Major discrepancies
[This is a odge-podge of stuff from all different time frames. Some of the links might not work anymore.]
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT VOTES TO JOIN RUSSIAN-BELARUS UNION
April 12, 1999
Web posted at: 8:50 AM EDT (1250 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The Yugoslav federal parliament voted
Monday to join an alliance with Russia and Belarus, an action aimed at
getting military help from Russia and Belarus to stop NATO strikes.
Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic said after the parliament vote that
it was "normal" for Yugoslavia to join the union with its historic
Christian Orthodox allies.
"It is yet another way to resist the NATO aggression," Marjanovic
said.
NATO's airstrikes, which started March 24, severely crippled
Yugoslavia's industrial infrastructure and destroyed numerous military
targets.
The Russia-Belarus union remains largely an agreement on paper only;
it has not produced any visible benefits to either nation.
Throughout its troubled history, Yugoslavia always has been against
any domination from either the West or the East and has jealously
defended its sovereignty. This is the first time since it was founded
in 1918 that it is trying to join an alliance with foreign nations.
Acting on an initiative originating from the Serbian ultranationalist
Radical Party, the chairmen of both chambers of the Yugoslav assembly
called the session following a visit here last week by Russian state
Duma chairman Gennady Seleznov.
At the lower house, out of 115 deputies present, 110 supported the
motion, while five abstained. At the upper house, of the 27 delegates
present, 26 were in favor and one abstained.
The idea of a union between Russia, Belarus and Yugoslavia is
particularly popular among Russian and Yugoslav communists who regret
the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Monday that Moscow
"positively regards the idea of Yugoslavia's membership" in the union.
It was not yet clear what formal steps need to be taken for Yugoslavia
to become a full-fledged member. It took months of wrangling before
Russia and Belarus were able to work out all the details of their
union treaty.
In a statement, the Yugoslav parliament called the proposal "a
historic step of great importance to Yugoslavia's people."
The session opened with a minute of silence for the victims of "NATO's
aggression." Yugoslav Premier Momir Bulatovic later addressed both
chambers of the assembly.
He proposed that parliament accept the decision to join because it
"creates a condition for the peoples of Russia, Belarus and Yugoslavia
to join forces and protect their vital state and national interests."
Prior to the session, supporters of the Radical Party marched through
downtown Belgrade to the federal assembly, waving party flags and
cheering in support of the country joining the Russian-Belarus
federation.
Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or
redistributed.
About two years ago, I began writing on my Web site about the lunacy
in the financing of housing, something I called the "housing hot
potato." The evolution of this has allowed folks to use their homes
as ATMs to live beyond their means. Now, as always happens near the
end of bubbles, madness (in real estate) is on display nearly
everywhere.
You needn't get far into the article to realize how magical real
estate is perceived to be these days. (Remember, they're not making
more of it.) To quote one of its subjects, Carlos Lidsky, who with
his wife has been wheeling and dealing by trading real estate, "It is
much better than the stock market. This is an extraordinary,
phenomenally good result."
...
In case you're wondering what it might look like, there is a group of
islands where there isn't enough real estate for everyone -- and
where real-estate prices have declined for 10 years now. It's also
home to the world's second-largest economy. It's called Japan.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P108402.asp
"The use-your-house-as-an-ATM-to-live-beyond-your-means stimulus is
finished, thanks to the recent de-leveraging/crackup in the bond
market. The refi game and the bull market in housing it created
postponed the consequences of the largest stock-market bubble in
history. Though the Fed and the rest of the government succeeded in
postponing the fallout from the massive misallocation of capital that
took place in the mania, they have also succeeded in compounding and
exacerbating those consequences. Even more leverage was created in
the system, as we attempted to speculate our way to prosperity.
...
To top it all off, the Japanese save about 11% of household income;
we save less than 2%. Japan has a current-account surplus. We have a
massive current-account deficit (which last week was reported to be
$188 billion for the fourth quarter of 2004, roughly 6.3% of GDP).
So, there is every reason to think that as we encounter the twin
busts, we will experience a period like Japan did, only worse.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P111845.asp
“He looked at me and said, ‘You will never convict me of anything.’
He was a very arrogant man.”
Feit was convicted and fined $500 in 1962 after pleading no contest
to the assault on Guerra.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=64305_0_10_0
Head of the Ukrainian parliament's commission on organized crime Yury
Karmazin has dismissed the theory that former Ukrainian interior
minister Yury Kravchenko committed suicide and instead called it "a
cold blooded murder."
http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/050310/90949/story.html
Clark Kent Ervin was stirring up trouble right until the end. Late
last year—just weeks before he was unceremoniously dismissed from his
job as the chief internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)—he reported that the federal government still could
not keep foreigners from using stolen passports to enter the country.
In the weeks and months before that, he’d released reports that found
the federal air marshal program in disarray, warned that shipping
containers were entering U.S. ports every day without even
superficial screening for nuclear material, and chastised the
department for failing to fulfill its congressional mandate to come
up with a centralized watch list of suspected terrorists. Even
Homeland Security’s single most publicized initiative, the screening
of passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, had failed to make
it any more difficult to sneak guns, knives, and explosives onto
planes, Ervin’s investigators in the Office of Inspector Gen
eral had found.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/03/clark_kent.html
For Woolsey and Gaffney, the fact that energy efficiency and
conservation might help the environment is an unintended side
benefit. They want to weaken the Saudis, the Iranians, and the
Syrians while also strengthening the Israelis. Whether these ends are
achieved with M-16s or hybrid automobiles doesn't seem to matter to
them.
http://www.energybulletin.net/4251.html
Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as
he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a
shotgun.
Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown
Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha
13).
http://www.local10.com/news/4312440/detail.html?subid=22100404&qs=1;bp=t
One in 10 research scientists is under pressure to tailor findings to
suit the work's sponsor, a survey suggests.
Women are more likely to be targeted than men, according to the poll
of 358 scientists carried out by two unions.
Unions say the findings were "extremely worrying" and called for
research to be properly financed, and for an end to fixed-term
contracts for scientists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4379457.stm
Kyrgyzstan has set a new record in changing the power. Observers
predicted about two weeks ago that there would be no revolution in
the Asian republic of the former Soviet Union. Spin doctors and
analysts agreed in their views that the uprising in the country's
southern region would not lead to any fundamental changes. Kyrgyz
President Askar Akayev was certain two days ago that he would not
allow the violent change of the power to occur. The president was
wrong. As a result, Akayev asked either for a political shelter on
the Russian army base in Kanta, or simply escaped from his own state.
