A live dog has outraged some parents
Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/index.html
[44 is 4 X 11 .
I keep reading these things claiming there is some occult symbolism to the number 11, although I don’t recall what it is supposed to be. But some people write that the “they” deliberately fix things so they will have an 11 or multiple of 11 in them.
I just noticed in this report it mentions this scare in DC was 44 months after 9/11. Coincidence?
There’s that coincidence again.]
Members then ran from the floor, down the stairs and out the side entrances, joining thousands of tourists, running down the streets away from the Capitol. It was a scene reminiscent of 911 which occurred exactly forty-four months ago, except for a fighter jet which soared above. I Iearned from police and other members that a Code Red had been declared. The first one. It meant there was an imminent danger, from the air? Rumors of a plane invading Capitol airspace. But then...
http://www.kucinich.us/archive/report/display.php?r=30&d=2005-05-11+12%3A51%3A00
To even attempt to understand the religious right, which many are now naming "Dominionism", one must grasp the mental duress it holds on its followers. I should know; I was one of them. Axiomatic in the worldview of the fundamentalist, born-again Christian is: "I have the truth, I'm right; you don't have the truth, you're wrong." As a result, critical thinking, research, or intellectual freedom of exploration are not only unnecessary, they are dangerous and potentially heretical. Paul Krugman noted in a recent article that while the religious right bashes academia for its "liberal bias", studies of the political persuasions of college and university professors indicate that persons who prefer academia as a lifelong career tend to be more liberal, just as those who prefer the military as a lifelong career tend to be more conservative.
...
For this reason, Pat Robertson stated on his 700 Club Program, January 14, 1991: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don' have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
Let us not overlook the obvious: Dominionism is about dominion-over women, children, the poor, people of color, alternative sexual orientations, and the earth. It fits so nicely with fascist tyranny.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00149.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/110505grovephotos.htm
The Senate has passed the Real ID bill, creating a backdoor national
ID card. After weeks of activism directed towards them senators knew
the full scale of this horror but voted for it 100-0 anyway.
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2005/110505senatepasses.htm
Monday, an acoustic expert addressed the county council, on the topic
of low-frequency noise exposure.
She claims exposure can lead to health problems known as,
Vibroacoustic Disease.
http://www.wndu.com/news/052005/news_42086.php
220K in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.rense.com/general65/armedforces.htm
Danny Yatom, a major general in the reserves and a former head of the
Mossad warns that Israel is facing the danger of a coup by Jewish
extremists opposing Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal plan, if it does
not stop far-right rabbis from preaching mutiny.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7797
The scandal of Iraqi POW abuse at Abu Ghraib has the world in an
uproar. However, there is a precedent that went unnoticed and
underreported of brutal treatment of Iraqi POWs — the 1991 abuse of
Iraqi POWs during and after Operation Desert Storm.
In June 1991, while the editor of the East County Weekly newspaper in
Alpine, California, I received a call from a veteran of Desert Storm.
He heard that I was compiling information about the Gulf War and said
he had a story to tell me. I made an appointment for later that
morning and he showed up and talked.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11653&s2=10
A pilot and a student pilot were released without criminal charges
Wednesday after their plane flew within three miles of the White
House, prompting evacuations throughout the capital, officials said.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/evacuation/index.html
A federal appeals court in Washington dismissed a lawsuit yesterday
that sought to force Vice President Cheney to turn over records of
private meetings his office held in 2001 to shape the
administration's energy policy.
The unanimous ruling was a major legal and political victory for
the White House, further solidifying the president's power to
deliberate and seek advice behind closed doors without disclosing
details. The court's eight judges supported the Bush administration's
contention that forcing the executive branch to produce information
about its internal policy deliberations is unnecessarily intrusive
and violates the president's constitutional powers.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051105Z.shtml
Shouting ``Death to America!'' more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted
and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy Wednesday, as protests
spread to four Afghan provinces over a report that interrogators
desecrated Islam's holy book at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
..
The source of anger was a brief report in the May 9 edition of
Newsweek that interrogators at Guantanamo placed Qurans on toilets to
rattle suspects, and in at least one case ``flushed a holy book down
the toilet.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0%2C1280%2C-4999059%2C00.html
The outbreak of the deadly Marburg haemorrhagic fever sweeping across
northern Angola is now devastating all age groups - and no longer
predominantly young children - say epidemiologists on the ground.
