Caribeean holiday
-governors island
-homeland security
There has been great concern that genetically engineered crops might increase allergies or immune sensitivity in the population. Soon after Monsanto's genetically engineered soy was imported into the UK, for example, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50 percent. (No follow-up studies were conducted to confirm a link.) At a Russian press conference held on 11 December 2003, a group of scientists announced that the number of people with symptoms of allergy increased by three times over the past three years, and that the increased consumption of genetically engineered foods by the population might be the cause. Allergies are similarly on the rise in the U.S., where genetically engineered foods are eaten regularly.
http://www.rense.com/general64/dwbr.htm
In what may be the first experiment of its kind, scientists infected cell cultures with two related viruses. One was a genetically engineered poxvirus, (vaccinia virus (VIC) with a transgene from the influenza virus). The other was a naturally occurring relative of the first virus, isolated from Norwegian wildlife. Both were orthopoxviruses. The two viruses interacted and created many new hybrid viruses by recombination. The characteristics of some of the new viruses included traits not expressed in either parent virus. Some viruses, for example, spread faster than either parent, while others produced different, more serious cell culture changes. A single virus multiplied into hundreds of thousands of viruses in a few hours, with unpredictable consequences. Since the marker gene in the transgenic virus was not present in some of the newly formed hybrid viruses, it would not be possible to track transgenic viruses as the origin of the hybrids, if they were found in the wild.
In a second series of experiments, various mammalian cell lines were infected with avipoxviruses. In some cell lines, the avipoxviruses were able to perform full multiplication. This was previously considered to be impossible. The assumption that avipoxviruses were incapable of full multiplication was used as a basis for safety claims of vaccines using avipoxviruses.
http://www.rense.com/general64/hyubr.htm
Broccoli and red chili peppers may help fight cancer by slowing the growth of cancerous tumor cells, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
They may be especially helpful in hard-to-treat cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian cancer, the team at the University of Pittsburgh said.
http://www.rense.com/general64/chili.htm
In February, Schwarzenegger endorsed Congressional legislation authorizing the construction of a fence along California's border with Mexico. The proposal has sparked opposition from the state's Coastal Commission, as well as many environmentalists and Democrats.
In a statement, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said Schwarzenegger's comments reflected badly on the state's "productive" relationship with Mexico.
"The Gov. should ratchet down his rhetoric and retreat from this narrow-minded approach to immigration policy," Nunez said. "Closing our borders to commerce and culture is an idea that comes from political extremists, not rational policy-makers."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/19/state/n192358D47.DTL
A 10-year-old Bronx girl has died from flesh-eating bacteria, a rare and invasive form of the same bug that causes strep throat and scarlet fever.
http://www.wnbc.com/health/4392656/detail.html
A leaky aerosol chamber manufactured by the University of Wisconsin at Madison was responsible for three laboratory-acquired tuberculosis infections in a Seattle BSL-3 lab last year. The infections have not been made public until now. Nearly twenty Madison chambers exist across the US and in India, New Zealand, and Northern Ireland. While tuberculosis is not a biological weapons agent, the accident underscores the inherent dangers when working with dangerous disease agents, and the grave safety risks of the US biodefense program, which is encouraging more scientists to deliberately aerosolize bioweapons agents in Madison chambers and similar equipment.
http://www.rense.com/general64/fe.htm
The Minuteman Project in Arizona announced yesterday it will expand its operations, putting pressure on employers of illegals and setting up civilian border watches in four states.
Project spokesman Grey Deacon told WorldNetDaily the operation has been flooded with calls and e-mails from thousands of citizens across the country volunteering to serve.
Currently hundreds of volunteers, many legally carrying guns and waving flags, are keeping watch around the clock until the end of the month along a 23-mile stretch of border. The volunteers reportedly are intimidating illegal aliens with their presence and alerting the Border Patrol via cell phones or radios when they see people crossing.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43865
Information will be encoded on the RFID tag, and also will be linked back to a database with details on warranty and part-replacement history to give the technician in the field the information quickly. The companies also will use bar codes alongside the RFID tags for supplemental information.
The test is a precursor to a mandatory tagging program that Boeing and rival Airbus SAS will require of their suppliers. The two are jointly working to write industry standards for the commercial aircraft sector because they use products from roughly 70% of the same suppliers.
http://www.rense.com/general64/few.htm
The news about plastics has been pretty alarming lately, causing some of us to go dashing for the water bottles to see what kind of plastic they are -- and find out if we've been unwittingly poisoning our children and ourselves with chemicals leaching into the water from them.
http://www.rense.com/general64/plasti.htm
Researchers also found that two-thirds of the 42 ships sampled carried potentially deadly organisms ñ including cholera and cryptosporidium ñ in ballast water tanks that were supposed to be empty and clean, The Muskegon Chronicle reported Tuesday.
