Since at least 2002
Under Florida's communications services tax law, satellite customers are forced to shoulder a substantially higher tax burden - 10.8 percent on retail sales - than their cable counterparts, who pay only 6.8 percent.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-05zzn.html
Russia is to create a new cosmodrome in its southern Urals region, which may also be available for commercial use, General Nikolai Solovtsov, the head of Russia's strategic missiles forces, said on Thursday
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050505111607.eqvz6ed3.html
ran said Thursday its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles was entirely comprised of locally-made parts and that production was continuing.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iran-05o.html
Like the North American Free Trade Agreement, upon which it is modeled, CAFTA would flood Central America's markets with products of U.S. agribusiness, much of which is still heavily subsidized. According to Oxfam, U.S. corn exports to Central America would increase by 10,000 percent in the first year. The region's small farmers, who make up the majority of the population, have their eyes on Mexico, where 1.7 million farmers lost their land in the first 10 years after NAFTA went into effect.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-30.htm
[I think in general the further from DC you get, the closer to the actual planet Earth you will be. So in that sense this sounds good. But on the other hand Colorado is becoming kind of the military headquarters of North America, so in that respect it kind of sounds bad for the CIA to be moving there. Maybe they could go to St. Louis or something?
The second quote “they will get disconnected”, yes they will get disconnected from the DC unerality machine, but that is GOOD.]
The CIA has plans to relocate the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations and recruitment in the United States, from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters to Denver, a move designed to promote innovation, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials.
About $20 million has been tentatively budgeted to relocate employees of the CIA's National Resources Division, officials said. A U.S. intelligence official said the planned move, confirmed by three other government officials, was being undertaken "for operational reasons."
....
Associates of Goss said Thursday that the move also was in keeping with his desire to stop the growth of CIA headquarters and headquarters- based group-think, something he criticized frequently when he was chairman of the House intelligence committee.
Other CIA veterans said such a relocation would make no sense, given Denver's distance from major corporate centers.
"Why would you go so far away?" one asked. "They will get disconnected."
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2714490
[Attachable rfid technology? What is that?
By the way, note how the noose is tightening, you have them coming on animals from one direction, prisoners from another direction, people in nursing homes from another direction, people in the military from another direction. Pretty soon it will be like why DON’T you have an implanted tracking chip in you? You some kind of right-wing militia nut? You need one more than anyone since you’re some kind of anti-social trouble maker.]
RoamAlert, the external next-generation patient wandering protection system utilizing wearable and attachable RFID tagging technology, now offers increased levels of patient safety and freedom while saving time and money associated with the tedious task of locating patients that have wandered, equipment that has been misplaced or stolen, and staff that may need immediate assistance. The new functionality already in use with RoamAlert Integrity product installations throughout North American nursing homes and assisted living facilities, extends beyond the standard automatic alerting when patients leave or enter pre-defined exits or areas and includes:
• Real-time location of patients and residents,
• Facility-defined containment zones for different classes of patient wanderers,
• One-touch distress alerting for staff or patients enabling a quick call for help,
• Equipment tracking for the protection and locating of such common assets as wheelchairs, IV stands, or expensive multimedia equipment
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story58.htm
Cal Thomas is part of the advanced publicity plan that, if carried out, will allow Israelis to kill or deport up to three million Philistines taking their land wherever it has value, and placing the survivors on fenced reservations for forced labor. Anyone should be able to readily understand why two committed Zionist organizations might want to condition the rest of us to look the other way when the scheduled extermination takes place. Acquiring property for Alyah (the return) is simply business to them. But why would Cal Thomas, who claims to be washed clean of his sins in the blood of Jesus Christ, allow himself to be a part of mass murder scheme?
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050422Cal2.htm
[I would like to take this opportunity to once again denoucen the Satanists in Christian clothing who go in for this rapture claptrap.
I would also like to point out that I read several books of the “Left Behind” series mentioned below. It seems to me these books were obviously cribbed from a book by Jack London called “The Iron Heel”.
Are you ready for a surprise? You need not be surprised if you have been reading this blog. The Iron Heel was about how the evil capitalists launched a worldwide war of extermination against the wonderful socialists/communists. In the Left Behind books, the capitalists are replaced by followers of the AntiChrist and the socialists are replaced by the supposed Christians. There is a section in The Iron Heel about the destruction of Chicago which is a virtual duplicate of a similiar section, which I think also concerns Chicago, in one of the Left Behind books.
