a rare floating island

The charge follows leaks in Washington that the US has already engaged in military raids into Syria and is contemplating launching special forces operations on Syrian soil to eliminate insurgent networks before they reach Iraq, the report said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17087490%255E31477,00.html

A devotee of Kabbalah, the ill woman put her faith in the center and contributed USD 36,000 to the organization. When her condition deteriorated, members of the Israeli branch recommended she donate another USD 25,000. Meanwhile, rabbis recommended that she also purchase holy water to improve her condition - at an exorbitant price
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3161625,00.html

Records show that thirtyOhio contributors to President Bush's re-election campaign have received more than one-point-two billion dollars in state and federal tax dollars for their companies and lobbying clients.

     

Records that the Toledo Blade analyzed show the federal government has given those companies more than 447 million dollars in subsidies, contracts and other payments since Bush took office. Ohio has awarded them about 800 million dollars in the last six years.
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=4047813

Sep. 7 ~ MARRIAGE TO THE BEAST SATAN
(Orgy and Blood Rituals)
All females (especially children) in the cult are married to Satan, in full bridal wear
Oral, anal, and vaginal, animal and/or human sacrifice, dismemberment

Sep. 20 ~ HARVEST, MIDNIGHT HOST
(Blood Ritual)
Dismemberment, hands removed of victim for the "Hands of Glory" to Satan
http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/ritual_calendar.html

Most Christians believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, and Left Behind teaches a pre-tribulation rapture. But make no mistake, refuting the pre-tribulation rapture teaching is not the reason I wrote GOD'S WRATH ON LEFT BEHIND, although I did not dodge this issue in the book. I wrote the book to expose the antichrist agenda of the Left Behind series. My book is filled with new material that thoroughly proves this statement.
http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/tim_lahaye_comments.html

Put simply, Ruby’s new book God’s Wrath on Left Behind methodically outlines evidence indicating the Left Behind series is not what it appears to be. Moreover, Ruby lays out -- through clear Biblical examples and critical examination -- a compelling argument that the best-selling novels are virtual propaganda tools teeming with anti-Christian gospel, anti-Christ messages, and radical New Age teachings.

"The Left Behind
series is a promotion of Satan’s broad road leading to destruction in the guise of ‘tribulation-style’ Christianity," says Ruby. "Cloaked under the label of ‘entertainment,’ the fact is that careful review of the Left Behind books reveals a frightening hidden agenda that is sending harmful messages to millions of readers."
http://www.libertytothecaptives.net/press_release.html


British diplomats had a satellite phone stolen in Baghdad...and only noticed it was missing after a bill for FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS was run up.
 
The invoice shows thousands of phone calls made to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, bases for al-Qaeda terror networks. MI6 spy chiefs fear the "Thuraya" phone was used by insurgents to plot a wave of suicide bombings across Iraq.
 
Now furious Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has launched a major investigation into how the theft was allowed to happen - and why nothing was done until the huge bill was uncovered.
http://www.rense.com/general68/phone.htm

Walton was the judge who, under pressure from the Justice Department, placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and cleared his courtroom of the public and media in Edmonds' hearing in her case against the FBI. Edmonds brought to light important information about how the FBI failed to translate important wiretap intercepts before and after 911
http://www.rense.com/general68/case.htm

While watching NBC2 coverage of Hurricane Wilma about two dozen residents called the station reporting an unusual sighting. While watching a Doppler loop of Hurricane Wilma coming ashore, a number two appeared in the eye of the storm.
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=4715&z=3&p=

This type of crime shocked Columbus in May when police arrested Nicole Bernard for taking part in Satanic sex ceremonies involving 15 children at a church in New Orleans.

“It's a shame people don't believe it goes on. I wish I didn't know about it. But you need to know,” Perlmutter said.
http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4040398&nav=LUESMuat

When Kenneth Crimmins moved here from Vermont years ago, he thought he was settling on the edge of a small patch of woods. He didn't know he had waterfront property and that those woods were actually a rare floating island that had docked in his back yard.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/29/officials_tow_floating_island_back_to_middle_of_pond/

Morthor carried on one of the most brutal military campaigns

It appears there is hard evidence to prove that employers are using the H-1B visa program to hire cheap labor; that is, to pay lower wages than the national average for programming jobs.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/25/44OPreality_1.html

Here is a most extraordinary letter from Syria's Ambassador in Washington Imad Mustapha to Congresswoman Sue Kelly, which has come into my possession. It explains how the American Administration has been stonewalling Syrian cooperation on a host of issues. It explains how Syria is being set up to fail so that the US can isolate it and carry out a process of regime-change at the expense of Iraqi stability and the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. It explains how the US administration's policy of forcing regime change in Syria is trumping the need to save lives in Iraq.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/10/syria-is-being-set-up-to-fail-leaked.htm

US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,17013218,00.html

At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.

The analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union, released today, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterised 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries", as noted in the autopsy reports.

The 44 deaths represent a partial group of the total number of prisoners who have died in US custody overseas; more than 100 have died of natural and violent causes.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-detainees-murdered-during-interrogations/2005/10/25/1130006101143.html

When Horowitz opened the front door of the trailer home, he discovered his wife's dead body. She had been brutally beaten, thirty-nine times, with a piece of crown molding from the construction work. The official cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head.

Chillingly, a religious symbol was carved into Vitale's back. It was a "Lorraine Cross" -- with two crossbars, one above and one below its midpoint.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051024_spilbor.html



The book has set off a firestorm in the RFID community. Not only is PDC scrambling to cover its tracks, companies like NCR are attempting to distance themselves from their own promotional materials exposed in "Spychips." In a recent interview with Wired News, NCR executive Richard Beaver downplayed the company's plans for price changing shelves that discriminate against bargain shoppers, calling them "concept documents" designed to merely provide "thought leadership" in the RFID sphere.
http://www.rense.com/general68/shamed.htm

VICE PRESIDENT Cheney is aggressively pursuing an initiative that may be unprecedented for an elected official of the executive branch: He is proposing that Congress legally authorize human rights abuses by Americans. "Cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of prisoners is banned by an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration and ratified by the United States. The State Department annually issues a report criticizing other governments for violating it. Now Mr. Cheney is asking Congress to approve legal language that would allow the CIA to commit such abuses against foreign prisoners it is holding abroad. In other words, this vice president has become an open advocate of torture
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10774.htm

The non-partisan GAO report has now found that, "some of [the] concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529

The hit on the radar-evading plane on March 27, 1999, during the 78-day NATO campaign over Serbia, triggered doubts not only about the F-117s, but also about the entire concept of stealth technology on which the U.S. Air Force has based its newest generation of warplanes.

Military analysts debated how the planes would fare in a war against a militarily sophisticated opponent if an obsolescent air defense such as Serbia's could manage to track and destroy them.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. silenced many critics this week by reducing the cost of health insurance so more of its low-income employees can afford coverage. Now an internal memo sent to the company's board of directors has surfaced that outlines in blunt terms how the discount store giant may pay for it while still cutting costs.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/27/Business/Shed_the_unhealthy__W.shtml

The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment.

The statute applies not only to those who carry out the acts, but also to those who ORDER IT, know about it, or fail to take steps to stop it. The statute applies to everyone, no matter how high and mighty.
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=17266&hd=0&size=1&l=e

They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health budget was 60 million liras. The money paid by the Americans is equivalent to billions of dollars today.]
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/281005ringwormchildren.htm

U.S. senators -- who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks -- have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.

Can you believe it?

The proposed increase was sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and turned down in the Senate by a vote of 51 against the boost and 49 in favor. Under a Senate agreement, it needed 60 votes to pass
http://www.wesh.com/helenthomas/5183628/detail.html

If you are in a public place and start showing symptoms of influenza, SARS or whatever infectious disease is currently in play, you will have no rights. The government can not only kidnap you, it WILL kidnap you and put you in a health facility. You will be isolated from your home, your family, your job and everything you have known as your life. You will be kept there until the health officials can be absolutely sure that you are not infected. Then, if you weren't infected before you were quarantined, there is a chance that you will be infected by the other people in the quarantine area; thus, you could actually end up acquiring the disease during this mandatory quarantine sentence, even though you didn't bring the disease with you in the first place.
http://www.NewsTarget.com/011991-03.html

The troops transported to Katanga using US Air Force aircraft came from Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Ethiopia, and India. According to numerous eyewitness accounts, the troops of the UN's Operation Morthor carried on one of the most brutal military campaigns of our century. In their 1962 report, 46 Angry Men, the 46 civilian doctors of Elizabethville, Katanga denounced the atrocities carried out by UN troops
http://www.neusysinc.com/columnarchive/colm0036.html

Military analysts debated

It appears there is hard evidence to prove that employers are using the H-1B visa program to hire cheap labor; that is, to pay lower wages than the national average for programming jobs.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/25/44OPreality_1.html

Here is a most extraordinary letter from Syria's Ambassador in Washington Imad Mustapha to Congresswoman Sue Kelly, which has come into my possession. It explains how the American Administration has been stonewalling Syrian cooperation on a host of issues. It explains how Syria is being set up to fail so that the US can isolate it and carry out a process of regime-change at the expense of Iraqi stability and the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. It explains how the US administration's policy of forcing regime change in Syria is trumping the need to save lives in Iraq.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/10/syria-is-being-set-up-to-fail-leaked.htm

US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,17013218,00.html

At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.

The analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union, released today, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterised 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries", as noted in the autopsy reports.

The 44 deaths represent a partial group of the total number of prisoners who have died in US custody overseas; more than 100 have died of natural and violent causes.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-detainees-murdered-during-interrogations/2005/10/25/1130006101143.html

When Horowitz opened the front door of the trailer home, he discovered his wife's dead body. She had been brutally beaten, thirty-nine times, with a piece of crown molding from the construction work. The official cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head.

Chillingly, a religious symbol was carved into Vitale's back. It was a "Lorraine Cross" -- with two crossbars, one above and one below its midpoint.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051024_spilbor.html



The book has set off a firestorm in the RFID community. Not only is PDC scrambling to cover its tracks, companies like NCR are attempting to distance themselves from their own promotional materials exposed in "Spychips." In a recent interview with Wired News, NCR executive Richard Beaver downplayed the company's plans for price changing shelves that discriminate against bargain shoppers, calling them "concept documents" designed to merely provide "thought leadership" in the RFID sphere.
http://www.rense.com/general68/shamed.htm

VICE PRESIDENT Cheney is aggressively pursuing an initiative that may be unprecedented for an elected official of the executive branch: He is proposing that Congress legally authorize human rights abuses by Americans. "Cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of prisoners is banned by an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration and ratified by the United States. The State Department annually issues a report criticizing other governments for violating it. Now Mr. Cheney is asking Congress to approve legal language that would allow the CIA to commit such abuses against foreign prisoners it is holding abroad. In other words, this vice president has become an open advocate of torture
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10774.htm

The non-partisan GAO report has now found that, "some of [the] concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529

The hit on the radar-evading plane on March 27, 1999, during the 78-day NATO campaign over Serbia, triggered doubts not only about the F-117s, but also about the entire concept of stealth technology on which the U.S. Air Force has based its newest generation of warplanes.

Military analysts debated how the planes would fare in a war against a militarily sophisticated opponent if an obsolescent air defense such as Serbia's could manage to track and destroy them.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-26-serb-stealth_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Chillingly

It appears there is hard evidence to prove that employers are using the H-1B visa program to hire cheap labor; that is, to pay lower wages than the national average for programming jobs.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/10/25/44OPreality_1.html

Here is a most extraordinary letter from Syria's Ambassador in Washington Imad Mustapha to Congresswoman Sue Kelly, which has come into my possession. It explains how the American Administration has been stonewalling Syrian cooperation on a host of issues. It explains how Syria is being set up to fail so that the US can isolate it and carry out a process of regime-change at the expense of Iraqi stability and the lives of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. It explains how the US administration's policy of forcing regime change in Syria is trumping the need to save lives in Iraq.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/10/syria-is-being-set-up-to-fail-leaked.htm

US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,17013218,00.html

At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.

The analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union, released today, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterised 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries", as noted in the autopsy reports.

The 44 deaths represent a partial group of the total number of prisoners who have died in US custody overseas; more than 100 have died of natural and violent causes.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-detainees-murdered-during-interrogations/2005/10/25/1130006101143.html

When Horowitz opened the front door of the trailer home, he discovered his wife's dead body. She had been brutally beaten, thirty-nine times, with a piece of crown molding from the construction work. The official cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head.

Chillingly, a religious symbol was carved into Vitale's back. It was a "Lorraine Cross" -- with two crossbars, one above and one below its midpoint.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051024_spilbor.html

More than 100,000 deaths per year come from drugs

Let’s not have them in parking lots. Let’s move them up to Baghdad, let’s move them up with the 3rd ID or move them over to the Marines, who’ve taken 50 percent of the hits yet have roughly 6 to 7 percent of the" uparmored "Humvees," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who chairs the House Armed Services Committee.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Oct/20051023News010.asp

The editor of Haqooq-i-Zan (Women's Rights),  Ali Mohaqiq Nasab (left) was arrested on Oct. 1 after he published articles in two issues of the magazine denouncing the law making stoning to death for leaving the Islamic religion a crime, criticized the practice of punishing adultery with 100 lashes, and argued that men and women should be considered by law to be equals. ("In some cases, the testimony of a female witness is considered to have only half the value of a male," the AP noted.) In other words, saying that men and women should be equal under the law  and that stoning to death is wrong are "blasphemous" statements for which one can be sent to the slammer for years.

Now, do you remember Laura Bush's "crusade" for women's rights in Afghanistan, which was part of the Bush administration's propaganda campaign to convince Americans the U.S. military invasion of the country was justified?
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/afghan_womens_m.html


VERMONT TO SECEDE FROM UNITED STATES
http://www.halturnershow.com/VermontToVoteOnSecession.html

With more than 92 percent of the votes counted, 64 percent of Brazilians opposed the ban, while 36 percent backed it, said election officials, giving the 'no' position an insurmountable lead.

The proposal would have prohibited the sale of firearms and ammunition except for police, the military, some security guards, gun collectors and sports shooters. It would complement a 2003 disarmament law that sharply restricts who can legally purchase firearms and carry guns in the street.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Brazil_Gun_Referendum.html

Robert Pastor of the Council on Foreign Relations, who is one of the co-architects of the SPP's blueprint, has explained that the vision behind that initiative calls for citizens of the U.S., along with Mexicans and Canadians, to cease thinking of themselves as citizens of their respective countries, and embrace a new identity as "North Americans." This would mean the abolition of the United States , the repudiation of our Declaration of Independence, and the abandonment of our constitutional Republic in favor of a North American version of the socialist European Union.
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_626.shtml

[Heaven forbid people’s money should retain its value, or even increase in value. That would be just awful.]
Conclusion
Sustained deflation can be highly destructive to a modern economy and should be strongly resisted. Fortunately, for the foreseeable future, the chances of a serious deflation in the United States appear remote indeed, in large part because of our economy's underlying strengths but also because of the determination of the Federal Reserve and other U.S. policymakers to act preemptively against deflationary pressures. Moreover, as I have discussed today, a variety of policy responses are available should deflation appear to be taking hold. Because some of these alternative policy tools are relatively less familiar, they may raise practical problems of implementation and of calibration of their likely economic effects. For this reason, as I have emphasized, prevention of deflation is preferable to cure. Nevertheless, I hope to have persuaded you that the Federal Reserve and other economic policymakers would be far from helpless in the face of deflation, even should the federal funds rate hit its zero bound
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm

Sobering statistics tell his story, too. A few examples:

• More than 100,000 deaths per year come from drugs that are taken as directed by a physician (not through misuse or overdose).

• Almost half of Americans take at least one prescription drug every day; 1 in 6 take three or more daily.

• Drug companies pay for about 90 percent of the continuing-education classes physicians must take.

• Washington has six times as many pharma-industry lobbyists as it does US senators.

• Of the 1,035 new drugs approved by the FDA from 1989 to 2000, more than half offered no significant new benefits over older drugs.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1025/p13s01-bogn.html

demoralized and pessimistic

Estonian police announced Thursday they have detained five Israelis in the capital city of Tallinn, on charges of smuggling 43 kilos of top-grade Peruvian cocaine into the former Soviet republic, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/636522.html

She finished her letter: "We must maintain a constant vigilance against the erosion of our basic freedoms; the freedoms Mount Shasta Spring Water Company mistakenly believes our troops in Iraq are fighting and dying for."

At a veterans' support group on First Street in Chico called VECTORS Joe D'Amico said that upon hearing of Oshima's story, the organization decided to terminate its water service and have asked Mt. Shasta to remove the water cooler in their office as a sign of solidarity with Oshima.
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/chico/2005-10-20/news.asp

A defense lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants who was kidnapped by gunmen has been found shot dead, police said on Friday.
 
