A little late
It has hardly been noticed, but it is another sinister warning sign of a world going badly wrong. Populations of some of Britain's most attractive woodland birds are plummeting at a rate that threatens them with extinction, and nobody knows why.
Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation.
http://www.rense.com/general63/birnumr.htm
[I’m sure in the next war they’ll be able to get the percentage of permanently disabled soldiers up to 100%]
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”
Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.”
He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.
http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml
SafeMinds announced today its opposition of HR 650, inappropriately titled "The Vaccine Accessibility for Children and Seniors Act of 2005," which removes a legal remedy for those injured by vaccines. The title of Rep. Ric Keller's (FL-8) bill is deceptive in that it exclusively addresses product liability lawsuits against vaccine makers.
HR 650 addresses neither increased access to vaccines for children nor seniors; rather the legislation seeks to impose barriers to legal remedies for the vaccine-injured, including those injured from exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. SafeMinds is the nation's leading organization fighting to rid mercury from all medicines and promoting treatment research for those already injured.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=43618
[Why does world literaute deserve a magnificent fraud?]
A Holocaust survivor memoir that has received prestigious literary awards and lavish praise has been exposed as a hoax.
In Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, Binjamin Wilkomirski describes his ordeal as an infant in the Jewish ghetto of Riga (Latvia), where his earliest memory is of seeing his father being killed. Wilkomirski also tells how he survived the terrible rigors of wartime internment, at the age of three or four, in the German-run concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz.
First published in German in 1995, Fragments has been translated into twelve languages. In Switzerland, the country where Wilkomirski lives, the book has been a major best-seller. Two documentary films and numerous personal appearances by the author in schools throughout the country have helped promote the memoir.
The American edition was published by Schocken, an imprint of Random House, which heavily promoted the book with teachers' study guides and other supplementary materials.
Jewish groups and major American newspapers have warmly praised Fragments. The New York Times called it "stunning," and the Los Angeles Times lauded it as a "classic first-hand account of the Holocaust." It received the 1996 National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography and Memoir, while in Britain it was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize, and in France the Prix Memoire de la Shoah.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC -- a federal government agency -- was so impressed that it sent Wilkomirski on a six-city United States fund-raising tour last fall.
This past summer, though, compelling evidence came to light exposing Wilkomirski's memoir as an literary hoax.
...
Reaction by Jewish Holocaust scholars to the new revelations has been instructive, because they seem more concerned about propagandistic impact than about historical truth. Their primary regret seems merely to be that the fraud has been detected, not that it was perpetrated.
In an essay published in a major Canadian newspaper (Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 18, 1998), Jewish writer Judith Shulevitz arrogantly argued that it doesn't really matter much if Fragments is authentic. Her main misgiving, apparently, is that the deceit was not more adroit: "I can't help wishing Wilkomirksi-Doesseker [sic] had been more subtle in his efforts at deception, and produced the magnificent fraud world literature deserves."
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n5p15_Weber.html
[How do you get ahead in the army if you don’t like people telling you what to do? Isn’t that kind of one of the defining features of an army as opposed to say, a mob.
Parts of this article sound familiar form some otehr article I read in the last few days.]
Harleigh Marsh was tough enough to scrape ice from the frozen deck of a Navy aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic. Smart enough to strip and rebuild a cockpit. And responsible enough to maintain survival gear for pilots. So when he found himself homeless six years ago, he figured he could handle it.
Like many of the estimated 500,000 veterans who will become homeless at some point this year, Marsh had the "Army of one" mentality that the armed forces demand.
"When a squadron or something needs you, you don't ask questions. You never say no. You salute and you do the job," he says. "And when you get out, you don't want people telling you what to do."
Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population. In West Virginia, where Marsh now struggles to rebuild his life, one in nine people is a veteran - the highest per capita rate in the nation in the 2000 census.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050228/D88HL2N80.html
[“Potemkin village” journalism. I like that phrase. I wish it would catch on, but I doubt it will.
