Christian Terrorists
Comcast, the top U.S. cable TV network operator, is being sued by a Seattle-area woman for disclosing her name and contact information, court records showed Thursday.
In a lawsuit filed in King County, Wash., Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Leadbetter, a mother of two teenage children, was a customer of Comcast's high-speed Internet access service.
The company, Settlement Support Center, based in Washington state, was using information that the Recording Industry of Association of America had obtained in a Philadelphia lawsuit over the illegal sharing of digital music files, said Lory Lybeck, the lawyer representing Leadbetter
http://news.com.com/Comcast+sued+for+disclosing+customer+info/2100-1030_3-5671438.html?tag=nefd.top
[I have to say I am shocked and pleastantly surprised to read about the government doing something that appears vaguely rational.]
The matter of brand names in contracts isn't limited to technology, however. The OMB pointed to an $81 million contract for office supplies from one unnamed federal agency that specified a vendor number unique to one large office-supply company. "In these examples, the use of brand name specifications limited competition and diminished the likelihood the agency purchased the best value product," the memo said. "There is also a significant risk of severely limiting small business participation in these cases."
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,101106,00.html
They found that eggs that had been trapped beneath the sediment years ago had never hatched, but miraculously, were still alive.
A little incubation and bingo, the eggs hatched into animals not as they appear today, but long ago when the eggs were first deposited on the floor of the lake. How they survived all that time is a great mystery.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=666435&page=2
There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets.
They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and bloody victory against the communist authorities, who face one of the most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years
http://www.rense.com/general64/revolt.htm
"More troubling is the fact that this backlog of cases will only grow over time," he added.
But critics say private collectors, who stand to reap up to 25 percent of every successful collection, are bound to harass citizens. Furthermore, contracting out collections raises privacy concerns about handing over tax information to third parties.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,153538,00.html
Opponents of the legislation said that the move by Congress was a harsh attack on the poorest and most needy and came just one day after the House adopted a measure of huge potential benefit to the wealthiest when it voted to eliminate the estate tax.
"The G.O.P. is practicing Robin Hood in reverse," said Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. "Last night they repealed the estate tax, a gift to the wealthiest individuals in our society. Today they pushed through the special-interest bankruptcy bill, punishing the very poorest members of society. This shows all the world that all of that talk about values in the last election was just that - talk."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505Y.shtml
[There ought to be some way for crooked scientists to be disbarred or something.]
In an interview yesterday, vom Saal, a reproductive biologist at University of Missouri, Columbia, said there is now an "overwhelming weight of evidence" that the plastics compound is harmful.
"This is a snowball running down a hill, where the evidence is accumulating at a faster and faster rate," vom Saal said. "You can't open a scientific journal related to sex hormones and not read an article that would just floor you about this chemical. ... The chemical industry's position that this is a weak chemical has been proven totally false. This is a phenomenally potent chemical as a sex hormone."
In their study, vom Saal and Hughes suggest an explanation for conflicting results of studies: 100 percent of the 11 funded by chemical companies found no risk, while 90 percent of the 104 government-funded, nonindustry studies reported harmful effects.
http://www.rense.com/general64/plastic.htm
Skipping along a few words we come to "old-style frontier justice," which suggests to readers that the "right-wing militia" is looking for some kind of violent showdown with illegals. In reality, the Minutemen have specifically stated that they will neither confront nor apprehend anyone themselves, but instead only report lawbreakers to the proper authorities. The same can be said about a reference to "vigilantes" further on in the article.
So, are you beginning to see a pattern? We,ve just dissected basically one sentence from one article on a politically sensitive issue and it absolutely reeks of misinformation and bias. And you can bet your sweet bippy this wasn,t just an aberration that fell through the cracks of an otherwise well-oiled journalistic machine that efficiently weeds out bad information.
http://www.rense.com/general64/minn.htm
Researchers have discovered that triclosan, a chemical in the products, can react with water to produce chloroform gas. If inhaled in large enough quantities, chloroform can cause depression, liver problems and, in some cases, cancer.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/17956139?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5
[So this woman was not even charged with a crime, let alone was she not convicted of a crime, but if she defies the judge she will be criminally charged for contempt I suppose. Beinvenidos a los Estados Unidos.]
An Orange County judge handed down an unusual sentence for a woman accused of yelling anti-Semitic comments at her Jewish neighbor.
Geraldine Ballard wasn't charged with a crime. What happened in court Thursday will not show up on her record unless she violates the conditions of her probation.
Orange County judge Mike Murphy handled the sensitive case by drafting a creative sentence for Ballard. Ballard is accused of threatening Lisa Green and her children by shouting derogatory remarks at them as they walked in front of her property on their way to the Jewish Community Center in Maitland.
"I truly have to say, the system worked, it really worked," said Green.
The judge sentenced Ballard to 180 days of probation with the condition she either serve 50 hours of community service or visit one of three holocaust museums in Washington DC, St. Petersburg or the Jewish Community Center located in her own neighborhood.
Ballard has denied the accusations against her all along and Thursday she refused to talk about the conditions of her probation.
Ballard must also undergo a mental health evaluation. If she fails to comply, she'll be back in court where she could be criminally charged.
Ballard will have to pay $250 in court costs and she cannot have any contact with Green and her family.
http://www.wftv.com/news/4379642/detail.html
Health experts have destroyed most samples of a deadly influenza strain mistakenly sent to labs around the world; but two shipments meant to reach Mexico and Lebanon are missing, UN officials said Friday.
"We don't know where these boxes got lost, but the investigation into what has happened between the shipment of these panels and their non-arrival is ranking very high on our 'to do' list," WHO influenza chief Klaus Stohr said, referring to the Mexico and Lebanon shipments.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113580569579_8/?hub=Health
Stocks plunged again Friday, with Wall Street suffering its worst day of 2005 and the third straight triple-digit loss for the Dow Jones industrial average. Deepening concerns over economic growth and higher prices led to the worst week of trading so far this year.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/us/2005-04-15-stocks_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
[The no wrong doing thing was really more of a starting point for the Americans I think.]