The rare but deadly virus has been rampaging through the Angolan
province of Uige since March 2005, leading to the worst outbreak yet
known. In the early weeks of the outbreak, the virus mysteriously
appeared to be striking down mainly children under five. Before this
happened, cases in children were considered extremely rare.
http://www.rense.com/general65/agri.htm
The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for
terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge
argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat
level, Ridge now says.
Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed
with administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level
to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051105X.shtml
Most appalling, says Stewart, is the fact that it would’ve been so
easy for the studios to pay her for her work. “It’s a greater crime
for the rich to steal because they have the money to pay for it. Why
should the poor and the weak suffer? We’re not going to take anymore
crap.”
http://www.popandpolitics.com/articles_detail.cfm?articleID=1494
The highly dangerous mixture, containing about 20 tonnes of uranium
and plutonium fuel, has leaked through a fractured pipe into a huge
stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive that it is impossible
to enter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C3604%2C1479483%2C00.html
Ms Lavoie believed the 190 employees needed a voice because "there
was injustice at the company and it did not respect its workforce".
Now, after a battle which has inspired and appalled the rest of
Canada, she and her colleagues are out of work, the store closed last
week, union organisers said they were threatened with violence, and
Wal-Mart has moved out of town for good.
http://www.rense.com/general65/union.htm
Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of
involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the
CIA.
Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan and anti-Castro
dissident, was an agent and informer.
The papers also reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that
Mr Posada was one of those behind the 1976 bombing that killed 73
people.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cci.htm
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, America became a true police state. Your
U.S. senators voted -- unanimously, with no discussion, and without
even reading the bill -- to create a national ID card.
http://www.rense.com/general65/realid.htm
George Bush’s political skills are so slick that he could probably
sell suntan lotion to Eskimos. Both Bush and Congressional
Republicans are busy peddling another idea America doesn’t need --
the end of the filibuster.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1078
Simply put, you are misguided, arrogant, and very disrespectful of African Americans and most importantly your statements will unintentionally or intentionally lead to a negative impression of Jews in the minds of millions of African Americans. Similar to how you single-handedly caused millions of persons to flock to see the "Passion of Christ" in defiance of your call for non-attendance, you are going to precipitate a tremendous negative defiance of your demands that will again severely hurt and harm relations between Jews and African Americans.
You should refrain from pressuring African American leaders to denounce Minister Farrakhan and the Millions More Movement. This commemoration is as a real opportunity for establishing healing, reconciliation and fostering a more effective environment for constructive dialogue between Blacks and Jews. We want a society and world were there is no hatred, anti-Semitism, violence, or poverty. For the record, we do not and would not support or endorse any person's viewpoint that is anti-Semitic, racist or hateful. You should, therefore, be working with us toward building more compassion and love among and between all people.
For over 50 years, Minister Farrakhan has labored to resurrect the downtrodden masses of African Americans up out of poverty and self-destruction. A few days ago I personally witnessed him affirm, "A Muslim can not hate a Jew. We are all members of the family of Abraham and all of us should maintain dialogue and mutual respect." Our work, commitment, and lives are all dedicated to uplifting all people through love, goodwill, equality, peace and justice for all.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1985.shtml
FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took payoffs to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBGYIV7N8E.html
As part of an eight-month probe by Global Survival Network, twoinvestigators - one posing as a U.S. buyer and the other as auniversity researcher - interviewed 60 guest workers and usedhidden cameras to videotape conditions in Saipan's factories,night clubs and workers' dormitories. The report describes theseas ''barracks'' patrolled by security guards and ringed withbarbed-wire fences.
...
However, efforts to pass a United States-Commonwealth of theNorthern Marianas Human Dignity Act have stalled in the U.S.House of Representatives. Activists single out Tom DeLay, theRepublican majority whip, for thwarting efforts to advance thelegislation.
DeLay says the bill would ''kill economic freedom'' but hiscritics alleged that DeLay had financial dealings in factories onSaipan.
http://www.atimes.com/oceania/AE28Ah01.html
To grasp the moral bankruptcy of the public Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, you only have to know about Frank Murkowski and Saipan.
Today, Frank Murkowki is the governor of Alaska, but from 1980 to 2002, he was a conservative Republican senator from Alaska.
How conservative? His voting record earned him zero ratings from organized labor's AFL-CIO and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and perfect 100s from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Conservative Union.
But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital.
...
Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted "a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island."
Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/index.html
In 1987, the sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive". He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy", whose principal aim was to identify a rapacious business state "with every cherished human value". The power and meaning of true democracy, of the franchise itself, would be "transferred" to the propaganda of advertising, public relations and corporate-run news. This "model of ideological control", he predicted, would be adopted by other countries, such as Britain.
http://www.newstatesman.com/nscoverstory.htm
[You see, if you cross Israel in a totally unrelated series of coincidences the door of your plane will malfunction in mid-flight and someone will kill defenseless animals to get back at you.]
