paperless touch-screen machines

Scandal shocks business world

 

Police say private investigators used spy software for business espionage; affair involves some of Israel leading companies. Police arrest senior executives, some may have fled country
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3091900,00.html

[There is a book about how IBM helped the Nazis organize their genocide. I predict in several decades there will be a similar book about HP. Even their commercials show them like grabbing people off the street for the government.]

May 27, 2005--HP (NYSE:HPQ - News; Nasdaq:HPQ - News) today announced the availability of the HP National Identity System (NIS) solution on the Microsoft® .NET platform.

Source: HP

·  View multimedia news release      
 The HP NIS solution allows governments to build and quickly deploy at an affordable price a complete, standards-based and technologically agile infrastructure that meets their changing needs for security and identity management.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050527/275136.html?.v=1

Tobacco companies chemically altered their cigarettes in a deliberate bid to make them more female-friendly and increase smoking rates among women and young girls.
 
New documents reveal that cigarette giants even looked at adding appetite suppressants to their brands to promote smoking as a form of weight control.
 
Published this week in the science journal Addiction, the papers show that tobacco firms spent more than 20 years, from the 1970s to 1990s, carrying out gender-based research to get women addicted to cigarettes.
http://www.rense.com/general65/letget.htm

[Turning a rainforest into a desert? Sounds like the work of an economic hitman.]

Fr McAuley said the privatisation of the rainforest was part of a scheme demanded by the World Bank and other financial institutions of the Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, a former World Bank employee, as a condition for loans. Though he succeeded the enormously corrupt Western-backed autocrat, Alberto Fujimori, in 2001 on a wave of popular enthusiasm, Mr Toledo has himself been tainted by reports of widespread government corruption.
http://www.rense.com/general65/amazo.htm

Let us ask ourselves: if the Confederate states had won their war of independence, and New England followed them out of the Union, and British troops were now stationed in both breakaway nations—to insure their independence from Washington—how would patriotic Americans have responded in 1865?
Putin's Russia has suffered a strategic disaster like that of Germany at Versailles. Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war. Allied refusal to rectify these injustices led to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler.
http://amconmag.com/2005_06_06/buchanan.html

[That’s a sure sign of poor thinking.]

It's surely possible that Pat is trying to 'rehabilitate' himself in the eyes of the Republican Party.
http://www.rense.com/general65/buch.htm

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1632566,00.html

When life is not lived morally, there's no difference between Jews and Amorites, between Israelis and Canaanites, Romans or Crusaders.
 
Every time the land tries to vomit us out, it's incumbent upon us to figure out what have we violated in the covenant.
http://www.rense.com/general65/beek.htm

[Watch them bring this back without change and have the French vote on it again.]

France has resoundingly rejected the proposed European Union constitution, plunging the EU into crisis and French politics into confusion.
 
The result of the referendum was a massive 56 per cent for the "no", against 44 per cent for the "yes", according to Dominique de Villepin, the Interior Minister. An unusually high turnout of 70 per cent of the 42 million voters had briefly raised hopes that the great legion of "undecided" might still tip the outcome to the "yes".
http://www.rense.com/general65/france.htm


Today The Observer publishes several letters from the former cigar-smoking Deputy Prime Minister handwritten from Camp Cropper prison in Baghdad. Aziz scribbled these notes on pages from his lawyer's diary who was with him when he was questioned recently by the CIA and US politicians.
 
Two are in Arabic, the other three in English and addressed to: 'The world public opinion.' Aziz pleads for international help to end his 'dire situation'. He claims he is innocent and is being held unjustly without being allowed contact with his family. One letter reveals questions he had been asked about which politicians benefited from the controversial UN oil-for-food programme.
 
Although Aziz supporters claim he is a 'political prisoner' who did his best to restrain Saddam, his opponents have little sympathy. They describe him as the dictator's henchman who also bears personal responsibility for crimes committed by the Baathist regime, such as the gassing of Kurds at Halabja.
 
Aziz's letters are another remarkable snapshot into how Iraqi's former political elite are being held. This month the Sun published photographs of Saddam in his underpants in his Camp Cropper cell and The Observer revealed how prisoners are kept mostly in solitary confinement in tiny cells with no natural daylight.
...
In a note scribbled on his lawyer's diary, Aziz says: 'I was asked if I had recommended giving money or oil to President Chirac [of France], or Petros Gali [former UN general secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali], Ekius [UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus]. My answer is NO. The same to President Megawati [Sukarnoputri of Indonesia]. NO.'

http://www.rense.com/general65/extro.htm

Meet America's
New Pioneer Breed
Towns on the Great Plains Offer Free
Land To Stem Long Decline
http://www.rense.com/general65/meet.htm

Earthquake Pushes Up 10
New Islands Near Sumatra
http://www.rense.com/general65/earhe.htm

The flat gray Shadow gets propelled skyward on a nitrogen-pressurized rail; when Clark is ready to land, a hand-sized antenna dish on the side of the runway will guide the plane to the ground by transmitting coordinates a lot like GPS. Sitting in a Humvee, Clark flies the Hunter by using a mouse to point and click pixelated dials and sliders modeled after the ones in a physical cockpit. Alternatively he can just click a route on a map, or program a destination and let the plane figure it out. Clark doesn't have a throttle, and he can't see out the front of the plane. In fact, there is a camera, but the soldier sitting to Clark's left is working the joystick to take the pictures that make the whole mission worthwhile. Clark is just driving the bus
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/drones.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Not any more. In their decisive biography, Mao: the Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday leave Mao for dead. By that I mean that Mao's reputation as a "great man," unless one includes Hitler and Stalin too, is finished.
 
Chang's previous book, Wild Swans, which is said to be the biggest-selling non-fiction paperback ever, and worth every penny, showed the effects of Maoism on her family and herself. Halliday, her husband, is a specialist on Soviet archives. His best-known book, written with Bruce Cumings, is Korea: the Unknown War, which was turned into a vivid television series. Chang and Halliday use the word "unknown" again in their new book.
...
For several years Mao oversaw the growing of opium poppies and the extremely lucrative sale of "the black product" in areas outside his control. He told Premier Chou En-lai that the business was worth six times the official Yanan budget. The Russians, whose sources on Mao's career are Halliday's most significant contribution to the biography, estimated sales then at $60m "or some $640m (£350m) today," a humiliating admission for a patriotic movement that based its hatred of imperialism on the British export of opium into China in the 19th century.
http://www.rense.com/general65/mao.htm

[The dangers of chronic low level exposure to different substances has been criminally over-looked for years. Maybe studies like this will change that? Probably not.]

The compound involved is called bisphenol-A or BPA. It is used in plastic food containers, cans and dental sealants and other research suggests it leaches from products and is absorbed in low concentrations by the human body,
http://www.rense.com/general65/pksa.htm

Britain's first major electricity plant to be fuelled by grass will begin construction later this year.
 
The £6.5m power station in Staffordshire will be burn locally cultivated elephant grass and will be able to supply 2,000 homes with electricity.
http://www.rense.com/general65/grass.htm

FDA doesn't have far to look. Change in sexual function is listed on the FDA report of 92 symptoms by aspartame. Vision loss and blindness is so commonly triggered by aspartame its #6 on the list. http://www.dorway.com
 
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand when you put a drug on the market (masquerading as an additive) that liberates free methyl alcohol it inevitably affects vision. In aspartame the methanol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. Remember how many thousands went blind and died during prohibition because of the use of wood alcohol/methanol. So many went blind on aspartame and had seizures that in l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in l986 petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame. The FDA, handmaiden of the drug/chemical industry, refused.
http://www.rense.com/general65/aspar.htm

The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffers - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.

A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
...
The fact that Rosen and Weissman, as American citizens, handed information to an official representative of a foreign power while knowing it was classified is incriminating under the 1917 Espionage Act, which defines as a crime receipt of classified information for the purpose of helping any foreign entity.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581817.html

In 2000, the Philadelphia sheriff auctioned 300 to 400 foreclosed properties a month; now he handles more than 1,000 a month. Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, had record auctions of foreclosed homes, and officials speak of a "Depression-era" problem. The foreclosures fall particularly hard on black and Latino families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900972.html

[This is weird. This town will give you free land to build a house, but look at the house you have to build. What if you don’t need a two car garage?]

http://www.washingtonks.net/Free%20Lots%20Program.htm#Residential

[Surprised? You’re not paying attention.]

Consultants are creaming off a staggering $20 billion from hard-won global aid budgets. The $20bn total is 40 per cent of the international communities' overseas development pot of $50bn - money that is meant to relieve poverty in developing countries.