In 1993, cryptosporidium from an unknown source contaminated Milwaukee's drinking water system, killing more than 100 people and making 400,000 others ill.
http://www.rense.com/general64/feri.htm
A week before she was killed by a suicide bomber, humanitarian worker Marla Ruzicka forced military commanders to admit they did keep records of Iraqi civilians killed by US forces.
Tommy Franks, the former head of US Central Command, famously said the US army "don't do body counts", despite a requirement to do so by the Geneva Conventions.
But in an essay Ms Ruzicka wrote a week before her death on Saturday and published yesterday, the 28-year-old revealed that a Brigadier General told her it was "standard operating procedure" for US troops to file a report when they shoot a non-combatant.
She obtained figures for the number of civilians killed in Baghdad between 28 February and 5 April, and discovered that 29 had been killed in firefights involving US forces and insurgents. This was four times the number of Iraqi police killed.
"These statistics demonstrate that the US military can and does track civilian casualties," she wrote. "Troops on the ground keep these records because they recognise they have a responsibility to review each action taken and that it is in their interest to minimise mistakes, especially since winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis is a key component of their strategy."
http://www.rense.com/general64/secr.htm
[Maybe the Israeli airforce should try staying in its own airspace.]
Moreover, say Israeli sources, even if the missiles remain in the hands of the Syrian army they could be a threat to Israeli planes, if they try flying into Syrian air space.
http://www.rense.com/general64/sisie.htm
China's warning that the Vatican must stay of out China's "internal affairs" seems to be a veiled insistence that China will not allow the Vatican a formal role in the appointment of bishops and other clergy in China, which has been a cause of dispute.
China's 12 million Catholics are divided between those who belong to state-controlled official church that accepts the pope as a spiritual leader but not as the organizational head of the Chinese church, and those who worship with "underground" priests and bishops who recognize only the authority of the pope and spurn cooperation with the Chinese government.
http://www.rense.com/general64/aer.htm
What was the purpose of Donald Rumsfeld's visits to Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan last week?
There was no official statement on the agenda of the meetings with top Azerbaijan government officials.
But the very next day, the commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Johns, issued a statement in the local press saying that the U.S. planned to deploy military bases in the Caspian region in order to ensure regional security.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/210405militarybases.htm
I have long been aware of the vicious, gratuitous sadism of rabbinical kosher slaughter of meat animals. The liberal activist group, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, unlike such worthless, possibly sold-out outfits as the ASPCA, recently decided to do something about a particularly horrific situation at a slaughterhouse run by New York based, Lubavitcher-type rabbis in a small Iowa town.
http://www.rense.com/general64/peta.htm
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Thursday that unless lawmakers come to grips with spiraling U.S. deficits, the economy was at risk of stagnation "or worse."
http://www.rense.com/general64/endge.htm
The investigation began in July 2004 when police receive a complaint together with intelligence information that Yitzhaki had issued Israeli passports, making tens of thousands of dollars and accepting perks such as stays in luxury hotels.
Police detectives have collected evidence apparently showing that Yitzhaki had issued some 150 Israeli passports to people who were not entitled to them. The investigation was also a joint effort by the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry.
http://www.rense.com/general64/feuw.htm
The Netherlands has discovered its first case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of "mad cow disease", the government said on Thursday.
The interior ministry said in a statement a patient at a hospital in the central town of Utrecht had been diagnosed with the disease and said it had informed European authorities.
http://www.rense.com/general64/madcc.htm
As for the dead floating in the Tigris, history serves (again) -this is appears to be a classic "psywar" tactic. "The deliberate (and nominally selective) use of terror in psychological operations," writes Michael McClintock, "figured prominently in the 1960s reassessment of Philippine tactics by the U.S. counterinsurgency establishment." McClintock, in his excellent gold mine of information on U.S. counterinsurgency (Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990), cites numerous examples of the "use of dead bodies" to terrorize potential resistance sympathizers and collaborators (that is to say, much of the civilian population). As McClintock notes, this macabre "psywar" tactic was a favorite of the French in Algeria. It was also put to use during the Hukbalahap rebellion, or simply the Huk rebellion (1946-54), in the Philippines
http://www.rense.com/general64/amac.htm
[The Space Brothers are comin to save us.]
On April 11th, 2005, an historic document was laid before a Special Sitting of the Federal Court of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta. This document, a Form 255 "Request To Admit" and its accompanying "Response To Request To Admit", were filed as part an application by an American family to remain in Canada as political refugees.
