Do not set up living creatures as a target
[These are the some of the same kinds of identifying signs you would look for if you were trying to find people involved in Satanic cult type activity- deliberate or extravagant cruelty to animals either without explanation or with an explanation that does not make sense or fit what is going on.]
"187,257 animals die in actual DOD labs, and 139,840 suffer in non-DOD labs funded by DOD contracts."
...
"We have found scores of military tests that kill animals and serve no realistic military purpose."
"...military experimenters use pigs to experiment with laser tattoo removal and use rats, pigeons, and squirrel monkeys to study drug abuse...
Brucellosis, anthrax, dengue fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, equine infectious anemia, and the filoviruses ebola and marburg are being tested in other military experiments...
Mustard gas, first used in World War I, continues to be a favorite agent for Department of Defense animal experimenters. Yet good treatments are already available and are easy to use."
Seems to me like a bunch of wackos making out like bandits in two different ways: cashing in at taxpayer expense with a thoroughly useless career and getting off on killing animals like a five-year-old pulling the legs off a lizard.
http://www.antiwar.com/jeremy/?articleid=1866
[[The Prophet said: 'Do not set up living creatures as a target'. (Narrated by Abdullah bin Abbas. Muslim Vol. 3, Hadith No. 1957. Also 'Robson'; p. 872 (Ref. No. 15).
The Prophet(s) condemned those who use a living creature as a target." (Narrated by Abdullah bin'Omar. Bukhari and Muslim. Also 'Robson' p. 872 (Ref. No. 15)).
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an2.htm]
The Israeli Army is blowing up unanesthetized pigs with scud missile explosives and conducting other experiments on dogs, monkeys, doves, mice, toads and guinea pigs that are so cruel that soldiers monitoring the tests have required psychological counseling, and some doctors have refused to participate in the "research" on dogs.
A lengthy article in the March 17, 2000, issue of Ha'aretz, Israelís most respected daily newspaper, reported that horrific experiments are carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on animals. The article asks, "Is it really necessary to kill so many animals for the security of Israel?"
A soldier described one experiment on pigs supposedly performed to examine the effect on living beings of a powerful explosion such as that caused by a Scud missile. The bound pigs were placed in trailers that were blown up:
"I still have nightmares about what happened next. Even though we were quite a distance from the blast site, we immediately heard horrific screeching from inside the trailer. When we opened the door, we had to turn our heads away. The pigs were lying there, crying and squealing. It was obvious that the blast wave had blown them up internally and that the glass that flew in all directions from the shattered windows had cut them on the outside. The walls were covered with blood, urine and feces of the bound pigs. They looked at us with wide, beseeching eyes that were also filled with horror.... The trailer was filthy and the stench was overpowering."
The wounded pigs were photographed and taken "screeching and bloodied" to an institute to be studied. The soldier said the memory of the tests continues to haunt him and resulted in his needing psychological counseling.
http://www.chai-online.org/haaretz.htm#expose
If animals have been subjected to cruelties in their breeding, transport, slaughter, or in their general welfare, meat from them is considered impure and unlawful to eat (Haram).
...
Saying daily prayers (salat) is one of the five most important obligations of the Moslem religion. In the following Hadith, one of his companions tells us that the holy Prophet(s) and his fellow travelers used to delay even saying their prayers until they had first given their riding and pack animals fodder and had attended to their needs: "When we stopped at a halt, we did not say our prayers until we had taken the burdens off our camels' backs and attended to their needs."
...
Mishkat Al-Masabih concluded from "Bukhari" and "Muslim" to the effect that: 'A good deed done to a beast is as good as doing good to a human being; while an act of cruelty to a beast is as bad as an act of cruelty to human beings' and that: 'Kindness to animals was promised by rewards in Life Hereafter.'
...
Prevention of physical cruelty is not enough; mental cruelty is equally important. In the following incident, a bird's emotional distress has been treated as seriously as a physical injury:
We were on a journey with the Apostle of God(s), and he left us for a while. During his absence, we saw a bird called hummara with its two young and took the young ones. The mother bird was circling above us in the air, beating its wings in grief, when the Prophet came back and said: 'who has hurt the FEELINGS of this bird by taking its young? Return them to her'.
