one would expect outrage and condemnatio
The broader worry is that terrorist-style conflicts seem to be sustainable indefinitely. "These wars," Kaldor agrees, "are so much harder to end than to begin.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050711/full/050711-5.html
Proprietary software has infringement issues all the time. Microsoft just settled a patent infringement case with Alacritech, for example. But it is Linux that was said to have problems with its development methods? Based on what? Why didn't SCO ever mention this study's results and tell the world about it, or at least qualify their statements more carefully? To sell "insurance"? To smear Linux?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050714144923365
A BIG, straight-backed man with his thick greying hair buzz-cut for the occasion, Bernie Ebbers charged through a waiting media pack like a State of Origin prop forward when he arrived at the Manhattan District Court to hear Judge Barbara Jones deliver her sentence.
Ebbers was convicted in March, and he knew sentencing day would be rough. All the same, he sobbed like a baby when Judge Jones set the bar at 25 years and said 85 per cent of the time must be served
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15933128%255E643,00.html
Senator John McCain wanted to know whether the "enemy combatants" held at Guantanamo were protected by the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners of war. Gen. Craddock responded that the treatment was consistent with the Conventions "where military necessity has allowed."
Mr. McCain said that wasn't good enough. "They may be al-Qaeda, they may be Taliban, they may be the worst people in the world, and I'm sure some of them are. But there are certain rules and international agreements the United States has agreed to, and that we will observe."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050714/GUANTANAMO14/TPInternational/Americas
Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that both President Putin (Russia) and President Hu (China) have ordered the immediate activation of 10 Combat Ready Divisions to counter the increasingly aggressive moves being made by the United States in the Caspian Oil Regions of Central Asia. Special Forces Army Units of both Russian Spetsnaz and Chinese Immediate Action Units were also ordered to be immediately deployed to both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to surround the large American Military bases in those regions, and that the governments of both of these countries have ordered the Americans to leave.
The government of Uzbekistan had called first for these actions, and as we can read as reported by the Indian National Newspaper Hindu News Service in its article titled
http://www.rense.com/general67/RUSC.HTM
With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the alarm about rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations.
"Something big is going on out there," said Julia Parrish, an associate professor in the School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences at the University of Washington. "I'm left with no obvious smoking gun, but birds are a good signal because they feed high up on the food chain."
Coastal ocean temperatures are 2 to 5 degrees above normal, which may be related to a lack of updwelling, in which cold, nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0714-06.htm
"Look, everybody knows that there's a human component [to climate change]," says Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser. "The question is, what are we going to do about these things . . . and that's what we're trying to focus on."
Even Bush himself, long a vocal skeptic, is now being forced to admit the truth, twice acknowledging in recent days that mankind is altering the planet's climate
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0711-05.htm
Early in his career, he was with the CIA, where he served as Manager of Intelligence Operations and then as Executive Assistant to the Director.
Robert Kiley is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board Member of the Salzburg International Seminar, the American Repertory Theater, MONY Group Inc, the Princeton Review Inc and Edison Schools, Inc. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Center for State and Local Government.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/chief_officers.shtml
Was Giuliani in London for terror 'exercises'?
Monday, July 11, 2005
(Hey kids. Just your friendly neighborhood Libertythink Director Emeritus checking in here. This item was posted this morning to www.total911.info and www.total411.info. And the sites promptly went down and have stayed down. Investigation is pending. Special thanks to TBF for leaving me the key to the back door.)
Rudolph Giuliani was in World Trade Center 7 on 9/11 for, as he testified before the 9/11 Commission, a FEMA terror 'exercise.' He went on the support the official story, earned his bones and was named Knight of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
So, what was he doing in London on 7-7?
Greg Nixon of 11InsideJobbers decided to find out. From a Jul 11, 2005 posting:
I spoke with Giuliani's press secretary to pose the following questions:
Giuliani Partners
5 Times Square
212-931-7300
Question: What was Rudolph Giuliani's stated purpose of the London visit?
- She would only say it was for "business"
.
Question: Was he a paid/ unpaid consultant or a crisis manager for Visor Consultants in regards to a terror drill for an unnamed company as cited by a BBC Radio 5 interview 7/7/05?
Could not comment. there was nervous awkward silence. She then stated again "it (trip) was for business and that's all the information I can give out" abruptly ended call.....
