested she tell the prisoner that she was menstruating, touch him, and then shut off the water in his cell so he couldn't wash.
"The concept was to make the detainee feel that after talking to her he was unclean and was unable to go before his God in prayer and gain strength," Saar recounted, adding: "She then started to place her hands in her pants as she walked behind the detainee. As she circled around him he could see that she was taking her hand out of her pants. When it became visible the detainee saw what appeared to be red blood on her hand. She said, Who sent you to Arizona?' He then glared at her with a piercing look of hatred. She then wiped the red ink on his face. He shouted at the top of his lungs, spat at her and lunged forward," breaking out of an ankle shackle.
"He began to cry like a baby," the author wrote, adding that the interrogator's parting shot was: "Have a fun night in your cell without any water to clean yourself."
A female civilian contractor kept her "uniform" - a thong and miniskirt on the back of the door of an interrogation room, the author says.
http://timesheraldonline.com/Stories/0,1413,296%257E31504%257E2754797,00.html
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion dollars every year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/555965.html
[It offends me to have to listen to Satanist claptrap masquerading as Christianity. Why isn’t anyone bending over backwards to avoid hurting my feelings?]
Several IMAX theaters in the South have passed on showing a science film on volcanoes because of concerns it might offend people with fundamental religious beliefs who don't believe in evolution.
http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/entertainment/4309710/detail.html
[To FACILITATE the flow of migrants.]
It would also include measures to facilitate and regulate the flow of migrants between the three Nafta countries. Mr Bush last year unveiled a plan for a guest-worker programme. That programme remains a priority for Mr Fox, who launched his presidency in 2000 with a call for a more radical treaty on migration, but who now faces opposition from Republicans in the US Congress
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/58bf936e-9b10-11d9-90f9-00000e2511c8.html
Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, "Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official." Go back and re-read that quote. The court confirms and asserts, "the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any other state OR federal official." And you thought the 10th Amendment was dead and buried -- not in Wyoming, not yet.
...
Winston Churchill observed, "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
http://www.restoringamerica.org/archive/sovereignty/wy_sheriff_analysis.html
[So Paul Wolfowitz’s new office is going to give money to Osama bin Laden’s family to build airports. Cozy.]
The†Saudi†Binladen†Group†has†won†the†contracts†to†implement†two†airport†projects†in†Egypt†and†Yemen†financed†by†the†World†Bank,†Al-Eqtisadiah†business†daily†reported†yesterday.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=60784&d=21&m=3&y=2005
What's going on? Looks like it's showdown time with both Iran and Syria. President Bush has said in words of one syllable that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. He has also demanded that Syria completely withdraw its military and intelligence forces from Lebanon. Nor will George W. Bush rest quietly until the mullahs quit funding Hezbollah.
How many times do the president and the secretary of state need to say that we have not taken the military option off the table? The world by now should be getting the point. The president has also repeatedly said that he will respect Israel's right to protect itself. Vice President Cheney has said very clearly that Israel could be expected to attack Iran the minute Israel decides that the mullahs have reached the "point of no return" and have everything they need to make an atomic bomb.
...
George Bush is no fool. Nor does he have infinite patience. The president would clearly prefer to see freedom come to Iran and Lebanon by peaceful means. But, if all else fails, we have three nuclear-armed carrier battle groups in the region that are more than capable of resolving the problem.
http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=89098
[I think the Nation of Islam once planned to have a little country in the Carolinas. Anyone remember?]
It is only natural for Christians to ask ìDo we have a future in the United States?î At times, the temptation to despair presents itself. But take heart, readers, because Christian separatists are many and becoming more. I am grateful that Christian Exodus is there to offer us hope, encouragement and fellowship. I anticipate working with Christian Exodus to achieve our common objectives. Together, we have already made a good start assembling a core group of activists and supporters. We have talented people who have and will sacrifice for a Christian nation. We have begun to travel the road that will take us there. Lao Tseís ancient observation has become a clichÈ, but only because it is so true: ìA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.î The Greenville, South Carolina conference may have been that beginning step.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-christianexodus.shtml
[Claptrap]
Christian Zionism is the product of false prophets like Hal Lindsey and Timothy LaHaye. According to one respected Christian fundamentalist ministry, Lindsey and LaHaye have led millions of American Christians astray with unsound interpretations of the Bible. Far from resting upon the sound judgment of Augustine, Aquinas. Luther, Calvin or Wesley, these interpretations cant be traced to the imagination of John Darby. Darby was an Irish lawyer who sometime around 1830 created Dispensationalism, the theology behind Christian Zionism. His interpretations helped to create a belief in ìthe Raptureî, originally envisioned by the yet more febrile imagination of Margaret MacDonald, a 15 year old girl.
