If the restrictions are approved

But Dr Osborn added: "I don't want to say sea-level rise isn't going to happen, as even if you only have a one-metre rise it will cause significant problems.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=710322005

A dark, lake-like feature on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been imaged by the US-European Cassini spacecraft.

Researchers have long speculated that Titan might harbour open bodies of liquid methane - and the 235km by 75km target is the best candidate to date
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4633043.stm

7.1 pm

Mr. Jamie Reed (Copeland) (Lab): I crave the indulgence of the House in interrupting such an important and enjoyable debate to deliver my maiden speech. Furthermore, as the first Jedi Member of this place, I look forward to the protection under the law that will be provided to me by the Bill. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mr. Malik) for his convincing and searing testimony in support of the proposed legislation. It will be a privilege to serve alongside him.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050621/debtext/50621-23.htm#50621-23_spnew3

n a new study published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 27-July 1), Michael Spivey, a psycholinguist and associate professor of psychology at Cornell, tracked the mouse movements of undergraduate students while working at a computer. The findings provide compelling evidence that language comprehension is a continuous process
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June05/new.mind.model.ssl.html

Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a person's lifetime, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded Wednesday. It rejected some scientists' arguments that tiny doses are harmless or may in fact be beneficial.
 
The findings could influence the maximum radiation levels that are allowed at abandoned reactors and other nuclear sites. The conclusions also raise warnings about excessive exposure to radiation for medical purposes such as repeated whole-body CT scans.
http://www.rense.com/general66/caise.htm

[The foot prints in the photo look a bit fake to me.]

Something mighty strange is at large in Auckland and appears to be making its home in the Domain. The creature for it is definitely an animal only comes out at night. Then, it roams free through the huge park, leaving behind large, never-before-seen footprints, and unusual, unidentifiable droppings
http://www.rense.com/general66/auck.htm

HR 2662 will invite pedophiles, witches, warlocks, Satanists and even 'sinners' to acquire special federal protection from anyone who criticizes them, including pastors. Witches and warlocks in England are, today, lobbying hard for inclusion under Britain,s ADL hate law.
http://www.rense.com/general66/adl.htm

The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships.

The special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, said the claims were rumours at this stage, but urged the US to co-operate with an investigation.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0629-07.htm

Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again? It sure looks like it after the smashing defeat Iran's religious fanatics dealt reformers in the presidential election Friday.

It was a replay of the election in Iraq, in which candidates groomed by Tehran's theocracy herded loyal Shiite followers to the polls to dip their fingers in purple election ink. Only this time the sight of lines of shuffling, chador-clad women voting away their human rights was not applauded by the White House
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0628-28.htm

Under a newly-proposed rule (that will most likely be formally adopted), the EPA would allow pesticide manufacturers to test their products on human "volunteers." The volunteers would include pregnant women and prisoners, as well as newborns and children.
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001595.php

VA Confirms 103,000 Iraq and Afghan Veterans Seek Healthcare: Senate Plans $1.5 Billion Spending Boost for Veteran
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=3777

A New York state lawmaker says he's embarrassed, after he mistakenly sent out an e-mail message that referred to his constituents as "idiots.
http://www.wftv.com/news/4665036/detail.html

[Joked?]

A Lodi businessman and public figure, who didn't want his name used because he thought people would think he was crazy, said he called the Federal Aviation Authority to ask about the planes and was told that the pilots were likely listening to cell phone conversations and using infrared to track people. He was also told the planes were flying out of the Hayward airport.
...
When police officers heard that the planes flying over Lodi were tied to an unknown corporation in Delaware, they weren't surprised.

They joked that the planes overhead are watching their every move, and that if a reporter dug far enough, she'd just vanish one day. They also didn't want their names published.
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/06/29/news/1_planes_050629.txt

Morning announcements at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester generally tread predictable terrain: schedule changes, meeting times, athletic events. But one item exasperated some teens last school year.

At several upcoming social events — a coffeehouse, the Junior Ball — upper-school students would not be permitted to bring non-Jewish dates, it was announced.
http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11031


The Labor Department kept secret for more than a year government studies that supported Democratic opponents of the Bush administration's new Central American trade deal, internal documents show.

The studies, paid for by the department, concluded that several countries the administration wants to be granted free-trade status have poor working conditions and fail to protect workers' rights. The agency dismissed the conclusions as inaccurate and biased, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5106545,00.html

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1599

[I;d like to hear about some non-computer based evidence for this case, but otherwise it seems quite elievable.]

A former Newsday publisher and education bigwig was busted yesterday on charges he collected kiddie porn on his company computer - and tried to destroy the files when the feds started investigating.

Robert Johnson, 59, downloaded two videos, including one called "Real Child Rape," in his office at Bowne & Co., a financial publishing firm where he became chief executive after leaving Newsday in 1994, authorities said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/323582p-276540c.html

If the restrictions are approved, only licensed shops would be able to sell hunting and sporting knives and anyone who wants to buy one will have to provide their personal details to the government as well as a good reason for ownership.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=713332005

Is this a duplicate?

[Hey, here’s an notion for people to think of. Did the DC Republican establishment have it in for Bill Clinton because he was heterosexual? You never saw any photos of him holding hands with Saudi tyrants or playing footsie with Putin or Blair. Anything to that?]


A former Harrisburg police officer who pleaded guilty to charges that he stole and smoked crack cocaine seized as

  evidence was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation
===
The traffic stop for the young couple was terrifying enough when an Illinois state trooper ordered the pair to strip naked, lie in a nearby ditch and urinate.
===
A Flagstaff police officer fired after being accused of stealing money from a man he'd arrested is sentenced to two years' probation. David T. Dyer pleaded guilty last month to one count of felony theft, which could have put him in prison for about two years
===
A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
===
Officers at the Saline County Detention Center confirmed on Saturday that Gary Crabtree, 53, former police chief for the city of Harrisburg, posted bond at the Saline County Court-house on Friday after being charged in Saline County.
===
A former Va. Beach police officer must stay on good behavior for two years or go to jail on a drug conviction
===
A city police sergeant was charged Tuesday with killing his estranged wife, then shooting his best friend inside the wife's Brooklyn apartment more than four years ago.
===
A prominent longtime local law officer has been arrested. Joe Guarascio was arrested on misdemeanor stalking charges.
===
Former Albany Police Department Corporal Lynn Johnson was sentenced to 12 months probation this morning after pleading guilty to misdemeanor pandering, on a November, 2004 arrest.
===
Kevin Fox was released from jail Friday afternoon after spending nearly 8 months behind bars, Jacobson reported. Fox was accused in the sexual assault and killing of his daughter, Riley, whose body was found in a creek near her Wilmington home in June 2004.
...
The charges were dropped at a courtroom hearing Friday.
...
NBC5's Amy Jacobson reported that current Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow blamed the previous administration for sitting on the evidence, and not processing the DNA. More than a year ago, the DNA evidence taken from the crime scene and from Riley Fox's body was taken to the FBI lab in Quantico, Va. Nothing was ever done with it.
===
Cop, guilty on 50 counts, gets 63 months

TEXAS -- The one-time top law enforcement officer in the town of Kendleton was sentenced to approximately five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution fees totaling more than $390,000 Thursday.
===
The Westmoreland County sheriff's deputy arrested last month in a prostitution sting waived charges to court Wednesday in New Kensington and will be granted accelerated rehabilitative disposition, his attorney said.
===
State officials say a 21-year-old state correctional officer has been charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree attempted murder in the stabbing of an inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center.
===
Despite having been investigated by IA ten times since 1997, Salvo has been punished only once -- a written reprimand for improperly distributing fliers at police headquarters. In 2003, Salvo was named the department's Officer of the Year
===
A city police officer accused of punching his son and hitting him with a belt faces aggravated assault and child endangerment charges, an arrest warrant states.
===
A corrections officer accused of stealing a candy bar from a commissary for inmates has resigned
===
A former state correctional officer was charged Thursday with raping an inmate and fathering her baby, the State Attorney's Office said.
===
State agents have arrested a former Holly Hill police officer they say dropped traffic charges against women after asking to videotape them stripping
===
A jail officer accused of exposing himself to a female inmate while putting handcuffs on her at the Regional Justice Center in Kent now faces a criminal charge
===
Deputies arrested an Okeechobee Department of Corrections officer known as "Big Jack" in Fort Pierce Tuesday afternoon on charges of possessing marijuana to smuggle it into a correction facility.
===
A San Francisco police officer sits in a Solano County jail Tuesday facing some serious charges. Police arrested Ricky Shaddox Monday on an outstanding warrant out of Vacaville. He faces several charges including resisting arrest, making a terrorist threat and brandishing a firearm to prevent arrest
===
A fired Rockwall County sheriff's deputy has been indicted on a charge of indecency with a child with sexual contact.
===
A former Springfield police officer faces federal charges in an alleged bank fraud scheme in New Hampshire
===
Florio, an ex-cop who retired on a disability pension in 1993, was also known as Fifi, as he often took his small dog with him when it was time to collect the payments, police said.
===
Charges are still pending against a Pineville police officer arrested Sunday evening for driving while intoxicated
===
A former San Antonio-area police officers has been sentenced to almost 39 years in prison for the rape of one woman and sexual assaults of five others while on duty. A federal jury in San Antonio had convicted former Balcones Heights Officer Dwaun Jabbar Guidry in January of four civil rights charges
===
A prosecutor plans to charge a former Dillon police officer with assault after he was captured on videotape beating a suspect in a traffic stop.
===
An East St. Louis Police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in East St. Louis to two counts of aiding and abetting attempted wire fraud
===
Bond has been denied today for a former South Texas sheriff accused of leading a criminal enterprise while in office
===
Memphis police officer David Tate struck a deal with the U.S. Attorney's office, and filed a motion to change his plea.