For the time being, there is no precise information about Askar
Akayev's whereabouts.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/373/15172_kyrgyz.html
[DC needs to stick to the push-over countries, not NK or Iran. Maybe
Tunisia, or Lesotho.]
North Korea is ready to go to war with the United States over the
communist country's nuclear programme, a newspaper on Friday quoted a
North Korean envoy as saying.
But O Song Chol, North Korea's ambassador to Thailand, also said his
country was prepared to enter into negotiations to resolve the
dispute.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1062143.cms
No two wars are ever the same any more than you can step on the same
banana peel twice. That said, Napoleon’s invasion and occupation of
Spain, from 1808 to 1814—the war that gave us the word “guerrilla”
and was immortalized in Goya’s “Third of May,” the war that drained
France’s army, smashed Napoleon’s reputation for invincibility, and
left Spain thrashing like a broken-backed snake for decades—has
striking similarities to our invasion and occupation of Iraq.
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_03_28/article.html
"The D-word is the farthest thing from my thoughts," said Harvey,
laughing at the notion. "The all-volunteer force has proven its
value. ... I don't see any need to do it."
http://www.rense.com/general63/dwffe.htm
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold
into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset
committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade
in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion
dollars every year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trade.htm
N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would
require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify
a person’s citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid
benefits and other public assistance.
Webster filed the bill, called the North Carolina Taxpayer and
Citizen Protection Act, just before Wednesday’s afternoon legislative
deadline. "The skyrocketing cost of Medicaid is doing serious damage
to local budgets," Webster said. "We need to address this thing."
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291
RailPower Technologies, developer of the Green Goat, believes the
hybrid locomotive is an ideal way to reduce fuel costs and air
pollution in switching yards, said Simon Clarke, executive vice
president of the Canadian company. RailPower says the Green Goat uses
40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and emits 80 percent to 90 percent
fewer pollutants than conventional train engines.
http://wired.com/news/planet/0%2C2782%2C66998%2C00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
http://www.railpower.com/index.html
Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law
in a rational way."
Yeah? How? By breaking his pledge to beef up border security
personnel and refusing to fully fund increases in the Border Patrol,
detention space, and interior enforcement?
By agreeing to a "totalization" arrangement with Mexico that may
siphon off Social Security funds to illegal aliens at a cost to
overburdened U.S. taxpayers of an estimated $345 billion over the
next 20 years?
By forgetting his pledge to a slain deputy's wife to hunt down a
fugitive illegal alien killer harbored by Mexico and allowing
countless other fugitive criminals to escape extradition?
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=293
[Fact or fiction?]
Von Kloberg had been considered a major thorn in the side of the Administration and, at the very least, the Department of State in the past, and now the various intelligence agencies had him in their sights.
When, and by whom, the decision was made to terminate the flamboyant lobbyist and political manipulator has not yet surfaced (be not afraid, children, it will) but it is well known inside the Beltway that it was made.
On Sunday, May 1, 2005 Edward von Kloberg jumped, fell or was pushed from hundred foot high wall of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, once the tomb of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Among items found on his body was an American magazine cover with a picture of him meeting the first President George Bush.
Italian newspapers said he had been depressed after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his Lithuanian homosexual lover, Darius Monkevicius of Rome.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3071
Military criminal investigators received 1,700 reports of sexual assaults that involved at least one member of the military in 2004, the Pentagon said Friday.
http://www.rense.com/general65/sexass.htm
Koehler's original ground-breaking column from April -- the first by an American Mainstream Media journalist that we know of to out-and-out charge that the 2004 Election was stolen -- was written a few days after Koehler attended the National Election Reform Conference last month in Nashville. The piece was headlined "The Silent Scream of Numbers: The 2004 election was stolen - will someone please tell the media?"
He followed it up the next week with another stunner headlined "Democracy's Abu Ghraib - If they can disable an election, what's coming next?"
While both pieces were distributed via TMS to syndicate member newspapers, only a handful chose to run either of those two columns
http://www.rense.com/general65/susb.htm
The blasts come amid increased tensions between the junta and some ethnic rebel groups since former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, who had brokered several ceasefires, was ousted in late 2004.
Analysts say the junta risks reviving dormant conflicts with ethnic guerrillas if it gives them a raw deal in a constitution being drafted at its much-criticized National Convention, which is set to resume late this year.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bla.htm
In Asia, there are hints that the virus is indeed changing. "Incomplete evidence suggests that there may be a shift in the epidemiology of the disease," says Stöhr. "More clusters are being seen than last year, older people are now coming down with the diseases, and more cases are milder." Taken together, these characteristics could indicate that the virus is becoming less virulent and more infectious, he says, which could signal the start of a pandemic
http://www.rense.com/general65/WHOsayspandemicof2005.htm
And the numbers are still haywire. A few days ago, Terry Neal wrote in the Washington Post about Bush’s inexplicably low approval rating in the latest Gallup poll, 45 percent, vs. a 49 percent disapproval rating. This is, by a huge margin, the worst rating at this point in a president’s second term ever recorded by Gallup, dating back to Truman.
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col290.htm
Dead rabbits piled up on roadside
Two bodies have been taken to a vet to find how they died
Fifty rabbits found dead on a roadside were shot with air rifles, the
Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service has said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3680476.stm
One of the oceans’ most mysterious animals, the giant squid, may be
being killed by human noises. Unusually high numbers of dead giant
squid, washed up on Spanish shores, have led scientists to believe
that loud, low-frequency sounds made by oil companies charting the
sea bed are killing the creatures.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996437
In a federally funded exercise to prepare emergency responders for a
terrorist attack, a Michigan county concocted a scenario in which
public-school children were threated by a fictitious radical group
that believes everyone should be homeschooled.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40563
The product, Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion, was developed by
the Canadian military years ago, won Food and Drug Administration
approval in 2003 and is sold in other NATO countries for neutralizing
sarin, mustard gas and other chemical agents.
It is being tested by the Army. But the companies that make it aren't
permitted to sell it or even advertise it to state and local
governments in the United States.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/23/terror/main645173.shtml
[This is some background support for my contentin that the so-called social security reform is really operation: bail-out wall street.]
That's right folks. I'm talking about market manipulation and I'm here to tell you that the idea is no longer the exclusive domain of wackos and nutjobs like me. Market management has become so blatant, so undeniable that even Stephen Roach of uber-mainstream Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley recently wrote "I am not a believer in conspiracy theories. But the Fed's behavior since the late 1990s is starting to change my mind."