I refer to their Biblical interpretations as imaginary because the word ìRaptureî has no equivalent in the Hebrew or Greek languages of the Holy Bible.
These Biblical interpretations languished in desuetude for decades. They would have been consigned to the theological dustbin, except for Hal Lindsey popularizing them in his 1972 book - the Late, Great Planet Earth. In it, Lindsey predicted that the UN-created State of Israel was the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and that the end of the world would take place in 1988.
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American Christians should pledge allegiance to their own Christian nation, not to Jewish nations or Islamic nations. Americaís welfare does not depend upon the UN-created State of Israel, but upon fidelity to its Constitution, and faith in the religion that inspired it, Christianity.
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How do we know whether a tree is bad or good? In Chapter 7 of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said:
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
16 By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-zion.shtml
Christians have traditionally interpreted the Old Testament in the light of the New. In the Old Testament we are presented with the shadows that become New Testament realities. The Old Testament is filled with what are referred to as types of things to come under the New Covenant of Christ. The sacrifice of animals (and foodstuffs, as with Melchisedech) was a type of the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Mass. The manna from Heaven prefigures the Eucharist. St. Paul speaks of the festival days of the Old Covenant as having been "a shadow of things to come" (Col. 2:17). The old law, likewise, is a shadow of the new. According to O. Palmer Robertson, a Protestant writer, "The very nature of the old covenant provisions requires that they be viewed as prophetic shadows, not as permanent realities."
The traditional Catholic position has essentially been that the promises made to the Jewish people have been literally fulfilled in the person of Christ and in the Catholic Church, and that to look for physical fulfillment is to miss what separates the New from the Old Testament. Non-dispensationalist Protestants, while of course not looking to the Catholic Church as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, have generally held that the Christian community broadly conceived is what inherits the divine promises. This is the uninterrupted Christian tradition of 1800 years.
Beginning with the New Testament and continuing through the Church Fathers, one finds a clear continuity throughout Christian thought on the question of Israel, the Jews, and the idea of a chosen people. According to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, the idea of the "seed of Abraham" is to be understood in a spiritual rather than a racial or nationalistic sense, for "they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham" (Gal. 3:7). "And if you be Christ’s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:29).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods17.html
[This sounds like the Free State project, only in SC.]
http://www.christianexodus.org/
[This guy Scalia who was one of the people in charge of salvaging the botched rig-job of an election in 2000, also said
But Scalia said his personal views on social issues have no bearing on his courtroom decisions.
“I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503540 ]
It was a brazen and Orwellian declaration. What American who believes
in democracy could claim that something was wrong with counting
votes "first"? What American who believes in democracy could declare
one candidate the winner and protect him from "irreparable harm" if a
vote count showed him not to be the winner, after all? Of course, it
doesn't make any sense, unless you realize the foundation upon which
Scalia based his transparently partisan remarks. He doesn't believe
in democracy, he doesn't even believe in republicanism, he is a
monarchist
http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/anonymous/truthshallprevail.htm
[If you look about halfway down this page, you can see the flag of the British East India Company. It bears a stricking resemblance to the American Flag but was apparently in use 70 years before the start of the Revoluntionary War.]
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India.htm
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) introduced a baffling bill to
exempt livestock identification information collected by the
Department of Agriculture from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act. See:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2005/hr1256.html
MILITARY TRIBUNALS AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER
The largely unchecked expansion of presidential authority to
prosecute the "war on terrorism" forms the backdrop to a new book
by Louis Fisher, the constitutional scholar and specialist on
separation of powers.
The author focuses on presidential war powers and specifically on
the history and development of military tribunals. He concludes
with a constitutional critique of the current system for
detaining and trying enemy combatants.