The President of Visor confirmed that the "exercise" involved simultaneous bombings on the London Underground
http://www.libertythink.com/2005/07/was-giuliani-in-london-for-terror.html
In a state that is 96 percent non-Hispanic white but that has been seeing a rise in its Hispanic population, Chief Chamberlain's idea was born a year ago when he encountered a van with nine illegal immigrants from Ecuador. The federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he says, was not interested in arresting them. He decided that in the future he would use the state's criminal trespassing law, which says that a person is guilty "if, knowing he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he enters or remains in any place."
Even some critics of the New Hampshire citations, like Susan J. Cohen, a Boston immigration lawyer, said the law's broad language made it seem applicable to immigration
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/national/13immigrants.html?ei=5065&en=70a9fca935dc7632&ex=1121918400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/
“We . . . will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds . . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”
Gen Zhu is a self-acknowledged “hawk” who has warned that China could strike the US with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade.
However, some US-based China experts cautioned that Gen Zhu probably did not represent the mainstream People's Liberation Army view.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/28cfe55a-f4a7-11d9-9dd1-00000e2511c8.html
"What's astonishing to me is the idea of waiting until he's outed by the media to then arrest him as a material witness — they either have the appropriate evidence to arrest him or they don't," he said.
"They seem to have felt that without the support of press attention they didn't really have a case. Relying on media attention to buttress a case is a highly dubious prosecutorial practice," he added.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9184
Brazil will pay back $5.1 billion to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule as a surge in exports brings dollars into the country and sparks a currency rally, making the loan unnecessary.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aEvopQwny0.8&refer=news_index
An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and, given that it has to contend with the gravitational pull of three bodies, promises to seriously challenge our current understanding of how planets are formed.
http://www.physorg.com/news5158.html
"It even becomes very hard for them to do simple mental tasks, such as drawing a straight line.
"This is an infection that carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie-like state before they go into a coma and die.
"Those that do survive can be left with irreparable brain damage," he said.
In Uganda, every third person is at risk of getting sleeping sickness and in some regions it is a bigger killer than HIV/Aids, he said.
There are no vaccines, no preventative medicines and you can be re-infected - providing you survive the first bout.
http://www.rense.com/general67/zombies.htm
Japanese food safety regulators were questioning the safety of U.S. beef after a Ministry of Agriculture study showed nearly half of the 20 mad cow cases found in Japan would have passed unnoticed if tested under U.S. methods, officials said Friday.
Scientists on a Food Safety Commission panel have called for more details on a second case of confirmed mad cow disease in the United States, a move that could delay a decision to resume imports of U.S. beef, expected in late August, officials said.
http://www.rense.com/general67/fears.htm
Transformed into a police state after last winter's siege, this should be the safest city in all of Iraq.
Thousands of American and Iraqi troops live in crumbling buildings here and patrol streets laced with concertina wire. Any Iraqi entering the city must show a badge and undergo a search at one of six checkpoints. There is a 10 p.m. curfew.
But the insurgency is rising from the rubble nevertheless, eight months after the American military killed as many as 1,500 Iraqis in a costly invasion that fanned anti-American passions across Iraq and the Arab world.
Somewhere in the bowels of Fallujah, the former guerrilla stronghold 35 miles west of Baghdad, where four American contractors were killed in an ambush, and the bodies of two were hanged from a bridge, in March 2004, insurgents are building suicide car bombs again.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505Z.shtml
NASA has indefinitely put off its long-awaited return to space, saying Friday that engineers were no closer to knowing why a fuel gauge acted up right before a scheduled liftoff two days earlier.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050715/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle_7
The addition of finger scanning technology at the entrances of Walt Disney World theme parks for all visitors has caused concern among privacy advocates, according to a Local 6 News report.
• I think it's a step in the wrong direction," Civil Liberties Union spokesman George Crossley said. "I think it is a step toward collection personal information on people regardless of what Disney says.
Tourists visiting Disney theme parks in Central Florida must now provide their index and middle fingers to be scanned before entering the front gates.
http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html
The new study was conducted on 1,800 rats during their full lifespan. Six different dose levels were tested against a control group. The institute said the study, which is to appear in its own publication, the European Journal of Oncology, had been peer-reviewed by seven international experts "in anticipation of controversy".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1528885,00.html
U.S. Congressmen Declare Biological War on South America in New Antidrug Proposal
http://www.narconews.com/Issue38/article1384.html
Praying for someone who is ill and preparing to undergo a risky medical procedure appears to have no effect on the patient's future health.