For those of you who may not recall, Potemkin villages were fake villages set up by the Soviets in their early days to show the glorious progress of the Communist Revolution. Foreigners would be taken tot he villages where people who were essentially actors would go through the motions of building a socialist utopia and so on and talk to the foreign visitors and try to give them the impression that all of the uSSR was just like these villages.]
But the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert saga is far from over. It remains unclear how a graduate of a conservative training program, someone with no previous journalism experience, someone whose writings were often lifted directly from White House press releases, still managed to gain access to the White House press room, where he spent two years lobbing gentle questions at the press secretary and the President.
And some political analysts who monitor President Bush's relations with the media insist that Gannon (who, referring to Democrats, recently asked Bush, "How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?") should not be viewed as an isolated case. Rather, they contend that Gannon is symptomatic of a broader White House strategy to undermine the traditional media by disseminating the Bush message in creative new ways.
...
Larry Gross, who runs the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, says: "Richard Nixon hated the press, Bill Clinton hated the press - but they accepted the basic rules of the game. Bush has a strategy of discrediting, end-running, and even faking the news. Those prepackaged videos sent to local TV stations `looked' like news, much the way Gannon `looked' like a reporter. We're seeing something new: Potemkin-village journalism."
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/11013030.htm
The dollar wilted against the euro in the face of renewed concern over the huge US current account deficit and ahead of a closely-watched jobs report to be published in the United States.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/134955/1/.html
[“Identity Theft” is an invented problem. It is like toxic industrial waste getting into your food. Unless you have a twin who knows everything about you, you could never be a victim of “identity theft” in the real world.
Identity theft exists because of the unauthorized numbering, tracking, and cross referencing of whole populations for purposes which are of no benefit to them.
This is precisely the same process the Nazis engaged in with regards to the Jews, Gypsies, and others in Europe. Before they went out and killed them they developed detailed files on who was who, who had which grandparents, where these people lived, where they worked, just exactly what is happening to EVERYONE now.]
Only a world where children don’t exist unless they are written on a piece of paper can oyu have identity theft.
Until this month, you'd probably never heard of ChoicePoint. But ChoicePoint undoubtedly has heard of you.
The company is a data broker that boasts a collection of 17 billion public records. The records span everything from birth dates and addresses to driver's license and Social Security (news - web sites) numbers - just enough information to cause trouble if it gets into the wrong hands.
And it did.
The company, duped by criminals masquerading as business owners, gave up personal information on 145,000 people last year. For months, as police investigated, the consumer-victims weren't told.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&ncid=742&e=4&u=/usatoday/20050228/cm_usatoday/fewcompanieshavetotellwhenidentitythievesstrike
[If you break them in to it when they’re young, they won’t mind when they’re older.]
It used to be that teenagers had to worry about their little brother or sister snitching on them. Now, Big Brother is watching, too.
A new class of monitoring devices is hitting the market that lets parents keep close tabs on how their kids are behaving behind the wheel - whether they're driving recklessly, whether they're wearing seat belts, whether they are really just going to the library like they promised.
Based on technology long used by trucking companies to track driver behavior, the gadgets, which typically are installed under the dashboard, can track a vehicle's acceleration, braking and distance traveled.
Some of the new devices are interactive, capable of notifying parents if their child speeds or drives beyond a predefined boundary - like to a boyfriend's house, or Tijuana. Depending on the product, the alerts come via e-mail, phone or logging onto a Web site.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/63345.php
[I’m sure these Arabic language broadcasts will be very efective with Germany’s large population of Turkish speakers who don’t even like Arabs.]
The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism, officials say.
Three-and-a-half years after Islamic militants based in Germany helped mount the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S.-backed TV channel Alhurra expects to transmit 24-hour programming to European Muslim communities seen as potential breeding grounds of extremism.
France and Germany, which have Western Europe's largest Muslim populations, would be a special focus for news and current affairs programs intended to promote an American ethic of free speech and open debate, officials say.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/63369.php
Britain is threatened by “several hundred” people within its borders who are planning terrorist attacks, Prime Minister Tony Blair warned today.
