Tian-xia

a satanic coven

2005-11-21T14:56:00.000-08:00

The DuPont documents were made public Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization.

At the same time, a former DuPont chemical engineer, Glenn Evers, told reporters at a news conference at EWG's office that the company long suppressed its studies on the chemical.

"They are toxic," Evers said of the PFOA chemicals. "They get into human blood. And they are also in every one of you. Your loved ones, your fellow citizens."

From 1981 to 2002, Evers helped DuPont develop new products. He lost his job in 2002 in what DuPont described as a company restructuring.
http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5343382/detail.html

She said: “I’ve never heard of anything like it. People say pigs are intelligent enough to do some things. But I’ve no idea how she’d generate this.”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005530518,00.html

A new walk-through airport lie detector made in Israel may prove to be the toughest challenge yet for potential hijackers or drug smugglers.
http://news.zdnet.com/2102-1009_22-5958656.html?tag=printthis

In explorations during the summer, they found as many as 50 skeletons in a sacred pool and other places, victims of murder and dismemberment in a war that destroyed the city and, it seems, served as a beginning of the collapse of the classic period of the Maya civilization. The precipitous decline of the Maya is one of the enduring mysteries of American archaeology
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/international/americas/17maya.html?8hpib

A tentative deal to extend the government's antiterrorism powers under the law known as the USA Patriot Act appeared in some jeopardy Thursday, as Senate Democrats threatened to mount a filibuster in an effort to block the legislation.

"This is worth the fight," Senator Russell D. Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who serves on the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview.

"I've cleared my schedule right up to Thanksgiving," Mr. Feingold said, adding that he was making plans to read aloud from the Bill of Rights as part of a filibuster if necessary.

The political maneuvering came even before negotiators for the House and Senate had agreed on a final deal to extend the government's counterterrorism powers under the act.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/national/18patriot.html

[This article is kind of disparagint to people who think Satanists might really be a problem, but for example it doesn’t say WHY ELSE people would be slaughter dogs or stab people to mimick Jesus’ wounds.]
The "crucifixion killing" is only the latest to be proclaimed occult-linked and reflects the unique hold Satanism has on the South African psyche. In September this year, Willem Mouers, a deranged Western Cape farm worker, slit his three-year-old daughter's throat, hours after telling neighbours about "dark forces" that haunted him.

Unable to explain his mental breakdown, local residents turned to the only answer they believed would fit: that he was possessed.

When several pet dogs were slaughtered in an affluent Pretoria suburb in June, locals interpreted it as proof that a satanic coven was loose in the capital
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17308478%255E29677,00.html

I like guys who got five deferments

2005-11-17T19:50:00.000-08:00

[People who want to eat healthy will soon be crazy.]
New eating behavior disorders such as bigorexia (muscle dysmorphia) and orthorexia are appearing in developed countries. These disorders have not been officially recognized so that they are not classified as independent entities. The term orthorexia comes from the Greek word orthos (straight, proper) and orexia (appetite). It is characterized by the pathological obsession for biologically pure food, which leads to important dietary restrictions. Orthorexic patients exclude foods from their diets that they consider to be impure because they have herbicides, pesticides or artificial substances and they worry in excess about the techniques and materials used in the food elaboration. This obsession leads to loss of social relationships and affective dissatisfactions which, in turn, favors obsessive concern about food. In orthorexia, that patient initially wants to improve his/her health, treat a disease or lose weight. Finally, the diet becomes the most important part of their lives. We present a clinical case that responds to the characteristics of orthorexia. The differential diagnosis with chronic delusional disorder, anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder is carried out
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15704033&query_hl=4

America, from the "shining city on a hill" to the dark dungeon of sadistic torturers. What a comedown! Abu Ghraib, we were told, was an "aberration." Now they want to make it a policy. How low can we go?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/

NumbersUSA is part of a "loose-knit" network of groups connected to a man named John Tanton ("John Tanton's Network," no pagination). Tanton has founded, co-founded, and financed numerous organizations that are gradually redirecting the movement for immigration policy reform towards an agenda of anti-immigration bigotry. The following is a list of those groups:

American Immigration Control Foundation

AICF, 1983, funded

American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together

1992, funded

California Coalition for Immigration Reform

CCIR, 1994, funded

Californians for Population Stabilization

1996, funded (founded separately in 1986)

Center for Immigration Studies

CIS, 1985, founded and funded

Federation for American Immigration Reform

FAIR, 1979, founded and funded

NumbersUSA

1996, founded and funded

Population-Environment Balance

1973, joined board in 1980

Pro English

1994, founded and funded

ProjectUSA

1999, funded

The Social Contract Press

1990, founded and funded

U.S. English

1983, founded and funded

U.S. Inc.

1982, founded and funded (no pagination)
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/RaceWar.htm

Some are also alleged to have been starved and subjected to extremes of temperature in specially built showers, while others later complained that they had been threatened with electric shock torture or menaced by interrogators brandishing red-hot pokers.

The centre, which was housed in a row of mansions in one of London's most affluent neighbourhoods, was carefully concealed from the Red Cross, the papers show. It continued to operate for three years after the war, during which time a number of German civilians were also tortured.
http://www.rense.com/general68/revv.htm

I was dropped at Paradiso, the last middle-class area before barrio La Vega, which spills into a ravine as if by the force of gravity. Storms were forecast, and people were anxious, remembering the mudslides that took 20,000 lives. "Why are you here?" asked the man sitting opposite me in the packed jeep-bus that chugged up the hill. Like so many in Latin America, he appeared old, but wasn't. Without waiting for my answer, he listed why he supported President Chavez: schools, clinics, affordable food, "our constitution, our democracy" and "for the first time, the oil money is going to us." I asked him if he belonged to the MRV, Chavez's party, "No, I've never been in a political party; I can only tell you how my life has been changed, as I never dreamt."

It is raw witness like this, which I have heard over and over again in Venezuela, that smashes the one-way mirror between the west and a continent that is rising. By rising, I mean the phenomenon of millions of people stirring once again, "like lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number", wrote the poet Shelley in The Mask of Anarchy. This is not romantic; an epic is unfolding in Latin America that demands our attention beyond the stereotypes and clichï¿s that diminish whole societies to their degree of exploitation and expendability.
http://www.rense.com/general68/nmew.htm

[He who pays the piper calls the tune.]
Overseas investors owned $2.06 trillion, or half the $4.11 trillion in tradable Treasuries as of August, up from less than 40 percent three years ago and 34 percent in 2000.

Debt strategists have credited foreign investors with keeping U.S. yields in check as the budget deficit ballooned to a record $412.8 billion in fiscal 2004 ending Sept. 30 and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates 12 times. Since 2002, foreign purchases have reduced 10-year Treasury yields by 19 basis points, according to Banc of America Securities LLC. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aq4I1_Wrn8AM&refer=top_world_news

Take a look at this photo. Does that look like a bomb went off about waist-high, or in fact exploded downward from the ceiling.
http://www.rense.com/general68/bomb.htm

Capt. Jim Ingledue said two days after 9/11 he found the perfectly unscathed ID of Susanne Calley, 42, one of the alleged passengers, adding he thought the find "highly unusual and strange to find a perfectly intact card amidst the devastation and rubble at the Pentagon."

But what makes the Iskandar ATM card even more suspicious and intriguing than even Calley's ID card is that it was returned one year later. Why one year after the fact? Where was it found? Was it used in the interim? But, most importantly, how on earth could a plastic card, normally contained inside a man's wallet or his pocket, survive a massive explosion that completed consumed an airliner as well as pulverized a 100 story skyscraper?
http://www.rense.com/general68/moremir.htm

THREE OF THE alleged hijackers listed their address on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.—known as the “Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation,” according to a high-ranking U.S. Navy source
http://prisonplanet.com/alleged_hijackers_may_trained_us_bases.html

"The Graham amendment embodies an effort to alter fundamental precepts of our constitutional order. It consigns the protection of fundamental human liberties to unilateral executive determination."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051128/brecher

Shamrock Capital Advisors, the California-based investment arm of the Roy Disney family, said yesterday that it is launching a new $125 million fund to invest in Israel over a four-year period.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643716.html

Another diplomatic incident threatens to taint U.S.-Israeli relations: The American government has recently demanded Israel clarify how five U.S.-made helicopters sold to Israel in the mid-70s found their way into the hands of a Columbian drug cartel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3166377,00.html

Much of the nation has had a lovely real estate boom for the past five years, but the house party is almost over and the cleanup won't be pretty.

That's the word from economists and investors who have watched housing prices march ever higher.

"The collapse of the housing bubble will throw the economy into a recession, and quite likely a severe recession," warned a July report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zrealestate12nov12,0,4871892.story?track=mostemailedlink

STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.htm

The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja.

"It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC - though not against civilians, he said.

The US earlier denied it had been used in Falluja at all.

Col Venable denied that the substance - which can cause burning of the flesh - constituted a banned chemical weapon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4440664.stm

High levels of estrogen, both natural and man-made formulations used in birth control pills, are thought to cause such abnormalities in fish. Estrogen makes its way into sewage water and then the ocean through women's excretions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051114/sc_nm/environment_fish_dc_1

This is a version of the standard USMC Shoulder Mounted Assault Weapon but with a new warhead. Described as NE - "Novel Explosive"- it is a thermobaric mixture which ignites the air, producing a shockwave of unparalleled destructive power, especially against buildings.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001944.html

A catastrophic collapse in sea and bird life numbers along America's Northwest Pacific seaboard is raising fears that global warming is beginning to irreparably damage the health of the oceans.

Scientists say a dramatic rise in the ocean temperature led to unprecedented deaths of birds and fish this summer all along the coast from central California to British Columbia in Canada.
http://www.rense.com/general68/collapse.htm

Recent documents leaked to RAW STORY reveal that as of Nov. 8, coalition forces in Iraq held 13,514 in Iraqi prisons. The documents also reveal the grim landscape of Iraq’s internment system, in which just two percent of those detained been convicted. A UN report has confirmed the basic figures.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Exclusive_More_than_13000_being_held_1115.html

According to the leader of the Jewish congregation in Sao Paulo (the largest in Brazil), Mr. Bush was ”surprised” and had said that he was ”concerned” about the situation. He had mentioned to the Rabbi that he would instruct someone to look into the matter and ”to make a report to him”. (AFP) (Translated by R. Johannessen)
http://liberty.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2005/11/11/p4315

The return to civilian life for U.S. Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan is full of pitfalls, with an unemployment rate three times the national average.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says that for the first three quarters of 2005, nearly 15 percent of veterans aged 20-24 are jobless -- three times the national average.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,80320,00.html

The comptroller general of the United States is explaining over eggs how the nation's finances are going to hell. "We face a demographic tsunami" that "will never recede," David Walker tells a group of reporters. He runs through a long list of fiscal challenges, led by the imminent retirement of the baby boomers, whose promised Medicare and Social Security benefits will swamp the federal budget in coming decades
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20051115072509990003&_ccc=5&cid=403

we've done worse than Melvin Sembler, the Ambassador to Italy who couldn't speak Italian. Unlike the FEMA chief, who had real responsibilities, Sembler sometimes found himself a fifth wheel around his own embassy. As the Washington Monthly has reported, the scandal that claimed Scooter Libby's job last month may have sprung from secret Rome meetings between neocons, an Iran-Contra figure and an Italian intelligence boss who later pushed phony WMD documents -- all behind Sembler's back.

But where Melvin Sembler, 74, demands attention is as an object lesson in how cruelty can be redeemed by the transformative power of political donations. For 16 years, Sembler, with his wife Betty, directed the leading juvenile rehab business in America, STRAIGHT, Inc., before seeing it dismantled by a breathtaking array of institutional abuse claims by mid-1993. Just one of many survivors is Samantha Monroe, now a travel agent in Pennsylvania, who told The Montel Williams show this year about overcoming beatings, rape by a counselor, forced hunger, and the confinement to a janitor's closet in "humble pants" -- which contained weeks of her own urine, feces and menstrual blood. During this "timeout," she gnawed her cheek and spat blood at her overseers. "I refused to let them take my mind," she says of the program. The abuse took years to overcome.
http://alternet.org/story/27725/

[I think they might be on to something there.]
Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-11-14T141136Z_01_ROB447862_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-KAZAKHSTAN-BORAT.XML&archived=False

Horse slasher leaves stables in fear
By Ben Macintyre
Up and down the country animals have been stabbed and mutilated but the culprits are elusive
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1872308,00.html

[Well, well. Imagine that.]
There is good reason for the embarrassment of the Pentagon in the affair. The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources. Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and the Executive Office of the President.
http://www.rense.com/general68/exp.htm

William Thomas, who has researched chemtrails since their appearance in the latter 90s, has noted stunted plant growth in once-healthy gardens and wilderness areas in Santa Fe and Aspen. Similar
plant problems are commonly associated with chemtrails in other regions of the U.S.
http://www.lasvegastribune.com/20050819/headline1.html

“A lot of it is very whacko stuff,” Mr McCarthy said. “One thing I always look for in horse attacks is whether the assault took place on a Tuesday.” This is the day dedicated to Mars, god of war, horses and sex.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1872308_2,00.html

The Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday warned an estimated 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in government-subsidized hotels that they have until Dec. 1 to find other housing before it stops paying for their rooms.

The announcement effectively starts the clock ticking toward a new exodus of Gulf Coast storm victims who have been living rent-free in 5,700 hotels in 51 states and U.S. territories under the $273 million program
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501704.html

From Jill

Hi There,

We have all noticed the same thing down here in Virginia. All of the hunters have noticed, too.

I work on a 65 acre property which last year had About 8-9 deer on a regular basis. Now we have only one left. No tree rubbings or anything. No deer found dead either.
http://www.rense.com/general68/resp.htm

Did Israel have Prior Knowledge of the Amman 11/9 Terror Attacks?
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20051113&articleId=1238

Could Exxon-Mobil Works Have Tripped Indonesian Tsunami?

More than 1600 Indonesian troops have
guarded the Exxon-Mobil facilities in
Aceh at one time in recent years. The
Indonesian government gleans more than
$100 million per year from the works.

One cubic mile of natural gas extracted every four years at epicenter Aceh facility presents a probable man-made trigger in 9.0 earthquake with accompanying tsunami that killed more than 225,000 people. Think of a gigantic boulder sitting precariously, nudged over the edge with a small lever.
http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/

"Remember this simple advice - if it glows, throw it."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4442984.stm

I don't share the president's high opinion of I. Lewis Libby, now under indictment for obstruction of justice, making false statements and committing perjury.

He was, after all, the lawyer who for years represented Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire who renounced his own country. It was Libby who arranged the last-minute presidential pardon of Rich issued by Bill Clinton - a pardon that stank to high heaven. Rich, along with a number of Russian oligarchs the Russian government would like to get its hands on, is now an Israeli citizen.
http://www.rense.com/general68/lib.htm

But why is this necessary, I answered, finding Luttwak's bluntness somewhat at variance with his reputation for subtle thinking and expression. Almost warming to the subject, he continues:

"Saddam is not like the Saudi Princes who spend the bulk of their lives outside of their country, and who fritter away the Kingdom's oil profits on prostitutes and bottles of champagne in Paris. No, Saddam is building railways! Creating electrical networks! Highways and other important elements of a serious State infrastructure! After eights years of war against the Iranian regime of Khomeini, he desperately needs to demobilize his Republican Guard, which incorporates so many of this technical elite, in order to rebuild the war-devastated country. These people are his technicians, his engineers. If they are put to work in the way Saddam wishes, they will rapidly make Iraq the most advanced power in the region, and we cannot allow this to happen."

That comment was made in 2002 well in advance of the invasion of Iraq. Note that Mr. Luttwak used the pronoun "we" as he is part of the group that was going after an objective.
http://www.rense.com/general68/lib.htm

Two days after the seven-hour fight at Qal'eh-ye Gaz, Special Forces entered the village of Sayhcow in Uruzgan province. The Taliban had cleared it of women and children, raised a flag and dug in for the assault.

The battle, which lasted two days, pitted 250 coalition troops against 70 to 80 insurgents. Rebels, maneuvering to head off U.S. reinforcements at one point, killed Staff Sgt. Michael Schafer, 25, of Spring Hill, Fla., a squad leader, as he tried to clear a compound.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-16-afghan-insurgents-inside_x.htm

I like guys who got five deferments and (have) never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done,’ Murtha said.”
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/11/thank-you-congressman-murtha.html

CIA counter-proliferation network prevented a WMD "salting"

2005-11-12T18:07:00.000-08:00

According to the Dobbs' report, 37 million people live in poverty. Functional illiteracy affects over 35 million Americans. One in five American children lives below the poverty level. Each year, 1.5 million unwed women give birth.

What are the inevitable results? The American Dream degrades to lower and lower expectations. Wages stagnant, mortgage defaults rise, 47 million Americans lack health insurance. Frustration and crime accelerate
http://www.rense.com/general68/explo.htm

[This sounds like at the least the Israelis had advance warning. So what do they do? They take off and leave everyone else there to die. Real nice behavior there.]
Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.

"It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen," said Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces who now heads the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "The question that needs to be answered is why weren't the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?"

Jordanian security forces were placed on high alert, deploying throughout the capital around hotels, embassies and malls. The Jordanian government sealed off the borders and announced that all government and public offices would be closed in mourning today.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0,2022733.story?coll=la-home-world

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the ranking Democrat on the Government Reform Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), have asked White House counsel Harriet Miers to provide Congress with documents relating to lobbyist Jack Abramoff's request for $9 million to arrange a meeting between President Bush and the President of Gabon, RAW STORY has learned.

The New York Times reported in Thursday's paper that President Bush met with Gabon's President Omar Bongo in May 2004, ten months after lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked President Bongo for $9 million to arrange such a meeting.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democrats_ask_White_House_turn_over_1111.html

[Platinum at record high.]
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/2d66c34a-5190-11da-ac3b-0000779e2340.html

"Deliveries of copper [to] the market [remain] tight as can be seen by the widening of the backwardation," said William Adams, analyst at BaseMetals.com. Backwardation is a condition in which a futures price is lower in the distant-delivery months than in the near-delivery months, according to InvestorWords.com.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=bigcharts&dist=news&guid=%7BACC272AF%2D8504%2D4698%2D8B69%2D948F667108D4%7D

Alex, I just wanted to give you an update on the status of Big Brother here
in Chicago and its suburbs. I just heard a radio commercial this morning
for a local grocery store chain by the name of Cub Foods. They are
aggressively advertising their newest "convenience" for customers, the
biometric payment system. You just swipe your thumb-print which is linked
to your bank account and you have paid your bill without so much as opening
your wallet for cash, credit cards, or a check. Well, I know one more store
I'm not shopping in anymore.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/biometrics_pay_by_fingerprint_cincinati.htm

These riots are all part of the Globalists' divide and conquer strategy to get the populations of sovereign nations to accept global government.

The intention is plain and simple: seperate the tribes along racial, religous, and ethnic lines and set them off against each other. When a terrorist act might be too obvious, riots are the next best thing. Both accomplish the same goal of getting people stirred up, frightened and most of all to make otherwise clear-minded poeple willing to submit their liberties to the state in trade for "protection."

All of this is a device to broaden the police state to be used against the general public.

And just watch, these events will only lead to increased immigration into the country just like in the United States
http://www.infowars.com/articles/world/french_riots_engineered_by_globalists.htm

But not only did the dead al-Zarqawi kill innocent Jordanians and important Palestinians, he also managed to kill a few Chinese. It is common knowledge the Chinese government is nurturing a relationship with the Palestinians and no doubt the Likudites hate this idea since they want the Palestinians to suffer in isolation in their Bantustan ghettoes the same way the Polish Jews suffered in the walled-up Warsaw ghetto. Back in May, Abbas went to China and met with Chinese leaders including President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan. “The consensus reached by the two sides includes further developing mutually-beneficial and friendly cooperative relations, making joint efforts to push forward the Middle-East peace process, and so on. As far as I know, China and Palestinian side signed five documents of cooperation during this visit, including China-Palestine agreement of economic and technological cooperation, agreement of economic, trade and technological cooperation. China agreed to offer 50 million-worth economic aids and gratis, some aids in kind such as medical equipment, mobile houses and cultural and sports utilities,” according to a statement released by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan. Of course, this would put to waste the years of destruction inflicted on the Palestinians by the Israeli state and the IDF. Best send in the black op al-Zarqawi team to kill a few Chinese along with the important Palestinians.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=112

"Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass, African-American slave, and abolitionist

On the morning of 9/11 a little known Cincinnati television station ran a story saying Flight 93 landed at Cleveland International Airport instead of crashing into the Pentagon as claimed in the official government story.

Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 quoted then Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White as saying "a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat," the airplane landing safely, moved to a secure location and evacuated.

The early morning report went on to say United Airlines verified the plane as Flight 93, but was also deeply concerned about another jetliner in the vicinity, Flight 175, flying from Boston to Los Angeles
http://www.rense.com/general68/says.htm

Moreover, the aggressiveness of local elites suggests that more power is now flowing to the local level than previously thought. If so, the central government may be faced with two unsatisfying alternatives. First, it may have to move against both local elites and democracy activists in a show of force. This would recentralize power, but potentially have severe internal and external consequences, as there is no indication that local elites will give up power readily. Second, it could allow the present situation to continue in the hope that order will be restored in the countryside either by the triumph of local officials or through some type of compromise. While tempting, this strategy is dangerous, as it raises the specter of centrifugal disintegration. While action may provoke internal dispute, inaction risks the transformation of strong local authorities into the 21st-century equivalent of warlords
http://publish.gio.gov.tw/FCJ/current/05111172.html

Curiously though, one threat, a brewing economic hurricane, was not mentioned. That was odd given the magazine's audience and purview. Nonetheless, it was not a complete surprise, because the disaster that already seems to be unfolding is one few people understand or are even aware of, let alone are prepared for. Once full-blown, however, it is likely to wreak havoc not only in the U.S., but around the world
http://www.safehaven.com/article-4096.htm

"Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead," O'Reilly went on. "And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."

San Franciscans might be offended by this invitation, or perhaps even threatened, if more of them visited Coit Tower.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/11/MNGFMFMNV41.DTL

Attorney Jesse Trentadue, pursuing the 1995 death of his brother in an Oklahoma prison, has disclosed a document concerning an informant at a white supremacist camp telling federal authorities of a threat to blow up federal buildings before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=93480

Lynn Edmonds and his wife, Sebnem, could barely wait to sign on the dotted line back in May when they committed themselves to pay $796,000 for a three-floor townhouse under construction in Alexandria's Cameron Station.

But since May, the sales prices for the development have fallen -- and units like the one the Edmonds bought are now being sold for $699,900. The Edmonds are facing the prospect of a $100,000 loss in value before they even walk through the front door.

"We blithely stepped into the contract, thinking it would hold its value -- but that's not the case," said Edmonds, 46, a program analyst and Air Force veteran. "I feel so stupid putting myself into it. It's real estate -- I knew on a theoretical basis that it might go up and it might go down, but now I know it on a practical level."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/10/AR2005111002241.html

The Justice Department and FBI are investigating whether Aragoncillo stole classified material while assigned to Vice President Cheney's security detail, and provided it to Estrada and other opposition politicians in the Philippines. ABC News has reported that Aragoncillo admitted to stealing records while on Cheney's staff. Authorities are also investigating whether documents were stolen during Vice President Al Gore's tenure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601030.html?referrer=emailarticle

The man apologized and said “you know I’m just back from Iraq and I’m acting a little crazy… in Iraq we can do whatever. You think they put all that shit on the news? Man ask anybody we rape those bitches over there and we take their men and blow their brains out just like that and nobody ever knows.”
...
Not knowing how to respond to that he changed the subject and said “I can’t wait for the race war man. I feel like killin some honkies and some Puerto Ricans. They need to invent a gun that can tell the difference between a Mexican and a Puerto Rican so we can kill all the Puerto Ricans.
http://www.stlimc.org/newswire/display/698

A bomb that was thrown from a white car at 16:30 (4:30 p.m. EET) on November 9 at the 'Umut Bookstore' in central Semdinli in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) killed one person and seriously wounded a second. The perpetrators in the white car was quickly surrounded by Kurdish citizens who tried to pull them out of the car but were fired upon by the perpetrators in the car. One person was killed and 4 others were wounded, one of them seriously, by the bullets.