"Tribunals are created by Presidents, staffed by Presidents, and
guided by rules and procedures developed by the executive branch,
all with little or minimal involvement of the other two branches.
It is a form of government that the framers would find
repugnant," he writes.
"It is especially in time of war that the apparatus of the
presidency poses the highest risk, executive errors inflict the
greatest damage, and individual liberties are placed at maximum
peril. Institutional checks are needed more, not less."
"Military Tribunals and Presidential Power" by Louis Fisher is
published next month by the University Press of Kansas. See:
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/book6.html
[Now the government supposedly works for you, and they take your money to do their work. Now if you want to know what they are doing for you, or how they are spending your money, they wantt o sue you for butting in on them.]
GOVT AGENCIES PROPOSE TO SUE INFO REQUESTERS
In North Carolina, "government agencies are pursuing the authority
to sue citizens who ask to see public records."
That would be a delightful story if it appeared in The Onion or
some other "fake news" outlet. Unfortunately, however, it is
from the Associated Press.
See "N.C. Cities Want To Sue Over Public Records Requests," March
20:
http://www.wral.com/news/4301487/detail.html
The AP story is based on "Cities, agencies seek right to sue" by
Matthew Eisley, Raleigh News and Observer, March 20, 2005 (free
reg. req'd):
http://tinyurl.com/52wdj
Chilean prosecutors and human rights activists have long asserted that Gen Pinochet's military government used Colonia Dignidad as a centre for interrogation and torture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370607.stm
[Precisely what are they going to do with their unpowered glide vehicle if they decide not to release the payload? Without some kind of engine the thing is eventually going to wind up sitting on the gorund. Are we just going to leave it there full of nuclear bombs or whatever for someone to come by and pry open the doors and run off with it?]
The Pentagon is developing a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, defense officials say.
...
Among the system's strengths is that commanders could order a CAV - an unpowered glide vehicle - not to release its payload ifthey decide not to follow through with an attack, the report said.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05l.html
The Resistance fighters entered the camp by using bayonets to kill three American guards and then cutting through the barbed wire that surrounds the base. Inside, the Resistance fighters attacked three regular Humvees and one armored Humvee, killing eight US troops who were near the vehicles. The Resistance confiscated the four Humvees and drove them out of the American camp, and from there out of the city, taking with them all the weapons, technical equipment, military maps, and communications gear that was in the vehicles.
http://www.rense.com/general63/iqi.htm
An illness that has killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified on Tue 22 Mar 2005 as the rare Marburg virus, which is from the same family [the family _Filoviridae_] as Ebola virus, state and UN officials said. Described as "very virulent" and "very contagious" and transmitted through bodily fluids, the hemorrhagic fever threatens to spread from the northern Uige province to other parts of the country. "This is a possibility. The incubation period is 21 days so we must reinforce the surveillance in neighbouring provinces and especially in Luanda," Vice Minister for Health Jose Van Dunem told Reuters.
http://www.rense.com/general63/iqdi.htm
In 1897, a horned toad was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse in Eastland, TX, as it was being sealed. People remembered the event, but no one thought much of it until 1928, when the courthouse was demolished to make way for a new, Jazz Age model. Three thousand people were on hand to watch the opening of the old cornerstone. Inside lay the horned toad, all right -- flat and covered with dust -- and ALIVE! After 31 years!
The toad was christened "Old Rip" and became a national sensation. He toured the US He met President Coolidge. Local gas stations gave away complimentary toads to customers
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/rip.html
[I have already covered this foolishness in a previous post. Another good website to check out on this is
www.whtt.org
Also check out Matthew 3:9]
Do you see? This means that the war in Iraq is a good thing, because war brings us closer to the Final Conflict. War is what God wants. And nature, that pathetic and disposable handmaiden to humankind's happy bloodlust, is merely the fuel, the playpen, for that happy eventuality. Earth is but a finite resource given by God to humanity and meant to be all used up as fast as possible and the faster we use it all up the sooner Jesus comes. Just like Santa. Only, you know, not.
