Blog-heap o' links from 2004-Jul

SAT 2004-JUL-31

Digital Consequencesoaklandtribune.com/ ... 16:47:18Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, released a software fix for its Internet browser program that corrects two security flaws that let hackers take control of users' computer systems.reuters.com/ ... 14:15:49new "Spider-Man 2" game... version for the PC has essentially the same packaging as those for the big game consoles, but players have been complaining that it offers significantly less versatility when it comes to swinging through New York....

Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 16:40:21POLSON, Mont. - A balcony at a popular bar and casino collapsed with dozens of people on it, injuring more than 50 ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:36:27Chunks of concrete have fallen from Wrigley Field's upper deck on at least three occasions since June, forcing stadium officials to install nets to protect fans from the crumbling debris. The situation raised fears that the Cubs might have to cancel games as the stadium worked to fix the problem, but the city deemed the 90-year-old stadium safe Friday.

Preternatural Patternsmemri.org/ ... 23:54:38Egypt's Ruling Party Newspaper: The Holocaust is a Zionist Lie Aimed at Extorting the West ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:46:52 Miss Montana 1949 Carol Fraser rode a palomino horse onto the Convention Center stage - and the horse stumbled and nearly fell into the orchestra pit.reuters.com/ ... 14:17:02 Nigeria's mainly Muslim state of Kano resumed polio immunizations Saturday after a 10-month ban... Muslim leaders had pushed for the boycott saying the vaccines were part of a Western plot to spread HIV and infertility.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:13:45was sitting on the ...handrail when he fell... 17 feet from an escalator during a major league baseball game at Miller Park [Milwaukee]... has died of his injuries, including a broken skull and back... wife told investigators he had no health problems, drank only socially and did not use illegal drugs.reuters.com/ ... 01:46:19Police in the western town of Bochum said the truck driver told them he felt provoked by the motorist "because he was actually driving 30 kph in a 30 kph area."au.news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:25:54In a letter to bishops "on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the world" the Vatican blames feminism for seeking to eliminate the biological differences between man and woman. It says radical feminism's view of equality "has in reality inspired ideologies which for example call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and to make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent..." [NO MENTION of the PEDERAST PRIEST CULT influence on sexuality? CULT OF RAMPANT FEMOPHOBIA!]

US Election 2004boston.com/ ... 01:20:57Desperate to stay within the broadcast networks' paltry 60 minutes, Kerry stepped on his best thoughts and lines and blurred important proposals and distinctions, committing the sin of interfering with his own ability to communicate with an electorate eager to learn much more about President Bush's opponent.drudgereport.com/ ... 01:16:24The producer of the Democratic National Convention in Boston "deeply apologized" on Friday for his exasperated, profanity-laced tirade which on worldwide TV just as Kerry ended his acceptance speech.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:51:22The brewery, some 2,440m up in the Peruvian Andes, could produce as much as 1,000 litres of the drink a day. Such quantities were needed to fuel alcohol-based gatherings organised by the elite of the Wari empire which took place in purpose-built drinking halls. Each Wari noble would have consumed up to 10 litres of "chicha" per ceremony....reuters.com/ ... 14:18:39 A poster campaign urging people not to eat smelly foods on London's overcrowded and overheated underground system has sparked a diplomatic incident with Italy.reuters.com/ ... 01:47:22British women take longer to master the art of driving than men, but ... are safer on the road reuters.com/ ... 01:44:22"These are really good days for the Dead. I'm tempted to call our name the Grateful Living. I don't know how that would go over but I feel like that. I'm grateful to be alive and healthy." --Drummer BILL KREUTZMANN of the Dead, formerly the Grateful Dead.reuters.com/ ... 01:43:12 British biologists have taken a leaf out of the literary Doctor Doolittle's book and started talking to their animals. "We have been croaking to our tree frogs for about two weeks now. They respond and it makes it easier to find them," reuters.com/ ... 01:42:39Millions of crickets have invaded Nice airport in southern France, causing no direct threat to air traffic but attracting birds who could pose a danger ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:37:52A team of scientists from Chicago's Field Museum in July uncovered a brewery in the mountains of southern Peru where members of the Wari Empire made an alcoholic beer-like drink called chicha more than 1,000 years ago. It wasn't just a mom-and-pop operation, but something that could deliver the goods when dozens, if not hundreds, of Wari decided it was chicha time.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:35:57Chunks of concrete have fallen from Wrigley Field's upper deck on at least three occasions since June, forcing stadium officials to install nets to protect fans from the crumbling debris. The situation raised fears that the Cubs might have to cancel games as the stadium worked to fix the problem, but the city deemed the 90-year-old stadium safe Friday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:33:04 Eugene Roche, a paunchy character actor... died Wednesday ... was 75... One of his most memorable movie roles was in 1971's "Slaughterhouse-Five," based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Roche played a likable POW named Edgar Derby, who amid the scorched remains of a firebombed Dresden picks up an intact porcelain figurine as a souvenir - and is promptly executed for looting by his German captors.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:30:46Strapped to a powerful explosive with a lit fuse, Lucky was tossed into a lake. But the explosive didn't blow up, and the rabbit was pulled out of the water. Now Lucky's owner and his friend face misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty after photos of the July 13 incident surfaced on the Internet.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 01:28:22ST. PETERSBURG -- A journalism professor received rabies shots after encountering a rabid bat while eating breakfast outside of a downtown cafe. "One minute, I'm eating breakfast, and the next, there's a bat crawling up my leg.''... trapped the bat with a restaurant tray....wftv.com/ ... 01:27:06Researchers say they finally have found a potent repellent to drive away sharks... derived from extracts of dead sharks news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:14:51Men who try hypnosis to help them quit smoking are more likely to succeed than women who use the same treatment, research shows.... might be because women find it hard to quit smoking generally.....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:54:07