Turkish police who arrived at the scene rescued the perpetrators. Citizens who broke into the white car found three AK-47s and a Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence ID-card belonging to a 'Ali Kaya', who is believed to be one of the three agents in the white car.
http://www.dozame.org/article.php/20051110060727872

Shelly Williams, 49, the world-renowned primatologist credited with gathering convincing evidence of a new species of great apes, a cryptid primate known to cryptozoologists as the Bili or Bondo ape, was shot in the back around 2:30 pm, on November 7, 2005. She apparently was the innocent victim of an unrelated drug shooting in Smyrna, Georgia.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/bili-ape-discoverer-shot/

[ese are the same fools approving patents on life forms and genetic sequences among other things.]
"If you design an anti-gravity machine, you've got a perpetual-motion machine," Robert Park of the American Physical Society told Nature.

Park said the action shows patent examiners are being duped by false science.
http://www.physorg.com/news8042.html

Three sergeants from the Turkish Gendarmerie Intelligence Service (JIT) have now been arrested for the bomb attack on November 9 against a bookstore owned by a Kurd in the city of Semdinli in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) after confessing during interrogation. The bookstore owner, Seferi Yilmaz, who was believed to have been killed in the attack was found alive.

Master Sergeant Ali Kaya, Staff Sergeant Özcan Ildeniz, and a third sergeant who was not named, admitted that they had carried out the bomb attack against the bookstore yesterday. The sergeants, who were interrogated by the Republican Prosecutor of Semdinli, Harun Ayik, also admitted that they had carried out the bomb attack on November 1 outside a military residence in the city, wounding 23 people, of them 3 police officers, 4 soldiers and 16 civilians. With that , Prosecutor Ayik merged both cases into one.
http://www.dozame.org/article.php/20051110084403282

Nearly a dozen pit bulls were taken from the house. Investigators say they found religious altars inside, lined with chicken feathers and severed goat heads. All three people arrested remain in the Bexar County Jail tonight.

In addition to drug charges, investigators say they could also face charges for animal cruelty, attempted murder and child endangerment. Investigators tell News 4 WOAI the 2 year old girl is with her grandmother tonight.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=A421AB88-6C82-484D-90BE-0A669E296C1B

life again

A BABY born without a heartbeat and pronounced dead in the delivery room came briefly back to life, an inquest heard.

Doctors described Lewis Millard's revival as "unheard of " and said the reasons behind it were still a mystery.

One theory put forward was that an adrenalin injection, administered as doctors fought to get Lewis' heart beating in the minutes after he was born, had a delayed action.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2005/11/10/8d39baa8-00cb-4eb9-b1e0-6aecd5e0471a.lpf

After failing to pay for his purchase of Boulis’ SunCruz casino ship empire, Kidan added injury to insult, investigators now suspect, by using Boulis’ purloined company to pay for his own death.

Kidan sent checks totaling $145,000 to the daughter of Gambino hood Anthony Moscatiello, one of the three men charged so far in the gangland-style execution in Fort Lauderdale, and checks totaling $105,000 to ‘Moon Over Miami Beach.’ An officer in the company, James Ferrari, has been charged in the case.

“Moon Over Miami Beach” is “a company whose business remains unclear,” reported the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
...
“Want to be head of an international corporation?" Grosh told an incredulous Senate committee hearing he was asked. "I was like, ‘sure.’ It was a hard one to turn down. I asked him what I had to do, and he said 'Nothing.’

“That sounded pretty good to me."
...
ere’s one you may not have, from the White House Spy Scandal we are hearing so little about. Two factions are battling for control of the Philippines. Abramoff, of course, has “a dog in that hunt.”

Abramoff’s clients sent a man named Michael Aquino to the U.S. to lay low for a while. He was arrested with the Marine at the White House who had been feeding him classified material.

They had him over a barrel

Here’s an example of why he's laying low:

Edgar Bentain was a man who released a video clip during the Presidential campaign there showing then-Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada and a notorious gambler playing high-stakes baccarat at the Heritage Hotel casino.

This was not pleasing to Estrada, an ally of Imelda Marcos and Abramoff’s.

Betain disappeared without a trace. Nothing had not been seen nor heard of him since. Then someone confessed that they’d seen Bentain: in a drum.

"We were brought to a bridge near Bacolor, where we saw Bentain inside a drum. We could still see his head but the rest of his body was already buried under cement," said the man’s statement to police.

“Bentain was crying and begging for his life.”

The statement quoted Aquino as telling Bentain: "Masyado ka kasing pakialamero at iyan ang bagay sa iyo (You deserve this because you mind other people's business too much)!"

Bentain was encased alive in cement. Philippine NBI agents were said to be searching for a metal drum near the bridge.
http://www.madcowprod.com/

I maintain that these published observations are consistent with the use of the high-temperature thermite reaction, used to cut or demolish steel. Thermite is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder. The end products of the thermite reaction are aluminum oxide and molten iron. So the thermite reaction generates molten iron directly, and is hot enough to melt and even evaporate steel which it contacts while reacting. On the other hand, falling buildings (absent explosives) have insufficient directed energy to result in melting of large quantities of metal. The government reports admit that the building fires were insufficient to melt steel beams -- then where did the molten metal come from? Metals expert Dr. Frank Gayle (working with NIST) stated:
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It is highly unlikely that jet fuel was present to generate such explosions especially on lower floors, and long after the planes hit the buildings. Dr. Shyam Sunder, Lead Investigator for NIST stated: "The jet fuel probably burned out in less than 10 minutes.” (Field, 2005) On the other hand, pre-positioned explosives provide a plausible and simple explanation for the observations, satisfying Occam’s razor (Jones, 2005). Thus, it cannot be said that “no evidence” can be found for the use of explosives. This serious matter needs to be treated as a plausible scientific hypothesis and thoroughly investigated.

http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 one of John A. Walker Jr., who passed Navy communication codes to Moscow for 22 years.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051105-064108-8275r

U.S. "crating" prisoners and flying them around Eastern Europe in C-130 prison planes. Although The Washington Post failed to report on the details of CIA (now Pentagon-run) "black" interrogation sites in eastern Europe, WMR is able to report on the particulars of the covert operation. According to a well-placed intelligence source who served in eastern Europe, prisoners from Iraq and elsewhere have been flown from airport to airport in eastern Europe on board C-130 planes. Placed in what were described as "dog-sized" cages, the covert operation became fully operational after the disclosures of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad and Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. The "crated" prisoners were either removed from the C-130s for interrogation at Soviet-era detention centers that were in various states of repair or were kept on board the aircraft and subjected to brutal interrogation by U.S. and/or contractor personnel, who, in some cases, were ex-members of the Soviet KGB, Stasi, and other eastern European security services. C-130s are used because of their short take-off and landing capabilities on short air strips located in remote regions.
http://www.rense.com/general68/cages.htm

CIA counter-proliferation network prevented a WMD "salting" operation by Bush White House in Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general68/plamene.htm

they are all fed up with the ANC

2005-11-10T20:22:00.000-08:00

[This still isn't working right. Have to see what I can do.]

[Funny how the victims seem to be predominantly Palestinian. Even taking into account the high number of Palestinains in Jordan, what are the chances the bombers would get 4 senior Palestinian officials?]
There is no truth to reports that Israelis staying at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman on Wednesday were evacuated by Jordanian security forces before the bombing that took place there.

The Israelis were escorted back to Israel by Jordanian security personnel only after the attacks had taken place, contrary to earlier reports
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643661.html

Similar thoughts were heard over and over in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday, as Palestinians expressed outrage over suicide attacks aimed at civilians.

The bombings at three hotels in Amman on Wednesday night killed at least 56 people, including 27 Palestinians with roots in the West Bank. Among the victims were members of the Akhras clan who were attending a family wedding, the West Bank's intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Bashir Nafeh, a diplomat and a prominent banker.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20051110%2F1525720555.htm&sc=1107&photoid=20051110DN107&ewp=ewp_news_1105jordan&floc=NW_1-T

"Bashir Nafeh was killed in the attack on the Grand Hyatt hotel," charge d'affaires Atallah Khairy said.

At least 57 people were killed and up to 300 wounded in three successive attacks on the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels this morning, Jordanian officials said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,17199844,00.html

[So the suicide bomber was in the ceiling?]
Police said a second explosion hit the nearby Radisson SAS hotel, where about 250 people were attending a wedding reception. At least five were killed and at least 20 wounded in that blast, believed to have been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643691.html

The attacks on the Amman hotels yesterday were carried out by people wearing explosive belts and, in one instance, involved a car that exploded at a security barrier, Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher told Cable News Network late yesterday.

Casualty figures show the dead included 15 Jordanians, five Iraqi nationals, three Chinese, a Saudi, a Palestinian and an Indonesian, while the bodies of 30 people have yet to be identified, according to AFP.

Four senior Palestinian officials died in the explosions, Palestinian officials who requested anonymity said. They were: Major General Bashir Nafeh, chief of military intelligence in the West Bank, Colonel Abed Allun, a senior member of the Preventive Security forces, Jihad Fatouh, the commercial attaché at the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo, and Mosab Khorma, deputy Chairman of Cairo-Amman Bank in the Palestinian territories
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=al03y1zONAwo&refer=top_world_news

Caracas, November, 9 2005 – A key witness in the Danilo Anderson murder trial, Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, has identified FBI and CIA agents as being involved in the preparations to assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor. Speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, the Attorney General's office said that those planning the killing, "all discussed the plan with the help of the FBI and CIA.
Caracas, November, 9 2005 – A key witness in the Danilo Anderson murder trial, Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, has identified FBI and CIA agents as being involved in the preparations to assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor. Speaking on behalf of Vasquez De Armas, the Attorney General's office said that those planning the killing, "all discussed the plan with the help of the FBI and CIA.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1809

President Bush and the current administration have borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 presidents combined, a group of conservative to moderate Democrats said Friday.

Blue Dog Coalition, which describes itself as a group "focused on fiscal responsibility," called the administration's borrowing practices "astounding."

According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200511/NAT20051104b.html

Senate Passes Amendment to End Habeas for Detainees

Bump and Update: Unbelievable. The Senate today passed Lindsay Graham's amendment, 49 to 42 barring detainees at Guantanamo and others declared by the Executive Branch to be enemy combatants from seeking judicial review of the legality of their detentions
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013056.html

One of the main focuses in the search for living organisms on other planets and the possibilities for transfer of life between planets currently centres on bacteria, due to the organisms simplicity and the possibility of it surviving an interplanetary journey exposed to the harsh space environment
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-05zzzzzzzr.html

The U.S. Census Bureau today released its estimates for the U.S. trade deficit in September 2005. According to the Census, the trade deficit in September increased to a new record of $66.1 billion, up from a revised $59.3 billion in August. The total seasonally adjusted trade deficit this year thus stands at $560 billion, potentially brining the annual total to another record high, relative to the size of the economy. For the first nine months of this year, the inflation-adjusted trade deficit was 5.8 percent higher than for the same period in 2004. The trade deficit is hence growing much faster than the economy. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) at the Department of Commerce already estimated a few weeks ago that the trade deficit in the third quarter of 2005 reached a record high of 5.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Today’s figures confirm the trend of an ever widening gap of imports and exports.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1171451

A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."

The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and allow Bush to “unite the country” in a “time of national shock and sorrow.”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml

[Well I’m sure glad I don’t live in a country with a lot of poor non-citizens. That could sure be a powder keg ready to blow. Yes sirree bob.]
Ali's friend was an Arsenal fan: "Thierry Henry, man! But he never scores for France." Does he feel French? "We hate France and France hates us," he spat, refusing to give even his first name. "I don't know what I am. Here's not home; my gran's in Algeria. But in any case France is just fucking with us. We're like mad dogs, you know? We bite everything we see. Go back to Paris, man."

Sylla summed it up. "We burn because it's the only way to make ourselves heard, because it's solidarity with the rest of the non-citizens in this country, with this whole underclass. Because it feels good to do something with your rage," he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1637465,00.html

{“Need”? I don’t have this “need”. Who has this “need”?]
International standards backed up by a UN body are needed to clear up the international identity-verification mess, according to a senior IBM Global Services executive

The growing need for fast, accurate verification of personal identities has prompted a call from an industry observer for a global agency to set international standards.

The realm of identity and access management (IAM) is heating up as nations like the UK and the US increase their use of biometrics and other identifying technology in ID cards, border controls and other areas
http://www.rense.com/general68/ibm.htm

[An interestign point even if the author is a little “dodgy” as the English say.]
Read the following paragraphs again from the Associated Press:

A savage assault on a bus passenger highlighted the dangers of travel in Paris’ Muslim-filled and impoverished outlying neighborhoods, where the violence has entered its second week.

The African immigrant attackers doused the woman, in her 50s and on crutches, with an inflammable liquid and set her afire as she tried to get off a bus in the suburb of Sevran Wednesday, judicial officials said. The bus had been forced to stop because of burning objects in its path. She was rescued by the driver and hospitalized with severe burns.

My Dear God, “African immigrant attackers” throw gasoline on a handicapped White woman and set her on fire!”

Now you tell me how the mainstream press would treat this if White attackers doused a crippled, middle-aged Black woman with gasoline and set her on fire. Tell me please, would not every newspaper from Paris to New York to Sydney be screaming about this horrible racist hate crime?

Would not there be universal condemnation by the politicians against a vicious racial attack against a defenseless and handicapped African woman?
http://www.davidduke.com/?p=449#more-449

A group of countries which fringe the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea gathered in Norway on Thursday and heard that they must go beyond the UN's Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/051110172655.muac5drq.html

SpaceDev has announced a new high performance microsatellite product program named the SpaceDev Modular Microsat Bus.

The SpaceDev MMB-100 microsat is a highly capable modular 100 kg (220 pound) microsatellite based on industry standard "Plug-n-Play" interfaces.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/microsat-05w.html

THE SENATOR WHO LEFT THE SENATE WILL NOW APPOINT A SENATOR

Now Corzine has the amazing opportunity to accept his election as Governor of New Jersey, which means resigning from the U.S. Senate, and then as Governor he can appoint a person to be the Senator for the remainder of his term !!

Now that's hardball New Jersey style. Corzine bears watching.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=81587

Government is next week expected to sign an agricultural agreement with China that could see vast tracts of land being ceded to the fast-growing nation. The deal, envisaged to boost agricultural production, should be signed on November 8 and will be guaranteed by the Ministry of Finance. The deal will be in two phases.
http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=13118

More bizarre yet is the saga of Executive Outcomes, a private army of Afrikaner special forces who fight on behalf of the ANC and Western multinational corporations around the world.

ANC death camps in Angola
Through the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the gulags of northern Angola -- where the ANC mutilated and tortured cadres who would not go along with the terrorist campaign -- have also been brought to light. The ANC has admitted that torture and "staggering brutality" were committed at their Angolan re-education camps in the 1980s and "could have caused prisoner deaths." In an internal report, the ANC documented 17 eyewitness accounts of detainees who survived the camps.
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"The rape issue is three-fold," said Narina Van der Merve, an Afrikaner police spokeswoman, in an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily. "First, Mandela telling the youth to burn down their schools and not learn Afrikaans. Second, Mandela emptying all the jails of rapists and murderers -- this is a classic tool of terror on the populace by communists the world over. Third, the ANC-mandated affirmative action programs." "Most of the affirmative action-appointed police can't read or write," said Van der Merve. "So they can't even write up a rape report. It's a bloody joke. We have concluded that one in three women in South Africa will be raped in their lifetime. But I promise you, there is going to be a war in this country. The whites and decent blacks -- Zulus, Coloreds and Indians -- they are all fed up with the ANC and their Marxist lies. We are already in a war, only it's the black communists who are killing and raping. But they have woken up the tiger inside the Afrikaner, and there is going to be a big payback for them.
http://www.stigtingafrikanerasielsoekers.info/artatrocities.htm

Sorry for late posting

2005-11-10T08:01:00.000-08:00

[Sorry to anyone who might be reading. I have not been able to log into my account at Blogger for probably 5 or 6 days. Not sure when I will be able to get in again. So this all may be out of date by the time I get to post it. Can’t figure out the problem. Now I have tried 3 different browsers and can’t get in.]

These hospital visits are numbered in official statistics of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Injury Epidemiology—every bit as official as the heavily publicized police department data showing fewer and fewer serious assaults "known to the police" during the same years.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0544,moses,69552,5.html

Two former Hilo Wal-Mart employees have filed a class action lawsuit against all Hawaii Wal-Marts, alleging the company shaved time from its employees time cards from 1997 to 2004.

The lawsuit states there is a videotaped admission of a Wal-Mart executive and Wal-Mart memoranda, showing that Wal-Mart deleted thousands of hours of time worked from employees' payroll records, resulting in millions of dollars of labor savings.
http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=8575&sid=1152

A U.S. Army chaplain has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of forcible sodomy against enlisted men.
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/5228090/detail.html

Two days after Katrina hit, Marty Bahamonde, one of the only FEMA employees in New Orleans, wrote to Brown that "the situation is past critical" and listed problems including many people near death and food and water running out at the Superdome.

Brown's entire response was: "Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?" (Copies of e-mails posted by critic -- PDF)

On September 12 Brown resigned, 10 days after President Bush told him, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/index.html#brownie

e bureau du vice-président américain Dick Cheney est à l'origine des directives ayant conduit des militaires américains à torturer des prisonniers en Irak et en Afghanistan, a affirmé, jeudi, un ancien haut responsable du département d'Etat.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3222,36-706336@51-642470,0.html

As opposed to the expectations of many, the disengagement has not brought about real progress toward peace, but undoubtedly caused a revolutionary change in the way war is conducted. The violence of body touching body and eye meeting eye, the friction saturated with hatred at the checkpoints and in the alleyways, and the sight of spilled blood - the intimate violence of conflicted communities - is changing in front of our eyes, and has become a push-button war, shooting via TV screens, robots and computers, and long range artillery
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641018.html

Her lawyer, John G. S. Flym, a retired Northeastern law professor, said in an interview yesterday that Alito's ''lack of integrity is so flagrant" in the case that he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court nominee.

Maharaj, 50, discovered Alito's ownership of Vanguard shares in 2002 when she requested his financial disclosure forms after he ruled against her appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

''I just started seeing Vanguard after Vanguard, and I almost fell to the floor," she said in an interview at the Jamaica Plain home she shares with a friend after losing her own home in the course of the prolonged litigation. ''I just couldn't believe that it could be so blatant."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/03/plaintiff_alleges_alito_conflict/

Israel is deploying a terrifying new tactic against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by letting loose deafening "sound bombs" that cause widespread fear, induce miscarriages and traumatise children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607450,00.html

A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq following the outbreak of war in 2003.

Jimmy Massey was giving evidence in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial of five antiwar protesters accused of criminal damage of a US aeroplane at Shannon Airport in February 2003
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=17451&hd=0&size=1&l=e

A rabbi for a national youth group based in Rockville and a Prince George's County special education teacher have lost their jobs after they were allegedly videotaped by a hidden camera as part of a forthcoming "Dateline NBC" story about men who try to solicit sex from minors online, officials said yesterday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110302297.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

The star witness in the trial of US troops for prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan has mysteriously disappeared. Omar al-Farouq would have been the first detainee to testify against an American soldier.

The US regime previously claimed that Omar al-Farouq was a "top al-Qaeda operative" and "one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants", but now they claim that he was somehow able to escape. The only evidence of his escape is an anonymous "leak" to the mass media, as usual from an "unnamed" US official.

Three other witnesses are said to have "escaped" at the same time, so the only four people ever to succeed in an "escape" from a Guantanamo-bay-style maximum secitity US military prison all happen to be witnesses who wanted to testify against the US military.
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1660

Wal-Mart management knew people who cleaned dozens of their stores in 2003 were illegal aliens, some of whom lived in poor conditions and, in one case, slept in the back of a store, a federal affidavit released Wednesday said.

The affidavit was used to secure two search warrants in October 2003 to raid Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ’s home office in Bentonville as part of Operation Rollback — an investigation that led to the arrests of 245 illegal aliens working at 61 Wal-Mart stores, including five stores in Arkansas.
http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg§ion=News&storyid=135292

When Joshua Muravchik, perhaps the pre-eminent expert on the interventionist foreign policy that has become known as neo-conservatism, was looking for non-Jewish neo-cons to prove that the movement isn’t pervasively Jewish, he naturally included Lewis Libby.

“Non-Jews figuring prominently in current foreign-policy debates and today called neo-cons include Libby, (John) Bolton, American Enterprise Institute president Christopher DeMuth, and Gary Schmitt of the Project for the New American Century,” Muravchik wrote in Commentary magazine two years ago.

“Go easy on me,” Muravchik laughingly told a reporter this week, after it emerged that the man at the center of the White House leak scandal indeed is Jewish
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=15997&intcategoryid=5

Many automatic garage doors in Ottawa have suddenly, and strangely, stopped working, due to a powerful radio signal that appears to be interfering with the remote controls that open them.

J.P. Cleroux of Ram Overhead Door Systems says the phenomenon began last weekend.

"It affects a 25-mile radius. That's huge," said Cleroux.

Angolan Ambassador Miguel Puna's operation is one of those affected by the problem. He can no longer open his embassy's electronic gate.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/04/ottawa-signals051104.html

As is now clearly documented, during the early years of the mad cow catastrophe in the UK, the British government continued to lie and deceive its people in claiming that prions were somehow (magically) restricted to the brains of infected cows.
http://www.rense.com/general68/swissscientistexpects.htm

Should price levels start to sag, declared then-Fed governor Bernanke, the Fed would prop them back up - if neces-sary, by the expedient of dropping dollar bills out of heli-copters.

In fact, in a speech in November 2002, Bernanke related this gem to a gathering of economists: "Japanese deflation will not happen in America because the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press . . . that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes."

Any action resembling this, or even just such crazy talk, could cause foreigners and others to lose any remaining confidence in the U.S. dollar and dump U.S. investments and dollar reserves. Since dollars are not backed by silver, gold, or anything else, if that confidence is lost the econo-my will crash.
http://www.rense.com/general68/newa.htm

The second movie/film/actual footage had no actors- they were real people acting out atrocities. We were visiting Iraq and I was around 8 years old. I walked in on someone, somewhere, watching what I thought at first was news footage because of the picture quality. It showed what I later learned was an Iraqi POW in Iran. I watched as Iranian guards tied each arm of the helpless man to a different vehicle. I was young, but even I knew what was going to happen the next moment. I wanted to run away or close my eyes- but I couldn't move. I was rooted to the spot, almost as if I too had been chained there. A moment later, the cars began driving off in opposite directions- and the man was in agony as his arm was torn off at the socket.

I never forgot that video. Millions of Iraqis still remember it. Every time I hear the word "aseer which is Arabic for POW, that video plays itself in my head. For weeks, I,d see it in my mind before I fell asleep at night, and wake up to it in the morning. It haunted me and I,d wonder how long it took the man to die after that atrocity- I didn't even know human arms came off that way.

The horrors of what happened to the POWs in Iran lived with us even after the war. The rumors of torture- mental and physical- came back so often and were confirmed so much, that mothers would pray their sons were dead instead of taken prisoner in Iran- especially after that video that came out in either 1984 or 1986. Every Iraqi who had a missing relative from that war, saw them in the agonized face of that POW who lost his arm. SCIRI head Abdul Aziz Al Hakim and his dead brother Mohammed Baqir Al Hakim were both well-known interrogators and torturers of Iraqi POWs in Iran.
http://www.rense.com/general68/mves.htm

It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.

Randell Mills, a Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims to have built a prototype power source that generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel. Independent scientists claim to have verified the experiments and Dr Mills says that his company, Blacklight Power, has tens of millions of dollars in investment lined up to bring the idea to market. And he claims to be just months away from unveiling his creation.

The problem is that according to the rules of quantum mechanics, the physics that governs the behaviour of atoms, the idea is theoretically impossible. "Physicists are quite conservative. It's not easy to convince them to change a theory that is accepted for 50 to 60 years. I don't think [Mills's] theory should be supported," said Jan Naudts, a theoretical physicist at the University of Antwerp.

