As for Mr. Dershowitz's essay
Ten Lies About Health Your Doctor Taught You
http://www.newstarget.com/z007348.html
MoD sources confirmed last night that the secret plans have been firmed up in response to persistent concerns that the notorious rebel commander Gulbadeen Hikmatyar has teamed up with Taliban fighters in the south.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=559872005
[This seems like kind of an implicit admission that we are not supporting justice for Palestinians now, and that they also aren’t getting it.]
While top Israeli and Palestinian officials discussed security at a Middle East forum Saturday, an American senator advised Arab leaders to focus on injustices in their own countries and reminded them that U.S. policy is security for Israel first and justice for Palestinians "if possible."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7PQLG0.html
The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
Gainesville Police arrested a U.S. Army recruiter Thursday, alleging he raped a woman who had gone to the local recruiting office and was interested in joining the military.
George O. Kirkman, 40, a staff sergeant who enlisted in the Army in 1990, has been charged with sexual battery, police reported.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050521/LOCAL/50520053/1078/news
Torture’s not torture, it’s “abuse”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/90f74dd8-c957-11d9-b9f4-00000e2511c8.html
CT scans ineffective?
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/01/25/hscout523586.html
[This is ridiculous, this guy Chavez is probably running a more democratic country than we are right now. But you see, he has oil, and he doesn’t necessarily want to share it with us in the subservient way we like to have it sent up this way.]
In a paper timed to coincide with a major hemispheric policy address by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Center for Security Policy warned today that the increasingly repressive - and aggressive - dictatorship in Venezuela must either change or be changed if the region is to avoid the terrible human costs of a new generation of revolutionary upheaval.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=05-P_09
[So are muslim and caucasian mutually exclusive?]
Both classify Dilawar's death as a homicide. But in one death certificate, he is a Caucasian of unspecified age and religion. In the other, he is a Muslim of "approximately 35 years," who was "found unresponsive in his cell while in custody."
Miles believes the twin death certificates -- one of them clearly altered -- are evidence of a cover-up. Pentagon officials say they've investigated Dilawar's death, along with at least two dozen other suspected criminal homicides, and have charged seven people.
A Defense Department spokesman said Friday that they are looking into the discrepancy of the two death certificates. "It's possible one was a report done out in the field, and the other was a final report based on the final autopsy," said Perry Bishop, a Health Affairs spokesman at the Pentagon.
Miles, however, contends that both death certificates bear signatures indicating a doctor's final approval. Neither is marked as preliminary, nor as pending an investigation
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1046
BUNGLING US forces were accused of killing guards protecting an Iraqi politician yesterday.
National Assembly member Fawaz al-Jarba said the guards opened fire at insurgents who shot at his house in Mosul.
US Apache helicopters joined the battle. Al-Jarba, a Sunni and recent candidate for parliament speaker, said 10 guards died and claimed his home was bombed. He asked: "The terrorists were firing at me. Why did the Americans?"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15538010&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=10-iraqis-killed--in-us-bungle--name_page.html
While Stinnett should be commended for his commitment to expose the truth and help clear the names of those military officers wrongly blamed, I was shocked by his comment on page 259: "As heinous as it seems to families and veterans of World War II, of which the author is one, the Pearl Harbor attack was, from the White House perspective, something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil – the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England."
There were 2,403 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor. According to Stinnett, who backs up FDR, those 2,403 Americans were acceptable casualties in order to take America into war. Stinnett goes on to say (same page), "Had the facts uncovered in this book been known immediately after the war ended, and had Roosevelt explained his war strategies and tactics to the families who lost their sons at Pearl Harbor, how different American history might be viewed today."
I feel confident in saying that the families of those 2,403 Americans slaughtered at Pearl Harbor with the full knowledge of a sitting president of the United States would not have been very understanding. I was further shocked by Stinnett's next comments (same page), "The truth that has been told here does not diminish FDR's magnificent contributions to the American people. His legacy should not be tarnished by the truth. As with all American presidents, Roosevelt must be viewed in the total context of his administration, not just Pearl Harbor." Quite frankly, I would be ashamed to say such a thing.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44354
She was told by friends that her bosses at KBR told everyone that she was alright, “But neither Mr. Jeff nor Mr. Mark every called me again, and nobody ever asked about me.”