...
And what better way to maintain investor confidence than to make sure the stock market doesn't go down by tossing the Treasury's unlimited resources at it?
From the WGFM grew what today we nutters and wackjobs refer to as the "Plunge Protection Team." It is surmised that this group was built upon 1989 suggestions from Fed Governor Robert Heller who felt that the Fed should purchase stock index futures during market "emergencies" in order to halt major declines.
Do we know that the PPT exists? Official government denials of its existence are our first clue that it almost certainly does. But we needn't resort to cynicism for evidence. If such a creature exists, it must leave footprints in the market. Where there are footprints, there must be creatures. And oh yes, there are footprints.
http://www.sovereignstrategist.com/updates/12.cfm?const=0
Forty-seven members of Congress, including 35 Republicans, told President George W. Bush in a letter on Friday that the administration should target China and Japan, complaining that “Japan continues to verbally intervene in the market”. Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican from the car-producing state of Michigan, spearheaded the letter.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0cc82ccc-be70-11d9-9473-00000e2511c8.html
Larry Jurjens was checking his herd of about 100 cattle Aug. 19, when he found a dead 11-year-old Black Angus.
Jurjens said the cow's left eyeball was removed, the bag and udders had been removed and there was a large excision in the rectal region. None of the internal organs were removed and he said the cuts seemed to have been made with surgical precision.
The tongue had also been removed, with the incision made far back into the throat.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12855321&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6
So, now that I've eased your fears, how should you respond when they
come to
call?
Simple. Just smile and refuse to let them in. Think of them
as burglars coming to
case your home or office, because everything they see and
learn about you, your
friends, and where you live and work could help an informant
or provocateur know
how to infiltrate your group or organize a break-in to get
address books, membership
records, and lists of financial contributors. An FBI
provocateur I once knew and wrote
about told me of a large check I had deposited years before.
If the FBI and police lack a warrant and have no reason to
suspect that a crime is
underway, they have absolutely no legal right to enter without
your permission. Why
give it? No matter how friendly they seem, you have nothing to
gain by letting them in.
Be polite, sure. But leave it at that.
Step outside to talk to them. Ask each of them for their
identification. Take it in your
hand - they hate that - and jot down all the information on
it. Better yet, read the
information into a small tape recorder, along with your
play-by-play of what's going on.
If you have a camera, ask to take their picture, or have
someone else take your
picture with them. Then, tell them you would love to talk to
them, but only with your
lawyer present. Would they care to make an appointment?
Back in the 1960s, the FBI came to visit my father at his
office to warn him about all
the trouble I was getting into at Berkeley. A conservative
businessman, but a very
protective parent, he invited them into his office, offered
them coffee, and then
brought in one of his partners, whom he introduced as his
company lawyer. The
pretense worked, and the G-Men quickly said good-bye. My
father found it hilarious.
Not often, but sometimes, Poppa knows best. The Joint
Terrorism Task Force, FBI,
and local police intelligence units seriously threaten our
freedom. But we win half the
battle if, like dear old Dad, we learn to laugh as we fight
back against them.
Iran is deeply proud of its technological advances. It is now manufacturing commercial passenger aircraft for export, and has the largest automobile manufacturing plant in the Middle East. It is diversifying its oil economy and has growing non-oil export trade. Nuclear energy technology is both a demonstration of its advancing skills in high-level engineering and a practical economic measure to free petroleum and natural gas for export to China, India and other nearby Asian markets. Iran's clerical leaders are not loved by its youthful population, but their support for nuclear energy development is almost universally supported by the populace
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/May05/070505_Iran.html
CBN’s flagship program, the 700 Club with Pat Robertson, is familiar to many Americans. But few outside the evangelical community know how large the network is — it employs more than 1,000 people and has facilities in three U.S. cities as well as Ukraine, the Philippines, India, and Israel — or how diverse its programming. And CBN, or Christian Broadcasting Network, is just one star in a vast and growing Christian media universe, which has sprung up largely under the mainstream’s radar. Conservative evangelicals control at least six national television networks, each reaching tens of millions of homes, and virtually all of the nation’s more than 2,000 religious radio stations. Thanks to Christian radio’s rapid growth, religious stations now outnumber every other format except country music and news-talk. If they want to dwell solely in this alternative universe, believers can now choose to have only Christian programs piped into their homes. Sky Angel, one of the nation’s three direct-broadcast satellite networks, carries thirty-six channels of Christian radio and television — and nothing else.
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/3/blake-evangelist.asp
I was reading in this book on propaganda a passage that says
"When a man is subjected to the abnormal conditions of a big city or a
battlefield and has good reason to feel tense, fearful, and out of step,
propaganda that adjusts him to such conditions and resolves his conflicts
artificially, without changing his situation in the least, is
particularly pernicious. Of course, it seems like a cure. But it is like
the cure that would heal the liver of an alcoholic in such a way that he
could continue to get drunk without feeling pain in his liver.
Propaganda's artifical and unreal answers for modern man's psychological
suffering are precisely of that kind: they allow him to continue living
abnormally under the conditions in which society places him. Propaganda
suppresses the warning signals that his anxieties, maladjustments,
rebellions, and demands once supplied."
Particularly as regards the last sentence, I wonder if anyone thinks it
would be fair to characterize mood altering drugs prescribed for social
control purposes (rather than for legitimate treatment) as something like
"chemical propaganda"?
The elevator has a 220-volt suction turbine at the top and can carry a maximum load of 204 kilograms. But O'Connor adds that a series of mechanical breaks will activate should there be a sudden loss of pressure, to prevent the capsule falling. The elevator costs between $20,000 and £22,000.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7353&feedId=online-news_rss091
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study:
A Hard Lesson Learned?
Or A Lesson Hardly Learned?
1932
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, carried out in Macon County, Alabama, from 1932 to
1972, is an example of medical research gone wrong. The United States Public
Health Service, in trying to learn more about syphilis and justify treatment
programs for blacks, withheld adequate treatment from a group of poor black men
who had the disease, causing needless pain and suffering for the men and their
loved ones. In the wake of the Tuskegee Study and other studies, government took
a closer look at research involving human subjects and made changes to prevent
the moral breaches that occurred in Tuskegee from happening again. http://www.cd
c.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/time.htm 2000
…Nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and
highly toxic. "We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their
ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of
this was because of their HIV infection."
… At Incarnation, if a child refused to take the medicines offered, he or she
was force-fed through a peg-tube inserted into the stomach.