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an2.htm
The Department of Defense has operated “wound labs” since 1957. At these sites, conscious or semiconscious animals are suspended from slings and shot with high-powered weapons to inflict battle-like injuries for military surgical practice. In 1983, in response to public pressure, Congress limited the use of dogs in these labs, but countless goats, pigs, and sheep are still being shot, and at least one laboratory continues to shoot cats. At the Army's Fort Sam Houston “Goat Lab,” goats are hung upside down and shot in their hind legs. After physicians practice excising the wounds, any goat who survives is killed
http://www.peta.org/feat/military/index.html
[It’s a tribute to the human mind that we can sit here and scratch our heads over a question like “why is this space ship accelerating less than a nanometre per second per second more than it should be?” How can we even distinguish such small amounts?
The Japanese have a saying “Three heads have the wisdom of the Buddha”, or we would say in English “Two heads are better than one”.
See what people can do when they work together one something vaguely useful or interesting.]
13 Things That Do
Not Make Sense
http://www.rense.com/general63/sense.htm
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat while on his way to the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Israel is infuriating New York politicians and Jewish leaders, some of whom are labeling Mr. Annan's gesture "outrageous," "grotesque," and an example of "mindless incompetence."
http://www.nysun.com/article/10695
[Let me let you in on a little secret, mad cow disease was already here long before the so-called first case was discovered and the government is doing virtually zero about it. If you get a degenerative neurological disorder that is too bad for you.]
The effectiveness of the most important U.S. safeguard against mad cow disease was questioned Monday when a government report accused the Food and Drug Administration of overstating feed mill compliance with a ban on cattle remains in animal feed.
http://www.rense.com/general63/compliance.htm
[Wars and rumors of wars.]
* There will be an eventual cutoff of oil to the U.S once an attack on Bushehr occurs. The situation in the US will be worse than 1973.
* The US is going to war and Syria and Iran will be hit. Field commanders have the authority and a green light to go any time.
* Iran has had nuclear weapons since 1991.
http://www.rense.com/general63/russiaplanswartodefend.htm
[Jackals vs. Hyenas]
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.
Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protestors claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered.
In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists."
http://www.rense.com/general63/decc.htm
[I think the problem with this is the same as the problem with oil. Even if the whole bottom of the ocean were paved with methane, we can’t just pump it all up here and burn it because what are we going to breathe?
Keep in mind in the future we can be 100% certain that there will be less plant life on the solid surface of the Earth and there is a good bet there will be less in the oceans as well. So where are we going to get air to breathe at all, let alone how are we going to breathe if there is not only decreased oxygen, but increased smog?]
With luck and careful management, hydrates could be an important future source of energy, said Boswell.
Japanese and Canadian research in the Arctic has proven that economically viable quantities of methane can be obtained from onshore hydrates, he said. While Alaska's land-based Arctic methane hydrates are limited, the amount of offshore marine hydrates there and elsewhere is far greater.
"I hold out great hope for this (marine hydrates) as a significant domestic energy source in the far future," said Boswell.
http://www.rense.com/general63/froz.htm
Israel indicted Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for leaking details of the country's nuclear program, for breaking the terms of his release that barred him from talking to the international press.
http://www.rense.com/general63/vanu.htm
Canada faced anger over its handling of the 1985 Air India bombings on Thursday, after the acquittal of two Sikh activists charged with one of the world's deadliest acts of aviation sabotage.
The verdict stunned many, including relatives of the 329 people killed on Air India Flight 182, and prompted a newspaper in Vancouver -- where the bombing conspiracy was alleged to be based -- to ask a front page headline; "So who did it?".
http://www.rense.com/general63/ang.htm
[This article doesn’t say anything about the guy not stopping at the checkpoint or anything.]
The deputy commander of the Iraqi army in western Al-Anbar province was shot dead by US troops at a checkpoint Tuesday night, a police officer said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1324274.htm
[LICENCED firearms are not used in crimes, so to supposedly cut down on crime the government restricts law abiding citizens from having guns.