Put another way: The environment does not matter because the Earth does not matter because all the sinful nonbelievers do not matter and all that does matter is the imminent return of the bloody Christ, and therefore, so what if BushCo supports the most appalling array of environmentally abusive polices in American history? So what if we permanently scar some silly wildlife refuge in Alaska?
http://www.rense.com/general63/caribou.htm
[But you see if the Mexicans come here, they get “free” medical care. ]
Guzan said he was taken to a local Mexican hospital, where he was forced to wait hours for care: "They told me my insurance company was 'red-flagged' ... that I would have to pay between $10,000 and $20,000 cash before they would even treat me."
The hospital claimed that HealthAmerica, Guzan's provider, was blacklisted for not paying on an unrelated case, though HealthAmerica later told Pittsburgh's Channel 4 that the hospital was confusing it with another carrier.
"Luckily," Guzan said, "I had my parents' platinum credit card with a high limit. The owner of the hospital came down and told me my surgery would be expensive. He said, 'It will be at least $10,000 to start. If you can't do that, if you don't have that, feel free to leave and find another hospital.'"
Guzan paid the $10,000 and waited eight hours, foot wrapped and bleeding, to be admitted to surgery. The surgery, he said, took place Wednesday and also lasted eight hours.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=286
Biotechnology critics say the fact that hundreds of tons of unapproved corn were planted in open fields for four years before Syngenta acknowledged the mistake shows that regulators and the industry can't now be trusted to keep genetically engineered organisms from contaminating the food supply.
http://www.rense.com/general63/unan.htm
During the outbreak in Toronto hospitals, health care workers became infected with the virus despite observance of strict infection control precautions. The investigators wondered whether environmental contamination of hospital air or surfaces could explain the ongoing risk of SARS coronavirus transmission to health care workers. To answer this question, they collected patient information and environmental samples from the SARS units of four Toronto hospitals.
http://www.rense.com/general63/airb.htm
Elites realize that unemployment lowers the birthrate. Younger people who are jobless believe they canít afford to have children. So they donít.
For example, the European nations with the highest youth unemployment rates also have the lowest birthrates. http://www.techcentralstation.com/012705D.html A recent study concluded that Australiaís perilously low birth rate was caused by fear of unemployment.
Lowering the birthrate in the nations of Europe and North America has been a primary objective of elite planners since the end of W.W.II. This depopulation imperative accounts for their coordinated and intense effort to legalize abortion and homosexuality in those countries.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-realunemployment.shtml
Jobless rates fell sharply in the 1990s because more prime-age males (25 to 54 years old) stopped looking for work and thus were not counted as unemployed and gave reasons other than job-search discouragement for their withdrawal from the labor force (personal reasons, keeping house, early retirement, disability, self-employment). “Over the 1990s, even as unemployment was falling, time spent out of the labor force was rising... [and] was so large that total joblessness—which combines the unemployed with those who have withdrawn from the labor force—was as high at the business cycle peak in 2000 as it had been at the previous cyclical peak of 1989, even though the [official] unemployment rate was roughly 2 percentage points lower. In terms of total joblessness, the often-praised boom of the 1990s really represented little in the way of employment progress for American males” (C. Juhn, K. Murphy, and R. Topel, “Current Unemployment, Historically Con- templated,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:2002).
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2004/duboff0204.html
[I notice I haven’t heard any more about that supposed coup in Syria.]
[In Europe they are horrified by the notion of elected sheriffs or judges. But how else can you try to guarantee they will work for the people?
Giving them a lifetime ticket on the government gracy train is hardly the way to get to that point.]
When Congress passed the Brady Bill in violation of the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution, it placed the burden of enforcing it on County Sheriffs. Sheriffs Richard Mack of Arizona and Jay Printz of Montana, declined to enforce the Brady Bill and sued in a federal court.
They won their lawsuit, but not because they were right about the Constitution (which they were). As everyone should know, federal judges don’t care about what the Constitution actually says. They won the case because federal courts realize there is no effective means by which they can compel elected Sheriffs to enforce federal law. And federal judges will not knowingly make an order they cannot enforce.
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The federal government avoids confrontations with State and county governments because it knows it will not win them.
Christians elected these courageous and honorable Judges and Sheriffs to county office. We can elect more of them.
Let’s stop complaining. Let the counterrevolution begin.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-counties.shtml
[I think prices will rise more than slightly. There are only 10 or 15 refinires in the whole country. If one of them even slows down that is going to be a problem.]
