The threats nearly turned deadly
[I just want to throw this in here before I forget. Somewhere in the past days of links is one about how the Taser company is rolling out a new line of consumer Tasers like the ones the cops use or some such thing.
I think the article was something to do with the cops not liking that idea.
Anyway, so on COPS not too long ago, I saw the theme of the episode was like “Criminals shocked by Tasers”.
Then this morning on the Howard Stern show they had a faked bit where supposedly this girl was answering trivia questions to get money for some guy whose son supposedly had cancer. And if she got a question wrong they would shock the guy with a *Taser*, the brand name. Not “stun gun” or whatever. They specifically said “Taser” about 100 times over the course of the bit.
Of course, knowing in advance that Taser is going to want to advertise their new gizmos it is easy to see these are product placements, or in other words unidentified commercials shoe-horned into actual TV show.
But the average person on the street isn’t going ot know that.
I am not sure now whether to expect to see commercials on TV with some woman shooting some guy with a Taser, or if they will just stick with their under the radar advertising campaign.]
[Killing animals for no apparent reasoni s often a sign of cult-type activity.
I have not been able to find a link to it, but it seems there was a news story in Boston within the last week or so of some endangered hawks or something being sacrificed in some kind of voodoo ritual or something.]
Three cows were shot ``execution style'' in the head on East Taunton farmland last weekend, according to investigators who hope the bullets recovered will lead them to the cruel perpetrator.
Authorities are not certain whether the incident is some sick prank or an act of someone with a grudge, according to the Brockton Enterprise.
The cows were special Black Angus breeds, valued for their succulent beef, according to the report.
Each cow has a value of over $2,000.
Investigators believe the cows were shot sometime between 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday morning.
The cows were owned by Rick Chaves of Raynham, who leases 100 acres of farmland.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=75513
A man and a teenager have been charged with forcibly tattooing an obscenity on the forehead of a 17-year-old boy, police said Monday.
Officer Craig Berry declined to describe the tattoo, except to say it was a phrase.
"It's just ludicrous that someone would do something like this to another person," Berry said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-forehead-tattoo,0,1415839.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company and the world leader in silicon photonics. Luxtera’s chips, built in production silicon CMOS, seamlessly combine the massive computational power of VLSI electronics with the virtually unlimited bandwidth and reach of fiber optic communications.
Luxtera’s team includes many of the world’s leading researchers and developers of integrated optics and electronics.
http://www.luxtera.com/
FIRST came the Angel of the North. Now motorists using the A1 are to be confronted with the far earthier figure of a giant reclining “goddess” stretching her curves alongside nearly half a mile of the dual carriageway.
The woman, with breasts and hips up to 100ft high, will be created 10 miles north of Newcastle from the waste material generated by open-cast mining, with each of her enormous curves concealing millions of tons of mining spoil.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1543249,00.html
A Roxbury mother who has ducked bullets and dodged threats since her 14-year-old son was murdered in June is demanding answers from the Boston police commissioner, saying detectives have ignored her pleas for help.
Charmise Galloway, 34, said her only son, Da-Keem, had been dead for just a few days - felled by a fatal bullet to the head - when she and her young daughters were menaced by teens suspected in the shooting.
Then, on Tuesday night, the threats nearly turned deadly when Galloway heard an explosion of gunfire as she disembarked from a bus near her Bowers Street home after an adult education class.
``When I stepped off the bus, I heard something that sounded like a grenade next to my head. There was a little boy in front of me. He yelled, `Run, lady! Run!' '' Galloway said yesterday.
``I'm scared,'' she said.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=75530
The United States is in the wake of yet another horrific school shooting - another shooting carried out by another boy reportedly taking a fluorinated pharmaceutical, Prozac. Another fluorinated drug, Luvox, was reportedly taken by one of the shooters in the Columbine tragedy. Similarly, there have been reports from US troops that bizarre, psychotic, aggressive behavior has been observed in individuals after taking Lariam, which is a fluorinated antimalarial. According to a January 2004 article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, cholesterol-lowering statins have now also been linked to aggressive, violent behavior. Lescol, Lipitor, Baycol and Crestor are all fluorinated. Baycol was removed from the market, following at least 31 known deaths from adverse symptoms.
Quite the opposite from America's ongoing lack of awareness pertaining to fluorides, fluoride toxicity has been well-known, studied and well-documented in other countries for almost a century.
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Perhaps the ongoing occurrences of rage and other unexplained, bizarre behaviors in the US, as well as the numerous epidemics now plaguing us, are, in fact, all related to the fact that two-thirds of our population is being dosed on a daily basis with a known thyroid toxin, at an unknown dose. Poison the thyroid, and the entire body as well as the mind will be affected.
The continued dosing of US waters as well as pharmaceutical products with fluoride compounds without full inquiry into fluoride's effects on mental capacity - especially in children - amounts to reckless endangerment.
http://www.rense.com/general63/flou.htm
Iraq's attempt to fill the first posts in a national-unity government erupted in shouting and factional strife Tuesday, as what politicians described as last-minute power plays overran a Shiite- and Kurd-led effort to form a coalition with Sunnis.
A National Assembly session meant to elect the essential post of assembly speaker opened with Islamic prayers followed by a veiled lawmaker rising to her feet in black robes to denounce "these behind-the-scenes" talks on a new government.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032905Y.shtml
[So what this is telling me is that you can walk into this country illegally, be observed to be breaking the law by actual police officers repeatedly, and essentially nothing will happen to you.
At the same time, you could be in your own bed in another country, and if we feel like we will snatch you out of bed and drag you off to some dungeon to be tortured, and then perhaps at some point in the future we will decide it was all a mistake and let you go.
Or you can be an actual American, and just you try and break the law repeatedly right in front of a cop. How easy do yout hink you will get off?]
Few Americans realize that 29 percent of criminals filling jails across this country are illegal and legal immigrants. They cost US taxpayers $1.6 billion annually. The ones that suffer from tuberculosis or hepatitis spread those diseases to other inmates. This causes further medical costs into the millions. This officer proceeded with a few examples:
"I stopped a car for a violation and discovered the operator was an unlicensed illegal immigrant who worked as a busboy in a Spanish bar," Officer Hamilton said. "I allowed a licensed friend of his to drive him home and warned him he could not drive. Several days later while I was walking a foot post, I observed him about to enter a car. He looked at me, got in, and started to drive away. I towed his car and gave him a ticket. The very next week I again observed him driving and this time placed him under arrest. He posted bail. He was arrested again by another officer for operating without a license. He did not respond to court or pay any of his fines. He was arrested on a warrant, but did not serve any jail time. Every officer I know can relate similar stories. These are just the ones we catch."
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad1.htm
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a deadly variation of toxic shock syndrome that strikes patients while they are recovering from flu-like illnesses.
At least 12 people have developed the unusual lung infection in the last five years, and only two have survived, according to a report in the April journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
http://www.rense.com/general63/das.htm
The final report of a presidential commission studying American intelligence failures regarding illicit weapons includes a searing critique of how the C.I.A. and other agencies never properly assessed Saddam Hussein's political maneuverings or the possibility that he no longer had weapon stockpiles, according to officials who have seen the report's executive summary.
The report also proposes broad changes in the sharing of information among intelligence agencies that go well beyond the legislation passed by Congress late last year creating a director of national intelligence to coordinate action among all 15 intelligence agencies.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032905Z.shtml
"I learned about an example of this from a fellow officer last night during my shift," Hamilton said. "We were talking about the massive problem of illegal immigration and the ineffectiveness of the BICE when he told me about a call he had several years ago. He had stopped a truck for a motor vehicle violation and discovered the truck was uninsured and unregistered. The operator was a previously deported felon and was placed into custody for the motor vehicle violations. While the car was being searched, a loaded handgun was found under the passenger seat. INS was notified and said they weren't interested, but to call back if he was convicted. Interesting! A deported felon with a weapon is in police custody, but they are not interested. The illegal felon went to court and was convicted of the charges and he was sentenced to three years, suspended sentence, followed by three years probation. For those of you not in the criminal justice field, I'll explain. HE WAS NOT GOING TO SERVE ANY JAIL TIME. The officer again contacted INS and guess what? Believe it or not, INS did not respond. A previously deported felon, with a loaded gun, is arrested by the police and neither the federal or local government care."
