Tuesday, August 02, 2005

will be sold at Target stores and will include RFID

Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives, the Air Force deputy judge advocate general, wrote that several of the "more extreme interrogation techniques, on their face, amount to violations of domestic criminal law" as well as military law. In fact, Rives added, use of many of these techniques "puts the interrogators and the chain of command at risk of criminal accusations abroad." Rives was talking about the well-established concept of universal jurisdiction, according to which any nation has the authority to prosecute any person for the commission of war crimes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080105I.shtml

Muslims who preach hate are to be deported and subject to new restrictions, Charles Clarke announced in the Commons on Wednesday. So what would the home secretary have to say about stuff like this: "Blessed is he who takes your little children and smashes their heads against the rocks"?
 
Or this: "O God, break the teeth in their mouths ... Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime; like the untimely birth that never sees the sun ... The righteous will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked." No, this is not Islam, it is the Bible. And there is a lot more where that came from.
 
Why, then, are so many commentators persuaded that the Qur'an is a manual of hate - compared to the Judeo-Christian scriptures, it is very tame stuff indeed. More disturbing still for Christians and Jews, the nearest scriptural justification for suicide bombings I can think of comes from the book of Judges, where Samson pushes apart the structural supports of a temple packed with people. "Let me die with the Philistines," he prays, just before the building collapses.
http://www.rense.com/general67/uslma.htm

Morrison took the war personally. He looked in the mirror as a patriot, as a parent of small children, and didn't like what he saw his country had become. Perhaps, in his zeal, disturbed by his conscience, impassioned by what he thought was his religious duty, overcome by a feeling of impatience at those powerful people who could have stopped the war but didn't, Morrison acted alone because so many others remained impassive.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman4.html

The Russian authorities plan to begin slaughtering poultry on Tuesday in 18 Siberian villages where bird flu has been detected.
 
The strain found in the Novosibirsk region has been identified as H5N1 - the type that has killed at least 57 people in South-East Asia since 2003.
 
An outbreak of bird flu has also been reported in neighbouring Kazakhstan.
 
Russian doctors suspect that migratory birds brought the virus to Siberia, where poultry is now in quarantine
http://www.rense.com/general67/russiaplansbirdflu.htm

Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported recently that a leading Chinese agent had "defected" in Belgium and blown the whistle on hundreds of Chinese spies working at various levels of European industry.
 
The Belgian-based economic espionage network used a group called The Chinese Students' and Scholars' Association of Leuven as a front organisation, according to the French newspaper Le Monde.
http://www.rense.com/general67/chinasspiescomeout.htm

[Why not leave the shuttle in space? There is hardly any chance of it burning up once it is safely out of the atmosphere. Why not send them all up there and they can gas them up and fly them around out there.]

With luck, the seven astronauts aboard will return safely to Earth next week. But even if it ends happily, the Discovery mission can only be described as a disaster. On the first day, agency personnel were elated by the sight of the craft soaring into orbit. On the second day, they were disconsolate at the news that, once again, a dangerously large chunk of insulating foam fell off the external fuel tank during the launch
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0507310397jul31,1,7203153.column?coll=chi-navrailnews-nav&ctrack=1&cset=true

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has signed a deal with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing. The details have not been made public but sources say that China has been given mineral rights to platinum and other minerals. A land deal for tobacco may also be included. Mugabe requires Chinese investors to finance ferrochrome production, irrigation projects, power plants, and transport. The reward is a stake in the nation's platinum reserves.
http://www.rense.com/general67/mugabesellsZimplatinum.htm

A 14-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest after he was zapped by a Chicago Police stun gun had not threatened police or anyone else before he was shocked, four eyewitnesses to the February incident say.
 
The developmentally delayed boy was sitting on a couch in a juvenile home and was not attempting to harm anyone, the witnesses claim in sworn court depositions obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
 
After the boy went into convulsions and fell to the floor, the officer who used the Taser allegedly said, "Now look at this f-----' paperwork I've got to do," at least two witnesses claim in the depositions.
 