The plant in Texas City, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, sprawls across 1,200 acres. About 433,000 barrels of crude oil are processed a day, producing 3 percent of the U.S. supply. The plant employs about 1,800 people in Texas City, a city of about 40,000 people.
Gasoline prices could rise slightly because of the explosion because the plant is such a large gas producer. Gasoline futures rose nearly 2 cents in late trading on news of the explosion.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/23/explosion_hits_texas_petrochemical_plant/
[Talmud teacher convicted of sodomy.]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3059359,00.html
The Russian central bank said on Monday that it had doubled the weighting of euros used to calculate the nominal exchange rate of the ruble from 10 percent to 20 percent at the expense of the dollar.
The weighting of the dollar in the two-currency "basket" had been reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent with effect from March 15, the bank said.
The decision reflects the importance of the European Union in Russian trade and also the strength of the euro.
http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/1054/news/b_15175.htm
[If someone did this to GWB he/she would I think run a very real risk of winding up in prison or worse.]
Marion Baxter, a nurse, asked him, point blank, if he would be prepared to clean patients' backsides for $9 an hour. On another issue, Maria Hutchings, a homemaker, advanced on him across the studio, proclaiming, "That's rubbish, Tony." Debra Kroll, a midwife, told him, "We asked you not to go to war," and demanded an apology for invading Iraq. (He did not give one.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/international/europe/23blair.html?hp&ex=1111640400&en=c3a40c1c4c48dde0&ei=5094&partner=homepage
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has warned former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle that it may sue him for his role in the alleged looting of Hollinger International Inc., the Chicago-based media company once controlled by Conrad Black.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aY248MKyPfdM&refer=top_world_news
Using genetic sequencing, the researchers showed that this second generation of plants had rewritten the DNA sequence of one or both of their HOTHEAD genes. They had replaced the abnormal code of their parents with the regular code possessed by earlier generations.
And when the team studied numerous other genes, it found that the plants had often edited those back to their ancestral form too. "It was a huge surprise," Pruitt says.
The discovery has left geneticists reeling. "It's really quite stunning," says Detlef Weigel, who studies plant genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T?n, Germany. "It's a mechanism that no one had any idea existed."
And geneticist Steven Jacobsen at the University of California, Los Angeles, sums it up even more succinctly. "It's really weird," he says.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_science&Number=293472803#Post293472803
A female military interrogator who wanted to turn up the heat on a 21-year-old Saudi detainee who allegedly had taken flying lessons in Arizona before 9/11 removed her uniform top to expose a snug T-shirt. She began belittling the prisoner who was praying with his eyes closed as she touched her breasts, rubbed them against the Saudi's back and commented on his apparent erection.
After the prisoner spat in her face, she left the room to ask a Muslim linguist how she could break the prisoner's reliance on God. The linguist suggested she tell the prisoner that she was menstruating, touch him, and then shut off the water in his cell so he couldn't wash.
"The concept was to make the detainee feel that after talking to her he was unclean and was unable to go before his God in prayer and gain strength," Saar recounted, adding: "She then started to place her hands in her pants as she walked behind the detainee. As she circled around him he could see that she was taking her hand out of her pants. When it became visible the detainee saw what appeared to be red blood on her hand. She said, Who sent you to Arizona?' He then glared at her with a piercing look of hatred. She then wiped the red ink on his face. He shouted at the top of his lungs, spat at her and lunged forward," breaking out of an ankle shackle.
"He began to cry like a baby," the author wrote, adding that the interrogator's parting shot was: "Have a fun night in your cell without any water to clean yourself."
A female civilian contractor kept her "uniform" - a thong and miniskirt on the back of the door of an interrogation room, the author says.
http://timesheraldonline.com/Stories/0,1413,296%257E31504%257E2754797,00.html
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion dollars every year.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/555965.html
[It offends me to have to listen to Satanist claptrap masquerading as Christianity. Why isn’t anyone bending over backwards to avoid hurting my feelings?]
Several IMAX theaters in the South have passed on showing a science film on volcanoes because of concerns it might offend people with fundamental religious beliefs who don't believe in evolution.
http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/entertainment/4309710/detail.html
[To FACILITATE the flow of migrants.]