Police said the body of Saadoun Janabi was found shortly after his abduction late on Thursday with several gunshot wounds to the head and chest
http://www.rense.com/general68/kidnappeddefense.htm

The bill, nicknamed "BioShield 2" is expected to pass in the Senate by year's end. In its technically accurate assessment, the NVIC warns the legislation will "strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency."
http://www.rense.com/general68/CODERED.HTM

The Russian aircraft industry has developed and will soon start producing stealth aircraft which will radically differ from existing U.S. models. The Russian version uses plasma screens to cushion and disperse radar waves, the Novye Izvestia daily reports
http://www.rense.com/general68/newrussianstealth.htm

Daniel Alford, of Devon, found four corpses laid out in a square. Two others were near stones and apparently arranged to make a pagan symbol.

Mr Alford said he believed occultists could be responsible. Devon and Cornwall Police said the incident is being investigated.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4357188.stm



THERE WAS panic yesterday at Maracas Beach, when a series of towering waves, many more than 25 feet high, sent seabathers, vendors and lifeguards running for their lives.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=108869968

Knowing the source of this piece makes it all the more disturbing. It is not every day that the editor of a respected national magazine publishes an essay claiming that America is not on the road to becoming, but ALREADY IS, a fascist state.... or words to that affect.

To help prepare you for what follows, here are the final sentence from this piece.... [I think we can look forward with confidence to character-building bankruptcies, picturesque bread riots, thrilling cavalcades of splendidly costumed motorcycle police.]

On message By Lewis H. Lapham Harper's Magazine, October 2005, pps. 7-9 "But I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, then Fascism and Communism, aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism, will grow in strength in our land." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 4, 1938
http://organicconsumers.org/Politics/harpers101205.cfm

A cunning rat released on a deserted island off New Zealand outsmarted scientists and evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs before being captured four months later on a neighbouring island, researchers said on Wednesday.
 
Scientists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand released the Norway rat on the 9.5-hectare (23.5-acre) island of Motuhoropapa to find out why rats are so difficult to eradicate.
 
They got more than they bargained for.
 
"Our findings confirm that eliminating a single invading rat is disproportionately difficult," James Russell and his colleagues said in a report in the science journal Nature.
http://www.rense.com/general68/rat.htm

A JAMA editorial notes that the new analysis contrasts sharply with data company sponsors presented to the FDA showing no significant excess risk of death or cardiovascular problems.

Company-provided data might have fostered an "illusion of safety" because of numerous omissions, such as excluding patients most likely to face cardiovascular risks, including elderly diabetics, said editorial author Dr. James Brophy of McGill University.
http://wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=106&sid=599190

Strategists working with the White House in support of the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers are becoming increasingly demoralized and pessimistic about the nomination's prospects on Capitol Hill in the wake of Miers's meetings with several Republican and Democratic senators. On a conference call held this morning, they even discussed whether Miers should simply stop visiting with lawmakers, lest any further damage be done — and so that time spent in such get-acquainted sessions will not cut into Miers's intensive preparation for her confirmation hearing
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200510201613.asp

to deny the Dalit

If what you have reported is true, then if a person wants to attempt suicide and crosses the centerline to hit someone they don't know but want to end their own life, the person who gets hit is not involved in an 'accident' and their insurance doesn't have to pay?" wrote Paul Merz of Seattle. "Why do we have insurance? This is so bogus."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002569740_danny19.html

PROMISES UNFULFILLED

The Bush administration promised a massive rebuilding program after the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple
Saddam Hussein and said much of the cost would be born by revenues from Iraqi oil.

Waxman said Iraq's oil production was still well below levels before the invasion. Similarly electricity generation and access to clean water remained at or below pre-war levels, he said, blaming the shortfalls on the administration's noncompetitive contracts and failure to secure Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051018/wl_nm/iraq_usa_reconstruction_dc

A Dutch court on Wednesday blocked the extradition of a Dutch terror suspect to the United States, saying his legal rights in U.S. custody could not be guaranteed.

The man, who is of Egyptian descent and was identified only by his initials M. A., is wanted on charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, apparently to help the al Qaeda terrorist network. He has been in custody in the Netherlands for around eight months
http://www.unknownnews.org/0510211012Netherlands.html

Bill Gates, whose net worth of $46.6 billion makes him the world’s richest person, is betting against the U.S. dollar.

“I’m short the dollar,” Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., told Charlie Rose in an interview late yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The ol’ dollar, it’s gonna go down.”
http://www.sebimeyer.com/?p=1229

Just two months after going public in a successful share offering, commodities and futures broker Refco Inc. has crashed to earth in Wall Street's latest corporate scandal.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051019/IBREFCO19/TPBusiness/International

Could there really be an "Axis of Perverts"?
Does this imaginary scenario seem too outrageous to believe? Take a look at a few of the suspicious organizations that provide pornography and travel arrangements.
http://www.EricHufschmid.net/Axis_of_Perverts.html

Baccus, 53, of Bristol, R.I., would not criticize President Bush's policies, but he said command failures led to prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo after he departed as well as the Abu Ghraib prison torture case in Iraq.
 
"Those people (commanders) are the ones who need to be publicly charged. I don't know how high it needs to go," Baccus told the newspaper.
http://www.rense.com/general68/gens.htm

http://www.rense.com/general68/whatthen.htm


The tularemia clearly wasn't intended to hurt anybody. It was the release of information about the tularemia which was intended to be a shot across the bow of any future protests. It is not difficult to believe, especially given the transparent cover-up being conducted by the FBI, that the next time it will be anthrax.
http://www.rense.com/general68/tul.htm

Although the caste system was legally ended in 1950, it still regulates much of Indian society, and the Dalits are at the lowest rung in this oppressive class structure. And while Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits are given affirmative action placements in universities and government jobs, they lose these and other rights when they become Christians.

The court case will determine whether these rights will be extended to Christians.

"What the militant leaders have been doing to deny the Dalit Christians their rights is totally unconstitutional," Dr. Yohannan declared. "Yet despite the persecution and loss of rights, millions of Dalits have become Christians.

"When the court rules in favor of the Christians, it will be like a dam bursting. The possibility is that 300 million 'Untouchables' who have been living in slavery will at last find their way to freedom and hope. This is the last barrier to them moving out of the oppression of the Hindu caste system.
http://www.gfa.org/gfa/dalitprayer1?motiv=WA5A-G6LQ

We want our junk food

Brace yourselves, this is where it really starts to get freaky. In her countersuit, Anderson claims that the Settlement Support Center acknowledged the probability of her innocence, but informed her that should she refuse to settle, the RIAA would proceed with a suit in order to discourage others from attempting to defend themselves against unwarranted litigation
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051004-5382.html

For astronauts, going to the bathroom has an entirely different meaning.

In a microgravity environment, flatulence, which contains flammable gases, like hydrogen and firedamp, can more easily ignite
http://english.people.com.cn/200510/14/eng20051014_214307.html

While the findings have no practical implications at present, if confirmed they could be useful in clinical diagnoses of whether a person is pretending to be sick.

They could also help in criminal justice settings by helping police determine if a suspect is lying, and in pre-employment screening.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1484365.htm

PAGAN priests will be allowed to use wine and wands during ceremonies in jails under instructions issued to every prison governor.

Inmates practising paganism will be allowed a hoodless robe, incense and a piece of religious jewellery among their personal possessions. They will also be allowed to have Tarot cards but are forbidden from using them to tell the fortunes of other prisoners.

The guidance, issued by Michael Spurr, the director of operations of the Prison Service, makes it clear that Skyclad (naked pagan worship) will not be permitted. Prison staff have been told that pagan artefacts should be treated with respect
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1829195,00.html

The thing is that many households here publish such journals that replace common correspondence. Such journals usually provide information about the hosts’ good or bad health, family news, different thoughts and comments, small inventions, invitations to receptions.”

However, Odoevsky, a prince and a wealthy man, could not imagine people taking so much bother to keep their acquaintances updated on their daily affairs. He suggested the job would be carried out by the butler.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/10/10/bloggingpredicted.shtml


The robber puts cashiers into a trance, gets them to hand over money, then brings them back to normal with no memory of handing over the cash
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/15102005/344/trance-encounter-bank-robber.html

THE horror of the mysterious disease killing Tasmanian devils still shocks scientist Clare Hawkins.

Dr Hawkins has been observing devils with Devil Facial Tumour Disease since March last year.
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16929717%255E3462,00.html

If a man is given extra punishment because of his thoughts, which may or may not have been motive for his crime, then pretrial discovery must necessarily include finding "bad" speech to support that extra punishment; it involves interviewing his friends and co-workers, inspecting his library and video rental records, determining what newsletters and magazines he likes and any organizations he belongs to, in order to establish what he might have thought before and during his crime. It requires Gestapo-like searches by Thought Police.
 