What’s that? Christians cribbing their material from godless communists? How could that be?
Think about it.]
Tens of millions of Americans have read "The Late Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsay, and tens of millions more are avid fans of the "Left Behind" series by LaHaye and Jenkins. These science fiction books claim to give a true interpretation of Bible prophecy. They preach the rapture cult, a heretical view (so labeled by the Presbyterian Church) which says that believers will be "called out" and "meet Jesus in the clouds" while the rest of us are to be "left behind" to suffer and perish in the tribulation.
This is the path of death. The rapture cultists have psychically abandoned planet earth and all responsibility for its fate. They support George Bush and his rapid destruction of the biosphere, thinking that this will hasten their being "called away" by the returning Christ. They suspend conscience and discernment, believing the false prophets who tell them that Bush was chosen by God to lead America and that his lying murderous ways should be overlooked.
...
The false prophets of the rapture cult are predicted in Revelation, and serve the corporate beast:
Revelation 19:20 ..the false prophet. performed the miraculous signs on (the beast's) behalf. With these signs he deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050331Rap.htm
We Hold These Truths is pro-life. We are not apologetic about being for the underdog, and that includes the unborn. We also oppose assisted killing. We were disappointed that the academy award for best picture went to a film that features a contrived situation to justify a mercy killing--Million Dollar Baby, in which Clint Eastwood, the good guy, ends his adopted daughter figure by slipping a dose of adrenalin into her intravenous tube.
We have already written much about why righteously pro-life evangelical church members set a different standard for Terry Schiavo or for an unborn black crack baby in the womb of an addicted mom, than for a Palestinian or Iraqi child with a Muslim mother. No one who reads Pharisee Watch should be confused or puzzled by this strange paradox. We Hold These Truths has called it by its right name -- racism, masquerading as Christianity
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/05-Pro5.htm
Nine members of a local church had their membership revoked and 40 others left in protest after tension over political views recently came to a head, church members say.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050506/NEWS/50506020/1001
[You know the economy sucks when even the doctors have been reduced to barter.]
Three New York doctors were charged on Thursday with giving large amounts of Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs to mob members in return for construction and auto repair work done by mafia-controlled businesses.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-06T161701Z_01_N05533102_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CRIME-VIAGRA-DC.XML
With a potential output of 116 megawatts, the new station would be several times the size of what is now the world's largest solar energy plant. The output would be fed into the Portuguese electricity grid at a government-set price.
http://www.rense.com/general65/hugesolarpowerstation.htm
It is time—well past time, in my view—for the United States to cease its Cold War-style reliance on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous. The risk of an accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch is unacceptably high. Far from reducing these risks, the Bush administration has signaled that it is committed to keeping the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a mainstay of its military power—a commitment that is simultaneously eroding the international norms that have limited the spread of nuclear weapons and fissile materials for 50 years. Much of the current U.S. nuclear policy has been in place since before I was secretary of defense, and it has only grown more dangerous and diplomatically destructive in the intervening years
...
The whole situation seems so bizarre as to be beyond belief. On any given day, as we go about our business, the president is prepared to make a decision within 20 minutes that could launch one of the most devastating weapons in the world. To declare war requires an act of congress, but to launch a nuclear holocaust requires 20 minutes’ deliberation by the president and his advisors. But that is what we have lived with for 40 years. With very few changes, this system remains largely intact, including the “football,” the president’s constant companion.
...
No Way To Win
I have worked on issues relating to U.S. and NATO nuclear strategy and war plans for more than 40 years. During that time, I have never seen a piece of paper that outlined a plan for the United States or NATO to initiate the use of nuclear weapons with any benefit for the United States or NATO. I have made this statement in front of audiences, including NATO defense ministers and senior military leaders, many times. No one has ever refuted it. To launch weapons against a nuclear-equipped opponent would be suicidal. To do so against a nonnuclear enemy would be militarily unnecessary, morally repugnant, and politically indefensible.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2829
[The real news here is that even the so-called conservatives acknowledge that they are essentially interchangeable with the so-called liberals.]