"We've got a problem," Hamilton said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad2.htm
An expert warned the quake off Sumatra made another massive earthquake in the region more likely.
Professor John McCloskey predicted in the wake of the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami that there was a likelihood of two more quakes in the region.
The University of Ulster based Geophysics expert, who studies earthquake dynamics said: "The location of the latest quake is exactly were we warned it would be.
"We said there were two locations off Sumatra where the stresses had been increased by the Boxing Day earthquake and were likely to indicate another earthquake.
"From the information we have received it looks as if this is one of them this will be confirmed in the next few hours. We were concerned about two events and it looks like this is one of them."
Ominously he warned that the latest quake is likely to have added to the stresses on the earth's crust at the second site he was worried about and make a third massive quake a reality.
"It seems to me that this earthquake will also increase the stresses on the other site and make another quake more likely."
http://www.rense.com/general63/exp.htm
Silicon dioxide is the chemical name for SAND, just as sodium chloride IS salt. Would you eat computer chips? Of course not. They too, are made of sand among other elements like arsenic, aluminum and gold.
There exists iron-clad proof that sand (and other additives) are ingredients in the following Burger King products. This was taken directly from Burger King corporation's ingredient list. Sand (silicon dioxide) is also the very same material used for making glass of all kinds. It is also the active compound in scouring cleaners that removes stains from sinks, toilets and tubs, and almost all computer chips.
If you have been to Burger King, you have already eaten sand. Remember that old expression "let them eat cake?" Apparently, at Burger King, they believe in "let them eat sand." To preserve your appetite for your next meal, the details of the numerous chemical compounds will not be listed here.
Here are four products currently listed with silicon dioxide content:
ANGUS STEAK BURGER
DUTCH APPLE PIE
GARLIC SEASONING (FOR FIRE-GRILLED CHICKEN SALAD)
RANCH DIPPING SAUCE
These ingredients don't just accidentally "appear" from nowhere in food." Just as mercury isn't present in vaccines by "accident" either.
VEGETARIAN? ALERGIC TO BEEF PRODUCTS? TAKE NOTE !
Although fire-grilled onions are included below, they are noted as a "non-vegetarian" product by Burger King on their website. Don't forget that the "fire" in fire-grilled, is either propane or natural gas. (The health effects of consuming HYDROCARBON flame fired food at this time are unknown. But it is known that repeated exposure to motor oil (hydorcarbons) can cause cancer.)
The following five products have ingredients listed as "Natural flavors from animal sources:"
GARDEN RANCH SALAD DRESSING
GARLIC PARMESAN TOAST
FIRE-GRILLED SHRIMP
FRENCH TOAST STICKS (FRIED)
ONION (FIRE-GRILLED)
Yes, you read that correctly. Animal content is present in ALL of the above products. Including their toast.
Think its safe to eat a PANCAKE with syrup on it at BK? Guess again! There IS animal content in BK BREAKFAST SYRUP, too. Perhaps it's used to "thicken it..."
http://www.rense.com/general63/sand.htm
Jeff Gannon is back -- at the National Press Club?
Yes, the same day that the prestigious Washington, D.C., journalism organization plans to present a lunch talk by former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, it will also allow the former White House reporter/escort to be on a panel discussing bloggers and online journalism.
Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, resigned his job with the conservative Talon News last month after it was revealed he had used a pseudonym, had little journalism background, and had ties to male escort Web sites.
Still, Press Club leaders will include Gannon on the panel April 8 that includes Wonkette.com editor Ana Marie Cox, National Journal's John Stanton, and others. Gannon has been asked on numerous occasions about charges that he worked as a prostitute, and has refused to deny them.
Gannon told E&P today that he always considered himself a legitimate journalist, and "perhaps their invitation is recognition of that."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000856306
Just this past March 3, 2005, Lou Dobbs exposed a group of sexual predator illegal aliens who raped and killed some American women. Dobbs rattled the audience by chastising Bush for doing nothing. But here is a story that chills further from a reader:
"I've been reading your words for the past several months, and unfortunately, your truth dealt a drastic blow to my family," a wife of a police officer wrote. "On February 13, 05:38 hours, my husband drove into work and was struck head-on by an airborne vehicle traveling at 71 mph. The accident was equated to my husband free-falling off a 14-story building in his pick-up truck. The person behind the wheel of this guided missile was a 19-year-old intoxicated, uninsured, unlicensed, illegal alien."
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad.htm”
The revelations came during an unexpected phone call from Nelson, 42, who also told TomFlocco.com he personally witnessed Secret Service agents arrive at King’s Embassy Row mansion in Washington to set up security two days prior to a private child sex party attended by senators and congressmen he declined to name. The party was held immediately after a public political reception in October, 1988--just prior to the Bush-Dukakis presidential election.
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"One night in the spring of 1988 on K street in Washington, I’m sound asleep and a guy knocks on the door and says ‘I just bought you from Larry and you’re mine for the night,’ "said Nelson, who continued, "I climbed out the second story window and ran. This was not long before the presidential election when Franklin Credit Union was raided."
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=108&mode=&order=0&thold=0
[All these businesses and government agencies always want more and moer money. I have even been in a store and seen someone ask for a photo id when a person tried to pay with a $100 bill. I have seen store clerks insist that people write their social security numbers on their checks, so it is right out there and visible, along with your name and address tot he prison laborers who are processing yor checks, or whoever does it.
All these people don’t nee more personal info. They need less.]
Six months after a hacker broke into a UC Berkeley research computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 600,000 health care workers and patients, the university has suffered another embarrassing security breach: the theft of a laptop containing personal information on nearly 100,000 graduate students.
In a press advisory released this week, two weeks after the March 11 robbery at the Graduate Division offices, UC Berkeley Director of Media Relations Marie Felde said that the theft occurred when the office doors were momentarily left unlocked and unattended during the noon hour. The laptop was stolen from a worker’s office inside the division.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=03-29-05&storyID=21035
A Lake Wales woman is shocked by a change of heart by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
It sent her almost $12,000 for losses she suffered resulting from last year's hurricanes, but now it wants almost all of the money back.
The mobile home where Jessica Martell lived with most of her personal belongings was almost destroyed by Hurricane Charley.
A damaged room meant rain from the other hurricanes caused more damage to her furniture.
So, she applied for a FEMA grant to help pay for replacements. She was surprised when they said they would send her the money.
"There was no way it was a mistake to spend it, replace my stuff and have a nice time," Martell said. "I was like God bless you. This is such a blessing."
Then FEMA sent her a letter saying it overpaid her by $9,000 and she has 30 days to send it back, but she said there's no way she has the money to do that.
"I don't think I should be responsible for a mistake they made," Martell said. "Especially since I asked so many times and they said no. I just can't afford it."
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/18/74911.html
April 24 will mark the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and the Armenian government is holding an international conference in the capital of Yerevan, dedicated to the memory of the more than a million Armenians murdered by the Turks. I was also invited, and I decided to attend. This month will also see the Hebrew publication of Prof. Yair Auron's eye-opening and stomach churning book, "Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide," Maba Publishing, which has already been highly praised overseas in its English-language edition.
As opposed to many other nations, Israel has never recognized the murder of the Armenian people, and in effect lent a hand to the deniers of that genocide. Our official reactions moved in the vague, illusory realm between denial to evasion, from "it's not clear there really was genocide" to "it's an issue for the historians," as Shimon Peres once put it so outrageously and stupidly.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry, and not only it, is always afraid of its own shadow and thus it casts a dark shadow over us all as accomplices to the "silence of the world." The Dalai Lama, leader of the exiled Tibetans, has visited here twice, and twice I was warned by "officials" not to meet with him. It would mean a crisis in relations with China, the exact same thing they say about Turkey. I rebuffed those warnings in both cases. I have always believed that moral policies pay off in the long run, while rotten policies end up losing
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/557973.html
[This used to be the rule for Christians too until they saw how much more money they could wring from people if they went back to charging interest.]
Faith, it is said, can move mountains, and the UK's high-street banks are feeling its power.