The testimony contradicts police reports, in which a police sergeant claims he shot the boy with the gun -- which delivers 50,000 volts of electricity -- out of fear for his own safety.
http://www.rense.com/general67/tast.htm

A number of political observers and activists today sounded ‘a red alert’ after reports surfaced this week Vice President Dick Cheney directly ordered Strategic Command (STRATCOM) to make contingency plans for a nuclear strike against Iran in the aftermath of another ‘9/11 type attack' on America.

 

Cheney’s orders first surfaced in an article by Philip Geraldi in the Aug 1, 2005, issue of The American Conservative. Geraldi was unavailable for comment, but excerpts of the article went on to say:
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/30315.htm

Police helped the Catholic Diocese of Toledo cover up sex abuse allegations for several decades, refusing to investigate or arrest priests suspected of molesting children, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The (Toledo) Blade, relying on interviews with former officers and a review of court and diocese records, found at least five instances since the 1950s of police covering up allegations of abuse
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Church-Abuse-Ohio.html?ex=1123560000&en=dc1e1a3aec70be8f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

The 60-year-old Garang, who had been Sudan's first vice president for just three weeks, died Saturday along with 13 other people when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in southern Sudan in bad weather.

"I feel like all my hopes are now broken," said Ashraf Abdel-Hafez, sinking his head into his hands. Three weeks ago, the 26-year-old hotel employee beamed with excitement at the promise he saw in Garang's triumphant return to Khartoum. On Monday, he cried.

His Sudan People's Liberation Movement stressed that the crash was an accident, not foul play, and quickly named Garang's longtime deputy, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to succeed him as head of the movement and as president of south Sudan, spokesman Yasser Arman told The Associated Press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050801/ap_on_re_mi_ea/sudan

Onjuiste informatie

Gretta Duisenberg zegt zich gestoord te hebben aan de mededelingen die de Franse autoriteiten zondag zonder overleg met de familie naar buiten heeft gebracht. Zo werd verklaard dat Wim Duisenberg dood is aangetroffen in het zwembad, maar volgens Gretta is die informatie onjuist. Zij vond haar echtgenoot vlak buiten de studeerkamer in het huis.

Hypotheses over een eventuele misdaad zijn volgens justitie "volledig uitgesloten".
http://www.nu.nl/news/567343/10/Wim_Duisenberg_overleden_(video).html

The move is sparking concern among civil liberties advocates and those who fear an encroaching military role in domestic law enforcement.

In an argument that eerily foreshadowed the July London terror attacks, the Pentagon in late June announced its "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Support," which would expand its reach domestically to prevent "enemy attacks aimed at Americans here at home."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164328,00.html

The latest MI5 assessment sticks to the view that there is a link between Iraq and terrorist activities. In their website analysis, the MI5 officers add: “Some individuals who support the insurgency are known to have travelled to Iraq in order to fight against coalition forces. It is possible that they may return to the UK and consider mounting attacks here.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1711093,00.html

Ever since our resident emperor announced his “War on Terror,” I have insisted that this campaign had less to do with confronting “terror” – an effort that would have implicated the United States’ use of the practice – than with forcibly resisting the peaceful decentralizing processes that threaten the established institutional order. (See, for example, here, here, here, and here.) Social systems are moving from vertically-structured to horizontally-networked models, a transformation that bodes ill for the political and economic establishment.  Some three years ago I suggested naming this conflict the War for the Preservation of Institutional Hierarchies.  If a shorter name is preferred, how about the War for the Status Quo?