The eventual result of such legislation will be prosecutors rifling the personal thoughts of any white suspect alleged to have perpetrated a crime against a minority person.
http://www.rense.com/general68/hate2.htm


Nevertheless, former cattle rancher Howard Lyman (madcowboy.com) and others of integrity, point out that every night over 10,000 cattle go to sleep in the US...and don't awaken in the morning. And no one is doing necropsies on them to find out why they died...they are usually just quickly carted off to the rendering plants and converted into everything from pet food to fertilizer for your garden. Some farmers just 'scoop, shovel and shut-up' as a means to get rid of dead and downer cattle
http://rense.com/general46/inva.html

Marc Dutroux, a Jewish Belgian, ran a pedophile ring and made porno/snuff movies. In 1986, Dutroux, and his wife Michele, were arrested, sentenced to 13 years in 1989 on five charges of rape, and paroled in 3 years.

Police re-arrest him in 1996 for kidnapping, child pornography, murder, and child prostitution. He finally went to trial in 2004.
http://judicial-inc.biz/marc_dutroux.htm

A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and one other, a court official said Wednesday.
 
Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, all from the U.S. 3rd Infantry.
http://www.rense.com/general68/sspan.htm

What I fear most for the future of our country is that our leadership seems to be developing the same arrogance that doomed the British Empire.
 
In early 1941, the British general in charge of the Far East scoffed at the idea that Japan would attack. The Japanese wouldn't dare, he said, because they were a subhuman, inferior race. That same year, Winston Churchill likewise said that the Japanese would not dare attack the British Empire. The Japanese were, he said, the "wops of the East," thus insulting two peoples in one sentence.
 
The Japanese, who were then and are now among the most brilliant people on Earth, did attack the British Empire. They sank the very battleship on which Churchill made his statement. They completely defeated the British in the Far East in 11 weeks, capturing more than 100,000 British soldiers and officers. It was the largest, most humiliating defeat in Britain's history.
http://www.rense.com/general68/im.htm

Individuals living off investments would pay nothing, while wage earners would continue to have taxes withheld from their paychecks; people earning higher salaries would pay higher rates without the benefit of popular deductions, such as breaks for mortgage interest
http://www.rense.com/general68/bushs.htm

There's a heart surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic who has taken a stand and said, "We want McDonalds out of this clinic. We want these junk food and fast food restaurants out." But the staff there is against him. They say, "We want our junk food. We want our diabetes-promoting, heart disease-promoting, cancer-causing foods. It's our choice." They want this stuff. Gosh, I hate to say it, but have you ever been in a hospital and looked at the health of the nursing staff? I used to volunteer in a nursing home. I have seen it first-hand. These are not the healthiest people in the world, not by a long shot.
http://www.NewsTarget.com/011701.html

credit-card payments that threaten to increase delinquencies

ON each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence. The British were there in Karachi when Americans interrogated him and Pakistanis tortured him; they were feeding questions to the Moroccan torturers who took a scalpel to his penis; they stood back and watched as he was dragged to an American torture chamber in Afghanistan and then to the gulag of Guantanamo, where he languishes to this day
...
In total, al-Habashi spent 18 months in Moroccan detention. He was tortured with the scalpel once a month. He once asked a guard why they were doing this to him and was told: “It’s just to degrade you, so when you leave here you’ll have these scars and you’ll never forget. So you’ll always fear doing anything but what the US wants.”
...
He says thinking of Jesus and the prophet Mohammed kept him going.
http://www.sundayherald.com/52304

Businesses last month faced the same pricing pressures as consumers, soaring energy costs, and home construction slowed as interest rates rose along with inflation, economists said in advance of reports this week.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=asi8JI9n30Sw&refer=top_world_news

Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday night, much Web buzzing has ensued concerning the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq at one point.

The issue came to the fore because Miller, in recounting her grand jury testimony, wrote about how her former classified status figured in her discussions with I. Lewis Libby. She was pressed by the prosecutor on this matter.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001306732

The soldiers, who were targeted by insurgents as they travelled through the country, died after being attacked with bombs triggered by infra-red beams. The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a decade ago.

This contradicts the British government's claims that Iran's Revolutionary Guard is helping Shia insurgents to make the devices
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article320004.ece

A powerful coalition of judges, senior lawyers and politicians has warned that the Government is undermining freedoms citizens have taken for granted for centuries and that Britain risks drifting towards a police state. One of the country's most eminent judges has said that undermining the independence of the courts has frightening parallels with Nazi Germany.

Senior legal figures are worried that "inalienable rights" could swiftly disappear unless Tony Blair ceases attacking the judiciary and freedoms enshrined in the Human Rights Act
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article320005.ece

At Home Depot stores around the country, immigrants line up each morning to find work as laborers and handymen. If lawyers and doctors lined up outside Home Depot offering their services for modest fees, what do you think would happen to the paychecks in those professions?
http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2005/10/16/seem_like_youre_earning_less_you_arent_alone/

The Israeli Army has taken preliminary procedures to implement the proposal, titled “Switching off the lights behind the escaping houses”. The procedures included organising awareness campaigns to advise the senior officers on ways of using forged names to escape legal responsibilities of the savage crimes they are planning or taking part in
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=20893&pn=local

Roberts’ explicit objection to the Oregon statute is that, “It creates the potential for a patchwork of laws across the nation regarding the matter.” In other words, the states rights advocate claims that he opposes assisted suicide based on the inherently pernicious nature of states rights. This argument was rejected as pretzel logic by none other than William Rehnquist. Nevertheless, the “brilliant” Roberts has presented the convoluted rationale because his real reason reflects even more negatively on him. From the despicable theocratic perspective, allowing incurably ill human beings to decide the terms of their demise is just another secular defamation of God, not unlike letting women control their bodies or tolerating gay love.
http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/more/051015_Agony.htm

The cats and dogs two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly used to put down animals, according to new warrants issued and served on Friday.

Additionally, the two employees were charged with three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. The charges allege that they euthanized three cats from an Ahoskie veterinarian after promising to find the animals new homes, according to the new warrants.

PETA employees Andrew B. Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, and Adria J. Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, were served with warrants on 22 felony charges of animal cruelty and the three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense in court on Friday.

A grand jury is expected to consider formal indictments Oct. 31, Assistant District Attorney Donnie Taylor said.

The new animal cruelty charges replaced 31 previous animal cruelty charges, which were dismissed
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=93730&ran=57036


I pass this along, and I wonder...are you reading this?

Could you pass this test?

Look what it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895

--Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they
only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us
have passed the 8th grade in 1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, USA.
It
was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley
Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the
Salina Journal.

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS -1895
Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no
modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts
of"lie,""play," and "run."
5. Define case; Illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that
you
understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many
bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at
50cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary
levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104
for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20
per meter?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of
which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn,
and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800,
1849, 1865.

Orthography (Time, one hour) Do we even know what this is??

1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography,
etymology, syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph,
subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two
exceptions
under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi,
dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name
the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell,
rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane,
fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation
by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)

1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,
Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same
latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the
sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the
earth.

Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the saying "he
only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, doesn't it? Also
shows you how poor our education system has become... and, NO! I don't
have the answers, and I failed the 8th grade test
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=80093

Prince 3 reports: “I am one of the Saudi Royal Family who has been assisting your newsletter. I wish to tell you something of intelligence nature. The information I have is scarce. Briefly, here is what I have been able to put together: Taiff is in the western part of Saudi Arabia, high in a very rugged mountain range, near the Red Sea. It is not listed on all maps. In fact, I can't even find a reference to it in Google, but it probably has several spelling variations. It is pronounced Taa'eef. From about 1973 until the late 1980's a mammoth construction project went on near Taiff, Saudi Arabia. The scale was so enormous as to defy belief. The scale was evidently so massive that my sources of this information indicated to me that they could not adequately verbalise it. In spite of the enormity of the project, it was done in almost total secrecy. Essentially, a complete underground city was built, spanning literally miles. There is also an extremely large runway which can in some fashion be hidden from aerial view and capable of handling more than even the largest aircraft. Airplanes that land can be hidden in a cavernous hanger built in an entire mountain. Parts of the runway aprons can also be lowered so that airplanes can be stored in hangers that are actually under the airport itself. All entrances to the city are hidden and impregnable. The primary contractor for this project was Bechtel. During the construction phase the area itself was closed to all access by outsiders. It was referred to by people in the know as "the forbidden city." It is clear to me that the city was built as a refuge. The question I have always pondered is a refuge for *whom*, and for *what*. A clue was given during the Gulf war. It seems Saudi and Kuwati royals waited out the war at.... (you will never guess) - Taiff! My theory is that this city was built as the destination of my family and unknown outsiders in event of a takeover of my family’s government or a nuclear war. I wish you would expose this further. I have tried myself but the old ones have the secrets and I am not trained as a journalist.”G306 We do not know if the Neocon allies of “the old ones” are responsible for this refuge or will benefit from it. We have heard unconfirmed rumors within the beltway of Washington.
http://www.statedepartment.com/37issue.htm

A Syrian source close to the ruling family predicted that Mr Assad would turn down the deal. "The regime has calculated that it has the resources to survive for quite some time even if it is isolated," said the source. "The strategy could be to manage the conflict until external pressures ease.
http://www.rense.com/general68/gad.htm

"There should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, creed or nationality," FAIR stated. "All admission of immigrants should come within a single, stable ceiling which is periodically reviewed on the basis of a reasoned, explicit goal of achieving population stability. We should abolish preferences such as the Cuban Adjustment Act."
http://www.rense.com/general68/trueimmigration.htm


Iraqi election officials said today that they were investigating what they described as "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces, where as many 99 percent of the voters were reported to have cast ballots in favor of Iraq's new constitution, raising the possibility that the results of Saturday's referendum could be called into question.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/international/middleeast/17cnd-ballot.html

The dollar slipped on Monday, extending losses after tame U.S. inflation data and weak growth figures prompted traders to unwind long-dollar positions.