What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills's claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen, the simplest of all the atoms, with just a single proton circled by one electron. In his "hydrino", the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and the formation of the new atoms from traditional hydrogen releases huge amounts of energy.

This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html

A pattern is emerging as the cleanup of Mississippi's Gulf Coast morphs into its multibillion-dollar reconstruction: Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed. Sometimes, the boss simply vanishes. Other workers wait on promises that soon, someone in a complex hierarchy of contractors will provide the funds to pay them.
http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5258205/detail.html

The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/13070288.htm

Trinidadian authorities have detained an Israeli national found living in a remote mountainous area east of the capital, police said, declining to state if he was being questioned in connection with a recent spate of bombings in the Caribbean island nation.

A string of bombings, the latest one occuring last Thursday, have rocked the capital of Port-of-Spain. The bombings have injured 28 people.

Authorities identified the detained man as Dahtang Mik Agarunov, 26. They said he was found living in a wooden shack in Arouca, about 10 miles east of Port-of-Spain. Agarunov was detained on Friday and questioned by Interpol, Trinidadian police and immigration officials
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/642040.html

No charges have been filed against the younger Braunstein, but sources said police want to grill him about a vicious Halloween attack in which a pervert dressed as a firefighter set blazes in a Chelsea building to get into a woman's apartment.

Drugging her with chloroform, the attacker sexually abused her for 13 hours before leaving with a videotape of the violation and a pair of high heels as a trophy, sources said.
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/362895p-309066c.html

One Washington foreign policy analyst, Peter Kornbluh, told us, "This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since [the New York Times] yielded to JFK's call for them not to run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility."
http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001986.asp

The natural-gas crisis is threatening U.S. manufacturing, economic growth, employment and international competitiveness. More than 96 percent of all manufactured goods are directly touched by chemistry. The industries that rely on chemistry together represent more than a quarter of the nation's entire workforce. Unaffordable natural gas is driving away investment, crippling our manufacturing base and reducing job opportunities. It is transferring to foreign countries the advanced research and technology desperately needed in order to compete on the world stage. In effect, our nation's energy policy has become its de facto manufacturing and national-security policies as well.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20051031-090107-9287r.htm

Abdul Ghafoor, 33, believes that a new calamity could befall the quake-stricken Allai. Ghafoor, like many others in the area, believes that the volcanic activity has been triggered in the nearby mountains by the earthquake, which has killed at least 54,000.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005%5C11%5C02%5Cstory_2-11-2005_pg1_4

According to my file, the banks where I have both business and checking accounts have been forced to turn over all records of my transactions, as have every company where I have a charge account or credit card. They’ve perused my book borrowing habits from libraries in Arlington and Floyd Counties as well as studied what television shows I watch on the Tivos in my house. They know I belong to the National Rifle Association, the National Press Photographers Association and other professional groups. They know I attend meetings of Alcoholic Anonymous on a regular basis and the file notes that my “pattern of spending” shows no purchase of “alcohol-related products” since the file was opened in 2001
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7624.shtml

Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.

The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President.

The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml

In gergo i soldati Usa lo chiamano Willy Pete. Il nome tecnico è fosforo bianco. In teoria dovrebbe essere usato per illuminare le postazioni nemiche al buio. In pratica è stato usato come arma chimica nella città ribelle irachena di Falluja. E non solo contro combattenti e guerriglieri, ma contro civili inermi. Gli americani si sarebbero resi responsabili di una strage con armi non convenzionali, la stessa accusa di cui deve rispondere l'ex dittatore iracheno Saddam Hussein. Questo racconta un'inchiesta di Rai News 24, il canale all news della Rai svelando uno dei misteri del fronte di guerra tenuto più nascosto dell'intera campagna americana in Iraq.
http://www.repubblica.it/2005/k/sezioni/esteri/iraq71/rainews/rainews.html

SunCruz Casinos has turned over photographs and other documents to FBI investigators after employees said they recognized some of the men suspected in the terrorist attacks as customers... Names on the passenger list from a Sept. 5 cruise matched those of some of the hijackers...
Since Abramoff used SunCruz to provide services to Republicans (we may safely presume that the Super Bowl junket wasn't the only occasion), I'd very much like to see that September 5, 2001 passenger manifest. Who was on the boat with the terrorists?
http://simbaud.blogspot.com/2005/08/lots-odots.html

The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee.

Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), arrived at her suburban Virginia home after work Wednesday about 6:30 p.m. As she was unloading belongings from her car, a 6-foot-1-inch white man dressed in black struck her repeatedly with an unidentified object believed to be a baseball bat
...
Grassley is known for his aggressive oversight of the public and private sector. Over the past year, he has scrutinized healthcare fraud, organ-donation procedures used by hospitals, drug-safety matters and the use of nonprofit groups related to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

In her line of work, DiSanto “doesn’t make a lot of friends,” an aide said.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/110805/news1.html

The interrogators, some flown down from Washington, didn't get the joke, he said. "Again and again, they were asking questions about this article. We had to explain that this was a satire." He paused. "It was really pathetic."
http://www.unknownnews.org/0511041031beyondsatire.html

A number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.

The Foreign Ministry stated Wednesday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were in contact with local authorities to examine any report of injured Israelis, but none were received. There are often a number of Israeli businessman and tourists in Amman, including in the hotels hit Wednesday
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643661.html

There is no cavalry coming to the rescue

2005-11-03T19:46:00.000-08:00

Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
http://www.panam.edu/orgs/mecha/aztlan.html

Anyway, The New Yorker introduces a 1996 novel called The Apprentice by none other than recently indicted scumbag, Scooter Libby, as another in a series of questionable novels by prominent conservatives, and notes:

Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”
Eugh. And it gets worse. The passage “He asked if they should fuck the deer.” is quoted, to which, The New Yorker notes, “The answer, reader, is yes.” And then there are the old stand-bys of conservative fiction writers:

Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers).
Perhaps the most disturbing, however, is this passage:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
What kind of mind comes up with this shit, dreams up scenarios where children are raped by animals to train them in prostitution? Oh, right. A conservative one. One that has toiled under a lifetime of repression, and spent its time dreaming up legislation designed to control the sexual freedom of women and gays. It isn’t enough that men like Scooter Libby must repress their own sexualities; they have to oppress anyone who doesn’t succumb to exhortations
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-hell-is-wrong-with-conservatives.html

With most Vermont politicians, including the Congressional delegation, ignoring the grassroots secession movement or just laughing it off as good theatre, Vermont's Lt. Gov., Brian Dubie, has weighed in on the issue, giving it a certain amount of merit but stopping short of outright support
http://www.rense.com/general68/secede.htm

The plan is controversial. Republican Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado recently announced his support, but Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has said he doesn't think a fence would stop illegal immigration.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/1943262.html

No cavalry coming'

The U.S. has been slow in developing a coordinated, national plan, said Eric Holdeman, director of the King County office of emergency management in Seattle. He said the new plan's focus on self-sufficiency by local governments is sobering.

"There is no cavalry coming to the rescue," Holdeman said.

The federal plan estimates that a pandemic on a moderate scale would mean $181 billion in health costs alone, not including losses from the probable disruption in trade.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0511030318nov03,1,5460142.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Read it carefully

2005-11-02T20:13:00.000-08:00

The Russian scientist planned a simple experiment to see if eating genetically modified (GM) soy might influence offspring. What she got, however, was an astounding result that may threaten a multi-billion dollar industry.

Irina Ermakova, a leading scientist at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), added GM soy flour (5-7 grams) to the diet of female rats. Other females were fed non-GM soy or no soy at all. The experimental diet began two weeks before the rats conceived and continued through pregnancy and nursing.

Ermakova's first surprise came when her pregnant rats started giving birth. Some pups from GM-fed mothers were quite a bit smaller. After 2 weeks, 36% of them weighed less than 20 grams compared to about 6% from the other groups (see photo below).
http://www.rense.com/general68/rats.htm

The British chemicals group Ineos has warned a parliamentary inquiry that business in this country faces a "devastating energy crunch" this winter.

The company said that a cold winter would lead to "massive" rises in the price of gas, which "is very likely to put many manufacturers out of business for good".

"Following this, we expect the UK to be short of gas leading to a gas deficit emergency. This will have consequences such as 'three day weeks', wide-scale power cuts, loss of essential services such as water and sewerage and further business closure," Ineos said in written evidence to the Trade and Industry Select Committee Inquiry into security of gas supply.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article323808.ece

Mother Rats Fed Genetically Modified Soy Led to
56% Mortality of Offspring
http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=298

It seems that there are a growing number of people who believe as I do, that the economic tsunami planned by the Bush administration is probably only months away. In just 5 short years the national debt has increased by nearly 3 trillion dollars while the dollar has continued its predictable decline. The dollar has fallen a whopping 38% since Bush took office, due largely to the massive $450 billion per year tax cuts. At the same time, numerous laws have been passed (Patriot Act, Intelligence Reform Bill, Homeland Security Bill, National ID, Passport requirements etc) anticipating the need for greater repression when the economy takes its inevitable nosedive. Regrettably, that nosedive looks to be coming sooner rather than later.
http://globalfire.tv/nj/05en/globalism/us_end.htm

Big deal. Yesterday, the Senate GOP leaders were puffing their chests out threatening to end the filibuster. Not today. And it is no surprise as to why Frist is so upset:
Reid's move shone a spotlight on the continuing controversy over intelligence that President Bush cited in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Despite prewar claims, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and some Democrats have accused the administration of manipulating the information that was in their possession.
The worst thing that can happen to the Bush and the GOP is for the American people to finally learn the truth about Iraq. That's why Bill Frist is freaking out today.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/11/frist-sure-had-meltdown-today.html

Here is the breakdown of the disproportionate catholic majority on the Supreme court

The chart below reflects what the composition of the Supreme Court will be if Sandra Day O'Connor (who has announced her retirement effective immediately once her replacement is confirmed) is replaced by Samuel Alito, who was nominated on 31 October 2005 to take her place:

Justice Affiliation
John Roberts
(Chief Justice) Catholic
Stephen G. Breyer Jewish
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jewish
Anthony M. Kennedy Catholic
Antonin Scalia Catholic
David H. Souter Episcopalian
John Paul Stevens Protestant
Clarence Thomas Catholic
Samuel Alito Catholic

Well I guess that 10 commandment issue will be decided pretty quick!
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=81230

Noam Chomsky has made a reputation for calling America a police state and branding the Pentagon "the most hideous institution on earth," yet his entire academic career, writes Schweizer, has been subsidized by the U.S. military.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47174

An uncivil war rages inside the walls of the West Wing of the White House, a bitter, acrimonious war driven by a failed agenda, destroyed credibility, dwindling public support and a President who lapses into Alzheimer-like periods of incoherent babbling.

On one side are the dwindling numbers of die-hard loyalists to President George W. Bush, those who support his actions and decisions without question and remain committed to both Bush and scandal-scarred political advisor Karl Rove.

On the other side are the increasing numbers of those who say Rove must go and who worry about the President's declining mental state and his ability to restore credibility with Congress, our foreign allies and the American people.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7606.shtml

New research suggests that infection with bacteria from the Chlamydia family may play a role in the development of a type of lymphoma that affects the tissue around the eye, raising hopes that antibiotics may one day prove to be an alternative to chemotherapy or radiation.

The study, presented Monday at the European Cancer Conference, is the latest to link infection with cancer, following the establishment of the human papilloma virus as the major cause of cervical cancer and the bacteria Helicobacter pylori as a cause of stomach cancer.

"This is sensational," said Dr. Dieter Hossfeld, a professor of oncology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, who was not involved with the research.
http://www.rense.com/general68/lympjh.htm

We have highlighted recently that the MECHA, motto is, “Everything for the race, for those outside the race nothing,” and La Raza, means “The Race” in Spanish. These Mexican groups have overtly racist ideologies, yet they claim they are defending their national origin and the media does nothing to expose them for what they are.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/021105hate.htm

We're proud to announce a major breakthrough in the long battle to curb the abuses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), an arm of the U.S. Congress, has issued a memo telling the world what we've always said (http://www.jpfo.org/batfearticles.htm): that ATF "experts" use arbitrary, made-up standards when they bring charges against gun owners and testify against us in court.

You can read the CRS report here: http://www.jpfo.org/ATFguntests.pdf

Read it carefully. Notice something important. Although the CRS did an investigation of its own, it relied heavily on information that came straight from gun-maker Len Savage and JPFO.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/105/2781/2005-11-01.asp?nid=2781&wid=105

In Calexico, Calif., across the border from Mexicali

2005-11-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

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/

Citing the need to rid themselves of “uncompetitive labor agreements”, Delphi executives are demanding:

* A 65 percent wage cut for production workers, including a pay reduction for current workers from $27 an hour to as low as $9.50. New-hires will see starting wages lowered from $14 an hour to as low at $9 an hour.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/delp-n01.shtml

The test uses a device called an electrogastrogram (EGG) to determine when a person’s stomach “beats” speed up from the typical three per minute. Whereas heart beats can increase whether a person is lying or telling the truth, the group’s initial findings from 16 test subjects reveal that the stomach’s rate typically does not increase if a person is telling the truth, however nervous they may be
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8238

Agents have shot and killed five suspected smugglers in the Tucson and San Diego sectors, including a man armed with a semi-automatic weapon who was suspected of waiting to pick up migrants.

In another encounter, an agent came under fire as he approached a vehicle being loaded with drugs, and nearly two dozen bullets struck the agent's vehicle. He suffered a leg wound.

In Calexico, Calif., across the border from Mexicali, smugglers have begun tossing Molotov cocktails at agents
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/10/31/105954.shtml?et=y

a rare floating island

2005-10-31T19:34:00.000-08:00

Morthor carried on one of the most brutal military campaigns

2005-10-30T14:38:00.000-08:00

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

2005-10-27T19:32:00.000-07:00

Chillingly

2005-10-26T15:23:00.000-07:00

More than 100,000 deaths per year come from drugs

2005-10-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-21T19:42:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-20T19:25:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-17T19:24:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-15T15:19:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-14T07:17:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-12T19:24:00.000-07:00

Chitauli

2005-10-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

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

Code 51

2005-10-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

The ICRC backs a 1975 Tokyo declaration by the World Medical Association stating that doctors should not participate in force-feeding, but keep prisoners informed of the sometimes irreversible consequences of their hunger strike, she added.
http://www.rense.com/general67/gitmohungerstrikers.htm

"They asked me, didn't I think that it was suspicious," she recalls. "I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!"

At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident "would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted," she says.

The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.

"I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody," she says. "I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service."
http://www.rense.com/general67/walmartgivesteens.htm

Jefferson's quotation already alluded to is, "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."

Notice that Jefferson's "spirit of resistance" was focused specifically on "government." Unfortunately, it is exactly that spirit which has all but faded from the modern American landscape.
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin262.htm

It doesnâ€™t explain everything, but it explains a lot: George Bush, our president, is hitting the bottle again. The drinking rumors have been making the rounds for months, and even before that people speculated that Bushâ€™s â€œaccidentsâ€?â€”choking on a pretzel, dropping his dog, crashing his bicycleâ€”were â€œalcohol-related.â€? For someone who makes such a point of flaunting his physical prowess, his habitual clumsiness is somewhat suspicious. After all, Bushie (his wife Lauraâ€™s pet name for him, just as itâ€™s his pet name for her, which is a bit creepy) first gained prominence as a high-kicking, back-flipping sis-boom-bah male cheerleader at Yale.

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/deep_2005-10-06.cfm

Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy

By Patrick Martin – World Socialist Web Site

In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military. Responding to the passage of an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill—approved by an overwhelming 90-9 vote Wednesday, the White House said the proposal would “restrict the president’s authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2751

From home driveways to newsstands to circulation depots and the computers in the newspaper's main offices, the circulation quest led to practices that current and former employees say ranged from aggressive exploitation of industry rules to outright fabrication of circulation statistics. Tens of thousands of copies of the newspaper were being delivered or earmarked for customers who had neither asked for, nor paid for the newspaper, according to the interviews.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzcirc0719,0,6407338.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

The ultimate objective, according to sources, is to suppress democracy.

If the plan proceeds, UNEP, along with all the environmental treaties under its jurisdiction, would ultimately be governed by a special body of environmental activists, chosen only from accredited NGOs appointed by delegates to the General Assembly who are themselves appointed by the President of the United States, who himself is controlled by the Rockefeller-Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-Bilderberg interlocking leadership.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46238

Attempting to loosen decades-old restrictions, the Pentagon is asking Congress to allow its intelligence agents to go undercover when they approach Americans who may have useful national-security information, rather than identifying themselves as intelligence operatives.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1194425&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

http://www.shmais.com/images/largepics/left_517.jpg
http://www.shmais.com/picofdayall.cfm

Many people who have been involved in Newsday circulation over the years point to abuse of a list of non-paying subscribers known as Code 51. In one program in the late 1990s, circulation managers decided "we were going to take people who had stopped the paper and we were going to deliver to them and give them a second chance," whether they wanted it or not, and send them a bill, said a former Newsday employee
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzcirc0719,0,6407338.story?page=2&coll=ny-business-headlines

Karin Linstad

2005-10-08T15:47:00.000-07:00

Afghan farmers prevented from growing poppies under a British-led eradication programme have been forced to hand over their daughters to drug traffickers to settle their debts, according to reports from Afghanistan.

The claim is the latest in a series to dog the British effort to curb Afghanistan's opium industry
www.rawa.org

Soaring prices in California's housing market have shut out a record 86 percent of households from buying a typical home with a traditional down-payment, according to a study released on Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051006/us_nm/property_california_dc

So while conventional doctors tend to put the health risk blame on the saturated fat found in meat products, I think it has a lot more to do with the toxic substances concentrated in those fat tissues. A cow is much like a land bottom-feeder, and eating meat from a non-organic cow is a lot like eating shrimp from the bottom of the ocean
http://www.NewsTarget.com/011148.html

Coup warning in Bolivia

The proximity of the Estigarribia base to Bolivian natural gas reserves, and the fact that the military operations coincide with a presidential election in Bolivia, has also been a cause for concern. The election is scheduled to take place on Dec. 4, 2005. Bolivian Workers Union leader Jaime Solares and Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) legislator Antonio Peredo, have warned of US plans for a military coup to frustrate the elections. Solares said the US Embassy backs right wing ex-president Jorge Quiroga in his bid for office, and will go as far as necessary to prevent any other candidate's victory.
http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=903&Itemid=2

Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history.

Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1187030&page=1

AN Australian scientist has developed the world's first cancer vaccine - a drug with the potential to save the lives of tens of thousands of women each year by preventing cervical cancer.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16851827%255E421,00.html

A leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist has said she once worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent.

Karin Linstad, member of the Norwegian Palestine Committee, is said to have provided details of Palestinians in Beirut before Israel's 1982 invasion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4318656.stm

worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent

2005-10-07T19:45:00.000-07:00

the men are from Guatemala, one from Puerto Rico and the othe

2005-10-06T19:21:00.000-07:00

Lebanon's Justice Minister Adnan Addoum said on Friday that authorities were hunting for twelve Australian men wanted over the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.

Addum said that all the suspects hold the Australian passport and that six of them left Beirut for Australia hours after Monday's deadly blast, adding that police found traces of explosives on aircraft seats.
http://www.rense.com/general67/12australianssought.htm

Depleted Uranium is uranium-238. True, the gamma radiation has been reduced, but daughter particles do produce beta and gamma radiation. There is credible evidence that there are traces of plutonium present, and alpha radiation, which is harmful to humans, is actually increased.

The Pentagon loves U-238, because it has an atomic mass of 238 and flies right through the armor of an enemy tank. And it is pyrophoric, which means it bursts into flames.
http://www.unknownnews.org/050930a-df.html

ONE of al-Qaeda’s most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent working for MI5, raising criticism from European governments, which repeatedly called for his arrest.

Britain ignored warnings — which began before the September 11 attacks — from half a dozen friendly governments about Abu Qatada’s links with terrorist groups and refused to arrest him. Intelligence chiefs hid from European allies their intention to use the cleric as a key informer against Islamic militants in Britain.

Abu Qatada boasted to MI5 that he could prevent terrorist attacks and offered to expose dangerous extremists, while all along he was setting up a haven for his terror organisation in Britain
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.html

Then the guy inside picks up another sheep and pushes it through the gate. Usually it takes three or four sheep being pushed out the gate, and then all of a sudden the rest of the flock literally bolts out the gate to follow their leaders ... and you simply drive them down to the holding pen.

Years ago, they said, they'd had a goat on a leash that led the sheep. The sheep mistook it for one of their own. They called the goat a Judas goat.
http://www.unknownnews.org/050930a-LukeW.html

Five teenagers developed a serious neurological disorder within two to four weeks after receiving the vaccine Menactra, which prevents a severe and deadly form of meningitis, the Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/health/01fda.html?oref=login

What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?

Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”

The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”

Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors detected tularemia bacteria at the mall on Saturday, September 24.

Equally puzzling was an earlier Post report: “Weekend protesters hit travel snags.” The article reported that Amtrak trains from New York City were turned back, cancelled or delayed from heading to the nation’s capitol for the biggest peace demonstration since the Vietnam War era. Also, Metro subway cars coming into the capitol were disrupted by repairs.

Federal officials are still pondering the death of five people on U.S. soil and scores of others who were infected with U.S. military-grade anthrax in the fall of 2001.
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=496&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Governor Taft is vowing to remain in office even though he's now the first Ohio governor convicted of a crime.

Taft says he won't resign despite his conviction yesterday on charges that he failed to report numerous golf outings since taking office in 1999.
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=3733689&nav=LQlCdRIj

On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.

USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001.

Does that date sound familiar? Indeed, that was the date, a little over a month before 9/11, that President Bush was briefed on the now-famous “PDB” that declared that Osama Bin Laden was “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, perhaps with hijacked planes. But does that mean that Miers had anything to do with that briefing?

As it turns out, yes, according to Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency “Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial 'presidential daily briefing' hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks.”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205

[Ya, why would terrorist use cheap local cars to blow up when they can spend tens of thousands of dollars shipping cars in from the US to blow up? If anything indicates the terrorist work for the government it would be if this stupid explantion were actually true. No other organization in the world besides the USG would even think of such a stupid way to do something.]

The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cars-stolen-in-us-used-in-suicide-attacks/2005/10/03/1128191658703.html

"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/02/column.1002-SH-A3_CMK35541.sto

In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn't a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That's right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."

The details of the case are both nauseating and highly troubling, considering President Bush is considering putting Miers at the top of America's legal system. Under Miers' leadership, the firm represented
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/miers-led-law-firm-repeat_b_8277.html

The release of Andrea Mitchell's new book Talking Tough to Presidents, Dictators, and Other Scoundrels has brought with it the admission by Mitchell and some of her colleagues that they -- the press and your Fourth Estate -- gave President Bush and his administration a free pass from 9/11 through Hurricane Katrina. This stands repeating. Members of the media have confirmed they made a conscious effort not to challenge the Bush administration for exactly four years, through and including the 2004 presidential election, until just this past month when it temporarily grew a vestigial spinal column
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/understanding-the-medias_b_8303.html

According to the London-based daily Asharq Al Awsat, Ayatollah Muhammad Taki Misbah Yazari, a senior figure in Iran's leadership and spiritual advisor of President Muhammad Ahmadinejad, has issued a call in an Iranian newspaper for the public to join the swelling ranks of Iran’s homegrown suicide bombers.

“Suicide operations are the peak of the nation, and the height of its bravery,” wrote Yazari in a statement.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3118456,00.html

Where do we get these crazy ideas from? How about from Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Here's what he was reported saying earlier this week about Miers:

Mehlman yesterday unveiled a politically powerful argument linking Bush’s nomination to the war on terrorism. He said that as a former White House counsel Miers would know the importance of not letting the courts or the legislative branch “micromanage” the war on terrorism.

"Micromanage." Is that what the kids are calling the Bill of Rights these days?
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002394.html

Then, in 2000, Solzhenitsyn released a blockbuster new book he had penned entitled Together For Two Hundred Years. The new book was a lengthy treatise, a thorough and far-reaching compilation of several decades of research by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn into the machinations for two centuries of Jews inside Russia and the Soviet Empire.