The prime minister yesterday branded an extortionist's claim to have infected a New Zealand island with a livestock disease as "bioterrorism," while police revealed that the extortionist threatened to release the virus on the mainland later this week.
Officials have not confirmed that any livestock have been infected with the deadly foot-and-mouth disease as alleged and stress that they believe the claims made in a letter Tuesday to Prime Minister Helen Clark are a hoax.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/12/2003254335
Burning landmines left over from conflicts could be quicker, easier and safer than blowing them up, the developers of a new device said on Tuesday.
Landmines kill or maim some 75,000 people a year in former conflict areas from Angola to Cambodia, with high costs limiting how many can be cleared.
Retired British airline pilot Paul Richard demonstrated his "Mineburner" system at a test range near the South African capital Pretoria. He hopes to test it in the field within six weeks.
The device -- with a gas nozzle -- was placed first next to an antipersonnel mine and then an antitank mine and ignited by radio control.
The gas flame burnt through the casing of the mines before consuming the plastic explosive, eventually igniting the detonators and producing small explosions.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10442056.htm
One year ago the American media was pushing the Pat Tillman story with the heavy rotation normally reserved for living celebs like Michael Jackson. Tillman, the former NFL player who turned down a multi-million dollar football contract to fight in
Iraq and Afghanistan, became a centerpiece of the right's Hamas-style death cult when he lost his life in the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan. To supporters of the wars and to many football fans, Tillman embodied ideals of self-sacrifice and post-9/11 butt-kicking in a hard-bodied shell of chisel-chinned masculinity on steroids.
Tillman's quintessential nobility, we were told, was borne out by the story of his death--a tale that earned him a posthumous Silver Star. Whether you were for or against Bush's wars, Americans were told, Tillman's valor showed why you should support the troops. Young men were encouraged to emulate his praiseworthy example.
Several thousand mourners gathered at Tillman's May 3, 2004 memorial service to hear marquee names including Arizona Senator John McCain called upon all Americans to "be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf." "Tillman died trying to save fellow members of the 75th Ranger Regiment caught in a crush of enemy fire," the Arizona Republic quoted a fellow soldier addressing the crowd. Tillman, said his friend and comrade-at-arms, had told his fellow soldiers "to seize the tactical high ground from the enemy" to draw enemy fire away from another U.S. platoon trapped in an ambush. "He directly saved their lives with those moves. Pat sacrificed his life so that others could live." It was, as the Washington Post wrote, a "storybook personal narrative"--one recounted on hundreds of front pages and network newscasts.
It was also a lie.
As sharp-eyed readers learned a few months ago from single-paragraph articles buried deep inside their newspapers, Pat Tillman died pointlessly, a hapless victim of "friendly fire" who never got the chance to choose between bravery and cowardice. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Washington Post now reports that
Pentagon and White House officials knew the truth "within days" after his April 22, 2004 shooting by fellow Army Rangers but "decided not to inform Tillman's family or the public until weeks after" the nationally televised martyr-a-thon.
It gets worse. So desperate were the military brass to carry off their propaganda coup that they lied to Tillman's brother, a fellow soldier who arrived on the scene shortly after the incident, about how he died. Writing in an army report, Brigadier General Gary Jones admits that the official cover-up even included "the destruction of evidence": the army burned Tillman's Ranger uniform and body armor to hide the fact that he had died in a hail of American bullets, fired by troops who had "lost situational awareness to the point they had no idea where they were."
"We didn't want the world finding out what actually happened," one soldier told Jones. A perfect summary of the war on terrorism.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050510/cm_ucru/blackandwhiteandfullofcrap/nc:742
FOLLOW-UP: Readers who contacted their elected representatives in response to my column two weeks ago about the two 16-year-old Muslim girls detained by Homeland Security because one wrote an essay about suicide bombings (she was against them) have gotten results. Such pressure has prompted the feds to release the girl from Guinea, who has returned to her high school in New York City. But Bush Administration officials have decided to orphan her by deporting her father. The other girl, from Bangladesh, is also being released from prison but HomeSec plans to deport her along with her entire family. While the two girls' release obviously belies the government's claims that they are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States," your letters and phone calls to your Congressperson and/or Senator could help reverse these continuing acts of injustice
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050510/cm_ucru/blackandwhiteandfullofcrap/nc:742
The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000. Numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran as early as 2005. While the publicly stated reasons will be over Iran's nuclear ambitions, there are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare - Iran's upcoming euro-based oil Bourse.
http://www.energybulletin.net/2913.html
[Actually it is political rhetoric to say they ARE on the verge of a civil war. As I have been saying virtually since before this war began, the DC’ers have been “predicting” a civil war, not because they actually see that happening, but because that is what they want to happen.