The Bush administration has finally confirmed my point.  Showing the same irresoluteness that kept shifting the rationale for the war against Iraq, the White House has now changed the name of the conflict that was, according to Mr. Bush, to last forever.  The “War on Terror” is now redesignated the “Global Struggle Against Extremism!”  No announcement has been made as to who won the war that was as magisterially ended as it had begun.  Nor is there any explanation as to why the administration has deviated from White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card’s previous political marketing advice: “you don’t introduce a new product in August.”  The War on Terror has been meeting with increased consumer sales resistance, leaving those who trade in death and destruction to come out with new and larger repackaging.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer115.html

In one of the emails obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, prosecutor Major Robert Preston wrote to his supervisor in March last year that the process was perpetrating a fraud on the American people.

"I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people," Preston wrote, according to the ABC.

"Surely they don't expect that this fairly half-assed effort is all that we have been able to put together after all this time."

Of the 510 detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base in Cuba, most of them captured during the US attack on
Afghanistan in late 2001, a dozen have been declared eligible to be charged before the military commissions.

One of those facing trial is Australian David Hicks, who was allegedly fighting for the former Taliban rulers when he was captured in Afghanistan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050801/wl_afp/australiaattacksusguantanamo;_ylt=Am4VJAXVtjxD3p0bqwpqBThvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

In its new report, GAO finds that two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, oil and electricity production has fallen below pre-war levels. GAO also finds that the Administration has failed to measure how many Iraqis have access to drinkable water and has no plans to improve the primary health care of Iraqis.
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_23321.shtml

Likewise, the leaders of some Third World countries recognized the global pattern and decided they didn't want to build up huge debts. Two who did not play along were Jaime Roldos, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both died in fiery aircraft crashes in 1981.

"Their deaths were not accidental," Perkins writes. "They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire."
http://www.madison.com/tct/books/index.php?ntid=48585&ntpid=0

Perhaps the only positive aspect of this case is that we now have an official acknowledgment from federal attorneys that the invasive, degrading physical contact regularly inflicted on air travelers by TSA drones is a form of "punishment" and "assault." But this implicit admission is bundled with the assumption that federal officials, who belong to a specially privileged and protected class, are entitled to assault common citizens – in the name of "homeland security," naturally
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1932.shtml

Oil prices briefly rose past $61 a barrel on Monday, trading near their highest in three weeks after a spate of refinery problems in the United States resurrected concerns about meeting strong summer fuel demand.

U.S. light, sweet crude was up 22 cents to $60.79 a barrel in electronic trading after hitting a high of $61.02 a barrel, just 3 cents off of Friday's peak. Prices are up 40 percent from the beginning of the year
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP282688.htm

A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees – some as young as 10 – are also being subjected to rape and torture
http://www.sundayherald.com/43796

'I support Israel in every way possible,'' Munsey said. ''For example, I make it a point to buy my clothes from Jews.'' Since he was wearing jeans and a battered sports jacket, it was hard to assess the monetary value of this contribution. Munsey was dressed informally because he planned to ride his customized Harley motorcycle onto the pulpit. The bike is named the Passion, and it has a crown of thorns painted across it.
http://www.whtt.org/index_temp.php?news=2&id=173&PHPSESSID=d565a0b2d77f84690a1691344b680681

Pretoria - South African mercenaries are claimed to be involved once again in destabilisation operations in a foreign country - this time in Haiti in the run-up to its elections later this year.

An e-mail notice to members of the SA Special Forces League mentions that league members, friends and former members of the police task force apparently already have "positioned" themselves for "fireworks in a small, but very controversial, Caribbean country".

The league's official message is that it "aggressively condemns all mercenary-related activities".

Those involved are warned they must abandon the operation, no matter what promises have been made to them.

"The whistle has been blown; the game is over; get out and stay out," is the warning.

The warning might confirm certain South Africans' involvement, mentioned in newspaper and radio reports in Port au Prince, the capital of Haiti.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1747266,00.html

The new line of clothing, from Lauren Scott, a division of DST Media Inc., is poised to debut next spring. The clothing, including nightgowns, will be sold at Target stores and will include RFID technologies that parents can place in doorways and windows, which will trigger an alarm if children wearing the tagged clothes travel more than 30 feet.
http://www.spacewar.com/news/cyberwar-05zb.html

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