That is patently absurd just on the face of it. Maybe the government wants there to be more crime?
This is a look into the future of the US.
I say good for the South Africans for standing up for themselves with crossbows and machetes and whatever else. You can bet the government hacks down there are still surrounded by body guards with guns.]
Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime.
"We've had to build an entirely new shop because the demand from people is so great," Justin Willmers, owner of Durban Guns and Ammo, told Reuters. "It can be anything from a Zulu fighting spear, battle axes, swords, crossbows."
...
"It's not really a matter of choice," Holmes said. "Licensed firearms are not used in crime at any great rate."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20050317/od_nm/crime_safrica_crossbows_dc
[People say a lot of Americans are stupid- which is true. But we can see there is still a glimmer of rationality out there.
Why WOULD you volunteer to go get killed so the oil companies can get into a shoving match with the Pentagon? They want the war, let them fight it out.]
The appeal coincided with the release of a new congressional report that showed that the intensifying anti-American insurgency in Iraq and continued violence in Afghanistan were followed by a distinct drop in the number of volunteers willing to serve in the branches of the military that see the most combat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=16&u=/afp/20050317/ts_afp/usiraqmilitary_050317075314
[Expropriation was big wth the Communists. They would just come along and say “sorry you can’t have that anymore” and then they would take it.
This is very small scale expropriation. But when have you ever known the government not to take a mile when given an inch?]
http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/airport/airport.html
[Someone pointed out that in this picture accompanying an article about the mayor of NYC’s re-election campaign, he is pictured behind two Israeli flags. Where are the American flags? Don’t all Republicans have American flags follow them everywhere they go?]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=616&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_el_st_lo/bloomberg_political_education
[If you want to fight for freedom, there are more than enough opportunities to do it right here at home. No need to go gallavanting off to the far corners of the globe.]
Military personnel returning from Afghanistan did not get a warm welcome when they touched down in San Francisco.
KCBS reporter Margie Shafer learned that soldiers fighting the war on terror were not allowed to disembark this week, because of security concerns.
The soldiers landed on a chartered ATA aircraft, but were forced to remain on the plane for three hours, while it refueled.
http://kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=67112569&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers
[The problem with this is the same as with the cops railroading someone into jail when there is a big media circus over some crime.
If you don’t have the correct person in jail, it means the real perpetrator is still out there walking around free to do whatever, whenever.]
Three years after the United States opened its prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, 65 detainees have been handed over to their home countries but none has been convicted of any crime.
...
What is clear to me is that my government is unable to charge them here and when they go abroad, there is not a shred of evidence to charge them there either. It looks like they got the wrong people," said Michael Ratner, an attorney for several Guantanamo detainees.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050317/ts_nm/rights_detainees_dc
[Those seminary students are not so good I think.
See also this story:
“Christians in Jerusalem have attacked what they say is the increasingly common phenomenon of ultra-orthodox Jews spitting on them.
The statement followed a brawl between an orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) student and an Armenian archbishop.
They clashed in Jerusalem's Old City after the student spat at a cross being carried by the clergyman during a procession near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/13/wspit13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/13/ixnewstop.html
This is on the same subject:
“A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.”
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412]
Jewish settlers wielding clubs and stones have attacked a group of Palestinian labourers entering the West Bank settlement of Nahliel.
Israeli police said 30 to 40 Jewish seminary students attacked eight men employed early on Thursday.
Three of the Palestinians needed hospital treatment in nearby Ramallah after the assault which left at least one man unconscious.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4358935.stm
[June 29, 1989]
http://www.bartcop.com/wtpage1.gif
[Has anyone else noticed no one seems to be able to actually use correct words to form English sentences anymore?
It is obvious in the following they meant “in light of other problems”, but instead it says “in lieu of other problems”.
I see this literally every day.
I got an email earlier that was trying to refer to someone’s “prospective depature”, but instead it referred to their “perspective departure”, possibly the result of some sort of drug use?
Haha.
I think this is a sign of the country slipping back into illiteracy. People just hear a word and they try to re-produce the sound without knowing precisely what the word is, or probably what it means either.]