That's the finding of one of the largest scientific investigations of the power of prayer, published today in the British medical journal the Lancet. Scientists said it undoubtedly will renew debates over whether prayer has a measurable effect on illness and even whether it's a suitable subject of scientific inquiry
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5507502.html
This is a shocking development in the sense that earlier ideas about commercial or military grade explosive being used in the bombs themselves would therefore seem to be wrong."
He said the explosive's "extremely volatile" nature had prompted the police to widen a cordon around the house in the Beeston area of Leeds even further yesterday, as well as set up a no-fly zone.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1610072005
Eleven years after his release from jail, Paddy Hill is back in the news. It has been reported that Hill, the best known of the Birmingham Six who were wrongly convicted of planting the pub bombs that killed 21 people in 1974, is to receive £1m compensation. I phone him to ask if he would agree to an interview. Silence. Then he erupts. "No. I would not. Not after that fucking shite in the newspapers last week. I am not getting £1m, nothing has been agreed, and I did not talk to the newspaper that quoted me."
I hold the phone away from my burning ear, and say I would also like to talk to him about Mojo, the organisation he set up to fight miscarriages of justice. In the early 90s he gave a rare and desperate interview in which he admitted he could no longer feel anything for anybody in the world beyond his mum, his girlfriend Alison and those wrongfully jailed. Since then, he has split up with Alison and his mother has died.
http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/
Some informed British sources believe that the recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far right-wing British terrorists hoping to stir up tensions with the nation's large Muslim population.
There are several reasons for this belief. One is that GCHQ and MI-5 intercepts of the communications of Muslim groups in Britain and abroad—groups suspected of ties to militants—revealed that targeted individuals and organizations were genuinely surprised at the London bombings. Another is the statement of former Metropolitan London police commissioner Sir John Stevens that the perpetrators were "almost certainly" British. Although many accused Stevens of stirring up racial tensions, he never referred to British Muslims. British Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out any probe of the bombings claiming it would "distract" from the investigation
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAD20050715&articleId=697
In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions have gotten far out of hand." The overabundance of prescriptions isn't because of a rise in illnesses or the availability of new drugs that effectively and safely treat chronic diseases; rather, it is because of the corruption of mainstream medicine. The philanthropy that was once present in modern medicine has been replaced by a love of money, which gave rise to an elaborate system of bribery, conflict of interest and deception.
http://www.newstarget.com/z009334.html
When The BRAD BLOG attempted to get a statement on the matter from the Comcast Abuse Department Manager, Jim Janco, -- whom Swanson had previously dealt with in the matter -- we were told that "company policy" dictated he "can't engage with the press in any manner," but that he would ask the Comcast PR Department to get back to us.
We received a call shortly afterwards from Jeanne Russo, corporate spokesperson from the Comcast Online Division, who told us she was not aware of the problem, but would get back to us after she was able to look into it. That was several hours ago. As of this time, we have not yet heard back from her.
In a series of emails, however, shared with The BRAD BLOG between Swanson and another employee from the Comcast Abuse Department, the employee confirms the existence of the problem.
Swanson had sent emails to two different email addresses of the employee, one of which was a comcast.net address, the other at a different service provider. Until Swanson removed the "www.afterdowningstreet.org" from the body of the mail he was sending as a test to the employee, his email was not received by the Comcast employee at their Comcast.net address. The test email messages were received without a problem at the two Comcast customers alternate non-Comcast addresses.
Swanson had previously used "www.afterdowningstreet.org" as part of his automatic email signature
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001602.htm
He added: "Over 30 years I have lived in Britain, I have never been involved in violence, or crime. How can you support violence? It is silly."
Having been twice wrongly linked, he said, to the atrocities in London and Madrid, he feared reprisals. "I'm scared for my safety.
"Now the same thing has happened, the newspapers, it's like they've copied the same piece as before ... they said I'm hiding in France - I am here in London, in Kilburn."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1525777,00.html
When anyone, much less a former foreign minister of a supposedly friendly nation, comes before a committee of the United States Senate and issues ultimatums and thinly veiled threats against the United States, one would expect outrage and condemnation from members of Congress. Instead, we got meek acquiescence or deafening silence from the members who were present," said Stein. "If the government of Mexico is not prepared to join us in this struggle, without conditions, then they cannot claim to be an ally and our government must view them as such. Allies do not engage in extortion."