A U.S-Italian investigation into the checkpoint shooting of an Italian journalist is being held up by a dispute over an initial finding that soldiers attached to a Manhattan-based Army National Guard unit committed no wrongdoing in firing on the journalist's car, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The Italian government is resisting that finding as the investigation winds to a close, and the disagreement has blocked completion of a final report that was expected to be released as early as today, U.S. officials said.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-usiraq154218680apr15,0,4195591.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines
The government deliberately overtaxes us for 12 months. Then it mails us a check, without interest, for the overcharge. Voters rejoice. "It’s free money from the government!"
The government overtaxes us for these reasons:
1. The politicians like interest-free money.
2. The lure of a rebate persuades everyone to file a tax return, thereby identifying his whereabouts.
3. We are all emotional Christmas clubbers: "Free money from the government!"
A good sting operator understands the larceny in the hearts of his victims. That’s what the great Paul Newman-Robert Redford movie was all about. It’s what George C. Scott’s delightful movie was all about: The Flim-Flam Man. Scott’s character, Mordecai Jones, taught his apprentice, "You can’t cheat an honest man." Then he cheated everyone in sight.
....
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s (Genesis 47:18–26)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north359.html
The alternative weekly paper that published the Gannon/Gosch piece closed its doors the day the story came out and will not print another issue. The paper will apparently be printing under the name of another alt-type weekly paper in town (cityview) but the writer of the Pointblank piece - the managing editor - was fired. Apparently, the company that owns the new paper is owned by Michael Gartner, a high-powered individual in Des Moines who owns the Minor league baseball team in that town, oversees a state board that disburses funds to big business, and was a former writer for the Des Moines Register and Tribune who once won a Pulitzer. He was also once president of NBC news, but was forced to leave after the debacle when they blew up trucks with rockets to make them look like they exploded on impact
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2350
Later in Atlanta the anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-semitic 38-year-old, admitted to another three attacks, including planting a nail bomb at the Atlanta Olympics, which killed two people and wounded more than 100 others.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1344967.htm
[This is an article about this guy in CA who had two of the 911 terrorists living with him for a while. It talks about how that guy was an FBI informant. Thenit talks about the guy’s friend from Iran who seems to have been in on the 9-11 thing sort of. Then it happens to causally mention this Heaven’s gate mass suicide cult connection.
Here is that same government-terrorist-cultist axis again, coming at it from a different angle. Coincidence?]
He pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud and was sentenced to a year in prison. Koutchesfahani was the owner of a rented house in Rancho Santa Fe where 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult took their lives in 1997.”
http://www.madcowprod.com/04112005.html
"Although the period of global rebalancing would be painful for U.S. consumers and workers, it would be even harder on the European and Japanese economies, with their propensity for deflation and stagnation. Such a transitory adjustment would be unpleasant, but it would not undermine the economic foundations of U.S. hegemony."
Translation: screw the workers and consumers. U.S. "hegemony" is more important than their selfish desire to work for a living. So what if the dollar collapses, capital flight ensues, and we experience an economic crash in the U.S. – it will be far worse for the foreign suckers who spent all those years financing our debt, and, besides that, the Empire is forever.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562
One million people facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general population, the government's chief of detention and removal told the Senate yesterday , prompting some Republicans to say the Bush administration is "not serious" about the problem.
"We have a million individuals who are in some phase of immigration proceedings released," said Victor X. Cerda, the acting director of detention and removal operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
He said of those people, 465,000 are fugitive aliens who have been ordered deported. About 80,000 of those are criminal aliens who have committed an offense in addition to immigration violations, but he couldn't provide an exact number.
His comments came as an immigration debate in the Senate blocked most progress on the emergency war-spending bill. Pending amendments include cracking down on illegal immigrants' use of driver's licenses, increasing visas for seasonal nonimmigrant workers and legalizing up to 1 million illegal aliens who work in agriculture and their families.
http://www.rense.com/general64/fedsfree.htm
But the war of revenge is based on the example of the war against the Midianites
(see Numbers, chapter 31) in which small children were also executed (verse 17,
ibid. "Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones") and we
might wonder about this, for how they had sinned? But we have already found in
the sayings of our Sages, of blessed memory, that little children have to die
because of the sin of their parents. And our final conclusion is that we should
continue with acts of retaliation and revenge against the haters of the Jews and
such acts are considered to be a war of religious obligation (in Hebrew
"milhemet mitzvah").
...
"At the trial of the yeshiva boy charged with the killing, Rabbi Ginsburgh
said bluntly, "The people of Israel must rise and declare in public that a
Jew and a goy are not, God forbid, the same. Any trial that assumes that Jews
and goyim are equivalent is a travesty of justice."
...
I hope your concern for truth and accuracy and a desire not to incite hatred of
Jews or any other ethno-religious group will induce you to check the information
I have passed on to you from Rabbi Lauffer of Jerusalem with a competent
Halachic authority (eg an Orthodox rabbi) of your choice and, once confirmed,
remove the defamatory material from your website.
...
While it is forbidden to Jews to rob a fellow Jew under any circumstances, the
situation is quite different in Halacha in the case of a Jew robbing a non Jew,
where under well defined circumstances Jews are indeed permitted to rob non
Jews.
http://www.rense.com/general63/manyrabbissanction.htm
The US government has indicted Islamabad-based Pakistani businessman Humayun A
Khan and his Israeli partner Asher Karni for illegally exporting devices from
the US that could be employed to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.
http://www.rense.com/general63/jewpakistanicaughtselling.htm
The white-tailed deer recently diagnosed with chronic wasting disease (CWD) was
one of the deer donated to the Verona Fire Department and served at its Annual
Sportsmen's Feast on Sunday, 13 Mar 2005, an Oneida County Health Department
spokesman said today.