The World Bank has confirmed the figure for the first time: this weekend it admitted that money spent on 'technical assistance' and consultants had increased by $2bn on last year's $18bn total. A spokesman conceded that ballooning consultants' fees 'need to be addressed'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1494543,00.html

[These things don’t work right anyway. One I come in contact with frequently works probably half the time.]

Using mathematical models, Wein, along with Manas Baveja, a doctoral student at the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and a science fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, has specifically determined that when image quality is poor, accuracy drops to 53 percent. "About 5 percent of the general public and 10 percent of those on the watch list have bad quality fingerprints due either to genetics or hard labor," Wein says. It's those small percentages that can evade the system--with potentially huge consequences. "We assume that terrorist organizations will eventually defeat the US-VISIT program by employing a majority of people whose fingerprint quality is either naturally bad or deliberately made so," he says.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050516192544.htm

Closed military bases could become repositories for nuclear waste under a little-noticed section of a spending bill that was passed by the House this week, exacerbating the fears of local lawmakers who are fighting the scheduled closure of four of New England's biggest bases.

The energy and water bill from the House Appropriations Committee includes $15.5 million for reprocessing of nuclear waste from power plants and construction of an interim nuclear waste dump. The legislation does not specify where that dump would be. But the Appropriations Committee report, which explains the bill, suggests that mothballed military bases be considered as potential sites for the waste
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/28/shut_bases_could_get_nuclear_waste/

I registered a Google Alert for "Transportation Security Administration" several months ago and have also conducted "Yahoo" searches for "backscatter + airports," so I have a fairly comprehensive view of the stories the media runs on this topic. You might think that forcing an entire nation to strip, whether grandparents, nuns, expectant mothers, adolescents, clergy, or honeymooning couples, would merit discussion at the very least. Some attendant horror, perhaps even an attempt to treat this as a sick joke with calls for restraint and reconsideration, would be nice as well. But aside from a matter-of-fact report in USA Today, a mildly disapproving one in the New York Times, and a few articles in technical magazines on the ways and means, this newest assault on passengers has gone unremarked. The media doesn’t care because Sean and Sharon don’t care. That a self-proclaimed Christian regime is pulling off a stunt beyond the dreams of the most daring pornographer, that it will require millions of genuine Christians, Orthodox Jews, and devout Muslims to exhibit themselves before government agents, apparently bothers only the odd prude here and there.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/akers3.html

You see, the United States Political Senior Class joyfully joined, 60 years later, the German Nazis of World War II in the decision to use genocide as an official government policy (OGP.) This was not done by mistake. No, these modern day butchers knew exactly what they were doing.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/052705nichols.html

Ive never fully accepted that view. But looking at the housing market, I'm starting to reconsider.

In July 2001, Paul McCulley, an economist at Pimco, the giant bond fund, predicted that the Federal Reserve would simply replace one bubble with another. "There is room," he wrote, "for the Fed to create a bubble in housing prices, if necessary, to sustain American hedonism. And I think the Fed has the will to do so, even though political correctness would demand that Mr. Greenspan deny any such thing."

As Mr. McCulley predicted, interest rate cuts led to soaring home prices, which led in turn not just to a construction boom but to high consumer spending, because homeowners used mortgage refinancing to go deeper into debt. All of this created jobs to make up for those lost when the stock bubble burst.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27krugman.html

[Tihs is hardly even anarticle, and I don’t know if it is true. It just caught my eye because the other day there was an unexpected cross burning in NC, and everyone couldn’t understand it apparently. They thought it wsa the work of the KK, but was it Muslims protesting the descreation of the Qur’an? Hmmm...]

http://www.neildoyle.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=174


The maiden flight of Falcon I, carrying the Defense Department's TacSat-1 satellite, is scheduled to follow the launch of the last Titan IV from Vandenberg in late summer.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-05zzc.html

China, Indonesia and a number of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries have reportedly expressed interest in the project.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-civil-05r.html

reland's Prime Minister Bertie Ahern opened the country's first offshore wind farm Thursday, off the east coast.

The 25-megawatts Arklow Bank Offshore Wind Park was located on a sandbank about 10 kilometres off County Wicklow in the Irish Sea, just south of the capital Dublin
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-05zs.html

[real estate investors may want to start buying up Sahara desert plots now, get in on the ground floor.]

The models examined by Hurrell and Hoerling show this trend intensifying in future decades. They project that the Sahel monsoon will be some 20% to 30% wetter by 2049 compared to the 1950-99 average.

The warming of Indian Ocean waters is well beyond the range expected from natural processes. This strengthens the case that greenhouse gases are involved, says Hurrell.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-05zzj.html

For the last decade or so, however, kids have been raised in an atmosphere of wild and enthusiastic intellectual turmoil. They can choose from hundreds of cable stations, talk radio and the vast variety of the Internet to seek answers to questions about any subject from many viewpoints.

In other words, they have been raised knowing there is no such thing as accepted wisdom. Though they might hear an issue or idea argued from one perspective, they know they can quickly ferret out another that might be perhaps even more persuasive.

Possessed with such a complex world view, it should not be surprising if today's enterprisers are far more willing to attempt to design, build and sell a new range of products - from headlamps to low-cost rockets
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacetravel-05zn.html

Wristbands purchased by British charities as part of the Make Poverty History campaign have been manufactured in conditions that breach international ethical standards, it emerged yesterday.

Chinese companies responsible for wristbands worn by thousand of charity supporters, celebrities and politicians, including Tony Blair, have been accused of indulging in forced labor and of paying less than the official minimum wage. An audit also discovered breaches of health and safety regulations.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0530-05.htm

I will be pro-death penalty and anti-abortion, pro-child but anti-child care, for education but against funding of public schools. As a Republican, I'll have a better chance of getting to spout my opinions in the media, which for some reason seems convinced that since Bush was re-elected with the smallest electoral margin of any sitting president in history, liberals are passe.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0529-30.htm

Miami-Dade County's elections chief has strongly recommended that its ATM-style voting devices be ditched for optical scan ones that use paper ballots, another black mark for the machines that were billed as a way to avoid a repeat of the 2000 presidential-election fiasco.

Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.

Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that he reached his conclusion based on declining voter confifidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and election-day labor costs that have quadrupled with them.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0529-05.htm

Connolly House

Two U.S. Army analysts whose work was cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq have received job performance awards for the past three years, The Washington Post reported.
http://www.rense.com/general65/arn.htm

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is warning that the U.S. current account deficit will hit $900 billion or 6.7 percent of U.S. gross domestic product in 2006. These very large numbers are caused by a continued reinforcement of global imbalances: on the one hand, a very low U.S. savings rate, high U.S. consumption fostered by very low interest rates, and cheap Asian goods flooding the U.S. market (cheap because Asia subsidizes their exports through low exchange rates). On the other hand, we have lackluster demand in Europe and some Asian countries, notably Japan. OECD chief economist Jean-Philippe Cotis told the Financial Times: “We are not saying there will be a doomsday tomorrow morning ... but because the adjustments [to global imbalances] are relatively slow, we are running the risk that an accident will happen. [..] Time is running out – the numbers are getting big, big, big.
http://www.merkfund.com/merk-perspective/insights/2005-05-26.html

Most of us know, either through experience or anecdote, that home loans have never been easier to get. This is surely not because Americans have become better credit risks. In fact, the opposite is true. Personal bankruptcies have been setting new records almost monthly, the average worker has seen no real income growth in more than a decade, and household liquidity has dropped off the charts. But in response, and to an extent few could have imagined even ten years ago, mortgage lenders have compensated by becoming increasingly creative as Americans have gone deeper and deeper into hock. Thus has 'creative financing' become an ironic euphemism for a process that is inherently destructive. Indeed, the erosion of mortgage lending standards has progressed to such a degree that nearly anyone not living in a cardboard box or under a highway can qualify for a loan with ease.
...
"He didn't have the income to qualify for the first loan, let alone the subsequent mortgages. He has no reserves, suspect credit and a stay-at-home wife. It is illegal for me to deny him a loan.  It is illegal for me to ask him to verify his income if he is applying for a no income verification loan. But his loan was approved, which made me sick to my stomach. Today I had a conversation with him.  I told him that if he wanted the loan, I could not stop him from taking it and that I would give it to him. I also told him that I believed he was lying about his income.  I violated the law when I did this.  He is also a non-white, which means if he wanted to report me for discrimination I would likely be disallowed from offering residential loans from now on.