His attorney wouldn't go into the specifics of the deal, but a hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday. Tate is charged with taking prostitutes to Tunica casinos, transporting illegal drugs, accepting bribe money and plotting to rob and kill professional wrestler Jerry Lawler
===
http://www.unknownnews.org/050621stinkybadges.html

But what started a few weeks ago as a story about the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) making a strange investment in an antique coin collection has ballooned into hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of embezzlement, fraud and illegal campaign contributions involving many of the state's top Republicans, including the governor and most of the state's Supreme Court.

The story has gotten so convoluted and the corruption is so widespread that it makes you dizzy trying to keep up with it. (Remember the good old days when there used to be just one or two outrageous crimes per scandal?) But here are some of the basics so far:
http://www.unknownnews.org/0506210621Coingate.html

The experts also believe that when the Romans arrived in Chichester they were welcomed as liberators by ancient Britons who were delighted when the "invaders" overthrew a series of brutal tribal kings guilty of terrorising southern England.

The conventional story of the landing, at Richborough, Kent, in AD43, of 40,000 Roman soldiers who then marched through the English countryside conquering all before them, is being questioned by Dr David Rudkin, a Roman expert, who led the research.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=706092005

A pacemaker-style implant shown in early trials to relieve the symptoms of severe depression could be available to treat British patients by next year.
 
Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already in use for Parkinson's disease sufferers, is reported to have had immediate and dramatic effects on most of the handful of Canadian patients on whom the technique has been tested.
http://www.rense.com/general66/brain.htm

Refinery Output and Final Products
http://www.lmoga.com/refoutput.htm

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/pakistan.internet.reut/index.html

At least two Florida counties are balking at paperless touch-screen voting machines — and risking lawsuits — as state and federal deadlines loom for buying equipment that allows disabled voters to cast ballots without assistance
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/06/27/s1b_voting_0627.html

There’s only one country that has completely removed the dollar from its economy and due to its size this is really only a symbolic role. Thanks to a bartering arrangement with Venezuela for oil, Cuba fairly recently was able to do away with the dollar from the island completely. Cuba needed about $4 million dollars per day for the purchase of oil on the world market now they no longer need to accumulate this amount.
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/articles/51?POSTNUKESID=d943c6598e2c7dddc03382d400eaa72f

Simmons writes in Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. "Saudi Arabian production," he adds, italicizing his claims to drive home his point, "is at or very near its peak sustainable volume ... and it is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF29Ak01.html

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/28/the_ war_on_burmas_women/

Boston Globe

The War on Burma's Women

June 28, 2005

by Charm Tong

 

IT HAS BEEN three years since the report ''License to Rape" exposed to the world how troops of the Burmese military regime have been committing systematic sexual violence against women in Shan state, one of the ethnic regions of Burma where civil war has been continuing for more than four decades. The report, by the Shan Human Rights Foundation and the Shan Women's Action Network, documented the rape of more than 600 women by Burmese troops.

 

Regrettably, despite increased international awareness of the problem of state-sponsored sexual violence in Burma following the report, the suffering of women in the wartorn ethnic areas of Burma is continuing. The Burmese regime is still using rape as a weapon of war to terrorize, demoralize, and control local communities. Hundreds more women have been raped during the last few years.

 

Burmese military personnel, including high-ranking officers, are raping with impunity. Women who are seven months pregnant are being gang raped. Girls are being kept for forced labor during the day and raped at night for periods of months. Mothers and daughters are being raped together. Girls as young as 4 are being raped.

 

Some stories are hard for many of us today to imagine. A woman, now insane, weeps over the photo of her 14-year-old daughter, who was raped and burned alive by Burmese troops.

 

Another woman tells how a commander dragged her to a bed in a hut, raped her, then beat her unconscious. She awoke to find herself lying naked and her sister's dead body outside the hut.

 

The sexual violence is happening not only in Shan state but in other ethnic areas. Last year, the Karen Women's Organization released a report detailing 125 incidents of rape by the regime's troops in Karen state. The Women's League of Burma, an umbrella organization of 12 women's groups, also released a report entitled ''System of Impunity" exposing a nationwide pattern of sexual violence by the regime's troops.

 

Women and girls throughout the country are increasingly at risk from military sexual violence, whether they are in civil war zones, cease-fire areas, or ''nonconflict" areas.

 

The recent rape and murder of the young daughter of a Burmese Army soldier by a fellow officer in April 2005 has shown that even families of the regime's army are now suffering the consequences of the ''License to Rape" policy.

 

The countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations and other neighboring states bordering Burma continue to disregard human rights abuses in their dealings with Burma. There have been constant calls by women of Burma, particularly ethnic women, to condemn the regime and push for genuine political reform in Burma. This is the only way to end the regime's rape policies.

 

Some ASEAN countries have properly felt compelled to debate in public whether the junta should assume the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2006. The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Caucus, composed of members of parliament from throughout the region, is calling for political reform. If the ASEAN legislators want a real change in Burma they must not ignore sexual violence authorized by the military junta.

 

Political repression in Burma has intensified in recent months. Last February, Hkun Htun Oo, chairman of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, and other Shan state leaders were arrested by the junta and remain imprisoned. Ethnic resistance leaders who had made cease-fire agreements with the regime are now being forced to disarm and surrender. Fierce military offensives along the Thai-Burmese border are causing increased numbers of internally displaced persons and unabated flows of refugees into Thailand.

 

But does this mean we will surrender to this regime, with its battalions of rapists? The answer is no. We owe this to the women who have dared speak out about the sexual violence committed against them. Women who relate their stories say that each time they talk about rape it is like they are being raped again. Yet they have been brave enough to speak out in order that one day the violence can end.

 

Rape survivors say that all they want is to return home and to live in peace, without fear of the regime's troops. Last week we marked the 60th birthday of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest in Burma's capital. Let us be inspired to continue the struggle to restore democracy and peace in Burma, and to fulfill the wishes of these brave women.

Charm Tong is an advocacy team member of the Shan Women's Action Network and recipient of the 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award.



In the US, the New York Senate last week passed a bill that would prohibit the administration of any vaccine containing more than a trace amount of mercury to children under the age of three or pregnant women.
http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=60916-new-york-bans

U.S. and South Korean forces can deter and defeat North Korea regardless of whether the reclusive communist state has one or several nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. military officer said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.
http://www.rense.com/general66/seoul.htm

Look, is there really anybody left who naively thinks the American Constitution is anything but a dead letter? The law is whatever the courts, the Administration and millions of mindless bureaucrats say it is. And that changes from day to day, place to place and petty tyrant to petty tyrant. This is government by men, not by law. That's why the law keeps changing, of course, just like high-priced hookers (also known as trollops) change outfits to suit their current Johns. And there is a purposeful and very obvious trend and objective to the changes that have been taking place in our courts.
http://www.rense.com/general66/rtroll.htm

there is a purposeful and very obvious trend

[Hey, here’s an notion for people to think of. Did the DC Republican establishment have it in for Bill Clinton because he was heterosexual? You never saw any photos of him holding hands with Saudi tyrants or playing footsie with Putin or Blair. Anything to that?]