The Deppeller family (Don Deppeller, Toni Jannelli and Louise White) had made claims that they had been harassed and kept under surveillance because of their awareness of highly-classified US gov't. projects, and in a remarkable turn of events, their claims were actually corroborated by one of America's top scientists who worked on these projects. - one Dr. Dan Burisch, Phd., H-6196-Maj-E-(ret.), who admitted to certain facts that have been withheld from the public for over fifty years.
http://www.rense.com/general64/acce.htm
A familiar, if desperate media push is under way to convince the British people that the main political parties offer them a democratic choice in the general election on 5 May. This demonstrable absurdity became hilarious when Tony Blair, leader of one of the nastiest, most violent right-wing regimes in memory, announced the existence of "a very nasty right-wing campaign" to defeat him. If only it was that funny. If only it was possible to read the "ah but" tributes to a "successful" Labour government without cracking a rib. If only it was possible to read warmongers bemoaning the "apathy" of the British electorate without one's laughter being overtaken by the urge to throw up.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Pilger0421.htm
[Is this a real story? If so, this would easily be enough fake money to destroy the US currency.]
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday said it has arrested two British nationals with $3 trillion fake US federal bank notes in their possession, DZMM reported.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=3274
A federal appeals court Thursday barred the public from arguments in the case of a fired FBI contractor who alleged security breaches and misconduct at the agency.
Sibel Edmonds' (search) lawsuit against the government was thrown out of a lower court when the Bush administration invoked the state secrets privilege, which allows the government to withhold information to safeguard national security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154094,00.html
The allegations were made by at least seven officials who have been interviewed by the committee staff (and leaked or otherwise provided to the press) as well as, in a public hearing, by Carl Ford, a conservative Republican and career intelligence official who, until recently, was assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. They boil down to these: On at least five occasions, Bolton intimidated and tried to get fired intelligence analysts at the State Department and the CIA who disagreed with his views. A former official with the U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a letter to the committee stating that during one run-in with Bolton, while she was working on projects in Kyrgyzstan, he harassed her in a Moscow hotel lobby, banged on her door, then went to Kyrgyzstan and spread lies about her—saying she was being investigated for absconding with government funds—that nearly derailed her work. Several officials have claimed, though anonymously for now, that Bolton blocked official documents about Iran from moving up the chain of command to Colin Powell.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2117028/sidebar/2117080/
The British government has ordered a D-notice clampdown on details relating to the ricin terror ring story which was exposed as being fake last week.
Inside sources from the Guardian newspaper in London have confirmed that the reason the Guardian article 'The ricin ring that never was,' was removed from its website was due to a direct order from the government. Several other websites worldwide have also removed the article but it is still available on numerous websites, Rense.com being one.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/220405orderedshutdown.htm
On Tuesday, the company sent an e-mail to customers announcing that it is implementing "a new compliance policy." Effective April 25, whenever a customer runs a background search on someone through the Rapsheets database for employment- or volunteer-screening purposes and the search unearths a criminal record for that person, Rapsheets will automatically notify the person and provide him or her with a copy of the background report and the name and address of the organization that requested it.
The move brings the company into compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA, which requires background-checking services to either provide employers with the most-current information available from public records or to notify workers and job applicants when they are providing an employer with damaging information about them that is likely to affect their job prospects. FCRA does not require agencies to notify workers and applicants when they are providing an employer with out-of-date information that is unlikely to affect the individual's job prospects.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67276,00.html
This war has put Jews in the showcase as never before. Its primary intellectual architects--Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith--are all Jewish neoconservatives. So, too, are many of its prominent media cheerleaders, including William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and Marty Peretz. Joe Lieberman, the nation's most conspicuous Jewish politician, has been an avid booster, going so far as to rebuke his former partner Al Gore and much of his own party.
Then there's the "Jews control the media" problem. It's probably not particularly relevant that the families who own the Times and the Washington Post are Jewish, but let's not pretend this is so in the case of the Jewish owner-editors of, say, U.S. News & World Report and The New Republic. Mortimer Zuckerman is head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Peretz is unofficial chair of the American Arab Defamation Committee. Neither is shy about filling his magazine with news Jews can use.
To make matters worse, many of these Jewish hard-liners--"Likudniks" in the current parlance--appear, at least from a distance, to be behaving in accordance with traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes. Much to the delight of genuine anti-Semites of the left and right, the idea of a new war to remove Saddam was partially conceived at the behest of Likud politician Benjamin Netanyahu in a document written expressly for him by Perle, Feith and others in 1996. Some, like Perle, apparently see the influence they wield as an opportunity to get rich. What's more, many of these same Jews joined Rumsfeld and Cheney in underselling the difficulty of the war, in what may have been a ruse designed to embroil America in a broad military conflagration that would help smite Israel's enemies. Did Perle, for instance, genuinely believe "support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder"? Is Wolfowitz really so ignorant of history as to believe the Iraqis would welcome us as "their hoped-for liberators"?