The discovery of the e-mails ``really casts the project in a real bad light. In lieu of the other problems, it might be the one that pushes it over the edge to cancellation,'' said Bob Loux, Nevada state Nuclear Projects director and Gov. Kenny Guinn's chief anti-Yucca administrator.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4871579,00.html
The new method seems to be working, though. One week of incessant drumming has cleared 18 percent of the backlog.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-11T133402Z_01_DEL28902_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-INDIA-TAX-DC.XML
[The Justice Department doesn’t believe in the Constitution and also thinks statues shouldn’t expose their breasts. I’m not sure I would be relying too heavily on their judgement.]
President Bush said on Wednesday that the U.S. government's practice of sending packaged news stories to local television stations was legal and he had no plans to cease it.
His defense of the packages, which are designed to look like television news segments, came after they were deemed a form of covert propaganda by the Government Accountability Office watchdog agency.
GAO, an arm of Congress, said this ran counter to appropriation laws and was a misuse of federal funds.
But Bush cited a Justice Department opinion that disagreed with the GAO.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7923729
[This is one of those things, is this opposition group saying this because it wants this to happen or because it actually thinks it did happen?]
"Around 3 a.m. [Wednesday], Damascus time, the Syrian Air Force bombarded two military airfields around Damascus, the air force base of Dumair, and the air force base of Katana," the opposition Lebanese Foundation for Peace said. "Also, late night around 3 a.m., the Syrian Air Force bombarded military positions of the Syrian Army west of the city of Homs."
There was no confirmation of this report. There were no unusual military movements reported in Damascus on Thursday.
http://216.26.163.62/2005/me_syria_03_17.html
[He’ll be a perfect fit. The IMF had already left the world of reality based decision making long before the Bush admin came on the scene.]
By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4358045.stm
At least 108 people have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to figures compiled by the Associated Press 0news agency.
Most deaths were violent and some 25% are being investigated as possible abuse by US personnel, the agency said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4355779.stm
No one at the Pentagon has plans to stick G.I.s in giant, six-legged,
super-strong robots. Yet. But you've got to figure it's only a matter of time,
now that a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere is building the machines for
new-jack lumberjacks.
In the works for a decade and a half, the Plustech Oy Walking Machine is
supposed to be an eco-friendly, log-hauling monstrosity; its six massive legs
spreads the weight of the machine evenly, the company claims, to minimize any
impact on the forest soil.
http:/
/www.defensetech.org/archives/001436.html
A truck driver was killed and partially eaten by a 9ft alligator which had
overcome its natural fear of humans after being fed tidbits by locals in
Florida.
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1527867,00.html
Biologists with the Idaho National Guard have discovered a new species of fairy
shrimp living in the oft-dry lake beds of Idaho's desert.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor
y&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20050316/ap_on_sc/new_species
[This guy is right. There is no way you can prevent 100% percent of terrorist
attacks. If your enemy is determined they will find a way. The key is to not
have an enemy who is determined and wants to take you down. Impossible? Then why
isn't Costa Rica spending billions on so-called "homeland security"?
Or Switzerland. Switzerland is as rich as anywhere, and as free as anywhere. Why
aren't they concerned about terrorism the way our government claims to be?
The funding thing is right too. When I did a paper on terrorism for school way
back in 1995 that was the consensus opinion of everyone in the world who had
ever successfully stopped a terrorist attack. Cut off the money and they can't
do anything.]
So, when Loizeaux talks about whether to spend money and time on strengthening
San Francisco's gorgeous orange span, he's persuasive. "No matter what man
builds," says Loizeaux, "he can take it down." In his view, no
security measures will stop terrorists from destroying the span if they want to.
"Whenever I'm asked to put on a terrorist's hat," Loizeaux continues,
"I say, 'You can't stop me.'"
...
If I were a terrorist," Loizeaux continues, "I'd just bide my
time." Loizeaux would much prefer that counterterrorism efforts focus on
interdiction or cutting off funding to terrorist groups. "We need to take
the fight to them," he says.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/03/16/ggbridge
4.DTL
"187,257 animals die in actual DOD labs, and 139,840 suffer in non-DOD labs funded by DOD contracts."