Not having been able to outright crush the Iraqis, they decided to go on to plan b of divide and rule. And yet even this has not worked up to now.
What is the civil war? An extremely small number of Iraqi Quislings allied with an extremely large number of American soldiers against an opposing force composed almost entirely of actual Iraqi people with a sprinkling of foreigners? The American Revolution was substantially morel ike a civil war than this conflict is.]
With security experts reporting that no major road in the country was safe to travel, some Iraq specialists speculated that the Sunni insurgency was effectively encircling the capital and trying to cut it off from the north, south and west, where there are entrenched Sunni communities. East of Baghdad is a mostly unpopulated desert bordering on Iran.
"It's just political rhetoric to say we are not in a civil war. We've been in a civil war for a long time," said Pat Lang, the former top Middle East intelligence official at the Pentagon.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiraq0512,0,4630319.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
THE DESTRUCTION OF THOMAS BUTLER
Dr. Thomas C. Butler, the distinguished physician and specialist in
infectious disease who was sentenced to prison last year for
improperly transporting medical samples, is the subject of an
extraordinary profile in the latest issue of the medical journal
Clinical Infectious Disease.
"Thomas Campbell Butler, at 63 years of age, is completing the first
year of a 2-year sentence in federal prison, following an
investigation and trial that was initiated after he voluntarily
reported that he believed vials containing Yersinia pestis were
missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University," the article
begins.
"We take this opportunity to remind the infectious diseases
community of the plight of our esteemed colleague, whose career and
family have, as a result of his efforts to protect us from
infection by this organism, paid a price from which they will never
recover."
Dr. Butler is credited with having saved literally millions of lives
in developing countries through his pioneering work on oral
hydration as a treatment for diarrheal diseases.
See "Destroying the Life and Career of a Valued Physician-Scientist
Who Tried to Protect Us from Plague: Was It Really Necessary?" by
Barbara E. Murray and 13 colleagues, Clinical Infectious Disease,
vol. 40, no. 11, 1 June 2005:
http://tinyurl.com/7khsx
Further background on the Butler case is available from the
Federation of American Scientists here:
http://www.fas.org/butler/index.html
In late April, Army Staff Sgt. Thomas Kelt left a voice mail message on the cell phone of Christopher Monarch, 20, of Spring, telling him to show up at the Greenspoint recruiting office by 2 p.m. or a warrant would be issued for his arrest, according to Monarch and an Army official.
Monarch said he didn't receive the message until after the designated time. "I was scared," he said.
He said he had not made an appointment to meet the recruiter and was not interested in joining the military.
Monarch said he called Kelt the next day to clear up the matter. Kelt told him threatening to issue an arrest warrant was a "marketing technique," according to Monarch, a version of the story the Army confirmed.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3176619
[Is this true? Anyone see this? I don’t have cable. This site is kind of a free-for-all, so it has a weird mixture of postings.]
"There was absolutely no reason to show that," Phil Jayhan told American Free Press about the destruction of the Holy Bible on the Penn & Teller "Bull#####" show. "It is incongruent. They are doing it to show their hatred for the truth."
But, how will America's 300 million Christians tolerate Jewish gangsters defacing the Holy Bible on cable TV? Will they riot and scream and shout or will they accept this abuse like "sheeple," led by the nose by Hollywood gangsters?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=71250
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050513-122032-5055r.htm
An amateur videotape captured 10 deputies unleashing a fusillade against the unmoving SUV. The vehicle then rolled slowly forward and struck the back of a patrol car.
(AP) In this still video image released by Joshua Harville, deputies surround a SUV after firing a...
Full ImageTrina Hays, 42, said she threw herself onto her lawn when the shooting erupted 20 feet away.
"This is crazy, really, really crazy," she told the Times. "They didn't have any concern for anybody's life, including their own. That's why their own police officer got hit."
Bullets smashed through windows and hit the walls of at least five homes, the newspaper said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050510/D8A0C6R00.html
A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Biology teacher Doug Bierregaard said.
Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.
http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/index.html
[44 is 4 X 11 .
I keep reading these things claiming there is some occult symbolism to the number 11, although I don’t recall what it is supposed to be. But some people write that the “they” deliberately fix things so they will have an 11 or multiple of 11 in them.