Army Sgt. DeForest L. Talbert, 22, of Charleston, W.Va., died July 27 in Baladruc, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:53:43

Marine Lt. Col. David S. Greene, 39, of Raleigh, N.C., died July 28 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:53:24

Army Pfc. Ken W. Leisten, 20, of Cornelius, Ore., died July 28, in Taji, Iraq, when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:53:03

Army Spc. Joseph F. Herndon, II, 21, of Derby, Kan., died July 29, in Hawijah, Iraq, when he was shot while on guard duty.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:52:31

Marine Gunnery Sgt. Shawn A. Lane, 33, of Corning, N.Y., died July 28 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 01:35:19AUGUSTA, Maine - Dozens of same-sex couples filled out domestic partnership forms and paid $35 to be entered in a new state registry that went into effect Friday.

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:59:36Authorities say they forced possible elements of al-Qaida operating in New Mexico to postpone an attack in the state or California in May.

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 16:52:16The Death of Iraqi Prisoner No. 0310337 -- Nearly a year before photographs surfaced of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi man was beaten by Marines at a military jail in southern Iraq. His death was declared a homicide, the first POW death acknowledged as such by the U.S. military. But witness statements and military documents obtained by the Associated Press show who and what killed the prisoner may never be known.drudgereport.com/ ... 16:50:33Gen. Franks... recounts that much of his certainty that his troops would face attacks by banned weapons -- in particular biological or chemical arms -- came from private conversations with King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt....news.myway.com/ ... 14:51:52Two Frenchmen described as hell Friday their more than two years of detention in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay ... ["There were no baggettes, no cheese, no wine (oops we are Muslim we don't drink that fine French wine)... and ze veary worst of all, we were surrounded by Americans!] [dt/m3 "oops. bad dog. bad dog."]ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:34:29Three Army commanders admitted Friday that soldiers were told to cover up an incident in which two Iraqi civilians were forced off a bridge over the Tigris River, where family members say one of them drowned.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 01:33:53TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - Suicide bombers struck the U.S. and Israeli embassies along with the top prosecutor's office Friday, killing at least two Uzbeks and wounding nine others in nearly simultaneous attacks in the capital of Uzbekistan, a close U.S. ally in the war on terror.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:29:39Palestinian gunmen abducted three foreign church volunteers, including an American, in the West Bank city of Nablus late Friday, releasing them several hours later under pressure from Palestinian authorities and other militants

FRI 2004-JUL-30

Mechanical Disasterspacewar.com/ ... 20:27:02Fifteen people were killed and 112 injured in a gas pipeline explosion in Belgium early Friday, Defence Minister Andre Flahaut said, adding that it was "probably" an accident.