Karl Marx, the Jewish radical who inspired Lenin and Trotsky with his communist theories, was secretly a High Priest of Satan (see Richard Wurmbrand's book, Marx and Satan). Shown here in his official portrait, Marx is giving an enigmatic Masonic hand sign (see Richardson's Monitor of Freemasonry, p. 74).
http://www.rense.com/general67/gulag.htm

"Under normal conditions, either a substantial number of stocks establish new annual highs or a large number set new lows - but not both." When there are high levels of both, "it indicates that the market is undergoing a period of extreme divergence... Such divergence is not usually conducive to future rising stock prices. A healthy market requires some semblance of internal uniformity, and it doesn't matter what direction that uniformity takes. Many new highs and very few lows is obviously bullish, but so is a great many new lows accompanied by few or no new highs. This is the condition that leads to important market bottoms.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BDA451070%2D3B84%2D4BCE%2DADAD%2D11B3D26FDE87%7D

Looking out over the cobblestone streets of Rome's Borgo Pio neighborhood, Maurizio Savoni says he's closing his Internet cafe because he doesn't want to be a "cop" anymore.

After Italy passed a new anti-terrorism package in July, authorities ordered managers offering public communications services, like Mr. Savoni, to make passport photocopies of every customer seeking to use the Internet, phone, or fax.

"This new law creates a heavy atmosphere," says Savoni, his desk cluttered with passport photocopies. He is visibly irritated, as he proceeds to halt clients at the door for their ID
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-10-03-italy-internet-cafes_x.htm

[Suicide bomber under the table?]
I was confused at first and Aleta just stood up and she said I knew this would happen and she got up to run, and so my mothering instinct was just to take off after her and be with her.

ANNE BARKER: Just seconds later another bomb exploded under the very table where the two women had been dining with a large group of friends from Newcastle.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1474901.htm

Italy orders further CIA warrants

The cleric is said to have been flown out of the US base in Aviano

An Italian court has issued three more arrest warrants for suspected CIA agents accused of helping to kidnap a Muslim cleric in 2003.

The authorities have already ordered the arrest of 19 people suspected of being involved in the abduction of Egyptian Osama Mustafa Hassan.

The suspects are accused of abducting Mr Hassan, also known as Abu Omar, and flying him to Egypt for interrogation.

Correspondents say the case has soured relations between Washington and Rome.

Italy says the alleged operation hindered Italian terrorism investigations.

No arrests have been made. None of the suspects is currently believed to be in Italy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4297966.stm

I suppose that people will think, well gold etf's will do well. Perhaps. But don't you think the US government would be kinda ahead of that curve???? All they have to do is suspend trading, or use a bank freeze to prevent you from getting any money over into that etf anyway, and later when things really get nasty, after the etfs have scarfed up enough gold.....you get my drift? after that then say, "for national security" we are taking "custody" of the etf gold vaults.

They will say its for the protection of the gold, but all it really is is confiscation. All an etf is to me is a vehicle where the public buys all the gold, then the govt seizes it later. Happened before. And it will probably happen again. The govt might say" here is x dollars, but we're taking the gold". A week later gold sells for three times as much on the black market, and the dollar buys exactly one third as much food, gas and so on.....you have the dollars but all of a sudden they just don't buy much
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2005/1004.html

Here we go again. We still don't have all of the facts on the Murrah Building bombing, and already this latest incident is beginning to look like a flashback. While the official report is still that it was simply a suicide, why did Hinrichs use a bomb to do the deed? Why did he do it right outside of a crowded football stadium during the game? And why did he leave behind in his apartment enough explosives that it took "several trips" to remove them, if he only meant to kill himself? Where is his Pakistani roommate? And finally, the most telling question of all, why would anyone planning a simple suicide try to buy ammonium nitrate, the same material used in the tragic Murrah Building bombing?
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/DownTheMiddle/1051.html

A Pakistani-American who served four years in the United States Air Force as munitions personnel was beaten and brutalized by right-wing students and campus police last Thursday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Tariq Khan, now a junior majoring in sociology, said he was standing in front of the recruitment table outside the school student center - as he has often done before - during noontime with a paper sign reading, "Recruiters lie, don't be deceived," taped to his shirt. A student approached Khan and initiated a verbal argument, screaming in his face; he then took the flyer and ripped it up in front of him, Khan says.

The student then left and returned with another student claiming to be a Marine having recently served in Iraq, and the three continued a verbal argument that began to escalate, Khan claimed. "I asked the marine, 'So how many people did you kill?'" Khan said. "And he answered, 'Not enough.'" The marine student soon ripped Khan's sign off his shirt and threw it in the trash.

Shortly thereafter, two of Khan's friends came to his defense, and a college staff member told Khan he had to leave because he had no permit to table in the area. "I didn't even have a table to begin with, so I didn't see why I needed a permit for one," Khan said. "Besides, to have a table, you need to be a campus group, and we didn't have one," he added, pointing out that the student council denied an anti-war group's right to exist on campus earlier because it contained several anarchists.
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=497&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

It is obvious that those in high places are showing their disapproval. This only vindicates all the information we have been putting out.

How can a website that merely reports and comments on mainstream media articles be described as 'hate' unless there's a different agenda afoot? How can Bill O'Reilly get on Fox News and call for assassinating Prime Ministers and Pat Robertson on the 700 Club do the same and yet we get censored for being hateful? We have never called for violence against anyone and actively encourage peaceful exchange of information.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/051005timewarnercensors.htm

Foreign governments have been bailing out the U.S. for several years now, buying up 70% or more of our federal debt. At one point, they were financing our ballooning deficit to the tune of $4 billion a day. Selling our debt to overseas banks, however, is getting harder ... all too quickly, says Dr. Mark Skousen, an economist and advisor for http://www.InvestmentU.com. Debt purchases have started to decline precipitously, from a peak quarterly rate of more than $400 billion in early 2004, to just $100 billion in the most recent quarter. At the same time, the federal deficit is expected to reach more than $500 billion in fiscal 2005. More debt, fewer buyers ... a double whammy.... Already, central banks from China to Argentina are quietly shifting to non-paper assets, specifically gold and precious metals, to diversify their portfolio.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=79625

LEGAL TRESPASS: THE EUROPEAN COURT HAS GRAVELY UNDERMINED THE SOVEREIGNTY OF EU STATES

For the first time in its 53-year existence, the European Court of Justice has given the Commission in Brussels the power to impose criminal sanctions. In a landmark ruling that is as ominous as it is deluded, the Luxembourg-based court yesterday overruled the governments of EU member states, removing from them the sole right to impose their own penalties on people or companies breaking the law, aned giving the unelected EU Commission an unprecedented role in the administration of criminal justice.
http://www.free-europe.org/blog/english.php?itemid=291

Each man was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual battery by multiple perpetrators. All were in jail without bond Tuesday and could face up to life in prison if convicted. Twelve of the men are from Guatemala, one from Puerto Rico and the other from Mexico.
http://www.local6.com/news/5054737/detail.html

it CANNOT prevent any kind of crime

2005-10-05T05:01:00.000-07:00

In 2003, the U.S.D.A. stopped measuring for "days in reserve" of food for every man, woman, and child in the United States because the amount of food in storage in the United States dropped under a 1 day food supply for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Thus, the U.S.D.A. started to measure in individual pounds as to how much food was in the food-chain per person in the United States as per 300 million people.

In 2003, there was 77 pounds of food per person in the warehouse food-chain in the United States. What this means, is that during a national emergency, only 77 pounds of food per person is available before all food is TOTALLY GONE in the United States.
http://www.rense.com/general67/starve.htm

Fishback says that army investigators were currently more interested in finding out the identity of the other soldiers who spoke to Human Rights Watch than dealing with the systemic abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

Colonel Joseph Curtin, a senior army spokesman at the Pentagon, said: "We do take the captain seriously and are following up on this."

Fishback has now been removed from special forces training because of the army investigation.
http://www.rense.com/general67/torts.htm

Unfortunately few people can afford the fee for dog registration in

Guangzhou. It is an exorbitant RMB10,000 for the first year and RMB

6000 thereafter, thus Guangzhou citizens are living in terror of

having their pets ripped from them and brutally killed. In fact,

this cycle of abuse continues year after year without ever solving

the fundamental problems of responsible pet care and stray dog

control in China.
http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?module=6&menupos=9&lg=en

Israeli shipping company Zim admits hitting Japanese boat
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/632028.html

The K Street Project is little known outside the Washington beltway and its effectiveness as a political stratagem is only possible because of the unique importance of campaign finance to American politics. DeLay, together with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and some conservative activists, notably the ubiquitous Grover Norquist who runs the anti-state, anti-tax lobby group 'Americans for Tax Reform', conceived the notion 10 years ago that they should use the Republican majority in the House as a lever to ensure that the lobbyists, law firms and trade associations that inhabit Washington's K Street, heart of the industry, should only employ Republicans or sympathisers. To be a Democrat was to bear the mark of Cain; K Street was to be a Democrat-free zone.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1582977,00.html

Police later said they had found three unexploded bombs in Jimbaran. They had apparently failed to go off after the security forces hastily shut down the island’s mobile telephone network following the first blasts.
...
Some witnesses in Jimbaran claimed one bomb had been buried in the sand. The worst-hit restaurant on Jimbaran beach was the Bandiga, which is close to some of the area’s most luxurious hotels, including the Four Seasons.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1807787,00.html

[Anyone notice Citzens Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland have the same logo?]
http://www.citizensbank.com/
http://www.rbs.co.uk/

Personal spaceflight pioneer Peter Diamandis unveiled plans Monday to take Formula One racing into the skies with rocket aircraft that will race around a three-dimensional course at up to 300 miles (480 kilometers) per hour
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05zzg.html

Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nominee as associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League.
http://www.jta.org/brknews.asp?id=158921&ref=JTA

During this afternoon's White House press conference President Bush confirmed that he would attempt to impose military curfews and quarantines in case of a flu pandemic occurring in the United States
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/041005militarytakeover.htm

Is this what conventional medicine has come down to? Let's remove the parts that might become diseased! Is this how far off the deep end modern medicine has gone?
http://www.NewsTarget.com/011116.html

Bush asserted aggressive action could be needed to prevent a potentially crippling U.S. outbreak of a bird flu strain that is sweeping through Asian poultry and causing experts to fear it could become the next deadly pandemic. Citing concern that state and local authorities might be unable to contain and deal with such an outbreak, Bush asked Congress to give him the authority to call in the military.

The president has already indicated he wants to give the armed forces the lead responsibility for conducting search-and-rescue operations and sending in supplies after massive natural disasters and terrorist attacks — a notion that could require a change in law and that even some in the
Pentagon have reacted to skeptically. The idea raised the startling-to-some image of soldiers cordoning off communities hit by disease.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051004/ap_on_he_me/bush_avian_flu

Microbial origin of other chronic inflammatory conditions?

Many diseases in humans such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis are due to chronic inflammation. The discovery that one of the most common diseases of mankind, peptic ulcer disease, has a microbial cause, has stimulated the search for microbes as possible causes of other chronic inflammatory conditions.
http://www.rense.com/general67/firsttimescienceadmits.htm

Big brother has NO BUSINESS WHATSOVER in anyone's personal life. Its WAY PAST TIME to STAND UP and be REAL MEN AND WOMEN. Those who believe we need these cameras have been brainwashed.

Remember - A video camera only records what has already happened - it CANNOT prevent any kind of crime. And what it records is usually worse than useless.
http://www.rense.com/general67/videocamsarefalse.htm

Britain began its cultural attack

2005-10-03T19:28:00.000-07:00

"The officials there told me we had to remain in the bunker for several hours because of the effects of the bomb. When we eventually left, they made us put on a sort of coat and trousers which seemed to me to be made of asbestos and we went to the scene of the explosion.

"The effects were tragic. The trees around had been turned to carbon. No leaves. Nothing alive. There were some animals - sheep - in the area and they too had been burnt to cinders."

When he wrote of his experiences after the war, "everyone said I was mad". By then, it was universally accepted that Hitler's scientists had been years away from testing a nuclear device.

However, documents published recently by Mr Karlsch and a US scholar, Mark Walker, have punctured this consensus. Russian archives have shown one of the German scientists lodged a patent claim for a plutonium bomb as early as 1941 and, in June, the two historians published an article in Physics World that included what they said was the first diagram of one of the bombs Hitler's scientists were trying to build, a device that exploited both fission and fusion.
http://www.rense.com/general67/abomb.htm

Colorado Dept Of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife: Hunter-Harvested Moose Tests Positive for CWD

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has confirmed that a bull moose killed by an archer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The moose was submitted for testing on 12 Sep 2005.

CWD was diagnosed in testing completed by the Colorado State University (CSU) Veterinary Diagnostic lab. Because this is the 1st time CWD has been found in a wild moose, testing will be repeated on this sample
http://www.rense.com/general67/coloradomoose.htm

Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/politics/01educ.html?hp&ex=1128225600&en=ed2345e1f9cc06db&ei=5094&partner=homepage

There are several hundred such pictures on the site, all apparently submitted by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The deal offered by the site's owner, Chris Wilson, is that serving soldiers get free access if they can prove they are abroad. He did this from a patriotic impulse: it was difficult for soldiers to make credit card payments from Afghanistan. So he decided to accept evidence of life abroad instead. This doesn't have to be a picture of a mutilated corpse, but those will do nicely. The site now has more than 160,000 members.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1579864,00.html

Arab horsemen from distant Hejaz today galloped in triumph through the streets of Damascus. As the sun was rising over the mosques and spires, Major TE Lawrence, the young British officer whose tactical guidance has ensured the success of the Arab revolt, drove through the lines in an armoured car. One Arab rider waved his head-dress and shouted, "Damascus salutes you".

Led by Emir Feisal, son of Sherif Hussein, now to be King of Syria, and his British friend Lawrence, who had fought the Turks all the way from Arabia, the Arabs were first into the capital.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1582574,00.html

The invasion of Iraq was the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history,” a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year., Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the invasion of Iraq alienated America's Middle East allies, making it harder to prosecute a war against terrorists.
http://www.lowellsun.com/ci_3072005

Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago — and again this week by mistake — depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque.

"It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell," reads the ad, which ran this week in the National Journal and earlier in the Armed Forces Journal. The ad also stated: "Consider it a gift from above."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002532657_boeingad1m.html

Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for "preventative nuclear attack." In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons. The Pentagon document, "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations," calls for the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear adversaries in order "to ensure success of US and multinational operations."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts124.html

"We see an Iranian bomb as a devastating existential threat to Israel, to the entire Middle East, to all Western interests in the region," he said.

"For us, either the world will tackle Iran in advance or all of us will face the consequences."
Eldad said Israelis across the political spectrum see Iran as the most serious threat to Israel, one that cannot be ignored." Eldad conceded that there could be problems if Israel acted. "If we have to do it, we will do it. If the United States and the world community do it, there is a chance the issue can be contained. If Israel has to do it alone, there is no chance the conflict can be contained." PTI
http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/0/70843D3360D50A206525708C004F5A65?OpenDocument

The ancient Romans rebelled and forcibly expelled their last king, Tarquin the Proud, an Etruscan or a Latin/Italian who had adopted an Etruscan name. The Romans hated the idea of kings. Soon after expelling their king, they actually adopted a saying: "We Shall Have No King!". Even the actual Latin word for king, "rex", was hated. Future tyrants went to great lengths to be decidedly un-kinglike, and when the Republic was destroyed, the first Emperor was careful not to obviously re-introduce monarchist principles.
http://www.interlog.com/~gilgames/republic.htm

I have used aspartame for years. I've also wholeheartedly recommended products containing NutraSweet to my clients, as well as promoting its use in recipes. So, when I was recently contacted by a sports nutrition company to do some consulting work on the health risks associated with aspartame ingestion, was understandably reluctant to accept the assignment.

I questioned their marketing director, What if I don't think there are any significant health risks associated with aspartame?" His response was to send me a couple of scientific publications. "Just read the articles. If, in your medical opinion, aspartame poses no health risks, then we won't pursue it further."

The next day I sat down with a pile of literature two inches thick. After making it through the first 10 pages, I stormed into my kitchen and fed every item of food containing aspartame to the garbage. Since that time, I have not had so much as a stick of aspartame sweetened gum.
http://www.rense.com/general67/lurk.htm

More bicycles than cars have been sold in the United States over the past 12 months, with rising gas prices prompting commuters to opt for two wheels instead of four.

Not since the oil crisis of 1973 have bicycles sold in such big numbers, according to Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong, an industry association.

"Bicycle sales are near an all-time high with 19 million sold last year -- close to the 20 million sold during the oil embargo in the early 1970s," said Blumenthal, whose association is based in Boulder in the western state of Colorado.
http://www.rense.com/general67/crdst.htm

To prove the vehicle’s superiority, Ford demonstrated the strength of the car body by smashing an ax against the trunk, only to have it bounce off. For some it remains a landmark event.
http://www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/facts/fordhemp.html

By Bush's logic, Miller should have been trundled off to a secret location where she could have been beaten and abused until she provided the information required by the grand jury. She should have been intimidated by snarling guard-dogs and fitted for a leash so she could be photographed prostrate on the floor of her cell by fun-loving interrogators from private security firms.

Imagine the public outcry if Miller appeared on the front page of the Times standing stock-still, bound and hooded, while the impish Lynndie England pointed at her genitals; or, if she was draped in sackcloth and propped up on a packing crate with electrical wiring draped from her hands and feet.
http://www.rense.com/general67/whynot.htm

There have now been at least 19 government provocateurs identified who helped and encouraged McVeigh to do the OKC bombing. None of the 19 known provocateurs has been brought to justice, but they worked closely for or with and were protected by the FBI, CIA, DEA, BATF, Secret Service, US Army, State Department, or DOJ or a combination of one or more of the named entities. Many of these provocateurs had very close ties to the HW Bush and Clinton administrations.

The NSC, FBI and CIA also used an Iraqi national military member in the US, an Israeli intelligence agent inside the US, a US Black Muslim terrorist provocateur, and a German national in the US to monitor, provoke and orchestrate the OKC bombing
http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick17.htm

ISRAELI SHIP SUSPECT IN HIT-AND-RUN AT SEA THAT KILLED SEVEN JAPANESE SAILORS… Japanese officials are accusing a ship belonging to Israel’s Zim lines of being the vessel that struck and sunk a Japanese fishing boat and fled the scene last Thursday. Seven Japanese crewmen died in the collision. The captain of the Israeli ship has denied any knowledge of the incident. Yet, Japanese officials claim to have proof in the form of radar images that show the ship in the area at the time of the accident and an abrupt course change following the collision. Japanese coastguard planes also made visual contact with the Zim vessel. Although the Israeli ship was not the only one in the area at the time, suspicion over its erratic course was backed up by physical evidence of a collision observed by officials when it docked at the South Korean port of Busan on Friday, including marks with paint matching the Japanese boat. The ship is again at sea, but South Korean officials have sent the Zim Asia’s GPS records along with samples of the foreign paint to Japan.
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=11418

About 100-thousand of California's high school seniors _ 20 percent _ have failed the state's graduation exam _ jeopardizing their chances of earning a diploma.
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?s=3924267

Beginning from the next space expedition Russia will deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station only on commercial basis. William McArthur who has just left for ISS can stay in orbit until the American side pays for his return, RIA Novosti reported.

“Russia has met all the engagements on transferring NASA employees to the ISS. Formally, we even do not have to return McArthur to the Earth,” Russia’s space agency Roskosmos senior official Alexey Krasnov said.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/10/01/nofreeflights.shtml

John Keene fought proudly for his Country in Vietnam as a United States Marine. John and his buddy Jim Maes survived Vietnam only to be enslaved and tortured in Saudi Arabia by King Fahd's former business partner (Sheik Mohammed H Al Zahid) and the King's nephews (Essam, Tarik and Khalid). Jim died as a result of his tortures. They had worked for the Saudi Industrial Supply & Construction Corporation which was a Saud family wholly owned US company based in Boston. As happened to other United States citizens employed by the Saudi Industrial Supply & Construction Corporation ( Federal employer #04-2690911) John and Jim were merely used as examples by King Fahd's former business partner and the King's nephews to keep other foreign workers in line. There were no trumped up charges. King Fahd's former business partner said: "If I can do this to Americans, I can do it to you. What chance do you think you have? I have power. I have connections." He bragged on many occasions how the Saud family own Washington and can do anything they want in the United States. When Jim died his wife was pregnant with their fifth child and no means of support. Jim, a native American of Apache ancestry, believed in the freedoms our Country stands for and was willing to put his life on the line for our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Jim believed he could better support his family by leaving the then depressed Southwest and going to Saudi Arabia. Looking back, we see John and Jim were cautious men. They checked things out with the State and Commerce Departments through their US Senator. They then accepted the position with the Saudi owned United States corporation . During their enslavement and torture in Saudi Arabia they were able to escape. They went to the United States consulate in Dhahran for help and safety but were refused entry by the Marine on duty who said he was under orders to keep out United States citizens seeking such help. John Keene and Jim Maes hurried back to their work place. They found a driver waiting for them to take them to King Fahd's former business partner (Sheik Mohammed H Al Zahid). Mohammed knew everything. He had to have been tipped off by the US Consular officials. Soon after Jim received tea and water from Mohammed, he got violently ill. Jim got progressively worse. Jim suffered from weight loss, vomiting, swelling, headaches, etc. He died when his body exploded. An internationally respected author went to New Mexico and confirmed that Jim's autopsy showed he died of isocynate poisoning (methocynate of Bhopal fame is a close cousin). In 1991 Jim Maes's son (Anthony) was ordered to defend the northern border of Saudi Arabia from Iraqi incursion. There was an article about this in a local paper which mentioned how Jim Maes had been enslaved, tortured and murdered by HRH King Fahd's former business partner. It tells how the President ordered Anthony to "defend the Saud family from the Iraqis" under threat of court martial. Anthony tells how he was "ordered by the President to protect the murderers of his father". It is not known if Jim's son has Desert Storm Syndrome Poisoning. Anthony could be the second generation Maes to be poisoned in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.sauduction.com/2ndissue.html

It has been an open secret in Washington that the State Department has been extremely sensitive to criticism of its actions regarding Saud Arabia and its princes. There has been an unusual amount of personnel turnover at the Saudi Arabian desk where officials showing the slightest tendency towards ethics and morality are either transferred or terminated to make an example to others. Why the State Department sensitivity? There are things going on in Saudi Arabia which are so embarrassing to Washington that if the United States citizenry knew, their worst fears about Washington would be corroborated. We will deal with one of these sensitivities in this issue, child abduction by Saudi princes. This is one of several issues we have been reluctant to publish because of the emotional ramifications to families of children who have been abducted around the world in general and the United States in particular. We had to balance what the Saud princes involved in these abductions would do upon publication. In considering publishing this article against the potential benefits of making known their actions, we chose the latter. The humanitarian action would be for the Saudi Arabian Government to return the sex slaves to their US families so they could receive hospitalization and rehabilitation. We believe this will be considered impractical because of the numbers as well as the legal and political ramifications.