The dollar eased further from two-year highs versus the yen and touched its lowest level in a week against the euro, although many traders said its overall uptrend remained intact on expectations U.S. interest rates would keep climbing.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nT250233&imageid=n=

U.S. consumers, and the businesses that depend on them, are bracing for what Lehman Brothers Inc. economists call a ``cold, dark and expensive'' winter.

A growing number of Wall Street forecasters, including those at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co., are pulling back on estimates for consumer spending. They cite a convergence of rising energy prices, falling real wages and new rules requiring bigger credit-card payments that threaten to increase delinquencies at a time when a record number of borrowers are already behind on their bills.

``We are hitting the consumer with headwinds that we have not witnessed on record,'' says Andrew Pyle, senior economist with Scotia Capital in Toronto
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=alsNn4mUMcOg&refer=us

It's not the Lenin ideology

Since 2002, more than 90 people have been injured and 18 killed on the Eastern Shore in accidents involving Hispanic workers driving rogue vehicles.
 
The fatalities represent about one-fourth of the 71 highway deaths on the Eastern Shore in that period, even though the year-round Hispanic population makes up only 5 percent of the region's 51,000 residents. Those numbers swell during tomato-picking season, from July through early November, when most of the fatalities occurred.
http://www.rense.com/general67/virg.htm

A Chinese man who raised bears to tap them for their bile, prized as a traditional medicine in Asia, has been killed and eaten by his animals, Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
 
Six black bears attacked keeper Han Shigen as he was cleaning their pen in the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday, Xinhua said.
 
"The ill-fated man died on the spot and was eaten up by the ferocious bears," it said, citing a report in the Beijing News.
http://www.rense.com/general67/chinabearbile.htm

Brazilians aren't waiting for high-priced hybrid cars.

Drivers are fighting rising gasoline prices by buying "flex" or "flexible fuel" cars that slurp more alcohol.

Alcohol made from sugar cane is becoming the fuel of choice in Brazil, and other countries - so much so that global sugar prices hit a seven-year high this week.

Regular car engines will run fine on a 10 percent blend of alcohol and gasoline. But by using computer sensors that adjust to whatever mix is in the tank, flex car engines run on either ethanol, gasoline, or any combination of the two. And they have been roaring out of dealerships here since Volkswagen sold the first TotalFlex Golf in March 2003.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p05s01-woam.html

By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/11/171040/56

They did not know each other, and they had vastly different duties.

Each, however, committed suicide shortly after returning home, all within about a 17-month period
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051011/ap_on_re_us/soldier_suicides

AlpT writes "Developed by the Freaknet, Netsukuku is a new p2p routing system, which will be utilised to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and anarchical network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls. In a p2p network every node acts as a router, therefore in order to solve the problem of computing and storing the routes for 2^128 nodes, Netsukuku makes use of a new meta-algorithm, which exploits the chaos to avoid cpu consumption and fractals to keep the map of the whole net constantly under the size of 2Kb. Netsukuku includes also the Abnormal Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy, a non hierarchical and decentralised system of hostnames management which replaces the DNS. It runs on GNU/Linux.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/10/06/1421213.shtml

More than $88 billion of U.S. corporate debt is teetering on the edge of investment grade and soon may join the record amount of bonds downgraded to junk this year.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/business/3387898

An Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Stamford Hill in London has been attacked and vandalized - not by anti-Semitic thugs, but by fellow Jews who regard its leaders' outspoken condemnation of Israel as a betrayal
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3153421,00.html

The American auto industry was rocked to its foundation Saturday as Delphi Corp., the world's second-largest parts manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy and laid plans to dramatically downsize its U.S. operations.

It was the seismic event that Detroit's Big Three automakers and their workers, suppliers and investors had anticipated for years, some with dread and others with hope
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/10/A01-341885.htm

It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.

Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap - finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded - is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.

By Mr. Broe's calculations, Churchill could bring in as much as $100 million a year as a port on Arctic shipping lanes shorter by thousands of miles than routes to the south, and traffic would only increase as the retreat of ice in the region clears the way for a longer shipping season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?ei=5065&en=8a37585846254ff5&ex=1129608000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

A blind woman has baffled scientists after proving on TV that she can distinguish between colours by touch.

Gabriele Simon, 48, from Wallenhorst in Germany, revealed her ability in her country's most popular TV show Wetten dass.

She used her fingertips to recognise the different colours of various t-shirts and blouses while blindfolded.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1564181.html

If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground. Sometimes they seize upon a rock of crack hidden in front gardens, and scarper to feed their addiction.

Squirrels in south London could have become addicted to crack cocaine, say residents of Brixton, who suggest the rodents have dug up drugs buried by dealers or nibbled residues of crack on pipes and vials discarded by addicts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1587694,00.html

Detectives say someone has been shooting and kiling goats near Holley, in Linn County, in a strange case of animal abuse.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_100705_animal_goats_killed.10818bbf0.html

AUSTRALIA'S big cat riddle could finally be solved after a hunter shot dead what is thought to be a puma in Victoria's Gippsland region
...
"Kurt has killed an urban legend," Mr Williams said.
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16855046%255E903,00.html

China has successfully launched its second manned spacecraft, carrying two Chinese astronauts into orbit.

The lift-off, from Jiuquan in the Gobi desert, was shown live on state television and included views from a camera on the outside of the craft
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4333158.stm

Scientists have discovered more remains of the strange, small people that once lived on Flores island, Indonesia.

The announcement last year detailing a single, partial skeleton caused a sensation when it was claimed to be a human species new to science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4331252.stm

The esoteric world of derivatives was rocked by scandal yesterday when leading futures brokerage Refco, which has substantial operations in London and New York, said it had discovered that chief executive Phillip Bennett owed the company $430m (£250m) and that none of its accounts dating back to 2002 could be relied upon for their accuracy.
 
The disclosure is likely to increase calls for tighter controls of the high risk and often arcane financial instruments that have seen phenomenal growth over recent years in the City and on Wall Street.
http://www.rense.com/general68/scand.htm

Many thousands of Chicago households are disconnected from Peoples Gas just as high natural gas costs almost guarantee an expensive winter heating season.
 
Peoples spokesman Rod Sierra, speaking at a hearing Tuesday before four Chicago-area members of Congress, said as many as 30,000 city households are disconnected from the utility, and another 14,000 households are so far behind on their gas bills that they are eligible for disconnection. He said those numbers include people who have simply walked away from their utility bills
http://www.rense.com/general68/dndd.htm

Wal-Mart has 1,400,000 American employees, and there isn't a union in sight. Bill Coughlin, the #3 man at Wal-Mart, is said to be ready to testify about how unions and Wal-Mart colluded in a scheme to avoid unions.

UFCW could sign up 1,000,000 members @ $20 a month and that's $240,000,000 a year in dues. It would cost Wal-Mart at least $ 3 billion a year.

The rumor, that some miscellaneous union rummy took $20,000 to look the other way, is absurd. There is big money involved, and maybe that's what Coughlin is about to sing about
http://judicial-inc.biz/Walmart.htm

Every U.S. soldier takes an express and solemn oath to “support and defend the Constitution.” That oath, however, is a sham because the troops do not support or defend the Constitution. Instead, when it comes to war the troops follow another oath they take – to obey the orders of the president, and they do this without regard to whether such orders violate the Constitution.

A textbook example involves President Bush’s war on Iraq.