I just noticed in this report it mentions this scare in DC was 44 months after 9/11. Coincidence?
There’s that coincidence again.]
Members then ran from the floor, down the stairs and out the side entrances, joining thousands of tourists, running down the streets away from the Capitol. It was a scene reminiscent of 911 which occurred exactly forty-four months ago, except for a fighter jet which soared above. I Iearned from police and other members that a Code Red had been declared. The first one. It meant there was an imminent danger, from the air? Rumors of a plane invading Capitol airspace. But then...
http://www.kucinich.us/archive/report/display.php?r=30&d=2005-05-11+12%3A51%3A00
To even attempt to understand the religious right, which many are now naming "Dominionism", one must grasp the mental duress it holds on its followers. I should know; I was one of them. Axiomatic in the worldview of the fundamentalist, born-again Christian is: "I have the truth, I'm right; you don't have the truth, you're wrong." As a result, critical thinking, research, or intellectual freedom of exploration are not only unnecessary, they are dangerous and potentially heretical. Paul Krugman noted in a recent article that while the religious right bashes academia for its "liberal bias", studies of the political persuasions of college and university professors indicate that persons who prefer academia as a lifelong career tend to be more liberal, just as those who prefer the military as a lifelong career tend to be more conservative.
...
For this reason, Pat Robertson stated on his 700 Club Program, January 14, 1991: "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don' have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
Let us not overlook the obvious: Dominionism is about dominion-over women, children, the poor, people of color, alternative sexual orientations, and the earth. It fits so nicely with fascist tyranny.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00149.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/110505grovephotos.htm
The Senate has passed the Real ID bill, creating a backdoor national
ID card. After weeks of activism directed towards them senators knew
the full scale of this horror but voted for it 100-0 anyway.
http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2005/110505senatepasses.htm
Monday, an acoustic expert addressed the county council, on the topic
of low-frequency noise exposure.
She claims exposure can lead to health problems known as,
Vibroacoustic Disease.
http://www.wndu.com/news/052005/news_42086.php
220K in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.rense.com/general65/armedforces.htm
Danny Yatom, a major general in the reserves and a former head of the
Mossad warns that Israel is facing the danger of a coup by Jewish
extremists opposing Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal plan, if it does
not stop far-right rabbis from preaching mutiny.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7797
The scandal of Iraqi POW abuse at Abu Ghraib has the world in an
uproar. However, there is a precedent that went unnoticed and
underreported of brutal treatment of Iraqi POWs — the 1991 abuse of
Iraqi POWs during and after Operation Desert Storm.
In June 1991, while the editor of the East County Weekly newspaper in
Alpine, California, I received a call from a veteran of Desert Storm.
He heard that I was compiling information about the Gulf War and said
he had a story to tell me. I made an appointment for later that
morning and he showed up and talked.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11653&s2=10
A pilot and a student pilot were released without criminal charges
Wednesday after their plane flew within three miles of the White
House, prompting evacuations throughout the capital, officials said.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/evacuation/index.html
A federal appeals court in Washington dismissed a lawsuit yesterday
that sought to force Vice President Cheney to turn over records of
private meetings his office held in 2001 to shape the
administration's energy policy.
The unanimous ruling was a major legal and political victory for
the White House, further solidifying the president's power to
deliberate and seek advice behind closed doors without disclosing
details. The court's eight judges supported the Bush administration's
contention that forcing the executive branch to produce information
about its internal policy deliberations is unnecessarily intrusive
and violates the president's constitutional powers.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051105Z.shtml
Shouting ``Death to America!'' more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted
and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy Wednesday, as protests
spread to four Afghan provinces over a report that interrogators
desecrated Islam's holy book at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
..
The source of anger was a brief report in the May 9 edition of
Newsweek that interrogators at Guantanamo placed Qurans on toilets to
rattle suspects, and in at least one case ``flushed a holy book down
the toilet.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0%2C1280%2C-4999059%2C00.html
The outbreak of the deadly Marburg haemorrhagic fever sweeping across
northern Angola is now devastating all age groups - and no longer
predominantly young children - say epidemiologists on the ground.
The rare but deadly virus has been rampaging through the Angolan
province of Uige since March 2005, leading to the worst outbreak yet
known. In the early weeks of the outbreak, the virus mysteriously
appeared to be striking down mainly children under five. Before this
happened, cases in children were considered extremely rare.
http://www.rense.com/general65/agri.htm
The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for
terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge
argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat
level, Ridge now says.
Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed
with administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level
to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051105X.shtml
Most appalling, says Stewart, is the fact that it would’ve been so
easy for the studios to pay her for her work. “It’s a greater crime
for the rich to steal because they have the money to pay for it. Why
should the poor and the weak suffer? We’re not going to take anymore
crap.”
http://www.popandpolitics.com/articles_detail.cfm?articleID=1494
The highly dangerous mixture, containing about 20 tonnes of uranium
and plutonium fuel, has leaked through a fractured pipe into a huge
stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive that it is impossible
to enter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C3604%2C1479483%2C00.html
Ms Lavoie believed the 190 employees needed a voice because "there
was injustice at the company and it did not respect its workforce".
Now, after a battle which has inspired and appalled the rest of
Canada, she and her colleagues are out of work, the store closed last
week, union organisers said they were threatened with violence, and
Wal-Mart has moved out of town for good.
http://www.rense.com/general65/union.htm
Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of
involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the
CIA.
Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan and anti-Castro
dissident, was an agent and informer.
The papers also reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that
Mr Posada was one of those behind the 1976 bombing that killed 73
people.
http://www.rense.com/general65/cci.htm
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, America became a true police state. Your
U.S. senators voted -- unanimously, with no discussion, and without
even reading the bill -- to create a national ID card.
http://www.rense.com/general65/realid.htm
George Bush’s political skills are so slick that he could probably
sell suntan lotion to Eskimos. Both Bush and Congressional
Republicans are busy peddling another idea America doesn’t need --
the end of the filibuster.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1078
Simply put, you are misguided, arrogant, and very disrespectful of African Americans and most importantly your statements will unintentionally or intentionally lead to a negative impression of Jews in the minds of millions of African Americans. Similar to how you single-handedly caused millions of persons to flock to see the "Passion of Christ" in defiance of your call for non-attendance, you are going to precipitate a tremendous negative defiance of your demands that will again severely hurt and harm relations between Jews and African Americans.
You should refrain from pressuring African American leaders to denounce Minister Farrakhan and the Millions More Movement. This commemoration is as a real opportunity for establishing healing, reconciliation and fostering a more effective environment for constructive dialogue between Blacks and Jews. We want a society and world were there is no hatred, anti-Semitism, violence, or poverty. For the record, we do not and would not support or endorse any person's viewpoint that is anti-Semitic, racist or hateful. You should, therefore, be working with us toward building more compassion and love among and between all people.
For over 50 years, Minister Farrakhan has labored to resurrect the downtrodden masses of African Americans up out of poverty and self-destruction. A few days ago I personally witnessed him affirm, "A Muslim can not hate a Jew. We are all members of the family of Abraham and all of us should maintain dialogue and mutual respect." Our work, commitment, and lives are all dedicated to uplifting all people through love, goodwill, equality, peace and justice for all.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1985.shtml
FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took payoffs to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBGYIV7N8E.html
As part of an eight-month probe by Global Survival Network, twoinvestigators - one posing as a U.S. buyer and the other as auniversity researcher - interviewed 60 guest workers and usedhidden cameras to videotape conditions in Saipan's factories,night clubs and workers' dormitories. The report describes theseas ''barracks'' patrolled by security guards and ringed withbarbed-wire fences.
...
However, efforts to pass a United States-Commonwealth of theNorthern Marianas Human Dignity Act have stalled in the U.S.House of Representatives. Activists single out Tom DeLay, theRepublican majority whip, for thwarting efforts to advance thelegislation.
DeLay says the bill would ''kill economic freedom'' but hiscritics alleged that DeLay had financial dealings in factories onSaipan.
http://www.atimes.com/oceania/AE28Ah01.html
To grasp the moral bankruptcy of the public Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, you only have to know about Frank Murkowski and Saipan.
Today, Frank Murkowki is the governor of Alaska, but from 1980 to 2002, he was a conservative Republican senator from Alaska.
How conservative? His voting record earned him zero ratings from organized labor's AFL-CIO and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and perfect 100s from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Conservative Union.
But as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Frank Murkowski became furious at the abusive sweatshop conditions endured by workers, overwhelmingly immigrants, in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, of which Saipan is the capital.
...
Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted "a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island."