… Over 23,000 of the city's children are either in foster care or independent
homes run mostly by religious organisations on behalf of the local authorities
and almost 99% are black or hispanic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm
HIV Foster Babies, Children Used to test safety of Experimental Drugs
NY Post
Sun, 29 Feb 2004
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/02/29.php
Specifically, the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR 46.409 and 21 CFR 50.56)
prohibits the use of children who are wards of the state from being subjected to
experiments involving greater than minimal risk.
http://www.ahrp.org/ahrpspeaks/HIVkids0304.php
Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/05/04/internet.hunting.ap/?section=cnn_tech
South Florida is so notorious that some experts attributed a short-term decline in global spam after last year's hurricanes to the assumption that the storms disrupted spammers' operations.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-sbspammain08may08,0,7702631.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
This marking was absolutely shocking, as I could actually read it! It was white print outlined in black on a red arrow pointing toward a rectangle of sorts. The arrow pointed at a something rectangular that I cannot define, but I clearly could read these three words, “EMERGENCY RELEASE and RESCUE.” In the same place were other words that appeared too fuzzy to read. I suspect that these words were “PULL FOR...” Instantly I realized that this was a military machine and no “flying saucer.” I felt much better as I knew that these were surface details that were intended to help rescue people access and then be able to remove the pilots on board in the event of a crash
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/043/S43465.html
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
- Mark Twain, 1904 [5]
http://www.rense.com/general65/psy.htm
After this year’s general election Mugabe told party hardliners that he had turned again to the East.
On Independence Day (April 18), to cheers from party loyalists, he said: "We are returning to the days when our greatest friends were the Chinese. We look again to the East, where the sun rises, and no longer to the West, where it sets."
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=496212005
On the other hand, maybe the Demon is a member of a curious race known to the Cree Indians of eastern Canada as the Mannegishi, the authors write. The Mannegishi, naturalist Sigurd Olson says in his book "Listening Post," are supposed to be "little people with round heads and no noses who live with only one purpose: to play jokes on travelers. The little creatures have long spidery legs, arms with six-fingered hands, and live between rocks in the rapids...."
http://www.rense.com/general65/dover.htm
In an exclusive interview, Saar told The Observer that prisoners were physically assaulted by 'snatch squads' and subjected to sexual interrogation techniques and that the Geneva Conventions were deliberately ignored by the US military.
He also said that soldiers staged fake interrogations to impress visiting administration and military officials. Saar believes that the great majority of prisoners at Guantánamo have no terrorist links and little worthwhile intelligence information has emerged from the base despite its prominent role in America's war on terror.
...
Saar left the army and has become a hate figure for some right-wing groups which say he and his book are unpatriotic. But Saar believes exposing the abuses of Guantánamo will lessen the damage done to America's reputation in the long run. 'The camp is a mistake. It does not need to be that way. There should be a better way, more in line with American morals,' he said.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C6903%2C1479040%2C00.html
The US is losing billions of dollars as international tourists are deterred from visiting the US because of a tarnished image overseas and more bureaucratic visa policies, travel industry leaders have warned.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9d3b32bc-bfe8-11d9-b376-00000e2511c8.html
In 1965, the U.S. Army published a detailed manual on how to build and hide booby traps, complete with detailed diagrams illustrating various means of wiring detonators to explosives, and advising on the best locations for concealing the deadly bombs along roadways and elsewhere.
Two decades later, the Iraqi military issued its troops an Arabic version of the same manual, copying not only the wording but also many of the drawings. Dated March 1987 and stamped "confidential," the manual includes a message from Saddam Hussein, then Iraq's supreme ruler, underscoring the importance of perpetual learning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050201492_pf.html
Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.
With Cheney taking the lead in the administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction, the visits by the vice president and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here," one senior agency official said yesterday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15019-2003Jun4?language=printer
The other man said he was sexually abused in 1980 when West and a friend -- a fellow Spokane County sheriff's deputy named David Hahn -- took a group of Boy Scouts on a 50-mile hike around Mount Rainier. The man -- 12 at the time -- says Hahn molested him in a tent. He says he asked West to move him to another tent.
http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=43721
[Did you ever notice how EVERYONE is the number 3 guy at al-qaeda? It’s the same with the 9/11 hijackers. They had like 3 or 4 different “20th hijackers” over the few years subsequent to 9/11.]
THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html
[They’re gonn have to beat him pretty hard to get him top level info from the copy boy. Maybe they think they can beat him into having ESP.]
Al-Libbi had been beaten and injected with the so-called "truth drug", sodium pentothal, said the official. "They have tried all possible methods, from the 'third degree' to injecting him with a truth serum but it is hard to break him," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/08/walq08.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/08/ixworld.html
[True false? Sounds true.]
"The International Freedom Foundation was created in 1985 by Jack Abramoff, a conservative lobbyist who once represented the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Abramoff and [CNP's ] Duncan Sellars, who served as the foundation's chair, were both Burton campaign contributors but denied knowing about the South African funding, according to media reports in 1995.
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm
In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is turning into one of those countries where citizens can't turn around without showing their "papers."
Remember those movies where our hero maneuvers through some foreign country, avoiding police patrols and control points because he would have to show papers that he doesn't have? Or the ones where our guys are escaping from a POW camp and the most important equipment they have is a set of cleverly forged papers?
And then, of course, there was the Soviet Union, where citizens could not go anywhere without having internal passports they had to produce at railroad stations, airports and any passing KGB patrol.
In America, having papers has never been especially important. Until now.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/05/08/news/opinion/edit01.txt
Witnesses described yesterday how armed undercover agents in burkas ambushed al-Libbi on Monday as he rode pillion on a motorcycle through a graveyard. Al-Libbi, who was disguised as a woman, shot at his pursuers.
Bystanders dived for cover as a dozen people — all in black burkas — returned fire. The 42-year-old militant with a $5 million (£2.6 million) price on his head fled to a nearby guesthouse shouting to staff that he was “a jihadi” and pleaded for help.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1600278,00.html
But there are major discrepancies to the story that have yet to be explained by federal authorities and are still perplexing to Tuohey. The following relates the unanswered questions that form the basis of the government’s explanation of what happened on that day
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/new_questions_about.html
YUGOSLAV PARLIAMENT VOTES TO JOIN RUSSIAN-BELARUS UNION
April 12, 1999
Web posted at: 8:50 AM EDT (1250 GMT)
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The Yugoslav federal parliament voted
Monday to join an alliance with Russia and Belarus, an action aimed at
getting military help from Russia and Belarus to stop NATO strikes.