The Constitution prohibits the president from waging war without first securing a declaration of war from Congress. By waging war on Iraq without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, the president violated the Constitution.

Some people pooh-pooh the violation, perceiving the Constitution as simply a technical document that can be violated whenever the president feels that “national security” – or even the welfare of foreigners – necessitates it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger61.html

"It's really hard to believe it's happening right in front of us. Whether it's the torture or the process of denying habeas corpus to an American citizen."

"I think the arrogance of power that they have where they themselves are like Communists....in the sense that they decide what is right. The Communist Party said that they decided what was right or wrong, it wasn't a higher source."

Paul responded to President Bush's announcement last week that he would order the use of military assets to police America in the event of an avian flu outbreak.

"To me it's so strange that the President can make these proposals and it's even plausible. When he talks about martial law dealing with some epidemic that might come later on and having forced quarantines, doing away with Posse Comitatus in order to deal with natural disasters, and hardly anybody says anything. People must be scared to death."

Paul, himself a medical doctor, agreed that the bird flu threat was empty fearmongering.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/121005slamsbush.htm

The National Park Service has started using a political loyalty test for picking all its top civil service positions, according to an agency directive released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under the new order, all mid-level managers and above must also be approved by a Bush administration political appointee.
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_26327.shtml

Americans are racing by the thousands to file for bankruptcy before a new law takes effect on Monday that makes it harder to wipe away old debts.
 
Filings have skyrocketed at stunning rates, topping more than 3,000 percent in many big cities and even more for smaller ones, according to data from U.S. bankruptcy courts.
 
"It's unbelievable," said Michael Dean, analyst at Fitch Ratings in New York. "You look at the chart and you have to set it down and step back."
http://www.rense.com/general68/before.htm

Lawmakers say the Bush administration has decided to abandon efforts to improve its current system of ground-based ballistic missile interceptors.
    
    "After many years of investment in this midcourse interceptor, (the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency) has now essentially decided that the first generation (ground-based interceptors) will also be its last generation," said the Senate Committee on Appropriations in a report accompanying its version of the 2006 defense appropriations bill.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051013-044213-8370r

Retail new-vehicle sales were down 33 percent across the industry in the first nine days of October compared with the same period a year ago, the Power Information Network said.

It said results were down at nine major automakers, but GM led the pack with a 57 percent decline followed by Ford, which saw its retail sales drop 45 percent over the first nine days of the month.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051014/us_nm/autos_sales_dc

Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.

According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said.

He said there was nothing illegal about the requirement and that no investigation had been opened.

An Israeli lawyer who did not want to be named said while the contract might appear legal, it would be rejected if challenged in court. "The point is that a Chinese worker will agree to anything and then will not have anyone to help them if there is a problem," he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1112442,00.html

A wheelchair-bound holy roller and her pal are claiming they took a Bible-thumping from two Boston cops simply for spreading the Gospel in Copley Square.

     And the women's claims of excessive force could be on tape, as the voices of officers John Curley and Michael O'Hara were on an audio recorder found concealed in the pants of one woman - who is being charged with wiretapping - according to a police report on the Sept. 9 Boylston Street incident.

     ``They have a hatred for God,'' Ann Cataldo, 50, her head supported by a cumbersome neck brace, said of the patrolmen she alleges hurt her neck and punched her as she was cuffed to her wheelchair.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=106975

Hurricane Katrina helped push inflation up sharply last month, guaranteeing that millions of Americans receiving Social Security and other federal benefits will see their payments rise in January by the largest amount since 1991, the government reported today.

But the Labor Department also reported that the widely followed consumer price index for all urban consumers, rose 1.2 percent last month and 4.7 percent in the 12 months that ended in September. That was the biggest monthly rise since March, 1980, and the biggest 12-month increase since May, 1991.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101400510_pf.html

After nearly five years in office, the record is clear: President George W. Bush ranks among the biggest spending presidents in American history! With such a record, no person can honestly categorize G.W. Bush as a fiscal conservative. By comparison, Dubya's spending habits make Bill Clinton look like a conservative!

Writing for the Financial Times (7/15/05), Jim Cooper stated, "President George W. Bush has failed to impose discipline on congressional spending. His Republican Congress has, unsurprisingly, become headstrong and spendthrift as a result.
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin264.htm

In 2000, a firm, Ag/Bio Con (4) developed a strain of fusarium oxysporum mold they called EN-4, and that the military calls FOXY. David Sands, vice president of the company and primary producer, lobbied the members of Congress to use it against coca fields. Congress even attached a string to an aid package to Columbia saying that to receive the aid, the country must allow the use of these mycoherbicides. This proposal was rejected by the Columbian President, but strangely outbreaks of EN-4 mold infestations starting showing up in other South American countries, such as Peru.(5) By international law, the US may not export or introduce potentially harmful bio-agents into the biosphere of other countries. The supposedly spontaneous outbreaks of the EN-4 strain of Fusarium, allowed the stuff to be pushed as a mycoherbicide, because it was already there. The reasoning was to attack the growing of illicit drug crops. There were reports that the supposed natural outbreaks of EN-4 were preceded by US helicopters spraying an unknown agent in the areas. The use of this kind of mycoherbicide was squashed and made illegal by the countries in the Andes, that had been pressured to allow the spraying. Jeremy Bigwood describes the history in this article (6), and warned in July, 2005 that:
http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=136

In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/13/BL2005101300885.html?referrer=emailarticle

Gorbachev's new headquarters,which is called the Gorbachev Foundation, is now located at NorthEastern University in Boston. I found this out several years ago when my son was attending college there. Every time we visited we saw Gorbachev in his limo or he was speaking in one of the campus buildings. I thought this was odd and finally checked into it. Most parents do not know that their children's school is the headquarters for the past leader of the Soviet Union. How bizarre is that?

I believe this is how we are being infiltrated.....not just by Gorbachev but also by others who are of the same mindset.These people are operating out in the open and many of us are accepting the whole scam.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=80056

It's not the Lenin ideology that Gorbachev wants buried to sleep in peace, but the American one.  "Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep," Gorbachev said in a 1987 speech to the Politburo.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover101305.htm

The American-based internet giant

What a bunch of post-war revisionist nonsense. The above statement is pure US government propaganda. It contains almost as many outrageous lies as it does individual words. The only part of this statement that is absolutely true is, "US President Harry S. Truman ordered the atomic bombings." This drivel, in many forms, has been repeated again and again to US schoolchildren over these past 60 some years to the point that even some (supposedly educated) US scholars have begun to repeat the mantra. This lie has been so overblown that, recently, the absurd amount of "saved lives" has ballooned from "one million lives" to "two million lives" to even the point where President George W. Bush has stretched it to "millions of lives." At this rate, by the year 2025, the atomic bombings will have saved 20 million lives. America, this is a lie. It’s time you faced up to the truth about the war and the atomic bombings.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers178.html

October 3, 2005
by Martin McKinney
The Financial Reporter (U.K.)

Washington- The American-based internet giant, AOL, wholly-owned by Time-Warner, has formed a working partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to permit unlimited surveillance of the millions of AOL online members, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“AOL works ‘closely with the DHS’ to supply information on any AOL customer and allows agents from these entities ‘free and unfettered’ access to AOL Hq at Dulles, VA for the purpose of ‘watching over and keeping surveillance ’  on the millions of AOL customers,’  according to the report.
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1902.htm#002

Paul, himself a medical doctor

Since 2002, more than 90 people have been injured and 18 killed on the Eastern Shore in accidents involving Hispanic workers driving rogue vehicles.
 
The fatalities represent about one-fourth of the 71 highway deaths on the Eastern Shore in that period, even though the year-round Hispanic population makes up only 5 percent of the region's 51,000 residents. Those numbers swell during tomato-picking season, from July through early November, when most of the fatalities occurred.
http://www.rense.com/general67/virg.htm

A Chinese man who raised bears to tap them for their bile, prized as a traditional medicine in Asia, has been killed and eaten by his animals, Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.
 
Six black bears attacked keeper Han Shigen as he was cleaning their pen in the northeastern province of Jilin on Monday, Xinhua said.
 
"The ill-fated man died on the spot and was eaten up by the ferocious bears," it said, citing a report in the Beijing News.
http://www.rense.com/general67/chinabearbile.htm

Brazilians aren't waiting for high-priced hybrid cars.

Drivers are fighting rising gasoline prices by buying "flex" or "flexible fuel" cars that slurp more alcohol.

Alcohol made from sugar cane is becoming the fuel of choice in Brazil, and other countries - so much so that global sugar prices hit a seven-year high this week.