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45276
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050711/full/050711-5.html
Proprietary software has infringement issues all the time. Microsoft just settled a patent infringement case with Alacritech, for example. But it is Linux that was said to have problems with its development methods? Based on what? Why didn't SCO ever mention this study's results and tell the world about it, or at least qualify their statements more carefully? To sell "insurance"? To smear Linux?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050714144923365
A BIG, straight-backed man with his thick greying hair buzz-cut for the occasion, Bernie Ebbers charged through a waiting media pack like a State of Origin prop forward when he arrived at the Manhattan District Court to hear Judge Barbara Jones deliver her sentence.
Ebbers was convicted in March, and he knew sentencing day would be rough. All the same, he sobbed like a baby when Judge Jones set the bar at 25 years and said 85 per cent of the time must be served
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15933128%255E643,00.html
Senator John McCain wanted to know whether the "enemy combatants" held at Guantanamo were protected by the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners of war. Gen. Craddock responded that the treatment was consistent with the Conventions "where military necessity has allowed."
Mr. McCain said that wasn't good enough. "They may be al-Qaeda, they may be Taliban, they may be the worst people in the world, and I'm sure some of them are. But there are certain rules and international agreements the United States has agreed to, and that we will observe."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050714/GUANTANAMO14/TPInternational/Americas
Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that both President Putin (Russia) and President Hu (China) have ordered the immediate activation of 10 Combat Ready Divisions to counter the increasingly aggressive moves being made by the United States in the Caspian Oil Regions of Central Asia. Special Forces Army Units of both Russian Spetsnaz and Chinese Immediate Action Units were also ordered to be immediately deployed to both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to surround the large American Military bases in those regions, and that the governments of both of these countries have ordered the Americans to leave.
The government of Uzbekistan had called first for these actions, and as we can read as reported by the Indian National Newspaper Hindu News Service in its article titled
http://www.rense.com/general67/RUSC.HTM
With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the alarm about rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations.
"Something big is going on out there," said Julia Parrish, an associate professor in the School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences at the University of Washington. "I'm left with no obvious smoking gun, but birds are a good signal because they feed high up on the food chain."
Coastal ocean temperatures are 2 to 5 degrees above normal, which may be related to a lack of updwelling, in which cold, nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0714-06.htm
"Look, everybody knows that there's a human component [to climate change]," says Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser. "The question is, what are we going to do about these things . . . and that's what we're trying to focus on."
Even Bush himself, long a vocal skeptic, is now being forced to admit the truth, twice acknowledging in recent days that mankind is altering the planet's climate
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0711-05.htm
Early in his career, he was with the CIA, where he served as Manager of Intelligence Operations and then as Executive Assistant to the Director.
Robert Kiley is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Board Member of the Salzburg International Seminar, the American Repertory Theater, MONY Group Inc, the Princeton Review Inc and Edison Schools, Inc. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Center for State and Local Government.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/chief_officers.shtml
Was Giuliani in London for terror 'exercises'?
Monday, July 11, 2005
(Hey kids. Just your friendly neighborhood Libertythink Director Emeritus checking in here. This item was posted this morning to www.total911.info and www.total411.info. And the sites promptly went down and have stayed down. Investigation is pending. Special thanks to TBF for leaving me the key to the back door.)
Rudolph Giuliani was in World Trade Center 7 on 9/11 for, as he testified before the 9/11 Commission, a FEMA terror 'exercise.' He went on the support the official story, earned his bones and was named Knight of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
So, what was he doing in London on 7-7?
Greg Nixon of 11InsideJobbers decided to find out. From a Jul 11, 2005 posting:
I spoke with Giuliani's press secretary to pose the following questions:
Giuliani Partners
5 Times Square
212-931-7300
Question: What was Rudolph Giuliani's stated purpose of the London visit?
- She would only say it was for "business"
.
Question: Was he a paid/ unpaid consultant or a crisis manager for Visor Consultants in regards to a terror drill for an unnamed company as cited by a BBC Radio 5 interview 7/7/05?
Could not comment. there was nervous awkward silence. She then stated again "it (trip) was for business and that's all the information I can give out" abruptly ended call.....
The President of Visor confirmed that the "exercise" involved simultaneous bombings on the London Underground
http://www.libertythink.com/2005/07/was-giuliani-in-london-for-terror.html
In a state that is 96 percent non-Hispanic white but that has been seeing a rise in its Hispanic population, Chief Chamberlain's idea was born a year ago when he encountered a van with nine illegal immigrants from Ecuador. The federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he says, was not interested in arresting them. He decided that in the future he would use the state's criminal trespassing law, which says that a person is guilty "if, knowing he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he enters or remains in any place."