Serbian Premier Mirko Marjanovic said after the parliament vote that
it was "normal" for Yugoslavia to join the union with its historic
Christian Orthodox allies.
"It is yet another way to resist the NATO aggression," Marjanovic
said.
NATO's airstrikes, which started March 24, severely crippled
Yugoslavia's industrial infrastructure and destroyed numerous military
targets.
The Russia-Belarus union remains largely an agreement on paper only;
it has not produced any visible benefits to either nation.
Throughout its troubled history, Yugoslavia always has been against
any domination from either the West or the East and has jealously
defended its sovereignty. This is the first time since it was founded
in 1918 that it is trying to join an alliance with foreign nations.
Acting on an initiative originating from the Serbian ultranationalist
Radical Party, the chairmen of both chambers of the Yugoslav assembly
called the session following a visit here last week by Russian state
Duma chairman Gennady Seleznov.
At the lower house, out of 115 deputies present, 110 supported the
motion, while five abstained. At the upper house, of the 27 delegates
present, 26 were in favor and one abstained.
The idea of a union between Russia, Belarus and Yugoslavia is
particularly popular among Russian and Yugoslav communists who regret
the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Monday that Moscow
"positively regards the idea of Yugoslavia's membership" in the union.
It was not yet clear what formal steps need to be taken for Yugoslavia
to become a full-fledged member. It took months of wrangling before
Russia and Belarus were able to work out all the details of their
union treaty.
In a statement, the Yugoslav parliament called the proposal "a
historic step of great importance to Yugoslavia's people."
The session opened with a minute of silence for the victims of "NATO's
aggression." Yugoslav Premier Momir Bulatovic later addressed both
chambers of the assembly.
He proposed that parliament accept the decision to join because it
"creates a condition for the peoples of Russia, Belarus and Yugoslavia
to join forces and protect their vital state and national interests."
Prior to the session, supporters of the Radical Party marched through
downtown Belgrade to the federal assembly, waving party flags and
cheering in support of the country joining the Russian-Belarus
federation.
Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or
redistributed.
About two years ago, I began writing on my Web site about the lunacy
in the financing of housing, something I called the "housing hot
potato." The evolution of this has allowed folks to use their homes
as ATMs to live beyond their means. Now, as always happens near the
end of bubbles, madness (in real estate) is on display nearly
everywhere.
You needn't get far into the article to realize how magical real
estate is perceived to be these days. (Remember, they're not making
more of it.) To quote one of its subjects, Carlos Lidsky, who with
his wife has been wheeling and dealing by trading real estate, "It is
much better than the stock market. This is an extraordinary,
phenomenally good result."
...
In case you're wondering what it might look like, there is a group of
islands where there isn't enough real estate for everyone -- and
where real-estate prices have declined for 10 years now. It's also
home to the world's second-largest economy. It's called Japan.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P108402.asp
"The use-your-house-as-an-ATM-to-live-beyond-your-means stimulus is
finished, thanks to the recent de-leveraging/crackup in the bond
market. The refi game and the bull market in housing it created
postponed the consequences of the largest stock-market bubble in
history. Though the Fed and the rest of the government succeeded in
postponing the fallout from the massive misallocation of capital that
took place in the mania, they have also succeeded in compounding and
exacerbating those consequences. Even more leverage was created in
the system, as we attempted to speculate our way to prosperity.
...
To top it all off, the Japanese save about 11% of household income;
we save less than 2%. Japan has a current-account surplus. We have a
massive current-account deficit (which last week was reported to be
$188 billion for the fourth quarter of 2004, roughly 6.3% of GDP).
So, there is every reason to think that as we encounter the twin
busts, we will experience a period like Japan did, only worse.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P111845.asp
“He looked at me and said, ‘You will never convict me of anything.’
He was a very arrogant man.”
Feit was convicted and fined $500 in 1962 after pleading no contest
to the assault on Guerra.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=64305_0_10_0
Head of the Ukrainian parliament's commission on organized crime Yury
Karmazin has dismissed the theory that former Ukrainian interior
minister Yury Kravchenko committed suicide and instead called it "a
cold blooded murder."
http://www2.interfax.ru/eng/news/politics/050310/90949/story.html
Clark Kent Ervin was stirring up trouble right until the end. Late
last year—just weeks before he was unceremoniously dismissed from his
job as the chief internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)—he reported that the federal government still could
not keep foreigners from using stolen passports to enter the country.
In the weeks and months before that, he’d released reports that found
the federal air marshal program in disarray, warned that shipping
containers were entering U.S. ports every day without even
superficial screening for nuclear material, and chastised the
department for failing to fulfill its congressional mandate to come
up with a centralized watch list of suspected terrorists. Even
Homeland Security’s single most publicized initiative, the screening
of passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, had failed to make
it any more difficult to sneak guns, knives, and explosives onto
planes, Ervin’s investigators in the Office of Inspector Gen
eral had found.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/03/clark_kent.html
For Woolsey and Gaffney, the fact that energy efficiency and
conservation might help the environment is an unintended side
benefit. They want to weaken the Saudis, the Iranians, and the
Syrians while also strengthening the Israelis. Whether these ends are
achieved with M-16s or hybrid automobiles doesn't seem to matter to
them.
http://www.energybulletin.net/4251.html
Miami police say they arrested a member of a violent street gang as
he pushed a shopping cart carrying two .22-caliber rifles and a
shotgun.
Police arrested Edwin Reyes, 23, a citizen of Honduras, in downtown
Miami Tuesday. They said he is a member of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha
13).
http://www.local10.com/news/4312440/detail.html?subid=22100404&qs=1;bp=t
One in 10 research scientists is under pressure to tailor findings to
suit the work's sponsor, a survey suggests.
Women are more likely to be targeted than men, according to the poll
of 358 scientists carried out by two unions.
Unions say the findings were "extremely worrying" and called for
research to be properly financed, and for an end to fixed-term
contracts for scientists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4379457.stm
Kyrgyzstan has set a new record in changing the power. Observers
predicted about two weeks ago that there would be no revolution in
the Asian republic of the former Soviet Union. Spin doctors and
analysts agreed in their views that the uprising in the country's
southern region would not lead to any fundamental changes. Kyrgyz
President Askar Akayev was certain two days ago that he would not
allow the violent change of the power to occur. The president was
wrong. As a result, Akayev asked either for a political shelter on
the Russian army base in Kanta, or simply escaped from his own state.
For the time being, there is no precise information about Askar
Akayev's whereabouts.