A former Harrisburg police officer who pleaded guilty to charges that he stole and smoked crack cocaine seized as

  evidence was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation
===
The traffic stop for the young couple was terrifying enough when an Illinois state trooper ordered the pair to strip naked, lie in a nearby ditch and urinate.
===
A Flagstaff police officer fired after being accused of stealing money from a man he'd arrested is sentenced to two years' probation. David T. Dyer pleaded guilty last month to one count of felony theft, which could have put him in prison for about two years
===
A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
===
Officers at the Saline County Detention Center confirmed on Saturday that Gary Crabtree, 53, former police chief for the city of Harrisburg, posted bond at the Saline County Court-house on Friday after being charged in Saline County.
===
A former Va. Beach police officer must stay on good behavior for two years or go to jail on a drug conviction
===
A city police sergeant was charged Tuesday with killing his estranged wife, then shooting his best friend inside the wife's Brooklyn apartment more than four years ago.
===
A prominent longtime local law officer has been arrested. Joe Guarascio was arrested on misdemeanor stalking charges.
===
Former Albany Police Department Corporal Lynn Johnson was sentenced to 12 months probation this morning after pleading guilty to misdemeanor pandering, on a November, 2004 arrest.
===
Kevin Fox was released from jail Friday afternoon after spending nearly 8 months behind bars, Jacobson reported. Fox was accused in the sexual assault and killing of his daughter, Riley, whose body was found in a creek near her Wilmington home in June 2004.
...
The charges were dropped at a courtroom hearing Friday.
...
NBC5's Amy Jacobson reported that current Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow blamed the previous administration for sitting on the evidence, and not processing the DNA. More than a year ago, the DNA evidence taken from the crime scene and from Riley Fox's body was taken to the FBI lab in Quantico, Va. Nothing was ever done with it.
===
Cop, guilty on 50 counts, gets 63 months

TEXAS -- The one-time top law enforcement officer in the town of Kendleton was sentenced to approximately five years in prison and ordered to pay restitution fees totaling more than $390,000 Thursday.
===
The Westmoreland County sheriff's deputy arrested last month in a prostitution sting waived charges to court Wednesday in New Kensington and will be granted accelerated rehabilitative disposition, his attorney said.
===
State officials say a 21-year-old state correctional officer has been charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree attempted murder in the stabbing of an inmate at the Baltimore City Detention Center.
===
Despite having been investigated by IA ten times since 1997, Salvo has been punished only once -- a written reprimand for improperly distributing fliers at police headquarters. In 2003, Salvo was named the department's Officer of the Year
===
A city police officer accused of punching his son and hitting him with a belt faces aggravated assault and child endangerment charges, an arrest warrant states.
===
A corrections officer accused of stealing a candy bar from a commissary for inmates has resigned
===
A former state correctional officer was charged Thursday with raping an inmate and fathering her baby, the State Attorney's Office said.
===
State agents have arrested a former Holly Hill police officer they say dropped traffic charges against women after asking to videotape them stripping
===
A jail officer accused of exposing himself to a female inmate while putting handcuffs on her at the Regional Justice Center in Kent now faces a criminal charge
===
Deputies arrested an Okeechobee Department of Corrections officer known as "Big Jack" in Fort Pierce Tuesday afternoon on charges of possessing marijuana to smuggle it into a correction facility.
===
A San Francisco police officer sits in a Solano County jail Tuesday facing some serious charges. Police arrested Ricky Shaddox Monday on an outstanding warrant out of Vacaville. He faces several charges including resisting arrest, making a terrorist threat and brandishing a firearm to prevent arrest
===
A fired Rockwall County sheriff's deputy has been indicted on a charge of indecency with a child with sexual contact.
===
A former Springfield police officer faces federal charges in an alleged bank fraud scheme in New Hampshire
===
Florio, an ex-cop who retired on a disability pension in 1993, was also known as Fifi, as he often took his small dog with him when it was time to collect the payments, police said.
===
Charges are still pending against a Pineville police officer arrested Sunday evening for driving while intoxicated
===
A former San Antonio-area police officers has been sentenced to almost 39 years in prison for the rape of one woman and sexual assaults of five others while on duty. A federal jury in San Antonio had convicted former Balcones Heights Officer Dwaun Jabbar Guidry in January of four civil rights charges
===
A prosecutor plans to charge a former Dillon police officer with assault after he was captured on videotape beating a suspect in a traffic stop.
===
An East St. Louis Police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in East St. Louis to two counts of aiding and abetting attempted wire fraud
===
Bond has been denied today for a former South Texas sheriff accused of leading a criminal enterprise while in office
===
Memphis police officer David Tate struck a deal with the U.S. Attorney's office, and filed a motion to change his plea.

His attorney wouldn't go into the specifics of the deal, but a hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday. Tate is charged with taking prostitutes to Tunica casinos, transporting illegal drugs, accepting bribe money and plotting to rob and kill professional wrestler Jerry Lawler
===
http://www.unknownnews.org/050621stinkybadges.html

But what started a few weeks ago as a story about the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) making a strange investment in an antique coin collection has ballooned into hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of embezzlement, fraud and illegal campaign contributions involving many of the state's top Republicans, including the governor and most of the state's Supreme Court.

The story has gotten so convoluted and the corruption is so widespread that it makes you dizzy trying to keep up with it. (Remember the good old days when there used to be just one or two outrageous crimes per scandal?) But here are some of the basics so far:
http://www.unknownnews.org/0506210621Coingate.html

The experts also believe that when the Romans arrived in Chichester they were welcomed as liberators by ancient Britons who were delighted when the "invaders" overthrew a series of brutal tribal kings guilty of terrorising southern England.

The conventional story of the landing, at Richborough, Kent, in AD43, of 40,000 Roman soldiers who then marched through the English countryside conquering all before them, is being questioned by Dr David Rudkin, a Roman expert, who led the research.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=706092005

A pacemaker-style implant shown in early trials to relieve the symptoms of severe depression could be available to treat British patients by next year.
 
Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already in use for Parkinson's disease sufferers, is reported to have had immediate and dramatic effects on most of the handful of Canadian patients on whom the technique has been tested.
http://www.rense.com/general66/brain.htm

Refinery Output and Final Products
http://www.lmoga.com/refoutput.htm

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/28/pakistan.internet.reut/index.html

At least two Florida counties are balking at paperless touch-screen voting machines — and risking lawsuits — as state and federal deadlines loom for buying equipment that allows disabled voters to cast ballots without assistance
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/06/27/s1b_voting_0627.html

There’s only one country that has completely removed the dollar from its economy and due to its size this is really only a symbolic role. Thanks to a bartering arrangement with Venezuela for oil, Cuba fairly recently was able to do away with the dollar from the island completely. Cuba needed about $4 million dollars per day for the purchase of oil on the world market now they no longer need to accumulate this amount.
http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/articles/51?POSTNUKESID=d943c6598e2c7dddc03382d400eaa72f

Simmons writes in Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. "Saudi Arabian production," he adds, italicizing his claims to drive home his point, "is at or very near its peak sustainable volume ... and it is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF29Ak01.html

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/28/the_ war_on_burmas_women/

Boston Globe

The War on Burma's Women

June 28, 2005

by Charm Tong

 

IT HAS BEEN three years since the report ''License to Rape" exposed to the world how troops of the Burmese military regime have been committing systematic sexual violence against women in Shan state, one of the ethnic regions of Burma where civil war has been continuing for more than four decades. The report, by the Shan Human Rights Foundation and the Shan Women's Action Network, documented the rape of more than 600 women by Burmese troops.

 

Regrettably, despite increased international awareness of the problem of state-sponsored sexual violence in Burma following the report, the suffering of women in the wartorn ethnic areas of Burma is continuing. The Burmese regime is still using rape as a weapon of war to terrorize, demoralize, and control local communities. Hundreds more women have been raped during the last few years.

 

Burmese military personnel, including high-ranking officers, are raping with impunity. Women who are seven months pregnant are being gang raped. Girls are being kept for forced labor during the day and raped at night for periods of months. Mothers and daughters are being raped together. Girls as young as 4 are being raped.

 

Some stories are hard for many of us today to imagine. A woman, now insane, weeps over the photo of her 14-year-old daughter, who was raped and burned alive by Burmese troops.

 

Another woman tells how a commander dragged her to a bed in a hut, raped her, then beat her unconscious. She awoke to find herself lying naked and her sister's dead body outside the hut.

 

The sexual violence is happening not only in Shan state but in other ethnic areas. Last year, the Karen Women's Organization released a report detailing 125 incidents of rape by the regime's troops in Karen state. The Women's League of Burma, an umbrella organization of 12 women's groups, also released a report entitled ''System of Impunity" exposing a nationwide pattern of sexual violence by the regime's troops.

 

Women and girls throughout the country are increasingly at risk from military sexual violence, whether they are in civil war zones, cease-fire areas, or ''nonconflict" areas.