We have seen time and time again US media reported scandals when slaves of Saudi princes and their associates brought into the United States try to escape. The State Department then intervenes on behalf of the Saudi princes with diplomatic or retroactive diplomatic immunity. We initially became aware of non-parental child abductions by Saudi princes when a US citizen enslaved and tortured by King Fahd's nephews was told by a guard in their palace prison the last person to inhabit his cell was a "US girl child whore slave". We soon found the extensive nature of the non-parental abductions of US children by Saudi princes and their procurers.
http://www.sauduction.com/12issue.html

A State Department reliable source has old us that the State Department exported a procedure by which child sex slaves could be used to blackmail foreign diplomats. Our issue #13 depicts the Sultan of Brunei’s sex slaves used to entertain dignitaries, including US. The State Department allows all Saud family princelings free passage under the “special relationship” rubric in and out of the US. This facilitates, among other amenities, abduction of US children. US child sex slaves are used by the Saud family to entertain foreign diplomats, including Washington dignitaries. There is said to be a library in Riyadh containing pictures of world elite in compromising positions with male and female child sex slaves. The Washington Post reports: “The boys are believed to have been 15 to 17 years old. As shocking as this may be, some say it’s routine. A former Bush economic adviser observes, ‘The Sex? That’s done all the time. If a foreign diplomat wants a companion, the State Department provides it. It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or woman. They have a special fund set up for that.” Another former NSC [National Security Council] official who requested anonymity says other countries also do it. “I was offered every sexual favor you can imagine. I turned it down all the time. After a while they left me alone and stopped offering me.’ ” F261 Herb Mallard says: “I have personally talked to two girls who had been given to Bandar within the US. One had difficulty rebuffing him in the presence of a prior president. It is well known in Washington Bandar requests blond blue eyed girls for sex.” The State Department usually supports the dignitaries at the expense of the US citizens by saying:: “We can neither confirm nor deny these matters.” What should parents do when the State Department recruits their children for sex with the likes of Ambassador Prince Bandar and his associates? Who do the grieving parents go to for criminal justice?
http://www.sauduction.com/32issue.htm

How would you like an unrestricted line of pregnant mothers from foreign countries arriving at your local hospital and birthing their babies in your maternity wards? What if those pregnant women arrived in the USA illegally and gave birth to 383,000 every year, decade after decade? How would you like it if your tax dollars paid for those births, subsequent schooling, welfare, food stamps, assisted housing and resulting jail sentences for crimes committed by their offspring?

Welcome to America's great give-away by your Bush and Congress!

In a blockbuster report, Dr. Steve Camarota, July, 2005, "Births to Immigrants in America, 1970-2002," shows nearly one-fourth of mothers in America are foreign-born and one in ten is an illegal alien.

Camarota found a whopping 42 percent of births to immigrants arrived from mothers that crossed our borders illegally with the single goal of becoming an 'anchor baby mother'. Once here, it's a free 18 year welfare ride for that mother and baby with kindest regard from your president and Congress out of US surplus-oops-I mean by adding more to our $7.5 trillion national debt. Oops-and another $200 billion for Iraq War and $200 billion more for New Orleans!
http://www.rense.com/general67/imm.htm

Middle Eastern people will never forget the colonial record of Britain or the Old Fox’s efforts to loot their natural wealth.

Hundreds of years ago, Britain began its cultural attack on the Middle East, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent in order to create divisions between nations and divide the world into small weak countries.
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=236756

the main city on Kefalonia

2005-10-01T15:32:00.000-07:00

Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

"We've had to move the international reserves from U.S. banks because of the threats," from the U.S., Chavez said during televised remarks from a South American summit in Brazil.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20050930&ID=5157487

Quietly last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 59-page document outlining new rules forcing broadband internet and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service providers to open up their systems to federal, state and local law enforcement officials.

In releasing the rules, the FCC opened up a 30-day public comment period. The regulations, which are planned for implementation in 2007, were decided upon in the beginning of August and made public Friday without a news release or other announcement
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N2870.ny/B1157483.2;sz=1x1;ord=2005.10.01.02.39.39?

The plea bargain struck by former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin – charged with five counts of handing over classified information to officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, who passed it on to Israeli diplomatic personnel – has delivered a body blow to the defense of the two remaining accused spies. Steve Rosen, who for 20 years was the chief lobbyist over at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and Keith Weissman, AIPAC's top foreign policy analyst, befriended Franklin and pumped him for top-secret information – including sensitive data about al-Qaeda, the Khobar Towers terrorist attack, Iran's weapons program, and attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Now they face the likely prospect of Franklin testifying to their treason in court
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7454

A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged.
Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050929-114710-8545r.htm

Like the British inundation of China with drugs in the nineteenth century, the British counterculture has succeeded in. subverting the fabric of the nation, even up to the top-most levels of government.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Aquarian_Conspiracy.htm

Success Story / Incident of the Month

Well, we had an Incident. On September 6, The Citizen in Laconia, New Hampshire, ran an article titled: “Liberty Dollar causes concern in the region.” Article is available at http://www.libertydollar.org/html/articles/%27Liberty%20Dollar%27%20causes%20concern%20in%20the%20region%20-%20Fosters.htm . And although it presented great visuals of the Liberty Dollar and mentioned several positive points, it was not the most flattering article. In fact, it started out with the Belknap County Sheriff Dan Collis saying that people had been “fooled” by the Liberty Dollar. The article went on to say that: “≤when the complaint about a particular Liberty $10 coin first reached Collis, he called the Secret Service — the federal agency responsible for investigating counterfeit money. The Secret Service is aware of the Liberty Dollar, Collis explained, but because the dollar does not replicate a Federal Reserve note, it is not illegal.”

So if it is not illegal, what’s the problem? Our heroic Regional Currency Office manned by Charles Hampe did his best in the article to counter the Sheriff’s misinterpretations of the Law. But the article ended with the Sheriff getting the last word: “Anyone who feels he has been tricked into accepting non-legal tender as payment for goods or services, Collis said, is encouraged to contact a local law enforcement agency.”

Then in an undated letter about a week later, Keith D. True (actual name) the Lieutenant/Prosecutor for the Police Department in Meredith, New Hampshire, issued a letter to all the merchants that said among other things: 1) “The coin has no value≤” 2) “≤ if a person tries to pass off ≤ coin≤ is committing the crime of Theft of Services.” 3) “If you encounter someone passing this coin, please contact the Meredith Police Department.”

Well, with such false information from Officer True, the Liberty Dollar’s Chief Counsel responded to True’s false letter and this Incident died a happy death. New Hampshire has now returned to “Live free [of police lies] or die.”

My compliments and thanks to our Chief Counsel and Charles Hampe’s well-maintained response to such action within his region where a lot more people now know about the Liberty Dollar thanks to The Citizen article. And our thanks go out to Mike La Mesa who brought the police letter to our attention. Of course, “denial” is the first step toward the truth. It is only by taking action that we will ever live free from the tyranny of fiat government money.

If you encounter an Incident or a Success Story, please send it to the Office. Very rarely does an Incident require a letter from our Chief Counsel. This Incident was an exception

One find there is particularly telling. In Book XIX of the “Odyssey,” the just-returned and still disguised Odysseus tells his wife (who may or may not realize who she’s talking to; Homer is deliberately ambivalent) that he encountered Odysseus many years earlier on the island of Crete. He describes in detail a gold brooch the king wore on that occasion.

A gold brooch meeting that precise description lies now in the archeological museum at Argostoli, the main city on Kefalonia, 30 miles across the island from Poros. Other gold jewelry and seals carved in precious stones excavated from the tomb offer further proof the grave outside Poros was used to bury kings.
http://maderatribune.1871dev.com/news/newsview.asp?c=167178

In Teheran, the Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed surprise

2005-09-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

A group of Turkish female activists confronted Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes on Wednesday with emotional and heated complaints about the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, turning a session designed to highlight the empowerment of women into a raw display of anger at U.S. policy in the region.

"This war is really, really bringing your positive efforts to the level of zero," said Hidayet Sefkatli Tuksal, an activist with the Capital City Women's Forum. She said it was difficult to talk about cooperation between women in the United States and Turkey as long as Iraq was under occupation.

Hughes, a longtime confidante of President Bush, has the job of burnishing the U.S. image overseas and has generally met with polite audiences -- many of which consisted of former exchange students or people who have received U.S. funding -- during a tour of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey this week.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5641165.html

The leader of the campaign to abolish the council tax, which has resulted in two elderly members being jailed for non-payment, said yesterday that "dozens" more pensioners were willing to go to prison for the cause.

In a warning to Tony Blair, Christine Melsom, 64, said the IsItFair? campaign was attracting new members by the hour and would continue to fight until the tax was replaced with a fairer system linked to ability to pay.

Christine Melsom: 'There is a lot of anger out there'

She said that Alfred Ridley, a 71-year-old retired vicar, and Sylvia Hardy, 73, a former social worker, would not be the last to be jailed and issued a warning that the grey vote revolt could cost Labour dear.

"In the end something will have to give," she said. "We cannot have jails full of elderly people. But we will fight until this tax is scrapped. We could have another poll tax situation on our hands.

"This is not just a pensioner issue; it affects everyone and anyone who thinks we are just a load of placard-waving pensioners should bear in mind that they may suffer next."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/29/nct29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/29/ixportal.html

Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four- to five-month-old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals.

Gen Varon said the foetuses were found alongside crucifixes and medals.

He said officials are trying to find out who sent the packages, which came from Barranquilla in Colombia and were destined for Miami in the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4293934.stm

Furthermore, Russia is ready to clear its 28-billion-dollar debt to the Paris Club, although the club members will have to make adequate decisions on the matter. There are several countries, for example, which have certain restrictions for Russia to clearing the entire debt; they want Russia to pay the debt strictly according to the schedule.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/358/16216_debt.html

The ships have a capacity of 7116 beds, at a cost of $US1275 a person a week. The cost of a Caribbean cruise from Texas is $US559 a week. "When the Federal Government would actually save millions of dollars by … sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight," said Senators Tom Coburn and Barack Obama.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/milliondollar-refugee-ships-lying-half-empty/2005/09/29/1127804608638.html?oneclick=true

A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that former Attorney General John Ashcroft, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other top government officials will have to answer questions under oath in a lawsuit that accuses them of personally conspiring to violate the rights of Muslim immigrants held in a federal detention center in Brooklyn after 9/11.

The officials had sought to have the lawsuit dismissed without testimony, arguing in part that they had governmental immunity from its claims, that the court lacked jurisdiction because they live outside New York State, and that the Sept. 11 attacks created "special factors" outweighing the plaintiffs' right to sue for damages for constitutional violations.

But the judge, John Gleeson, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, rejected those arguments, allowing the case to proceed - and opening the door to depositions of Mr. Ashcroft and the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, by lawyers for the two plaintiffs: Ehab Elmaghraby, an Egyptian immigrant who ran a restaurant in Times Square, and Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani immigrant whose Long Island customers knew him as "the cable guy."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/nyregion/29detain.html

Reuters has told the US government that American forces' conduct towards journalists in Iraq is "spiralling out of control" and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.

The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global managing editor, in a letter to Senator John Warner, head of the armed services committee
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1580244,00.html

The Labour Party was forced to make a humiliating apology to an 82-year-old party member last night after he was thrown out of the conference for heckling Jack Straw.

Walter Wolfgang, a party member for 57 years, was bundled out of the conference hall by stewards after shouting "nonsense" as Mr Straw, the Foreign Secretary, defended Britain's role in Iraq. He was later stopped under anti-terrorist powers as he tried to re-enter the hall.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article315804.ece

According to "Kyle" the Cremation of Care ceremony has altered only slightly since Alex caught it on video. There were some new effects and a different voice over for "care". Previously the voice had been reported as Walter Kronkite, yet "Kyle" reported that Kronkite, one of the "Hillbillies" along with the Bushes was there but was not in good health.

"Kyle" has managed to get around five hours of video and 50 photos in the Grove with the use of a pen camera. This footage will be included in a re-release of Alex's Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove. The first showing of this will be at the Downtown Alamo Drafthouse in Austin on the 9th of October, with a follow up the day after.
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/290905Grove.htm

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is threatening to make oceans too corrosive for marine organisms to grow protective shells, according to researchers.

If emissions continue unabated, the entire Southern Ocean, which stretches north from the Antarctic coastline, and subarctic regions of the Pacific Ocean will soon become so acidic that the shells of marine creatures will soften and dissolve making them easy targets for predators. Others will not be able to grow sufficient shells to survive.

The loss of shelled creatures at the lower end of the food chain could have disastrous consequences for larger marine animals. North pacific salmon, mackerel, herring, cod and baleen whales all feed on pteropods or sea butterflies, one of the species under imminent threat.
"These are extremely important in the food chain and what happens if they start to disappear is a great unknown," said Jim Orr, lead scientist on the study at the Laboratory for Science of the Climate and Environment in Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris.

Previous studies have suggested it would take centuries for emissions to acidify the oceans to such an extent, but the latest report, published today in the journal Nature, claims entire ecosystems will be threatened much sooner. "Within decades, there may be serious trouble brewing in these polar oceans," said Dr Orr. "Unlike climate predictions, the uncertainties here are small."
http://www.rense.com/general67/acc.htm

In Teheran, the Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed surprise on Tuesday at the manner in which India voted. He said: "Iran will revise these [economic] relations, and these countries [that voted against Teheran] will suffer. Our economic and political relations are coordinated with each other.
http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/28/stories/2005092813940100.htm

Alex's Dark Secrets

2005-09-29T19:21:00.000-07:00

It's total fraud

2005-09-28T19:32:00.000-07:00

The widely-held theory is that HIV originated in African primates in the African bush. Somehow the monkey or chimpanzee virus "jumped species" into black Africans to initiate the epidemic which has now killed 20 million people and infected 40 million more. How this sexually-transmitted virus came from black Africa to initially infect only young white gay men in Manhattan has never been explained satisfactorily. Furthermore, the epidemic in America erupted in the late 1970s, at a time when AIDS in Africa was unknown. The AIDS epidemic in Africa appeared in the autumn of 1982, at the earliest.
http://www.rense.com/general67/viru.htm

You get an F-minus in my book," said Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss.

Several times, Brown turned red in the face and slapped the table in front of him.

"So I guess you want me to be the superhero, to step in there and take everyone out of New Orleans," Brown said.

"What I wanted you to do is do your job and coordinate," Shays retorted.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/125/5638110.html

In his book "The Conspirator's Hierarchy," Dr. John Coleman named Chomsky as a deep cover CIA agent working to undermine social protest groups. Certainly Dr. Coleman's claims appear validated by an honest review of Chomsky's role as a Left gatekeeper.

Since 9-11, he has steadfastly refused to discuss the evidence of government complicity and prior knowledge. Furthermore, he claims that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Bilderberg Committee, and Trilateral Commission are "nothing organizations." When critiquing poverty, he never mentions the Federal Reserve and their role in manipulating the cycle of debt.

Similarly, he claims the CIA was never a rogue organization and is an innocent scapegoat; that JFK was killed by the lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; that the obvious vote fraud in 2004 did not occur; and that peak oil is real and good for humanity.

What he does advocate is population control, gun control, support for U.N.E.S.C.O., and the end of national sovereignty in favor of a one-world government under the UN. In other words, the major goals of the New World Order.
http://www.rense.com/general67/noam.htm

Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Despite the hate whipped up by administration propagandists against those it brands "terrorists," most Americans agree that torture should not be permitted. Few seem aware, though, that although President George W. Bush says he is against torture, he has openly declared that our military and other interrogators may engage in torture "consistent with military necessity."

For far too long, we have been acting like "obedient Germans." Shall we continue to avert our eyes – even as our mainstream media begin to expose the "routine" torture conducted by U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10410.htm

China's navy has commissioned the first in a new class of domestically designed and built warships, official media reported Tuesday
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/27/D8CSJTSG0.html

That left Myanmar, Cuba and North Korea as the only nations in the list of 14 barred completely from receiving certain kinds of foreign aid. The act does not include cutting off trade assistance or humanitarian aid, Jordan said.

The White House statement offered no explanation of why countries were regarded differently. Jordan also could not provide one.

As many as 800,000 people are bought and sold across national borders annually or lured to other countries with false promises of work or other benefits, according to the State Department. Most are women and children
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300921SaudiArabia.html

"It's a classic mission-creep situation," said Jim Harper, a privacy specialist with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "These guys are playing a great law and order game . . . and in the process creating a database that could be converted into something quite dangerous."

Typically, DNA is taken from suspects via a swab of saliva. A DNA "profile" -- or unique numeric signature -- is generated, which can be stored without including private genetic information
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/23/AR2005092301665.html

The growing RFID market, which commonly tracks goods in a supply chain and streamlines factories, is estimated to become a multibillion-dollar industry by 2010.

But corpses unlike commodities, call for dignity and respect.

Looks like the people who predicted it weren't "Internet conspiracy theorists" after all
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover092205.htm

The United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes. By our own elected officials — under the guidance and direction of unelected elites. Incredible? Certainly. But, unfortunately, true nonetheless.
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_582.shtml

In high school I had grown accustomed to math classes that featured clear, helpful instruction from teachers who liked to teach and excelled at teaching. At Smartypants U, the jewel in the crown of American academia, my math instructor was a twenty-something teaching assistant whose classroom style never deviated from the following pattern:

1)       Greet class.

2)       Ask if there were any questions about the previous evening's problem set.

3)       If so, work out the problem in question on the chalkboard, without further explanation.

4)       Repeat step 3) as needed.

5)       Announce the pages in the textbook from which the next problem set would be derived.

6)       Perform a sample problem from the new problem set.

7)       Ask if anyone has any questions.

8)       Give the problem set assignment.

9)       Dismiss the class.

Total elapsed time: never more than 25 minutes.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/092105B.html

The molecule – 9,10-dithioanthracene or “DTA” – has two linkers that act as feet. Obtaining its energy from heat supplied to it, the molecule moves such that only one of the linkers is lifted from the surface; the remaining linker guides the motion of the molecule and keeps it on course. Alternating the motions of its two “feet,” DTA is able to walk in a straight line without the assistance of nano-rails or nano-grooves for guidance.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050927081230.htm

Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are "living like cavemen."

In the hard-hit refinery towns of Port Arthur and Beaumont, crews struggled to cross debris-clogged streets to deliver generators and water to people stranded by Rita. They predicted it could be a month before power is restored, and said water and sewer systems could not function until more generators arrived.

Red tape was also blamed for the delays.

Port Arthur Mayor Oscar Ortiz, whose own home was destroyed by fire after the hurricane, said "we've had 101 promises" for aid, "but it's all bureaucracy." He and other officials gathered at a hotel-turned- command center, where a dirty American flag found among hurricane debris was hung on the wall.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/27/D8CSS7LG0.html

Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home. ‘It reminds me of the Nixon days,’ says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. ‘Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That’s the mood over there.’”
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7445.shtml

A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal.

Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away.

Such a drastic act of self-censorship is unprecedented in research publishing and has created widespread disquiet, generating fears that it may involve the suppression of scientific work that questions Biblical dogma.

'I have authored several hundred scientific papers, some for Nature and Science, and this has never happened to me before,' said the article's lead author, Spanish geneticist Professor Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, of Complutense University in Madrid. 'I am stunned.'
http://www.rense.com/general24/al.htm

Leaving aside the irony of a Jewish parliamentarian calling for the censorship of a book that didn't yet exist, it's worth remembering Danby is the member for Melbourne Ports, the electorate with the greatest numbers of Jews in Australia [Malcolm Turnbull's Wentworth is not far behind.] He sees his role as defender of the Israeli cause and he articulates what he believes his constituents want to hear.
http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein09272005.html

Nor is this all. Lest any crackpot thinks he can dance up and down any old high street praising Hitler, Mao or Uncle Joe as outside the 20-year limit, Clarke is preparing a list of earlier terrorist acts that also render their celebrants criminals. After "listed" historic buildings we have "listed" historic terrorisms. To the glorious chronicles of our island race, Clarke is to append an open-ended catalogue of listed events. They may include any acts of violence against people, property or, bizarrely, electronic systems anywhere in the world if intended to advance a political, religious or ideological cause or to influence a government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1576613,00.html

Hit by rising gasoline prices, a record percentage of credit-card accounts were delinquent in the second quarter, the American Bankers Association reported Wednesday.

The ABA found that the 4.81 percent of credit-card accounts had payments that were past due by 30 days or more between April and June. That's up from 4.76 percent in the first quarter, which was the previous record. The ABA started tracking delinquencies in 1973.

The ABA also noted an increase in delinquent payments on personal loans, auto loans, home equity loans and lines of credit.

A key reason for the increase: the strain of higher gas prices.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/28/pf/debt/delinquencies/index.htm?cnn=yes

It's total fraud', says Michael Westen, editor of Psychbusters (groups.msn.com/psychbusters), an online activist group that was set up in 2000 to 'decode Psychiatric propaganda'. 'This is not a disease and these are not "diagnostic criteria." These are subjective judgments aimed at coercing a person to follow rules of "proper conduct" made by others with power. The list could just as easily contain: fails to be white, often does not attend a Christian church, tends to be smaller, younger, and unable to do adult tasks.'
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Health/Is_Normal_Now_A_Mental_Illness__37581.html

The plants were sunflowers

2005-09-26T19:28:00.000-07:00

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html

Police and downtown officials have long suspected that law enforcement agencies from outside the city were using the downtown neighborhood as a dumping ground for homeless people. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Police Department ordered officers to stop out-of-area police cars they spotted dropping people off.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_re_us/homeless_dumping_2

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton the United States has "lost control" of its budget deficit, the French minister said on Saturday.

"'We have lost control' -- that was his expression," Breton told reporters after a bilateral meeting with Greenspan.

"The United States has lost control of their budget at a time when racking up deficits has been authorized without any control" from Congress, Breton said.
http://www.rense.com/general67/greens.htm

Haroon Aswat – the man British Police believe was behind the London bombings – was working for MI6, it has been confirmed by leading U.S. and French intelligence asset/agents.
http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/news.asp?id=-1677497717

Saudi prince takes News Corp stake
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article310838.ece

[SUSPECTS!]
LABOR has proposed unprecedented anti-terrorism laws which would allow police to lock down entire neighbourhoods and stop and search anyone without a warrant.

State and territory leaders are due to meet Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday to discuss tough new counter-terror measures, including allowing suspects to be electronically tagged for up to 12 months.
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16721912%255E1702,00.html

The US military told an al-Jazeera cameraman being held at Guantánamo Bay that he would be released as long as he agreed to spy on journalists at the Arabic news channel, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

The journalist has been in the prison without charge for three-and-a-half years after being accused by the US of being a terrorist, allegations he denies. He claims that he has been interrogated more than 100 times but not asked about alleged terrorist offences. Instead, Sami Muhyideen al-Hajj says US military personnel have alleged during interrogation that al-Jazeera has been infiltrated by al-Qaida and that one of its presenters is linked to Islamists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578134,00.html

There is one forum open to those who don't trade. For access to the rest, one must post original amateur nudity or porn, or graphic pics of wartime gore. It's all presented as entertainment, all of it lurid, and all of it, whether painful or pleasurable, profoundly intimate.

It might be best not to speculate about why there is such interest among the troops to document and to leer at images of intense feeling. The graphic details of sex, and of traumatic amputation, are not matters that healthy minds share with the wider world. Surely there is some pathology at work here.

And surely, the website will confirm the worst fears of more conservative, religious Iraqis about just what the Americans are bringing to their country.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/baghdad_smut_and_pain/

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

For some months now America Online has been
treating GATA e-mail dispatches from YahooGroups
as spam and not just diverting them to AOL spam
mail folders but blocking them altogether. Weeks
of my appealing to and hectoring AOL about this
accomplished nothing; no one there would take
any responsibility for fixing the problem.

So I began maintaining a second e-mail dispatch
list for GATA supporters with AOL addresses
and have been sending GATA dispatches to them
from my own AOL address, bypassing the banned
Yahoo address. These e-mails seem to have been
delivered OK -- as long as they did not include
YahooGroups Internet links, which seem to have
been the trigger for AOL's e-mail blocking.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=79182

Bel Aire officials probably will never look at sunflowers the same way again.

On Friday, Bel Aire Mayor Brian Withrow hired a consultant to look into a case in which police searched the home of a former four-term mayor looking for marijuana.

Police had seen plants in the backyard of Harold and Carolyn Smith's home and thought them to be pot. They took pictures.

They showed the pictures to an assistant district attorney. He also thought the plants were marijuana. So did the Sedgwick County district court judge who signed a search warrant.

When police went to the Smith house on Sept. 6 and examined the plants more closely, they realized their mistake.

The plants were sunflowers -- Maximilian sunflowers, specifically, grown from seeds the Smiths' son, a wildlife biologist, had given them
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/crime_courts/12667830.htm

The case concerns a 2001 state law

2005-09-25T16:53:00.000-07:00

The soldier said anything short of death was acceptable. "As long as no PUCs came up dead, it happened," he said. "We kept it to broken arms and legs."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-23-army-abuse-investigation_x.htm?csp=24

His widow, Maureen, who believes that the anthrax came from a government biodefence laboratory in Maryland, spoke yesterday of her anger and frustration at the failure of the FBI to make an arrest in the case. She is suing the Government for $30 million (nearly £17 million), alleging that security lapses at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick led to her husband’s death. Much of her case is aimed at getting leading bioterrorism experts to testify in court.