“I am so annoyed now,” she says while leaning forward, “I was very good with them: always on time, never left early, and they were happy with me. But when I needed them the most, they were not there.”
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000245.php
Inside an airport police station, Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners' clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness statements. They probed inside the men's mouths and ears and examined their hair before dressing the pair in sweat suits and draping hoods over their heads. The suspects were then marched in chains to the plane, where they were strapped to mattresses on the floor in the back of the cabin.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7915747/
[This case sounds like a right mess.]
A pro-Palestinian British activist who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier died because of malpractice by his British doctors, a defense lawyer claimed Sunday in closing arguments in the trial of the soldier accused shooting the activist.
The soldier, who is not identified under army regulations, is accused of shooting Tom Hurndall in the head during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said Hurndall, 22, was helping Palestinian children avoid Israeli tanks
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/578963.html
[This is just to get more people into the aptly named “homosexual rape palaces”, formerly known as pirsons, and then into the lifetime servitude class of parolees.]
Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.
Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22048
[This is a case for Sherlock Holmes.]
A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital who once headed the San Francisco Medical Society was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of his Diamond Heights home Thursday, police said.
Dr. Robert J. Lull, 64, was discovered on the floor in the entryway of his hilltop home on Gold Mine Drive at Jade Place shortly after noon.
Hospital officials, concerned when he did not show up for the clinic he ran in nuclear medicine, alerted his personal assistant, Elsie Garce, who found the body, authorities said.
Lull was last seen at an appointment with his doctor at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. Neighbors reported nothing unusual at the residence either Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
"At this point, we can't say what the circumstances were, but we know he was the victim of a homicide,'' said San Francisco police Inspector Holly Pera. "We're piecing together evidence at the scene.''
Lull was well liked by his neighbors and respected by his colleagues, Pera said. "He had a real love for medicine,'' she said.
Police say they have no sign of forced entry into the four-bedroom, two-story home, but one unusual clue was plainly visible out front.
Cherry pits -- marked by yellow evidence tags -- were found scattered in front of the walkway leading from the street to the door as well as inside the home. "Our fondest hope is that we can find DNA from the pits,'' Pera said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/murdd.htm
Dr. Robert Lull's Call
For BSE Testing Of
All US Cattle
http://www.rense.com/general65/DR.HTM
China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.
China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050519-0617-china-internet.html
If you care about our country and your family's future, you must give full support for the U.S. Senate's Democratic Party leadership now! On this Tuesday, Senate Republican Leader Frist is prepared to act to tear down the Constitution of the U.S.A. in an effort to establish a right-wing White House dictatorship in the U.S.
http://www.rense.com/general65/FRIST.HTM
AN RAF special forces aircraft that crashed in Iraq killing 10 servicemen was shot down by a volley of rockets or missiles while flying “fast and low” at 150ft, defence sources have disclosed.
The first few missiles deflected the defensive systems on the Hercules from the special forces flight of 47 Squadron, allowing the others to get through, the sources said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1622478,00.html
But one of the biggest issues that has eluded the mainstream media and venues like TWN is what Bolton did with the intelligence he reviewed.
Anyone observing the brewing NSA intercepts controversy and the impact on Congress's role in investigating Executive Branch appointments and in the principle of "separation of powers" in general must be impressed by the administration's enormous efforts to keep these intercepts from falling into public hands -- so much so that the Director of National Intelligence believes that he has the right to defy the Congressional mandate of U.S. Senators conducting an investigation of an Executive Branch official.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000640.html
[I can see why people are in such a hurry to get to paradise, a simpler place where man and dinosaur can co-exist in peace.]
The razor-toothed Tyrannosaurus rex, jaws agape, loomed ominously over the gentle Thescelosaurus, looking for plants to eat. Admiring the museum diorama were old and young visitors, listening on headphones to a stentorian voice describing the primeval scene.