 

The recent rape and murder of the young daughter of a Burmese Army soldier by a fellow officer in April 2005 has shown that even families of the regime's army are now suffering the consequences of the ''License to Rape" policy.

 

The countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations and other neighboring states bordering Burma continue to disregard human rights abuses in their dealings with Burma. There have been constant calls by women of Burma, particularly ethnic women, to condemn the regime and push for genuine political reform in Burma. This is the only way to end the regime's rape policies.

 

Some ASEAN countries have properly felt compelled to debate in public whether the junta should assume the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2006. The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Caucus, composed of members of parliament from throughout the region, is calling for political reform. If the ASEAN legislators want a real change in Burma they must not ignore sexual violence authorized by the military junta.

 

Political repression in Burma has intensified in recent months. Last February, Hkun Htun Oo, chairman of the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, and other Shan state leaders were arrested by the junta and remain imprisoned. Ethnic resistance leaders who had made cease-fire agreements with the regime are now being forced to disarm and surrender. Fierce military offensives along the Thai-Burmese border are causing increased numbers of internally displaced persons and unabated flows of refugees into Thailand.

 

But does this mean we will surrender to this regime, with its battalions of rapists? The answer is no. We owe this to the women who have dared speak out about the sexual violence committed against them. Women who relate their stories say that each time they talk about rape it is like they are being raped again. Yet they have been brave enough to speak out in order that one day the violence can end.

 

Rape survivors say that all they want is to return home and to live in peace, without fear of the regime's troops. Last week we marked the 60th birthday of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest in Burma's capital. Let us be inspired to continue the struggle to restore democracy and peace in Burma, and to fulfill the wishes of these brave women.

Charm Tong is an advocacy team member of the Shan Women's Action Network and recipient of the 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award.



In the US, the New York Senate last week passed a bill that would prohibit the administration of any vaccine containing more than a trace amount of mercury to children under the age of three or pregnant women.
http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=60916-new-york-bans

U.S. and South Korean forces can deter and defeat North Korea regardless of whether the reclusive communist state has one or several nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. military officer said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.
http://www.rense.com/general66/seoul.htm

Look, is there really anybody left who naively thinks the American Constitution is anything but a dead letter? The law is whatever the courts, the Administration and millions of mindless bureaucrats say it is. And that changes from day to day, place to place and petty tyrant to petty tyrant. This is government by men, not by law. That's why the law keeps changing, of course, just like high-priced hookers (also known as trollops) change outfits to suit their current Johns. And there is a purposeful and very obvious trend and objective to the changes that have been taking place in our courts.
http://www.rense.com/general66/rtroll.htm

New London homeowners

ve created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html

Wake up Calls

The jury of conscience has just released it’s recommendations after the
culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq came to its
conclusion. I’ll post the news story I wrote on this later, which will
provide more details.

I will add now, as a preface to a letter I received just now from an
Iraqi who asked me to pass it on to the American people, that the jury
made the following recommendations:

“The recommendations made by the jury included the demand for an
immediate, unconditional withdraw of all occupation forces, the
governments of the coalition to pay full compensation to Iraqis for any
and all damages, and that all laws, contracts, treaties and institutions
created under the occupation that Iraqi people deem harmful or un-useful
to them be banished.

Other recommendations included immediate investigations of crimes
against humanity for Mr. George Bush, Tony Blair, and every other
president of countries belonging to the coalition. In addition, the jury
called for a process of accountability to begin to bring justice to
journalists and media outlets that lied and promoted the violence
against Iraq, as well as including corporations who have profited from
the war.”

Here is the letter from my friend:

> From an Iraqi citizen to the American people:

We always have thought that you are citizens; away from the savageness
which controls
many people in the world because you suffered from the injustice of your
own occupation
more than two hundred and fifty years ago. Therefore, you picked up
weapons against the occupiers until you forced him to go out of your
state which was a great victory for you.

Naturally, this occupier was giving unreasonable justifications for his
stay in your country. Like any occupation, no country ever admit that
they occupy some land but always says that they are a liberator of the
people who are then unable to govern themselves and so on…

Such reasons cannot change the origin of occupation.

Nowadays, your army is occupying our homeland, destroying our homes and
killing our men, women, and our children. The occupation is leaving this
country full of chaos to the point we are now facing so many disasters,
including suffering from looting and robbery.

Sudden attacks and cruel murders have been perpetrated by your army who
then prevent all people from submitting judicial complaints. This
encourages all soldiers to kill thoughtlessly without any threat of trial.

We have seen our Holy Quran desecrated by soldiers, but you continue to
say your soldiers do not do what the Mogul and Barbarians did in the
lands they occupied.

Your soldiers did many immoral acts but your government leaders have
done even more.

We, the Iraqi people, do not put the responsibility of this on your
shoulders because you are a people and not your government. But when the
people have a decision in the fate of their country and decide to go in
a direction which only benefits the government, this means that the
people are satisfied with their governments’ actions.

When you elected Mr. Bush for the second time, this was a declaration
from you of being satisfied with all his acts in violation of the
holiness of a state which shares a place with yours in the United
Nations Security Council

Has the age of occupation returned back to a place where agreements and
treaties and international laws which forbid aggression are useless?
When the people who chose to defend their land and reject the occupier
are then described by your government as a terrorist? How long have you
heard that an occupation which continues will have no resistance against
it? Do you refer to the patriots of your own country as terrorists in
your history books?

Have you ever heard that there is a peaceful occupation? One that ended
in victory for the occupier?

American people, please remember the land of Iraq and remember the Iraqi
people and think of yourselves as if you were in our place. In this way
you will realize what Iraqis suffer.

I am an Iraqi who bears no grudge against any person all over the world.
We simply wish that other people may realize our suffering now,
especially the people who do not support their thoughtless governments
and their aggressive acts. For the people who support these corrupted
governments will be responsible for them, and history will hold them
responsible for allowing this tragedy to have occurred.

This will be a shame on their ancestors who will not be able to hide
this black page of history.

Thank to the American people for listening attentively, and I am wishing
you reasonableness and the ability to comprehend the truth.

By his account, Tom Cruise owes his cool head, defeat of dyslexia and, in a way, his unstoppable stardom to Scientology.

But Scientology has much to thank Tom Cruise for as well. His glowing adherence to Scientology and the initiation of his bride-to-be, actress Katie Holmes, into the off-beat and oft-maligned system of beliefs has stirred a surge of interest.

The search engine company Lycos reported that “Scientology” had leaped into the top 50 search terms last week for the first time, hitting 37, marking a 260 percent increase in interest — a spike the company attributed to the Cruise-Holmes effect. In fact, said Lycos in a press release, Scientology was now the most-searched-for “ology,” acing out the likes of geology, technology and astrology
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8333804/print/1/displaymode/1098/

Jeff, this was just an intellectual exercise for me and done because of my extensive familiarity with Zionist propaganda for many years. Robert Fisk is, in my opinion, the world's top journalist. He's in a league of his own. I hope you post my email, so that a proper journalist somewhere will be able to contact Robert Fisk and get his response.
 
I found it despicable that a respected newspaper such as The Independent, would stoop to creating such a peculiar website IN ROBERT FISK'S NAME for dissemination of Zionist propaganda, without clearly stating the names of the people who created it
http://www.rense.com/general66/fisk.htm

Those are all physical solutions. There is another possibility, one with no physical substance but plenty of shielding power: a force field.

Most of the dangerous radiation in space consists of electrically charged particles: high-speed electrons and protons from the Sun, and massive, positively charged atomic nuclei from distant supernovas.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/radiation-05k.html

Now a new study partially funded by NASA and using data from several NASA instruments has shown that those late 2003 solar storms, which deposited huge quantities of energetic solar particles into Earth's atmosphere, combined forces with another natural atmospheric process last spring to produce the largest decline ever recorded in upper stratospheric ozone over the Arctic and the northern areas of North America, Europe and Asia
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/ozone-05h.html

n the Spring of 1982, Iraq teetered on the brink of losing its
war with Iran. In May and June, 1982, the Iranians discovered a gap in
the Iraqi defenses along the Iran-Iraq border between Baghdad to the north
and Basra to the south. Iran positioned a massive invasion force directly
across from the gap in the Iraqi defenses. An Iranian breakthrough at the
spot would have cutoff Baghdad from Basra and would have resulted in
Iraq's defeat.

4. United States Intelligence, including satellite imagery, had
detected both the gap in the Iraqi defenses and the Iranian massing of
troops across from the gap. At the time, the United States was officially
neutral in the Iran-Iraq conflict.