“There’s nothing coming out — it’s just amazing,” Mrs Stevens said. “I’ve had one meeting with the FBI. I have had little communication with them. I would have thought they wanted to talk more.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1795336,00.html

Faced with this grim reality, the Dutch have decided to rethink their time-honoured methods of defence and come up with more innovative ways to live with the threat. Building houses that float is part of the plan: instead of holding back the water, the Dutch have decided to live on it.
http://www.escapeartist.com/OREQ14/Architects_Of_The_Floating_World.html

Members of Scientology are induced to confess to acts that, if not outright criminal, are embarrassing or possibly destructive to the person's job, marriage or profession, for example, shoplifting, adultery, masturbation, or drug abuse. The member is urged to write these down in their own handwriting, under the guise that it is a "religious confessional" for the member's good. The truth is that these "confessions" are kept to blackmail and extort the member should they dare to speak out. The member is also coerced to sign documents that are self-damaging while protecting the organization, solely in case the member dares to leave their control and speak the truth. I know because I watched this done to others, I did it to others and it was done to me.
...
In late 1991, my wife Monika became pregnant and although we were elated, she was ordered to abort the child. The reason for the abortion order is that Sea Org members were not allowed to have children. The order devastated both my wife and me. Our dedication as Sea Org members clashed violently with our intentions as parents and we went through a personal nightmare with me opposing it, to no avail. She got the abortion and afterwards she was not the same. She was devastated at the impact of what she did and that was when she told me she wanted to leave. We fled, with the organization close behind us, trying to find us. They finally did and convinced us to return so we could "leave properly."
http://www.clambake.org/archive/so/1stprince.html

He was by this time an old man with one foot in the grave, so utterly
ignorant of letters, that one may say that he did not know the
alphabet--a thing which had never happened before amongst the Romans.
It had been customary for the Emperor to sign the decrees which were
issued by him with his own hand, whereas he neither made decrees, nor
was capable of conducting affairs; but Proclus, who acted as his
quaestor and colleague, arranged everything at his own pleasure.
However, in order that the Emperor's signature might appear in public
documents, his officers invented the following device. They had the
shapes of four Latin letters cut in a thin piece of wood, and then,
having dipped the pen in the imperial ink used by the Emperors in
writing, they put it in the Emperor's hand, and laying the piece of
wood on the paper to be signed, they guided the Emperor's hand and pen
round the outline of the four letters, making it follow all the
convolutions cut in the wood, and then retired with the result as the
Emperor's signature. This was how the affairs of the Empire were
managed under Justin. His wife was named Lupicina; she was a slave and
a barbarian, whom he had bought for his mistress, and at the close of
his life she ascended the throne with him. Justin was not strong
enough to do his subjects either good or harm; he was utterly simple,
a very poor speaker, and a complete boor.
-Procopius

Food for Katrina victims given by England, Italy, Spain, Israel to be incinerated instead of eaten
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509260919MREs.html

After being turned around a number of times, they realized the only way they would get through was to break in.The couple says they ended up at Ochsner Hospital.

From there, it was the city's survivors who pointed them in the right direction.For LeBlanc, going home was the hardest.She says it was dark and people were screaming for help and they couldn't help them.

Because the state decided to turn volunteer rescue boats around when they showed up to help, Bienvenu blames the federal and state government for the lives lost.

Despite the obstacles, he and LeBlanc brought 797 displaced residents to safety.

Bienvenu owns 10 air boats and has 30 on stand-by.
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230912airboats.html

The case concerns a 2001 state law, which is among the nation's most worker friendly. Employees who work at least six hours must have a 30-minute, unpaid lunch break. If they do not get that, the law requires they are paid for an additional hour of pay.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169847,00.html

Now it is the Christians' turn

2005-09-24T16:48:00.000-07:00

If you want to see the true face of war, go to the amateur porn Web site NowThatsFuckedUp.com. For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, and sending them to Web site administrator Chris Wilson. In return for letting him post these images, Wilson gives the soldiers free access to his site. American soldiers have been using the pictures of disfigured Iraqi corpses as currency to buy pornography.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html

The new law ''may lead to the reckless use of guns on the streets of Florida cities,'' the one-page flier reads. The ads will warn that after Oct. 1, visitors ''face a greater risk of bodily harm in Florida,'' said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Washington-based advocacy group.

The fliers urge tourists to take precautions, such as: ''Do not argue unnecessarily with local people,'' and ''keep your hands in plain sight'' if you are involved in a traffic accident or a near-miss.

THE LAW

Under the law, which was passed at the urging of the National Rifle Association, Floridians may use deadly force against an attacker, even if they could have fled, and requires prosecutors to presume that they acted in self-defense.

''We are not trying to scare people, the Florida Legislature scared people,'' Hamm said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/12717771.htm

The US and the Iraqi government have overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, "feeding the myth" that they are the backbone of the insurgency, an American thinktank says in a new report.

Foreign militants - mainly from Algeria, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - account for less than 10% of the estimated 30,000 insurgents, according to the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1576666,00.html

"One person thought this fire ball went into the ocean," Larimer said. "The Coast Guard said it probably didn't and it was just his perspective. We know it was not a rocket launch and we know the Air Force was not doing anything."

Experts said it could be a piece of space junk or a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
http://www.local6.com/news/5000311/detail.html

While the world is a very different place 18 years later, gold's recent spike suggests a return to that level is inevitable.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=moreover&guid={EFF969AB-3D8C-41E6-8086-632F85AA740A

The United States District Court for the Eastern District in Louisiana today sided with the National Rifle Association (NRA) and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable and law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

"This is a significant victory for freedom and for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The court's ruling is instant relief for the victims who now have an effective means of defending themselves from the robbers and rapists that seek to further exploit the remnants of their shattered lives," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
http://www.rense.com/general67/guncon.htm

A new, highly contagious and sometimes deadly canine flu is spreading in kennels and at dog tracks around the country, veterinarians said yesterday. The virus, which scientists say mutated from an influenza strain that affects horses, has killed racing greyhounds in 7 states and has been found in shelters and pet shops in many places, including the New York suburbs, though the extent of its spread is unknown. How many dogs die from the virus is unclear, but scientists said the fatality rate is more than 1 per cent and could be as high as 10 per cent among puppies and older dogs.
http://www.rense.com/general67/deadly.htm

Cyte says: First they criminalized verses of the Koran as anti-semitic. They called those who recite them terrorists. Then, they bombed two countries based on lies about what Muslims believe and what they do.

Now it is the Christians' turn. Verses from the New Testament are being criminalized and Christians who recite them are being targeted as criminals.

According to the taxi driver, the main reason why Aristides

2005-09-23T19:18:00.000-07:00

A member of the Jewish Defense League was sentenced today to 20 years for his role in a plot to blow up a Los Angeles-area mosque, the office of an Arab-American congressman, and the office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

Earl Krugel and the militant group's leader, Irv Rubin, were charged in December 2001 with conspiring in the bomb plot. Rubin died a year later from injuries suffered in what authorities said was a jailhouse suicide attempt.
http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:2785.130749953

New Orleans- The badly mangled bodies of three FEMA workers were discovered two days ago, hanging from a tree inside the courtyard of a French Quarter apartment. The bodies, found by U.S. Military Police units engaged in searching for survivors, bore crudely written placards that read, “FEMA THIEF-DIE,” “RACIST PIG,” and “FEMA LOOTER BITCH.”

The bodies were, in the words of an Army officer, “shockingly mutilated’ and one of the victims had their tongue torn out while another had both hands cut off.

They were identified by plastic name tags as: Martine Smallworth, 38, of Clearwater, Florida, LeRoy Dufarge, 45, also of Clearwater, and Janu Radzek, 29, from Coral Gables, Florida.

Found with the badly decomposing and mutilated bodies were expensive leather luggage, apparently looted from Saks Fifth Avenue’s New Orleans store and containing very expensive women’s clothing, jewelry, several boxes of Davidoff cigars, three Rolex watches and nearly $3 thousand in small bills.

A so-called manifesto was also found, tied to the feet of one of the victims that called for violence against President Bush and the former head of FEMA, Brown.

Because of what was termed its “inflammatory nature” of this document, its contents were not released .

Apartment house residents claimed that they had “heard and seen nothing” although it appeared that the three had been killed where they were found.

There are growing rumors in military and civilian circles here that FEMA personnel have been involved in shipping large amounts of emergency food rations, allegedly for resale, out of the area in official trucks at the height of the recovery efforts.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3604

Avnon reported that fair officials approached his booth on Friday, the last day of the four-day exhibition, and shut him down.

"They were flanked by huge bodyguards and told us in no uncertain terms that if we didn't leave they would tear down our booth and toss us out," said Avnon. "'Better get yourselves a lawyer because you are going to jail,'" Avnon quoted one of the organizers.

Avnon said he was aware of the ban on the items considered to be – wrongly in his eyes – weapons of torture.

"On page three of our catalogue were photos of these 'awful weapons of torture,' leg cuffs," Avnon said.

He was convinced that the singling out of Israeli firms came from the same anti-Israeli motivations that led to the harassment of retired IDF officers
http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1560

Shaha Ali Riza, lately in the news as World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's Saudi-born girlfriend, has been assigned to the U.S. State Department. The move, which has not been announced by either huge agency controlled by the Bush regime, means that she'll be working with Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney, a top official in the key Near East Affairs bureau.

That's the word from one of my moles in the World Bank. This significant assignment — a hardened link between the money of the World Bank, which is supposed to focus on poverty, and the neocons' aims of trying to salvage their privatization plans for Iraq — has not be reported anywhere else, to my knowledge, and I see no word of it on the World Bank website either.
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/001865.php

[This is essentially the same argument that Sun Yat-Sen made way back around the end of WWI]
The China Retirement Fund
http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/TRW/WTRWF909/

Britain's top police officer was accused last night of paving the way for "Judge Dredd law" by proposing that officers should be allowed to by-pass the courts and confiscate driving licences, seize vehicles and issue anti-social behaviour orders on the spot.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said "modernisation" of the force should be carried forward by introducing "an escalator of powers" for the dispensing of instant justice.

"One idea is to have some police officers - paid more and with more powers - to impose an interim anti-social behaviour order, for instance, or suspend a driving licence," he said. This would have an immediate effect rather than waiting for intervention by the courts, Sir Ian suggested.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/220905judgedredd.htm

The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta on behalf of two vegan protesters who were subjected to imprisonment, arrest and harassment by Homeland Security officials, RAW STORY has learned.

The lawsuit stems from a Dec. 2003 incident, when vegans Caitlin Childs and Christopher Freeman were protesting on public property outside a Honey Baked Ham store in Georgia's DeKalb County
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/ACLU_sues_Homeland_Security_for_arresting_spying_on_vegans_who_protested_0922.html

http://www.mib.com/html/security_alert_desktop.html

"If you take a step back and look at the entire array of Chinese weapons, the Kilos, the Songs, the Yuans, the ballistic missiles, this [maneuverable warhead] capability, more surface ships with anti-ship cruise missiles, these are all things that are going to give you capability to deal with any kind of naval force that comes toward you."

The China Reform Monitor recently ran a report saying, "Experts are warning that China is outpacing the United States in the development of attack submarines and could have as much as a three-to-one advantage over the United States by 2025."
http://www.rense.com/general67/few.htm

Apart from giving us details as to the present US-style military/police state in which Haitians are living today (under the auspices of a "western"-backed dictator) and apart from the figures he gave us as to the number of assassinations at the hands of the present pseudo-government, he spoke of the reasons why Aristides was kidnapped and forced out of power.

•

He also spoke of some elements which I will not discuss here ... for such elements will become evident in the near to mid future and need to be kept secret in order for the upcoming rebellion in Haiti to be successful.

According to the taxi driver, the main reason why Aristides was forced out of power was because Aristides had taken the first steps toward what might have eventually led to a mass world uprising against all colonialists: the British, the French, the "Americans," the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the Dutch, the Belgians, etc. What Aristides had apparently begun would have led to a mass uprising against those countries which had invaded foreign lands, assassinated Natives, forced Blacks into slavery and which had stolen land and resources from the Natives.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46099

This bit of history illustrates the fact that fluorides are dangerous

2005-09-22T19:38:00.000-07:00

The draft Mental Health Bill proposes allowing patients to be made to take medication and detained if necessary. The King's Fund study said that in 15 years as many as 13,000 could be placed under such orders, rather than the Government's 1450 figure. But the Government said the "flawed" study produced incorrect estimates. The bill was first introduced in 2002.
http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=1965982005

But the outrage apparently doesn't end with spoiled food. Former KBR employees and water quality specialists, Ben Carter and Ken May, told HalliburtonWatch that KBR knowingly exposes troops and civilians to contaminated water from Iraq's Euphrates River. One internal KBR email provided to HalliburtonWatch says that, for "possibly a year," the level of contamination at one camp was two times the normal level for untreated water.

"I discovered the water being delivered from the Euphrates for the military was not being treated properly and thousands were being exposed daily to numerous pathogenic organisms," Carter informed HalliburtonWatch.

Carter worked at Camp Ar Ramadi, located 70 miles west of Baghdad in the notoriously violent Sunni Triangle, but he says water contamination problems exist throughout Iraq's military camps. He helped manage KBR's Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit (ROWPU), which is a water treatment system designed to produce potable (drinkable) water from a variety of raw water sources such as lakes, lagoons and rivers. ROWPU is supposed to provide the troops with clean water from Iraq's Euphrates River.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/contamination.html

Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, and dental uses like toothpaste and rinses, is not safe for vulnerable populations, particularly young children.

The challenge was directed at the maximum legal limits for the fluoride-based pesticide in foods, which have been set at levels that dwarf the amount allowed in tap water. In just one case, the EPA is allowing 900 parts per million of fluoride in dried eggs, as opposed to the maximum 4 ppm allowed in tap water. One third of the nation’s eggs are sold and consumed in dried, reconstituted form.
http://www.ems.org/nws/2005/09/21/environmental_gr

"Despite numerous court orders to preserve records related to the individual Indian Trust, the Secretary and the Interior Department continue to destroy irreplaceable trust documents three blocks from the federal courthouse where they were held in contempt for destroying trust records. Unless -- and until -- Norton is thrown in jail, she will continue to destroy trust documents in order to undermine this 10-year-old litigation," he said. “When a sitting cabinet level official feels that they can destroy protected trust records 60 yards from where the Constitution is displayed, we have a government that is out of control.”
http://www.indiantrust.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.ViewDetail&PressRelease_id=143&Month=9&Year=2005

Another revelation details how Blair himself always keeps a gray velvet pouch in his breast pocket. It contains a small piece of red ribbon and a piece of rolled up paper. Even his closest advisors do not know its significance, but he cannot operate without it.
http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/210905Blair_revelations.htm

EHRLICHMAN: It's fatal liberality. And with its use on television, it has such leverage.

NIXON: You know what's happened [in northern California]?

EHRLICHMAN: San Francisco has just gone clear over.

NIXON: But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time--it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

Decorators. They got to do something. But we don't have to glorify it. You know one of the reasons fashions have made women look so terrible is because the goddamned designers hate women. Designers taking it out on the women. Now they're trying to get some more sexy things coming on again.

EHRLICHMAN: Hot pants.

NIXON: Jesus Christ.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/032604nixontape.html

Translation: Senator Shelby has sold out America in the name of special interests, and sold out the small investors to the hedge funds and their multi-millionaire clients. According to a trader who has been in the business for over 20 years, "the issue of naked short selling, or to put it more bluntly, 'stock counterfeiting', affects nearly every person who has ever bought or sold stock or invested in mutual funds. This scandal has cost investors and companies trillions of dollars, cost our country billions in tax revenues, and the money stolen from investors has even found its way into the hands of organized crime and terrorist organizations.
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1038.html

A small amount of slightly radioactive water has leaked from a container at the Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant in Westchester County, officials said yesterday.

Spokesmen for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for Entergy Nuclear Northeast, owner of the Westchester County plant, said the water was found several feet underground and posed no danger.

But Indian Point's critics said the leak was another indication that the plant should be closed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/348357p-297303c.html

The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush's top procurement official -- who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.

The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry swirling around Abramoff, a lobbyist well known for his connections to conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/20/BL2005092000753_pf.html

Katrina damage was focused on offshore oil platforms and ports. Now the greater risk is to oil-refinery capacity, especially if Rita slams into Houston, Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas.

"We could be looking at gasoline lines and $4 gas, maybe even $5 gas, if this thing does the worst it could do," said energy analyst Peter Beutel of Cameron Hanover. "This storm is in the wrong place. And it's absolutely at the wrong time," said Beutel
http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/21/news/economy/rita_threat/index.htm

One way or the other, if we maintain this unrestricted immigration path, we will manifest what immigrants from the Third World flee. Would you call China, India, Japan or Bangladesh racists, xenophobic or other names because they don't allow immigration? Why don't they? Too many people already!

"The modern plague of overpopulation is solvable by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not the sufficient knowledge of the solution, but the universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem for billions of people who are its victims." Dr. Martin Luther King
http://www.rense.com/general67/settingthestage2.htm

“As a Hemispheric neighbor and business partner, we are pleased that we are able to provide immediate relief by increasing gasoline supplies available in the United States in the aftermath of this devastating natural disaster,” said Venezuela’s Ambassador to the United States, Bernardo Alvarez Herrera. “We're sending additional barrels of gasoline that otherwise would have gone elsewhere, and we will continue to do whatever we can to help alleviate energy shortages and the dislocations faced by the people of the United States as a result of Hurricane Katrina.”
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46084

If you are foolish enough to volunteer for Special Forces, then you will be trained to kill, up close, without compunction, without hesitation, and on cue. You will also be subjected to covert mind control technologies which will affect you for the remainder of your life. They do not tell you, nor do they ask you for your permission to be programmed. You gave them permission when you "volunteered". The programming is done electronically. Sometimes drugs are also involved to put you under programming. They can take you while you are sleeping, program you, and put you back in bed and you won't know a thing about it.
http://www.rense.com/general67/mans.htm

This was the basis of the research in the 1930s of May, Litzka, Gorlitzer von Mundy, who used fluoride preparations to treat over-active thyroid illness. Their patients either drank fluoridated water, swallowed fluoride pills or were bathed in fluoridated bath water; and their thyroid function was as a result, greatly depressed. The use in 1937 of fluorotyrosine for this purpose showed how effective this treatment was; but the effectiveness was difficult to predict and many patients suffered total thyroid loss. So it was given a new role and received a new name, Pardinon. It was marketed not for over-active thyroid disease but as a pesticide. (Note the manufacturer of fluorotyrosine was IG Farben who also made sarin, a gas used in World War II).

This bit of history illustrates the fact that fluorides are dangerous in general and in particular highly damaging to the thyroid gland, a matter to which I shall return shortly. While it is unlikely that it will be disputed that fluorides are toxic - let us be reminded that they are Schedule 2 Poisons under the Poisons Act 1972, the matter in dispute is the level of toxicity attributable to given amounts; in today's context the degree of damage caused by given concentrations in the water supply. While admitting its toxicity, proponents rely on the fact that it is diluted and therefore, it is claimed, unlikely to have deleterious effects.
http://www.rense.com/general67/theeffectsoffluoride.htm

Canada it is a "hate crime"

2005-09-20T19:51:00.000-07:00

[Are these those foreign terrorists at work iaq stirring up trouble?]
Angry crowds attacked a British tank with petrol bombs and rocks in Basra on Monday after Iraqi authorities detained two British undercover soldiers in the southern city for firing on police
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-19T164541Z_01_YUE946529_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-BRITONS.xml

As in Desert Storm and the March 2003 attack, it must be expected that the US-UK bombers will prefer to go into action during the dark of the moon, when planes are harder to locate. The new moons of the last quarter of 2005 are as follows:

October 3
November 2
December 1

Everything points to one of these new moons as the period of maximum danger of a US-UK sneak attack on Iran. Working backward, we can assume that the new 9/11 provocation that must furnish the pretext for this attack will have to take place several days to two weeks earlier, in order to orchestrate public opinion and complete last-minute military preparations. We have therefore already entered the danger zone for spectacular terrorist events staged by the rogue network infesting the key departments and agencies of the US government. It is time for a political mobilization to stop these events from happening.
http://www.rense.com/general67/jharvest.htm

These people are scary, but Horowitz's behavior has been particularly reprehensible. Unlike Calderon, he has not apologized for publishing the death threat. Worse yet, to date he has so far failed to publicly defend one of his own writers from serious charges. Calderon may be fired from his job and suffer a significant financial and career setback as a result of remarks posted on Horowitz's own Web site, and presumably authorized by Horowitz himself or one of his employees. Horowitz, however, takes no responsibility, offers no apology, and goes about his business of smearing the antiwar movement and anyone who opposes the Regime as if nothing is amiss. On this matter we get from him something we don't often get to enjoy: complete silence. A true rarity, to be sure. But how long can it last?
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7312

When I asked Doc Marquis what his sentiments were, back when he was a member of the Illuminati and given a tour of this killing facility, his reply was, "SHEER JOY! I REJOICED at the thought of CHRISTIANS BEING TERMINATED IN THIS PLACE!"
http://www.rinf.com/news/sep-2005/49.html

2,000 kids
still missing
Hurricane death toll jumps to 816, with 6,000 adults unaccounted for

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46385

One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.

The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country shattered by the US-led invasion and prolonged rebellion, was instead siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313538.ece

Tom Flocco Officially Discredited

Do you ever wonder why “conspiracy theorists” and other Internet news services aren’t taken seriously? It’s because of sensationalistic horse’s asses like Tom Flocco, who has yet again put-out completely unsubstantiated information, this time in regard to perjury and obstruction of justice indictments being issued to George Bush, Dick Cheney, Andrew Card, Scooter Libby, John Ashcroft, Mary Matalin, and Alberto Gonzalez. Remarkably, not one other news source in the entire world has come forth with this same information, either in the mainstream or the alternative media - only Tom Flocco. Worse, Flocco has a history of releasing similar news reports, and likewise creating hysterias with absolutely no proof to back them up. The latest example was when he (and others of his ilk) said gay GOP plant Jeff Gannon was actually Johnny Gosch, who was kidnapped when he was nine years old. Of course there hasn’t been a single stitch of actual evidence to support these claims, but from their perspective, why should that bother us? Isn’t conjecture good enough? So, Flocco poisoned the Internet with this crap, appeared on numerous radio talk shows, and essentially duped a wide array of people with this wild goose chase; and he’s been pulling similar stunts for years.

But the problem with this type of “cowboy journalism” extends much deeper than to stooges like Tom Flocco. What really disturbs us at WING TV is how many knee-jerk idiotic trained-monkey fools ran with this obviously absurd 'indictment story' and posted it across the Internet and on message boards. They did this, of course, with no corroborating evidence, no sourcing, and no verification. They simply spread the lies like wildfire; and thus, in effect, discredited the entire alternative media in the process. This, regrettably, is what they call disinformation. So, all I can say to everyone who took part in this nonsense is: you should be ashamed of yourselves. By falling hook-line-and-sinker for this ruse, you made us all look bad --- so STOP IT!
http://www.wingtv.net/thornarticles/flocco.html

Iraqis have accused British special forces of planning a terrorist attack on Basra.

Sheikh Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesperson for rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, told Socialist Worker that the two undercover soldiers seized by Iraqi police last Monday were armed with explosives and a remote control detonator.

The soldiers were disguised as members of Sadr’s militia, the Mehdi Army. The arrests sparked protests after British troops backed by tanks attempted to free the soldiers from an Iraqi police station.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7426

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised illegal campaign funds during his just-completed trip to New York, Channel Ten reported Monday.

Sharon returned home Monday afternoon, and Channel 10 quoted his office as saying that the prime minister was not aware of the fund-raising.