Digital Consequenceswashingtonpost.com/ ... 20:19:46Microsoft Corp. today released a new bundle of software patches for its widely used Internet Explorer Web browser, including a fix for a flaw that hackers have been using to target computer users since early June.

US Election 2004dailystar.com.lb/ ... 20:21:43"Fahrenheit 9/11," for those who haven't seen it, is the ugly stepchild of mistimed comedy and sentimentalism. It has no discernible narrative; it botches the points it tries to score with smug self-righteousness; it contradicts itself ceaselessly; it fails to construct a homogenous argument; it is haphazard, narcissistic, self-promoting, slapdash, intellectually dishonest, and even racist. The only possible way to value the movie as a movie is to regard it as spoof propaganda - a parodic take on Frank Capra for the dumbed-down 21st century. But of course the film is no such thing; it is propaganda straight, with no chaser. dailytimes.com.pk/ ... 20:19:30The timing of the announcement by Pakistan of the arrest of the al Qaeda suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, coincide as it did with the big night of the Democratic party convention, is raising a few eyebrows [in Washington]. President Pervez Musharraf said Friday that the arrest was made on Sunday. Why the information was held back for five days he did not make clear.nationalreview.com/ ... 14:13:54Michael Reagan declared he was "tired of the media's insistence on reporting that the Reagan 'family' is in favor of stem cell research, when the truth is that two members of the family have been long time foes of it...my dad, Ronald Reagan during his lifetime, and me."... Ron Reagan made absolutely no reference an alternative to embryonic stem cells that is decades more advanced and carries absolutely no moral baggage. "Adult stem cells"... Ronald McKay, a stem-cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, recently told the Washington Post. He labeled claims of an embryonic-stem-cell cure for Alzheimer's "a fairy tale."... So why do we keep hearing so much about "miraculous" embryonic stem cells? Because private investors know otherwise, pumping money into adult-stem-cell research and leaving embryonic-stem-cell labs and companies desperate to feed from the public trough.reuters.com/ ... 14:08:55 U.S. director Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was shown on prime time Cuban state-run television on Thursday after playing to packed cinemas for a week.

Reasons for Repealusatoday.com/ ... 20:26:25"I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test," he said. "I failed a drug test because I was ready to quit football."... He said he had been using a masking agent to cleanse his system while being randomly tested for two seasons but he didn't do that before the last test. Williams suffers from social-anxiety disorder and was a spokesman for the anti-depressant Paxil. He said marijuana helped him once he had to stop using Paxil because it didn't agree with his diet....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:24:17If our solution to drug abuse is prohibition, then we will ultimately fail in dealing with it, because prohibition will not always be the law of the land. Our solution to drug abuse has to be bigger and more foundational than the State and the shifting ambitions of politicians.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:25:29Conservatives talk about the rule of law, but turn a blind eye as the drug war violates the Constitution. Liberals rail about the freedom to make lifestyle choices, but then punish people for choosing drugs. In practice, laws are much more about political expediency and power than anything else.

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 00:10:58A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Pennsylvania law banning paid advertisements for alcohol in college newspapers is unconstitutional.

Aftermathabcnews.go.com/ ... 20:18:43For the first time in the nearly three years since the Sept. 11 attacks, a prisoner picked up as a potential terrorist and held nearly incommunicado at a U.S. prison in Cuba got a chance Friday to convince his jailers that he should go free.

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:07:40Iran's government will succeed in developing nuclear weapons by 2008, according to Israeli intelligence assessments.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:06:28Israeli nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu, who was recently released from prison on condition that he doesn't talk to media, said in an interview published yesterday that Israel has as many as 200 atomic bombs.washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:18:06The invisibly small particles and fibers that scientists are producing in the hot new field of nanotechnology pose health and environmental risks great enough to justify banning, for now, certain cosmetics now found on the U.S. market and also halting the deliberate release of nanomaterials into the environment, according to an independent report commissioned by the British government.... suggests that consumers would be best served by the labeling of products made with nanomaterials -- and by being educated about the science's benefits, lest it meet the same fate of negative public perception that has hobbled nuclear power and genetically engineered foods.....reuters.com/ ... 00:11:28China may attack Taiwan if the island's President Chen Shui-bian pushes ahead with a plan for a new constitution by 2008, the China Daily on Friday quoted a top Taiwan affairs official as saying.