Felony Borrowing

"He didn't tell me whether he was lying or not but he did ask me what the consequences for getting caught were. I explained the concept of bank fraud, felony conviction, possible jail time, etc. His response was to ask me what the probability of getting caught was. I explained that the possibility was nil unless he lost the house through foreclosure; in which case the probability was high.  Mind you this kid just claimed three times his real income on a loan application, is living paycheck to paycheck and only has three years on the job.

"And still he needed to mull it over and speak with his wife before deciding. I, on the other hand had just violated many industry regulations even by having the conversation with him and my stomach was in a knot because I thought he might still actually take the loan. Luckily he called me back this afternoon and said he would decline the loan and follow my instructions on how to get liquid and secure his future.
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/ackerman/ackerman052705_keep.html

A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in breast milk of women in 18 states and store-bought milk from various locations around the country.

The chemical, perchlorate, can impede adult metabolism and cause retardation in fetuses, among other things. It leaches into groundwater from various military facilities.

Previous studies have found perchlorate in drinking water, on lettuce, and in cows milk
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050224_rocket_fuel.html

Parliament, and not the Prime Minister, would make the final decision on taking Britain to war in future under proposals to be debated by MPs.

Clare Short, the former cabinet minister who is championing the move, yesterday claimed that she had the support of 200 MPs, including the Chancellor Gordon Brown.

The power to declare war was historically the prerogative of the sovereign, but has now passed to the Prime Minister, who has no obligation to gain the approval of Parliament.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=642028

In his misbegotten quest for empire, George W. Bush faces two potentially decisive shortages – money and soldiers. The deficits in boots and dollars are becoming acute. Precipitously falling military enlistments for a US military stretched thin in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 128 other countries around the world, indicate Bush has about 18 months to solve the boots problem. But it is America’s Blanche DuBois economy, whose debt levels – public and private – have gone parabolic, that threatens the entire imperial enterprise. Without the ready funds normally forthcoming from the Treasury bill market, a double malted of human kindness courtesy of foreign central banks, the president would have to rely upon a highly-indebted population that simultaneously has no savings and yet retains great expectations of the public purse. Clearly such a people can not carry the imperial standard. At least, not alone they can’t.
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1309263.htm

It's a curious line of attack from an administration known for rarely admitting a mistake.

In this alternate reality universe, the president never bestowed upon former director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, who told the president that the Iraq WMD intelligence was a "slam dunk," the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom.

In this alternative reality universe, Vice President Cheney never suggested that the evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were "overwhelming." In this alternate reality universe, the president never warned that Iraq was seeking "yellowcake" uranium from Nigeria to build a nuclear weapon.

In this alternative reality universe, former Secretary of State Powell did not go to the U.N. to make an extensive argument about Iraq's renewed WMD program. In this alternate reality universe, America's image with Arabs and Muslims was pristine until Newsweek showed up, with its little Periscope item, and ruined everything.

This is all hyperbole, of course. This is not to suggest that the media shouldn't be held accountable for its mistakes. It should.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/23/AR2005052300226_pf.html

[this sounds like a pretty lame settlement.]

This is the homepage for the class action settlement in Dukes/Dolan v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Case Number CV-2002-270 in the Circuit Court of Phillips County, Arkansas. The Defendant in the case, Hewlett-Packard Company, is referred to throughout as “HP.” The persons who filed the lawsuit are called “Plaintiffs.
http://www.computersettlement.com/default.aspx


The army of lobbyists working behind the scenes to affect federal legislation and agency regulations now count some 650 foreign companies among their clients, which are seeking to influence everything from America's defense contracting and pharmaceutical policies to the sort of environmental matters that literally affect U.S. soil, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=689&sid=100

For the editors of the Wall Street Journal to accuse Amnesty International of “moral degradation” is a particularly brazen instance of projecting one’s own sins on one’s opponents. This is a newspaper that has championed every right-wing conspiracy against the democratic rights of the American people—from the scandal-mongering and attempted political coup against Clinton to the theft of the 2000 election. It has enthusiastically supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and justified the most criminal policies associated with these wars, including the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan and the indefinite detention without charges of prisoners at Guantánamo
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/amne-m28.shtml

A Los Angeles Times review called the song "a warning against blind acceptance of authority, including that of a president leading his nation to war."

"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Nine Inch Nails' leader
Trent Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site.

MTV said in a statement: "While we respect Nine Inch Nails' point of view, we were uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement. When we discussed our discomfort with the band, their choice was to unfortunately pull out of the Movie Awards."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050528/en_nm/leisure_nineinchnails_mtv_dc

The FBI is seeking broad new authority to expand its spying on mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service. A proposal under discussion by the Senate Intelligence Committee would compel postal inspectors to turn over the names, addresses, and all material appearing on the outside of letters and contents of postcards for any individuals the FBI targets for so-called terrorism investigations. The proposal would also prevent the post office from publicly disclosing the existence of these mail covers.
http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692255.html



Depending on which press reports you read, the Zetas were either trained at Fort Bragg or the School of the Americas in the United States to serve in a special forces unit in the Mexican military. But the allure of money in the narco-trafficking business caused them to turn their special powers to the dark side.

Well, as with most mainstream media scripts on the drug war, the real story behind the Zetas is a bit more complicated. Narco News interviewed several former and current high-ranking DEA and Department of Homeland Security officials to get the straight scoop.

Here’s what we were told.

First, the Zetas are a very amorphous group that started out from a core of Mexican special forces defectors who over time have either recruited or trained additional members. But make no mistake about it; the Zetas are very good at what they do. One former DEA official says they are “better than the Secret Service.”

“In terms of weapons, communications, parameter control and security, these guys are very good,” he adds.

A major reason for their “professionalism” in this area is that many of the Zetas have received some specialized military or other tactical training from U.S. agencies, including from the DEA, FBI and U.S. military.

A former DEA officials who worked extensively south of the border during his career explains:

“A lot of the Zetas came from former Mexican police offices or the military, and some are even students from universities in Texas that work part time with the Zetas to provide security. So they come from a diverse background. Some of them have prior training from the DEA, FBI and the U.S. military, as well as other agencies. We go to great lengths to assure they are not engaged in criminal activity before training them, but later on they can be lured into drug business by the money. It happens … And they (the Zetas) are very organized and have recruiters, who are out constantly bringing in new people and training them.”
...
“These narco-traffickers are very astute, and they do use journalists to do campaigns against other competing groups and to make their group look like Robin Hood,” explains a former DEA supervisor. “So some journalists do write stories for money. Narco-traffickers do own some media people.”

http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1305.html

Kind readers, the war that the valiant Aymara people from the Bolivian countryside have unleashed is a reality. Yesterday afternoon, despite the brutality they were subjected to, the Aymara maintained a sporadic siege of Plaza Murillo. And a few minutes past 3pm, as reported here, the police launched an offensive of gasses and low-caliber bullets to disperse the crowd… and to let President Mesa leave the Palace of Government and fly to Sucre for the Bolivian capital’s anniversary festival.

After this, for at least two hours more the police hunted down the Aymara farmers. Several trucks from the Special Security Group – this country’s riot police – circled the streets outside the Plaza de los Héroes, where the Aymara had held their council. They were looking for groups of leaders, to gas and arrest as many possible.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/174716/841

Now, what does this tell us about the way that “Sherlock Salazar” and “Gee Whizzer White” conduct business on the taxpayer payroll? Apparently, they made these two harassing visits to a prominent journalist, at his family home, and again at his office, without having talked to the U.S. Attorney for that region of Texas. (As one U.S. law enforcement agent told Narco News today, “that just is not done.”)
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As for Agent Carlos Salazar (he’s the guy at 210-336-0036), I hope for his sake this wasn’t a rogue, unauthorized attack on the press on his part. Because, so far, every other public official that has tried to silence a Bill Conroy story has ended up causing himself (or herself) problems when his or her superiors read the facts reported in Narco News.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/24/222740/305

[Hello? Brainiac? You’re worried about wrist strain while you have your hand in a microwave oven? Come on. Why do you suppose you shouldn’t have this thing near metal? Because it is transmitting radiation into the metal of the rfid and it will do the same for whatever other metal you have around. Better take off your ring if you have one.]

The mouse pad contains internal circuitry that powers the mouse. If you experience interference with other radio signals, the mouse pad has a "tune" button; press it and the device reconfigures itself on a different frequency. On top of the circuitry is a flat, textured plastic pad that is optimally smooth for mouse use. There is practically no wrist strain in using the NB-50, and I found its textured surface to be comparable to the majority of expensive "gaming surface" mouse pads. The size of the pad is less than stellar -- about 6" wide and 8" long -- but is still suitable for everything I could think of during testing.