Sharon was in New York to attend the annual General Assembly session
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/626708.html

To be sure, international finance economists also see US exports benefiting as the value of the dollar declines, but the lags in demand are such that the export boost will come a year or two after the decline in consumption and investment spending. Eight million to 10 million people will have to shift employment from services and construction into exports and import-competing goods, implying that structural unemployment will rise.

Moreover, there may be a financial panic: Large financial institutions with short-term liabilities and long-term assets will have a difficult time weathering a large rise in long-term dollar-denominated interest rates. This mismatch can cause financial stress and bankruptcy just as easily as banks' local-currency assets and dollar liabilities caused stress and bankruptcy in the Mexican and East Asian crises of the 1990s and in the Argentinean crisis of this decade.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/09/20/2003272448

From 1945 to the early years of the 21st century, the US attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist movements fighting against insufferable regimes. In the process, they bombed about 25 countries, killed several million people, and condemned many millions more to lives of agony, poverty and despair. Oh yes, and they’re presently sabre-rattling against Iran and, maybe, North Korea. [Forgive me if I’ve forgotten any military excursion here; it’s hard to keep track. And I do concede that Korea and Iraq (1991) were different because they occurred under the aegis of the United Nations; but my that does not deflect from my point that this a bellicose group.
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050918204323413

A scathing report by Inspector General John Helgerson criticized the former CIA director and a score of other agency personnel for their failure to develop a strategy against al Qaeda. The report, delivered to Congress this week, recommends punitive sanctions for Mr. Tenet, former Deputy Director of Operations James L. Pavitt and former counter-terrorist center head J. Cofer Black. Mr. Tenet's response to the report is a 20-page, tightly knitted rebuttal of responsibility prepared with the aid of a lawyer, according to the friendly source.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050831-091719-1217r.htm

And in 1982, Oded Yinon, an official from the Israeli Foreign Affairs office, wrote: "To dissolve Iraq is even more important for us than dissolving Syria. In the short term, it's Iraqi power that constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. The Iran-Iraq war tore Iraq apart and provoked its downfall. All manner of inter-Arab conflict help us and accelerate our goal of breaking up Iraq into small, diverse pieces."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/200905stagedterror.htm

The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the troubled law enforcement agency that handles those issues, prompting sharp criticism from some employee groups, immigration advocates and homeland security experts.

The push to appoint Julie Myers to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, comes in the midst of intense debate over the qualifications of department political appointees involved in the sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina
...
Her uncle is Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the departing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She married Chertoff's current chief of staff, John F. Wood, on Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901930.html

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies."

Coleman couldn't get out of the hearing room quick enough. The senator had met more than his match, and he quickly changed topics.

For his part, Galloway was stunned by Coleman's lack of preparation for the confrontation.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0919-21.htm

An email sent by Safavian appears to indicate that the powerful Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) lied when he said he was "duped" by Abramoff and lied again on financial disclosure forms when he said that a nonprofit had paid for the trip, RAW STORY has found
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Email_from_arrested_White_House_official_suggests_powerful_congressman_lied_about_0920.html

Gesell squired Atta around Venice and Sarasota in his cab on a number of occasions. What raises suspicions that he may have been working for more than just tips is this: after starting his new job on the day of Atta’s return, Gesell quit a month later, just one day after Atta left town for the last time.

If Gessell is shown to have taken part in unacknowledged U.S. military surveillance of Atta continuing until just before the attack, it would not be uncharacteristic...
http://www.madcowprod.com/

Could this be the future of the rightwing cabal that has dominated talk radio for the past 10 years? The two media phenomena share generally the same audience of Americans who lack the skills or intelligence to think for themselves. And, similarly, the rightwing talker’s leadership is dominated by scandal-prone hypocrites who project an aura of moral rectitude while, in fact, they are beset with human foibles and failures just like everyone else.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/09/19/jay-severin-rightwing-radios-scandal-figure-du-jour/

Delegates at an international conference on women and Islam have heard a strong condemnation of female genital mutilation - the practice known as female circumcision.

The controversial topic was not part of the official agenda, but came up in discussions on domestic violence.

200 women are attending the conference

The organisers say the practice is not recommended in the Koran, and has too often been mistaken by people in the West as an Islamic custom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1851930.stm

This federal legislation, orchestrated by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith will lead to creation of a vast anti-hate bureaucracy in America, similar to what now exists in Canada. In Canada it is a "hate crime" to publicly criticize such federally protected groups as homosexuals and Jews. In Canada free speech talk radio no longer exists. It is even illegal now in some areas to evangelize or "proselytize" in public.

HR2662, S1145, while ostensibly punishing only violent hate crimes, nevertheless creates an anti-hate bureaucracy through several means:
http://www.rense.com/general67/speech.htm

NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING

2005-09-19T18:32:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting map, below, of the home towns of Iraqi War fatalities.

http://icasualties.org/oif/images/US_City.jpg

The war is not being fought by those usually lumped in together when thinking of American soldiers. Not by farm boys from Kansas or Iowa. Nor by poor boys from the Mississippi delta or from the hillbilly sections of the South. Or if it is, these types of soldiers tend to die less often than those soldiers from America's major urban regions.

Note the clusters. Boston to Northern VA (urban Mass, BTW; not western Mass); Pittsburgh to Detroit; Chicago to Milwaukee; urban centers in the Midwest & Rockies; LA-SF-Seattle. A few Interstate highway corridors. Interesting how the ‘South’ in general has a very dispersed arrangements of home towns. So it is not the Confederate Army, any more. And these are not just the Blue States, but also the Blue Counties in the Blue States
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Featured/BK95.html

New Mexico's state treasurer and his predecessor were charged Friday with racketeering, accused of steering state business to investment advisers in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050917/ap_on_re_us/new_mexico_treasurer_2

The mini-mart, long ago cleaned out by looters, was nonetheless bathed in light, including the empty, roped-off gas pumps. The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it... jump to certain conclusions.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/170905power.htm

That's inventive, anyway. But then, there's long been an aura of self-invention about Severin.

The young man known at Vassar as Jimmy Severino is now Jay Severin III. The former B-grade political consultant would have his listeners believe he was once a top-level national strategist.

So what can we conclude from this intriguing episode? Well, journalistic standards aren't the only thing in decline.

These days, Pulitzer Prize winners just aren't what they used to be, either.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/09/16/severins_phony_pulitzer/

FEMA bureaucrats yesterday infuriated exhausted Hurricane Katrina responders and lawmakers with yet another blunder.

Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders ordered officials in the agency's Preparedness Division to stop all Katrina relief efforts and begin a long-planned move from agency headquarters to new offices in Virginia by Monday.

"They're no longer focused on the gigantic Katrina job and are putting their files into boxes instead," said one outraged FEMA insider. "This is simply incredible considering that the entire staff has been an integral part of the response effort."

Taking staff off hurricane duty is "disruptive when we need every single soul here to work on Katrina," the source said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/347200p-296252c.html

[I wonder what Mr. Israel’s religious background is.]
Mr. Marino's narrative starts on the last trading day of December 1998, more than three years after Bayou was founded by Samuel Israel III, a scion of a commodity-trading family that is well known to Wall Street. On that final day of a tumultuous year in the markets - three months earlier, another hedge fund known as Long-Term Capital Management had nearly collapsed, causing widespread disruption in the financial world - Mr. Israel called two of his colleagues into a conference room.

All three men knew the situation was dire at Bayou - the funds' losses had vastly overwhelmed their gains for more than two years. Something had to be done, and fast.

The solution, devised by Mr. Israel and a lieutenant, James Marquez, was simple: produce a fake audit of the funds' performance and try to make up the losses next year.
...
And while Mr. Israel came off as a spirited, affable prankster to outsiders, to close associates he could be demeaning and threatening, even to the point of wielding a gun at Mr. Marino in 2002 when he refused to follow Mr. Israel's orders, according to Mr. Marino's letter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/business/17bayou.html?hp&ex=1127016000&en=6433c6fde82413a1&ei=5094&partner=AOL

Some people say that racial profiling will make terrorism a self-fulfilling prophecy, or that it’s somehow unfair to designate certain individuals as being more likely to commit an act of terror than another.

They’re wrong.

If 19 blond-haired, blue-eyed, Caucasian Jews had plowed into the World Trade Center with two jumbo jets, I would demand to be interrogated every time I browsed Cheapflights.com.
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/13/4326450119685?in_archive=1

The Phony (Mossad)
Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING
BY JIM WILSON
Published on: September 11, 2001
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html

Louisiana State Police

2005-09-17T16:02:00.000-07:00

"We're going to be attacked" has been their mantra. As predicted several years ago by myself and others, this is all nothing more than a smoke screen to keep everyone's adrenaline pumping. The expression is indeed true that time proves all things. The true reality is, there is NO WAY to prevent an attack no matter what anyone does, or whatever police state measures are in place. Consider London, which has more than 2 million cameras (British government statement.) Yet three bombs go off at the same time? Proof positive cameras do NOT work. It proves that cameras serve only to spy on citizens, and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism
http://www.rense.com/general67/picket.htm

A key point to note in the presidential determination is the waiver that allows support for Venezuela’s “democratic institutions” to continue. This is important because a drug war decertification generally implies blocking a country from international aid and loans. So, while aid to Venezuelan “democracy” (code for funding the opposition to President Chávez, most recently seen in the National Endowment for Democracy’s $107,000 grant to Súmate this week) will be allowed to continue, Venezuela will most likely be cut off from other forms of aid and loans from institutions like the World Bank
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/9/16/17445/5596

“To the applause of the ADL, ACLU and AU, Catholic schools are denied government money for the purchase of maps in the classroom, but the federal government can spend nearly 2 million dollars to build a Jewish chapel at the Naval Academy without a word of protest from any of them.
...
“In other words, prayer rugs can be purchased with federal funds to accommodate suspected Muslim terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, and Jewish chapels can be built with federal monies, but Christian kids can’t sing ‘Silent Night’ in the classroom. Got it everyone?
http://catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%203/050915_chapelbuilt.htm

Federal officials appear to be seeking proof to blame the flood of New Orleans on environmental groups, documents show.

The Clarion-Ledger has obtained a copy of an internal e-mail the U.S. Department of Justice sent out this week to various U.S. attorneys' offices: "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

Cynthia Magnuson, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, said Thursday she couldn't comment "because it's an internal e-mail."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/NEWS0110/509160369/1260

"It doesn't sound like they're close to cracking the case," said Eric H. Holder Jr., a Washington lawyer who was deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration.

The magnitude of the anthrax investigation has parallels to another marathon FBI probe: the 18-year search for the Unabomber, who killed three people and injured 23 others in mail-bomb attacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091502456.html

[This could be something to watch for in re to the dismemberment of Bolivia?]
http://towardfreedom.com/home/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=593

SEPTEMBER 16--One of President George W. Bush's nephews--the youngest son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush--was arrested early today and charged with public drunkenness and resisting arrest. John Ellis Bush, 21, was nabbed at 2:30 AM by Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents in Austin (Jeb Jr.'s street corner arrest came in one of the capitol's popular bar districts). According to the below arrest warrant, filed with the Travis County Municipal Court, an intoxicated Bush, "continually pushed against this officer and struggled as I attempted to handcuff him." After about four hours in custody, Bush was released on $2500 bond for the resisting count (the intox charge was covered by a personal recognizance bond). This is the second time young Jeb--pictured at far right in the above family portrait--has landed on a police blotter. In October 2000, Jeb, then 16, and a girlfriend were discovered naked from the waist down in a Jeep Cherokee parked at a Tallahassee mall. Jebby's siblings, George and Noelle, have also had well-publicized run-ins with the fuzz. (2 pages)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0916052bush1.html

The vehicles were not being escorted by the US army or any other government vehicles and the vehicles were festooned with insignia reading 'Mexico MP's' and the Mexican flag.

The second sighting of a similar nature occurred north of Austin on I35 near Georgetown Texas.

[...]
The following Louisiana authorities must be alerted about the threat of armed foreign troops brought into the country by the Bush Administration.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco: 1-866.310.7617, (225) 342-0991, (225) 342-7015 or (225) 925-1938.

Louisiana State Police: (225) 925-4755, (225) 925-6118,

Louisiana National Guard: 225-925-7524.

Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness: 225-925-7500
http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/mexican_troops_bush_surrounds_la.htm

The foetuses are cryogenically frozen and sold to clinics

2005-09-16T07:40:00.001-07:00

Recall how hydrogen peroxide is poured on wounds to kill germs. Well now researchers clearly show high-dose vitamin C, when administered intravenously, can increase hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels within cancer cells and kills them. I.V. vitamin C was also demonstrated to kill germs and may be an effective therapy for infectious disease.

With a growing body of evidence mounting, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers conceded today that intravenous vitamin C may be an effective treatment for cancer. Last year the same researchers reported a similar study but the news media failed to publish it.
http://www.rense.com/general67/intra.htm

I live on the Olympic peninsula of Washington state, in Jefferson county. Port Townsend to
be precise. I have noticed 3 deer showing severe signs of patchy hair loss, emerging fluids from
the mouth, tongues hung uselessly sideways (even while eating) never withdrawn back inside of
the mouth cavity, and a generally disorientated appearance - unlike normal. I even saw one
deer topple over clumsily during a slow, easy pace.
http://www.rense.com/general67/myster.htm

Among the most telling anomalies pointing to something terribly afoot is the gun battle, killing 5, that occurred at the breached levee between the New Orleans Police Department and, what have now been identified as US military agents. An Associated Press report, which has now disappeared, stated that at least five USA Defense Department personnel where shot dead by New Orleans police officers in the proximity of the breached levee. (Please Note: The original media reports concerning the shootout are now being changed or "cleansed" in a cover-up. We found one original report at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlate... ...
La Voz de Aztlan has a mirror page of this report at http://www.aztlan.net/police_kill_f... in case this report gets changed or deleted as well)
...
There are verifiable reports that at least 100 New Orleans police officers have disappeared from the face of the earth and that two have committed suicide. Could these be policemen that died defending the levee against sabotage by "federal contractors"?
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8265

U.S. lumber companies opposed to Canada's subsidies have challenged the legality of the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying panels set up to settle the dispute overstep their authority and violate the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.rense.com/general67/lumb.htm

Now it has been announced that New Orleans is a federal city period. This is the model for every major American city, military patrolling the streets, mass round-ups and gun confiscation.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/150905nwoshowcase.htm

The Constant Gardener: A movie gets it right about Africa and international conspiracies to hurt and kill the innocent. The screen adaptation of John Le Carre's thriller, The Constant Gardener, gets two thumbs up from this veteran of covering Africa's victimization by multinational corporations, weapons smugglers, and the "misery industry." The movie's main plot is a scheme by a consortium of international pharmaceutical companies to use AIDS and tuberculosis-infected Africans as human guinea pigs: plying them with untested drugs with fatal side effects. The conspiracy is sanctioned by the highest levels of the British government, professional "do-gooder" aid organizations, and corrupt African government officials in Kenya and Zimbabwe. There is even a reference to a Mossad agent who is apparently involved in the conspiracy with a Kenyan government minister. The Constant Gardener finally tells the true story of what is happening in Africa.
http://www.rense.com/general67/rightabout.htm

Reports continue to come into WMR that evacuees from New Orleans and Acadiana who have been scattered across the United States are being treated as "internees" and not dislocated American citizens from a catastrophe. Some FEMA facilities are preventing these internees from leaving on their own. Reports of mandatory registration and the issuing of FEMA ID cards suggest that FEMA, an agency that is rife with right-wing security goons and severely lacking in humanitarian workers, has other motives in treating poor and destitute American citizens as prisoners in their own country.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/fema_treats_evacuees_as_internees.htm

One recently discovered species of so-called extremophiles could live in briny environments ten times saltier than seawater. Another species found in Yellowstone National Park could live off nothing but hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-13-titan-life_x.htm

n response to his rabbi's answer, the soldier concludes in his letter that "during wartime I am permitted, and even obligated, to kill every Arab man and woman who happen across my way. I am obligated to kill them even if this leads to complications with the military code." Concerned that so many children are misled by the "rationality" that is so prevalent in Israeli society, the soldier urges that this concept of tohar haneshek be taught in Israeli schools, especially the religious ones.
http://www.clal.org/e100.html

With confirmation today that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condeezza Rice about a “bathroom break,” was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now planning to run it widely. But many, it seems, will treat it as something more than a joke.

A source at the Washington Post tells E&P that the paper is considering it for prominent play tomorrow morning, in the context that, at least in some minds, it raises questions about overall perception of the U.S. at the United Nations, right or wrong. Reuters reports extremely strong interest in the photo today.

The fact is, according to Reuters -- and this has not been widely reported -- President Bush did indeed take a bathroom break after passing the note to Rice.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137788

[huh?]
A study on the severed heads of 12 babies delivered by C-section who
were kept alive for months.
http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys2/deadbaby.htm

Aborted foetuses from girls and young women are being exported from Ukraine for use in illegal beauty treatments costing thousands of pounds, The Observer can reveal.

The foetuses are cryogenically frozen and sold to clinics offering 'youth injections', claiming to rejuvenate skin and cure a raft of diseases.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1461654,00.html

The foetuses are cryogenically frozen and sold to clinics

2005-09-16T07:40:00.000-07:00

Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman

2005-09-15T06:42:00.000-07:00

He says the amount may be small, but it's the thought that counts.

A representative of a Palestinian refugee council Tuesday presented a check for $10,000 to give to Hurricane Katrina's victims. The check is made out to the American Red Cross.

The spokesman says Palestinian refugees donated the money, and that they understand best what hurricane victims are now going through.

US Consul General Jacob Walles accepted the check at a ceremony in the West Bank. He says the gift means a lot, especially because it comes from the poorest Palestinians
http://www.rense.com/general67/palestinianrefugees.htm

Lost Star of Myth and Time expands on the author's award-winning PBS documentary film "The Great Year," narrated by actor James Earl Jones. The book brings intriguing new evidence to the theory of our binary companion star and an age old mystery – the precession of the equinox.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/extrasolar-05zt.html

A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1568622,00.html

In other words, FEMA and then Blanco outsourced the body count from Hurricane Katrina -- which many believe the worst natural disaster in U.S. history -- to a firm whose parent company is known for its "experience" at hiding and dumping bodies.

The Menorah Gardens cemetery chain, owned by SCI, desecrated vaults, removed hundreds of bodies from two cemeteries in Florida and dumped the gruesome remains in woods frequented by wild hogs, investigators discovered in 2001. In one case, a backhoe was used to crack open a vault, remove corpses and make room for more dead bodies.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html

I did not volunteer the information to my father that I had joined the Zionist underground. He found out several months before I was arrested when he saw me writing Hebrew and using words and expressions unfamiliar to him. He was even more surprised to learn that, yes, I had decided I would soon move to Israel myself. He was scornful. “You’ll come back with your tail between your legs,” he predicted. About 125,000 Jews left Iraq for Israel in the late 1940s and into 1952, most because they had been lied to and put into a panic by what I came to learn were Zionist bombs. But my mother and father were among the 6,000 who did not go to Israel. Although physically I never did return to Iraq—that bridge had been burned in any event—my heart has made the journey there many, many times. My father had it right.
http://www.ameu.org/printer.asp?iid=36&aid=72#content

He is known to have performed translations for al Qaeda as part of the services he has provided to al Qaeda," Mueller said.

"He's so angry at the United States, that he's obligated to seek revenge," said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABC News consultant.

Gadahn was born Adam Pearlman, the son of 1960s psychedelic musician Phil Pearlman, and raised in Orange County on a goat farm. He was home-schooled until the age of 15, at which point he moved in with his grandparents in Santa Ana.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=239727

Solid waste

2005-09-13T19:39:00.000-07:00

Wednesday's broadcast of KPFA's "Flashpoints" featured a telephone interview with Malik Rahim, who gave a gut-wrenching and shocking firsthand account of the staggering horror of still-neglected New Orleans that he and other survivors are facing.

In stark contrast to increasingly optimistic mainstream media coverage (cover-up) about "improving relief efforts" and "rebuilding," Rahim exposed the fact that there is no relief. No Red Cross, no food, no emergency medical care under a FEMA lockdown that has kept any relief from getting into New Orleans.

Meanwhile, as the Bush administration's combat operations ramp up, and troops prowl the streets, no help whatsoever has been offered to residents, according to Rahim. Rotting corpses litter the streets. People, heroically fending for themselves and their own, are being left in shocking conditions to suffer and die.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091005Chin/091005chin.html

n the 30's, Morris A. Bealle, a former city editor of the old Washington Times and Herald, was running a county seat newspaper, in which the local power company bought a large advertisment every week. This account took quite a lot of worry off Bealle' s shoulders when the bills came due.

But according to Bealle' s own story, one day the paper took up the cudgels for some of its readers that were being given poor service from the power company, and Morris Bealle received the dressing down of his life from the advertising agency which handled the power company' s account. They told him that any more such "stepping out of line" would result in the immediate cancellation not only of the advertising contract, but also of the gas company and the telephone company.

That' s when Bealle' s eyes were opened to the meaning of a "free press", and he decided to get out of the newspaper business. He could afford to do that because he belonged to the landed gentry of Maryland, but not all newspaper editors are that lucky.
http://www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/conspiracy/drugstory.html

Former IDF Southern Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog was forced Sunday to abandon plans to visit Britain at the last minute, after Muslim groups charged him with crimes against humanity for "his military role against the Palestinian people."

Israel's ambassador in London, Tzvi Hefetz, spoke with Almog during the flight, advised him not to get off the plane, and said if he entered Britain he would be served with the claim.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3140750,00.html

Eleven EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country, and have asked EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people. The unions acted following revelations of an apparent cover-up of evidence from Harvard School of Dental Medicine linking fluoridation with elevated risk of a fatal bone cancer in young boys.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/flouride090105.cfm

n the end not even the power elite will be safe. Hitler exterminated his own Brownshirts before he went to work on the Jews, and Stalin exterminated the Bolshevik heros of the Russian Revolution. Once power is unaccountable, it becomes the possession of the most ruthless. Loyal party membership protected neither the Brownshirts nor the Bolsheviks. And it will not protect Bush’s Republican apologists.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2005/120905federalpower.htm

The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added.

Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance! Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the pre-packaged meals, soups, snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it's safe to eat in any amount. How can they claim it safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these? :-
http://www.rense.com/general67/msg.htm

Studies have found that adding MSG to certain foods, such as soup and mashed potatoes, has been successful in increasing the food intake in institutionalized elderly populations.
http://www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html

I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon, but I don't see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President's motives. I didn't question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety net programs, to rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of us. This transcript directly from the Congressional Record is mangled and omits that word!!!! I can't believe this.
http://www.rense.com/general67/specorder.htm

MICROCHIPPING will be compulsory for Victoria's 840,000 pet dogs and cats under a government crackdown.

Owners will have to microchip their dogs and cats from 2007, or face fines of up to $500.

Pet shops, breeders, pounds and animal shelters will have to microchip dogs and cats before selling them or be slugged with $1000 fines.

The crackdown was hailed as the biggest change to animal welfare laws in 25 years.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=78408

The rapture doctrine, as it is taught and believed today, vaguely details the bodily removal of Christians from the earth, but only after certain world events have occurred. It is these events in which the Bush Administration and the PNAC are actively trying to orchestrate. In other words, they are trying to force the rapture and the return of Christ by deliberately engaging in actions toward their prophetic "fulfillment". The contradiction and impossibility of this pugnacious behavior is unconscionable.
http://www.rense.com/general67/rap.htm

The political message is clear. Health problems caused by electromagnetic radiation are not allowed to exist, even if a lot of people report them in thrustworthy and verifiable testimonies. The base of the coming information leaflet is a political document. Governments are instructed to develop tailored information for medical practitioners. The working group writes, that governments are not allowed to propose an official diagnosis, nor to introduce a classification for handicap status. That is a reaction to Sweden, where the Federation of Electrical Hypersensitive (FEB) is a member of the umbrella organization of federations of handicapped. Indirectly FEB receives some funds from the government. A few hospitals in Sweden even have a radiation free room. Governments who ignore the instructions of the WHO, are accused by Repacholi to foster victimisation and "to perpetuate a myth". Institutions who take the reports of citizens seriously, get a warning shot across the bows.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30499

Wild chimpanzees capable of passing on knowledge of how to detect and destroy traps have been found in the West African nation of Guinea
http://www.terradaily.com/news/life-05zzzzzd.html

Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/12/nthom12.xml

In accordance with the agreement, Loral Skynet will install an iDirect IP hub at Telekom Austria's state-of-the-art Aflenz teleport, expanding SkyReach's coverage area across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-05zzzzzu.html

French President Jacques Chirac confirmed Monday India's 2.4-billion-euro (three-billion-dollar) purchase of six Franco-Spanish submarines as he received visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his Paris offices.