...
"We have found scores of military tests that kill animals and serve no realistic military purpose."
"...military experimenters use pigs to experiment with laser tattoo removal and use rats, pigeons, and squirrel monkeys to study drug abuse...
Brucellosis, anthrax, dengue fever, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, equine infectious anemia, and the filoviruses ebola and marburg are being tested in other military experiments...
Mustard gas, first used in World War I, continues to be a favorite agent for Department of Defense animal experimenters. Yet good treatments are already available and are easy to use."
Seems to me like a bunch of wackos making out like bandits in two different ways: cashing in at taxpayer expense with a thoroughly useless career and getting off on killing animals like a five-year-old pulling the legs off a lizard.
http://www.antiwar.com/jeremy/?articleid=1866
[[The Prophet said: 'Do not set up living creatures as a target'. (Narrated by Abdullah bin Abbas. Muslim Vol. 3, Hadith No. 1957. Also 'Robson'; p. 872 (Ref. No. 15).
The Prophet(s) condemned those who use a living creature as a target." (Narrated by Abdullah bin'Omar. Bukhari and Muslim. Also 'Robson' p. 872 (Ref. No. 15)).
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an2.htm]
The Israeli Army is blowing up unanesthetized pigs with scud missile explosives and conducting other experiments on dogs, monkeys, doves, mice, toads and guinea pigs that are so cruel that soldiers monitoring the tests have required psychological counseling, and some doctors have refused to participate in the "research" on dogs.
A lengthy article in the March 17, 2000, issue of Ha'aretz, Israelís most respected daily newspaper, reported that horrific experiments are carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on animals. The article asks, "Is it really necessary to kill so many animals for the security of Israel?"
A soldier described one experiment on pigs supposedly performed to examine the effect on living beings of a powerful explosion such as that caused by a Scud missile. The bound pigs were placed in trailers that were blown up:
"I still have nightmares about what happened next. Even though we were quite a distance from the blast site, we immediately heard horrific screeching from inside the trailer. When we opened the door, we had to turn our heads away. The pigs were lying there, crying and squealing. It was obvious that the blast wave had blown them up internally and that the glass that flew in all directions from the shattered windows had cut them on the outside. The walls were covered with blood, urine and feces of the bound pigs. They looked at us with wide, beseeching eyes that were also filled with horror.... The trailer was filthy and the stench was overpowering."
The wounded pigs were photographed and taken "screeching and bloodied" to an institute to be studied. The soldier said the memory of the tests continues to haunt him and resulted in his needing psychological counseling.
http://www.chai-online.org/haaretz.htm#expose
If animals have been subjected to cruelties in their breeding, transport, slaughter, or in their general welfare, meat from them is considered impure and unlawful to eat (Haram).
...
Saying daily prayers (salat) is one of the five most important obligations of the Moslem religion. In the following Hadith, one of his companions tells us that the holy Prophet(s) and his fellow travelers used to delay even saying their prayers until they had first given their riding and pack animals fodder and had attended to their needs: "When we stopped at a halt, we did not say our prayers until we had taken the burdens off our camels' backs and attended to their needs."
...
Mishkat Al-Masabih concluded from "Bukhari" and "Muslim" to the effect that: 'A good deed done to a beast is as good as doing good to a human being; while an act of cruelty to a beast is as bad as an act of cruelty to human beings' and that: 'Kindness to animals was promised by rewards in Life Hereafter.'
...
