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
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
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