Contrast that with what then-Sen. Murkowski told me in a 1998 interview: "The last time we heard a justification that economic advances would be jeopardized if workers were treated properly was shortly before Appomattox.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/index.html
In 1987, the sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive". He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy", whose principal aim was to identify a rapacious business state "with every cherished human value". The power and meaning of true democracy, of the franchise itself, would be "transferred" to the propaganda of advertising, public relations and corporate-run news. This "model of ideological control", he predicted, would be adopted by other countries, such as Britain.
http://www.newstatesman.com/nscoverstory.htm
[You see, if you cross Israel in a totally unrelated series of coincidences the door of your plane will malfunction in mid-flight and someone will kill defenseless animals to get back at you.]
The prime minister yesterday branded an extortionist's claim to have infected a New Zealand island with a livestock disease as "bioterrorism," while police revealed that the extortionist threatened to release the virus on the mainland later this week.
Officials have not confirmed that any livestock have been infected with the deadly foot-and-mouth disease as alleged and stress that they believe the claims made in a letter Tuesday to Prime Minister Helen Clark are a hoax.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/12/2003254335
Burning landmines left over from conflicts could be quicker, easier and safer than blowing them up, the developers of a new device said on Tuesday.
Landmines kill or maim some 75,000 people a year in former conflict areas from Angola to Cambodia, with high costs limiting how many can be cleared.
Retired British airline pilot Paul Richard demonstrated his "Mineburner" system at a test range near the South African capital Pretoria. He hopes to test it in the field within six weeks.
The device -- with a gas nozzle -- was placed first next to an antipersonnel mine and then an antitank mine and ignited by radio control.
The gas flame burnt through the casing of the mines before consuming the plastic explosive, eventually igniting the detonators and producing small explosions.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10442056.htm
One year ago the American media was pushing the Pat Tillman story with the heavy rotation normally reserved for living celebs like Michael Jackson. Tillman, the former NFL player who turned down a multi-million dollar football contract to fight in
Iraq and Afghanistan, became a centerpiece of the right's Hamas-style death cult when he lost his life in the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan. To supporters of the wars and to many football fans, Tillman embodied ideals of self-sacrifice and post-9/11 butt-kicking in a hard-bodied shell of chisel-chinned masculinity on steroids.
Tillman's quintessential nobility, we were told, was borne out by the story of his death--a tale that earned him a posthumous Silver Star. Whether you were for or against Bush's wars, Americans were told, Tillman's valor showed why you should support the troops. Young men were encouraged to emulate his praiseworthy example.
Several thousand mourners gathered at Tillman's May 3, 2004 memorial service to hear marquee names including Arizona Senator John McCain called upon all Americans to "be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf." "Tillman died trying to save fellow members of the 75th Ranger Regiment caught in a crush of enemy fire," the Arizona Republic quoted a fellow soldier addressing the crowd. Tillman, said his friend and comrade-at-arms, had told his fellow soldiers "to seize the tactical high ground from the enemy" to draw enemy fire away from another U.S. platoon trapped in an ambush. "He directly saved their lives with those moves. Pat sacrificed his life so that others could live." It was, as the Washington Post wrote, a "storybook personal narrative"--one recounted on hundreds of front pages and network newscasts.
It was also a lie.
As sharp-eyed readers learned a few months ago from single-paragraph articles buried deep inside their newspapers, Pat Tillman died pointlessly, a hapless victim of "friendly fire" who never got the chance to choose between bravery and cowardice. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Washington Post now reports that
Pentagon and White House officials knew the truth "within days" after his April 22, 2004 shooting by fellow Army Rangers but "decided not to inform Tillman's family or the public until weeks after" the nationally televised martyr-a-thon.
It gets worse. So desperate were the military brass to carry off their propaganda coup that they lied to Tillman's brother, a fellow soldier who arrived on the scene shortly after the incident, about how he died. Writing in an army report, Brigadier General Gary Jones admits that the official cover-up even included "the destruction of evidence": the army burned Tillman's Ranger uniform and body armor to hide the fact that he had died in a hail of American bullets, fired by troops who had "lost situational awareness to the point they had no idea where they were."
"We didn't want the world finding out what actually happened," one soldier told Jones. A perfect summary of the war on terrorism.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050510/cm_ucru/blackandwhiteandfullofcrap/nc:742
FOLLOW-UP: Readers who contacted their elected representatives in response to my column two weeks ago about the two 16-year-old Muslim girls detained by Homeland Security because one wrote an essay about suicide bombings (she was against them) have gotten results. Such pressure has prompted the feds to release the girl from Guinea, who has returned to her high school in New York City. But Bush Administration officials have decided to orphan her by deporting her father. The other girl, from Bangladesh, is also being released from prison but HomeSec plans to deport her along with her entire family. While the two girls' release obviously belies the government's claims that they are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States," your letters and phone calls to your Congressperson and/or Senator could help reverse these continuing acts of injustice
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050510/cm_ucru/blackandwhiteandfullofcrap/nc:742
The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000. Numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran as early as 2005. While the publicly stated reasons will be over Iran's nuclear ambitions, there are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare - Iran's upcoming euro-based oil Bourse.
http://www.energybulletin.net/2913.html
[Actually it is political rhetoric to say they ARE on the verge of a civil war. As I have been saying virtually since before this war began, the DC’ers have been “predicting” a civil war, not because they actually see that happening, but because that is what they want to happen.