But the Museum of Earth History is a museum with a controversial difference. To one side, peering through the bushes, are Adam and Eve. The display is not an image of the Cretaceous. It is Paradise. 'They lived together without fear, for there was no death yet,' the voice intoned about Man and Dinosaur.
http://www.rense.com/general65/inark.htm
One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
His research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer.
"I would challenge anyone to find an area or nutrient or any factor that has such consistent anti-cancer benefits as vitamin D," Giovannucci told the cancer scientists. "The data are really quite remarkable."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html
Quebec researchers have created a new lens they say could revolutionize photography by allowing the smallest cameras to take crystal-clear zoom photos.
http://www.rense.com/general65/newlensmayrevolution.htm
Chinese authorities have slaughtered thousands of cattle at dairy farms outside Beijing in an effort to stop an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, a newspaper reported Monday.
Government officials would not confirm the report by the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, which said the slaughter took place in the Yanqing district northwest of the Chinese capital.
Residents of the area, contacted by phone, confirmed that thousands of animals had been slaughtered but said they did not know why. The residents would not give their names.
http://www.rense.com/general65/chinaracerstocontainfoot.htm
A report on the Web site of the newspaper Life Daily said 178 birds were found dead on May 4 in the lake at Bird Island, a major research center for migratory water fowl.
China's most recent known case of bird flu occurred last July in the eastern province of Anhui.
http://www.rense.com/general65/birri.htm
The town at the centre of an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus in Congo has been sealed off to stop the disease spreading, health officials say. 9 people have died in the north-western town of Etoumbi, near forests where there have been at least 3 Ebola outbreaks in recent years.
http://www.rense.com/general65/quar.htm
[Maybe it does something else someone finds of use.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon approve a medical device that would be the first new treatment option in the United States for severely depressed patients in a generation, despite the misgivings of many experts who say there is little evidence that it works.
The pacemaker-like device, called a vagus nerve stimulator, is surgically implanted in the upper chest. Its wires are threaded into the neck, where it stimulates a nerve leading to the brain.
...
But some patient advocates and experts are questioning how the device has come so close to approval with such limited evidence for its effectiveness.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/22/news/depress.php
Debuted at a recent trade show, Millennium's ìhydrogen on demand" process differs from most other fuel cell technologies geared toward portable devices. Typically, they rely on methanol (also known as methyl alcohol, or wood alcohol), which is considered more stable, but less powerful, than compressed hydrogen. Millennium sidesteps the issue of stability by storing its fuel in the form of the stable and non-explosive sodium borohydride solution, and converting it to hydrogen as needed.
http://www.rense.com/general65/fuelforthenewmillennium.htm
That's more than five times the world's energy needs, which was roughly 14 terawatts in 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The researchers readily admit that existing buildings, land rights and other obstacles would make it impossible to set up turbines in every single one of the identified regions. But they point out that even 20 percent of those sites could satisfy world energy consumption as it stands today.
More importantly, the study shows that wind can be a feasible alternative to fossil fuels, said study co-author Cristina Archer.
"There is really a lot of wind out there that can be utilized for electricity generation," said Archer. "The 72-terawatt finding quantifies how much wind power is available.... It's like when people say how much oil is available on a global scale. It doesn't mean all of it will be extracted."
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67600,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
[It is incredible to me
A. how stupid the people running this country are, and
B. how desperate they are to find some way to fight the Iraqi guerillas
I don’t evenk now what kind of half-assed ignoramus you would have to be to think people are stop resisting an unprovoked foreign invasion based on seeing a picture of some guy in his underwear. I tihnk they think Hussein is Superman. Why else would they think even just a simple photo of this guy would have so much effect? Well the other option is that they are some of the stupidest people ever to walk the face of the Earth.]
The photos in The Sun, one of which shows Saddam wearing only his underpants, are a "violation of human rights and in contravention of the Geneva Convention" on treatment of prisoners, Ziad Khassawneh was quoted as saying.