The mouse pad cannot be operated on any metal surface. Since the warnings about this are printed on the box, in the manual, and on the mouse pad itself, I figured it was in my best interest to avoid finding out why metal and power-over-RFID don't mesh.
http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/1431200&tid=125


In other words, the memo instructs ICE supervisors to ensure that if they come across a goose in the game of find-the-terrorist, then they should call it a duck.

As a result, based on the memo’s instructions, existing records originated by ICE and deemed to be terror-related are to be purged from the TECS computer system by reclassifying them to make them appear to be unrelated to terrorism. The deadline for completing this 4,000-record sanitizing task is April 11, two weeks from the issue date of the memo.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/7/232329/3516

"In January 2005, Eliza Manningham-Butler, head of MI5, admitted that MI5 bugged Connolly House.

"This note is authentication by me that the section of the bugging device which it accompanies is part of the Connolly House device which was returned to Mr Blair.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4578965.stm

tenencia y distribución de pornografía infantil

Data will be compiled and assigned weights to produce a score that
TSA will use to create a tiered list of prioritized ports that may
selectively receive a PortStep training exercise. Data will be stored
securely and will not be released publicly. The data will be used only
for the purposes of creating the Tiered Approach Report.
TSA will use these results to determine which U.S. ports should
receive a TSA-sponsored exercise, the type and sophistication of the
exercise, and the level of TSA involvement
http://cryptome.org/tsa052505.htm

An Israeli human rights group accused the Israeli army on Wednesday of carrying out targeted killings disguised as attempted arrests.
 
A report published by the rights groups B,Tselem said that of 89 Palestinians killed in 2004 during actions, which Israel described as arrest operations, 43 were not armed, or were armed but did not attempt to use their weapons against the soldiers trying to arrest them.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cca.htm

In the Middle Ages leprosy was a widespread, much-feared disease which unaccountably declined around the same time that tuberculosis began to spread across Europe. TB went on to become a major long-term epidemic disease, with one-third of the world's population now infected and more than 8 million new cases in the year 2000 alone.
 
Researchers now believe that the two trends were no coincidence. In fact, the new findings suggest that TB overtook leprosy as the more aggressive, faster-killing disease
http://www.rense.com/general65/tb.htm

It is not deliberate. Bicycles just don't matter as they used to. Thirty years ago, Beijingers considered themselves affluent if they owned a bike, a radio and a sewing machine. The equivalent today is a car, a TV and a computer. Last November, the city dropped registration requirements for bicycles. A few months earlier, the annual four yuan (25p) bike tax was abolished.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bike.htm

His grand plan could come across as a bar-stool fantasy, but it's already won $75 million from Alpha Pacific, a Memphis, Tennessee, venture capital firm, and $1.5 million in federal funds. Craven hopes that within a year, bulldozers will begin clearing land on Saipan and engineers will start sinking a pipe to pump icy water from the ocean depths to produce electricity and freshwater. And back in Kona, Craven expects to use cold-water agriculture to transform five acres of otherwise barren lava fields into the world's most productive vineyard. "The economics are absurd," he boasts. "Once we prove the technology on Saipan, imagine what it could do for places like Haiti!"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html?tw=wn_tophead_10

But, Rothstein's source says, it happened often and for big bucks, "You could order one of these kids, it was $2,500 to $3,000 up front then you had the balance of another $3,000 to $3,500 or $4,000 upon completion. In some cases, you know depending on the circumstances you can probably get them at the bargain basement price of $1,500, but most I think that we ever saw was for the bondage and the freaky s**t and that was an even $10,000 and people...these people would hand that money out like it was candy."
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?s=3393685

Researchers have found new evidence of a secret code concealed on the Kensington Runestone, one of the most controversial pieces of Minnesota history
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_143121108.html

Writes reporter J.D. Cash in the Gazette: "If proven true, the ramifications of such disclosures would be far-reaching. Not only could the discovery of these documents lead to additional arrests and prosecutions in the OKC bombing case, but evidence of a cover-up of a sting operation involving the FBI and a private charity could ruin a number of careers of highly placed individuals."
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44444

Trentadue contends the FBI mistakenly suspected his brother was part of a gang that robbed banks to fund attacks on the government, and that authorities killed him when things got out of hand during an



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interrogation.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2756256

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481

Indeed, confession is good for the soul. What they don't say is sucralose has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. The research is on http://www.dorway.com, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame, and http://www.wnho.net.
 
We are already getting complaints on health problems from sucralose. Also, you have to remember that aspartame being a chemical hypersensitization agent, as well as a neurotoxic drug, not only interacts with other drugs, especially those used to treat the problems it causes, but also with toxins which is all some of these so-called other sweeteners are. Don't forget they outlawed DDT.
http://www.rense.com/general65/admot.htm

[I reiterate my prediction that shooting lasers into people’s eyes is already known to be harmful, but that they will go ahead and keep doingi t for a long time to come.]

nternational travelers should get used to having their fingerprints taken or their irises scanned because traditional airport security tests are outdated and open to abuse, a leading U.S. official said on Thursday.
 
"As a general principle, certainly in the area of international travel, biometrics is the way forward in virtually every respect," said Michael Chertoff, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary.
 
"When we screen based on names, we're screening on the most primitive and least technological basis of identification -- it's the most susceptible to misspelling, or people changing their identity, or fraud.
 
"Biometrics is the way ahead."
http://www.rense.com/general65/biome.htm

"The US war on terror is a way of terrorising people. If you are an Iraqi and you are expecting to be bombed, aren't you terrified? If you have done nothing, if you are an innocent Iraqi citizen and you are expecting any time a rocket to fly in and blow you to pieces, aren't you terrified?
 
"That is terror [and] the US is as guilty of terrorism as the people who crashed their planes into the buildings ... Bush doesn't understand the rest of the world. He thinks everybody should be a neocon like him."
 
Mr Mahathir was equally scathing about Israeli policies in Palestine. He said his visit to the West Bank last month had been deliberately disrupted by the Israeli government. Specifically, he said he was blocked from travelling to Jerusalem and Jenin, scene of some of the worst Israeli violence in 2002, where he was to open a school funded by Malaysia. Israel has denied impeding his visit.
http://www.rense.com/general65/fatt.htm

About half way through the event Bush came out with this pearler.

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/260505newbushism.htm


Scientists in America have found the first evidence that common chemicals used in products as diverse as cosmetics, toys, clingfilm and plastic bags may harm the development of unborn baby boys.
 
Researchers have long known that high levels of substances called phthalates have gender-bending effects on male animals, making them more feminine and leading to poor sperm quality and infertility. The new study suggests that even normal levels of phthalates, which are ubiquitous, can disrupt the development of male babies' reproductive organs.
 
Article continues The discovery poses a huge problem for the chemical industry, which is already embroiled in a battle with the government over EU proposals on chemical safety.
 
Several types of phthalates, which are used to make plastics more pliable, and have been around for more than 50 years, have been banned, but many are still produced in vast quantities.
 
The study was carried out by scientists from centres across the US, including the University of Rochester and the National Centre for Environmental Health.
 
The researchers measured the levels of nine widely used phthalates in the urine of pregnant women and compared them with standard physiological measurements of their babies.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bos.htm

Concerns over the presence of a dangerous strain of avian flu virus in Indonesia's pigs are growing, as government tests confirm the existence of infection. In some areas, the H5N1 virus could be infecting up to half of the pig population, without causing any signs of disease.
 
The initial discovery was made earlier this year by an independent researcher working outside national and international surveillance systems. Chairul Nidom, a virologist at Airlangga University's tropical-disease centre in Surabaya, Java, found the H5N1 virus in five of ten pigs tested from Banten in western Java.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bbird.htm

The United States wants Britain's proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents.
 
The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.
 
Michael Chertoff, the newly appointed US Secretary for Homeland Security, has already had talks with the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, and the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, to discuss the matter.
http://www.rense.com/general65/brit.htm

[In a weird way this WOULD be a good idea, because it sounds like you could shoot essentially without any pollution or anything, and the ammo is just inert metal balls, so there are no duds to blow up later or anything. HOWEVER, I am faiirly confident that if this comes into use it will still be loaded with uranium or plutonium or something else equally harmful that will negate any benefits it might offer.]