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=alterman
A conservative Republican senator who proposed that federal meteorologists be forbidden from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and the Weather Channel, has received nearly $4,000 from AccuWeather's founder and executive vice president since 2000, RAW STORY has discovered
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/santorum_weather_ban_accuweather_421.htm
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are looking into incidents in which people masquerading as unannounced inspectors were found poking around three hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7680-2005Apr21?language=printer
It must have been like that in the dying days of ancient Rome when a horse was appointed to the Senate and Nero was president ... er, emperor.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/farmer041905.html
That's how the system really works. All the guff about law, democracy and morality is just cornball for the yokels back home -- and for the cannon fodder sent off to die in the elite's commercial and dynastic wars. The Labyrinth -- that knotted gut of blood and bile -- has poisoned us all.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/22/120.html
Mowbray doesn't mention that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, the central figure in all this, is not Jewish. That would ruin the consistency of his narrative, which focuses on the ethnic victimology angle: clearly we are supposed to think that this is not an investigation into spying operations, in which a foreign power is given ready access to top secret documents, but a reenactment of Kristallnacht. Mowbray is an expert when it comes to this kind of whining: remember how he smeared General Anthony Zinni?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5696
There have been a series of minor terrorist attacks by extremist wine producers in the French south in recent weeks, including dynamite attacks on three government offices and the hijacking and destruction of lorry-loads of wine
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=631593
Meanwhile, Seidenberg's words drew a swift reaction from numerous technology blogs.
"Verizon CEO flames Wi-Fi and demanding customers" declared www.makesyougohmm.com
"Shut Up And Pay, Peasant," blared a headline at www.corante.com
A blogger at www.mfli.net/blog laid out a more specific grievance: "If cellphone coverage can extend to subways in Europe, I should get at least 4 bars in a residential neighbourhood."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/19/Business/Verizon_CEO_scoffs_at.shtml
When Christina hit a tree, police moved in. The only problem was that she was not responding. Police feared Christina could take off at any moment and decided that she must be removed from the car.
An officer then broke the window and what happened next is the source of controversy.
The officer dragged Christina out of the car and pulled her along the pavement. Christina’s family claims the officer continued to use force evidenced, they say, by his lunging arm
http://ksnw.com/news/stories/7544938.html
Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez was ousted by Congress on Wednesday after a week of increasingly violent protests in which he was accused of abusing his power by meddling with the country's top court.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=uri:2005-04-21T011827Z_01_HOP067116_RTRUKOC_0_ECUADOR-PRESIDENT.xml
Given all of this, at a minimum the CBOE and government regulators who are conducting the secret investigations have known for some time who made the options puts on a total of 38 stocks that might reasonably be anticipated to have a sharp drop in value because of an attack similar to the 9/11 episode. The silence from the investigating camps could mean several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts on the listed stocks or others besides terrorists had foreknowledge of the attack and used this knowledge to reap a nice financial harvest from the tragedy.
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm
[So according to the FBI, bin laden is a US person?]
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (ìFOIAî) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (ìFBIî) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified ìSecretî FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in ìpersonnel and medical files and similar filesî when the disclosure of such information ìwould constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.î (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) (2000))
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5286.shtml
In addition to turning a blind eye to the murderous activity of their informant, ICE officials in El Paso also obstructed the efforts of Mexican law enforcers seeking to apprehend Mexican state police officers who also were complicit in the homicides.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/20/234352/486
"What we have is the possibility of retrieving energy at a lower temperature with greater efficiency and lower environmental effects," Hu said.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20050419-00
Meanwhile, Yingpan Man, a nearly perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Caucasoid mummy, was allowed this month to leave China for the first time, and is being displayed at the Edo-Tokyo Museum.
The Yingpan Man, discovered in 1995 in the region that bears his name, has a gold foil death mask -- a Greek tradition -- covering his blond bearded face, and wears elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon garments with seemingly Western European designs.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050419-101056-2135r.htm
In the largest fine ever obtained by San Francisco antitrust prosecutors, a Korean company has agreed to plead guilty and pay $185 million for its role in a conspiracy to drive up the price of computer chips.
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. manufactures dynamic random access memory, which is used in everything from desktop computers to MP3 players to digital cameras. Hynix has a subsidiary in San Jose, Calif.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1114074313598
In the latest study, Dr Roth and his colleagues found that the mice stopped moving and appeared to lose consciousness within minutes of breathing the air and H2S mixture.
The animals' breathing rates dropped from the normal 120 breaths per minute to less than 10 breaths per minute.
During exposure their metabolic rates dropped by an astonishing 90%, and their core body temperatures fell from 37C to as low as 11C.
After six hours' exposure to the mixture, the mice were given fresh air. Their metabolic rate and core body temperature returned to normal, and tests showed they had suffered no ill effects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm
POLITICAL foes of Peter Mandelson are demanding that he should explain why he spent New Year’s Eve on the yacht of a billionaire who is at the centre of a major EU investigation.
The European Trade Commissioner was forced to admit that he was a guest at a party thrown by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.