Khassawneh said his team would "pursue all the necessary legal steps to see to it that those who commit such base acts against any prisoner, and especially against president Saddam, are punished."
"Analysis of the photos shows that they were taken inside the place where (Saddam) is being detained," he said, adding that their publication in The Sun "adds to a series of violations of the Iraqi people's rights committed by the American administration".
Under the headline Tyrant's in his pants, The Sun ran a front-page photo of a bare-chested Saddam standing in white underwear and holding an item of clothing as he appeared to be getting dressed.
In the accompanying article, along with other intimate photographs of him, the mass-circulation daily quotes US military sources as saying they handed over the photos in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq.
"Saddam is not superman or God; he is now just an ageing and humble old man. It's important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth," the source was quoted as saying.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ulta.htm
[Not my fault.]
American officials have accused Britain of being "substantially responsible" for the failure to make more progress in eradicating heroin production in Afghanistan, said a classified document published yesterday.
The three-page cable sent by the US embassy in Kabul to the State Department said the British-led campaign against the drug trade was selecting the wrong targets. It also accused British officials of refusing to alter their plans when asked to do so.
http://www.rense.com/general65/rit.htm
A spate of new books exhorts women to overcome their inhibitions about having casual sex.
Typical is "Happy Hook-Up: A Single Girl's Guide to Casual Sex" which counsels women to proudly embrace the labels "whore" and "slut." It has been excerpted on ivillage.com.
http://love.ivillage.com/snd/singleloveit/0,,79n1sr00,00.html
Feminist authors Alexa Sherman and Nicole Tocantins pretend to be offering women "options" (as with careers.) Typically, their real agenda is coercive and subversive, to override nature.
"Cultural norms will catch up with us if we give them no choice," they write.
"We, as females, need to show the world that sex without commitment is absolutely our prerogative... Say, "I'm a slut I'm a whore! I love sex!" and mean it. Society needs to change and begin to encourage women to find pleasure for pleasure's sake."
Pleasurable sex in the context of a loving marriage isn't mentioned as an "option."
This perverse propaganda is yet another assault on marriage and family, the institutions that sustain us both as individuals and as a society.
...
Sexual liberation sanctions and encourages this callous and primitive behavior and invites the woman to collude in her own exploitation and degradation.
http://www.rense.com/general65/slutpride.htm
THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES:
ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by
Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army
THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES:
ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm
A goodwill tour of the Middle East by Laura Bush turned sour yesterday when she was barracked and besieged by Jews and Muslims as she visited the holy sites of Jerusalem.
Dozens of Jewish protesters chanted anti-US slogans as America's First Lady toured the Western Wall, Judaism's most sacred site. They were complaining at the treatment of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew serving a life sentence for spying for Israel.
http://www.rense.com/general65/sour.htm
I would even venture this inflammatory guess: If the Palestinians had been the ones with British backing and a strong, international organization, they might well have done the same.
We were two small peoples locked in vicious battle over the same tiny piece of land, each convinced that the other had no claim. That's nationalism, and it's not pretty.
Bottom line, though, the Israelis won. We are the conquerors. The victims on our side have jet fighters to avenge their deaths; on the other side, they have more victims and not a single jet. To return to Livnat's writing, the only cities that have actually been "devastated" during this intifada--"ravaged," in the words of a recent Newsweek report--are Palestinian.
Yet our narrative leaves little room for this.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0505220098may22,0,136599.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Morgan Stanley, facing an unprecedented barrage of criticism, has told newspapers that its advertising decisions could be affected by overly negative coverage on their pages.
The beleaguered investment bank has added a new clause to its advertising contract that asks publications notify its advertising agency of any planned "objectionable editorial coverage", so that ads can be removed or placed in a different part of the newspaper or magazine.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=639748
As for Mr. Dershowitz's essay, Mr. Finkelstein reprinted it on his own Web site with the headline "Dershowitz in panic mode." ALEX MINDLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/23/business/media/23dershowitz.html
http://www.newstarget.com/z007348.html
MoD sources confirmed last night that the secret plans have been firmed up in response to persistent concerns that the notorious rebel commander Gulbadeen Hikmatyar has teamed up with Taliban fighters in the south.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=559872005
[This seems like kind of an implicit admission that we are not supporting justice for Palestinians now, and that they also aren’t getting it.]