Even some critics of the New Hampshire citations, like Susan J. Cohen, a Boston immigration lawyer, said the law's broad language made it seem applicable to immigration
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/national/13immigrants.html?ei=5065&en=70a9fca935dc7632&ex=1121918400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/
“We . . . will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds . . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”
Gen Zhu is a self-acknowledged “hawk” who has warned that China could strike the US with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade.
However, some US-based China experts cautioned that Gen Zhu probably did not represent the mainstream People's Liberation Army view.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/28cfe55a-f4a7-11d9-9dd1-00000e2511c8.html
"What's astonishing to me is the idea of waiting until he's outed by the media to then arrest him as a material witness — they either have the appropriate evidence to arrest him or they don't," he said.
"They seem to have felt that without the support of press attention they didn't really have a case. Relying on media attention to buttress a case is a highly dubious prosecutorial practice," he added.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9184
Brazil will pay back $5.1 billion to the International Monetary Fund ahead of schedule as a surge in exports brings dollars into the country and sparks a currency rally, making the loan unnecessary.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aEvopQwny0.8&refer=news_index
An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and, given that it has to contend with the gravitational pull of three bodies, promises to seriously challenge our current understanding of how planets are formed.
http://www.physorg.com/news5158.html
"It even becomes very hard for them to do simple mental tasks, such as drawing a straight line.
"This is an infection that carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie-like state before they go into a coma and die.
"Those that do survive can be left with irreparable brain damage," he said.
In Uganda, every third person is at risk of getting sleeping sickness and in some regions it is a bigger killer than HIV/Aids, he said.
There are no vaccines, no preventative medicines and you can be re-infected - providing you survive the first bout.
http://www.rense.com/general67/zombies.htm
Japanese food safety regulators were questioning the safety of U.S. beef after a Ministry of Agriculture study showed nearly half of the 20 mad cow cases found in Japan would have passed unnoticed if tested under U.S. methods, officials said Friday.
Scientists on a Food Safety Commission panel have called for more details on a second case of confirmed mad cow disease in the United States, a move that could delay a decision to resume imports of U.S. beef, expected in late August, officials said.
http://www.rense.com/general67/fears.htm
Transformed into a police state after last winter's siege, this should be the safest city in all of Iraq.
Thousands of American and Iraqi troops live in crumbling buildings here and patrol streets laced with concertina wire. Any Iraqi entering the city must show a badge and undergo a search at one of six checkpoints. There is a 10 p.m. curfew.
But the insurgency is rising from the rubble nevertheless, eight months after the American military killed as many as 1,500 Iraqis in a costly invasion that fanned anti-American passions across Iraq and the Arab world.
Somewhere in the bowels of Fallujah, the former guerrilla stronghold 35 miles west of Baghdad, where four American contractors were killed in an ambush, and the bodies of two were hanged from a bridge, in March 2004, insurgents are building suicide car bombs again.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505Z.shtml
NASA has indefinitely put off its long-awaited return to space, saying Friday that engineers were no closer to knowing why a fuel gauge acted up right before a scheduled liftoff two days earlier.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050715/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle_7
The addition of finger scanning technology at the entrances of Walt Disney World theme parks for all visitors has caused concern among privacy advocates, according to a Local 6 News report.
• I think it's a step in the wrong direction," Civil Liberties Union spokesman George Crossley said. "I think it is a step toward collection personal information on people regardless of what Disney says.
Tourists visiting Disney theme parks in Central Florida must now provide their index and middle fingers to be scanned before entering the front gates.
http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html
The new study was conducted on 1,800 rats during their full lifespan. Six different dose levels were tested against a control group. The institute said the study, which is to appear in its own publication, the European Journal of Oncology, had been peer-reviewed by seven international experts "in anticipation of controversy".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1528885,00.html
U.S. Congressmen Declare Biological War on South America in New Antidrug Proposal
http://www.narconews.com/Issue38/article1384.html
Praying for someone who is ill and preparing to undergo a risky medical procedure appears to have no effect on the patient's future health.