Regular car engines will run fine on a 10 percent blend of alcohol and gasoline. But by using computer sensors that adjust to whatever mix is in the tank, flex car engines run on either ethanol, gasoline, or any combination of the two. And they have been roaring out of dealerships here since Volkswagen sold the first TotalFlex Golf in March 2003.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p05s01-woam.html

By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/11/171040/56

They did not know each other, and they had vastly different duties.

Each, however, committed suicide shortly after returning home, all within about a 17-month period
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051011/ap_on_re_us/soldier_suicides

AlpT writes "Developed by the Freaknet, Netsukuku is a new p2p routing system, which will be utilised to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and anarchical network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls. In a p2p network every node acts as a router, therefore in order to solve the problem of computing and storing the routes for 2^128 nodes, Netsukuku makes use of a new meta-algorithm, which exploits the chaos to avoid cpu consumption and fractals to keep the map of the whole net constantly under the size of 2Kb. Netsukuku includes also the Abnormal Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy, a non hierarchical and decentralised system of hostnames management which replaces the DNS. It runs on GNU/Linux.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/05/10/06/1421213.shtml

More than $88 billion of U.S. corporate debt is teetering on the edge of investment grade and soon may join the record amount of bonds downgraded to junk this year.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/business/3387898

An Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Stamford Hill in London has been attacked and vandalized - not by anti-Semitic thugs, but by fellow Jews who regard its leaders' outspoken condemnation of Israel as a betrayal
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3153421,00.html

The American auto industry was rocked to its foundation Saturday as Delphi Corp., the world's second-largest parts manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy and laid plans to dramatically downsize its U.S. operations.

It was the seismic event that Detroit's Big Three automakers and their workers, suppliers and investors had anticipated for years, some with dread and others with hope
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/10/A01-341885.htm

It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.

Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap - finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded - is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.

By Mr. Broe's calculations, Churchill could bring in as much as $100 million a year as a port on Arctic shipping lanes shorter by thousands of miles than routes to the south, and traffic would only increase as the retreat of ice in the region clears the way for a longer shipping season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?ei=5065&en=8a37585846254ff5&ex=1129608000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

A blind woman has baffled scientists after proving on TV that she can distinguish between colours by touch.

Gabriele Simon, 48, from Wallenhorst in Germany, revealed her ability in her country's most popular TV show Wetten dass.

She used her fingertips to recognise the different colours of various t-shirts and blouses while blindfolded.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1564181.html

If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground. Sometimes they seize upon a rock of crack hidden in front gardens, and scarper to feed their addiction.

Squirrels in south London could have become addicted to crack cocaine, say residents of Brixton, who suggest the rodents have dug up drugs buried by dealers or nibbled residues of crack on pipes and vials discarded by addicts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1587694,00.html

Detectives say someone has been shooting and kiling goats near Holley, in Linn County, in a strange case of animal abuse.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_100705_animal_goats_killed.10818bbf0.html

AUSTRALIA'S big cat riddle could finally be solved after a hunter shot dead what is thought to be a puma in Victoria's Gippsland region
...
"Kurt has killed an urban legend," Mr Williams said.
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16855046%255E903,00.html

China has successfully launched its second manned spacecraft, carrying two Chinese astronauts into orbit.

The lift-off, from Jiuquan in the Gobi desert, was shown live on state television and included views from a camera on the outside of the craft
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4333158.stm

Scientists have discovered more remains of the strange, small people that once lived on Flores island, Indonesia.

The announcement last year detailing a single, partial skeleton caused a sensation when it was claimed to be a human species new to science.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4331252.stm

The esoteric world of derivatives was rocked by scandal yesterday when leading futures brokerage Refco, which has substantial operations in London and New York, said it had discovered that chief executive Phillip Bennett owed the company $430m (£250m) and that none of its accounts dating back to 2002 could be relied upon for their accuracy.
 
The disclosure is likely to increase calls for tighter controls of the high risk and often arcane financial instruments that have seen phenomenal growth over recent years in the City and on Wall Street.
http://www.rense.com/general68/scand.htm

Many thousands of Chicago households are disconnected from Peoples Gas just as high natural gas costs almost guarantee an expensive winter heating season.
 
Peoples spokesman Rod Sierra, speaking at a hearing Tuesday before four Chicago-area members of Congress, said as many as 30,000 city households are disconnected from the utility, and another 14,000 households are so far behind on their gas bills that they are eligible for disconnection. He said those numbers include people who have simply walked away from their utility bills
http://www.rense.com/general68/dndd.htm

Wal-Mart has 1,400,000 American employees, and there isn't a union in sight. Bill Coughlin, the #3 man at Wal-Mart, is said to be ready to testify about how unions and Wal-Mart colluded in a scheme to avoid unions.

UFCW could sign up 1,000,000 members @ $20 a month and that's $240,000,000 a year in dues. It would cost Wal-Mart at least $ 3 billion a year.

The rumor, that some miscellaneous union rummy took $20,000 to look the other way, is absurd. There is big money involved, and maybe that's what Coughlin is about to sing about
http://judicial-inc.biz/Walmart.htm

Every U.S. soldier takes an express and solemn oath to “support and defend the Constitution.” That oath, however, is a sham because the troops do not support or defend the Constitution. Instead, when it comes to war the troops follow another oath they take – to obey the orders of the president, and they do this without regard to whether such orders violate the Constitution.

A textbook example involves President Bush’s war on Iraq.

The Constitution prohibits the president from waging war without first securing a declaration of war from Congress. By waging war on Iraq without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, the president violated the Constitution.

Some people pooh-pooh the violation, perceiving the Constitution as simply a technical document that can be violated whenever the president feels that “national security” – or even the welfare of foreigners – necessitates it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger61.html

"It's really hard to believe it's happening right in front of us. Whether it's the torture or the process of denying habeas corpus to an American citizen."

"I think the arrogance of power that they have where they themselves are like Communists....in the sense that they decide what is right. The Communist Party said that they decided what was right or wrong, it wasn't a higher source."

Paul responded to President Bush's announcement last week that he would order the use of military assets to police America in the event of an avian flu outbreak.

"To me it's so strange that the President can make these proposals and it's even plausible. When he talks about martial law dealing with some epidemic that might come later on and having forced quarantines, doing away with Posse Comitatus in order to deal with natural disasters, and hardly anybody says anything. People must be scared to death."

Paul, himself a medical doctor, agreed that the bird flu threat was empty fearmongering.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/121005slamsbush.htm

Chitauli

But now they are changing their tactics and strategies by concentrating on computer hardware inorder to monopolize, control, censor, and centralize computer power through the Google-Sun corporate partnership systems.
http://www.rense.com/general67/goog.htm

A tavern's sign, "For Service Speak English," violates Ohio civil rights law, a commission ruled Thursday - as the sign still sat in the window of the Pleasure Inn on U.S. 42.
 
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission says that, because of the sign, the Pleasure Inn "engaged in discriminatory practices."
http://www.rense.com/general67/bias.htm

Delphi Corp. union workers across the country grappled Friday with how they would make ends meet if their employer, the nation's largest auto parts supplier, followed through on pay cuts of up to 63% to reduce costs and avoid filing for bankruptcy.
http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/delphi8e_20051008.htm

Other Targets

Also interesting are the far more lethal targets that the perpetrators passed over. Flight 11 flew directly over the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and Flight 175 flew within about two minutes of it. That facility contains three nuclear power stations, one of which was online, and a unit storing 65 operating years' worth of highly radioactive waste. It is surrounded by heavily populated areas. Although the containment domes of the reactors might have survived an impact, the radioactive waste storage facility could easily have been breached by an impact, and damage to systems outside the containment domes could have led to a meltdown.
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/analysis/bodycount.html

Saddam Hussein may never come to trial, Iraq's former Special Tribunal director said this week.
      Salem Hussein, the nephew of Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi's powerful vice prime minister for Iraq who is in charge of oil and energy issues, told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank Wednesday, that Saddam's trial may never come to fruition.
      Incessant delays have afforded Saddam's defense team more time to attack the legitimacy of the Special Tribunal by claiming the 2003 Iraq war that toppled the longtime Iraqi leader was illegal to begin with, Salem Chalabi said.
http://washtimes.com/upi/20051007-090602-7219r.htm

I just read an excellent book on World War I, and it made me incredibly sad. World War I was the beginning of all the horrors of the 20th century and of problems we still have to deal with in the 21st century. It all started there.
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=7560

But events have revealed a creeping mildew of pain and privation, graft and injustice and much incompetence lurking beneath the glow of star-spangled superiority.

Many here feel the country is breaking down and losing its moral and political authority.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16223364&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=is-this-the-death-of-america--name_page.html

EXTRAORDINARY historical evidence suggests Shakespeare's plays were not written by the bard, but by a Tudor politician descended from King Edward III.