Upon seeing one of those ads, RightMarch.com decided to place an ad using the same words but just swapping Pelosi's name for DeLay. The ad read: "Truth about Nancy Pelosi: Learn about Pelosi's many scandals and help us clean up the House!"
Said RightMarch.com: "That's all we did – we took the liberal ad and changed the words to make it a conservative ad."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44105
The highest decision-making body of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem fired Patriarch Irineos I on Friday over his suspected involvement in the sale of church land to Jewish investors, a church official said.
Irineos, who has denied the allegation, had no immediate comment. Archimandrite Attallah Hanna said the patriarch left the church after the 18-member Holy Synod made its decision.
"We don't know where he went," he said
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573346.html
British Prime Minister is set to lose his seat in the Parliament to a slain British soldier's father, according exit polls that showed an easy win for the anti-war challenger.
The PressEsc exit poll of voters who have cast their ballots gave 56% of the vote to Reg Keys, the independent candidate representing the organisation Military Families Against War.
Tony Blair only managed to garner 22% of the vote with the remaining split between the other candidates, most of whom supported Reg Keys candidacy.
But there are growing fears that the official results in Sedgefield may not reflect the people's wishes following the vote-rigging scandal that broke out in the constituency.
A police investigation into more than 600 complaints of postal vote fraud was dropped on order from the "top", one Durham Constabulary whistleblower alleged.
Political analysts expect a Labour MP to resign soon after the election to make way for the Blair.
http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/89/36/
GEORGE Galloway, the maverick former Glasgow Kelvin MP, took the supposedly safe seat of Bethnal Green and Bow from Labour yesterday in a shock election victory.
He polled 15,801 votes to defeat Labour’s Oona King with 14,978.
In a typically powerful acceptance speech, Mr Galloway, who based his campaign on opposition to the Iraq war, said: "Mr Blair, this is for Iraq."
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=487352005
Asian IMF?
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6ce45976-bdbe-11d9-87aa-00000e2511c8.html
In a clear sign that the Bush administration's anger over Israeli-Chinese military ties is nearing a boiling point, the Pentagon is suspending information-sharing with Jerusalem on a key fighter-jet program.
http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20050504937
[Support those troops.]
The US Supreme Court decided last week not to accept an appeal from a group of American soldiers who had won a lawsuit against the regime of Saddam Hussein, charging they were tortured while held prisoner during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The court action, taken at the urging of the Bush administration, overturns an award of $959 million in damages.
The position taken by the White House and Department of Justice in this case reveals the real attitude of the leaders of American imperialism toward the soldiers they send into battle. The Bush administration initially encouraged the lawsuit, using it as a club against the Iraqi government. Once control of Iraq’s resources passed into the hands of the United States, however, Washington’s posture changed abruptly, and the claims of the former POWs were rudely set aside.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/pows-m06.shtml
[Exhibit 9 million]
Mayor James E. West, a Republican foe of gay rights, was accused in a newspaper story Thursday of molesting two boys decades ago and was caught by the paper using the trappings of his office to try to court a young man on a gay online chat room.
West on Thursday denied the molestation allegations, but acknowledged he "had relations with adult men."
He admitted offering autographed sports memorabilia and a possible City Hall internship to what he thought was an 18-year-old man on the Web site Gay.com. The man was actually a private computer expert hired by The Spokesman-Review as part of a journalism sting operation.
West, 54, a former Boy Scout leader and Army paratrooper who was married briefly in the 1990s, denied that the online offers constituted abuse of his office, and he said he would serve out the more than three years remaining in his term.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050506/ap_on_re_us/mayor_sex_allegations
A gasoline price war erupted in St. Mary's County last week after one station slashed its price for regular to $1.999 a gallon and spurred three others to follow suit, giving drivers some hope of relief at the pump.
But the price dip proved fleeting.