People who consumed the venison need not worry about contracting the disease,
spokesman Ken Fanelli said.
"There's no indication whatsoever that the disease has been linked to human
illness of any kind," Fanelli.
http://www.rense.com/general63/CWDmaddeermeatserved.htm
All White Tail Deer please be advised that you are NOT allowed to cross the
border from NY State into New Hampshire, by way of Vermont!
Sound ludicrous? Of course it does. Deer recognize NO borders. I do, however,
agree with banning importation of deer or elk from endemic states into non CWD
states. Although, I must say that the problem with highlighting
"endemic" is that all states may be endemic now. Just a month or two
ago NY State was considered to be free of CWD, as I was told when I tried to
report a suspect case last summer.
http://www.rense.com/general63/CWDAlertofficialsinNH.htm
Saddam Hussein could avoid the gallows under a secret proposal by insurgent
leaders that Iraq's new administration is "seriously considering", a
senior government source said yesterday.
A reprieve is understood to be among the central demands of Sunni nationalists
and former members of Saddam's Ba'ath party who have reportedly begun
negotiations with the government amid the backdrop of a bloody insurgency which
claimed 30 lives during the weekend
http://www.rense.com/general63/halt.htm
According to a government document provided to The New York Times by a federal
official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has asserted
that both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United
States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." No evidence
was cited, and federal officials will not comment on the case.
http://www.rense.com/general63/16yr.htm
"Most of the affected persons are children under one year old. Three nurses
were also infected. This week, 12 samples tested positive for Marburg fever by
the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
The above comments by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on March 25 suggest that
the Marburg outbreak in Angola was initiated via a childhood vaccine program.
The initial WHO announcement indicated around 75% of the cases were in children
under the age of 5. The comments by MSF indicate that more than 67% of the cases
under 5 years-of-age were in children under 1 year-of-age.
http://www.rense.com/general63/lnkk.htm
Over the past 20 years, John F. Pholeric Jr. struggled on and off with cocaine
addiction, cycled in and out of rehab and was convicted of a felony. During that
time, he also practiced medicine.
Pholeric, 55, an ear, nose and throat specialist in Fairfax and Loudoun
counties, admitted snorting cocaine "three to four times per week" in
his office in 1999. He stole drugs from hospitals where he worked and wrote more
than 40 fraudulent prescriptions for his own use, according to Virginia and
District medical board records.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39677-2005Apr9?language=printer
[Now this is a true statement about other countries. But the question people in other countries have to be asking themselves is “Why loan our money to America to buy our stuff when we could loan our money to our own people and have them buy our stuff?”]
The Bush administration can get away with this, of course, because our credit is still good – the Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans are only too happy to lend us money to buy their products. So it was more than a little curious, last week, when the president of the United States stood outside the Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, W.Va. and implied that the more than $1.7 trillion in U.S. Treasury notes that make up the Social Security trust fund aren’t really worth the paper they are printed on.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1057
US analysts found no information recorded on the black box on board the Afghan
Kam Air Boeing 737 that crashed in February, killing all 104 passengers on
board, officials said.
The flight data recorder was sent to the United States for analysis as
Afghanistan lacks the technology to open and analyse the device.
"Due to technical errors the flight data recorder had nothing
recorded," Afghan defence ministry spokesman Mohammed Zahir Azimi said.
The second black box - the cockpit voice recorder, which records the
conversation between the pilot and the air control tower, was never found.
Both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are designed to be
resistant to the impact of a plane crash and to send out signals so they can be
traced and found.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342130.htm
Cultural exchange with Constantinople meant Axum's elite also spoke Greek,
inscriptions in the city even appeared in the language, and around AD325 Ezana,
the King of Axum, converted to Christianity.
Ezana removed the crescent and disk motif from Axum's coins, replacing it with
the Christian cross, and laid the foundations for the Christian conversion of
the whole of Ethiopia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4376627.stm
Fear and ignorance are fuelling the worldís deadliest outbreak of Marburg fever
in Angola, where locals are too suspicious of medics in ìastronautî suits to let
them take away infected loved ones, aid workers said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7462784/
Tiny particles linked to a number of painful and sometimes deadly diseases may
spread across the globe by hitching a ride in clouds, claim researchers in a
recent issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
The particles, known as nanobacteria, are 100 times smaller than typical
bacteria and have been found in kidney stones, arterial plaques and ovarian
cancers.
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67176,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
[You have to buy your own chains. This is the height of gall. I am sure our gov
will do the same thing as soon as they can manage it.]
French citizens will have to pay for new identity cards that hold their
biometric information in electronic format -- and carrying the cards will become
compulsory, if the minister of the interior gets his way.
Last month, the government outlined its plan to replace the identity cards and
passports offered to French citizens with new ones that carry a microchip
containing digitized photographs and fingerprints. The plan is to introduce the
passports in 2006, and the identity cards a year later.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/12/HNfrenchbiometriccards_1.html
Indian police have made several arrests after call centre staff in Pune
allegedly stole £200,000 using customers' personal information
Police have arrested former employees of an Indian call centre that handles US
customer accounts for allegedly stealing consumers' funds.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050411/152/fg2a3.html
Scientists have genetically engineered remote-controlled fruit flies that can be
made to jump and beat their wings with pulses of laser light.