While top Israeli and Palestinian officials discussed security at a Middle East forum Saturday, an American senator advised Arab leaders to focus on injustices in their own countries and reminded them that U.S. policy is security for Israel first and justice for Palestinians "if possible."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7PQLG0.html
The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
The retired aircraft carrier USS America is on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sunk by the Navy in a series of explosive tests that upset some veterans.
Gainesville Police arrested a U.S. Army recruiter Thursday, alleging he raped a woman who had gone to the local recruiting office and was interested in joining the military.
George O. Kirkman, 40, a staff sergeant who enlisted in the Army in 1990, has been charged with sexual battery, police reported.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050521/LOCAL/50520053/1078/news
Torture’s not torture, it’s “abuse”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/90f74dd8-c957-11d9-b9f4-00000e2511c8.html
CT scans ineffective?
http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/01/25/hscout523586.html
[This is ridiculous, this guy Chavez is probably running a more democratic country than we are right now. But you see, he has oil, and he doesn’t necessarily want to share it with us in the subservient way we like to have it sent up this way.]
In a paper timed to coincide with a major hemispheric policy address by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Center for Security Policy warned today that the increasingly repressive - and aggressive - dictatorship in Venezuela must either change or be changed if the region is to avoid the terrible human costs of a new generation of revolutionary upheaval.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=05-P_09
[So are muslim and caucasian mutually exclusive?]
Both classify Dilawar's death as a homicide. But in one death certificate, he is a Caucasian of unspecified age and religion. In the other, he is a Muslim of "approximately 35 years," who was "found unresponsive in his cell while in custody."
Miles believes the twin death certificates -- one of them clearly altered -- are evidence of a cover-up. Pentagon officials say they've investigated Dilawar's death, along with at least two dozen other suspected criminal homicides, and have charged seven people.
A Defense Department spokesman said Friday that they are looking into the discrepancy of the two death certificates. "It's possible one was a report done out in the field, and the other was a final report based on the final autopsy," said Perry Bishop, a Health Affairs spokesman at the Pentagon.
Miles, however, contends that both death certificates bear signatures indicating a doctor's final approval. Neither is marked as preliminary, nor as pending an investigation
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1046
BUNGLING US forces were accused of killing guards protecting an Iraqi politician yesterday.
National Assembly member Fawaz al-Jarba said the guards opened fire at insurgents who shot at his house in Mosul.
US Apache helicopters joined the battle. Al-Jarba, a Sunni and recent candidate for parliament speaker, said 10 guards died and claimed his home was bombed. He asked: "The terrorists were firing at me. Why did the Americans?"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15538010&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=10-iraqis-killed--in-us-bungle--name_page.html
While Stinnett should be commended for his commitment to expose the truth and help clear the names of those military officers wrongly blamed, I was shocked by his comment on page 259: "As heinous as it seems to families and veterans of World War II, of which the author is one, the Pearl Harbor attack was, from the White House perspective, something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil – the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England."
There were 2,403 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor. According to Stinnett, who backs up FDR, those 2,403 Americans were acceptable casualties in order to take America into war. Stinnett goes on to say (same page), "Had the facts uncovered in this book been known immediately after the war ended, and had Roosevelt explained his war strategies and tactics to the families who lost their sons at Pearl Harbor, how different American history might be viewed today."
I feel confident in saying that the families of those 2,403 Americans slaughtered at Pearl Harbor with the full knowledge of a sitting president of the United States would not have been very understanding. I was further shocked by Stinnett's next comments (same page), "The truth that has been told here does not diminish FDR's magnificent contributions to the American people. His legacy should not be tarnished by the truth. As with all American presidents, Roosevelt must be viewed in the total context of his administration, not just Pearl Harbor." Quite frankly, I would be ashamed to say such a thing.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44354
She was told by friends that her bosses at KBR told everyone that she was alright, “But neither Mr. Jeff nor Mr. Mark every called me again, and nobody ever asked about me.”