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator's trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.
http://www.rense.com/general65/dread.htm

A web-based Chinese-language news service called Boxun (Abundant News), which allows correspondents to freely post information on its site, reported on 25 May that 121 people in 18 villages in the sparsely-settled western province of Qinghai have died of bird flu, and more are ill. Some 1300 people, have been isolated, it reports.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05260507/H5N1_Qinghai_121_Killed.html

The cost analysis was compelling -- the Linux option could be implemented for around $21,000, more than $100,000 less than the Microsoft Windows alternative. The key to enabling the move to Linux, however, was the ability to provide an acceptable office application suite that would run on both Windows XP and Linux. It was impractical for the school to support more than one office application suite, nor was it cost-effective nor beneficial to remove Windows XP from the newer systems
http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/05/18/1944227.shtml?tid=130&tid=93

[Its too bad you can’t see diseases with satellites.]

After stonewalling for weeks, China acknowledged Friday that two epidemics had spread among its animal and bird populations, renewing questions about its readiness to provide prompt information about infectious disease.
http://www.rense.com/general65/lives.htm

Elite Mexican commandos, trained by U.S. forces to combat the drug cartels have switched sides and are working for the drug smugglers in the border area posing a special hazard to American law enforcement and Border Patrol agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department memo.
http://www.rense.com/general65/force.htm

"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it" (his words).

He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again, and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was wearing on him.
http://www.rense.com/general65/surviv.htm

WIVES AND CHILDREN TARGETTED

"They (the British Air Chiefs) argued that the desired result, of reducing German industrial production, would be more readily achieved if the homes of the workers in the factories were destroyed; if the workers were kept busy arranging for the burial of their wives and children, output might reasonably be expected to fall. It was concentrated on working class houses because, as Professor Lindemann maintained, "A higher percentage of bloodshed per ton of explosives dropped could be expected from bombing houses built close together, rather than by bombing higher class houses surrounded by gardens." --Advance to Barbarism, F.J.P Veale.
http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/history/theblitz.htm

I invite you to try an experiment. Spend a while contemplating the following two questions. Write to me with your conclusions. Send them to: bobnichols@cox.net

1. What kind of a person purposefully selects a genocidal weapon for use in Central Asia; then orders massive quantities of it used in battle.

2. What kind of person orders a government and military cover up of the resulting slow genocide?

The only statements throughout history that speak to the very issue we all face in the world today are these few sentences from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal at the end of World War II.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/052705Nichols/052705nichols.html

An independent United Nations body monitoring global drug proliferation today expressed concern that Iraq was emerging as a transit point for narcotics originating in Afghanistan and on their way to Asia and Europe.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_8316.shtml

At the time, I wrote a small column stating that Tillman who refused "hundreds if not thousands" of offers by the Pentagon to shill publicly for the "War on Terror" would be repulsed by all the attention. I wrote that to Bush, McCain, and their pro-war ilk, Tillman was proving far more useful dead than alive. He had joined the Rangers for ideals like freedom and justice, but he fought in a war for oil and empire. I wrote that in death he was little more than a "pawn in their game."

This observation didn't click with the pro-war/occupation camp, as hate mail and death threats poured into my sleepy newspaper. People claimed that the bipartisan war brigade was celebrating his heroism, not exploiting his death - and by not simply standing and saluting, I deserved a similar fate.

I want to know how the hate mongers and internet thugs feel now, knowing that they were duped about Tillman's death.
http://www.counterpunch.com/zirin05272005.html

Faced with entrenched opposition to CAFTA, the free trade policies that are essential to the Bush administration’s emerging geostrategy are poised to suffer a setback, threatening an erosion of US power in Latin America and the possible advent of regimes in Central America that would be unfavorable to Washington’s interests.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11368

Basic Food Storage Calculator
http://www.geocities.com/ghostwolfemoon/FoodStorageCalculator.htm

But when asked who it would offend she stated, "Well, I’d rather not use the word offend. It was removed in order to conform with the rest of the staff who have their flags on their desks."

Edward Snook, Editor in Chief of the US~Observer, stated when hearing of Ms. Work's comment, "What is this, a U.N. department? It sure sounds like the employment office is making it a point to employ foreign nationals if they each have their own flag on their desk, and it isn't an American flag. It's completely anti-American that ‘Old Glory’ was taken down and that patriotic citizens are paying those who committed this atrocity with their hard earned tax dollars.
http://www.newswithviews.com/BreakingNews/breaking34.htm

Just imagine if the story was reversed. That instead, there were only 50 Mexicans and 500 cursing, screaming Americans threatening death and sending an old Mexican woman to the hospital. Suppose we shouted out our praise for Osama Bin Laden and wishes that he "had a hundred bombs to drop on that sh_t hole called Manhattan." I guarantee it would be front-page, and above-the-fold on every major paper in the country. It would be the lead story on the evening news for days. Cable news would run breaking news reports 24/7.

Militant Mexicans and Communists are planning to disrupt several events in the next few weeks. Two that I am very concerned about are the California Coalition for Immigration Reform [CCIR] meeting in Garden Grove, CA and the Wake Up America summit in Las Vegas, NV.
http://www.teamamericapac.org/ta-tapr-050524-attack.shtml

The lawmakers were arrested and handcuffed in Nashville in the waning days of a General Assembly session that has been consumed by establishing ethics guidelines and a probe into the business dealings of state Sen. John Ford, a member of the Memphis political dynasty
http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050527/NEWS01/505270318/1002

La Policía ha detenido a cinco personas en Murcia, Barcelona y Orense acusadas de pertenencia a una red de violadores de bebés en una operación contra la pederastia en España cuyas imágenes, según los agentes, demuestra "una perversión y degradación que supera los límites conocidos hasta el momento por los investigadores policiales".

Los arrestados en Murcia son Alvaro I.G., alias 'Nanysex' y 'Kova', un informático madrileño de 23 años y autor de varias agresiones sexuales a menores, Antonio O.M., de 43 años, presunto autor de un delito de tenencia y distribución de pornografía infantil y José C.C., de 39 años, acusado de encubrimiento y posesión de pornografía.

En Barcelona, fue detenido Eduardo S.M., alias 'Todd', informático de 23 años, residente en Lérida y presunto autor de un delito de agresión sexual. Por último, en Orense fue arrestado José G.C., alias 'Aza', de 24 años, acusado de sucesivas violaciones de dos niños de 7 y 9 años.
http://www.expansion.com/edicion/noticia/0,2458,636388,00.html

Abundant News

Data will be compiled and assigned weights to produce a score that
TSA will use to create a tiered list of prioritized ports that may
selectively receive a PortStep training exercise. Data will be stored
securely and will not be released publicly. The data will be used only
for the purposes of creating the Tiered Approach Report.
TSA will use these results to determine which U.S. ports should
receive a TSA-sponsored exercise, the type and sophistication of the
exercise, and the level of TSA involvement
http://cryptome.org/tsa052505.htm

An Israeli human rights group accused the Israeli army on Wednesday of carrying out targeted killings disguised as attempted arrests.
 
A report published by the rights groups B,Tselem said that of 89 Palestinians killed in 2004 during actions, which Israel described as arrest operations, 43 were not armed, or were armed but did not attempt to use their weapons against the soldiers trying to arrest them.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cca.htm

In the Middle Ages leprosy was a widespread, much-feared disease which unaccountably declined around the same time that tuberculosis began to spread across Europe. TB went on to become a major long-term epidemic disease, with one-third of the world's population now infected and more than 8 million new cases in the year 2000 alone.
 