Light-sensitive triggers in the flies' brains and nervous systems allow the
insects' actions to be directed by shining a laser beam at them, reports reputed
science portal Eurekalert
http://www.rense.com/general63/REMOTE.HTM
"We created the product. Basically it functions by drawing atmospheric air
into itself and makes a little rain by reducing its temperature to around 5
degree Celsius. When moisture particles get heavy and drop, that water is
collected and filtered and given to you as drinking water by the machine",
said Dr. S S Sivakumar, a scientist who came out with the invention.
http://www.rense.com/general63/EXTE.HTM
"As the result of recent amendments to PPRA in the No Child Left Behind
education law (Public Law 107-110, signed January 8, 2002), parents have
additional rights to examine materials with regard to the surveying of minor
students, even when the surveys are not Education Department-funded, and to opt
their children out of surveys and certain non-emergency medical
examinations."
http://www.rense.com/general63/rights.htm
I am personally taking charge of the NC effort for several reasons. One, our
opposition El Pueblo is pushing for easy license access, in-state tuition
grants, and other benefits for illegal aliens. This group is using our tax
dollars ($390,000/yr) to turn around and lobby for more tax dollars for
illegals. Two, North Carolina has one of the fastest growing populations of
illegal aliens in the nation! We must turn off the magnetism of our state to
illegals, protect the integrity of our elections, and prevent our state budget
from collapse. Licenses received by illegals in North Carolina can be used in
other states so we need national assistance. Three, I love my state and fear
that we are on the path that California was on during the 90ís.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=332
There are now serious allegations that the FBI, using an informer as a conduit,
supplied McVeigh and Nichols with the blasting components the two used to
construct explosive devices, one of which may have been employed in the tragic
Oklahoma City bombing.
Although there was much recent media hoopla surrounding the March 31 FBI raid on
Nichols's vacant home in Herington, Kan., the entire story, which is not being
told by the mainstream media, suggests evidence of federal government complicity
in events leading up to the OKC tragedy.
http://www.rense.com/general63/infor.htm
Crocodiles living in the Sahara sounds like fiction, but Spanish scientists are
investigating such a group in southern Mauritania.
The reptiles are regarded as the last remains of the abundant crocodile
population which roamed the Sahara before it dried up 9000 years ago.
The few dozen Nile crocodiles subsist at a pond near the Senegalese border,
Madrid's Complutense University veterinary professor Eduardo Costa said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/croc.htm
Narco News: In your report you bring up evidence of serious human rights abuses committed or supported by the MINUSTAH. How was the evidence collected?
James Cavallaro: The main allegation in terms of violent abuses is that the MINUSTAH troops have provided cover and logistical support to the Haitian national police for committing gross violations. Executions, mass arrests of twenty, forty, eighty people without warrant, and (the national police) have been able to do that because they could count on the support of the UN troops! That is the thrust of our critique in terms of human rights violations. Also, there are some cases in which our information demonstrates at least the serious possibility of the direct involvement in gross violations. We bring up two concrete cases.
...
The information we received from an eyewitness is that one of the UN armed vehicle tanks pointed its weapons at Carlo Pierre and fired him because he was about to throw a rock at the tank. And in response to our report, General Augusto Heleno wrote, “well, throwing rocks at the UN troops is not a democratic activity and we need to respond”. In that way he effectively admitted that UN troops fired and killed a young man who was about to throw a rock in them.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue36/article1255.html
The European Union yesterday imposed an emergency ban on imports of US animal feeds unless they are proven to be free of illegal genetically modified maize.
The ban, on corn gluten feed and brewers' grains, followed an admission by Syngenta, a Swiss-based agrochemical firm, that about 1,000 tonnes of US maize derived from its unlicensed Bt10 GM seeds had "inadvertently" entered the European food chain over the past four years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1461069,00.html
[Maybe someone can explain to me what jursidiction the DEA has 1000 miles from the nearest land, which is either Bermuda or Cape Verde?]
Mr Tidwell has been able to fund the project himself with earnings from several lucrative salvage operations. He has ploughed $6m into the project and expects to spend a further $10m on raising the submarine. But Tokyo has agreed to reimburse him if the operation is successful, and he will receive a 10% cut of the gold.
With a large quantity of opium still thought to be on board, the US drug enforcement administration says it wants to post two agents on the salvage ship.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1460993,00.html?gusrc=rss
[Action is needed now? Why? What’s the rush? They know something we don’t I bet.]
The US administration is calling for China to move immediately to introduce a flexible currency, a marked shift in tactics after several years of patient diplomacy aimed at nudging China towards allowing the renminbi to float.
A senior US administration official told the Financial Times on Friday: “Action is needed now. This is a co-ordinated effort to get the message across.”
The decision to demand prompt action by Beijing comes in the face of growing pressure from the US Congress over the burgeoning trade deficit with China.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4d853a58-addf-11d9-9c30-00000e2511c8.html
The Home Office has been forced to apologise to 10 men placed under controversial anti-terrorist control orders after it linked them to the ricin plot in London, the Guardian has discovered.
In an embarrassing letter to the men, the government claims that it made a "clerical error" when it said the grounds for emergency restriction imposed on each of the alleged international terrorists was that they "belonged to and have provided support for a network of north African extremists directly involved in terrorist planning in the UK, including the use of toxic chemicals".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1461271,00.html
MEDIA DOWNPLAYS RUDOLPH'S ROLE AS CHRISTIAN TERRORIST
THE MEDIA has successfully sent Eric Rudolph off to prison without most Americans being aware that he is an anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-Jewish Christian terrorist.
http://prorev.com/media.htm
After being at Columbia for a while it occurred to me that international organisations and the UN, on the one hand and Columbia and New York, on the other, functioned in parallel universes. At international fora and assemblies, which I followed for my studies, Israeli repression was condemned, and countless resolutions requesting Israel to abide by international law were blocked by the US. At Columbia, arguments were concocted to defend Israel. I have been to many universities in many different countries and I have to say that, by far, I have never attended a more closed-minded campus than Columbia. And I am not saying this merely on account of the density of Israeli army T-shirts that can be regularly observed there.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7652
In a lawsuit filed in King County, Wash., Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Leadbetter, a mother of two teenage children, was a customer of Comcast's high-speed Internet access service.