Violencenytimes.com/ ... 20:25:16A suicide bomber blew himself up next to the car of Pakistan's prime minister-designate, Shaukat Aziz, after a political rally this evening, killing Mr. Aziz's driver but leaving Mr. Aziz unhurt... killed 6 people, including the suicide bomber, and wounded 45 canada.com/ ... 20:23:15 A loud explosion went off Friday in downtown Baghdad near an area with many hotels housing foreigners.... Overnight, fierce fighting between marines and Iraqi insurgents in the volatile city of Fallujah killed 13 Iraqis and wounded 14 others in a series of gunfights, mortar barrages and air strikes.... Many of those wounded, including at least one child, appeared to be civilians injured in the U.S. air strikes....reuters.com/ ... 20:18:31Palestinian militants set fire to a government building in the West Bank town of Jenin early on Saturday in anger at the mayor's refusal to meet their demands ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:10:01KABUL, Afghanistan - Three U.S. and two Afghan soldiers were wounded Thursday when a regional militia attacked their convoy in a remote province wracked by factional tension ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:07:34A doctor who won Mexico's Woman of the Year award was found dead in a canal a week after she was kidnapped

THU 2004-JUL-29

Supernaturalap.tbo.com/ ... 19:26:44Jackson Beck, a master of voice-over who bellowed "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" to introduce the "Superman" radio show... died Wednesday. He was 92.... doubled as villains, supporting characters and the Daily Planet copyboy, Beany, on the popular radio broadcasts of the 1940s... portrayed the bully Bluto in more than 300 "Popeye" cartoon

Watergate - a bit less with ussunherald.com/ ... 12:35:43Fred LaRue, a Richard Nixon White House aide and key player in the Watergate scandal, was found dead in his room at Biloxi's Sun Tan Motel on Tuesday morning. He was 75. With his passing goes a witness to a key conversation between Nixon and John Mitchell, his campaign chairman. ... Convicted of delivering payoff money to keep those in the know quiet about the Watergate break-in, LaRue served a stint in federal prison

Middle Earthnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:19:02The Lord of the Rings, was published 50 years ago. But what did critics of the day make of the book?... The Observer: "If Mr Tolkien's imagination had been equal to his invention, and his style equal to both, this book might have been a masterpiece."...

Preternatural Patternsboston.com/ ... 19:30:35Thousands of tons of cement sold to Palestinian businessmen at below-market prices by Egypt to help rebuild communities devastated by years of war with Israel have been resold at huge profits to the Israelis, for use in building Israel's controversial separation barrier and settlements in the occupied territories ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:27:05The Miss America pageant is pulling the plug on its talent competition news.com.au/ ... 12:02:01MICHAEL Jackson built his Neverland ranch with amusement rides to specifically abduct, abuse and seduce children, a court heard yesterday.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 12:22:24 an old phone handset wired up to a standard mobile phone concealed in the pocket... a gizmo he makes on the coffee table in his London apartment and sells on Ebay. He calls it the Pokia....theregister.co.uk/ ... 11:49:23Apple today described itself as "stunned" that Real Networks has dared to reverse engineer its FairPlay DRM system in order that Real's online music subscription service can be made compatible with the iPod.

US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:30:08[Florida] state GOP ...flier ...sent ..to some south Florida voters where a primary election is scheduled next month: "The new electronic voting machines do not have a paper ballot to verify your vote in case of a recount... Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today."capitolhillblue.com/ ... 13:08:11President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia,chron.com/ ... 12:31:46Using video clips of Kerry discussing Iraq on various talk shows, the Republican National Committee has put together an 11-minute video that traces how Kerry struggled with the issue of Iraq through 2003 and early 2004 reuters.com/ ... 12:20:35"The role is a whirlwind and also incredibly bizarre. You can talk about your dad in ways only you can do. Like you can tell reporters about the time he helped you memorize all the Beatles albums in chronological order, and God help you if you say 'Magical Mystery Tour' came before 'Sgt. Pepper's.'" --KRISTIN GORE, daughter of AL, telling The Washington Post what it's like when children get caught up in their fathers' presidential campaigns.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:14:48...self-deprecating jokes which are now an all-important part of the strategery - sorry, strategy - of any presidential campaign.news.bostonherald.com/ ... 12:13:01Promises of a Democratic convention windfall now seem as empty as Boston's streets... "Never in the 33 years we've been here have we seen anything like it,'' said George George, co-owner of the Albany Sandwich Shop in the South End, who said his business this week is off by as much as 50 percent. ``It's like a snowstorm in the middle of summer, only in a snowstorm we get the plow drivers.''floridatoday.com/ ... 12:10:27 the senator's campaign aides alleged the pictures were not supposed to be released publicly... NASA ...said the Kerry campaign asked that the pictures be taken spaceref.com/ ... 12:05:37 the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has told NASA to remove all images of Kerry's visit to KSC from all NASA web sites - immediately - due to Hatch Act concerns. These images have now been removed. Luckily, you can download the original pictures here
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drudgereport.com/ ... 12:04:28UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry: Two of John Kerry's three Purple Heart decorations (#1 and #3) resulted from self-inflicted wounds, not suffered under enemy fire. villagevoice.com/ ... 11:44:47Republicans are seen as the tough-minded ones who stick to their guns, while the Dems are viewed as a bunch of weak-asses. Like it or not, the conclusion will be that the country is safer in the hands of Republicans.