Researchers now believe that the two trends were no coincidence. In fact, the new findings suggest that TB overtook leprosy as the more aggressive, faster-killing disease
http://www.rense.com/general65/tb.htm

It is not deliberate. Bicycles just don't matter as they used to. Thirty years ago, Beijingers considered themselves affluent if they owned a bike, a radio and a sewing machine. The equivalent today is a car, a TV and a computer. Last November, the city dropped registration requirements for bicycles. A few months earlier, the annual four yuan (25p) bike tax was abolished.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bike.htm

His grand plan could come across as a bar-stool fantasy, but it's already won $75 million from Alpha Pacific, a Memphis, Tennessee, venture capital firm, and $1.5 million in federal funds. Craven hopes that within a year, bulldozers will begin clearing land on Saipan and engineers will start sinking a pipe to pump icy water from the ocean depths to produce electricity and freshwater. And back in Kona, Craven expects to use cold-water agriculture to transform five acres of otherwise barren lava fields into the world's most productive vineyard. "The economics are absurd," he boasts. "Once we prove the technology on Saipan, imagine what it could do for places like Haiti!"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html?tw=wn_tophead_10

But, Rothstein's source says, it happened often and for big bucks, "You could order one of these kids, it was $2,500 to $3,000 up front then you had the balance of another $3,000 to $3,500 or $4,000 upon completion. In some cases, you know depending on the circumstances you can probably get them at the bargain basement price of $1,500, but most I think that we ever saw was for the bondage and the freaky s**t and that was an even $10,000 and people...these people would hand that money out like it was candy."
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?s=3393685

Researchers have found new evidence of a secret code concealed on the Kensington Runestone, one of the most controversial pieces of Minnesota history
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_143121108.html

Writes reporter J.D. Cash in the Gazette: "If proven true, the ramifications of such disclosures would be far-reaching. Not only could the discovery of these documents lead to additional arrests and prosecutions in the OKC bombing case, but evidence of a cover-up of a sting operation involving the FBI and a private charity could ruin a number of careers of highly placed individuals."
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44444

Trentadue contends the FBI mistakenly suspected his brother was part of a gang that robbed banks to fund attacks on the government, and that authorities killed him when things got out of hand during an



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interrogation.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2756256

An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals."
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481

Indeed, confession is good for the soul. What they don't say is sucralose has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. The research is on http://www.dorway.com, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame, and http://www.wnho.net.
 
We are already getting complaints on health problems from sucralose. Also, you have to remember that aspartame being a chemical hypersensitization agent, as well as a neurotoxic drug, not only interacts with other drugs, especially those used to treat the problems it causes, but also with toxins which is all some of these so-called other sweeteners are. Don't forget they outlawed DDT.
http://www.rense.com/general65/admot.htm

[I reiterate my prediction that shooting lasers into people’s eyes is already known to be harmful, but that they will go ahead and keep doingi t for a long time to come.]

nternational travelers should get used to having their fingerprints taken or their irises scanned because traditional airport security tests are outdated and open to abuse, a leading U.S. official said on Thursday.
 
"As a general principle, certainly in the area of international travel, biometrics is the way forward in virtually every respect," said Michael Chertoff, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary.
 
"When we screen based on names, we're screening on the most primitive and least technological basis of identification -- it's the most susceptible to misspelling, or people changing their identity, or fraud.
 
"Biometrics is the way ahead."
http://www.rense.com/general65/biome.htm

"The US war on terror is a way of terrorising people. If you are an Iraqi and you are expecting to be bombed, aren't you terrified? If you have done nothing, if you are an innocent Iraqi citizen and you are expecting any time a rocket to fly in and blow you to pieces, aren't you terrified?
 
"That is terror [and] the US is as guilty of terrorism as the people who crashed their planes into the buildings ... Bush doesn't understand the rest of the world. He thinks everybody should be a neocon like him."
 
Mr Mahathir was equally scathing about Israeli policies in Palestine. He said his visit to the West Bank last month had been deliberately disrupted by the Israeli government. Specifically, he said he was blocked from travelling to Jerusalem and Jenin, scene of some of the worst Israeli violence in 2002, where he was to open a school funded by Malaysia. Israel has denied impeding his visit.
http://www.rense.com/general65/fatt.htm

About half way through the event Bush came out with this pearler.

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/260505newbushism.htm


Scientists in America have found the first evidence that common chemicals used in products as diverse as cosmetics, toys, clingfilm and plastic bags may harm the development of unborn baby boys.
 
Researchers have long known that high levels of substances called phthalates have gender-bending effects on male animals, making them more feminine and leading to poor sperm quality and infertility. The new study suggests that even normal levels of phthalates, which are ubiquitous, can disrupt the development of male babies' reproductive organs.
 
Article continues The discovery poses a huge problem for the chemical industry, which is already embroiled in a battle with the government over EU proposals on chemical safety.
 
Several types of phthalates, which are used to make plastics more pliable, and have been around for more than 50 years, have been banned, but many are still produced in vast quantities.
 
The study was carried out by scientists from centres across the US, including the University of Rochester and the National Centre for Environmental Health.
 
The researchers measured the levels of nine widely used phthalates in the urine of pregnant women and compared them with standard physiological measurements of their babies.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bos.htm

Concerns over the presence of a dangerous strain of avian flu virus in Indonesia's pigs are growing, as government tests confirm the existence of infection. In some areas, the H5N1 virus could be infecting up to half of the pig population, without causing any signs of disease.
 
The initial discovery was made earlier this year by an independent researcher working outside national and international surveillance systems. Chairul Nidom, a virologist at Airlangga University's tropical-disease centre in Surabaya, Java, found the H5N1 virus in five of ten pigs tested from Banten in western Java.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bbird.htm

The United States wants Britain's proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents.
 
The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.
 
Michael Chertoff, the newly appointed US Secretary for Homeland Security, has already had talks with the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, and the Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, to discuss the matter.
http://www.rense.com/general65/brit.htm

[In a weird way this WOULD be a good idea, because it sounds like you could shoot essentially without any pollution or anything, and the ammo is just inert metal balls, so there are no duds to blow up later or anything. HOWEVER, I am faiirly confident that if this comes into use it will still be loaded with uranium or plutonium or something else equally harmful that will negate any benefits it might offer.]

According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass to the target in much less time than previously possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per trigger-pull will rely on the operator's trigger control. Even then, every round is still going right into the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round is going right where you aim it.
http://www.rense.com/general65/dread.htm

A web-based Chinese-language news service called Boxun (Abundant News), which allows correspondents to freely post information on its site, reported on 25 May that 121 people in 18 villages in the sparsely-settled western province of Qinghai have died of bird flu, and more are ill. Some 1300 people, have been isolated, it reports.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05260507/H5N1_Qinghai_121_Killed.html

cultivation of genetically modified crops

A buffalo rancher near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C. is bracing for scores of visitors following the recent birth of a rare white calf.

It's only been a few days since the birth was announced, but rancher Karen Blatz says people are already dropping by to take a look. And Blatz says she expects those numbers will grow as word gets out. "This is the first white calf that was born in Canada. I know there was a few in the States but not too many." When a white bison was born in Wisconsin in 1994, half a million people turned out to see it. Aboriginal legend holds that the white bison is a harbinger of peace and unity.
http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_bison20050524

It's not dead yet.

The bird that knocked out power for 28,000 Utah Power customers in Davis and Salt Lake counties Tuesday morning is alive and, so far, recovering from its bout with the Parrish substation in Centerville.
http://www.standard.net/standard/51026/

[So does this mean Microsoft is aiding the terrorists?]

Guerilla snipers in Iraq are now polishing their craft online, with a web-based training manual.

"If you had only one shot, who should you kill?" the primer asks, leading its students through a series of grisly scenarios.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001559.html

[These people could very well be right.]

A home in Sacramento's south Natomas neighborhood is surrounded by sheet metal, and neighbors are calling it an eyesore.

The D'Souza family lives in the home on Timberwood Court, and claims the aluminium pieces are necessary to protect them from unknown neighbors who have been bombarding them with radio waves and making them sick.

"(It's) a shield to protect against radiation, because microwave radiation is reflected off of aluminium, so it's a protective measure," resident Sarah D'Souza said.
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4512146/detail.html

[Note yet again the confluence of cultish activity and crime.]

If she runs away from her life of prostitution, her parents will become sick and die.

At least that's what this Nigerian woman believes. The threatened curse, she claims, was part of a voodoo rite performed in her homeland just weeks before she was brought to Greece by a prostitution ring.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/05/19/voodoo.sex.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

The presence of a man-made human flu virus in pigs may be worrisome for several reasons. First, a man-made virus has no business in pigs -- did the virus get there naturally, or was it a lab accident? More frighteningly, but less likely, was it bioterrorism? Second, viruses often use pigs as a conduit to humans, who would have little or no immune resistance to this particular strain of flu since no one has been exposed to it.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66824,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

Experts warned in Nature that the world was now far more vulnerable to the effects of a pandemic than it was in 1918, when a deadly strain of influenza killed between 20 and 40 million people. An 2002 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), an atypical form of pneumonia killed more than 700 people and illustrated how disease can now spread quickly to other countries, carried by international traveller
http://www.rense.com/general65/edmple.htm

"The USA, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyperpower, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide," she said. "When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity."
 
She said practices such as the detention without trial of more than 500 men at Guant·namo Bay in Cuba undermined US moral authority and had damaged the Bush administration's ability to put pressure on other countries for progress on human rights.
 