Britain's burgeoning Muslim population is now nearly two million strong but has largely been sidelined by mainstream banks as lenders struggle to create financial products that conform to Islamic Sharia law. This forbids followers from paying or receiving interest, for the earning of interest on money for no effort is against the principles of Islamic banking.
http://money.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=623963&host=14&dir=356
[Well the last thing anyone wants is effective, modest, and un-dogmatic political leaders. I can completely understand the discomfort they are feeling over in England. That just sounds terrible.
Of course if you are a member of some whacked out pedophile Satanist cult you can feel secure in the knowledge that you will be accepted and cherished by your political hack colleagues. And if you are competely incompetent and super-dogmatic, so much the better.]
Just over half a century ago in Spain, a new kind of politician began to appear. As government ministers, they were young, energetic and highly competent. They were confident without being overbearing. And they seemed relatively free of fixed political ideas, except for a general desire to turn their old country into a modern, business-driven one.
During the 50s and 60s they opened up its economy to foreign trade and its poor southern coastline to lucrative tourism. They made themselves potential role models - complete with a suggestive group name used by some of their associates: the"third force" - for future generations of reforming European politicians.
Yet two things about the Spanish modernisers have hindered their reputation since. First, they did their work as part of the dictatorship of General Franco. Second, many of them were members of a new, highly conservative and highly controversial Roman Catholic movement: Opus Dei.
Since 1997, Ruth Kelly has been a similar modernising presence in British politics. As a Labour MP, Treasury minister, and now education secretary at the precocious age of 36, she has been busy, effective and - working closely with both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - seemingly undogmatic.
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As a prominent woman, with an assured manner, unmarked until now by any hint of political vulnerability or scandal, Kelly has had to watch her religious leanings being probed and dramatised with a certain relish in some quarters.
But a more interesting question perhaps than whether Ruth Kelly chafes herself with metal instruments or follows other Gothic-sounding practices ascribed to Opus Dei, is why a clever young politician, whether in modern Britain or Spain under Franco, would join the movement at all.
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Members of the movement would not withdraw from everyday life, like monks, but would pursue their secular careers - only now they would be "working according to the spirit of Jesus Christ". And Escriva had a particular kind of career in mind. "He wanted to reach the elite, those who shape culture," says Allen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1400400,00.html
[Sharing the profits is not usually a good way to get something to stop.]
According to estimates presented by MK Zahava Gal-On to the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the subject of the sex industry in Israel, this industry turns over some $1 billion a year. Raids by the tax authorities on brothels revealed that traffickers in women are in possession of large sums of cash and a great deal of assets. Now, the authorities are sharing the traffickers' profits through the imposition of fines.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/557972.html
[I don’t bother going to Blockbuster anymore since they essentially stock 90 million copies of one movie, and no copies of any other movie. But it seems they came up with some kind of advertising gimmick a while back that if your movie was more than some few days late you would not have to pay a late fee.
But the catch was you were not paying the late fee because you were buying the movie outright. I don’t know at what price, but I would not be surprised to find it was some exhorbitant amount that they claim they pay when they get the movies new, like $80 a piece or something.
So everyonei n the world filed what will soon be known as a “frivolous lawsuit” no doubt to get their money back from the false advertising.]
Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the top U.S. video rental chain, will pay $630,000 to settle 47 states' claims that its "No Late Fees" policy deceived customers, the company said on Tuesday.
Blockbuster will also refund customers who claim they were misled and charged restocking fees or the full price of rented movies if they were returned a week after the due date, according to a statement from Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=8027116
The Americans have admitted that their intelligence in Iran is terrible, as the Iranians manage to find and execute all their agents. The obvious reason for this is that the Iranians are getting information on who these agents are. Do you think it possible that AIPAC was caught assisting Israel in betraying American spy networks in Iran? The Iranians could offer in return to free captured Israeli spies. The deal would essentially be to destroy American spies and the American ability to gather intelligence in return for the lives of Israeli spies and the continued ability of Israel to gather intelligence. I'm obviously just guessing, but my guess tracks the cover story printed in the Jerusalem Post, that the information in the 'entrapment' related to the lives of Israeli spies in Kurdistan (a cover story important enough that they decided to admit they had agents in Kurdistan, something they had previously denied). If this is indeed a spy story, Iran is the most likely country being spied upon, particularly as both Israel and the United States want to know where to bomb. Betraying an American spy network in a country considered to be a real enemy would be a Pollard-type crime, and at a Pollard-level of importance. It would be enough to get AIPAC into some serious trouble. Does Israel already own the United States to the extent it can pull AIPAC out of trouble?
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/03/aipac-pollard-iran.html
[Is “advertainment” a word?]
McDonald's has offered to pay top hip hop artists to incorporate the 'Big Mac' into their song lyrics.
According to Advertising Age magazine, the fast food chain will pay rappers up to £2.80 ($5) every time a song namechecking the burger is played.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4389751.stm
[If we were having an economic recovery, this would put a dent in it.
I don’t know who this guy Mr. Fischer is, but he is clearly on crack.]
Christie Baker, owner of Flowers on the Green, recently had to hike the cost of a delivery in Guilford, Conn., from $6 to $8 to make up for the higher cost of gas. In La Jolla, Calif., Domino's just increased the amount it pays delivery drivers by a nickel a trip: They now get 95 cents to transport a large pepperoni, but it's still not enough to cover the cost, says assistant manager Donald Cunningham. And at Meyers Moving & Storage in New York City, they're now charging $15 more an hour to move from an apartment on the East Side to the West. Owner Guy Drori says the rates may go up again come summer.
The hike in oil prices is beginning to ripple through the economy, pinching consumers at places far beyond the gas pump.
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Today's energy crisis - if it can be called a crisis - is very different from the one in the 1970s. This hike in prices is driven by increases in demand from a robust economy not just in the US, but around the world. In the 1970s, the economy was already struggling when oil prices spiked due to a lack of supply.
"I don't think there's too much reason to be concerned," says Mr. Fischer. "We're going to have a little bit of a cutback in consumption, but
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0329/p01s01-usec.html
U.S. intelligence experts are preparing a list of 25 countries deemed unstable and, thus, candidates for intervention.
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03290004aaa00d24.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=FRONTPAG&Type=News&Filter=Front%20Page
American Jewish Congress President Paul Miller today called for an end to efforts by certain church groups to divest in whole or in part from companies that do business in Israel, and announced a counter-campaign to blunt its impact:
"There is an ill-advised and troublesome effort calling for total or selective divestment from corporations that do business with Israel, and to pressure others, such as Caterpillar Inc., to stop selling products to Israel. Preying on the emotions of well-meaning individuals who think that they are contributing to peace, these divestment campaigns coincides with other efforts which seek to undermine Israel's self-defense, its economy and its legitimacy, and to pressure Israel to make concessions during peace negotiations with the Palestinians. It is time to make it clear that these tactics will not work," Miller said.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050329/nytu137.html?.v=3
Resistance shelling drives US to abandon barracks near ar-Ramadi. Americans throw local families out of their homes and move in, using civilians as human shields.
US forces abandoned one of their barracks in ar-Ramadi at dawn on Monday after intensive rocket bombardments blasted the facility throughout last week.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam quoted US Marine Sergeant who gave his name as Dudin as saying that the US forces were leaving their position in the glass and ceramic factory behind the al-Warrar Bridge west of ar-Ramadi after it came under numerous attacks by the Iraqi Resistance. The American sergeant said that the Marines would “continue to exert control over the area with the help of Iraqi [puppet] forces from another barracks that we will work to make available at a later time.”
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Iraqi Resistance announces new, home-made rocket: as-Sijjil.
The Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah issued a communiqué on Monday in which the military command of the Council announced that the Iraqi Resistance had succeeded in producing their first locally-made rocket since the battle of al-Fallujah. The statement reported that the new surface-to-surface rocket has been dubbed “as-Sijjil”, and said that, God willing, it would soon be used to “take the wind out of the sails” of the occupation
http://www.the7thfire.com/Iraq_War/resistance_report/mar_28_2005.html
This is incredible: Very rarely does the everyday public get a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes in a normally-secret Bush Administration.
But Monday, March 28, the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush promoted his plan to privatize Social Security. What they revealed to us and our lawyer was fascinating.
