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
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
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