The company, Settlement Support Center, based in Washington state, was using information that the Recording Industry of Association of America had obtained in a Philadelphia lawsuit over the illegal sharing of digital music files, said Lory Lybeck, the lawyer representing Leadbetter
http://news.com.com/Comcast+sued+for+disclosing+customer+info/2100-1030_3-5671438.html?tag=nefd.top
[I have to say I am shocked and pleastantly surprised to read about the government doing something that appears vaguely rational.]
The matter of brand names in contracts isn't limited to technology, however. The OMB pointed to an $81 million contract for office supplies from one unnamed federal agency that specified a vendor number unique to one large office-supply company. "In these examples, the use of brand name specifications limited competition and diminished the likelihood the agency purchased the best value product," the memo said. "There is also a significant risk of severely limiting small business participation in these cases."
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,101106,00.html
They found that eggs that had been trapped beneath the sediment years ago had never hatched, but miraculously, were still alive.
A little incubation and bingo, the eggs hatched into animals not as they appear today, but long ago when the eggs were first deposited on the floor of the lake. How they survived all that time is a great mystery.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=666435&page=2
There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets.
They are the trophies of a battle in which peasants scored a rare and bloody victory against the communist authorities, who face one of the most serious popular challenges to their rule in recent years
http://www.rense.com/general64/revolt.htm
"More troubling is the fact that this backlog of cases will only grow over time," he added.
But critics say private collectors, who stand to reap up to 25 percent of every successful collection, are bound to harass citizens. Furthermore, contracting out collections raises privacy concerns about handing over tax information to third parties.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,153538,00.html
Opponents of the legislation said that the move by Congress was a harsh attack on the poorest and most needy and came just one day after the House adopted a measure of huge potential benefit to the wealthiest when it voted to eliminate the estate tax.
"The G.O.P. is practicing Robin Hood in reverse," said Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. "Last night they repealed the estate tax, a gift to the wealthiest individuals in our society. Today they pushed through the special-interest bankruptcy bill, punishing the very poorest members of society. This shows all the world that all of that talk about values in the last election was just that - talk."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041505Y.shtml
[There ought to be some way for crooked scientists to be disbarred or something.]
In an interview yesterday, vom Saal, a reproductive biologist at University of Missouri, Columbia, said there is now an "overwhelming weight of evidence" that the plastics compound is harmful.
"This is a snowball running down a hill, where the evidence is accumulating at a faster and faster rate," vom Saal said. "You can't open a scientific journal related to sex hormones and not read an article that would just floor you about this chemical. ... The chemical industry's position that this is a weak chemical has been proven totally false. This is a phenomenally potent chemical as a sex hormone."
In their study, vom Saal and Hughes suggest an explanation for conflicting results of studies: 100 percent of the 11 funded by chemical companies found no risk, while 90 percent of the 104 government-funded, nonindustry studies reported harmful effects.
http://www.rense.com/general64/plastic.htm
Skipping along a few words we come to "old-style frontier justice," which suggests to readers that the "right-wing militia" is looking for some kind of violent showdown with illegals. In reality, the Minutemen have specifically stated that they will neither confront nor apprehend anyone themselves, but instead only report lawbreakers to the proper authorities. The same can be said about a reference to "vigilantes" further on in the article.
So, are you beginning to see a pattern? We,ve just dissected basically one sentence from one article on a politically sensitive issue and it absolutely reeks of misinformation and bias. And you can bet your sweet bippy this wasn,t just an aberration that fell through the cracks of an otherwise well-oiled journalistic machine that efficiently weeds out bad information.
http://www.rense.com/general64/minn.htm
Researchers have discovered that triclosan, a chemical in the products, can react with water to produce chloroform gas. If inhaled in large enough quantities, chloroform can cause depression, liver problems and, in some cases, cancer.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/17956139?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5
[So this woman was not even charged with a crime, let alone was she not convicted of a crime, but if she defies the judge she will be criminally charged for contempt I suppose. Beinvenidos a los Estados Unidos.]
An Orange County judge handed down an unusual sentence for a woman accused of yelling anti-Semitic comments at her Jewish neighbor.
Geraldine Ballard wasn't charged with a crime. What happened in court Thursday will not show up on her record unless she violates the conditions of her probation.
Orange County judge Mike Murphy handled the sensitive case by drafting a creative sentence for Ballard. Ballard is accused of threatening Lisa Green and her children by shouting derogatory remarks at them as they walked in front of her property on their way to the Jewish Community Center in Maitland.
"I truly have to say, the system worked, it really worked," said Green.
The judge sentenced Ballard to 180 days of probation with the condition she either serve 50 hours of community service or visit one of three holocaust museums in Washington DC, St. Petersburg or the Jewish Community Center located in her own neighborhood.
Ballard has denied the accusations against her all along and Thursday she refused to talk about the conditions of her probation.
Ballard must also undergo a mental health evaluation. If she fails to comply, she'll be back in court where she could be criminally charged.
Ballard will have to pay $250 in court costs and she cannot have any contact with Green and her family.
http://www.wftv.com/news/4379642/detail.html
Health experts have destroyed most samples of a deadly influenza strain mistakenly sent to labs around the world; but two shipments meant to reach Mexico and Lebanon are missing, UN officials said Friday.
"We don't know where these boxes got lost, but the investigation into what has happened between the shipment of these panels and their non-arrival is ranking very high on our 'to do' list," WHO influenza chief Klaus Stohr said, referring to the Mexico and Lebanon shipments.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1113580569579_8/?hub=Health
Stocks plunged again Friday, with Wall Street suffering its worst day of 2005 and the third straight triple-digit loss for the Dow Jones industrial average. Deepening concerns over economic growth and higher prices led to the worst week of trading so far this year.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/us/2005-04-15-stocks_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
[The no wrong doing thing was really more of a starting point for the Americans I think.]