There we were - three people who had personally picked up tickets from Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez's office and went to a presidential event. But as we entered, we were told that we had been "ID'ed" and were warned that any disruption would get us arrested.
After being seated in the audience we were forcibly removed before the President arrived, even though we had not been disruptive. We were shocked when told that this presidential event was a "private event" and were commanded to leave.
More astonishingly, when the Secret Service was contacted the next day they agreed to meet with us this Monday, March 28 to discuss the circumstances surrounding our removal. We had two big questions going into this meeting:
How is the Bush Administration "ID'ing" citizens before presidential events? Why was an official taxpayer-funded event called a "private event" - leading to citizens being kicked out?
Most shocking of all, we got answers to both questions.
The Secret Service revealed that we were "ID'ed" when local Republican staffers saw a bumper sticker on the car we drove which said "No More Blood For Oil." Evidently, the free speech expressed on one bumper sticker is cause enough to eject three citizens from a presidential event. (Similarly, someone was ejected from Bush's Social Security privatization event in Arizona the same day simply for wearing a Democratic t-shirt.)
The Secret Service also revealed that ticket distribution and staffing of the Social Security event was run by the local Republican Party. They wanted us to be clear that it was a Republican staffer - not the Secret Service - who kicked us out of the presidential event. But this revealed something else that should be startling to all Americans.
After allowing taxpayers to finance his privatization events (let's call them what they really are after all,) and after using the White House communications apparatus to set them up, Bush is privatizing the ticket distribution and security staffing at his events to the Republican Party. The losers are not just taxpayers, but anyone who values the First Amendment. Under the banner of a "private event" the Republican Party is excluding citizens from seeing their president because of the lone sin of expressing the wrong idea on a bumper sticker or t-shirt. The question for Americans is - will we allow our freedom to be privatized?
Karen Bauer, Leslie Weise. Alexander Young Denver residents
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=168
[See also matthew 3:8-9, wherein John the Bptist tells the Saducees and Pharisees that just because they say they are children of Abraham that doesn’t get them anything because God could raise up from the very stones around their feet children of Abraham with equal claim. he tells them they must repent and get ready for Jesus who will be coming along right behind him.]
Judaized Christian churches have adopted de facto, a racist theology that endorses a favored, or “chosen people.” So-called Christian leaders have and are willing and ready to condemn a not-favored tribe to death. The unfavored tribe is any tribe that is at odds with political Israel, including the tribes of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon. Judaized Christianity is an American spawning. If those who are committing the sin of supporting genocidal “wars” understand that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, they will stop. Judaized Christians are numerous and are part of a huge communication network. It is part of the media and partly entertainment business. It may influence fully half of the American population. Anyone who doubts this need only to watch TBN television for a few hours of Benny Hinn and John Hagee, and count the evangelical churches in your phone book.
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How brazen. This Israeli organization, masquerading as followers of Christ, tells us God's promise did not mean a savior named Jesus, but instead means that God's promise of a blessing to the world is through a corrupted, agnostic warring state with one of the highest abortion rates in the world, that conveniently named itself “Israel.” What an insult to Jesus, what blight on the name of Christ, and those who follow Him! Amazingly, CIBLR raises its funds from Judaized Christians.
Are we expected to believe, contrary to all traditional teachings, that this politically criminal and remarkably immoral oligarchy is God's blessing to all nations? Judaized arguments for Israeli land rights fall apart like termite-infected wood when you pick them up to look at them. The only truly honest way to characterize the Judaized Christian position is “Balderdash!" which means, pompous nonsense.
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The overwhelming majority of Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, and Orthodox leaders, regardless of what other faults they may have, teach that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesies. They also do not teach the Judaized idea of a new temple in Jerusalem, mystical wars, a red heifer sacrifice, Armageddon, and imminent end times, or a convenient "rapture" for the few. Most mainline Reverends, Pastors, and Priests would at least admit that their faith does not support the idea of a political state of Israel as a God icon, nor that Israel should be appeased by throwing one Arab country after another upon its burning altars.
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What the Bible is All About fails the second test with an even lower score. On page 361 in a chapter misnamed “Understanding Matthew,” we are told:
“ He (Jesus) foretold the coming of the world after his ascension until He comes back in glory to judge the nations as to their treatment of His brethren, the Jews (Matthew 25).”
Lest anyone miss her meaning, Mears explains, “It is the judgment of the gentile people concerning their attitude toward God’s people.”
Thus, Henrietta Mears again makes the present day state of Israel and, in fact, anyone who claims to be Jewish, including Elizabeth Taylor and Sammy Davis Junior out to be the “chosen people.” This makes Jesus a racist in total opposition to what He is reported to have said in this very chapter. Christ’s words say nothing about “the Jews” or any race, but tell his followers that as they do unto the least of his creatures, so are they doing also to Him. It is heresy to believe that Jesus wants us to be good only toward “Jews” and Israeli citizens. It is basic to traditional Christianity that all men, even our enemies, must be loved as brothers. This is amplified in Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan and too many more to mention.
Mears’ What the Bible is All About, would have us believe that our ticket to heaven or hell depends on how we have treated Jews during our lifetime. Oxford University Press’ Scofield Reference Bible also fails the Matthew 25 test and goes even further by declaring “anti-Semitism” to be a “sin” (footnote page 19-20) and predicts that “nations” will be punished in the future for anti-Semitism. Oxford University Press must not know that countries do not sin, men do.
Invariably, Judaized Christian commentaries promote similar, racist views of Genesis 12 and Matthew 25. A reader can eliminate most Judaized books by scanning the footnotes and commentaries of these two passages.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050309Wh2.htm
“US Christians can also apply pressure on their elected representatives next Thursday, March 24, when Jews mark the Fast of Esther.”
Here is a clever twist: UCI wants us to believe that Jews are celebrating their form of Easter right along with us. Nothing could be more wrong. Easter is the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection after he was persecuted and killed at the hands of the Pharisees of his day. Jesus stood for peace, tolerance and love. Today’s Talmudic Jews who celebrate Purim and the Fast of Esther are the 21st century equivalent of the Pharisees, but Mr. Freund twists this to suggest they acknowledge Christ’s resurrection with a holiday of its own.
“The Fast of Esther” is part of a tale of vengeance, the antithesis of Easter. It tells of the Israelites’ (“Jews” in the King James version) slaughter of an untold number of Persians, accomplished by the venerated Queen Esther after she had fasted. Esther insists the ten sons of her competitor, Haman, be hanged for the acts of their father. Who can you imagine strangling Saddam Hussein’s children? The execution of the Persians is later celebrated as Purim.
It is fitting that UCI brings up Esther, because what they are planning is the slaughter of many Arabs.
In contrast to bloody celebrations like Purim, Christians celebrate the teachings of Jesus, who commanded, “love your enemies” and “do good to those who persecute you.” Jesus is about life; Esther is about brutality and death. Everyone should read the book of Esther for an object lesson.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050321Ea.htm
[This is an interesting tactic I had not thought of. Get on to a mailing list you don’t like, and then complain about it to get the mailing list turned off for everyone.
Very clever.]
Previously, on Thursday, March 17th at about 3:00 PM, Mr. B called the undersigned to tell me he had "closed Port 25" on our DSL service. When asked "why" he said “because you are a spammer." When asked to explain, Mr. B. replied, "Before you ask me to define "spam," let me tell you spam at Your Company Internet is what I say it is."
I appreciate Mr. B’s courteous manner in his recent call, but this does not solve our issue, and does not comply with our contract that requires 30 days cancellation notice by either party, and we do not want to move our services to another provider, we chose your company for a reason.
Mr. B’s suggestion that we “find another provider” is also useless unless we can remove the complainers from our list. They will simply stalk us from one provider to another, embedded in our list, and protected by Your Company. Our mailing list is clean, it was last updated to exclude all known complainers and remove requests through March 22, 2005. But the professional complainers who are hiding out in our list will repeat their complaints to the new provider. Nor can we take legal Action against them until you disclose who they are. We are your client, they are not; we have a right to know who is interfering with us and defaming us. If you will not tell us you are protecting them, and you are as guilty as they are.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/FSpech.htm
I think the article was something to do with the cops not liking that idea.