5. President Reagan was forced to choose between (a) maintaining
strict neutrality and allowing Iran to defeat Iraq, or (b) intervening and
providing assistance to Iraq.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/iraqgate.htm

World oil prices soared past the psychological barrier of 60 dollars in Asian trading today, with the benchmark New York contract hitting a record high of 60.45 dollars a barrel.
http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13882180

LOUISVILLE, COLORADO -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/27/05 -- Remember a chalkboard full of math problems at the head of a classroom back in grade school? Did you ever erase that board? Did you realize that everything that was recorded on the chalkboard was lost forever once you erased it? It may have been of little consequence back then, but what if you erased your country’s ability to function?

Today, after 229 years of building a successful society, our political leaders and corporations force citizens into an experiment that will erase America. The Free Trade Areas of the Americas will destroy America’s most precious treasure: sovereignty. They’re forcing us into another kind of merger like the European Union. Those are all First World countries. We’re forced to open our borders to failed governments and economies in Mexico, Central and South America.
http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20308

There is increasing evidence that units of the Pentagon, operating under the authority of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretary for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, and Deputy Undersecretary of Intelligence Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, are operating outside U.S. domestic law and routinely violating international treaties and laws ratified by the United States. The covert Pentagon units, operating under an "above top secret" carve out program called Task Force 121(TF 121) (at last report), and drawing from special operations personnel in the Army's Delta Force, Green Berets, the Navy SEALS, British Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS), and various ex-U.S. and foreign intelligence and Special Operations (including British SAS, Israeli Sayaret Mat'kal, and South African Recce Commandos) personnel hired from shadowy private contractors, are now being linked to illegal kidnapings, posing as U.S. law enforcement agents (including FBI agents) and journalists, and assassinations of foreign political leaders.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm

Part of what makes reprocessing so bad is the hazards of handling the radioactive materials involved. The processing involved in Np-237 Pu-238 production is vastly different. The hazard from fission-product is essentially nil, because there is no fission product involved. But Pu-238 is 247 times more toxic (by weight) than Pu-239. Both Pu-238 and Pu-239 are routinely handled with rubber gloves because the radiation is so non-penetrating. But a single dust speck of either one will cause certain lung cancer if inhaled. If Pu-239 dust gets loose in a room, then that room becomes uninhabitable, but if Pu-238 dust gets loose in a room, then the whole building becomes uninhabitable. That is the magnitude of the handling risk of this process. (Note, polonium is even more active, 231x more active than Pu-238. It is so energetic it has a reputation for not staying in the containers where it is put.)

Oops, killed earth's human population, just for a space battery:

The planned uses border on insanity when sanely contemplated. If a space-probe such as Cassini burns up in earth's atmosphere, it could kill millions. I've heard that the Environmental Impact Statement for one of these probes says that if it malfunctions in the worst way, then it could adversely affect one billion people. I've seen published statements minimizing the dangers of the probes. One of these "worst-case" analyses neglects to factor in the increased toxicity of Pu-238 relative to Pu-239 and also the increased risk of inhalation due to smaller lethal particle size, so its estimates have to be multiplied by 247 for the isotope, and again by at least 6.25 to account for reduced falling rate of a particle 1/247 the weight and 1/6.25 the diameter.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/d1v/pu238.htm

Former MI5 agent David Shayler, who previously blew the whistle on the British government paying Al Qaeda $200,000 to carry out political assassinations, has gone on the record with his conviction that 9/11 was an inside job meant to bring about a permanent state of emergency in America and pave the way for the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and ultimately Iran and Syria.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/270605insidejob.htm

Project managers say that most if not all of the new plutonium is intended for secret missions and declined to divulge any details.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/06/26/news/nuke.php

Six months after the Asian tsunami, a leading international charity says the poorest victims have benefited the least from the massive relief effort.

A survey by Oxfam found that aid had tended to go to businesses and landowners, exacerbating the divide between rich and poor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4621365.stm

The SPP builds upon, but is separate from, our long-standing trade and economic relationships, and it energizes other aspects of our cooperative relations, such as the protection of our environment, our food supply, and our public health. The issues of immigration and trade disputes will be dealt with outside the SPP thru existing treaties and congressional action.
http://www.spp.gov/spp/factsheet.asp

"The court has erased the Public Use Clause from our Constitution".
...
As Corsetti wrote,
 
"Ultimately, all 465 acres of Poletown was cleared and GM built the plant. The auto plant opening was delayed a year and employed less than half the promised 6,500 workers. By one account more jobs were lost from the destruction of Poletown than were created by the factory. The city also believed that the new plant would attract other, feeder plants, nearby. They never materialized, and with tax abatements and other incentives, it was a fiscal disaster for the city."

http://www.rense.com/general66/deu.htm

[true false?]

According to Charles Perkins, who was appointed post-war head of the German chemical giant I.G. Farben, “The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children’s teeth…The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination, control and loss of liberty…The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies…Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual’s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him.”
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/115676.php

William von Winkle's apartment tenants were forcibly evicted and locked out from their homes in the early morning hours during winter with snow on the ground, before the city even owned the property. Von Winkle had to break back into his own apartment block to prevent his tenants from freezing to death.

Cristofaro said 75 different families, most elderly and sick, were subject to this brutal torment.

This website telephoned several of Cristofaro's neighbors in the area and they confirmed that they had also been subjected to this persecution.

Imagine if your neighbour hired a bulldozer, parked it outside your house, and started revving it up and threatening to demolish your property if you didn't sign a document and hand your home over to him. He'd go to jail but the city government can do it to elderly people and the Supreme Court backs them up every inch of the way.
...
Support these brave residents in their stance against the New London city Mafia government and the New London Development Corporation. E mail this news article to all the radio hosts, World Net Daily, the Drudge Report, all the TV news stations, your Congressmen and Senators. The mainstream media ignored the very worst aspects of the case, the Soviet style harassment and intimidation of the New London homeowners. Demand that they bring these details to their reader's attention.

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/240605newdevelopments.htm

Where do you keep most of your private

[Further to the people drowning thing, we just had another one. Yet another person who didn’t know how to swim who randomly decided to go swimming, also a few other possibles, but I didn’t bother saving them.]

The Bush administration has misused a federal law to detain at least 70 terrorism suspects since the Sept. 11 attacks, two advocacy groups contend.

Administration officials defend the detentions by pointing out that judges approved material witness warrants.

The material witness law, enacted in 1984, allows the arrest and detention of witnesses who might flee before testifying in criminal cases.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5099803,00.html

BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLE

On April 20, 2001, at roughly 10:35 AM, a Cessna 185 pontoon plane carrying three missionaries and an infant was misidentified as a suspected drug-carrying plane by US pilots contracted by the CIA as part of the Airbridge Program and shot out of the sky outside of Pevas, in the Peruvian Amazon. The pilot, Kevin Donaldson, had his leg shattered by a gunshot fired by a Peruvian fighter jet, a Cessna A-37B Dragonfly, but managed to bring the plane down into the Amazon safely. James Bowers, like Donaldson a missionary with the Association for Baptist World Evangelism, as well as Bower's son Cory, escaped unharmed--but his wife, Veronica Bowers, and their infant adopted daughter Chastity, were both killed by a single bullet that passed through the mother's head and then killed the baby. Donaldson believes the same shot set the engine alight and ricocheted into his leg
http://www.ww4report.com/node/565

Haifa District Court on Sunday determined that Eliran Golan, suspected of attempting to carry out terror attacks on Arabs and Jews in Haifa, is mentally capable of standing trial.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/592379.html

srael has apologised for the spy scandal and has promised it will take steps to ensure no similar incident happens again.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today said she was pleased New Zealand and Israel would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

The relationship has been frosty since Israel refused to apologise for what Miss Clark described as "utterly unacceptable" behaviour surrounding two alleged Mossad agents, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, who were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767


THE American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.

Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected targets” before the war officially started.

The nine months of allied raids “laid the foundations” for the allied victory, Moseley said. They ensured that allied forces did not have to start the war with aprotracted bombardment of Iraqi positions
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1669640,00.html

[This is what Flether Prouty refered to as “fun and games”.]

For 19 American intelligence operatives assigned to apprehend a radical Islamic preacher in Milan two years ago, the mission was equal parts James Bond and taxpayer-financed Italian holiday, according to an Italian investigation of the man's disappearance.

The Americans stayed at some of the finest hotels in Milan, sometimes for as long as six weeks, ringing up tabs of as much as $500 a day on Diners Club accounts created to match their recently forged identities, according to Italian court documents and other records. Then, after abducting their target and flying him to Cairo under the noses of Italian police, some of them rounded out their European trip with long weekends in Venice and Florence before leaving the country, the records show.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/25/AR2005062501127.html

In remarks commemorating United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture June 26, President Bush says freedom from torture is "an inalienable human right."