Prevention of physical cruelty is not enough; mental cruelty is equally important. In the following incident, a bird's emotional distress has been treated as seriously as a physical injury:
We were on a journey with the Apostle of God(s), and he left us for a while. During his absence, we saw a bird called hummara with its two young and took the young ones. The mother bird was circling above us in the air, beating its wings in grief, when the Prophet came back and said: 'who has hurt the FEELINGS of this bird by taking its young? Return them to her'.
http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/an/an2.htm
The Department of Defense has operated “wound labs” since 1957. At these sites, conscious or semiconscious animals are suspended from slings and shot with high-powered weapons to inflict battle-like injuries for military surgical practice. In 1983, in response to public pressure, Congress limited the use of dogs in these labs, but countless goats, pigs, and sheep are still being shot, and at least one laboratory continues to shoot cats. At the Army's Fort Sam Houston “Goat Lab,” goats are hung upside down and shot in their hind legs. After physicians practice excising the wounds, any goat who survives is killed
http://www.peta.org/feat/military/index.html
[It’s a tribute to the human mind that we can sit here and scratch our heads over a question like “why is this space ship accelerating less than a nanometre per second per second more than it should be?” How can we even distinguish such small amounts?
The Japanese have a saying “Three heads have the wisdom of the Buddha”, or we would say in English “Two heads are better than one”.
See what people can do when they work together one something vaguely useful or interesting.]
13 Things That Do
Not Make Sense
http://www.rense.com/general63/sense.htm
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's decision to lay a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat while on his way to the dedication of a Holocaust museum in Israel is infuriating New York politicians and Jewish leaders, some of whom are labeling Mr. Annan's gesture "outrageous," "grotesque," and an example of "mindless incompetence."
http://www.nysun.com/article/10695
[Let me let you in on a little secret, mad cow disease was already here long before the so-called first case was discovered and the government is doing virtually zero about it. If you get a degenerative neurological disorder that is too bad for you.]
The effectiveness of the most important U.S. safeguard against mad cow disease was questioned Monday when a government report accused the Food and Drug Administration of overstating feed mill compliance with a ban on cattle remains in animal feed.
http://www.rense.com/general63/compliance.htm
[Wars and rumors of wars.]
* There will be an eventual cutoff of oil to the U.S once an attack on Bushehr occurs. The situation in the US will be worse than 1973.
* The US is going to war and Syria and Iran will be hit. Field commanders have the authority and a green light to go any time.
* Iran has had nuclear weapons since 1991.
http://www.rense.com/general63/russiaplanswartodefend.htm
[Jackals vs. Hyenas]
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.
Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protestors claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq's oil once Saddam had been conquered.
In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists."
http://www.rense.com/general63/decc.htm
[I think the problem with this is the same as the problem with oil. Even if the whole bottom of the ocean were paved with methane, we can’t just pump it all up here and burn it because what are we going to breathe?
Keep in mind in the future we can be 100% certain that there will be less plant life on the solid surface of the Earth and there is a good bet there will be less in the oceans as well. So where are we going to get air to breathe at all, let alone how are we going to breathe if there is not only decreased oxygen, but increased smog?]
With luck and careful management, hydrates could be an important future source of energy, said Boswell.
Japanese and Canadian research in the Arctic has proven that economically viable quantities of methane can be obtained from onshore hydrates, he said. While Alaska's land-based Arctic methane hydrates are limited, the amount of offshore marine hydrates there and elsewhere is far greater.
"I hold out great hope for this (marine hydrates) as a significant domestic energy source in the far future," said Boswell.
http://www.rense.com/general63/froz.htm
Israel indicted Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for leaking details of the country's nuclear program, for breaking the terms of his release that barred him from talking to the international press.
http://www.rense.com/general63/vanu.htm
Canada faced anger over its handling of the 1985 Air India bombings on Thursday, after the acquittal of two Sikh activists charged with one of the world's deadliest acts of aviation sabotage.
The verdict stunned many, including relatives of the 329 people killed on Air India Flight 182, and prompted a newspaper in Vancouver -- where the bombing conspiracy was alleged to be based -- to ask a front page headline; "So who did it?".
http://www.rense.com/general63/ang.htm
[This article doesn’t say anything about the guy not stopping at the checkpoint or anything.]
The deputy commander of the Iraqi army in western Al-Anbar province was shot dead by US troops at a checkpoint Tuesday night, a police officer said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1324274.htm
[LICENCED firearms are not used in crimes, so to supposedly cut down on crime the government restricts law abiding citizens from having guns.
That is patently absurd just on the face of it. Maybe the government wants there to be more crime?
This is a look into the future of the US.