"The detention facility at Guant·namo Bay has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the practice of arbitrary and indefinite detention in violation of international law," she said. " Guant·namo evokes memories of Soviet repression.
http://www.rense.com/general65/example.htm

But there is a difference. These prisoners are not caught up in a war zone. They are Americans, and the video comes from inside a prison in Texas.
 
They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for Channel 4 that will be broadcast next week.
...
Valdes started writing to local Florida newspapers to expose the corruption and brutality of prison officers. So a gang of guards stormed into his cell to shut him up. They broke almost every one of his ribs, punctured his lung, smashed his spleen and left him to die
http://www.rense.com/general65/tortt.htm

The planned launch this Wednesday of the 4 bln usd Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, a major US-backed global energy initiative, has been clouded by a recent violent crackdown on the opposition in Azerbaijan.
 
British oil giant BP holds a 30 pct stake in the consortium running the pipeline. Other consortium members include Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR, Amerada Hess, ConocoPhillips, Eni, Inpex, Itochu, Statoil, TPAO and Unocal.
http://www.rense.com/general65/derit.htm

'Slave' Trade Emptying
Indian Villages Of Girls
http://www.rense.com/general65/vvl.htm

With him at the pumping station controls was the president of the tiny former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. The BTC has allowed Ilham Aliev to become a firm friend of the West while overseeing a government condemned for human rights abuses and sitting at the head of an administration placed 140 out of 146 in Transparency International's global corruption index.
 
The politics of the pipeline have also changed the face of Georgia, where the battle for control with Russia saw immense US influence deployed in support of the so-called "Rose Revolution". The popular protest ushered the American-educated Mikhail Saakashvili into power two years ago. Washington's new ties with Tbilisi were amply demonstrated when George Bush became the first US president to visit the country earlier this month.
http://www.rense.com/general65/pipeline.htm

On May 13, 2005, a 64 years old Iraqi farmer, Haj Haidar Abu Sijjad, took his tomato load in his pickup truck from Hilla to Baghdad, accompanied by Ali, his 11 years old grandson. They were stopped at an American check point and were asked to dismount. An American soldier climbed on the back of the pickup truck, followed by another a few minutes later, and thoroughly inspected the tomato filled plastic containers for about 10 minutes. Haj Haidar and his grandson were then allowed to proceed to Baghdad.

A minute later, his grandson told him that he saw one of the American soldiers putting a grey melon size object in the back among the tomato containers. The Haj immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped the car at the side of the road, at a relatively far distance from the check point. He found a time bomb with the clock ticking tucked among his tomatoes. He immediately recognized it, as he was an ex-army soldier. Panicking, he grabbed his grandson and ran away from the car. Then, realizing that the car was his only means of work, he went back, took the bomb and carried it in fear. He threw it in a deep ditch by the side of the road that was dug by Iraqi soldiers in preparation for the war, two years ago.

Upon returning from Baghdad, he found out that the bomb had indeed exploded, killing three sheep and injuring their shepherd in his head. He thanked God for giving him the courage to go back and remove the bomb, and for the luck in that the American soldiers did not notice his sudden stop at a distance and his getting rid of the bomb.

"They intended it to explode in Baghdad and claim that it is the work of the 'terrorists', or 'insurgents' or who call themselves the 'Resistance'.

I decided to expose them and asked your reporter to take me to Baghdad to tell you the story. They are to be exposed as they now want to sow strife in Iraq and taint the Resistance after failing to defeat it militarily.
Do not forget to mention my name. I fear nobody but God, as I am a follower of Muqtada al-Sadir."
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12022&l=i&size=1&hd=0

[This is not a drill.]

The Navy has ordered five ships and 2,800 sailors to deploy on unexpected missions to support anti-terrorism efforts in the Balkans and Middle East. Four of the ships will leave today.

The deployments are in response to requests from the European Command and the Central Command and are not exercises, Vice Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, commander of the 2nd Fleet, said Tuesday.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=86917&ran=157050

[Satanist pedophiles? Why I never heard of such a thing.]

FBI agents and local police searched a storage unit located along Morse Road Tuesday in connection with an alleged sex scandal linked to a New Orleans-area church, NBC 4's Nancy Burton reported.

Nicole Bernard

The storage unit was searched after one of the suspects, Nicole Bernard, told investigators that it held evidence of a satanic pedophile ring
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/4526430/detail.html

The U.S. Armed Forces have ordered 19,000 minivans and 5,000 Pacificas from the Chrysler Group for use as light-duty vehicles in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, displacing less fuel-efficient Humvees, according to the Windsor Star.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Articles/articleId=105726

World Orthodox leaders voted yesterday to stop recognising the beleaguered patriarch of Jerusalem, Irineos I, church officials said, asserting a rare unified position on the crisis facing the church in the Holy Land.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1491385,00.html

Oil prices will surge through $60 a barrel by the end of the summer, delivering a fresh shock to the global economy at the height of the US 'driving season', analysts warn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1489289,00.html

Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday.

The summaries of FBI interviews, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of an ongoing lawsuit, include a dozen allegations that the Koran was kicked, thrown to the floor or withheld as punishment. One prisoner said in August 2002 that guards had "flushed a Koran in the toilet" and had beaten some detainees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501395.html?sub=AR

[Divide and conquer.]

As Iraq begins writing its new constitution, leaders in the country's southern regions are pushing aggressively to unite their three provinces into an oil-rich, semi-autonomous state, a plan that some worry could solidify Iraq's sectarian tensions, create fights over oil revenues and eventually split the nation
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11727096.htm

In his interview, Mr O'Neill said the Bush administration appeared to have assumed the right to act as it wished abroad.

"For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the US has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3387941.stm

These bills are not a homegrown initiative, but part of a nationwide biotech industry campaign. Similar bills, containing identical language, have cropped up in at least nine other states as part of a campaign by industry to prevent citizen initiatives like those passed in three California counties last year that prohibited cultivation of genetically modified crops.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/laws052005.cfm

higher reports of deviant behavior

[As always just reminding people all of this is here because I think it is interesting and thought provoking. I can not vouch for 100% accuracy in every article at the ened of every link. If you see something interesting, whether you immediately believe it or not, it would be a good idea to check it out further and see if the info appears to be correct or not.]


Now, the people in KG were either farmers or fishermen. They could build a crab boat from scratch. Try it. What they were, really, was versatile. They’d snatch an old engine from a junkyard Chevy and rebuild it, convert it to marine, and mount it in the boat. They changed their own transmissions, replaced clutch plates, wired the barns they built. They could run a farm, keep old tractors going, blast a stump, raise hogs and slaughter them. They knew guns, and had them. They could hunt, shoot, and fish. They were tough, cut cordwood and split logs and dug foundations. If they wanted a wall, they laid the brick. If something broke, they fixed it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed65.html

Patrushev's blatant attack against NGOs was significant because he outlined what are likely to be the key charges against both entire organisations and individuals. According to the FSB chief, weak legislation and lack of "state oversight" have created "a fertile ground for conducting intelligence operations under the guise of charity and other activities". He promised deputies that new legislation will soon be submitted to "regulate" the activities of NGOs in Russia. In particular, registration for foreign organisations is to be tightened.
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid050519_1_n.shtml

"What no one seemed to notice. . . was the ever widening gap. . .between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway . . . (it) gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about . . .and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated . . . by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. . .

Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'. . . must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. . . .Each act. . . is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow.

You don't want to act, or even talk, alone. . . you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' . . .But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. . . .You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father. . . could never have imagined." :

From Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2124

U.S. FBI agents operating in Pakistan repeatedly interrogated and threatened two U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin who were unlawfully detained and subjected to torture by the Pakistani security services, Human Rights Watch said today.

The brothers Zain Afzal and Kashan Afzal were abducted from their home in Karachi at about 2 a.m. on August 13, 2004. They were released on April 22, 2005 without having been charged.

During eight months of illegal detention, Zain Afzal and Kashan Afzal were routinely tortured by Pakistani authorities to extract confessions of involvement in terrorist activities. During this period, FBI agents questioned the brothers on at least six occasions. The FBI agents did not intervene to end the torture, insist that the Pakistani government comply with a court order to produce the men in court, or provide consular facilities normally offered to detained U.S. citizens. Instead, they threatened the men with being sent to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay if they did not confess to involvement in terrorism.

Human Rights Watch's information is based on extensive and separate interviews with the two brothers since their release and other sources.
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_21134.shtml

THE RISE OF THE QUASI GOVERNMENT (CRS)

Abetted by official secrecy and one-party dominance, the character
of American government is undergoing a series of fundamental
transformations. While the concentration of power in the
executive branch continues apace, traditional mechanisms of
government accountability are being diminished or dismantled, and
agency actions are increasingly insulated from citizen oversight
or awareness.