Maryland regulators quickly stepped in and told the stations that their prices were too low. They needed to go up by 5 cents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050502032.html
The Feds had a live one on the end of the line, and they slowly but surely reeled him in, gathering plenty of evidence before they confronted him. They were after much bigger fish. After all, as Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder reported last year and again on the occasion of Franklin's arrest, FBI counterintelligence had been watching the Israelis and their American fifth column for "more than two years." "According to officials with direct knowledge," writes Strobel,
"The investigation has been under way since at least 2002, and it has involved FBI interviews with officials in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office and elsewhere in the executive branch."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5857
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-05zzn.html
Russia is to create a new cosmodrome in its southern Urals region, which may also be available for commercial use, General Nikolai Solovtsov, the head of Russia's strategic missiles forces, said on Thursday
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050505111607.eqvz6ed3.html
ran said Thursday its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles was entirely comprised of locally-made parts and that production was continuing.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iran-05o.html
Like the North American Free Trade Agreement, upon which it is modeled, CAFTA would flood Central America's markets with products of U.S. agribusiness, much of which is still heavily subsidized. According to Oxfam, U.S. corn exports to Central America would increase by 10,000 percent in the first year. The region's small farmers, who make up the majority of the population, have their eyes on Mexico, where 1.7 million farmers lost their land in the first 10 years after NAFTA went into effect.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-30.htm
[I think in general the further from DC you get, the closer to the actual planet Earth you will be. So in that sense this sounds good. But on the other hand Colorado is becoming kind of the military headquarters of North America, so in that respect it kind of sounds bad for the CIA to be moving there. Maybe they could go to St. Louis or something?
The second quote “they will get disconnected”, yes they will get disconnected from the DC unerality machine, but that is GOOD.]
The CIA has plans to relocate the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations and recruitment in the United States, from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters to Denver, a move designed to promote innovation, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials.
About $20 million has been tentatively budgeted to relocate employees of the CIA's National Resources Division, officials said. A U.S. intelligence official said the planned move, confirmed by three other government officials, was being undertaken "for operational reasons."
....
Associates of Goss said Thursday that the move also was in keeping with his desire to stop the growth of CIA headquarters and headquarters- based group-think, something he criticized frequently when he was chairman of the House intelligence committee.
Other CIA veterans said such a relocation would make no sense, given Denver's distance from major corporate centers.
"Why would you go so far away?" one asked. "They will get disconnected."
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2714490
[Attachable rfid technology? What is that?
By the way, note how the noose is tightening, you have them coming on animals from one direction, prisoners from another direction, people in nursing homes from another direction, people in the military from another direction. Pretty soon it will be like why DON’T you have an implanted tracking chip in you? You some kind of right-wing militia nut? You need one more than anyone since you’re some kind of anti-social trouble maker.]
RoamAlert, the external next-generation patient wandering protection system utilizing wearable and attachable RFID tagging technology, now offers increased levels of patient safety and freedom while saving time and money associated with the tedious task of locating patients that have wandered, equipment that has been misplaced or stolen, and staff that may need immediate assistance. The new functionality already in use with RoamAlert Integrity product installations throughout North American nursing homes and assisted living facilities, extends beyond the standard automatic alerting when patients leave or enter pre-defined exits or areas and includes:
• Real-time location of patients and residents,
• Facility-defined containment zones for different classes of patient wanderers,
• One-touch distress alerting for staff or patients enabling a quick call for help,
• Equipment tracking for the protection and locating of such common assets as wheelchairs, IV stands, or expensive multimedia equipment
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story58.htm
Cal Thomas is part of the advanced publicity plan that, if carried out, will allow Israelis to kill or deport up to three million Philistines taking their land wherever it has value, and placing the survivors on fenced reservations for forced labor. Anyone should be able to readily understand why two committed Zionist organizations might want to condition the rest of us to look the other way when the scheduled extermination takes place. Acquiring property for Alyah (the return) is simply business to them. But why would Cal Thomas, who claims to be washed clean of his sins in the blood of Jesus Christ, allow himself to be a part of mass murder scheme?
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050422Cal2.htm
[I would like to take this opportunity to once again denoucen the Satanists in Christian clothing who go in for this rapture claptrap.
I would also like to point out that I read several books of the “Left Behind” series mentioned below. It seems to me these books were obviously cribbed from a book by Jack London called “The Iron Heel”.
Are you ready for a surprise? You need not be surprised if you have been reading this blog. The Iron Heel was about how the evil capitalists launched a worldwide war of extermination against the wonderful socialists/communists. In the Left Behind books, the capitalists are replaced by followers of the AntiChrist and the socialists are replaced by the supposed Christians. There is a section in The Iron Heel about the destruction of Chicago which is a virtual duplicate of a similiar section, which I think also concerns Chicago, in one of the Left Behind books.