Details of Mr Mandelson’s Caribbean holiday emerged as the sleaze row deepened over European commissioners accepting free hospitality
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1580068,00.html
-homeland security
There has been great concern that genetically engineered crops might increase allergies or immune sensitivity in the population. Soon after Monsanto's genetically engineered soy was imported into the UK, for example, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50 percent. (No follow-up studies were conducted to confirm a link.) At a Russian press conference held on 11 December 2003, a group of scientists announced that the number of people with symptoms of allergy increased by three times over the past three years, and that the increased consumption of genetically engineered foods by the population might be the cause. Allergies are similarly on the rise in the U.S., where genetically engineered foods are eaten regularly.
http://www.rense.com/general64/dwbr.htm
In what may be the first experiment of its kind, scientists infected cell cultures with two related viruses. One was a genetically engineered poxvirus, (vaccinia virus (VIC) with a transgene from the influenza virus). The other was a naturally occurring relative of the first virus, isolated from Norwegian wildlife. Both were orthopoxviruses. The two viruses interacted and created many new hybrid viruses by recombination. The characteristics of some of the new viruses included traits not expressed in either parent virus. Some viruses, for example, spread faster than either parent, while others produced different, more serious cell culture changes. A single virus multiplied into hundreds of thousands of viruses in a few hours, with unpredictable consequences. Since the marker gene in the transgenic virus was not present in some of the newly formed hybrid viruses, it would not be possible to track transgenic viruses as the origin of the hybrids, if they were found in the wild.
In a second series of experiments, various mammalian cell lines were infected with avipoxviruses. In some cell lines, the avipoxviruses were able to perform full multiplication. This was previously considered to be impossible. The assumption that avipoxviruses were incapable of full multiplication was used as a basis for safety claims of vaccines using avipoxviruses.
http://www.rense.com/general64/hyubr.htm
Broccoli and red chili peppers may help fight cancer by slowing the growth of cancerous tumor cells, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
They may be especially helpful in hard-to-treat cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian cancer, the team at the University of Pittsburgh said.
http://www.rense.com/general64/chili.htm
In February, Schwarzenegger endorsed Congressional legislation authorizing the construction of a fence along California's border with Mexico. The proposal has sparked opposition from the state's Coastal Commission, as well as many environmentalists and Democrats.
In a statement, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said Schwarzenegger's comments reflected badly on the state's "productive" relationship with Mexico.
"The Gov. should ratchet down his rhetoric and retreat from this narrow-minded approach to immigration policy," Nunez said. "Closing our borders to commerce and culture is an idea that comes from political extremists, not rational policy-makers."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/19/state/n192358D47.DTL
A 10-year-old Bronx girl has died from flesh-eating bacteria, a rare and invasive form of the same bug that causes strep throat and scarlet fever.
http://www.wnbc.com/health/4392656/detail.html
A leaky aerosol chamber manufactured by the University of Wisconsin at Madison was responsible for three laboratory-acquired tuberculosis infections in a Seattle BSL-3 lab last year. The infections have not been made public until now. Nearly twenty Madison chambers exist across the US and in India, New Zealand, and Northern Ireland. While tuberculosis is not a biological weapons agent, the accident underscores the inherent dangers when working with dangerous disease agents, and the grave safety risks of the US biodefense program, which is encouraging more scientists to deliberately aerosolize bioweapons agents in Madison chambers and similar equipment.
http://www.rense.com/general64/fe.htm
The Minuteman Project in Arizona announced yesterday it will expand its operations, putting pressure on employers of illegals and setting up civilian border watches in four states.
Project spokesman Grey Deacon told WorldNetDaily the operation has been flooded with calls and e-mails from thousands of citizens across the country volunteering to serve.
Currently hundreds of volunteers, many legally carrying guns and waving flags, are keeping watch around the clock until the end of the month along a 23-mile stretch of border. The volunteers reportedly are intimidating illegal aliens with their presence and alerting the Border Patrol via cell phones or radios when they see people crossing.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43865
Information will be encoded on the RFID tag, and also will be linked back to a database with details on warranty and part-replacement history to give the technician in the field the information quickly. The companies also will use bar codes alongside the RFID tags for supplemental information.
The test is a precursor to a mandatory tagging program that Boeing and rival Airbus SAS will require of their suppliers. The two are jointly working to write industry standards for the commercial aircraft sector because they use products from roughly 70% of the same suppliers.
http://www.rense.com/general64/few.htm
The news about plastics has been pretty alarming lately, causing some of us to go dashing for the water bottles to see what kind of plastic they are -- and find out if we've been unwittingly poisoning our children and ourselves with chemicals leaching into the water from them.
http://www.rense.com/general64/plasti.htm
Researchers also found that two-thirds of the 42 ships sampled carried potentially deadly organisms ñ including cholera and cryptosporidium ñ in ballast water tanks that were supposed to be empty and clean, The Muskegon Chronicle reported Tuesday.
In 1993, cryptosporidium from an unknown source contaminated Milwaukee's drinking water system, killing more than 100 people and making 400,000 others ill.
http://www.rense.com/general64/feri.htm
A week before she was killed by a suicide bomber, humanitarian worker Marla Ruzicka forced military commanders to admit they did keep records of Iraqi civilians killed by US forces.