I say good for the South Africans for standing up for themselves with crossbows and machetes and whatever else. You can bet the government hacks down there are still surrounded by body guards with guns.]
Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime.
"We've had to build an entirely new shop because the demand from people is so great," Justin Willmers, owner of Durban Guns and Ammo, told Reuters. "It can be anything from a Zulu fighting spear, battle axes, swords, crossbows."
...
"It's not really a matter of choice," Holmes said. "Licensed firearms are not used in crime at any great rate."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20050317/od_nm/crime_safrica_crossbows_dc
[People say a lot of Americans are stupid- which is true. But we can see there is still a glimmer of rationality out there.
Why WOULD you volunteer to go get killed so the oil companies can get into a shoving match with the Pentagon? They want the war, let them fight it out.]
The appeal coincided with the release of a new congressional report that showed that the intensifying anti-American insurgency in Iraq and continued violence in Afghanistan were followed by a distinct drop in the number of volunteers willing to serve in the branches of the military that see the most combat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=16&u=/afp/20050317/ts_afp/usiraqmilitary_050317075314
[Expropriation was big wth the Communists. They would just come along and say “sorry you can’t have that anymore” and then they would take it.
This is very small scale expropriation. But when have you ever known the government not to take a mile when given an inch?]
http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/airport/airport.html
[Someone pointed out that in this picture accompanying an article about the mayor of NYC’s re-election campaign, he is pictured behind two Israeli flags. Where are the American flags? Don’t all Republicans have American flags follow them everywhere they go?]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=616&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_el_st_lo/bloomberg_political_education
[If you want to fight for freedom, there are more than enough opportunities to do it right here at home. No need to go gallavanting off to the far corners of the globe.]
Military personnel returning from Afghanistan did not get a warm welcome when they touched down in San Francisco.
KCBS reporter Margie Shafer learned that soldiers fighting the war on terror were not allowed to disembark this week, because of security concerns.
The soldiers landed on a chartered ATA aircraft, but were forced to remain on the plane for three hours, while it refueled.
http://kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=67112569&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers
[The problem with this is the same as with the cops railroading someone into jail when there is a big media circus over some crime.
If you don’t have the correct person in jail, it means the real perpetrator is still out there walking around free to do whatever, whenever.]
Three years after the United States opened its prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, 65 detainees have been handed over to their home countries but none has been convicted of any crime.
...
What is clear to me is that my government is unable to charge them here and when they go abroad, there is not a shred of evidence to charge them there either. It looks like they got the wrong people," said Michael Ratner, an attorney for several Guantanamo detainees.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050317/ts_nm/rights_detainees_dc
[Those seminary students are not so good I think.
See also this story:
“Christians in Jerusalem have attacked what they say is the increasingly common phenomenon of ultra-orthodox Jews spitting on them.
The statement followed a brawl between an orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) student and an Armenian archbishop.
They clashed in Jerusalem's Old City after the student spat at a cross being carried by the clergyman during a procession near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/13/wspit13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/13/ixnewstop.html
This is on the same subject:
“A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face.”
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412]
Jewish settlers wielding clubs and stones have attacked a group of Palestinian labourers entering the West Bank settlement of Nahliel.
Israeli police said 30 to 40 Jewish seminary students attacked eight men employed early on Thursday.
Three of the Palestinians needed hospital treatment in nearby Ramallah after the assault which left at least one man unconscious.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4358935.stm
[June 29, 1989]
http://www.bartcop.com/wtpage1.gif
[Has anyone else noticed no one seems to be able to actually use correct words to form English sentences anymore?
It is obvious in the following they meant “in light of other problems”, but instead it says “in lieu of other problems”.
I see this literally every day.
I got an email earlier that was trying to refer to someone’s “prospective depature”, but instead it referred to their “perspective departure”, possibly the result of some sort of drug use?
Haha.
I think this is a sign of the country slipping back into illiteracy. People just hear a word and they try to re-produce the sound without knowing precisely what the word is, or probably what it means either.]