What’s that? Christians cribbing their material from godless communists? How could that be?
Think about it.]
Tens of millions of Americans have read "The Late Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsay, and tens of millions more are avid fans of the "Left Behind" series by LaHaye and Jenkins. These science fiction books claim to give a true interpretation of Bible prophecy. They preach the rapture cult, a heretical view (so labeled by the Presbyterian Church) which says that believers will be "called out" and "meet Jesus in the clouds" while the rest of us are to be "left behind" to suffer and perish in the tribulation.
This is the path of death. The rapture cultists have psychically abandoned planet earth and all responsibility for its fate. They support George Bush and his rapid destruction of the biosphere, thinking that this will hasten their being "called away" by the returning Christ. They suspend conscience and discernment, believing the false prophets who tell them that Bush was chosen by God to lead America and that his lying murderous ways should be overlooked.
...
The false prophets of the rapture cult are predicted in Revelation, and serve the corporate beast:
Revelation 19:20 ..the false prophet. performed the miraculous signs on (the beast's) behalf. With these signs he deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image.
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/050331Rap.htm
We Hold These Truths is pro-life. We are not apologetic about being for the underdog, and that includes the unborn. We also oppose assisted killing. We were disappointed that the academy award for best picture went to a film that features a contrived situation to justify a mercy killing--Million Dollar Baby, in which Clint Eastwood, the good guy, ends his adopted daughter figure by slipping a dose of adrenalin into her intravenous tube.
We have already written much about why righteously pro-life evangelical church members set a different standard for Terry Schiavo or for an unborn black crack baby in the womb of an addicted mom, than for a Palestinian or Iraqi child with a Muslim mother. No one who reads Pharisee Watch should be confused or puzzled by this strange paradox. We Hold These Truths has called it by its right name -- racism, masquerading as Christianity
http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/05-Pro5.htm
Nine members of a local church had their membership revoked and 40 others left in protest after tension over political views recently came to a head, church members say.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050506/NEWS/50506020/1001
[You know the economy sucks when even the doctors have been reduced to barter.]
Three New York doctors were charged on Thursday with giving large amounts of Viagra and other anti-impotence drugs to mob members in return for construction and auto repair work done by mafia-controlled businesses.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-05-06T161701Z_01_N05533102_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CRIME-VIAGRA-DC.XML
With a potential output of 116 megawatts, the new station would be several times the size of what is now the world's largest solar energy plant. The output would be fed into the Portuguese electricity grid at a government-set price.
http://www.rense.com/general65/hugesolarpowerstation.htm
It is time—well past time, in my view—for the United States to cease its Cold War-style reliance on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy tool. At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous. The risk of an accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch is unacceptably high. Far from reducing these risks, the Bush administration has signaled that it is committed to keeping the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a mainstay of its military power—a commitment that is simultaneously eroding the international norms that have limited the spread of nuclear weapons and fissile materials for 50 years. Much of the current U.S. nuclear policy has been in place since before I was secretary of defense, and it has only grown more dangerous and diplomatically destructive in the intervening years
...
The whole situation seems so bizarre as to be beyond belief. On any given day, as we go about our business, the president is prepared to make a decision within 20 minutes that could launch one of the most devastating weapons in the world. To declare war requires an act of congress, but to launch a nuclear holocaust requires 20 minutes’ deliberation by the president and his advisors. But that is what we have lived with for 40 years. With very few changes, this system remains largely intact, including the “football,” the president’s constant companion.
...
No Way To Win
I have worked on issues relating to U.S. and NATO nuclear strategy and war plans for more than 40 years. During that time, I have never seen a piece of paper that outlined a plan for the United States or NATO to initiate the use of nuclear weapons with any benefit for the United States or NATO. I have made this statement in front of audiences, including NATO defense ministers and senior military leaders, many times. No one has ever refuted it. To launch weapons against a nuclear-equipped opponent would be suicidal. To do so against a nonnuclear enemy would be militarily unnecessary, morally repugnant, and politically indefensible.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2829
[The real news here is that even the so-called conservatives acknowledge that they are essentially interchangeable with the so-called liberals.]
Upon seeing one of those ads, RightMarch.com decided to place an ad using the same words but just swapping Pelosi's name for DeLay. The ad read: "Truth about Nancy Pelosi: Learn about Pelosi's many scandals and help us clean up the House!"