Defending the controversial new anti-terrorism powers in the Prevention of Terrorism Bill – which is due to complete its remaining Commons stages tonight – Mr Blair said the security services and police were adamant that they need increased powers to combat the threat.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4189103
A Republican lawmaker in Maine has introduced a bill to prohibit abortions based on the sexual orientation of the unborn baby.
State Rep. Brian Duprey wants the Legislature to forbid a woman from ending a pregnancy because the fetus is homosexual.
He said the bill looks into the future in case scientists find what he described as a "homosexual gene."
"I have heard from women who told me that if they found out that they were carrying a child with the gay gene, then they would abort. I think this is wrong," said Duprey, who got the idea while listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43058
The ultimate irony is that Luntz points to a foreigner (my bad) internationalist Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger as the poster he-man for the most effective way to discuss the American economy’s relationship with trade: “To those critics who are pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don’t be economic girlie men.” Luntz tells us to pump up American exceptionalism, just like Arnold, and “talk about the economy, but talk about it in terms of perseverance, stamina, and WINNING.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm
A federal judge in Spartanburg has ordered that an American citizen held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig in Charleston should be released.
U.S. District Judge Henry F. Floyd ruled Monday that the president of the United States does not have the authority to order Jose Padilla to be held.
"If the law in its current state is found by the president to be insufficient to protect this country from terrorist plots, such as the one alleged here, then the president should prevail upon Congress to remedy the problem," he wrote.
In the ruling, Floyd said that three court cases that the government used to make its claim did not sufficiently apply to Padilla's case.
http://www.rense.com/general63/jose.htm
Former CIA Agent On
Who Controls The Film Business
http://www.rense.com/general63/film.htm
[The Indians are always claiming to be working on all this weirdo stuff. I wish they would hurry up and get one of their schemes off the ground.
9 out of 10 UFOs recommend our brand dark matter.]
Bangalore is the city of computer scientists. In the middle of hustle and bustle of cyber research and development, a group of engineers and astrophysicist are close to announcing a most major breakthrough in the history of the mankind.
They are working on a concept that can provide cheap source of anti-gravity propulsion though the use 'dark energy' - a controversial subject matter in the world of astrophysics. Sources tell us that the secret project is funded by the Indian Space research Organization (ISRO) and DRDO, the defense research establishment in India. We could not confirm the source of the funding and who are really involved in the project.
...
The project leader of this group laughs at the critics and the universal skepticism. According to them, if you keep an open mind you will get an answer. All extra-terrestrial UFOs use dark energy to perform intergalactic travel at a speed faster than light.
http://www.rense.com/general63/dark.htm
[this sounds interesting.]
Nanosolar, Inc., is focused on making solar electricity ubiquitous through new solar-cell technology with profitable customer economics and unprecedented production volume scalability.
Unprecedented cost advantages result from its solar cells being two orders of magnitude thinner than those commonly found on the market today as well as the economics of simply being able to print them with high yield and materials utilization using the company’s proprietary nanostructured semiconductor paint. Unprecedented production volume scalability results from the high throughput possible with inexpensive non-vacuum roll-to-roll printing processes.
Nanosolar’s products are designed to streamline integration, distribution, and installation. Depending on a customer’s system configuration, this can realize significant further total-system cost savings.
http://www.nanosolar.com/
[What happens when you get a babboon heart?]
She'd heard similar stories - of people who get donor hearts, develop new and surprising tastes and traits, then trace them to the donor. It's an eerie phenomenon that has triggered controversy and skepticism.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/63240.php
Archaeologists excavating a 17th century site in Cornwall, England have found 22 mysterious, rectangular pits lined with swan feathers, according to the dig's overseer, Jacqui Wood.
Wood, who is the director of Saveock Water Archaeology in Cornwall, told Discovery News that she suspects the pits could provide evidence for a "secret swan sect" that existed at around 1640, a time in British history when the practice of pagan rituals could have led to a death sentence.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050221/swancult.html
The lack of a long-term outlook is summed up in a question posed by one of Diamond’s students: “What was the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island thinking?”
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1023
Precipitous declines in the numbers of some species, of up to four-fifths, have been registered over the past 30 years, but scientists are just realising what is happening, and they have no simple explanation.
http://www.rense.com/general63/birnumr.htm
[I’m sure in the next war they’ll be able to get the percentage of permanently disabled soldiers up to 100%]
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US Military.”