The discovery of the e-mails ``really casts the project in a real bad light. In lieu of the other problems, it might be the one that pushes it over the edge to cancellation,'' said Bob Loux, Nevada state Nuclear Projects director and Gov. Kenny Guinn's chief anti-Yucca administrator.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4871579,00.html
The new method seems to be working, though. One week of incessant drumming has cleared 18 percent of the backlog.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-11T133402Z_01_DEL28902_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-INDIA-TAX-DC.XML
[The Justice Department doesn’t believe in the Constitution and also thinks statues shouldn’t expose their breasts. I’m not sure I would be relying too heavily on their judgement.]
President Bush said on Wednesday that the U.S. government's practice of sending packaged news stories to local television stations was legal and he had no plans to cease it.
His defense of the packages, which are designed to look like television news segments, came after they were deemed a form of covert propaganda by the Government Accountability Office watchdog agency.
GAO, an arm of Congress, said this ran counter to appropriation laws and was a misuse of federal funds.
But Bush cited a Justice Department opinion that disagreed with the GAO.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7923729
[This is one of those things, is this opposition group saying this because it wants this to happen or because it actually thinks it did happen?]
"Around 3 a.m. [Wednesday], Damascus time, the Syrian Air Force bombarded two military airfields around Damascus, the air force base of Dumair, and the air force base of Katana," the opposition Lebanese Foundation for Peace said. "Also, late night around 3 a.m., the Syrian Air Force bombarded military positions of the Syrian Army west of the city of Homs."
There was no confirmation of this report. There were no unusual military movements reported in Damascus on Thursday.
http://216.26.163.62/2005/me_syria_03_17.html
[He’ll be a perfect fit. The IMF had already left the world of reality based decision making long before the Bush admin came on the scene.]
By nominating Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank, President George Bush appears to be sending a message to the world that he intends to spread into development policy the same neo-conservative philosophy that has led his foreign policy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4358045.stm
At least 108 people have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to figures compiled by the Associated Press 0news agency.
Most deaths were violent and some 25% are being investigated as possible abuse by US personnel, the agency said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4355779.stm
No one at the Pentagon has plans to stick G.I.s in giant, six-legged,
super-strong robots. Yet. But you've got to figure it's only a matter of time,
now that a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere is building the machines for
new-jack lumberjacks.
In the works for a decade and a half, the Plustech Oy Walking Machine is
supposed to be an eco-friendly, log-hauling monstrosity; its six massive legs
spreads the weight of the machine evenly, the company claims, to minimize any
impact on the forest soil.
http:/
/www.defensetech.org/archives/001436.html
A truck driver was killed and partially eaten by a 9ft alligator which had
overcome its natural fear of humans after being fed tidbits by locals in
Florida.
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1527867,00.html
Biologists with the Idaho National Guard have discovered a new species of fairy
shrimp living in the oft-dry lake beds of Idaho's desert.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor
y&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20050316/ap_on_sc/new_species
[This guy is right. There is no way you can prevent 100% percent of terrorist
attacks. If your enemy is determined they will find a way. The key is to not
have an enemy who is determined and wants to take you down. Impossible? Then why
isn't Costa Rica spending billions on so-called "homeland security"?
Or Switzerland. Switzerland is as rich as anywhere, and as free as anywhere. Why
aren't they concerned about terrorism the way our government claims to be?
The funding thing is right too. When I did a paper on terrorism for school way
back in 1995 that was the consensus opinion of everyone in the world who had
ever successfully stopped a terrorist attack. Cut off the money and they can't
do anything.]
So, when Loizeaux talks about whether to spend money and time on strengthening
San Francisco's gorgeous orange span, he's persuasive. "No matter what man
builds," says Loizeaux, "he can take it down." In his view, no
security measures will stop terrorists from destroying the span if they want to.
"Whenever I'm asked to put on a terrorist's hat," Loizeaux continues,
"I say, 'You can't stop me.'"
...
If I were a terrorist," Loizeaux continues, "I'd just bide my
time." Loizeaux would much prefer that counterterrorism efforts focus on
interdiction or cutting off funding to terrorist groups. "We need to take
the fight to them," he says.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/03/16/ggbridge
4.DTL
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