“I am so annoyed now,” she says while leaning forward, “I was very good with them: always on time, never left early, and they were happy with me. But when I needed them the most, they were not there.”
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000245.php
Inside an airport police station, Swedish officers watched as the CIA operatives pulled out scissors and rapidly sliced off the prisoners' clothes, including their underwear, according to newly released Swedish government documents and eyewitness statements. They probed inside the men's mouths and ears and examined their hair before dressing the pair in sweat suits and draping hoods over their heads. The suspects were then marched in chains to the plane, where they were strapped to mattresses on the floor in the back of the cabin.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7915747/
[This case sounds like a right mess.]
A pro-Palestinian British activist who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier died because of malpractice by his British doctors, a defense lawyer claimed Sunday in closing arguments in the trial of the soldier accused shooting the activist.
The soldier, who is not identified under army regulations, is accused of shooting Tom Hurndall in the head during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said Hurndall, 22, was helping Palestinian children avoid Israeli tanks
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/578963.html
[This is just to get more people into the aptly named “homosexual rape palaces”, formerly known as pirsons, and then into the lifetime servitude class of parolees.]
Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force.
Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22048
[This is a case for Sherlock Holmes.]
A prominent physician at San Francisco General Hospital who once headed the San Francisco Medical Society was found stabbed to death inside the doorway of his Diamond Heights home Thursday, police said.
Dr. Robert J. Lull, 64, was discovered on the floor in the entryway of his hilltop home on Gold Mine Drive at Jade Place shortly after noon.
Hospital officials, concerned when he did not show up for the clinic he ran in nuclear medicine, alerted his personal assistant, Elsie Garce, who found the body, authorities said.
Lull was last seen at an appointment with his doctor at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. Neighbors reported nothing unusual at the residence either Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
"At this point, we can't say what the circumstances were, but we know he was the victim of a homicide,'' said San Francisco police Inspector Holly Pera. "We're piecing together evidence at the scene.''
Lull was well liked by his neighbors and respected by his colleagues, Pera said. "He had a real love for medicine,'' she said.
Police say they have no sign of forced entry into the four-bedroom, two-story home, but one unusual clue was plainly visible out front.
Cherry pits -- marked by yellow evidence tags -- were found scattered in front of the walkway leading from the street to the door as well as inside the home. "Our fondest hope is that we can find DNA from the pits,'' Pera said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/murdd.htm
Dr. Robert Lull's Call
For BSE Testing Of
All US Cattle
http://www.rense.com/general65/DR.HTM
China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.
China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050519-0617-china-internet.html
If you care about our country and your family's future, you must give full support for the U.S. Senate's Democratic Party leadership now! On this Tuesday, Senate Republican Leader Frist is prepared to act to tear down the Constitution of the U.S.A. in an effort to establish a right-wing White House dictatorship in the U.S.
http://www.rense.com/general65/FRIST.HTM
AN RAF special forces aircraft that crashed in Iraq killing 10 servicemen was shot down by a volley of rockets or missiles while flying “fast and low” at 150ft, defence sources have disclosed.
The first few missiles deflected the defensive systems on the Hercules from the special forces flight of 47 Squadron, allowing the others to get through, the sources said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1622478,00.html
But one of the biggest issues that has eluded the mainstream media and venues like TWN is what Bolton did with the intelligence he reviewed.
Anyone observing the brewing NSA intercepts controversy and the impact on Congress's role in investigating Executive Branch appointments and in the principle of "separation of powers" in general must be impressed by the administration's enormous efforts to keep these intercepts from falling into public hands -- so much so that the Director of National Intelligence believes that he has the right to defy the Congressional mandate of U.S. Senators conducting an investigation of an Executive Branch official.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000640.html
[I can see why people are in such a hurry to get to paradise, a simpler place where man and dinosaur can co-exist in peace.]