Bernklau continued, “This malady (from uranium munitions), that thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The terrible truth is now being revealed.”
He added, “Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead! By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of ‘Disabled Vets’ means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems!” The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam.
http://www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml
SafeMinds announced today its opposition of HR 650, inappropriately titled "The Vaccine Accessibility for Children and Seniors Act of 2005," which removes a legal remedy for those injured by vaccines. The title of Rep. Ric Keller's (FL-8) bill is deceptive in that it exclusively addresses product liability lawsuits against vaccine makers.
HR 650 addresses neither increased access to vaccines for children nor seniors; rather the legislation seeks to impose barriers to legal remedies for the vaccine-injured, including those injured from exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. SafeMinds is the nation's leading organization fighting to rid mercury from all medicines and promoting treatment research for those already injured.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=43618
[Why does world literaute deserve a magnificent fraud?]
A Holocaust survivor memoir that has received prestigious literary awards and lavish praise has been exposed as a hoax.
In Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, Binjamin Wilkomirski describes his ordeal as an infant in the Jewish ghetto of Riga (Latvia), where his earliest memory is of seeing his father being killed. Wilkomirski also tells how he survived the terrible rigors of wartime internment, at the age of three or four, in the German-run concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz.
First published in German in 1995, Fragments has been translated into twelve languages. In Switzerland, the country where Wilkomirski lives, the book has been a major best-seller. Two documentary films and numerous personal appearances by the author in schools throughout the country have helped promote the memoir.
The American edition was published by Schocken, an imprint of Random House, which heavily promoted the book with teachers' study guides and other supplementary materials.
Jewish groups and major American newspapers have warmly praised Fragments. The New York Times called it "stunning," and the Los Angeles Times lauded it as a "classic first-hand account of the Holocaust." It received the 1996 National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography and Memoir, while in Britain it was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize, and in France the Prix Memoire de la Shoah.
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC -- a federal government agency -- was so impressed that it sent Wilkomirski on a six-city United States fund-raising tour last fall.
This past summer, though, compelling evidence came to light exposing Wilkomirski's memoir as an literary hoax.
...
Reaction by Jewish Holocaust scholars to the new revelations has been instructive, because they seem more concerned about propagandistic impact than about historical truth. Their primary regret seems merely to be that the fraud has been detected, not that it was perpetrated.
In an essay published in a major Canadian newspaper (Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 18, 1998), Jewish writer Judith Shulevitz arrogantly argued that it doesn't really matter much if Fragments is authentic. Her main misgiving, apparently, is that the deceit was not more adroit: "I can't help wishing Wilkomirksi-Doesseker [sic] had been more subtle in his efforts at deception, and produced the magnificent fraud world literature deserves."
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n5p15_Weber.html
[How do you get ahead in the army if you don’t like people telling you what to do? Isn’t that kind of one of the defining features of an army as opposed to say, a mob.
Parts of this article sound familiar form some otehr article I read in the last few days.]
Harleigh Marsh was tough enough to scrape ice from the frozen deck of a Navy aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic. Smart enough to strip and rebuild a cockpit. And responsible enough to maintain survival gear for pilots. So when he found himself homeless six years ago, he figured he could handle it.
Like many of the estimated 500,000 veterans who will become homeless at some point this year, Marsh had the "Army of one" mentality that the armed forces demand.
"When a squadron or something needs you, you don't ask questions. You never say no. You salute and you do the job," he says. "And when you get out, you don't want people telling you what to do."
Veterans account for nearly one-third of all homeless men in America, even though the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says they comprise only 13 percent of adult males in the general population. In West Virginia, where Marsh now struggles to rebuild his life, one in nine people is a veteran - the highest per capita rate in the nation in the 2000 census.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050228/D88HL2N80.html
[“Potemkin village” journalism. I like that phrase. I wish it would catch on, but I doubt it will.