Anyway, so on COPS not too long ago, I saw the theme of the episode was like “Criminals shocked by Tasers”.
Then this morning on the Howard Stern show they had a faked bit where supposedly this girl was answering trivia questions to get money for some guy whose son supposedly had cancer. And if she got a question wrong they would shock the guy with a *Taser*, the brand name. Not “stun gun” or whatever. They specifically said “Taser” about 100 times over the course of the bit.
Of course, knowing in advance that Taser is going to want to advertise their new gizmos it is easy to see these are product placements, or in other words unidentified commercials shoe-horned into actual TV show.
But the average person on the street isn’t going ot know that.
I am not sure now whether to expect to see commercials on TV with some woman shooting some guy with a Taser, or if they will just stick with their under the radar advertising campaign.]
[Killing animals for no apparent reasoni s often a sign of cult-type activity.
I have not been able to find a link to it, but it seems there was a news story in Boston within the last week or so of some endangered hawks or something being sacrificed in some kind of voodoo ritual or something.]
Three cows were shot ``execution style'' in the head on East Taunton farmland last weekend, according to investigators who hope the bullets recovered will lead them to the cruel perpetrator.
Authorities are not certain whether the incident is some sick prank or an act of someone with a grudge, according to the Brockton Enterprise.
The cows were special Black Angus breeds, valued for their succulent beef, according to the report.
Each cow has a value of over $2,000.
Investigators believe the cows were shot sometime between 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday morning.
The cows were owned by Rick Chaves of Raynham, who leases 100 acres of farmland.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=75513
A man and a teenager have been charged with forcibly tattooing an obscenity on the forehead of a 17-year-old boy, police said Monday.
Officer Craig Berry declined to describe the tattoo, except to say it was a phrase.
"It's just ludicrous that someone would do something like this to another person," Berry said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-forehead-tattoo,0,1415839.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company and the world leader in silicon photonics. Luxtera’s chips, built in production silicon CMOS, seamlessly combine the massive computational power of VLSI electronics with the virtually unlimited bandwidth and reach of fiber optic communications.
Luxtera’s team includes many of the world’s leading researchers and developers of integrated optics and electronics.
http://www.luxtera.com/
FIRST came the Angel of the North. Now motorists using the A1 are to be confronted with the far earthier figure of a giant reclining “goddess” stretching her curves alongside nearly half a mile of the dual carriageway.
The woman, with breasts and hips up to 100ft high, will be created 10 miles north of Newcastle from the waste material generated by open-cast mining, with each of her enormous curves concealing millions of tons of mining spoil.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1543249,00.html
A Roxbury mother who has ducked bullets and dodged threats since her 14-year-old son was murdered in June is demanding answers from the Boston police commissioner, saying detectives have ignored her pleas for help.
Charmise Galloway, 34, said her only son, Da-Keem, had been dead for just a few days - felled by a fatal bullet to the head - when she and her young daughters were menaced by teens suspected in the shooting.
Then, on Tuesday night, the threats nearly turned deadly when Galloway heard an explosion of gunfire as she disembarked from a bus near her Bowers Street home after an adult education class.
``When I stepped off the bus, I heard something that sounded like a grenade next to my head. There was a little boy in front of me. He yelled, `Run, lady! Run!' '' Galloway said yesterday.
``I'm scared,'' she said.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=75530
The United States is in the wake of yet another horrific school shooting - another shooting carried out by another boy reportedly taking a fluorinated pharmaceutical, Prozac. Another fluorinated drug, Luvox, was reportedly taken by one of the shooters in the Columbine tragedy. Similarly, there have been reports from US troops that bizarre, psychotic, aggressive behavior has been observed in individuals after taking Lariam, which is a fluorinated antimalarial. According to a January 2004 article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, cholesterol-lowering statins have now also been linked to aggressive, violent behavior. Lescol, Lipitor, Baycol and Crestor are all fluorinated. Baycol was removed from the market, following at least 31 known deaths from adverse symptoms.
Quite the opposite from America's ongoing lack of awareness pertaining to fluorides, fluoride toxicity has been well-known, studied and well-documented in other countries for almost a century.
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Perhaps the ongoing occurrences of rage and other unexplained, bizarre behaviors in the US, as well as the numerous epidemics now plaguing us, are, in fact, all related to the fact that two-thirds of our population is being dosed on a daily basis with a known thyroid toxin, at an unknown dose. Poison the thyroid, and the entire body as well as the mind will be affected.
The continued dosing of US waters as well as pharmaceutical products with fluoride compounds without full inquiry into fluoride's effects on mental capacity - especially in children - amounts to reckless endangerment.
http://www.rense.com/general63/flou.htm
Iraq's attempt to fill the first posts in a national-unity government erupted in shouting and factional strife Tuesday, as what politicians described as last-minute power plays overran a Shiite- and Kurd-led effort to form a coalition with Sunnis.
A National Assembly session meant to elect the essential post of assembly speaker opened with Islamic prayers followed by a veiled lawmaker rising to her feet in black robes to denounce "these behind-the-scenes" talks on a new government.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032905Y.shtml
[So what this is telling me is that you can walk into this country illegally, be observed to be breaking the law by actual police officers repeatedly, and essentially nothing will happen to you.
At the same time, you could be in your own bed in another country, and if we feel like we will snatch you out of bed and drag you off to some dungeon to be tortured, and then perhaps at some point in the future we will decide it was all a mistake and let you go.
Or you can be an actual American, and just you try and break the law repeatedly right in front of a cop. How easy do yout hink you will get off?]
Few Americans realize that 29 percent of criminals filling jails across this country are illegal and legal immigrants. They cost US taxpayers $1.6 billion annually. The ones that suffer from tuberculosis or hepatitis spread those diseases to other inmates. This causes further medical costs into the millions. This officer proceeded with a few examples:
"I stopped a car for a violation and discovered the operator was an unlicensed illegal immigrant who worked as a busboy in a Spanish bar," Officer Hamilton said. "I allowed a licensed friend of his to drive him home and warned him he could not drive. Several days later while I was walking a foot post, I observed him about to enter a car. He looked at me, got in, and started to drive away. I towed his car and gave him a ticket. The very next week I again observed him driving and this time placed him under arrest. He posted bail. He was arrested again by another officer for operating without a license. He did not respond to court or pay any of his fines. He was arrested on a warrant, but did not serve any jail time. Every officer I know can relate similar stories. These are just the ones we catch."
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad1.htm
University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a deadly variation of toxic shock syndrome that strikes patients while they are recovering from flu-like illnesses.
At least 12 people have developed the unusual lung infection in the last five years, and only two have survived, according to a report in the April journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
http://www.rense.com/general63/das.htm
The final report of a presidential commission studying American intelligence failures regarding illicit weapons includes a searing critique of how the C.I.A. and other agencies never properly assessed Saddam Hussein's political maneuverings or the possibility that he no longer had weapon stockpiles, according to officials who have seen the report's executive summary.
The report also proposes broad changes in the sharing of information among intelligence agencies that go well beyond the legislation passed by Congress late last year creating a director of national intelligence to coordinate action among all 15 intelligence agencies.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032905Z.shtml
"I learned about an example of this from a fellow officer last night during my shift," Hamilton said. "We were talking about the massive problem of illegal immigration and the ineffectiveness of the BICE when he told me about a call he had several years ago. He had stopped a truck for a motor vehicle violation and discovered the truck was uninsured and unregistered. The operator was a previously deported felon and was placed into custody for the motor vehicle violations. While the car was being searched, a loaded handgun was found under the passenger seat. INS was notified and said they weren't interested, but to call back if he was convicted. Interesting! A deported felon with a weapon is in police custody, but they are not interested. The illegal felon went to court and was convicted of the charges and he was sentenced to three years, suspended sentence, followed by three years probation. For those of you not in the criminal justice field, I'll explain. HE WAS NOT GOING TO SERVE ANY JAIL TIME. The officer again contacted INS and guess what? Believe it or not, INS did not respond. A previously deported felon, with a loaded gun, is arrested by the police and neither the federal or local government care."