Tommy Franks, the former head of US Central Command, famously said the US army "don't do body counts", despite a requirement to do so by the Geneva Conventions.
But in an essay Ms Ruzicka wrote a week before her death on Saturday and published yesterday, the 28-year-old revealed that a Brigadier General told her it was "standard operating procedure" for US troops to file a report when they shoot a non-combatant.
She obtained figures for the number of civilians killed in Baghdad between 28 February and 5 April, and discovered that 29 had been killed in firefights involving US forces and insurgents. This was four times the number of Iraqi police killed.
"These statistics demonstrate that the US military can and does track civilian casualties," she wrote. "Troops on the ground keep these records because they recognise they have a responsibility to review each action taken and that it is in their interest to minimise mistakes, especially since winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis is a key component of their strategy."
http://www.rense.com/general64/secr.htm
[Maybe the Israeli airforce should try staying in its own airspace.]
Moreover, say Israeli sources, even if the missiles remain in the hands of the Syrian army they could be a threat to Israeli planes, if they try flying into Syrian air space.
http://www.rense.com/general64/sisie.htm
China's warning that the Vatican must stay of out China's "internal affairs" seems to be a veiled insistence that China will not allow the Vatican a formal role in the appointment of bishops and other clergy in China, which has been a cause of dispute.
China's 12 million Catholics are divided between those who belong to state-controlled official church that accepts the pope as a spiritual leader but not as the organizational head of the Chinese church, and those who worship with "underground" priests and bishops who recognize only the authority of the pope and spurn cooperation with the Chinese government.
http://www.rense.com/general64/aer.htm
What was the purpose of Donald Rumsfeld's visits to Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan last week?
There was no official statement on the agenda of the meetings with top Azerbaijan government officials.
But the very next day, the commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Johns, issued a statement in the local press saying that the U.S. planned to deploy military bases in the Caspian region in order to ensure regional security.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/210405militarybases.htm
I have long been aware of the vicious, gratuitous sadism of rabbinical kosher slaughter of meat animals. The liberal activist group, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, unlike such worthless, possibly sold-out outfits as the ASPCA, recently decided to do something about a particularly horrific situation at a slaughterhouse run by New York based, Lubavitcher-type rabbis in a small Iowa town.
http://www.rense.com/general64/peta.htm
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Thursday that unless lawmakers come to grips with spiraling U.S. deficits, the economy was at risk of stagnation "or worse."
http://www.rense.com/general64/endge.htm
The investigation began in July 2004 when police receive a complaint together with intelligence information that Yitzhaki had issued Israeli passports, making tens of thousands of dollars and accepting perks such as stays in luxury hotels.
Police detectives have collected evidence apparently showing that Yitzhaki had issued some 150 Israeli passports to people who were not entitled to them. The investigation was also a joint effort by the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry.
http://www.rense.com/general64/feuw.htm
The Netherlands has discovered its first case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of "mad cow disease", the government said on Thursday.
The interior ministry said in a statement a patient at a hospital in the central town of Utrecht had been diagnosed with the disease and said it had informed European authorities.
http://www.rense.com/general64/madcc.htm
As for the dead floating in the Tigris, history serves (again) -this is appears to be a classic "psywar" tactic. "The deliberate (and nominally selective) use of terror in psychological operations," writes Michael McClintock, "figured prominently in the 1960s reassessment of Philippine tactics by the U.S. counterinsurgency establishment." McClintock, in his excellent gold mine of information on U.S. counterinsurgency (Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990), cites numerous examples of the "use of dead bodies" to terrorize potential resistance sympathizers and collaborators (that is to say, much of the civilian population). As McClintock notes, this macabre "psywar" tactic was a favorite of the French in Algeria. It was also put to use during the Hukbalahap rebellion, or simply the Huk rebellion (1946-54), in the Philippines
http://www.rense.com/general64/amac.htm
[The Space Brothers are comin to save us.]
On April 11th, 2005, an historic document was laid before a Special Sitting of the Federal Court of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta. This document, a Form 255 "Request To Admit" and its accompanying "Response To Request To Admit", were filed as part an application by an American family to remain in Canada as political refugees.
The Deppeller family (Don Deppeller, Toni Jannelli and Louise White) had made claims that they had been harassed and kept under surveillance because of their awareness of highly-classified US gov't. projects, and in a remarkable turn of events, their claims were actually corroborated by one of America's top scientists who worked on these projects. - one Dr. Dan Burisch, Phd., H-6196-Maj-E-(ret.), who admitted to certain facts that have been withheld from the public for over fifty years.
http://www.rense.com/general64/acce.htm
A familiar, if desperate media push is under way to convince the British people that the main political parties offer them a democratic choice in the general election on 5 May. This demonstrable absurdity became hilarious when Tony Blair, leader of one of the nastiest, most violent right-wing regimes in memory, announced the existence of "a very nasty right-wing campaign" to defeat him. If only it was that funny. If only it was possible to read the "ah but" tributes to a "successful" Labour government without cracking a rib. If only it was possible to read warmongers bemoaning the "apathy" of the British electorate without one's laughter being overtaken by the urge to throw up.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Pilger0421.htm
[Is this a real story? If so, this would easily be enough fake money to destroy the US currency.]