For those of you who may not recall, Potemkin villages were fake villages set up by the Soviets in their early days to show the glorious progress of the Communist Revolution. Foreigners would be taken tot he villages where people who were essentially actors would go through the motions of building a socialist utopia and so on and talk to the foreign visitors and try to give them the impression that all of the uSSR was just like these villages.]
But the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert saga is far from over. It remains unclear how a graduate of a conservative training program, someone with no previous journalism experience, someone whose writings were often lifted directly from White House press releases, still managed to gain access to the White House press room, where he spent two years lobbing gentle questions at the press secretary and the President.
And some political analysts who monitor President Bush's relations with the media insist that Gannon (who, referring to Democrats, recently asked Bush, "How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?") should not be viewed as an isolated case. Rather, they contend that Gannon is symptomatic of a broader White House strategy to undermine the traditional media by disseminating the Bush message in creative new ways.
...
Larry Gross, who runs the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, says: "Richard Nixon hated the press, Bill Clinton hated the press - but they accepted the basic rules of the game. Bush has a strategy of discrediting, end-running, and even faking the news. Those prepackaged videos sent to local TV stations `looked' like news, much the way Gannon `looked' like a reporter. We're seeing something new: Potemkin-village journalism."
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/11013030.htm
The dollar wilted against the euro in the face of renewed concern over the huge US current account deficit and ahead of a closely-watched jobs report to be published in the United States.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/134955/1/.html
[“Identity Theft” is an invented problem. It is like toxic industrial waste getting into your food. Unless you have a twin who knows everything about you, you could never be a victim of “identity theft” in the real world.
Identity theft exists because of the unauthorized numbering, tracking, and cross referencing of whole populations for purposes which are of no benefit to them.
This is precisely the same process the Nazis engaged in with regards to the Jews, Gypsies, and others in Europe. Before they went out and killed them they developed detailed files on who was who, who had which grandparents, where these people lived, where they worked, just exactly what is happening to EVERYONE now.]
Only a world where children don’t exist unless they are written on a piece of paper can oyu have identity theft.
Until this month, you'd probably never heard of ChoicePoint. But ChoicePoint undoubtedly has heard of you.
The company is a data broker that boasts a collection of 17 billion public records. The records span everything from birth dates and addresses to driver's license and Social Security (news - web sites) numbers - just enough information to cause trouble if it gets into the wrong hands.
And it did.
The company, duped by criminals masquerading as business owners, gave up personal information on 145,000 people last year. For months, as police investigated, the consumer-victims weren't told.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&ncid=742&e=4&u=/usatoday/20050228/cm_usatoday/fewcompanieshavetotellwhenidentitythievesstrike
[If you break them in to it when they’re young, they won’t mind when they’re older.]
It used to be that teenagers had to worry about their little brother or sister snitching on them. Now, Big Brother is watching, too.
A new class of monitoring devices is hitting the market that lets parents keep close tabs on how their kids are behaving behind the wheel - whether they're driving recklessly, whether they're wearing seat belts, whether they are really just going to the library like they promised.
Based on technology long used by trucking companies to track driver behavior, the gadgets, which typically are installed under the dashboard, can track a vehicle's acceleration, braking and distance traveled.
Some of the new devices are interactive, capable of notifying parents if their child speeds or drives beyond a predefined boundary - like to a boyfriend's house, or Tijuana. Depending on the product, the alerts come via e-mail, phone or logging onto a Web site.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/63345.php
[I’m sure these Arabic language broadcasts will be very efective with Germany’s large population of Turkish speakers who don’t even like Arabs.]
The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism, officials say.
Three-and-a-half years after Islamic militants based in Germany helped mount the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S.-backed TV channel Alhurra expects to transmit 24-hour programming to European Muslim communities seen as potential breeding grounds of extremism.
France and Germany, which have Western Europe's largest Muslim populations, would be a special focus for news and current affairs programs intended to promote an American ethic of free speech and open debate, officials say.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/63369.php
Britain is threatened by “several hundred” people within its borders who are planning terrorist attacks, Prime Minister Tony Blair warned today.