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/373/15172_kyrgyz.html
[DC needs to stick to the push-over countries, not NK or Iran. Maybe
Tunisia, or Lesotho.]
North Korea is ready to go to war with the United States over the
communist country's nuclear programme, a newspaper on Friday quoted a
North Korean envoy as saying.
But O Song Chol, North Korea's ambassador to Thailand, also said his
country was prepared to enter into negotiations to resolve the
dispute.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1062143.cms
No two wars are ever the same any more than you can step on the same
banana peel twice. That said, Napoleon’s invasion and occupation of
Spain, from 1808 to 1814—the war that gave us the word “guerrilla”
and was immortalized in Goya’s “Third of May,” the war that drained
France’s army, smashed Napoleon’s reputation for invincibility, and
left Spain thrashing like a broken-backed snake for decades—has
striking similarities to our invasion and occupation of Iraq.
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_03_28/article.html
"The D-word is the farthest thing from my thoughts," said Harvey,
laughing at the notion. "The all-volunteer force has proven its
value. ... I don't see any need to do it."
http://www.rense.com/general63/dwffe.htm
Between 3,000 and 5,000 women have been smuggled into Israel and sold
into prostitution over the past four years, according to a Knesset
committee investigative report examining the status of the sex trade
in Israel. The trafficking in women amounts to around a billion
dollars every year.
http://www.rense.com/general63/trade.htm
N.C. Senate bill 976, filed by Sen. Hugh Webster, RAlamance, would
require state or local agencies providing public assistance to verify
a person’s citizenship status before they could receive Medicaid
benefits and other public assistance.
Webster filed the bill, called the North Carolina Taxpayer and
Citizen Protection Act, just before Wednesday’s afternoon legislative
deadline. "The skyrocketing cost of Medicaid is doing serious damage
to local budgets," Webster said. "We need to address this thing."
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291
RailPower Technologies, developer of the Green Goat, believes the
hybrid locomotive is an ideal way to reduce fuel costs and air
pollution in switching yards, said Simon Clarke, executive vice
president of the Canadian company. RailPower says the Green Goat uses
40 percent to 60 percent less fuel and emits 80 percent to 90 percent
fewer pollutants than conventional train engines.
http://wired.com/news/planet/0%2C2782%2C66998%2C00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6
http://www.railpower.com/index.html
Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law
in a rational way."
Yeah? How? By breaking his pledge to beef up border security
personnel and refusing to fully fund increases in the Border Patrol,
detention space, and interior enforcement?
By agreeing to a "totalization" arrangement with Mexico that may
siphon off Social Security funds to illegal aliens at a cost to
overburdened U.S. taxpayers of an estimated $345 billion over the
next 20 years?
By forgetting his pledge to a slain deputy's wife to hunt down a
fugitive illegal alien killer harbored by Mexico and allowing
countless other fugitive criminals to escape extradition?
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=293
[Fact or fiction?]
Von Kloberg had been considered a major thorn in the side of the Administration and, at the very least, the Department of State in the past, and now the various intelligence agencies had him in their sights.
When, and by whom, the decision was made to terminate the flamboyant lobbyist and political manipulator has not yet surfaced (be not afraid, children, it will) but it is well known inside the Beltway that it was made.
On Sunday, May 1, 2005 Edward von Kloberg jumped, fell or was pushed from hundred foot high wall of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, once the tomb of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Among items found on his body was an American magazine cover with a picture of him meeting the first President George Bush.
Italian newspapers said he had been depressed after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his Lithuanian homosexual lover, Darius Monkevicius of Rome.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3071
Military criminal investigators received 1,700 reports of sexual assaults that involved at least one member of the military in 2004, the Pentagon said Friday.
http://www.rense.com/general65/sexass.htm
Koehler's original ground-breaking column from April -- the first by an American Mainstream Media journalist that we know of to out-and-out charge that the 2004 Election was stolen -- was written a few days after Koehler attended the National Election Reform Conference last month in Nashville. The piece was headlined "The Silent Scream of Numbers: The 2004 election was stolen - will someone please tell the media?"
He followed it up the next week with another stunner headlined "Democracy's Abu Ghraib - If they can disable an election, what's coming next?"
While both pieces were distributed via TMS to syndicate member newspapers, only a handful chose to run either of those two columns
http://www.rense.com/general65/susb.htm
The blasts come amid increased tensions between the junta and some ethnic rebel groups since former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, who had brokered several ceasefires, was ousted in late 2004.
Analysts say the junta risks reviving dormant conflicts with ethnic guerrillas if it gives them a raw deal in a constitution being drafted at its much-criticized National Convention, which is set to resume late this year.
http://www.rense.com/general65/bla.htm
In Asia, there are hints that the virus is indeed changing. "Incomplete evidence suggests that there may be a shift in the epidemiology of the disease," says Stöhr. "More clusters are being seen than last year, older people are now coming down with the diseases, and more cases are milder." Taken together, these characteristics could indicate that the virus is becoming less virulent and more infectious, he says, which could signal the start of a pandemic
http://www.rense.com/general65/WHOsayspandemicof2005.htm
And the numbers are still haywire. A few days ago, Terry Neal wrote in the Washington Post about Bush’s inexplicably low approval rating in the latest Gallup poll, 45 percent, vs. a 49 percent disapproval rating. This is, by a huge margin, the worst rating at this point in a president’s second term ever recorded by Gallup, dating back to Truman.
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col290.htm
Dead rabbits piled up on roadside
Two bodies have been taken to a vet to find how they died
Fifty rabbits found dead on a roadside were shot with air rifles, the
Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service has said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3680476.stm
One of the oceans’ most mysterious animals, the giant squid, may be
being killed by human noises. Unusually high numbers of dead giant
squid, washed up on Spanish shores, have led scientists to believe
that loud, low-frequency sounds made by oil companies charting the
sea bed are killing the creatures.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996437
In a federally funded exercise to prepare emergency responders for a
terrorist attack, a Michigan county concocted a scenario in which
public-school children were threated by a fictitious radical group
that believes everyone should be homeschooled.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40563
The product, Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion, was developed by
the Canadian military years ago, won Food and Drug Administration
approval in 2003 and is sold in other NATO countries for neutralizing
sarin, mustard gas and other chemical agents.
It is being tested by the Army. But the companies that make it aren't
permitted to sell it or even advertise it to state and local
governments in the United States.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/23/terror/main645173.shtml
[This is some background support for my contentin that the so-called social security reform is really operation: bail-out wall street.]