The razor-toothed Tyrannosaurus rex, jaws agape, loomed ominously over the gentle Thescelosaurus, looking for plants to eat. Admiring the museum diorama were old and young visitors, listening on headphones to a stentorian voice describing the primeval scene.
But the Museum of Earth History is a museum with a controversial difference. To one side, peering through the bushes, are Adam and Eve. The display is not an image of the Cretaceous. It is Paradise. 'They lived together without fear, for there was no death yet,' the voice intoned about Man and Dinosaur.
http://www.rense.com/general65/inark.htm
One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
His research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer.
"I would challenge anyone to find an area or nutrient or any factor that has such consistent anti-cancer benefits as vitamin D," Giovannucci told the cancer scientists. "The data are really quite remarkable."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html
Quebec researchers have created a new lens they say could revolutionize photography by allowing the smallest cameras to take crystal-clear zoom photos.
http://www.rense.com/general65/newlensmayrevolution.htm
Chinese authorities have slaughtered thousands of cattle at dairy farms outside Beijing in an effort to stop an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, a newspaper reported Monday.
Government officials would not confirm the report by the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong, which said the slaughter took place in the Yanqing district northwest of the Chinese capital.
Residents of the area, contacted by phone, confirmed that thousands of animals had been slaughtered but said they did not know why. The residents would not give their names.
http://www.rense.com/general65/chinaracerstocontainfoot.htm
A report on the Web site of the newspaper Life Daily said 178 birds were found dead on May 4 in the lake at Bird Island, a major research center for migratory water fowl.
China's most recent known case of bird flu occurred last July in the eastern province of Anhui.
http://www.rense.com/general65/birri.htm
The town at the centre of an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus in Congo has been sealed off to stop the disease spreading, health officials say. 9 people have died in the north-western town of Etoumbi, near forests where there have been at least 3 Ebola outbreaks in recent years.
http://www.rense.com/general65/quar.htm
[Maybe it does something else someone finds of use.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon approve a medical device that would be the first new treatment option in the United States for severely depressed patients in a generation, despite the misgivings of many experts who say there is little evidence that it works.
The pacemaker-like device, called a vagus nerve stimulator, is surgically implanted in the upper chest. Its wires are threaded into the neck, where it stimulates a nerve leading to the brain.
...
But some patient advocates and experts are questioning how the device has come so close to approval with such limited evidence for its effectiveness.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/22/news/depress.php
Debuted at a recent trade show, Millennium's ìhydrogen on demand" process differs from most other fuel cell technologies geared toward portable devices. Typically, they rely on methanol (also known as methyl alcohol, or wood alcohol), which is considered more stable, but less powerful, than compressed hydrogen. Millennium sidesteps the issue of stability by storing its fuel in the form of the stable and non-explosive sodium borohydride solution, and converting it to hydrogen as needed.
http://www.rense.com/general65/fuelforthenewmillennium.htm
That's more than five times the world's energy needs, which was roughly 14 terawatts in 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The researchers readily admit that existing buildings, land rights and other obstacles would make it impossible to set up turbines in every single one of the identified regions. But they point out that even 20 percent of those sites could satisfy world energy consumption as it stands today.
More importantly, the study shows that wind can be a feasible alternative to fossil fuels, said study co-author Cristina Archer.
"There is really a lot of wind out there that can be utilized for electricity generation," said Archer. "The 72-terawatt finding quantifies how much wind power is available.... It's like when people say how much oil is available on a global scale. It doesn't mean all of it will be extracted."
http://wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,67600,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
[It is incredible to me
A. how stupid the people running this country are, and
B. how desperate they are to find some way to fight the Iraqi guerillas
I don’t evenk now what kind of half-assed ignoramus you would have to be to think people are stop resisting an unprovoked foreign invasion based on seeing a picture of some guy in his underwear. I tihnk they think Hussein is Superman. Why else would they think even just a simple photo of this guy would have so much effect? Well the other option is that they are some of the stupidest people ever to walk the face of the Earth.]
The photos in The Sun, one of which shows Saddam wearing only his underpants, are a "violation of human rights and in contravention of the Geneva Convention" on treatment of prisoners, Ziad Khassawneh was quoted as saying.