It would also include measures to facilitate and regulate the flow of migrants between the three Nafta countries. Mr Bush last year unveiled a plan for a guest-worker programme. That programme remains a priority for Mr Fox, who launched his presidency in 2000 with a call for a more radical treaty on migration, but who now faces opposition from Republicans in the US Congress
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/58bf936e-9b10-11d9-90f9-00000e2511c8.html
Guess what? The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, "Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal official." Go back and re-read that quote. The court confirms and asserts, "the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers EXCEEDING that of any other state OR federal official." And you thought the 10th Amendment was dead and buried -- not in Wyoming, not yet.
...
Winston Churchill observed, "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
http://www.restoringamerica.org/archive/sovereignty/wy_sheriff_analysis.html
[So Paul Wolfowitz’s new office is going to give money to Osama bin Laden’s family to build airports. Cozy.]
The†Saudi†Binladen†Group†has†won†the†contracts†to†implement†two†airport†projects†in†Egypt†and†Yemen†financed†by†the†World†Bank,†Al-Eqtisadiah†business†daily†reported†yesterday.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6§ion=0&article=60784&d=21&m=3&y=2005
What's going on? Looks like it's showdown time with both Iran and Syria. President Bush has said in words of one syllable that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. He has also demanded that Syria completely withdraw its military and intelligence forces from Lebanon. Nor will George W. Bush rest quietly until the mullahs quit funding Hezbollah.
How many times do the president and the secretary of state need to say that we have not taken the military option off the table? The world by now should be getting the point. The president has also repeatedly said that he will respect Israel's right to protect itself. Vice President Cheney has said very clearly that Israel could be expected to attack Iran the minute Israel decides that the mullahs have reached the "point of no return" and have everything they need to make an atomic bomb.
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George Bush is no fool. Nor does he have infinite patience. The president would clearly prefer to see freedom come to Iran and Lebanon by peaceful means. But, if all else fails, we have three nuclear-armed carrier battle groups in the region that are more than capable of resolving the problem.
http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=89098
[I think the Nation of Islam once planned to have a little country in the Carolinas. Anyone remember?]
It is only natural for Christians to ask ìDo we have a future in the United States?î At times, the temptation to despair presents itself. But take heart, readers, because Christian separatists are many and becoming more. I am grateful that Christian Exodus is there to offer us hope, encouragement and fellowship. I anticipate working with Christian Exodus to achieve our common objectives. Together, we have already made a good start assembling a core group of activists and supporters. We have talented people who have and will sacrifice for a Christian nation. We have begun to travel the road that will take us there. Lao Tseís ancient observation has become a clichÈ, but only because it is so true: ìA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.î The Greenville, South Carolina conference may have been that beginning step.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-christianexodus.shtml
[Claptrap]
Christian Zionism is the product of false prophets like Hal Lindsey and Timothy LaHaye. According to one respected Christian fundamentalist ministry, Lindsey and LaHaye have led millions of American Christians astray with unsound interpretations of the Bible. Far from resting upon the sound judgment of Augustine, Aquinas. Luther, Calvin or Wesley, these interpretations cant be traced to the imagination of John Darby. Darby was an Irish lawyer who sometime around 1830 created Dispensationalism, the theology behind Christian Zionism. His interpretations helped to create a belief in ìthe Raptureî, originally envisioned by the yet more febrile imagination of Margaret MacDonald, a 15 year old girl.
I refer to their Biblical interpretations as imaginary because the word ìRaptureî has no equivalent in the Hebrew or Greek languages of the Holy Bible.
These Biblical interpretations languished in desuetude for decades. They would have been consigned to the theological dustbin, except for Hal Lindsey popularizing them in his 1972 book - the Late, Great Planet Earth. In it, Lindsey predicted that the UN-created State of Israel was the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and that the end of the world would take place in 1988.
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American Christians should pledge allegiance to their own Christian nation, not to Jewish nations or Islamic nations. Americaís welfare does not depend upon the UN-created State of Israel, but upon fidelity to its Constitution, and faith in the religion that inspired it, Christianity.