In a statement released by the White House the same day, Bush said the United States "is committed to building a world where human rights are respected and protected by the rule of law."  He added that the United States is working to expand democracy worldwide and "will help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way."
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=June&x=20050626155951521elootom0.6794702&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

A nuclear war is being waged - not your typical nuclear war of powerful, glowing mushroom-cloud blasts that reduce everything in their paths to blackened, flattened ruin, but a covert nuclear war using a mechanism that is just as deadly but not so obvious.

During the past few wars, starting with the Balkan wars, and the first Gulf War and on to Afghanistan and the current Iraq war, a major "improvement" to weapons has been in use. It was the tipping of munitions - bullets, shells and bombs with so-called Depleted Uranium. So-called because there is nothing really depleted about it. It is just as lethal un-depleted Uranium
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6654

Of course, agents of the American government would do the same thing. Anyone who resists the confiscation of his or her property will be imprisoned. If someone resists imprisonment, that person, too, will be shot and killed. The only difference between the Chinese and the Americans is that Americans are being more amenable to the demands of their government.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44982

Graham called the Clintons "wonderful friends" and "a great couple," quipping that the former president should become an evangelist and allow "his wife to run the country.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050626/ap_on_re_us/billy_graham_14

Dear Friends of Animals Asia,

We are very pleased to let you know that on Saturday, 25th June,
Disney management announced that they have decided to drop Shark's
Fin Soup from the menu at Hong Kong Disneyland! The decision
represents a solid victory for animals in Asia, and it couldn’t have
happened without you. Thanks to all of you who sent letters, emails,
and support. This proves that your voice really does matter!

Warm wishes,
Jill Robinson MBE
Founder & CEO
Animals Asia Foundation

ANIMALS ASIA HAS A BRAND NEW WEBSITE!
Find out more about the "China Bear Rescue" and "Friends.....or Food?":
http://www.animalsasia.org


We had to live in a motel for four and a half months. Not being able to stay in town because of yet another collapsed real estate deal, we had to travel almost an hour to get to our construction site. I slapped cement with my bare hands, hung doors, dug ditches, swept and cleaned up the site, and had to break up near fist fights between subcontractors. We really had to physically, mentally and emotionally work hard to build our home. And now in the same week that I've been threatened by the town council with yet another property tax involving septic tank operations, the Supreme Soviet abolishes ALL property. Where do you keep most of your private property?
http://www.rense.com/general66/supremesandtheprotocols.htm

Those who invented the "786"

"I now wish we could go back to Saddam's time. We suffered then, but not like the suffering nowadays. There is no water or electricity. I can't sleep because of the heat. How are we to live these lives of misery?
http://www.rense.com/general66/bbsh.htm

His eye witness account, ignored by the media and the government, points the finger squarely on an official cover-up at the highest levels since the government contends the WTC fell only from burning jet fuel. And after listening to Rodriguez, it’s easy to see why the Bush administration wants him kept quiet.

Bush wants him quiet because Rodriguez’s account is ‘proof positive’ the WTC was brought down by a controlled demolition, not burning jet fuel. And Bush knows if he’s caught lying about this or caught in a cover-up, it’s just a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes tumbling down
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/28031.htm

Toads and frogs are dying out under pressure from the expansion of agriculture, forestry, pollution, disease and climate change, NatureServe said.
 
"Amphibians are disappearing before our eyes," the report said.
 
Scientists fear they could be indicator species -- a sign of possible future damage to other parts of the ecosystem because frogs and toads are especially vulnerable and thus are the first to disappear.
 
"Disappearing amphibians break links in the food chain, with often unpredictable effects on other organisms," the report said.
http://www.rense.com/general66/bre.htm

An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in US anti-terrorism efforts.

    The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement.

    An Italian newspaper said all 13 were American agents.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062405A.shtml

The brains of players of violent video games react as if the violence were real, a study has suggested.
 
Klaus Mathiak at the University of Aachen in Germany studied the brain patterns of 13 men aged 18 to 26 who, on average, played video games for two hours a day.
http://www.rense.com/general66/br.htm

[This is how our allies feel, imagine the gratitude the iraqis must be feeling.]

They basically picked on me," she said. "At first, I thought it was a joke. Then I just had it out with them and told them I came here to be treated respectfully.

"I have had a few incidents in bars. I had a guy and he heard my accent and he said: 'I hate your president. I hate your country.' "

Another Griffith student has already returned to the US after enduring six months of abuse at the university's residential college in Brisbane.
...
She said some students suffered culture shock because of the belief that everyone loved Americans. "We are giving them the heads up that it is a bit more heated because of the war in Iraq," Ms Houston said.
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,15734656%255E421,00.html

"They created an electrical death trap that even a defense witness admitted was only safe when it was not on," said attorney Ervin A. Gonzalez.
http://www.local6.com/news/4651419/detail.html


The federal government plans to begin checking the name of everyone who applies for a U.S. passport against a list of suspected terrorists and their associates, according to the State Department.
    
    The department's Office of Passport Services is "currently working on an agreement with the Terrorist Screening Center that would provide information on American citizens who are ... considered persons of concern due to a nexus to terrorism or an ongoing investigation," Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Frank Moss told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050623-092102-8001r

With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.

Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice's ceremonial Great Hall.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/24/AR2005062401373_pf.html

Unwanted software slithered into Patti McMann's home computer over the Internet and unleashed an annoying barrage of pop-up ads that sometimes flashed on her screen faster than she could close them.

Annoying, for sure. But the last straw came a year ago when the pop-ups began plugging such household names as J.C. Penney Co. and Capital One Financial Corp., companies McMann expected to know better.

Didn't they realize that trying to reach people through spyware and its ad-delivering subset, called adware, would only alienate them?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=880297

One question Americans should be asking the Bush administration is why it wishes to do such an expensive favor for the Iraqi people.

I cannot think of any instance in which the federal government has been willing to spend $1 billion a week and 1,700 lives just to improve conditions in any one of the 50 states. Yet that is exactly what it is doing in Iraq, presumably for no other reason than to bring the blessings of liberty to a people we have bombed, starved, impoverished and vilified for 14 years
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=6434

VIENNA
In this former imperial capital, every square seems to contain a giant statue of a Habsburg on horseback, posing as a conquering hero.
America's founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That's why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at their own discretion.
But after 9/11 President Bush, with obvious relish, declared himself a "war president." And he kept the nation focused on martial matters by morphing the pursuit of Al Qaeda into a war against Saddam Hussein.
http://dietking.blogspot.com/

A scandal-plagued former sheriff has been charged with leading a criminal enterprise while in office that included extortion, drug trafficking and witness tampering, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

The indictment accuses former Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu of receiving payments from drug traffickers in exchange for releasing sensitive law enforcement during his four years in office starting in 2001. He also is accused of using his official powers to protect and assist the drug traffickers.
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/content.php?aid=24&bid=453&page=#453

The following are but a few of the corporate board interlocks for the big ten media giants in the US:


• New York Times: Caryle Group, Eli Lilly, Ford, Johnson and Johnson, Hallmark, Lehman Brothers, Staples, Pepsi


• Washington Post: Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Dun & Bradstreet, Gillette, G.E. Investments, J.P. Morgan, Moody's


• Knight-Ridder: Adobe Systems, Echelon, H&R Block, Kimberly-Clark, Starwood Hotels


• The Tribune (Chicago & LA Times): 3M, Allstate, Caterpillar, Conoco Phillips, Kraft, McDonalds, Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Shering Plough, Wells Fargo


• News Corp (Fox): British Airways, Rothschild Investments


• GE (NBC): Anheuser-Busch, Avon, Bechtel, Chevron/Texaco, Coca-Cola, Dell, GM, Home Depot, Kellogg, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, Motorola, Procter & Gamble


• Disney (ABC): Boeing, Northwest Airlines, Clorox, Estee Lauder, FedEx, Gillette, Halliburton, Kmart, McKesson, Staples, Yahoo


• Viacom (CBS): American Express, Consolidated Edison, Oracle, Lafarge North America


• Gannett: AP, Lockheed-Martin, Continental Airlines, Goldman Sachs, Prudential, Target, Pepsi


• AOL-Time Warner (CNN): Citigroup, Estee Lauder, Colgate-Palmolive, Hilton
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0624-25.htm


People can (and will) argue as to whether she's taking advantage of a situation but the bottom line is this: it might seem to a DJ or reality show producer funny to set someone up like that to get a reaction out of them, but two things are clear: (1)the law doesn't allow misleading listeners, (2)it doesn't take a rocket scientist to forsee situations in which you are setting yourself up for either huge embarrassment or costly litigation. There ARE precedents:

A prank in Florida led to a similar lawsuit that was settled in 2002. A former waitress claimed Hooters promised to award her a new Toyota car — but instead gave her a toy Yoda.
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1119773729.shtml

A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him alight. He died of his injuries in hospital on Friday
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/26/wrape26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/26/ixworld.html

[Coming out in the open.]
In the past few years she has helped establish three large covens in Sydney and runs workshops on "business magic" from her offices in North Sydney.
http://finance.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,15727217,00.html

NLM: I remember at one time, you'd mentioned that you wanted to inform the students at M.I.T. about Satanism in a wide-reaching way. You wrote something on the subject for the school paper, right? What other methods of dissemination have you used on campus?