That's right folks. I'm talking about market manipulation and I'm here to tell you that the idea is no longer the exclusive domain of wackos and nutjobs like me. Market management has become so blatant, so undeniable that even Stephen Roach of uber-mainstream Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley recently wrote "I am not a believer in conspiracy theories. But the Fed's behavior since the late 1990s is starting to change my mind."
...
And what better way to maintain investor confidence than to make sure the stock market doesn't go down by tossing the Treasury's unlimited resources at it?
From the WGFM grew what today we nutters and wackjobs refer to as the "Plunge Protection Team." It is surmised that this group was built upon 1989 suggestions from Fed Governor Robert Heller who felt that the Fed should purchase stock index futures during market "emergencies" in order to halt major declines.
Do we know that the PPT exists? Official government denials of its existence are our first clue that it almost certainly does. But we needn't resort to cynicism for evidence. If such a creature exists, it must leave footprints in the market. Where there are footprints, there must be creatures. And oh yes, there are footprints.
http://www.sovereignstrategist.com/updates/12.cfm?const=0
Forty-seven members of Congress, including 35 Republicans, told President George W. Bush in a letter on Friday that the administration should target China and Japan, complaining that “Japan continues to verbally intervene in the market”. Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican from the car-producing state of Michigan, spearheaded the letter.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0cc82ccc-be70-11d9-9473-00000e2511c8.html
Larry Jurjens was checking his herd of about 100 cattle Aug. 19, when he found a dead 11-year-old Black Angus.
Jurjens said the cow's left eyeball was removed, the bag and udders had been removed and there was a large excision in the rectal region. None of the internal organs were removed and he said the cuts seemed to have been made with surgical precision.
The tongue had also been removed, with the incision made far back into the throat.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12855321&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6
So, now that I've eased your fears, how should you respond when they
come to
call?
Simple. Just smile and refuse to let them in. Think of them
as burglars coming to
case your home or office, because everything they see and
learn about you, your
friends, and where you live and work could help an informant
or provocateur know
how to infiltrate your group or organize a break-in to get
address books, membership
records, and lists of financial contributors. An FBI
provocateur I once knew and wrote
about told me of a large check I had deposited years before.
If the FBI and police lack a warrant and have no reason to
suspect that a crime is
underway, they have absolutely no legal right to enter without
your permission. Why
give it? No matter how friendly they seem, you have nothing to
gain by letting them in.
Be polite, sure. But leave it at that.
Step outside to talk to them. Ask each of them for their
identification. Take it in your
hand - they hate that - and jot down all the information on
it. Better yet, read the
information into a small tape recorder, along with your
play-by-play of what's going on.
If you have a camera, ask to take their picture, or have
someone else take your
picture with them. Then, tell them you would love to talk to
them, but only with your
lawyer present. Would they care to make an appointment?
Back in the 1960s, the FBI came to visit my father at his
office to warn him about all
the trouble I was getting into at Berkeley. A conservative
businessman, but a very
protective parent, he invited them into his office, offered
them coffee, and then
brought in one of his partners, whom he introduced as his
company lawyer. The
pretense worked, and the G-Men quickly said good-bye. My
father found it hilarious.
Not often, but sometimes, Poppa knows best. The Joint
Terrorism Task Force, FBI,
and local police intelligence units seriously threaten our
freedom. But we win half the
battle if, like dear old Dad, we learn to laugh as we fight
back against them.
Iran is deeply proud of its technological advances. It is now manufacturing commercial passenger aircraft for export, and has the largest automobile manufacturing plant in the Middle East. It is diversifying its oil economy and has growing non-oil export trade. Nuclear energy technology is both a demonstration of its advancing skills in high-level engineering and a practical economic measure to free petroleum and natural gas for export to China, India and other nearby Asian markets. Iran's clerical leaders are not loved by its youthful population, but their support for nuclear energy development is almost universally supported by the populace
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/May05/070505_Iran.html
CBN’s flagship program, the 700 Club with Pat Robertson, is familiar to many Americans. But few outside the evangelical community know how large the network is — it employs more than 1,000 people and has facilities in three U.S. cities as well as Ukraine, the Philippines, India, and Israel — or how diverse its programming. And CBN, or Christian Broadcasting Network, is just one star in a vast and growing Christian media universe, which has sprung up largely under the mainstream’s radar. Conservative evangelicals control at least six national television networks, each reaching tens of millions of homes, and virtually all of the nation’s more than 2,000 religious radio stations. Thanks to Christian radio’s rapid growth, religious stations now outnumber every other format except country music and news-talk. If they want to dwell solely in this alternative universe, believers can now choose to have only Christian programs piped into their homes. Sky Angel, one of the nation’s three direct-broadcast satellite networks, carries thirty-six channels of Christian radio and television — and nothing else.
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/3/blake-evangelist.asp
I was reading in this book on propaganda a passage that says
"When a man is subjected to the abnormal conditions of a big city or a
battlefield and has good reason to feel tense, fearful, and out of step,
propaganda that adjusts him to such conditions and resolves his conflicts
artificially, without changing his situation in the least, is
particularly pernicious. Of course, it seems like a cure. But it is like
the cure that would heal the liver of an alcoholic in such a way that he
could continue to get drunk without feeling pain in his liver.
Propaganda's artifical and unreal answers for modern man's psychological
suffering are precisely of that kind: they allow him to continue living
abnormally under the conditions in which society places him. Propaganda
suppresses the warning signals that his anxieties, maladjustments,
rebellions, and demands once supplied."
Particularly as regards the last sentence, I wonder if anyone thinks it
would be fair to characterize mood altering drugs prescribed for social
control purposes (rather than for legitimate treatment) as something like
"chemical propaganda"?
The elevator has a 220-volt suction turbine at the top and can carry a maximum load of 204 kilograms. But O'Connor adds that a series of mechanical breaks will activate should there be a sudden loss of pressure, to prevent the capsule falling. The elevator costs between $20,000 and £22,000.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7353&feedId=online-news_rss091
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study:
A Hard Lesson Learned?
Or A Lesson Hardly Learned?
1932
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, carried out in Macon County, Alabama, from 1932 to
1972, is an example of medical research gone wrong. The United States Public
Health Service, in trying to learn more about syphilis and justify treatment
programs for blacks, withheld adequate treatment from a group of poor black men
who had the disease, causing needless pain and suffering for the men and their
loved ones. In the wake of the Tuskegee Study and other studies, government took
a closer look at research involving human subjects and made changes to prevent
the moral breaches that occurred in Tuskegee from happening again. http://www.cd
c.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/time.htm 2000
…Nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and
highly toxic. "We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their
ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of
this was because of their HIV infection."