British Shakespeare scholar and former university lecturer Brenda James and university historian William Rubinstein propose that the real Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville, an English courtier and diplomat.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/unmasked-the-real-shakespeare/2005/10/05/1128191785837.html

However, the Institute for Supply Management's Services Index plunged from 65 in August to 53.3 in September. It must remain above 50.0 for growth. The service sector accounts for 80 percent of the economy. We also learned that 108 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico were wiped out by Katrina and Rita, according to the Minerals Management Service, as reported by Reuters on www.cnnmoney.com on Wednesday. And the Mortgage Bankers Association announced that U.S. Mortgage Applications fell 1.1 percent last week, the lowest level since May, 2005. Here's what subscriber Scott emailed to me this week: "Just a note from a Credit Union in the Upper Midwest: Loan business is slowing considerably (even with seasonal adjustments). Right now we're running about 20% lower in loan volume than this time last year - we started the year strong, but as of late, it's flat-lining. It's this way all around us. The reason I can tell is we are getting fewer payoffs. In other words, money is not moving around nearly as quickly.
http://www.safehaven.com/article-3908.htm

A former San Diego police officer convicted of making and possessing child pornography was placed on five years' probation yesterday and ordered to stop operating an Internet-safety Web site.

However, the judge ordered the defendant to stop operating a Website -- safersurfers.org -- through which he offered tips to parents on ways to protect their children from Internet predators.

Brett Kenneth Hensley pleaded guilty in June to one felony count of using a minor in the making of child pornography and three misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography
http://www.unknownnews.org/0510141008safersurfing.html

GM crops contaminate the countryside for up to 15 years after they have been harvested, startling new government research shows.

The findings cast a cloud over the prospects of growing the modified crops in Britain, suggesting that farmers who try them out for one season will find fields blighted for a decade and a half.

Financed by GM companies and Margaret Beckett's Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the report effectively torpedoes the Government's strategy for introducing GM oilseed rape to this country.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/article318238.ece

Regular readers know that since early 2004, I have described the housing ATM as what's allowed the economy to move forward. In June, I suggested that Time magazine's cover story, "Home Sweet Home: Why We're Going Gaga Over Real Estate," might be signaling the peak. It's looking more and more like June was the peak (witness last week's disappointing new-home sales, pre-Katrina), as various problems begin to surface around the country
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P131154.asp?Printer

Under this debt-as-money scenario, the paper you get for giving up a loaf of bread isn't worth a thing until you exchange that paper for some real goods. I don't want to discuss in detail again the fairness of this game, suffice to say for every $1,000 credit you get, someone up there gets a credit tens and hundreds of times larger than yours and when they go belly up they get bailed out with public money.

Now I want to talk one thing about debt that other analysts rarely understand. Debts are a feature created by man. It's abstract, a promise that can be broken. When the cure for small pox is found or when the first airplane is flown, it's knowledge that lasts forever. When a building is erected, it stays there for decades and more. The human advances stay permanent but debts (and debt-based money) do not.
...
Things to stay away are paper currency and leveraged assets. Things to get into are unleveraged tangibles of necessity - soybean, copper, gold, oil, land. Those are basic commodities that survive through the ravage of hyperinflation.
http://www.safehaven.com/article-3896.htm

This bill empowers the federal government to assume control of local hate crimes law enforcement. It establishes unity between federal and local law enforcement, thus creating the beginnings of a "police state." This enables the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, creator of this legislation, to enforce nationally the kind of persecution against Christians which their national executive board member, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, enforced locally against 11 Christians on October 10, 2004. Preaching at a gay pride rally, they were arrested for violation of ADL's Pennsylvania hate law. Possible penalties: 47 years in prison and $90,000 fines each. Mercifully, the case against them was thrown out by a higher court.
http://www.rense.com/general67/hatebill.htm

Within five years, China will be investing a higher proportion of its gross domestic product in research and development than the European Union, as more western companies move their R&D eastwards, the European Commission fears.
http://www.rense.com/general67/5yrs.htm

Goss also plans to reduce the bureaucracy at headquarters, send more people into the field for traditional spying, rely less on foreign allies for intelligence, take more risks and encourage employees to improve their foreign language skills.

    "As we start out today in the intelligence world ... we start out a little behind the curve," Goss said Thursday at the opening of the University of Maryland's language institute. "Not enough people speak the languages we need."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100905X.shtml

Habeas corpus is the greatest protection Americans have against a police state. Habeas corpus ensures that Americans can only be detained by law. They must be charged with offenses, given access to attorneys, and brought to trial. Habeas corpus prevents the despotic practice of picking up a person and holding him indefinitely.
 
President Bush claims the power to set aside habeas corpus and to dispense with warrants for arrest and with procedures that guarantee court appearance and trial without undue delay. Today in the US, the executive branch claims the power to arrest a citizen on its own initiative and hold the citizen indefinitely. Thus, Americans are no longer protected from arbitrary arrest and indefinite detention.
http://www.rense.com/general67/pstate.htm

Sharon knows this, and he is prepared to evacuate the settlements that are dispersed in the heart of the Palestinian territories, hoping to hold on to the large settlement blocs. But he intends to avoid negotiations with the Palestinian leadership. He knows that in such a dialogue he will be compelled to give up most or all of the settlement blocs. That's why he insists on "unilateral" steps.
 
This is a very dangerous policy for Israel. The Palestinian outburst of joy that took place in Gaza after the withdrawal reflects the belief that this is a triumph of the Palestinian resistance. The Palestinians are convinced that Israel has fled in face of the Palestinian heroes who sacrificed their lives for their people, the suicide bombers and the fighters who shoot the mortar shells and the Qassams, much as they had fled five years ago in the face of the Shiite guerillas in the south of Lebanon. "Israel understands only the language of force".
http://www.rense.com/general67/salam.htm

Blanche Skelton was feeding her baby when she heard something besides the soothing sound of ocean waves coming from a toy attached to the crib.
 
    It was saying, "I hate you."
http://www.rense.com/general33/walmartbabycribtoy.htm

Yes, sir. They are tall. They walk with a-you see, the Grey aliens walk with a jerking motion, sir, as if there is something wrong with their legs. But, the Chitauli walk very gracefully, like trees gently swaying in the wind. They are tall. They have large heads. Some of them have got horns all around their heads. Now, let me express amazement, there exists-that in one of the films that recently appeared in South Africa, a Star Wars film, the latest one, shows a character EXACTLY like a Chitauli, exactly! It’s got horns all around it’s head. These are the warrior Chitauli. The royal Chitauli have got no horns around their head, but have got a darker ridge reaching from above their forehead to their back. They are very graceful creatures, we are told, sir, but they have got-their little finger is a claw which is a very sharp, straight claw, which they use to punch into human noses, in order to drink human brains in one of their rituals."
http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/clinton-shapeshift.htm

Svali: "The Illuminati is a group that practices a form of faith known as "enlightenment". It is Luciferian, and they teach their followers that their roots go back to the ancient mystery religions of Babylon, Egypt, and Celtic druidism. They have taken what they consider the "best" of each, the foundational practices, and joined them together into a strongly occult discipline. Many groups at the local level worship ancient deities such as "El", "Baal", and "Ashtarte", as well as "Isis and Osiris" and "Set".... I do know that these people teach and practice evil."
http://www.rense.com/general30/illuminatidefector.htm

Soldiers from one of Britain’s most illustrious regiments added a splash of colour to their uniforms by adopting Snake-eye goggles as they started war training yesterday.

Members of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, including 19-year-old tank driver Carl Thomas, above, were allowed to wear their own hologram protective eyewear during exercises in Bergen-Hohne in Germany. The £40 reflective 3D goggles, which are designed for motorcyclists, have become a fashionable accessory, but they will not be seen on the battlefield.
http://www.metatech.org/Reptilian%20soldiers%20invade.htm

The project determined the existence of two extensive tunnel complexes beneath the concrete floor of the McMartin Preschool building. One, toward the south, was consistent with the location and function described by children; it appeared to connect the interior of the preschool with the adjoining triplex structure and it had a distinct signature where it exited under the foundation of the east wall. Since it lacked dateable artifacts and a consistent demarcation of floor profile, it was classified conservatively as a "possible" tunnel.
http://tesserae.org/tess/prose/tunnels2.html

Credo Mutwa:  I think so, yes, sir.  He is the chief of the Chitauli.  And, like Satan, he lives in a house underground where great fires are always lighted, to keep him warm.  Because, we are told, that after the great war they fought with God, they became cold in their blood and they cannot stand freezing weather, which is why they require human blood, and also they require fire always to be kept working where they are.
http://www.metatech.org/credo_2.html