A U.S-Italian investigation into the checkpoint shooting of an Italian journalist is being held up by a dispute over an initial finding that soldiers attached to a Manhattan-based Army National Guard unit committed no wrongdoing in firing on the journalist's car, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The Italian government is resisting that finding as the investigation winds to a close, and the disagreement has blocked completion of a final report that was expected to be released as early as today, U.S. officials said.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-usiraq154218680apr15,0,4195591.story?coll=ny-leadworldnews-headlines
The government deliberately overtaxes us for 12 months. Then it mails us a check, without interest, for the overcharge. Voters rejoice. "It’s free money from the government!"
The government overtaxes us for these reasons:
1. The politicians like interest-free money.
2. The lure of a rebate persuades everyone to file a tax return, thereby identifying his whereabouts.
3. We are all emotional Christmas clubbers: "Free money from the government!"
A good sting operator understands the larceny in the hearts of his victims. That’s what the great Paul Newman-Robert Redford movie was all about. It’s what George C. Scott’s delightful movie was all about: The Flim-Flam Man. Scott’s character, Mordecai Jones, taught his apprentice, "You can’t cheat an honest man." Then he cheated everyone in sight.
....
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s (Genesis 47:18–26)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north359.html
The alternative weekly paper that published the Gannon/Gosch piece closed its doors the day the story came out and will not print another issue. The paper will apparently be printing under the name of another alt-type weekly paper in town (cityview) but the writer of the Pointblank piece - the managing editor - was fired. Apparently, the company that owns the new paper is owned by Michael Gartner, a high-powered individual in Des Moines who owns the Minor league baseball team in that town, oversees a state board that disburses funds to big business, and was a former writer for the Des Moines Register and Tribune who once won a Pulitzer. He was also once president of NBC news, but was forced to leave after the debacle when they blew up trucks with rockets to make them look like they exploded on impact
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2350
Later in Atlanta the anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-semitic 38-year-old, admitted to another three attacks, including planting a nail bomb at the Atlanta Olympics, which killed two people and wounded more than 100 others.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1344967.htm
[This is an article about this guy in CA who had two of the 911 terrorists living with him for a while. It talks about how that guy was an FBI informant. Thenit talks about the guy’s friend from Iran who seems to have been in on the 9-11 thing sort of. Then it happens to causally mention this Heaven’s gate mass suicide cult connection.
Here is that same government-terrorist-cultist axis again, coming at it from a different angle. Coincidence?]
He pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud and was sentenced to a year in prison. Koutchesfahani was the owner of a rented house in Rancho Santa Fe where 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult took their lives in 1997.”
http://www.madcowprod.com/04112005.html
"Although the period of global rebalancing would be painful for U.S. consumers and workers, it would be even harder on the European and Japanese economies, with their propensity for deflation and stagnation. Such a transitory adjustment would be unpleasant, but it would not undermine the economic foundations of U.S. hegemony."
Translation: screw the workers and consumers. U.S. "hegemony" is more important than their selfish desire to work for a living. So what if the dollar collapses, capital flight ensues, and we experience an economic crash in the U.S. – it will be far worse for the foreign suckers who spent all those years financing our debt, and, besides that, the Empire is forever.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562
One million people facing immigration proceedings have been released into the general population, the government's chief of detention and removal told the Senate yesterday , prompting some Republicans to say the Bush administration is "not serious" about the problem.
"We have a million individuals who are in some phase of immigration proceedings released," said Victor X. Cerda, the acting director of detention and removal operations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
He said of those people, 465,000 are fugitive aliens who have been ordered deported. About 80,000 of those are criminal aliens who have committed an offense in addition to immigration violations, but he couldn't provide an exact number.
His comments came as an immigration debate in the Senate blocked most progress on the emergency war-spending bill. Pending amendments include cracking down on illegal immigrants' use of driver's licenses, increasing visas for seasonal nonimmigrant workers and legalizing up to 1 million illegal aliens who work in agriculture and their families.
http://www.rense.com/general64/fedsfree.htm
But the war of revenge is based on the example of the war against the Midianites
(see Numbers, chapter 31) in which small children were also executed (verse 17,
ibid. "Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones") and we
might wonder about this, for how they had sinned? But we have already found in
the sayings of our Sages, of blessed memory, that little children have to die
because of the sin of their parents. And our final conclusion is that we should
continue with acts of retaliation and revenge against the haters of the Jews and
such acts are considered to be a war of religious obligation (in Hebrew
"milhemet mitzvah").
...
"At the trial of the yeshiva boy charged with the killing, Rabbi Ginsburgh
said bluntly, "The people of Israel must rise and declare in public that a
Jew and a goy are not, God forbid, the same. Any trial that assumes that Jews
and goyim are equivalent is a travesty of justice."
...
I hope your concern for truth and accuracy and a desire not to incite hatred of
Jews or any other ethno-religious group will induce you to check the information
I have passed on to you from Rabbi Lauffer of Jerusalem with a competent
Halachic authority (eg an Orthodox rabbi) of your choice and, once confirmed,
remove the defamatory material from your website.
...
While it is forbidden to Jews to rob a fellow Jew under any circumstances, the
situation is quite different in Halacha in the case of a Jew robbing a non Jew,
where under well defined circumstances Jews are indeed permitted to rob non
Jews.
http://www.rense.com/general63/manyrabbissanction.htm
The US government has indicted Islamabad-based Pakistani businessman Humayun A
Khan and his Israeli partner Asher Karni for illegally exporting devices from
the US that could be employed to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.
http://www.rense.com/general63/jewpakistanicaughtselling.htm
The white-tailed deer recently diagnosed with chronic wasting disease (CWD) was
one of the deer donated to the Verona Fire Department and served at its Annual
Sportsmen's Feast on Sunday, 13 Mar 2005, an Oneida County Health Department
spokesman said today.