That's the finding of one of the largest scientific investigations of the power of prayer, published today in the British medical journal the Lancet. Scientists said it undoubtedly will renew debates over whether prayer has a measurable effect on illness and even whether it's a suitable subject of scientific inquiry
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5507502.html
This is a shocking development in the sense that earlier ideas about commercial or military grade explosive being used in the bombs themselves would therefore seem to be wrong."
He said the explosive's "extremely volatile" nature had prompted the police to widen a cordon around the house in the Beeston area of Leeds even further yesterday, as well as set up a no-fly zone.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1610072005
Eleven years after his release from jail, Paddy Hill is back in the news. It has been reported that Hill, the best known of the Birmingham Six who were wrongly convicted of planting the pub bombs that killed 21 people in 1974, is to receive £1m compensation. I phone him to ask if he would agree to an interview. Silence. Then he erupts. "No. I would not. Not after that fucking shite in the newspapers last week. I am not getting £1m, nothing has been agreed, and I did not talk to the newspaper that quoted me."
I hold the phone away from my burning ear, and say I would also like to talk to him about Mojo, the organisation he set up to fight miscarriages of justice. In the early 90s he gave a rare and desperate interview in which he admitted he could no longer feel anything for anybody in the world beyond his mum, his girlfriend Alison and those wrongfully jailed. Since then, he has split up with Alison and his mother has died.
http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/
Some informed British sources believe that the recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far right-wing British terrorists hoping to stir up tensions with the nation's large Muslim population.
There are several reasons for this belief. One is that GCHQ and MI-5 intercepts of the communications of Muslim groups in Britain and abroad—groups suspected of ties to militants—revealed that targeted individuals and organizations were genuinely surprised at the London bombings. Another is the statement of former Metropolitan London police commissioner Sir John Stevens that the perpetrators were "almost certainly" British. Although many accused Stevens of stirring up racial tensions, he never referred to British Muslims. British Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out any probe of the bombings claiming it would "distract" from the investigation
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAD20050715&articleId=697
In 2001, 2.8 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States for an average of 9.9 prescriptions per person. This statistic taken from Ultraprevention, by Drs. Mark Hyman and Mark Liponis, certainly supports their point that "drug industry prescriptions have gotten far out of hand." The overabundance of prescriptions isn't because of a rise in illnesses or the availability of new drugs that effectively and safely treat chronic diseases; rather, it is because of the corruption of mainstream medicine. The philanthropy that was once present in modern medicine has been replaced by a love of money, which gave rise to an elaborate system of bribery, conflict of interest and deception.
http://www.newstarget.com/z009334.html
When The BRAD BLOG attempted to get a statement on the matter from the Comcast Abuse Department Manager, Jim Janco, -- whom Swanson had previously dealt with in the matter -- we were told that "company policy" dictated he "can't engage with the press in any manner," but that he would ask the Comcast PR Department to get back to us.
We received a call shortly afterwards from Jeanne Russo, corporate spokesperson from the Comcast Online Division, who told us she was not aware of the problem, but would get back to us after she was able to look into it. That was several hours ago. As of this time, we have not yet heard back from her.
In a series of emails, however, shared with The BRAD BLOG between Swanson and another employee from the Comcast Abuse Department, the employee confirms the existence of the problem.
Swanson had sent emails to two different email addresses of the employee, one of which was a comcast.net address, the other at a different service provider. Until Swanson removed the "www.afterdowningstreet.org" from the body of the mail he was sending as a test to the employee, his email was not received by the Comcast employee at their Comcast.net address. The test email messages were received without a problem at the two Comcast customers alternate non-Comcast addresses.
Swanson had previously used "www.afterdowningstreet.org" as part of his automatic email signature
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001602.htm
He added: "Over 30 years I have lived in Britain, I have never been involved in violence, or crime. How can you support violence? It is silly."
Having been twice wrongly linked, he said, to the atrocities in London and Madrid, he feared reprisals. "I'm scared for my safety.
"Now the same thing has happened, the newspapers, it's like they've copied the same piece as before ... they said I'm hiding in France - I am here in London, in Kilburn."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1525777,00.html
When anyone, much less a former foreign minister of a supposedly friendly nation, comes before a committee of the United States Senate and issues ultimatums and thinly veiled threats against the United States, one would expect outrage and condemnation from members of Congress. Instead, we got meek acquiescence or deafening silence from the members who were present," said Stein. "If the government of Mexico is not prepared to join us in this struggle, without conditions, then they cannot claim to be an ally and our government must view them as such. Allies do not engage in extortion."
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45276
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