PM: That's correct - in the May issue of Counterpoint, M.I.T.'s and Wellesley College's joint editorial publication of "rational discourse," I had an expositional piece published on the topic of Satanism. A few staff members felt uneasy publishing the piece, but were essentially silenced by those on the staff who were more interested in the article's salient points and interesting presentation than blindly upholding society's taboos. I wrote the piece for two reasons: to display Satanic thought for all to see (in an appropriate forum, of course), and also to raise flag for any covert or de facto Satanists. In dealing with addressing the general public, I find it is better to soften things a bit - I mentioned elitism and personal responsibility, but I did not emphasize them quite as much as the hedonistic aspects of the religion. I am aware that some Satanists would rather stay abrasive and even shocking in public, but I think that was counterproductive to my purpose - I would rather exorcise a bit of Lesser Black Magic and convince the average reader how Satanism "made sense." In that respect, I feel it was quite effective: I received perhaps a dozen E-mail queries asking for clarifications and discussions which I gladly answered. I of course brought the attention to myself, so I could certainly not call such behavior vampiric in nature, especially since most of the questions were courteous and polite. And concerning covert Satanists, one has already contacted me (who is another M.I.T. student), though I haven't had a chance to meet and verify the authenticity of the individual yet. But as always, there is always at least one witch hunter in the audience: a woman on campus read my article, picked it apart for "contradictions" and wrote a letter to the members of the Counterpoint staff pointing them out, and accusing me of deliberately trying to deceive people. The letter, which will appear in the June issue of the publication, also openly paints me as a Nazi. Is anyone surprised? I suppose the letter will do some good: it will give others the good laugh I got from it. Other than the article, I've posted a few announcements on various bulletin boards around campus advertising "a LaVeyan study group" featuring a Sigil of Baphomet at the top. No takers on that yet. I have also volunteered several times to sit on a few different panels, representing Satanism, at events designed to answer students' questions about various religions; I've been turned down every time since they were only interested in representing "more common, mainstream religions." Ironically, these panels usually feature Pagans, Humanists and members of the Ba'Hai faith, which aren't very common, either. Lastly, I have met with the man who served as Grotto Master in Boston for a term of one year, and if either he or I present any lectures on the topic of Satanism, we intend to cross-post each other's campuses. I will inevitably host such an event sometime next year.
...
I find Objectivism to be extremely similar to Satanism, perhaps more so than any other form of philosophic thought. I also think Ayn Rand is overlooked by many as a significant influence on LaVey. Essentially, Objectivism advocates selfishness, pride, love of life, rejection of mysticism, elitism, personal freedom, and many other things which have come to be associated with the Great Archetype, Satan. The Libertarian political party, which many Satanists identify with, actually arose from Objectivism as well. Ayn Rand also gives, in my opinion, better logical arguments for a Satanic Lifestyle than I've seen any Satanist give.
http://www.transtopia.org/notlikemost.html



A top US businessman and an international network of smugglers and academics are making millions of dollars through their illegal dealings in looted Middle Eastern artefacts, according to a leading stolen antiquities activist.

Former self-confessed smuggler and police informant Michel Van Rijn told Aljazeera.net that multi-millionaire James Ferrell, the CEO of America's second largest propane gas company Ferrellgas, is running a London-based business that deals in smuggled relics.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/350FB8C0-11C5-41A1-BC13-C493E891050B.htm?GUID={930394DD-0E34-478D-AD81-B3DF17B0FED1}

Those who invented the "786", are GUILTY of tampering with the text of the Holy Qur’an. Muslims are invited to give up this EVIL and disgusting practice of using 786. It is, I repeat, an innovation, evil and in NO WAY sacred. It is a conspiracy against the kitaab (book) of Allah.
http://members.tripod.com/maseeh1/advices7/id152.htm

avoid potential visa problems

The White House is now confronted with a terrorist who has played for their team: Posada-Carriles -- and they don’t want too many of his dirty little secrets getting out in the sunshine, particularly in a Venezuelan court of all places.

But the Bush Administration, despite its deftness at making buzzards appear to be eagles, has been caught in a game of pickle. If they run toward the base called “asylum,” the world media currently focused on Posada-Carriles will surely tag them out. If they run toward the base called “extradition,” they can’t get around Venezuela’s claim on their CIA operative.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/24/213823/010

n an idea straight out of science fiction, robots could soon begin patrolling Japanese offices, shopping malls and banks to keep them safe from intruders. Equipped with a camera and sensors, the "Guardrobo D1," developed by Japanese security firm Sohgo Security Services Co., is designed to patrol along pre-programed paths and keep an eye out for signs of trouble
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050623/od_nm/japan_robot_dc;_ylt=AhDQe1gcqp2Az6R3SmchChTtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

“I don't know how they're going to get us out,” A less determined Michael Cristofaro said, “We're going to keep our homes to the bitter end, because what they've done is wrong.“

Richard Beyer finally admitted “As one gentleman that I just got off the phone with said, ‘Welcome to Russia.' ”
http://www.sierratimes.com/05/06/24/204_60_87_130_49887.htm

A former IRS agent who believes citizens are not required to pay federal income taxes was acquitted today on charges he attempted to defraud the government.

Joseph Banister, a certified public accountant in San Jose, Calif., had been telling his clients they don't need to file federal income tax returns because the 16th Amendment, which gives Congress "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes," was never properly ratified.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44956

An ABC-TV affiliate in Las Vegas broadcast images of a UFO summoned by a self-styled "prophet" who predicts many more will be seen throughout the area next week.
 
Ramon Watkins, also known as "Prophet Yahweh" agreed to meet with a reporter and camera crew of KTNV at a location of their choice and time.
 
What they witnessed, and captured on camera, stunned the reporter and crew.
 
Watkins claims to have seen some 1,500 UFOs over the last 25 years and has learned to summon them by reading the Old Testament.
http://www.rense.com/general65/stun.htm

The U.S. Agriculture Department said tests confirmed a case of mad cow disease in a U.S. animal, the nation's second confirmed case.

USDA said it was investigating where the animal with the brain-wasting disease originally came from. It also said meat from the infected cow was not sold to consumers or as animal feed.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8889729

[I like how they refer to a CIA-human-alien base, as if the CIA doesn’t fit into either of the other two categories.]

I serve the Most High God, and I am not afraid of them. May Jehovah the Most High be exalted and our nation turned back to Him so He can lead us of the grip and hands of the Bavarians. If America chooses to ignore it, stay in sleep and do nothing, our demise is assured.

       Thousands and thousands of people are being held captive in cages like animals at the Dulce Base. Even more thousands are being kept in cold storage, and even more are trapped in storage boxes with no way out.
http://www.sherryshriner.com/sherry/dulce-base.htm

Schwarzenegger, showing unusual wisdom, declined to act. The governor's legal affairs secretary wrote Dershowitz, "You have asked for the Governor's assistance in preventing the publication of this book," but "he is not inclined to otherwise exert influence in this case because of the clear, academic freedom issue it presents." In a phone interview Dershowitz denied writing to the Governor, declaring, "My letter to the Governor doesn't exist." But when pressed on the issue, he said, "It was not a letter. It was a polite note."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050711&s=wiener

The current worldwide boom in residential real estate prices is "the biggest bubble in history," according to a disturbing new report in the Economist magazine.

Never before have home prices risen so fast, for so long, in so many countries including the United State, reveals a front-page story in the world's most respected financial periodical.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/24/115349.shtml

"Banks have been making a profit off their customers for a long time, while providing no service," says Linda Sherry, the editorial director for Consumer Action in Washington. "Visa and MasterCard are doing all the work; it's simply pure profit for banks."