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Thursday said it has arrested two British nationals with $3 trillion fake US federal bank notes in their possession, DZMM reported.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=3274
A federal appeals court Thursday barred the public from arguments in the case of a fired FBI contractor who alleged security breaches and misconduct at the agency.
Sibel Edmonds' (search) lawsuit against the government was thrown out of a lower court when the Bush administration invoked the state secrets privilege, which allows the government to withhold information to safeguard national security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154094,00.html
The allegations were made by at least seven officials who have been interviewed by the committee staff (and leaked or otherwise provided to the press) as well as, in a public hearing, by Carl Ford, a conservative Republican and career intelligence official who, until recently, was assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. They boil down to these: On at least five occasions, Bolton intimidated and tried to get fired intelligence analysts at the State Department and the CIA who disagreed with his views. A former official with the U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a letter to the committee stating that during one run-in with Bolton, while she was working on projects in Kyrgyzstan, he harassed her in a Moscow hotel lobby, banged on her door, then went to Kyrgyzstan and spread lies about her—saying she was being investigated for absconding with government funds—that nearly derailed her work. Several officials have claimed, though anonymously for now, that Bolton blocked official documents about Iran from moving up the chain of command to Colin Powell.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2117028/sidebar/2117080/
The British government has ordered a D-notice clampdown on details relating to the ricin terror ring story which was exposed as being fake last week.
Inside sources from the Guardian newspaper in London have confirmed that the reason the Guardian article 'The ricin ring that never was,' was removed from its website was due to a direct order from the government. Several other websites worldwide have also removed the article but it is still available on numerous websites, Rense.com being one.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/220405orderedshutdown.htm
On Tuesday, the company sent an e-mail to customers announcing that it is implementing "a new compliance policy." Effective April 25, whenever a customer runs a background search on someone through the Rapsheets database for employment- or volunteer-screening purposes and the search unearths a criminal record for that person, Rapsheets will automatically notify the person and provide him or her with a copy of the background report and the name and address of the organization that requested it.
The move brings the company into compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, or FCRA, which requires background-checking services to either provide employers with the most-current information available from public records or to notify workers and job applicants when they are providing an employer with damaging information about them that is likely to affect their job prospects. FCRA does not require agencies to notify workers and applicants when they are providing an employer with out-of-date information that is unlikely to affect the individual's job prospects.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67276,00.html
This war has put Jews in the showcase as never before. Its primary intellectual architects--Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith--are all Jewish neoconservatives. So, too, are many of its prominent media cheerleaders, including William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and Marty Peretz. Joe Lieberman, the nation's most conspicuous Jewish politician, has been an avid booster, going so far as to rebuke his former partner Al Gore and much of his own party.
Then there's the "Jews control the media" problem. It's probably not particularly relevant that the families who own the Times and the Washington Post are Jewish, but let's not pretend this is so in the case of the Jewish owner-editors of, say, U.S. News & World Report and The New Republic. Mortimer Zuckerman is head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Peretz is unofficial chair of the American Arab Defamation Committee. Neither is shy about filling his magazine with news Jews can use.
To make matters worse, many of these Jewish hard-liners--"Likudniks" in the current parlance--appear, at least from a distance, to be behaving in accordance with traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes. Much to the delight of genuine anti-Semites of the left and right, the idea of a new war to remove Saddam was partially conceived at the behest of Likud politician Benjamin Netanyahu in a document written expressly for him by Perle, Feith and others in 1996. Some, like Perle, apparently see the influence they wield as an opportunity to get rich. What's more, many of these same Jews joined Rumsfeld and Cheney in underselling the difficulty of the war, in what may have been a ruse designed to embroil America in a broad military conflagration that would help smite Israel's enemies. Did Perle, for instance, genuinely believe "support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder"? Is Wolfowitz really so ignorant of history as to believe the Iraqis would welcome us as "their hoped-for liberators"?