Defending the controversial new anti-terrorism powers in the Prevention of Terrorism Bill – which is due to complete its remaining Commons stages tonight – Mr Blair said the security services and police were adamant that they need increased powers to combat the threat.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4189103
A Republican lawmaker in Maine has introduced a bill to prohibit abortions based on the sexual orientation of the unborn baby.
State Rep. Brian Duprey wants the Legislature to forbid a woman from ending a pregnancy because the fetus is homosexual.
He said the bill looks into the future in case scientists find what he described as a "homosexual gene."
"I have heard from women who told me that if they found out that they were carrying a child with the gay gene, then they would abort. I think this is wrong," said Duprey, who got the idea while listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43058
The ultimate irony is that Luntz points to a foreigner (my bad) internationalist Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger as the poster he-man for the most effective way to discuss the American economy’s relationship with trade: “To those critics who are pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don’t be economic girlie men.” Luntz tells us to pump up American exceptionalism, just like Arnold, and “talk about the economy, but talk about it in terms of perseverance, stamina, and WINNING.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm
A federal judge in Spartanburg has ordered that an American citizen held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig in Charleston should be released.
U.S. District Judge Henry F. Floyd ruled Monday that the president of the United States does not have the authority to order Jose Padilla to be held.
"If the law in its current state is found by the president to be insufficient to protect this country from terrorist plots, such as the one alleged here, then the president should prevail upon Congress to remedy the problem," he wrote.
In the ruling, Floyd said that three court cases that the government used to make its claim did not sufficiently apply to Padilla's case.
http://www.rense.com/general63/jose.htm
Former CIA Agent On
Who Controls The Film Business
http://www.rense.com/general63/film.htm
[The Indians are always claiming to be working on all this weirdo stuff. I wish they would hurry up and get one of their schemes off the ground.
9 out of 10 UFOs recommend our brand dark matter.]
Bangalore is the city of computer scientists. In the middle of hustle and bustle of cyber research and development, a group of engineers and astrophysicist are close to announcing a most major breakthrough in the history of the mankind.
They are working on a concept that can provide cheap source of anti-gravity propulsion though the use 'dark energy' - a controversial subject matter in the world of astrophysics. Sources tell us that the secret project is funded by the Indian Space research Organization (ISRO) and DRDO, the defense research establishment in India. We could not confirm the source of the funding and who are really involved in the project.
...
The project leader of this group laughs at the critics and the universal skepticism. According to them, if you keep an open mind you will get an answer. All extra-terrestrial UFOs use dark energy to perform intergalactic travel at a speed faster than light.
http://www.rense.com/general63/dark.htm
[this sounds interesting.]
Nanosolar, Inc., is focused on making solar electricity ubiquitous through new solar-cell technology with profitable customer economics and unprecedented production volume scalability.
Unprecedented cost advantages result from its solar cells being two orders of magnitude thinner than those commonly found on the market today as well as the economics of simply being able to print them with high yield and materials utilization using the company’s proprietary nanostructured semiconductor paint. Unprecedented production volume scalability results from the high throughput possible with inexpensive non-vacuum roll-to-roll printing processes.
Nanosolar’s products are designed to streamline integration, distribution, and installation. Depending on a customer’s system configuration, this can realize significant further total-system cost savings.
http://www.nanosolar.com/
[What happens when you get a babboon heart?]
She'd heard similar stories - of people who get donor hearts, develop new and surprising tastes and traits, then trace them to the donor. It's an eerie phenomenon that has triggered controversy and skepticism.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/63240.php
Archaeologists excavating a 17th century site in Cornwall, England have found 22 mysterious, rectangular pits lined with swan feathers, according to the dig's overseer, Jacqui Wood.
Wood, who is the director of Saveock Water Archaeology in Cornwall, told Discovery News that she suspects the pits could provide evidence for a "secret swan sect" that existed at around 1640, a time in British history when the practice of pagan rituals could have led to a death sentence.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050221/swancult.html
The lack of a long-term outlook is summed up in a question posed by one of Diamond’s students: “What was the person who cut down the last tree on Easter Island thinking?”
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1023
posted by abu nakba at 3/02/2005 07:15:00 AM
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