As the role of citizens in the democratic process has declined,
the importance of new constellations of power and influence has
risen.

One such newly prominent construct is the "quasi government,"
described by the Congressional Research Service as "federally
related entities that possess legal characteristics of both the
governmental and private sectors."

"These hybrid organizations (e.g., Fannie Mae, National Park
Foundation, In-Q-Tel)... have grown in number, size, and
importance in recent decades," the CRS stated in a new report.

"The quasi government, not surprisingly, is a controversial
subject. To supporters of this trend toward greater reliance upon
hybrid organizations, the proper objective of governmental
management is to maximize performance and results, however
defined... They tend to welcome this trend toward greater use of
quasi governmental entities."

"Critics of the quasi government, on the other hand, tend to view
hybrid organizations as contributing to a weakened capacity of
government to perform its fundamental constitutional duties, and
to an erosion in political accountability, a crucial element in
democratic governance...."

"Time will tell whether the emergence of the quasi government is
to be viewed as a symptom of decline in our democratic
government, or a harbinger of a new, creative management era
where the purported artificial barriers between the governmental
and private sectors are breached as a matter of principle."

A copy of the CRS report was obtained by Secrecy News.

See "The Quasi Government: Hybrid Organizations with Both
Government and Private Sector Legal Characteristics," updated May
18, 2005:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30533.pdf


RELIABLE REPLACEMENT WARHEAD PROGRAM (CRS)

The Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, a
congressionally-mandated initiative intended to support a
permanent nuclear weapons arsenal based on newly designed
replaceable parts, is the subject of a major new report from the
Congressional Research Service issued today.

The CRS report, the most extensive treatment of the topic
published to date, describes the origins of the controversial new
nuclear weapons program, its likely impacts, and the views of
supporters and opponents.

The report has not been publicly released, but a copy was obtained
by Secrecy News.

See "Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program,"
May 24, 2005:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL32929.pdf


CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY OVER FEDERAL COURTS (CRS)

A new report from the Congressional Research Service examines
congressional authority over the judicial branch.

"Usually congressional oversight of the judicial branch is
noncontroversial, but when Congress proposes to use its oversight
and regulatory powers in a manner designed to affect the outcome
of pending or previously decided cases, constitutional issues can
be raised."

"While Congress has broad power to regulate the structure,
administration and jurisdiction of the courts, its powers are
limited by precepts of due process, equal protection and
separation of powers."

See "Congressional Authority Over the Federal Courts," May 16,
2005:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32926.pdf


A CIA INVENTORY OF PRIVACY ACT RECORDS

The Central Intelligence Agency provided a descriptive inventory
of dozens of records systems maintained by the Agency that are
subject to the Privacy Act in a 35 page notice published in the
Federal Register today.

"The Central Intelligence Agency has undertaken and completed a
zero-based, Agency-wide review of its Privacy Act systems of
records.... Rather than making numerous, piecemeal revisions,
the Agency decided to draft and republish updated notices for all
of its Privacy Act systems of records. By doing so, the Agency
hopes to make these notices as clear and accessible to the public
as possible."

See the CIA Federal Register notice here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2005/05/fr052405.html


NUCLEAR WEAPONS EFFECTS CALCULATOR

The heat and blast effects of a nuclear explosive detonated in a
major American city can be readily estimated using a new online
tool from the Federation of American Scientists.

The Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator, devised by FAS staff
member Blake Purnell, is based on data from Glasstone's canonical
Effects of Nuclear Weapons. The Java-based calculator allows the
user to vary the size of the modeled blast (in kilotons) as well
as the height of detonation over one of 25 American cities.

"This is just a very graphic way to let anyone see what the effect
of a bomb on his city would be," said Ivan Oelrich, FAS strategic
security project director, as quoted in Science magazine (May 13,
2005, p. 933).

See the FAS Nuclear Weapons Effects Calculator here:

http://tinyurl.com/5r5z6

Italian police are investigating 186 people including three priests after uncovering an Internet pornography site for pedophiles that showed young children being tortured, an official said Tuesday.

Police said the anonymous web site had been protected by a password and was only accessible for nine days last year in an apparent effort to avoid detection.

But a tip-off to a child-abuse telephone helpline allowed computer experts to track down the users. Besides the Roman Catholic priests, police also believe a mayor, a teacher and a doctor downloaded illegal videos.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/nm/crime_italy_paedophilia_dc

In paragraph 15 of his article (the next-to-last one), Lynch mentions in passing the most important finding of the whole oil-for-food investigation: that the Texas petroleum company Bayoil paid $37 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, an enormous and direct violation of the oil-for-food program rules by a US company that dwarfs anything Galloway is charged with. But Lynch somehow forgets to mention Bayoil by name, nor does he question why Senate Republicans are trying to crucify Galloway and other anti-war politicians, instead of siccing the US Treasury Department on Bayoil.
http://counterpunch.org/tomchick05232005.html

If the cell was not formed until 2000, this would contradict the indictment against Motassadeq, which says it had come together in Hamburg by the summer of 1999.

Defense lawyer Udo Jacob said the basis of the charges had collapsed. "I'm convinced that after the information from the U.S., an acquittal of the accused must follow," he said
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8588845

In fact, the document indicates that literally hundreds of NSA intelligence applications are now subject to the whims of outside contractors. These systems include
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052405Madsen/052405madsen.html

One of the things Turner is not so well recognized for is that he was the inspiration for the United Nation’s Peace Calendar, an initiative that morphed into the 13 Moon calendar. (See When the Big Hand Says Thirteen Moon Calendar, canadafreepress.com, August 27, 2004).

Ostensibly, the UN rejected considering calendar reform in 1995 as part of its 50th anniversary. Within four years, UN officials were passing calendar reform duty over to lifetime activist for peace, Dr. Jose Arguelles, an originator of Earth Day.

It was when he was speaking to a group of broadcasters when Turner suggested that changing the way of dating time was in order. Turner said he wants to change time from the current BC (Before Christ, i.e. 380 CE) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for "in the Year of our Lord).

"Why don’t we broadcasters make it our goal to get the world at peace by the year 2000? Let’s make it the year zero–BP and AP, Before Peace and After Peace," he told the gathering of broadcasters, who responded to the idea with applause.

A UN media release explaining his April 21, 2005 award says Turner was honoured for his work advocating "sustainable development".
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover051905.htm

Accepted by virtually all nations notwithstanding, the Gregorian Calendar is irksome to New Agers because the whole world marks time based on the Birth of Jesus Christ. And as far as the occultist UN is concerned, that will never do.

So why not break and fix it?

If the concept of throwing the Gregorian Calendar out to replace it with the World Thirteen Moon 28-day Calendar of Peace isn’t ludicrous enough, calendar challengers say they are basing their reform on "common sense".

"By rational discourse and common sense, it has been determined that the Gregorian Calendar does not represent a true or accurate standard of measure or belong to any systematic science of time, and hence, is worthy of reform," states a CRFC resolution from the World Summit on Peace and Time.

The usual suspects were on hand when more than one hundred "followers of the World Thirteen Calendar Change Peace Movement" convened at the Costa Rican summit.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2004/cover082704.htm

Q.
You have mentioned Kinsey’s use of fraudulent data and methods, which has been admitted by many of his colleagues. What are some of the means by which he perpetrated scientific fraud?

A.
Well, they are many. One of the most egregious examples was his deliberate, repeated use of aberrant samples of males and females for his study, and then claiming that the sexual practices of these groups were representative of the activity of normal men and women. His male sampling was heavy with homosexuals, pedophiles, pederasts, convicts, pimps, and other sexually aggressive males whom he recruited at homosexual bars and bath houses, so these were completely unrepresentative of the average American male. The same was true of his female cohorts, which included the most sexually radical women: prostitutes, burlesque performers, models, artists, and strippers.

In addition, Kinsey’s "interview" technique involved leading and badgering the subject to obtain the answers Kinsey wanted. And when the subjects still didn’t give the desired answers — meaning, they didn’t admit to engaging in the sexual activity Kinsey wanted them to admit to — Kinsey regularly played "God," dismissing their responses and putting down what he thought their answers should be. All of this was necessary, of course, in order to obtain the much higher reports of deviant behavior, which could then be redefined as "normal" because it is supposedly so commonplace.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/alfred-kinsey2.htm