Ed Perkins, syndicated travel columnist and author of "Business Travel When It's Your Money," agrees
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/cc/20050624a1.asp

This bizarre article in Haaretz demonstrates that Israel is much more concerned about the AIPAC espionage investigation than it would like to let on. It mentions that the investigation has widened, and the FBI is now focusing on another Pentagon official and his connections (please let it be Feith!). It accuses the FBI of anti-Semitism (yawn). It accuses the FBI of bugging the Israeli embassy based on the fact that it has information on Rosen's call to the embassy, which ignores the fact that the FBI got that information by bugging Rosen, not the Israeli embassy. It points out that the FBI must have been keeping track of senior AIPAC employees "for several years, even before Franklin was suspected of contacts with them" (true, but not something I'd think the writer would want to mention). It states: "The FBI has made an effort to talk with wealthy Jews as well, apparently in order to deter them from supporting Rosen financially." That makes no sense, but if the FBI is talking to wealthy Jews, it would be interesting to know what they are really talking about. Finally, in the last sentence, the article makes a clear threat to the FBI. I hope it makes the FBI mad.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/

A former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan stepped back into the political spotlight this week, expressing doubt about the official 9/11 story and claiming "if they lied to us about Ruby Ridge, Waco and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, why should we believe them now."

Paul Craig Roberts, listed by Who’s Who in America as one of the 1,000 most influential political thinkers in the world, has evolved over the years into a major Bush basher as well as neo con critic. Roberts said he hasn’t changed his political ideology or jumped from the Republican-conservative ship but "just can’t respect a party leadership who doesn’t respect the truth."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/240605doubtsstory.htm

A team investigating the murder of an Indonesian human rights activist has found indications that the country's intelligence agency was involved
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4123802.stm


GENEVA - Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said on Friday.

The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on condition of anonymity.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/June/theworld_June619.xml§ion=theworld&col=

Visiting South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon signed an agreement here on Friday that will see Korea giving the Palestinian Authority a million dollars to equip Palestinian schools with computers
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050624133342.j74n251v.html

Some restrictive security measures in place to protect the United States from terrorism are having a detrimental effect on the scientific community, as foreign students and researchers are choosing to study elsewhere to avoid potential visa problems, the American Civil Liberties Union reported Tuesday
http://www.spacewar.com/news/terrorwar-05zb.html

the pharmaceutical industry

Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans, animal health experts said. International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic.
http://www.rense.com/general66/chick.htm

The newspaper has been translating various articles of mine into Turkish and running them, particularly those concerning the most recent Fallujah massacre. The report who was interviewing me today told me that the former American consulate here, Eric Edelman, asked the Prime Minister of Turkey to pressure his paper to not run so many of my stories.
 
"Why did he do this," I asked him.
 
"Edelman said it was the wrong news," he told me with a smile.
 
Turns out Edelman also asked that articles by Robert Fisk and Naomi Klein not be run so often in Yeni Safak either.
 
He smiled at me while he watched the wheels turning in my head before I smiled back and said, "That makes me very happy, it means I'm doing my job as a journalist."
 
We laughed heartily together at this, as did everyone else at the table.
http://www.rense.com/general66/csor.htm

Over the last few decades, ever since Nixon went to China in 1972 to open trade relations, we have seen the Communist Chinese grow from a third-rate military force whose strength lay only in numbers to a very modern and well-equipped force ready to do battle on a global scale. Unlike Russia, the Chinese have done this very quietly, trying not to draw attention to their efforts, and with one goal in mind: destroy the United States and any allies. And we have helped them toward that goal. In fact, we continue to help them every day when we buy Chinese-made products. But beyond that, let’s examine events that have strengthened China’s military endeavors while weakening ours
...
And Freeport is not the only suspect position for Chinese pre-deployment stocks. Reports have surfaced about COSCO ships unloading in Mexico and Canada, plus several ports inside the US itself. A few years back we read of a shipment in a Sealift container that came into Long Beach, California, loaded with automatic AK-47s, machine guns, grenades and explosives. We were told it was intercepted, and that it was probably being smuggled in to street gangs. We may never know of how many other shipments went undetected, and are still being smuggled in and pre-positioned. And not for street gangs!
http://www.newswithviews.com/Craig/roberts6.htm

My, how things have changed in 20 years. Officer Friendly has turned into the Gestapo pointing a Heckler and Koch submachine gun into the face of a six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. How can a man like that live with himself? The only way is if he rationalizes and deludes himself that what he did is honorable. Which it isn't, in no way. Obviously, self-delusion knows no bounds. Personally, I would have never done what he did. Had that order been issued to me, I would have quit
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace213.html

A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights.
http://www.rense.com/general66/cities.htm

A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2005-06-22T154236Z_01_L22691697_RTRIDST_0_ODD-KENYA-LEOPARD-DC.XML

[All of a sudden its a good idea to follow France.]

Pushing for the construction of nuclear power plants, President Bush on Wednesday pressed Congress to send him an energy bill, though he acknowledged that even when he signs the legislation, gasoline prices at the pump won't fall overnight.
 
Bush is promoting nuclear power as a way to take the pressure off fossil fuels -- oil, natural gas and coal.
 
''It's time for this country to start building nuclear power plants again,'' said Bush, who noted that while the U.S. gets 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors, France meets 78 percent of its electricity needs with nuclear power.
http://www.rense.com/general66/oush.htm

[Of course alot of this information will continue to be usefull after they graduate.]

The Defense Department began working Wednesday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will include an array of personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5471542.html

Urban farming has been banned with effect from the next plowing season, police said yesterday.
http://www.rense.com/general66/mugban.htm

Citing what he called repeated "gross errors and mistakes" in the U.S. military campaign in Iraq, Kennedy told Rumsfeld: "In baseball, it's three strikes, you're out. What is it for the secretary of defense?"

"Isn't it time for you to resign?" Kennedy asked.

"I've offered my resignation to the president twice," Rumsfeld shot back, saying that President Bush had decided not to accept it. "That's his call," he said.

Kennedy has called for Rumsfeld's resignation before.
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77965


Crude oil breaks $60 a barrel By Myra P. Saefong
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude futures returned to record territory in the last half hour of trading, with the August contract at $59.93 a barrel, up $1.84. It climbed as high as $60.05 earlier. The contract closed Monday at an all-time record of $59.88, following an intraday high of $60.02

Almost 80 percent of the group's funds went to the all-boys Eshkol Academy that Abramoff set up in Maryland. The foundation also sent payments to a friend of Abramoff's who ran sniper workshops for the Israeli Defense Force.

One e-mail released by the committee today details costs for equipment needed by the sniper workshops. Abramoff's friend once suggested that he could write a letter with the workshop's logo as an ``educational entity'' when Abramoff was trying to figure out how to match the payments with the foundation's mission, McCain said, citing Abramoff's secretary.

``No, don't do that,'' Abramoff replied in the e-mail. ``I don't want sniper letterhead.''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a9s0nfJm4uZA

American soldier kills little girl to win a bet.

US forces shot and killed a nine-year old Iraqi girl as she came out of her school following final exams in Baghdad. A medical specialist in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk General Hospital told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that an American sniper opened fire on ‘A’ishah Ahmad ‘Umar, killing her.

For its part, the US military occupation forces announced that they had begun an investigation of the Marine who shot the little girl and promised to punish him if he is found guilty.

A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the American soldier was very drunk at the time of the killing and that he was withdrawn from his observation post after the incident.

The father of ‘A’ishah, who works for the Railroad Department said that residents in the area where his little daughter was killed told him that the American had been betting with his buddies whether he could hit the little girl who had come out of the school some 700 meters from the US observation post.

For its part the American propaganda TV station called “al-‘Iraqiyah” blamed what it called “terrorists” (by which they meant the Iraqi Resistance) for the shooting of the little girl, but statements by the US military and the Iraqi puppet forces exposed the “al-‘Iraqiyah” story to be a lie.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/54506

On Thursday June 23, a federal jury found former IRS Criminal Investigative Division (CID) Special Agent and CPA Joseph Banister not guilty of all counts alleging criminal tax fraud and conspiracy related to actions he took on behalf of a California business owner who had openly defied the IRS over several years by stopping withholding of all income and employment taxes from the paychecks of his workers.
...
During the trial, Banister's former supervisor at IRS’s San Jose CID office, Robert Gorini (who testified via video recording) when pointedly asked, was unable to cite any U.S. law that required Banister to pay income taxes.
http://www.GiveMeLiberty.org/


Well, think about it folks. These ingredients prevent chronic disease better than prescription drugs, without the side effects, and without the profitability of prescription drugs. If people really knew just how much they could prevent chronic disease with these plant extracts, medicinal herbs, vitamins, minerals, and supplements, the pharmaceutical industry would collapse overnight.
http://www.NewsTarget.com/008269.html