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=alterman
A conservative Republican senator who proposed that federal meteorologists be forbidden from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and the Weather Channel, has received nearly $4,000 from AccuWeather's founder and executive vice president since 2000, RAW STORY has discovered
http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/santorum_weather_ban_accuweather_421.htm
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are looking into incidents in which people masquerading as unannounced inspectors were found poking around three hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7680-2005Apr21?language=printer
It must have been like that in the dying days of ancient Rome when a horse was appointed to the Senate and Nero was president ... er, emperor.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/farmer041905.html
That's how the system really works. All the guff about law, democracy and morality is just cornball for the yokels back home -- and for the cannon fodder sent off to die in the elite's commercial and dynastic wars. The Labyrinth -- that knotted gut of blood and bile -- has poisoned us all.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/22/120.html
Mowbray doesn't mention that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, the central figure in all this, is not Jewish. That would ruin the consistency of his narrative, which focuses on the ethnic victimology angle: clearly we are supposed to think that this is not an investigation into spying operations, in which a foreign power is given ready access to top secret documents, but a reenactment of Kristallnacht. Mowbray is an expert when it comes to this kind of whining: remember how he smeared General Anthony Zinni?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5696
There have been a series of minor terrorist attacks by extremist wine producers in the French south in recent weeks, including dynamite attacks on three government offices and the hijacking and destruction of lorry-loads of wine
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=631593
Meanwhile, Seidenberg's words drew a swift reaction from numerous technology blogs.
"Verizon CEO flames Wi-Fi and demanding customers" declared www.makesyougohmm.com
"Shut Up And Pay, Peasant," blared a headline at www.corante.com
A blogger at www.mfli.net/blog laid out a more specific grievance: "If cellphone coverage can extend to subways in Europe, I should get at least 4 bars in a residential neighbourhood."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/19/Business/Verizon_CEO_scoffs_at.shtml
When Christina hit a tree, police moved in. The only problem was that she was not responding. Police feared Christina could take off at any moment and decided that she must be removed from the car.
An officer then broke the window and what happened next is the source of controversy.
The officer dragged Christina out of the car and pulled her along the pavement. Christina’s family claims the officer continued to use force evidenced, they say, by his lunging arm
http://ksnw.com/news/stories/7544938.html
Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez was ousted by Congress on Wednesday after a week of increasingly violent protests in which he was accused of abusing his power by meddling with the country's top court.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=uri:2005-04-21T011827Z_01_HOP067116_RTRUKOC_0_ECUADOR-PRESIDENT.xml
Given all of this, at a minimum the CBOE and government regulators who are conducting the secret investigations have known for some time who made the options puts on a total of 38 stocks that might reasonably be anticipated to have a sharp drop in value because of an attack similar to the 9/11 episode. The silence from the investigating camps could mean several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts on the listed stocks or others besides terrorists had foreknowledge of the attack and used this knowledge to reap a nice financial harvest from the tragedy.
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm
[So according to the FBI, bin laden is a US person?]
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (ìFOIAî) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (ìFBIî) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a September 24, 2003 declassified ìSecretî FBI report obtained by Judicial Watch, the FBI invoked Exemption 6 under FOIA law on behalf of bin Laden, which permits the government to withhold all information about U.S. persons in ìpersonnel and medical files and similar filesî when the disclosure of such information ìwould constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.î (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(6) (2000))
http://www.judicialwatch.org/printer_5286.shtml
In addition to turning a blind eye to the murderous activity of their informant, ICE officials in El Paso also obstructed the efforts of Mexican law enforcers seeking to apprehend Mexican state police officers who also were complicit in the homicides.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/20/234352/486
"What we have is the possibility of retrieving energy at a lower temperature with greater efficiency and lower environmental effects," Hu said.
http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20050419-00
Meanwhile, Yingpan Man, a nearly perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Caucasoid mummy, was allowed this month to leave China for the first time, and is being displayed at the Edo-Tokyo Museum.
The Yingpan Man, discovered in 1995 in the region that bears his name, has a gold foil death mask -- a Greek tradition -- covering his blond bearded face, and wears elaborate golden embroidered red and maroon garments with seemingly Western European designs.
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050419-101056-2135r.htm
In the largest fine ever obtained by San Francisco antitrust prosecutors, a Korean company has agreed to plead guilty and pay $185 million for its role in a conspiracy to drive up the price of computer chips.
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. manufactures dynamic random access memory, which is used in everything from desktop computers to MP3 players to digital cameras. Hynix has a subsidiary in San Jose, Calif.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1114074313598
In the latest study, Dr Roth and his colleagues found that the mice stopped moving and appeared to lose consciousness within minutes of breathing the air and H2S mixture.
The animals' breathing rates dropped from the normal 120 breaths per minute to less than 10 breaths per minute.
During exposure their metabolic rates dropped by an astonishing 90%, and their core body temperatures fell from 37C to as low as 11C.
After six hours' exposure to the mixture, the mice were given fresh air. Their metabolic rate and core body temperature returned to normal, and tests showed they had suffered no ill effects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm
POLITICAL foes of Peter Mandelson are demanding that he should explain why he spent New Year’s Eve on the yacht of a billionaire who is at the centre of a major EU investigation.
The European Trade Commissioner was forced to admit that he was a guest at a party thrown by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft.
Details of Mr Mandelson’s Caribbean holiday emerged as the sleaze row deepened over European commissioners accepting free hospitality
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1580068,00.html
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