Not having been able to outright crush the Iraqis, they decided to go on to plan b of divide and rule. And yet even this has not worked up to now.
What is the civil war? An extremely small number of Iraqi Quislings allied with an extremely large number of American soldiers against an opposing force composed almost entirely of actual Iraqi people with a sprinkling of foreigners? The American Revolution was substantially morel ike a civil war than this conflict is.]
With security experts reporting that no major road in the country was safe to travel, some Iraq specialists speculated that the Sunni insurgency was effectively encircling the capital and trying to cut it off from the north, south and west, where there are entrenched Sunni communities. East of Baghdad is a mostly unpopulated desert bordering on Iran.
"It's just political rhetoric to say we are not in a civil war. We've been in a civil war for a long time," said Pat Lang, the former top Middle East intelligence official at the Pentagon.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiraq0512,0,4630319.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
THE DESTRUCTION OF THOMAS BUTLER
Dr. Thomas C. Butler, the distinguished physician and specialist in
infectious disease who was sentenced to prison last year for
improperly transporting medical samples, is the subject of an
extraordinary profile in the latest issue of the medical journal
Clinical Infectious Disease.
"Thomas Campbell Butler, at 63 years of age, is completing the first
year of a 2-year sentence in federal prison, following an
investigation and trial that was initiated after he voluntarily
reported that he believed vials containing Yersinia pestis were
missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University," the article
begins.
"We take this opportunity to remind the infectious diseases
community of the plight of our esteemed colleague, whose career and
family have, as a result of his efforts to protect us from
infection by this organism, paid a price from which they will never
recover."
Dr. Butler is credited with having saved literally millions of lives
in developing countries through his pioneering work on oral
hydration as a treatment for diarrheal diseases.
See "Destroying the Life and Career of a Valued Physician-Scientist
Who Tried to Protect Us from Plague: Was It Really Necessary?" by
Barbara E. Murray and 13 colleagues, Clinical Infectious Disease,
vol. 40, no. 11, 1 June 2005:
http://tinyurl.com/7khsx
Further background on the Butler case is available from the
Federation of American Scientists here:
http://www.fas.org/butler/index.html
In late April, Army Staff Sgt. Thomas Kelt left a voice mail message on the cell phone of Christopher Monarch, 20, of Spring, telling him to show up at the Greenspoint recruiting office by 2 p.m. or a warrant would be issued for his arrest, according to Monarch and an Army official.
Monarch said he didn't receive the message until after the designated time. "I was scared," he said.
He said he had not made an appointment to meet the recruiter and was not interested in joining the military.
Monarch said he called Kelt the next day to clear up the matter. Kelt told him threatening to issue an arrest warrant was a "marketing technique," according to Monarch, a version of the story the Army confirmed.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3176619
[Is this true? Anyone see this? I don’t have cable. This site is kind of a free-for-all, so it has a weird mixture of postings.]
"There was absolutely no reason to show that," Phil Jayhan told American Free Press about the destruction of the Holy Bible on the Penn & Teller "Bull#####" show. "It is incongruent. They are doing it to show their hatred for the truth."
But, how will America's 300 million Christians tolerate Jewish gangsters defacing the Holy Bible on cable TV? Will they riot and scream and shout or will they accept this abuse like "sheeple," led by the nose by Hollywood gangsters?
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=71250
U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.
More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050513-122032-5055r.htm
An amateur videotape captured 10 deputies unleashing a fusillade against the unmoving SUV. The vehicle then rolled slowly forward and struck the back of a patrol car.
(AP) In this still video image released by Joshua Harville, deputies surround a SUV after firing a...
Full ImageTrina Hays, 42, said she threw herself onto her lawn when the shooting erupted 20 feet away.
"This is crazy, really, really crazy," she told the Times. "They didn't have any concern for anybody's life, including their own. That's why their own police officer got hit."
Bullets smashed through windows and hit the walls of at least five homes, the newspaper said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050510/D8A0C6R00.html
A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Biology teacher Doug Bierregaard said.
Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.
http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html
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