Only Naturalnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 19:22:51Hundreds of thousands of Scottish seabirds have failed to breed this summer in a wildlife catastrophe which is being linked by scientists directly to global warming.wired.com/ ... 19:22:24researchers reported that 60 cells are involved in sexual behavior. When they don't work properly, male fruit flies cannot complete specific steps of the courtship ritual and are unable to reproduce.csmonitor.com/ ... 00:09:44...But to really go "green," some entrepreneurs and academics say, you should try a Volkswagen Jetta... that a California electric-car company has modified so that it not only uses electricity but generates it for other purposes. So, once it's parked, you plug it in and sell excess electricity to a utility.

Human Rightnews.yahoo.com/ ... 16:15:14WASHINGTON - A government scientist finishing a candy bar on her way into a subway station where eating is prohibited was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police. Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can....pi.gn.apc.org/ ... 11:57:25Privacy International Announces Winners of 6th Annual Big Brother Awards: Worst Public Servant, Most Invasive Company, Most Appalling Project, Most Heinous Government Organisation....

Violencereuters.com/ ... 19:20:15A U.S. air strike destroyed a building in the Iraqi city of Falluja late on Thursday after a gunbattle between insurgents and U.S. Marines on the edge of the city, residents said. ...no immediate word on casualties.reuters.com/ ... 12:15:46Kidnappers holding seven foreign drivers hostage in Iraq threatened to "slaughter" one of them Friday if there was no answer to their demands reuters.com/ ... 12:02:15 Israel helicopter gunships killed a Palestinian militant leader and one of his gunmen in a missile strike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip Thursday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:17:34 The chief executive a Jordanian firm working for the U.S. military in Iraq said Tuesday he would pull out of the country to win the release of two employees kidnapped by militants and threatened with decapitation.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:08:13Three boys told police they beat to death a 55-year-old homeless man because they were "bored."

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 19:27:20 A 15-year-old Iraqi girl who came to America for medical treatment is seeking political asylum, claiming persecution at home because her family cooperated with the U.S. military.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:24:08The interior minister said it took the authorities a few days to make a positive identification of Mr Ghailani, but it had now been established beyond any doubt that he was the person wanted by the FBI. He described the arrest as "a phenomenal success" in Pakistan's efforts to wipe out al-Qaeda suspects and other Islamic militants in the country.reuters.com/ ... 12:15:23A major political conference to chart Iraq's path to democracy has been postponed for two weeks after pressure from the United Nations, raising concerns that elections planned for early next year might also be delayed abc.net.au/ ... 11:46:20International aid agencies have pledged not to follow Medecins Sans Frontieres and quit Afghanistan ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:45:23 Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein suffers from a chronic prostate infection and has refused to have a biopsy to rule out any chance he has cancer worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:06:18The Assyrian Assistance Center in Baghdad has claimed that a "calculated effort is underway to deny Assyrian Christians representation in the upcoming elections."