People who consumed the venison need not worry about contracting the disease,
spokesman Ken Fanelli said.
"There's no indication whatsoever that the disease has been linked to human
illness of any kind," Fanelli.
http://www.rense.com/general63/CWDmaddeermeatserved.htm
All White Tail Deer please be advised that you are NOT allowed to cross the
border from NY State into New Hampshire, by way of Vermont!
Sound ludicrous? Of course it does. Deer recognize NO borders. I do, however,
agree with banning importation of deer or elk from endemic states into non CWD
states. Although, I must say that the problem with highlighting
"endemic" is that all states may be endemic now. Just a month or two
ago NY State was considered to be free of CWD, as I was told when I tried to
report a suspect case last summer.
http://www.rense.com/general63/CWDAlertofficialsinNH.htm
Saddam Hussein could avoid the gallows under a secret proposal by insurgent
leaders that Iraq's new administration is "seriously considering", a
senior government source said yesterday.
A reprieve is understood to be among the central demands of Sunni nationalists
and former members of Saddam's Ba'ath party who have reportedly begun
negotiations with the government amid the backdrop of a bloody insurgency which
claimed 30 lives during the weekend
http://www.rense.com/general63/halt.htm
According to a government document provided to The New York Times by a federal
official earlier this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has asserted
that both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United
States based on evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers." No evidence
was cited, and federal officials will not comment on the case.
http://www.rense.com/general63/16yr.htm
"Most of the affected persons are children under one year old. Three nurses
were also infected. This week, 12 samples tested positive for Marburg fever by
the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
The above comments by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on March 25 suggest that
the Marburg outbreak in Angola was initiated via a childhood vaccine program.
The initial WHO announcement indicated around 75% of the cases were in children
under the age of 5. The comments by MSF indicate that more than 67% of the cases
under 5 years-of-age were in children under 1 year-of-age.
http://www.rense.com/general63/lnkk.htm
Over the past 20 years, John F. Pholeric Jr. struggled on and off with cocaine
addiction, cycled in and out of rehab and was convicted of a felony. During that
time, he also practiced medicine.
Pholeric, 55, an ear, nose and throat specialist in Fairfax and Loudoun
counties, admitted snorting cocaine "three to four times per week" in
his office in 1999. He stole drugs from hospitals where he worked and wrote more
than 40 fraudulent prescriptions for his own use, according to Virginia and
District medical board records.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39677-2005Apr9?language=printer
[Now this is a true statement about other countries. But the question people in other countries have to be asking themselves is “Why loan our money to America to buy our stuff when we could loan our money to our own people and have them buy our stuff?”]
The Bush administration can get away with this, of course, because our credit is still good – the Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans are only too happy to lend us money to buy their products. So it was more than a little curious, last week, when the president of the United States stood outside the Bureau of Public Debt in Parkersburg, W.Va. and implied that the more than $1.7 trillion in U.S. Treasury notes that make up the Social Security trust fund aren’t really worth the paper they are printed on.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1057
US analysts found no information recorded on the black box on board the Afghan
Kam Air Boeing 737 that crashed in February, killing all 104 passengers on
board, officials said.
The flight data recorder was sent to the United States for analysis as
Afghanistan lacks the technology to open and analyse the device.
"Due to technical errors the flight data recorder had nothing
recorded," Afghan defence ministry spokesman Mohammed Zahir Azimi said.
The second black box - the cockpit voice recorder, which records the
conversation between the pilot and the air control tower, was never found.
Both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are designed to be
resistant to the impact of a plane crash and to send out signals so they can be
traced and found.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342130.htm
Cultural exchange with Constantinople meant Axum's elite also spoke Greek,
inscriptions in the city even appeared in the language, and around AD325 Ezana,
the King of Axum, converted to Christianity.
Ezana removed the crescent and disk motif from Axum's coins, replacing it with
the Christian cross, and laid the foundations for the Christian conversion of
the whole of Ethiopia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4376627.stm
Fear and ignorance are fuelling the worldís deadliest outbreak of Marburg fever
in Angola, where locals are too suspicious of medics in ìastronautî suits to let
them take away infected loved ones, aid workers said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7462784/
Tiny particles linked to a number of painful and sometimes deadly diseases may
spread across the globe by hitching a ride in clouds, claim researchers in a
recent issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.
The particles, known as nanobacteria, are 100 times smaller than typical
bacteria and have been found in kidney stones, arterial plaques and ovarian
cancers.
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67176,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
[You have to buy your own chains. This is the height of gall. I am sure our gov
will do the same thing as soon as they can manage it.]
French citizens will have to pay for new identity cards that hold their
biometric information in electronic format -- and carrying the cards will become
compulsory, if the minister of the interior gets his way.
Last month, the government outlined its plan to replace the identity cards and
passports offered to French citizens with new ones that carry a microchip
containing digitized photographs and fingerprints. The plan is to introduce the
passports in 2006, and the identity cards a year later.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/12/HNfrenchbiometriccards_1.html
Indian police have made several arrests after call centre staff in Pune
allegedly stole £200,000 using customers' personal information
Police have arrested former employees of an Indian call centre that handles US
customer accounts for allegedly stealing consumers' funds.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050411/152/fg2a3.html
Scientists have genetically engineered remote-controlled fruit flies that can be
made to jump and beat their wings with pulses of laser light.