Khassawneh said his team would "pursue all the necessary legal steps to see to it that those who commit such base acts against any prisoner, and especially against president Saddam, are punished."
"Analysis of the photos shows that they were taken inside the place where (Saddam) is being detained," he said, adding that their publication in The Sun "adds to a series of violations of the Iraqi people's rights committed by the American administration".
Under the headline Tyrant's in his pants, The Sun ran a front-page photo of a bare-chested Saddam standing in white underwear and holding an item of clothing as he appeared to be getting dressed.
In the accompanying article, along with other intimate photographs of him, the mass-circulation daily quotes US military sources as saying they handed over the photos in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq.
"Saddam is not superman or God; he is now just an ageing and humble old man. It's important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth," the source was quoted as saying.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ulta.htm
[Not my fault.]
American officials have accused Britain of being "substantially responsible" for the failure to make more progress in eradicating heroin production in Afghanistan, said a classified document published yesterday.
The three-page cable sent by the US embassy in Kabul to the State Department said the British-led campaign against the drug trade was selecting the wrong targets. It also accused British officials of refusing to alter their plans when asked to do so.
http://www.rense.com/general65/rit.htm
A spate of new books exhorts women to overcome their inhibitions about having casual sex.
Typical is "Happy Hook-Up: A Single Girl's Guide to Casual Sex" which counsels women to proudly embrace the labels "whore" and "slut." It has been excerpted on ivillage.com.
http://love.ivillage.com/snd/singleloveit/0,,79n1sr00,00.html
Feminist authors Alexa Sherman and Nicole Tocantins pretend to be offering women "options" (as with careers.) Typically, their real agenda is coercive and subversive, to override nature.
"Cultural norms will catch up with us if we give them no choice," they write.
"We, as females, need to show the world that sex without commitment is absolutely our prerogative... Say, "I'm a slut I'm a whore! I love sex!" and mean it. Society needs to change and begin to encourage women to find pleasure for pleasure's sake."
Pleasurable sex in the context of a loving marriage isn't mentioned as an "option."
This perverse propaganda is yet another assault on marriage and family, the institutions that sustain us both as individuals and as a society.
...
Sexual liberation sanctions and encourages this callous and primitive behavior and invites the woman to collude in her own exploitation and degradation.
http://www.rense.com/general65/slutpride.htm
THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES:
ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
by
Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army
THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES:
ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm
A goodwill tour of the Middle East by Laura Bush turned sour yesterday when she was barracked and besieged by Jews and Muslims as she visited the holy sites of Jerusalem.
Dozens of Jewish protesters chanted anti-US slogans as America's First Lady toured the Western Wall, Judaism's most sacred site. They were complaining at the treatment of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew serving a life sentence for spying for Israel.
http://www.rense.com/general65/sour.htm
I would even venture this inflammatory guess: If the Palestinians had been the ones with British backing and a strong, international organization, they might well have done the same.
We were two small peoples locked in vicious battle over the same tiny piece of land, each convinced that the other had no claim. That's nationalism, and it's not pretty.
Bottom line, though, the Israelis won. We are the conquerors. The victims on our side have jet fighters to avenge their deaths; on the other side, they have more victims and not a single jet. To return to Livnat's writing, the only cities that have actually been "devastated" during this intifada--"ravaged," in the words of a recent Newsweek report--are Palestinian.
Yet our narrative leaves little room for this.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0505220098may22,0,136599.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Morgan Stanley, facing an unprecedented barrage of criticism, has told newspapers that its advertising decisions could be affected by overly negative coverage on their pages.
The beleaguered investment bank has added a new clause to its advertising contract that asks publications notify its advertising agency of any planned "objectionable editorial coverage", so that ads can be removed or placed in a different part of the newspaper or magazine.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=639748
As for Mr. Dershowitz's essay, Mr. Finkelstein reprinted it on his own Web site with the headline "Dershowitz in panic mode." ALEX MINDLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/23/business/media/23dershowitz.html
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