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How do we know whether a tree is bad or good? In Chapter 7 of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said:
15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
16 By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-zion.shtml
Christians have traditionally interpreted the Old Testament in the light of the New. In the Old Testament we are presented with the shadows that become New Testament realities. The Old Testament is filled with what are referred to as types of things to come under the New Covenant of Christ. The sacrifice of animals (and foodstuffs, as with Melchisedech) was a type of the sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Mass. The manna from Heaven prefigures the Eucharist. St. Paul speaks of the festival days of the Old Covenant as having been "a shadow of things to come" (Col. 2:17). The old law, likewise, is a shadow of the new. According to O. Palmer Robertson, a Protestant writer, "The very nature of the old covenant provisions requires that they be viewed as prophetic shadows, not as permanent realities."
The traditional Catholic position has essentially been that the promises made to the Jewish people have been literally fulfilled in the person of Christ and in the Catholic Church, and that to look for physical fulfillment is to miss what separates the New from the Old Testament. Non-dispensationalist Protestants, while of course not looking to the Catholic Church as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, have generally held that the Christian community broadly conceived is what inherits the divine promises. This is the uninterrupted Christian tradition of 1800 years.
Beginning with the New Testament and continuing through the Church Fathers, one finds a clear continuity throughout Christian thought on the question of Israel, the Jews, and the idea of a chosen people. According to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, the idea of the "seed of Abraham" is to be understood in a spiritual rather than a racial or nationalistic sense, for "they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham" (Gal. 3:7). "And if you be Christ’s, then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise" (Gal. 3:29).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods17.html
[This sounds like the Free State project, only in SC.]
http://www.christianexodus.org/
[This guy Scalia who was one of the people in charge of salvaging the botched rig-job of an election in 2000, also said
But Scalia said his personal views on social issues have no bearing on his courtroom decisions.
“I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503540 ]
It was a brazen and Orwellian declaration. What American who believes
in democracy could claim that something was wrong with counting
votes "first"? What American who believes in democracy could declare
one candidate the winner and protect him from "irreparable harm" if a
vote count showed him not to be the winner, after all? Of course, it
doesn't make any sense, unless you realize the foundation upon which
Scalia based his transparently partisan remarks. He doesn't believe
in democracy, he doesn't even believe in republicanism, he is a
monarchist
http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/anonymous/truthshallprevail.htm
[If you look about halfway down this page, you can see the flag of the British East India Company. It bears a stricking resemblance to the American Flag but was apparently in use 70 years before the start of the Revoluntionary War.]
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India.htm
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) introduced a baffling bill to
exempt livestock identification information collected by the
Department of Agriculture from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act. See:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2005/hr1256.html
MILITARY TRIBUNALS AND PRESIDENTIAL POWER
The largely unchecked expansion of presidential authority to
prosecute the "war on terrorism" forms the backdrop to a new book
by Louis Fisher, the constitutional scholar and specialist on
separation of powers.
The author focuses on presidential war powers and specifically on
the history and development of military tribunals. He concludes
with a constitutional critique of the current system for
detaining and trying enemy combatants.
"Tribunals are created by Presidents, staffed by Presidents, and
guided by rules and procedures developed by the executive branch,
all with little or minimal involvement of the other two branches.
It is a form of government that the framers would find
repugnant," he writes.
"It is especially in time of war that the apparatus of the
presidency poses the highest risk, executive errors inflict the
greatest damage, and individual liberties are placed at maximum
peril. Institutional checks are needed more, not less."
"Military Tribunals and Presidential Power" by Louis Fisher is
published next month by the University Press of Kansas. See:
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/book6.html
[Now the government supposedly works for you, and they take your money to do their work. Now if you want to know what they are doing for you, or how they are spending your money, they wantt o sue you for butting in on them.]
GOVT AGENCIES PROPOSE TO SUE INFO REQUESTERS
In North Carolina, "government agencies are pursuing the authority
to sue citizens who ask to see public records."
That would be a delightful story if it appeared in The Onion or
some other "fake news" outlet. Unfortunately, however, it is
from the Associated Press.
See "N.C. Cities Want To Sue Over Public Records Requests," March
20:
http://www.wral.com/news/4301487/detail.html
The AP story is based on "Cities, agencies seek right to sue" by
Matthew Eisley, Raleigh News and Observer, March 20, 2005 (free
reg. req'd):
http://tinyurl.com/52wdj
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