… At Incarnation, if a child refused to take the medicines offered, he or she
was force-fed through a peg-tube inserted into the stomach.
… Over 23,000 of the city's children are either in foster care or independent
homes run mostly by religious organisations on behalf of the local authorities
and almost 99% are black or hispanic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm
HIV Foster Babies, Children Used to test safety of Experimental Drugs
NY Post
Sun, 29 Feb 2004
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/02/29.php
Specifically, the Code of Federal Regulations (45 CFR 46.409 and 21 CFR 50.56)
prohibits the use of children who are wards of the state from being subjected to
experiments involving greater than minimal risk.
http://www.ahrp.org/ahrpspeaks/HIVkids0304.php
Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/05/04/internet.hunting.ap/?section=cnn_tech
South Florida is so notorious that some experts attributed a short-term decline in global spam after last year's hurricanes to the assumption that the storms disrupted spammers' operations.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-sbspammain08may08,0,7702631.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
This marking was absolutely shocking, as I could actually read it! It was white print outlined in black on a red arrow pointing toward a rectangle of sorts. The arrow pointed at a something rectangular that I cannot define, but I clearly could read these three words, “EMERGENCY RELEASE and RESCUE.” In the same place were other words that appeared too fuzzy to read. I suspect that these words were “PULL FOR...” Instantly I realized that this was a military machine and no “flying saucer.” I felt much better as I knew that these were surface details that were intended to help rescue people access and then be able to remove the pilots on board in the event of a crash
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/043/S43465.html
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
- Mark Twain, 1904 [5]
http://www.rense.com/general65/psy.htm
After this year’s general election Mugabe told party hardliners that he had turned again to the East.
On Independence Day (April 18), to cheers from party loyalists, he said: "We are returning to the days when our greatest friends were the Chinese. We look again to the East, where the sun rises, and no longer to the West, where it sets."
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=496212005
On the other hand, maybe the Demon is a member of a curious race known to the Cree Indians of eastern Canada as the Mannegishi, the authors write. The Mannegishi, naturalist Sigurd Olson says in his book "Listening Post," are supposed to be "little people with round heads and no noses who live with only one purpose: to play jokes on travelers. The little creatures have long spidery legs, arms with six-fingered hands, and live between rocks in the rapids...."
http://www.rense.com/general65/dover.htm
In an exclusive interview, Saar told The Observer that prisoners were physically assaulted by 'snatch squads' and subjected to sexual interrogation techniques and that the Geneva Conventions were deliberately ignored by the US military.
He also said that soldiers staged fake interrogations to impress visiting administration and military officials. Saar believes that the great majority of prisoners at Guantánamo have no terrorist links and little worthwhile intelligence information has emerged from the base despite its prominent role in America's war on terror.
...
Saar left the army and has become a hate figure for some right-wing groups which say he and his book are unpatriotic. But Saar believes exposing the abuses of Guantánamo will lessen the damage done to America's reputation in the long run. 'The camp is a mistake. It does not need to be that way. There should be a better way, more in line with American morals,' he said.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C6903%2C1479040%2C00.html
The US is losing billions of dollars as international tourists are deterred from visiting the US because of a tarnished image overseas and more bureaucratic visa policies, travel industry leaders have warned.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9d3b32bc-bfe8-11d9-b376-00000e2511c8.html
In 1965, the U.S. Army published a detailed manual on how to build and hide booby traps, complete with detailed diagrams illustrating various means of wiring detonators to explosives, and advising on the best locations for concealing the deadly bombs along roadways and elsewhere.
Two decades later, the Iraqi military issued its troops an Arabic version of the same manual, copying not only the wording but also many of the drawings. Dated March 1987 and stamped "confidential," the manual includes a message from Saddam Hussein, then Iraq's supreme ruler, underscoring the importance of perpetual learning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050201492_pf.html
Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.
With Cheney taking the lead in the administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction, the visits by the vice president and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here," one senior agency official said yesterday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15019-2003Jun4?language=printer
The other man said he was sexually abused in 1980 when West and a friend -- a fellow Spokane County sheriff's deputy named David Hahn -- took a group of Boy Scouts on a 50-mile hike around Mount Rainier. The man -- 12 at the time -- says Hahn molested him in a tent. He says he asked West to move him to another tent.
http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=43721
[Did you ever notice how EVERYONE is the number 3 guy at al-qaeda? It’s the same with the 9/11 hijackers. They had like 3 or 4 different “20th hijackers” over the few years subsequent to 9/11.]
THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html
[They’re gonn have to beat him pretty hard to get him top level info from the copy boy. Maybe they think they can beat him into having ESP.]
Al-Libbi had been beaten and injected with the so-called "truth drug", sodium pentothal, said the official. "They have tried all possible methods, from the 'third degree' to injecting him with a truth serum but it is hard to break him," he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/08/walq08.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/08/ixworld.html
[True false? Sounds true.]
"The International Freedom Foundation was created in 1985 by Jack Abramoff, a conservative lobbyist who once represented the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Abramoff and [CNP's ] Duncan Sellars, who served as the foundation's chair, were both Burton campaign contributors but denied knowing about the South African funding, according to media reports in 1995.
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm
In case you hadn't noticed, the United States is turning into one of those countries where citizens can't turn around without showing their "papers."
Remember those movies where our hero maneuvers through some foreign country, avoiding police patrols and control points because he would have to show papers that he doesn't have? Or the ones where our guys are escaping from a POW camp and the most important equipment they have is a set of cleverly forged papers?
And then, of course, there was the Soviet Union, where citizens could not go anywhere without having internal passports they had to produce at railroad stations, airports and any passing KGB patrol.
In America, having papers has never been especially important. Until now.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/05/08/news/opinion/edit01.txt
Witnesses described yesterday how armed undercover agents in burkas ambushed al-Libbi on Monday as he rode pillion on a motorcycle through a graveyard. Al-Libbi, who was disguised as a woman, shot at his pursuers.
Bystanders dived for cover as a dozen people — all in black burkas — returned fire. The 42-year-old militant with a $5 million (£2.6 million) price on his head fled to a nearby guesthouse shouting to staff that he was “a jihadi” and pleaded for help.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1600278,00.html
But there are major discrepancies to the story that have yet to be explained by federal authorities and are still perplexing to Tuohey. The following relates the unanswered questions that form the basis of the government’s explanation of what happened on that day
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/new_questions_about.html
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