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:28:30A court hearing for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad was delayed briefly Thursday after Muhammad wriggled out of a chain strapped around his waist. ...for a few minutes he was in the courtroom with a lengthy chain gathered in his hands that authorities said was a potential weapon.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:27:39The government approved the first new drug to treat alcohol abuse in a decade on Thursday, a medicine called Campral that promises to help ward off relapses.cbsnews.com/ ... 19:21:36A newly disclosed letter confirmed charges by a former FBI interpreter that she was fired at least in part because she blew the whistle on incompetent workers at the bureau.news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:14:07The FBI warned police in California and New Mexico that it received information about possible terrorist activity in their states. ...wasn't specific about particular targets or a method of attack... considered unsubstantiated and uncorroborated...washingtontimes.com/ ... 12:32:58The Syrian singer of a band that was detained by the FBI's Terrorism Task Force for suspicious activity during a recent flight to Los Angeles has written about the "glorification" of suicide bombers to liberate Palestine. ... Mr. Mehana, widely known as the Syrian Wayne Newton...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:32:02An independent border-watch group claims it demonstrated the nation's vulnerability by sneaking into the United States a fake weapon of mass destruction.reuters.com/ ... 11:45:43 An Islamist militant group threatened Thursday to attack Muslim countries that send troops to Iraq as proposed by Saudi Arabia worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:02:35The New York City subway system, which runs directly under the site of this year's Republican National Convention, will operate as usual during the event, even though threats posted on the Internet have been directed at subways

WED 2004-JUL-28

'Til Love wakes, 'twill have to doreuters.com/ ... 21:32:26Economists searching for reasons why some nations are richer than others have found that those with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous

US Election 2004iht.com/ ... 21:20:56Michael Moore... has rejected plans to go to Crawford [Tx]....drudgereport.com/ ... 18:15:45Kerry reenacted combat scenes for film while in Vietnam observer.com/ ... 17:38:17throughout Hollywood, the purpose of the film has been thumbnailed after one of Mr. Spielberg’s most notable projects: "Saving Private Kerry."news.yahoo.com/ ... 17:37:24Spielberg helped select James Moll, the filmmaker who is producing the biopic introducing Kerry Thursday evening before the candidate's big speech. Spielberg is also playing an advisory role on all the film bio elements shown during the convention.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 21:30:35SK Telecom Co. began selling ...cellphones with ...a built in tracker using the global positioning satellite (GPS) network.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 03:04:47Electronic voting problems continue....

Only Naturalsports.espn.go.com/ ... 21:49:35The NFL says there is no way players can beat its drug test for marijuana by drinking liquid masking agents, as Ricky Williams says many players around the league routinely do. Those who make the substances suggest the NFL leadership is, well, smoking something.....ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:29:40An 11-foot alligator attacked a man pulling weeds along the shore of a lake, but he saved himself by punching the beast in the nose. The man was later arrested on grand theft charges unrelated to the incident... A trapper ...caught the 385-pound alligator, which was then killed.cbsnews.com/ ... 02:49:05Aron Perez, 11,... vicious shark attack... Sunday evening on a beach on the Gulf of Mexico... is in fair condition... “His dad started screaming, running at him, and I run from the other direction. And the screams sounded pretty good so I started emulating it and we run to it and started beating on the shark with the rods because it had Aaron by the arm at that time, and when he turned loose, his dad was beating on it on his side because he was on the shark’s side. I grabbed the boy and saw the injury and clamped off his arm above his elbow with my hand and held it and took him to the beach.”cbsnews.com/ ... 02:46:12Drinking too much causes serious problems, while drinking a little may help many people's health.cbsnews.com/ ... 02:45:19Siegfried and Roy... will never return to the stage, following Roy Horn's mauling by a tiger Oct. 3 thewbalchannel.com/ ... 02:36:04There may be more than one mystery animal running around Maryland thewbalchannel.com/ ... 02:35:33 Hyote

A mystery animal is on the loose in Baltimore County and not even the experts can pin down what it is.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 21:33:23Malaysia's guardian of Islamic law has banned Muslims from using text messaging to take part in prize-winning competitions