"We've got a problem," Hamilton said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad2.htm
An expert warned the quake off Sumatra made another massive earthquake in the region more likely.
Professor John McCloskey predicted in the wake of the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami that there was a likelihood of two more quakes in the region.
The University of Ulster based Geophysics expert, who studies earthquake dynamics said: "The location of the latest quake is exactly were we warned it would be.
"We said there were two locations off Sumatra where the stresses had been increased by the Boxing Day earthquake and were likely to indicate another earthquake.
"From the information we have received it looks as if this is one of them this will be confirmed in the next few hours. We were concerned about two events and it looks like this is one of them."
Ominously he warned that the latest quake is likely to have added to the stresses on the earth's crust at the second site he was worried about and make a third massive quake a reality.
"It seems to me that this earthquake will also increase the stresses on the other site and make another quake more likely."
http://www.rense.com/general63/exp.htm
Silicon dioxide is the chemical name for SAND, just as sodium chloride IS salt. Would you eat computer chips? Of course not. They too, are made of sand among other elements like arsenic, aluminum and gold.
There exists iron-clad proof that sand (and other additives) are ingredients in the following Burger King products. This was taken directly from Burger King corporation's ingredient list. Sand (silicon dioxide) is also the very same material used for making glass of all kinds. It is also the active compound in scouring cleaners that removes stains from sinks, toilets and tubs, and almost all computer chips.
If you have been to Burger King, you have already eaten sand. Remember that old expression "let them eat cake?" Apparently, at Burger King, they believe in "let them eat sand." To preserve your appetite for your next meal, the details of the numerous chemical compounds will not be listed here.
Here are four products currently listed with silicon dioxide content:
ANGUS STEAK BURGER
DUTCH APPLE PIE
GARLIC SEASONING (FOR FIRE-GRILLED CHICKEN SALAD)
RANCH DIPPING SAUCE
These ingredients don't just accidentally "appear" from nowhere in food." Just as mercury isn't present in vaccines by "accident" either.
VEGETARIAN? ALERGIC TO BEEF PRODUCTS? TAKE NOTE !
Although fire-grilled onions are included below, they are noted as a "non-vegetarian" product by Burger King on their website. Don't forget that the "fire" in fire-grilled, is either propane or natural gas. (The health effects of consuming HYDROCARBON flame fired food at this time are unknown. But it is known that repeated exposure to motor oil (hydorcarbons) can cause cancer.)
The following five products have ingredients listed as "Natural flavors from animal sources:"
GARDEN RANCH SALAD DRESSING
GARLIC PARMESAN TOAST
FIRE-GRILLED SHRIMP
FRENCH TOAST STICKS (FRIED)
ONION (FIRE-GRILLED)
Yes, you read that correctly. Animal content is present in ALL of the above products. Including their toast.
Think its safe to eat a PANCAKE with syrup on it at BK? Guess again! There IS animal content in BK BREAKFAST SYRUP, too. Perhaps it's used to "thicken it..."
http://www.rense.com/general63/sand.htm
Jeff Gannon is back -- at the National Press Club?
Yes, the same day that the prestigious Washington, D.C., journalism organization plans to present a lunch talk by former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, it will also allow the former White House reporter/escort to be on a panel discussing bloggers and online journalism.
Gannon, whose real name is James Guckert, resigned his job with the conservative Talon News last month after it was revealed he had used a pseudonym, had little journalism background, and had ties to male escort Web sites.
Still, Press Club leaders will include Gannon on the panel April 8 that includes Wonkette.com editor Ana Marie Cox, National Journal's John Stanton, and others. Gannon has been asked on numerous occasions about charges that he worked as a prostitute, and has refused to deny them.
Gannon told E&P today that he always considered himself a legitimate journalist, and "perhaps their invitation is recognition of that."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000856306
Just this past March 3, 2005, Lou Dobbs exposed a group of sexual predator illegal aliens who raped and killed some American women. Dobbs rattled the audience by chastising Bush for doing nothing. But here is a story that chills further from a reader:
"I've been reading your words for the past several months, and unfortunately, your truth dealt a drastic blow to my family," a wife of a police officer wrote. "On February 13, 05:38 hours, my husband drove into work and was struck head-on by an airborne vehicle traveling at 71 mph. The accident was equated to my husband free-falling off a 14-story building in his pick-up truck. The person behind the wheel of this guided missile was a 19-year-old intoxicated, uninsured, unlicensed, illegal alien."
http://www.rense.com/general63/squad.htm”
The revelations came during an unexpected phone call from Nelson, 42, who also told TomFlocco.com he personally witnessed Secret Service agents arrive at King’s Embassy Row mansion in Washington to set up security two days prior to a private child sex party attended by senators and congressmen he declined to name. The party was held immediately after a public political reception in October, 1988--just prior to the Bush-Dukakis presidential election.
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"One night in the spring of 1988 on K street in Washington, I’m sound asleep and a guy knocks on the door and says ‘I just bought you from Larry and you’re mine for the night,’ "said Nelson, who continued, "I climbed out the second story window and ran. This was not long before the presidential election when Franklin Credit Union was raided."
http://tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=108&mode=&order=0&thold=0
[All these businesses and government agencies always want more and moer money. I have even been in a store and seen someone ask for a photo id when a person tried to pay with a $100 bill. I have seen store clerks insist that people write their social security numbers on their checks, so it is right out there and visible, along with your name and address tot he prison laborers who are processing yor checks, or whoever does it.
All these people don’t nee more personal info. They need less.]
Six months after a hacker broke into a UC Berkeley research computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 600,000 health care workers and patients, the university has suffered another embarrassing security breach: the theft of a laptop containing personal information on nearly 100,000 graduate students.
In a press advisory released this week, two weeks after the March 11 robbery at the Graduate Division offices, UC Berkeley Director of Media Relations Marie Felde said that the theft occurred when the office doors were momentarily left unlocked and unattended during the noon hour. The laptop was stolen from a worker’s office inside the division.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=03-29-05&storyID=21035
A Lake Wales woman is shocked by a change of heart by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
It sent her almost $12,000 for losses she suffered resulting from last year's hurricanes, but now it wants almost all of the money back.
The mobile home where Jessica Martell lived with most of her personal belongings was almost destroyed by Hurricane Charley.
A damaged room meant rain from the other hurricanes caused more damage to her furniture.
So, she applied for a FEMA grant to help pay for replacements. She was surprised when they said they would send her the money.
"There was no way it was a mistake to spend it, replace my stuff and have a nice time," Martell said. "I was like God bless you. This is such a blessing."
Then FEMA sent her a letter saying it overpaid her by $9,000 and she has 30 days to send it back, but she said there's no way she has the money to do that.
"I don't think I should be responsible for a mistake they made," Martell said. "Especially since I asked so many times and they said no. I just can't afford it."
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/18/74911.html
April 24 will mark the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and the Armenian government is holding an international conference in the capital of Yerevan, dedicated to the memory of the more than a million Armenians murdered by the Turks. I was also invited, and I decided to attend. This month will also see the Hebrew publication of Prof. Yair Auron's eye-opening and stomach churning book, "Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide," Maba Publishing, which has already been highly praised overseas in its English-language edition.
As opposed to many other nations, Israel has never recognized the murder of the Armenian people, and in effect lent a hand to the deniers of that genocide. Our official reactions moved in the vague, illusory realm between denial to evasion, from "it's not clear there really was genocide" to "it's an issue for the historians," as Shimon Peres once put it so outrageously and stupidly.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry, and not only it, is always afraid of its own shadow and thus it casts a dark shadow over us all as accomplices to the "silence of the world." The Dalai Lama, leader of the exiled Tibetans, has visited here twice, and twice I was warned by "officials" not to meet with him. It would mean a crisis in relations with China, the exact same thing they say about Turkey. I rebuffed those warnings in both cases. I have always believed that moral policies pay off in the long run, while rotten policies end up losing
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/557973.html
[This used to be the rule for Christians too until they saw how much more money they could wring from people if they went back to charging interest.]
Faith, it is said, can move mountains, and the UK's high-street banks are feeling its power.