Said RightMarch.com: "That's all we did – we took the liberal ad and changed the words to make it a conservative ad."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44105
The highest decision-making body of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem fired Patriarch Irineos I on Friday over his suspected involvement in the sale of church land to Jewish investors, a church official said.
Irineos, who has denied the allegation, had no immediate comment. Archimandrite Attallah Hanna said the patriarch left the church after the 18-member Holy Synod made its decision.
"We don't know where he went," he said
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573346.html
British Prime Minister is set to lose his seat in the Parliament to a slain British soldier's father, according exit polls that showed an easy win for the anti-war challenger.
The PressEsc exit poll of voters who have cast their ballots gave 56% of the vote to Reg Keys, the independent candidate representing the organisation Military Families Against War.
Tony Blair only managed to garner 22% of the vote with the remaining split between the other candidates, most of whom supported Reg Keys candidacy.
But there are growing fears that the official results in Sedgefield may not reflect the people's wishes following the vote-rigging scandal that broke out in the constituency.
A police investigation into more than 600 complaints of postal vote fraud was dropped on order from the "top", one Durham Constabulary whistleblower alleged.
Political analysts expect a Labour MP to resign soon after the election to make way for the Blair.
http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/89/36/
GEORGE Galloway, the maverick former Glasgow Kelvin MP, took the supposedly safe seat of Bethnal Green and Bow from Labour yesterday in a shock election victory.
He polled 15,801 votes to defeat Labour’s Oona King with 14,978.
In a typically powerful acceptance speech, Mr Galloway, who based his campaign on opposition to the Iraq war, said: "Mr Blair, this is for Iraq."
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=487352005
Asian IMF?
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6ce45976-bdbe-11d9-87aa-00000e2511c8.html
In a clear sign that the Bush administration's anger over Israeli-Chinese military ties is nearing a boiling point, the Pentagon is suspending information-sharing with Jerusalem on a key fighter-jet program.
http://forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20050504937
[Support those troops.]
The US Supreme Court decided last week not to accept an appeal from a group of American soldiers who had won a lawsuit against the regime of Saddam Hussein, charging they were tortured while held prisoner during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The court action, taken at the urging of the Bush administration, overturns an award of $959 million in damages.
The position taken by the White House and Department of Justice in this case reveals the real attitude of the leaders of American imperialism toward the soldiers they send into battle. The Bush administration initially encouraged the lawsuit, using it as a club against the Iraqi government. Once control of Iraq’s resources passed into the hands of the United States, however, Washington’s posture changed abruptly, and the claims of the former POWs were rudely set aside.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/pows-m06.shtml
[Exhibit 9 million]
Mayor James E. West, a Republican foe of gay rights, was accused in a newspaper story Thursday of molesting two boys decades ago and was caught by the paper using the trappings of his office to try to court a young man on a gay online chat room.
West on Thursday denied the molestation allegations, but acknowledged he "had relations with adult men."
He admitted offering autographed sports memorabilia and a possible City Hall internship to what he thought was an 18-year-old man on the Web site Gay.com. The man was actually a private computer expert hired by The Spokesman-Review as part of a journalism sting operation.
West, 54, a former Boy Scout leader and Army paratrooper who was married briefly in the 1990s, denied that the online offers constituted abuse of his office, and he said he would serve out the more than three years remaining in his term.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050506/ap_on_re_us/mayor_sex_allegations
A gasoline price war erupted in St. Mary's County last week after one station slashed its price for regular to $1.999 a gallon and spurred three others to follow suit, giving drivers some hope of relief at the pump.
But the price dip proved fleeting.
Maryland regulators quickly stepped in and told the stations that their prices were too low. They needed to go up by 5 cents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050502032.html
The Feds had a live one on the end of the line, and they slowly but surely reeled him in, gathering plenty of evidence before they confronted him. They were after much bigger fish. After all, as Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder reported last year and again on the occasion of Franklin's arrest, FBI counterintelligence had been watching the Israelis and their American fifth column for "more than two years." "According to officials with direct knowledge," writes Strobel,
"The investigation has been under way since at least 2002, and it has involved FBI interviews with officials in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office and elsewhere in the executive branch."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5857
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