Light-sensitive triggers in the flies' brains and nervous systems allow the
insects' actions to be directed by shining a laser beam at them, reports reputed
science portal Eurekalert
http://www.rense.com/general63/REMOTE.HTM
"We created the product. Basically it functions by drawing atmospheric air
into itself and makes a little rain by reducing its temperature to around 5
degree Celsius. When moisture particles get heavy and drop, that water is
collected and filtered and given to you as drinking water by the machine",
said Dr. S S Sivakumar, a scientist who came out with the invention.
http://www.rense.com/general63/EXTE.HTM
"As the result of recent amendments to PPRA in the No Child Left Behind
education law (Public Law 107-110, signed January 8, 2002), parents have
additional rights to examine materials with regard to the surveying of minor
students, even when the surveys are not Education Department-funded, and to opt
their children out of surveys and certain non-emergency medical
examinations."
http://www.rense.com/general63/rights.htm
I am personally taking charge of the NC effort for several reasons. One, our
opposition El Pueblo is pushing for easy license access, in-state tuition
grants, and other benefits for illegal aliens. This group is using our tax
dollars ($390,000/yr) to turn around and lobby for more tax dollars for
illegals. Two, North Carolina has one of the fastest growing populations of
illegal aliens in the nation! We must turn off the magnetism of our state to
illegals, protect the integrity of our elections, and prevent our state budget
from collapse. Licenses received by illegals in North Carolina can be used in
other states so we need national assistance. Three, I love my state and fear
that we are on the path that California was on during the 90ís.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=332
There are now serious allegations that the FBI, using an informer as a conduit,
supplied McVeigh and Nichols with the blasting components the two used to
construct explosive devices, one of which may have been employed in the tragic
Oklahoma City bombing.
Although there was much recent media hoopla surrounding the March 31 FBI raid on
Nichols's vacant home in Herington, Kan., the entire story, which is not being
told by the mainstream media, suggests evidence of federal government complicity
in events leading up to the OKC tragedy.
http://www.rense.com/general63/infor.htm
Crocodiles living in the Sahara sounds like fiction, but Spanish scientists are
investigating such a group in southern Mauritania.
The reptiles are regarded as the last remains of the abundant crocodile
population which roamed the Sahara before it dried up 9000 years ago.
The few dozen Nile crocodiles subsist at a pond near the Senegalese border,
Madrid's Complutense University veterinary professor Eduardo Costa said.
http://www.rense.com/general63/croc.htm
Narco News: In your report you bring up evidence of serious human rights abuses committed or supported by the MINUSTAH. How was the evidence collected?
James Cavallaro: The main allegation in terms of violent abuses is that the MINUSTAH troops have provided cover and logistical support to the Haitian national police for committing gross violations. Executions, mass arrests of twenty, forty, eighty people without warrant, and (the national police) have been able to do that because they could count on the support of the UN troops! That is the thrust of our critique in terms of human rights violations. Also, there are some cases in which our information demonstrates at least the serious possibility of the direct involvement in gross violations. We bring up two concrete cases.
...
The information we received from an eyewitness is that one of the UN armed vehicle tanks pointed its weapons at Carlo Pierre and fired him because he was about to throw a rock at the tank. And in response to our report, General Augusto Heleno wrote, “well, throwing rocks at the UN troops is not a democratic activity and we need to respond”. In that way he effectively admitted that UN troops fired and killed a young man who was about to throw a rock in them.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue36/article1255.html
The European Union yesterday imposed an emergency ban on imports of US animal feeds unless they are proven to be free of illegal genetically modified maize.
The ban, on corn gluten feed and brewers' grains, followed an admission by Syngenta, a Swiss-based agrochemical firm, that about 1,000 tonnes of US maize derived from its unlicensed Bt10 GM seeds had "inadvertently" entered the European food chain over the past four years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1461069,00.html
[Maybe someone can explain to me what jursidiction the DEA has 1000 miles from the nearest land, which is either Bermuda or Cape Verde?]
Mr Tidwell has been able to fund the project himself with earnings from several lucrative salvage operations. He has ploughed $6m into the project and expects to spend a further $10m on raising the submarine. But Tokyo has agreed to reimburse him if the operation is successful, and he will receive a 10% cut of the gold.
With a large quantity of opium still thought to be on board, the US drug enforcement administration says it wants to post two agents on the salvage ship.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1460993,00.html?gusrc=rss
[Action is needed now? Why? What’s the rush? They know something we don’t I bet.]
The US administration is calling for China to move immediately to introduce a flexible currency, a marked shift in tactics after several years of patient diplomacy aimed at nudging China towards allowing the renminbi to float.
A senior US administration official told the Financial Times on Friday: “Action is needed now. This is a co-ordinated effort to get the message across.”
The decision to demand prompt action by Beijing comes in the face of growing pressure from the US Congress over the burgeoning trade deficit with China.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4d853a58-addf-11d9-9c30-00000e2511c8.html
The Home Office has been forced to apologise to 10 men placed under controversial anti-terrorist control orders after it linked them to the ricin plot in London, the Guardian has discovered.
In an embarrassing letter to the men, the government claims that it made a "clerical error" when it said the grounds for emergency restriction imposed on each of the alleged international terrorists was that they "belonged to and have provided support for a network of north African extremists directly involved in terrorist planning in the UK, including the use of toxic chemicals".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1461271,00.html
MEDIA DOWNPLAYS RUDOLPH'S ROLE AS CHRISTIAN TERRORIST
THE MEDIA has successfully sent Eric Rudolph off to prison without most Americans being aware that he is an anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-Jewish Christian terrorist.
http://prorev.com/media.htm
After being at Columbia for a while it occurred to me that international organisations and the UN, on the one hand and Columbia and New York, on the other, functioned in parallel universes. At international fora and assemblies, which I followed for my studies, Israeli repression was condemned, and countless resolutions requesting Israel to abide by international law were blocked by the US. At Columbia, arguments were concocted to defend Israel. I have been to many universities in many different countries and I have to say that, by far, I have never attended a more closed-minded campus than Columbia. And I am not saying this merely on account of the density of Israeli army T-shirts that can be regularly observed there.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7652
posted by abu nakba at 4/16/2005 04:44:00 PM
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