Britain's burgeoning Muslim population is now nearly two million strong but has largely been sidelined by mainstream banks as lenders struggle to create financial products that conform to Islamic Sharia law. This forbids followers from paying or receiving interest, for the earning of interest on money for no effort is against the principles of Islamic banking.
http://money.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=623963&host=14&dir=356
[Well the last thing anyone wants is effective, modest, and un-dogmatic political leaders. I can completely understand the discomfort they are feeling over in England. That just sounds terrible.
Of course if you are a member of some whacked out pedophile Satanist cult you can feel secure in the knowledge that you will be accepted and cherished by your political hack colleagues. And if you are competely incompetent and super-dogmatic, so much the better.]
Just over half a century ago in Spain, a new kind of politician began to appear. As government ministers, they were young, energetic and highly competent. They were confident without being overbearing. And they seemed relatively free of fixed political ideas, except for a general desire to turn their old country into a modern, business-driven one.
During the 50s and 60s they opened up its economy to foreign trade and its poor southern coastline to lucrative tourism. They made themselves potential role models - complete with a suggestive group name used by some of their associates: the"third force" - for future generations of reforming European politicians.
Yet two things about the Spanish modernisers have hindered their reputation since. First, they did their work as part of the dictatorship of General Franco. Second, many of them were members of a new, highly conservative and highly controversial Roman Catholic movement: Opus Dei.
Since 1997, Ruth Kelly has been a similar modernising presence in British politics. As a Labour MP, Treasury minister, and now education secretary at the precocious age of 36, she has been busy, effective and - working closely with both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - seemingly undogmatic.
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As a prominent woman, with an assured manner, unmarked until now by any hint of political vulnerability or scandal, Kelly has had to watch her religious leanings being probed and dramatised with a certain relish in some quarters.
But a more interesting question perhaps than whether Ruth Kelly chafes herself with metal instruments or follows other Gothic-sounding practices ascribed to Opus Dei, is why a clever young politician, whether in modern Britain or Spain under Franco, would join the movement at all.
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Members of the movement would not withdraw from everyday life, like monks, but would pursue their secular careers - only now they would be "working according to the spirit of Jesus Christ". And Escriva had a particular kind of career in mind. "He wanted to reach the elite, those who shape culture," says Allen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1400400,00.html
[Sharing the profits is not usually a good way to get something to stop.]
According to estimates presented by MK Zahava Gal-On to the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the subject of the sex industry in Israel, this industry turns over some $1 billion a year. Raids by the tax authorities on brothels revealed that traffickers in women are in possession of large sums of cash and a great deal of assets. Now, the authorities are sharing the traffickers' profits through the imposition of fines.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/557972.html
[I don’t bother going to Blockbuster anymore since they essentially stock 90 million copies of one movie, and no copies of any other movie. But it seems they came up with some kind of advertising gimmick a while back that if your movie was more than some few days late you would not have to pay a late fee.
But the catch was you were not paying the late fee because you were buying the movie outright. I don’t know at what price, but I would not be surprised to find it was some exhorbitant amount that they claim they pay when they get the movies new, like $80 a piece or something.
So everyonei n the world filed what will soon be known as a “frivolous lawsuit” no doubt to get their money back from the false advertising.]
Blockbuster Inc. (BBI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the top U.S. video rental chain, will pay $630,000 to settle 47 states' claims that its "No Late Fees" policy deceived customers, the company said on Tuesday.
Blockbuster will also refund customers who claim they were misled and charged restocking fees or the full price of rented movies if they were returned a week after the due date, according to a statement from Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=8027116
The Americans have admitted that their intelligence in Iran is terrible, as the Iranians manage to find and execute all their agents. The obvious reason for this is that the Iranians are getting information on who these agents are. Do you think it possible that AIPAC was caught assisting Israel in betraying American spy networks in Iran? The Iranians could offer in return to free captured Israeli spies. The deal would essentially be to destroy American spies and the American ability to gather intelligence in return for the lives of Israeli spies and the continued ability of Israel to gather intelligence. I'm obviously just guessing, but my guess tracks the cover story printed in the Jerusalem Post, that the information in the 'entrapment' related to the lives of Israeli spies in Kurdistan (a cover story important enough that they decided to admit they had agents in Kurdistan, something they had previously denied). If this is indeed a spy story, Iran is the most likely country being spied upon, particularly as both Israel and the United States want to know where to bomb. Betraying an American spy network in a country considered to be a real enemy would be a Pollard-type crime, and at a Pollard-level of importance. It would be enough to get AIPAC into some serious trouble. Does Israel already own the United States to the extent it can pull AIPAC out of trouble?
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/03/aipac-pollard-iran.html
[Is “advertainment” a word?]
McDonald's has offered to pay top hip hop artists to incorporate the 'Big Mac' into their song lyrics.
According to Advertising Age magazine, the fast food chain will pay rappers up to £2.80 ($5) every time a song namechecking the burger is played.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4389751.stm
[If we were having an economic recovery, this would put a dent in it.
I don’t know who this guy Mr. Fischer is, but he is clearly on crack.]
Christie Baker, owner of Flowers on the Green, recently had to hike the cost of a delivery in Guilford, Conn., from $6 to $8 to make up for the higher cost of gas. In La Jolla, Calif., Domino's just increased the amount it pays delivery drivers by a nickel a trip: They now get 95 cents to transport a large pepperoni, but it's still not enough to cover the cost, says assistant manager Donald Cunningham. And at Meyers Moving & Storage in New York City, they're now charging $15 more an hour to move from an apartment on the East Side to the West. Owner Guy Drori says the rates may go up again come summer.
The hike in oil prices is beginning to ripple through the economy, pinching consumers at places far beyond the gas pump.
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Today's energy crisis - if it can be called a crisis - is very different from the one in the 1970s. This hike in prices is driven by increases in demand from a robust economy not just in the US, but around the world. In the 1970s, the economy was already struggling when oil prices spiked due to a lack of supply.
"I don't think there's too much reason to be concerned," says Mr. Fischer. "We're going to have a little bit of a cutback in consumption, but
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0329/p01s01-usec.html
U.S. intelligence experts are preparing a list of 25 countries deemed unstable and, thus, candidates for intervention.
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03290004aaa00d24.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=FRONTPAG&Type=News&Filter=Front%20Page
American Jewish Congress President Paul Miller today called for an end to efforts by certain church groups to divest in whole or in part from companies that do business in Israel, and announced a counter-campaign to blunt its impact:
"There is an ill-advised and troublesome effort calling for total or selective divestment from corporations that do business with Israel, and to pressure others, such as Caterpillar Inc., to stop selling products to Israel. Preying on the emotions of well-meaning individuals who think that they are contributing to peace, these divestment campaigns coincides with other efforts which seek to undermine Israel's self-defense, its economy and its legitimacy, and to pressure Israel to make concessions during peace negotiations with the Palestinians. It is time to make it clear that these tactics will not work," Miller said.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050329/nytu137.html?.v=3
Resistance shelling drives US to abandon barracks near ar-Ramadi. Americans throw local families out of their homes and move in, using civilians as human shields.
US forces abandoned one of their barracks in ar-Ramadi at dawn on Monday after intensive rocket bombardments blasted the facility throughout last week.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam quoted US Marine Sergeant who gave his name as Dudin as saying that the US forces were leaving their position in the glass and ceramic factory behind the al-Warrar Bridge west of ar-Ramadi after it came under numerous attacks by the Iraqi Resistance. The American sergeant said that the Marines would “continue to exert control over the area with the help of Iraqi [puppet] forces from another barracks that we will work to make available at a later time.”
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Iraqi Resistance announces new, home-made rocket: as-Sijjil.
The Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah issued a communiqué on Monday in which the military command of the Council announced that the Iraqi Resistance had succeeded in producing their first locally-made rocket since the battle of al-Fallujah. The statement reported that the new surface-to-surface rocket has been dubbed “as-Sijjil”, and said that, God willing, it would soon be used to “take the wind out of the sails” of the occupation
http://www.the7thfire.com/Iraq_War/resistance_report/mar_28_2005.html
This is incredible: Very rarely does the everyday public get a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes in a normally-secret Bush Administration.
But Monday, March 28, the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush promoted his plan to privatize Social Security. What they revealed to us and our lawyer was fascinating.