Chirac also confirmed the recent announcement by India's state-run Indian Airlines that it was buying 43 Airbus passenger aircraft in a deal worth 1.8 billion euros.
http://www.spacewar.com/news/submarine-05o.html

A new draft US defense paper calls for preventive nuclear strikes against state and non-state adversaries in order to deter them from using weapons of mass destruction and urges US troops to "prepare to use nuclear weapons effectively."

The document, titled "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" and dated March 15, was put together by the Pentagon's Joint Staff in at attempt to adapt current procedures to the fast-changing world after the September 11, 2001, attacks, said a defense official.
...
They could be used, for instance, to counter potentially overwhelming conventional adversaries, to secure a rapid end of a war on US terms, or simply "to ensure success of US and multinational operations," the document indicates.
http://www.spacewar.com/news/nuclear-doctrine-05zzd.html

Bruce Lee was chosen as a hero that all ethnic groups could relate to, in a city that was nearly destroyed during the fierce fighting between Croats and Muslims during Bosnia's 1992-95 war and that remains bitterly divided
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050912/ennew_afp/afplifestylebosniafilm_050912133847

Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) genres: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two percent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin ...

In the postwar era, America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the 'Walt Disney of porn.' According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country ... By the mid-80s he owned over 200 adult bookstores ... It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry, he was the industry
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/zionism/jewish_dominance_in_porn.htm

These words - that the Jews killed Jesus - were spoken by the pastor of St. Brigid Church in Gdansk, Poland. If he is anti-Semitic according to the US State Department, then so is the New Testament! So are you as a Bible-believing Christian!

NO CHRISTIANS ARE SAFE
http://www.rense.com/general67/state.htm

A Palestinian human rights group and a left-wing Israeli organization have targeted top political and military leaders for arrest and trial abroad on charges of committing grave breaches of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, Yesh Gvul leader Yoav Hass told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

These leaders, in addition to Maj.-Gen. Doron Almog, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in London on Saturday, include Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz and former chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon. Others included on the list, though they cannot be prosecuted while holding senior government posts, include Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126578002712

An Israeli-citizen lawyer living in Britain, Daniel Machover, filed the charges - together with the Israeli left-wing organization "Yesh Gvul." The indictment states that Gen. Almog perpetrated war crimes against Palestinian Authority Arabs during the course of his army career. Machover is known to be a long-time vocal critic of Israel's policy against Palestinian terrorism.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=89765

"There will be no Sharia law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians."
http://www.rense.com/general67/sharia.htm

A temporary flight restriction has been issued by the FAA for a major North Pacific air corridor, covering air routes R-222, R-580 and A-590. The restriction covers the dates September 10-15. The cloture of these major routes is highly unusual, is said to be due to a Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, but the nature of that initiative has not been revealed
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4846

n his column in the San Antonio Express-News, Guerra says that Mexico responded to Katrina by sending 195 people trained in disaster medicine. They arrived Thursday with 47 vehicles, three huge field kitchens and portable emergency water treatment equipment -- enough to provide clean water and three meals a day for 7,000 people for 20 days. And the federal government has assigned them to . . . San Antonio, Texas.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2005/120905mexicantroops.htm

When I came back to Japan, I transferred the video tapes to the editing machine and I watched in increasing despair. I’m sure I can get the average Japanese to understand what Americans are all about and what they are thinking. I’m sure that if I ever do finish this documentary (and I’m wondering now if I want to), the Japanese will understand more than they want to understand about America. They will watch it and think: "Americans have gone completely nuts." I would have to agree.
...
After filling up, we headed back onto the freeway. I looked at the scenery and had a feeling of déjà vu. I thought to myself, Hey! I’ve seen this before. Now where did I see it? Then it came back to me: The road leading to Crawford looked an awful lot like the road leading from Phuket International Airport towards Patong Beach – a nice place, but definitely not a road leading through a world power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10254.htm

Overlooked in many news reports about the unfolding storm disaster in the southern United States, especially in the City of New Orleans, in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, is a potentially dramatic pollution issue related to a toxic landfill that sits under the flood waters right in the city's downtown, according to map overlays of the flooded area. The situation could exacerbate the already dire threat to human health and the environment from the flood waters.

The Agriculture Street Landfill (ASL) is situated on a 95-acre site in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. The ASL is a federally registered Superfund site, and is on the National Priorities List of highly contaminated sites requiring cleanup and containment. A few years ago the site, which sits underneath and beside houses and a school, was fenced and covered with clean soil. However, three feet or more of flood waters could potentially cause the landfill's toxic contents – the result of decades of municipal and industrial waste dumping – to leach out.
http://www.solidwastemag.com/issues/PrinterFriendly.asp?id=47051&RType=&PC=&issue=

It's utterly amazing how obsessed the pro-homosexuality crowd is

2005-09-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

According to Scott Goetz, a senior scientist with the Center, "We believe this is some of the first evidence that high latitude forests may be in decline following an initial growth spurt associated with warming. The reasons for this decline are not certain, but related work points to increased drying as a likely cause. The observed warming and drying are consistent with climate model predictions for the region.
http://www.terradaily.com/news/eo-05zzzzm.html

A recent study performed by the Futron Corporation, concluded that Falcon 5 was superior in design reliability to other vehicles in its class, due to engine redundancy. Falcon 9, by extension, has even higher reliability with increased propulsion redundancy.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05zzc.html

Japan's summer dress-down campaign, aimed at easing global warming, reduced power consumption by enough to supply more than 240,000 households for a month, a power company said Friday.

The "Cool Biz" campaign was promoted by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who has appeared in casual shirts without ties since June and through campaigning for an election Sunday
http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/050909094157.7473wkdy.html

The spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, declined to comment on a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel that U.S. authorities refused the delivery on the grounds that the
NATO military rations could carry mad cow disease.

The spokesman said U.S. authorities had since given approval for future aid flights, but it was unclear whether the German military would try again to deliver the rations
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050910/ap_on_re_eu/katrina_germany;_ylt=Atd8cqgubGnNpVUC8XdbM_EDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Even after requesting $60 billion for Katrina relief, the White House is trying to trim the regular budgets of U.S. agencies that track hurricanes and perform flood control.

Instead, Congress is likely to add money for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Senate returns Monday to take up a funding bill that includes $4.5 billion for NOAA _ $895 million more than requested by Bush, who wanted to trim NOAA's budget by more than $350 million.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7365.shtml

Blanco did what she could by asking for aid before it was needed. Nagin is either inept or complicit in this mess. The RTA (Regional Transit Authority) refused to allow its buses for evacuation claiming "we're a private company." To my mind private companies have public obligations in time of emergency and Nagin should have used that arguement with the RTA chief. Both should be made to stand trial for murder.

The culpable players must be brought to justice, no excuses, and given no quarter...
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2632

Concerns over aspartame's toxicity meant that for eight years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied it approval, effectively keeping it off the world market. This caution was based on compelling evidence, brought to light by numerous eminent scientists, litigators and consumer groups, that aspartame contributed to serious central nervous system damage and had been shown to cause cancer in animals. Eventually, however, political muscle, won out over scientific rigour, and aspartame was approved for use in 1981 (see timeline for details).
http://www.ecologist.cognita.info/archive_detail.asp?content_id=451

Our neolib rulers plan for the new New Orleans to serve as a template for the rest of the nation where the Constitution now hangs precariously by a frayed thread. In the event of a "terrorist attack" and the imposition of martial law, we can expect the lessons learned in the new New Orleans to be practiced elsewhere-shoot to kill for "looting" food and water, doors kicked in by jackbooted troops who ignore the desperate pleas of hungry and thirsty citizens and lasciviously demand women flash their breasts (as if life is a segment of the Girls Gone Wild video), and treating citizens as if they are al-Qaeda suicide bombers.
http://www.rense.com/general67/nix.htm

But two months ago Welch decided to tell America what she learned about the U.S. government’s pre-planning of 9/11, saying although the story’s a hard pill to swallow and “may sound unbelievable,” she felt the need to risk public humiliation, government harassment and warn Americans anyway.

“Just like before, they’ll be after me again now that I went public,” said Welch who has been drugged and beaten on several occasions by government operatives.
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/30199.htm

[The SAS officer's account ends here. Ed.]
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/SecretWar1.html

In June 2001, the University of Winnipeg made headlines when high school students attending a summer art history course complained they were shown lesbian porn and instructed to use zucchinis instead of seeking male companionship. The instructors were not removed.
http://www.savethemales.ca/uw/main.html
http://www.rense.com/general67/ezlf.htm

Lexington Police were forced to protect David Parker, fearing for his personal safety, when hundreds of angry pro-gay activists, including Lexington public officials and local liberal clergy, gathered to counter-demonstrate against parents and supporters of David Parker who were holding a rally on historic Lexington Battle Green.

Lexington boasts that it is among the most "tolerant" and "welcoming" towns in Massachusetts, but a wave of intolerance and hostility met a group of parents who had peacefully assembled to air a grievance.
...
Despite that fact that the Parker rally was publicly announced and this was done through emails, blog postings, phone calls, etc., this was about twice as big. It's utterly amazing how obsessed the pro-homosexuality crowd is, and how enraged they are that a parent challenges their proselytizing in the public schools. You've got to see this.
http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/rally_090605/rally0.htm

He was very loyal

2005-09-10T08:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a great tip for all reporters looking for a completely new - and extremely important - angle on the situation in New Orleans. As far as I can tell, no one has yet mentioned the biological research labs located in and around NOLA. For example, in nearby Covington, Tulane University runs the Tulane National Primate Research Center, a cluster of Level-3 biological labs containing around 5,000 monkeys, most of which are housed in outdoor cages. According to an article in Tulane University Magazine, "The primary areas of focus today at the Tulane National Primate Research Center are infectious diseases, including biodefense related work, gene therapy, reproductive biology and neuroscience. The Tulane primate center is playing a key role in the federal strategic plan for biodefense research." [
http://www.thememoryblog.org/archives/000588.html

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 10-year jobs forecast, the majority of US jobs that will be created in the coming decade will be in domestic services that do not require a college education. This is a strange job outlook for a high tech economy allegedly benefiting from free trade. Domestic services are nontradable. The US economy has not created a net new job in tradable goods and services in the 21st century.
http://www.rense.com/general67/down.htm

Top U.S. generals openly admit that America's strategic ABM defenses are based on a technology in which other nations are already developing more experts than the United States, which is inherently vulnerable to devastating disruption.

Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Armed Forces have moved father than ever before in developing anti-ballistic missile and space-based strategic assets, and trying to integrate combined operations around the globe using state of the art Information Technology
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050908-085549-2367r

As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!"

Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as “Mr. Cheney.”
http://opednews.com/articles/opedne_jackson__050909_physician_who_told_o.htm

The federal government has been chomping at the bit for decades to disarm the American people, and now an amalgamation of state and local police led by the BATF are having their deepest desire fulfilled in New Orleans.

Major newspapers are reporting that in middle-class neighborhoods undamaged by floodwaters paramilitary police are going door-to-door demanding citizens’ firearms.

The New York Times even admitted that this is so the citizenry cannot resist when they are physically forced to leave their homes
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/090905gunconfiscation.htm

10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee : "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed... people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees... 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life. A six year old girl was raped in here.. 9 year old boy killed. A man in the shower beaten. No hot food. No help for elderly."
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8158

Although the effort was trumpeted in the media as an example of grassroots ingenuity in the face of disaster, local officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency have nixed an attempt by Houston activists to set up a low-power radio station at the Astrodome that would have broadcast Hurricane Katrina relief information for evacuees.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0537,ferguson,67701,2.html

So late Wednesday afternoon, the group set out for a bridge called the Crescent City Connection, where they would find the help they so desperately needed. But when they arrived atop the highway, the paramedics said, they were met by more police officers, this time from neighboring Gretna, La., who weren't letting anyone pass.

"If I weren't there, and hadn't witnessed it for myself, I don't think I would have ever believed this," Bradshaw said.

The officers fired warning shots into the air and then leveled their weapons at members of the crowd, Bradshaw said. He approached, hands in the air, displaying his paramedic's badge.

"They told us that there would be no Superdomes in their city,'' the couple wrote. "These were code words that if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River -- and you weren't getting out of New Orleans.''
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/09/BAGL1EL1KH1.DTL&hw=chip%20johnson&sn=001&sc=1000

Finally: Right-To-Petition Case Decided

Next Step: U.S. Court Of Appeals Plus...

Yesterday, we received an email from a stranger informing us that the DC District Court had granted the government’s motion to dismiss the RTP lawsuit. Then, with yesterday’s mail, we received a hard copy of the Court’s Opinion & Order, which purportedly were entered on August 31, 2005, eight days before we learned there had been a decision.

Judge Sullivan has ruled that it makes no difference what facts we have that prove that the government is not responding to our four Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts because, he says, the government does not have to listen or respond to Petitions for Redress of Grievances from the People.

We are currently reviewing the Decision with plaintiffs' counsel Mark Lane, who was not available until today.

On Monday we will post our analysis of the decision and a discussion of the full range of civic actions we believe are now necessary, including an appeal to the Court of Appeals.

This afternoon, a Notice of Appeal was mailed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC.
http://www.givemeliberty.org/default.htm

The Los Angeles Times reports today that the US has suspended major reconstruction projects in Iraq because of our continuing inability to secure the country.
http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1109

US President George W Bush issued an executive order on Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3405350a12,00.html

n contemplating the situation here in America, a U.S. officer in Iraq said, "If anything I'm kind of embarrassed. We're supposed to be telling the Iraqis how to act and this is what's happening at home?" Whereas at first we might have expected the conservatives to realize that the same federal authorities who have bungled so much in New Orleans are probably not apt to bring freedom to Iraq, instead they have only inflated their endorsement of the right and power of the U.S. government to suspend civil liberties for the sake of the common good. In New Orleans, the conservatives have had their chance to see what federal freedom really means, and thus what it likely means when imposed on the rest of the world. And the rightwing sentiment is to bring it on.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/090905prospectsforliberty.htm

Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown’s already paper-thin resumé appears to have been padded. Time Magazine looked into the past of the man George W. Bush put in charge of the federal government’s response to disasters natural and man-made, and found less there than meets the eye.

Brown was the college roommate of former Bush campaign director Joe Allbaugh, who hired Brown as FEMA’s chief counsel after Allbaugh replaced highly regarded Clinton appointee James Lee Witt, an experienced emergency management professional who earned high praise from all parties including then-Texas governor Bush, at the top of the agency.
http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1108

PELOSI: Oh, that's absolutely not true. Mr. McClellan wasn't there, so he couldn't possibly know.

What happened was, I said to the president, Mr. President, we can begin to help these victims of Katrina become whole again. First thing you can do is to replace Michael Brown as the head of FEMA. To which the president said, Why would I do that? And I said, Because of what happened last week and the failure of FEMA to be the real link between the federal government and the people in need in our country, the social compact. To which the president said, What didn't go right last week?

That's what happened in the meeting. I stand by that. If the president thinks everything went right last week, and he wants to keep Michael Brown there, then I think that's going to be a cost
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/09/08/pelosi-tells-cnn-anchor-a_n_7052.html

He was very loyal. He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt."
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html

Detainment Camp Utah

2005-09-09T06:37:00.000-07:00

Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), today urged all fire and emergency services departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and lawfully dispatched by state and local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
http://www.rense.com/general67/urge.htm

Former FEMA officials have admitted that Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck.

Furthermore, as the Florida Sun Sentinel has reported, Training for FEMA inspectors is often brief and and poor.

"With an investment of eight hours one Monday in early October, Johanna Hadik of Margate got a badge and the next day was out inspecting hurricane damage for the federal government."

FEMA also acknowledges a long history of fraud in disaster aid by applicants who call it "Christmas money" or "free money" and by inspectors who are supposed to prevent it. These inspectors consistently simply turn a blind eye because often enough they are reaping the benefits.

The Sentinel has also reported on the fact that FEMA employs as inspectors known criminals with records for embezzlement, drug dealing and robbery. These people are entrusted to enter disaster victims' homes and verify damage claims, with their histories, is it any wonder that there is consistent fraud?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/080905FEMA_corrupt.htm

Take this internal Texaco strategy memo: "[T]he most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus of refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. (The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry.) Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assist in reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline." The memo went on to discuss a sucessful campaign in Washington State to shrink refined supply by removing other additives in the gasoline that filled gas volume
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-court/memos-show-oil-companies-_b_6980.html

He then precedes to tell us that some churches had already enquired into whether they could send a van or bus on Sundays to pick up any occupants of their cabins who might be interested in attending church. FEMA will not allow this. The occupants of the camp cannot leave the camp for any reason. If they leave the camp they may never return. They will be issued FEMA identification cards and "a sum of money" and they will remain within the camp for the next 5 months.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html

The officials and engineers said that after they had found the widening gap in the concrete wall on the eastern side of the canal, they had no quick-response plan to repair it.

Even as they tried to improvise a solution while water continued to pour into neighborhood after neighborhood, their efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy helicopters, most of which had been dispatched by federal emergency officials to rescue stranded residents.

"The first priority of the rotary-winged aircraft was to rescue people," Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the corps, said in the conference call. "Plugging the gap was a lower priority."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02levee.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1126232525-249FqkzVl2G2AtEGAbbXYQ

Neither man, Jacksonville attorney Reynold Hoover (pictured at left) and Miami lawyer Mark Wallace, had any experience in emergency management before they were named by the Bush administration to FEMA, now under fire for its botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

Hoover, a longtime "explosives expert" with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who became a lawyer in 1996, is still with FEMA as its director of national security coordination. Wallace left the Bush administration in 2004 to become deputy manager of the president's re-election campaign, and is now a lobbyist.

They are two more names to add to the list of political appointees and out-and-out hacks at FEMA. Many are calling for the firing of agency chief Michael Brown, the ousted head of a horse association who was hired at FEMA in 2001 along with his college roommate, top Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh. And it was reported yesterday that FEMA's No. 2 and No. 3 officials, Patrick Rhode and Scott Morris, are also former campaign aides.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002346.html

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/637/1/

A state law prohibiting political candidates from lying about their opponents is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and chills political discourse, a state appeals court ruled yesterday.

The decision from the Court of Appeals Division II stems from a 2002 legislative race and puts in jeopardy one of the state's remaining truth-in-campaigning laws
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002479741_pdc08m.html

Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"
   As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.
    Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.
    Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
    On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
    Federal officials are unapologetic.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197

TWO US Navy helicopter pilots who ferried supplies have been reprimanded as they also rescued 110 people in New Orleans.

Lt David Shand and Lt Matt Udkow - both based at Pensacola, Florida - were told their unscheduled rescues were an "unacceptable diversion".

Udkow was temporarily ordered to oversee a kennel for pets of evacuated service members instead of flying but he said: "It was a great day. We resupplied the people we needed to and we rescued people, too."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15943170&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=pilots--rap-for-hurricane-rescue-name_page.html

"Some black leaders and their allies in New Orleans fear that it boils down to preventing large numbers of blacks from returning to the city and eliminating the African-American voting majority. Rep. William Jefferson, a sharecropper's son who was educated at Harvard and is currently serving his eighth term in Congress, says, "This is an example of poor people forced to make choices because they don't have the money to do otherwise," Mr. Jefferson says.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WSJ_White_rich_escape_New_Orleans_chaos_dont_want_blacks_poor__0908.html

The Naval Medical Center in San Diego's Balboa Park was shut down to accommodate a visit by President George W. Bush Aug. 30, RAW STORY has learned, forcing patients to cancel chemotherapy treatments and hundreds of scheduled patient visits.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/San_Diego_hospital_closed_to_acommodate_Bush_visit_No_ch_0906.html

Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html

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Here is an article from a “real” newspaper- The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_3006502
“If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp.

The signs on the buildings say "Community College of Aurora," though for now they're serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada.”
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Here is a post from some random website I came across, lots of photos.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
“I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp”
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Then I came across this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906CampWilliams.html
“Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah”
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And this on the same subject
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3002350
Like others who arrived in smaller military planes, Bergeron wasn't told where he was headed when he boarded the JetBlue airliner Saturday at the Louis Armstrong
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And this
http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html
Ms. Kiguchi further informed me that the internees are allowed out of Internment Camp Utah once a day, but she would not offer any suggestions as to how and when the internees would be allowed out. One would have to guess, I suppose.

Now, I explained my visit to Detainment Camp Utah from Tuesday, and Ms. Kiguchi got a little pissed. “They are not detainees!”
[It’s actually “kikuchi” I found in a news article from the Salt Lake City Tribune.]
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2005-09-08T07:17:00.000-07:00

After many broken promises by the Colombian government to supply homes to displaced communities, a group of 700 adults, 577 children, 15 pregnant women, 22 handicapped, and 25 seniors have taken over vacant homes in the south-western neighborhood of Kennedy in Bogotá
http://www.narconews.com/Issue38/article1422.html

The crews for three U.S. Customs Blackhawk helicopters stationed at Crestview Airport in Florida are "livid" because they have not been directed to provide full-time support for the ongoing hurricane-relief effort in the nation's Gulf Coast region, according to Mark Conrad, a former regional Internal Affairs supervisor for U.S. Customs.

Conrad says instead of helping people left desperate in the wake of Katrina's wrath, the Blackhawk's actually were slated to transport a CNN news crew to take video shots of those people.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection leadership in Miami is behind the press-play strategy, Conrad says.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/9/1/195752/4860

Luis Posada Carriles obligingly rose when called as a witness to make his way to the makeshift witness stand in the uncomfortably small courtroom. But Judge William Abbott waived Posada to sit back down, telling him that he could testify in place and need not trouble himself to move. The atmosphere in court was surprisingly informal and relaxed, even as the terrorist and former CIA operative prepared to testify to matters concerning his nearly five decades as a bomber, figure of intrigue, and mule for U.S. policy in Latin America.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/9/1/02219/70313

You're not going nuts, it is a white squirrel...

GARETH EDWARDS

FOR years it has been painted as a brutal war between natives and invaders.

The red squirrel has long been fighting a losing battle against the influx of the more versatile grey squirrel, and is now a rare sight in the Lothians.
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1898352005

Locals from Lakeview subdivision of New Orleans report that after Katrina passed a loose barge struck levee causing breach that flooded city.

WMR has just been informed by evacuees in Baton Rouge from Lakeview, a well-to-do New Orleans neighborhood, that the flooding of the city was caused by a loose barge striking the levee on the 17th Street Canal. The breach was not caused by rising flood waters as reported by FEMA and other agencies. Lakeview is some 1.5 miles down Veterans Boulevard from the 17th St. Canal breach.
http://www.rense.com/general67/loose.htm

Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.

Before then, FEMA had positioned smaller rescue and communications teams across the Gulf Coast. But officials acknowledged Tuesday the first department-wide appeal for help came only as the storm raged.

Brown's memo to Chertoff described Katrina as "this near catastrophic event" but otherwise lacked any urgent language. The memo politely ended, "Thank you for your consideration in helping us to meet our responsibilities."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050906/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_disaster_response

The Singapore defence ministry Monday said three of the heavy-duty helicopters had so far ferried about 700 evacuees and hauled tons of supplies in 39 sorties.

"The first thing that we noticed was the water level in the city," Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Rodrigues, head of the Singaporean relief mission, told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper. "I think most of the buildings are half-submerged." Singapore said Monday a fourth Chinook would join the relief efforts.

The CH-47 Chinook helicopters were from a training detachment in Grand Prairie, Texas. Singapore positions air force units in the United States because it does not have enough land or air space for training.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050905/sc_afp/usweatheraidasia