There we were - three people who had personally picked up tickets from Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez's office and went to a presidential event. But as we entered, we were told that we had been "ID'ed" and were warned that any disruption would get us arrested.
After being seated in the audience we were forcibly removed before the President arrived, even though we had not been disruptive. We were shocked when told that this presidential event was a "private event" and were commanded to leave.
More astonishingly, when the Secret Service was contacted the next day they agreed to meet with us this Monday, March 28 to discuss the circumstances surrounding our removal. We had two big questions going into this meeting:
How is the Bush Administration "ID'ing" citizens before presidential events? Why was an official taxpayer-funded event called a "private event" - leading to citizens being kicked out?
Most shocking of all, we got answers to both questions.
The Secret Service revealed that we were "ID'ed" when local Republican staffers saw a bumper sticker on the car we drove which said "No More Blood For Oil." Evidently, the free speech expressed on one bumper sticker is cause enough to eject three citizens from a presidential event. (Similarly, someone was ejected from Bush's Social Security privatization event in Arizona the same day simply for wearing a Democratic t-shirt.)
The Secret Service also revealed that ticket distribution and staffing of the Social Security event was run by the local Republican Party. They wanted us to be clear that it was a Republican staffer - not the Secret Service - who kicked us out of the presidential event. But this revealed something else that should be startling to all Americans.
After allowing taxpayers to finance his privatization events (let's call them what they really are after all,) and after using the White House communications apparatus to set them up, Bush is privatizing the ticket distribution and security staffing at his events to the Republican Party. The losers are not just taxpayers, but anyone who values the First Amendment. Under the banner of a "private event" the Republican Party is excluding citizens from seeing their president because of the lone sin of expressing the wrong idea on a bumper sticker or t-shirt. The question for Americans is - will we allow our freedom to be privatized?
Karen Bauer, Leslie Weise. Alexander Young Denver residents
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=168
[See also matthew 3:8-9, wherein John the Bptist tells the Saducees and Pharisees that just because they say they are children of Abraham that doesn’t get them anything because God could raise up from the very stones around their feet children of Abraham with equal claim. he tells them they must repent and get ready for Jesus who will be coming along right behind him.]
Judaized Christian churches have adopted de facto, a racist theology that endorses a favored, or “chosen people.” So-called Christian leaders have and are willing and ready to condemn a not-favored tribe to death. The unfavored tribe is any tribe that is at odds with political Israel, including the tribes of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon. Judaized Christianity is an American spawning. If those who are committing the sin of supporting genocidal “wars” understand that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, they will stop. Judaized Christians are numerous and are part of a huge communication network. It is part of the media and partly entertainment business. It may influence fully half of the American population. Anyone who doubts this need only to watch TBN television for a few hours of Benny Hinn and John Hagee, and count the evangelical churches in your phone book.
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How brazen. This Israeli organization, masquerading as followers of Christ, tells us God's promise did not mean a savior named Jesus, but instead means that God's promise of a blessing to the world is through a corrupted, agnostic warring state with one of the highest abortion rates in the world, that conveniently named itself “Israel.” What an insult to Jesus, what blight on the name of Christ, and those who follow Him! Amazingly, CIBLR raises its funds from Judaized Christians.
Are we expected to believe, contrary to all traditional teachings, that this politically criminal and remarkably immoral oligarchy is God's blessing to all nations? Judaized arguments for Israeli land rights fall apart like termite-infected wood when you pick them up to look at them. The only truly honest way to characterize the Judaized Christian position is “Balderdash!" which means, pompous nonsense.
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The overwhelming majority of Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, and Orthodox leaders, regardless of what other faults they may have, teach that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesies. They also do not teach the Judaized idea of a new temple in Jerusalem, mystical wars, a red heifer sacrifice, Armageddon, and imminent end times, or a convenient "rapture" for the few. Most mainline Reverends, Pastors, and Priests would at least admit that their faith does not support the idea of a political state of Israel as a God icon, nor that Israel should be appeased by throwing one Arab country after another upon its burning altars.
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What the Bible is All About fails the second test with an even lower score. On page 361 in a chapter misnamed “Understanding Matthew,” we are told:
“ He (Jesus) foretold the coming of the world after his ascension until He comes back in glory to judge the nations as to their treatment of His brethren, the Jews (Matthew 25).”
Lest anyone miss her meaning, Mears explains, “It is the judgment of the gentile people concerning their attitude toward God’s people.”
Thus, Henrietta Mears again makes the present day state of Israel and, in fact, anyone who claims to be Jewish, including Elizabeth Taylor and Sammy Davis Junior out to be the “chosen people.” This makes Jesus a racist in total opposition to what He is reported to have said in this very chapter. Christ’s words say nothing about “the Jews” or any race, but tell his followers that as they do unto the least of his creatures, so are they doing also to Him. It is heresy to believe that Jesus wants us to be good only toward “Jews” and Israeli citizens. It is basic to traditional Christianity that all men, even our enemies, must be loved as brothers. This is amplified in Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan and too many more to mention.
Mears’ What the Bible is All About, would have us believe that our ticket to heaven or hell depends on how we have treated Jews during our lifetime. Oxford University Press’ Scofield Reference Bible also fails the Matthew 25 test and goes even further by declaring “anti-Semitism” to be a “sin” (footnote page 19-20) and predicts that “nations” will be punished in the future for anti-Semitism. Oxford University Press must not know that countries do not sin, men do.
Invariably, Judaized Christian commentaries promote similar, racist views of Genesis 12 and Matthew 25. A reader can eliminate most Judaized books by scanning the footnotes and commentaries of these two passages.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050309Wh2.htm
“US Christians can also apply pressure on their elected representatives next Thursday, March 24, when Jews mark the Fast of Esther.”
Here is a clever twist: UCI wants us to believe that Jews are celebrating their form of Easter right along with us. Nothing could be more wrong. Easter is the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection after he was persecuted and killed at the hands of the Pharisees of his day. Jesus stood for peace, tolerance and love. Today’s Talmudic Jews who celebrate Purim and the Fast of Esther are the 21st century equivalent of the Pharisees, but Mr. Freund twists this to suggest they acknowledge Christ’s resurrection with a holiday of its own.
“The Fast of Esther” is part of a tale of vengeance, the antithesis of Easter. It tells of the Israelites’ (“Jews” in the King James version) slaughter of an untold number of Persians, accomplished by the venerated Queen Esther after she had fasted. Esther insists the ten sons of her competitor, Haman, be hanged for the acts of their father. Who can you imagine strangling Saddam Hussein’s children? The execution of the Persians is later celebrated as Purim.
It is fitting that UCI brings up Esther, because what they are planning is the slaughter of many Arabs.
In contrast to bloody celebrations like Purim, Christians celebrate the teachings of Jesus, who commanded, “love your enemies” and “do good to those who persecute you.” Jesus is about life; Esther is about brutality and death. Everyone should read the book of Esther for an object lesson.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050321Ea.htm
[This is an interesting tactic I had not thought of. Get on to a mailing list you don’t like, and then complain about it to get the mailing list turned off for everyone.
Very clever.]
Previously, on Thursday, March 17th at about 3:00 PM, Mr. B called the undersigned to tell me he had "closed Port 25" on our DSL service. When asked "why" he said “because you are a spammer." When asked to explain, Mr. B. replied, "Before you ask me to define "spam," let me tell you spam at Your Company Internet is what I say it is."
I appreciate Mr. B’s courteous manner in his recent call, but this does not solve our issue, and does not comply with our contract that requires 30 days cancellation notice by either party, and we do not want to move our services to another provider, we chose your company for a reason.
Mr. B’s suggestion that we “find another provider” is also useless unless we can remove the complainers from our list. They will simply stalk us from one provider to another, embedded in our list, and protected by Your Company. Our mailing list is clean, it was last updated to exclude all known complainers and remove requests through March 22, 2005. But the professional complainers who are hiding out in our list will repeat their complaints to the new provider. Nor can we take legal Action against them until you disclose who they are. We are your client, they are not; we have a right to know who is interfering with us and defaming us. If you will not tell us you are protecting them, and you are as guilty as they are.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/FSpech.htm
posted by abu nakba at 3/30/2005 07:43:00 AM
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