Reasons for Repealmindanews.com/ ... 23:42:25Albarena will be facing illegal possession of prohibited drugs as the police has now prepared formal charges against him. The seized marijuana will be brought to the regional police crime laboratory for further tests and to determine its actual volume weight....Albarena admitted he was lured into pushing marijuana by someone he could said he claimed he does not know after realizing the big amount he could earn, which is a far cry from what the P150 a day he earns as construction worker.... He said he started selling marijuana last July 10 so he could earn more to attend to the growing needs of his one-year-old boy....quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 23:40:45Marijuana prices are declining in British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, as the U.S. tightens border controls and more growers plant the crop icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 23:39:58... admitted one charge of rape and one charge of attempted kidnap.... Judge Graham Stone said the defendant suffered from an "untreatable and transitory" psychosis brought on by the use of cannabis.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:37:55 880,000 pounds is 400,000 kilos -- that's enough pot for 800,000,000 half-gram joints. And that's not what gets smoked; that's what gets seized. Interdiction estimates usually hover around 10 percent of the total supply, so tag on another zero to see how much is getting smoked -- just from Mexican-grown weed. Anyone know how to count to 8 billion?weny.com/ ... 23:36:06A town of Maine woman faces drug charged after holding a bake sale of "special" brownies at last weekend's Grassroots Festival in Tompkins County.stuff.co.nz/ ... 23:35:49The Green Party has accused the police of endangering pot smokers' health by poisoning cannabis plants Waikato police have confirmed they are spraying cannabis plants with a herbicide..jointogether.org/ ... 23:33:58The Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., spent $217,692 during the first half of 2004 to get a medical-marijuana initiative passed in Vermont... credited with Vermont adopting a medical-marijuana law... in May....krqe.com/ ... 23:32:32US agents have seized more than a ton of marijuana at the checkpoint south of Alamogordo over the last four days.wave3.com/ ... 22:05:09CAMPELLSBURG, Ky... more than $200,000 worth of marijuana... an unusually large batch spotted from a police helicopter. But ...the growers are getting much better at hiding it....kvbc.com/ ... 22:03:21The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and supporters of a failed proposal to ease the state's marijuana laws have filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to revive the measure in time for this year's general election.thehometownchannel.com/ ... 22:02:53Backers of a proposed initiative to legalize marijuana use for medical reasons in Arkansas are more than 30,000 signatures short of placing the issue on the ballot.euractiv.com/ ... 22:01:39EU seeks to crack down on cannabis... call for a raft of actions to be implemented... Joint Investigative Teams between Europol and Member States to dismantle criminal networks involved in large scale trafficking and distribution of cannabis... making the fight against cannabis an element of national politics and EU external relations... introducing information and training for parents, teachers, media professionals, prison staff and police officers about the health and social risks linked to the use of cannabis... introducing sanctions against Internet sites providing information on the cultivation of cannabis and promoting the use of cannabis...heraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 21:39:02A TEENAGER says she found a partially smoked marijuana cigarette in her frozen yogurt at a McDonald's in South Texas.1st McD's dude: Man, this part of the job isn't so bad. Pass me that joint.
2nd dude: I thought you had the joint, man.
Both dudes look around a while.
2nd dude: Forget it man. We'll look later. Let's get these parfaits finished....ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ... 17:26:10LSD has been used by 1.2% of the population and the users had a QOL score 10% lower than those who had never used psychotropic drugs. The group with the lowest quality of life was found to be persons who had used heroin, morphine, methadone, and a mixture of alcohol and tranquilizers (10-20% below the group with the highest quality of life).news.scotsman.com/ ... 17:24:52Customs officers seized £600,000 worth of cannabis at a UK ferry port... Around 200kg ...found in a lorry that arrived at Plymouth, Devon, on a ferry from Santander, northern Spain, early on Friday morning. ...57-year-old driver ...and his wife, 55, both British nationals living in Malaga, Spain, were arrested and questioned before being bailed.

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 21:27:39Small amounts of the food were eaten, but the babies had no symptoms... The jars of Gerber Banana Yogurt also contained notes that referred to an Irvine police officer, but their exact contents were not disclosed.reuters.com/ ... 21:19:13Two jars of Gerber baby food sold in Southern California tested positive for traces of the highly toxic poison ricin on Wednesday voanews.com/ ... 21:17:10Secretary of State Colin Powell is in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for talks with Saudi officials on Iraq, including a Saudi proposal for a Muslim security force that could at least partially replace the U.S.-led coalition.wtopnews.com/ ... 17:36:01A South African woman picked up in Texas almost 10 days ago may turn out to be a key, high-level al-Qaida operative.... Tuesday, the South African government issued a warning that Al-Qaida militants and other terrorists traveling through Europe had obtained South African passports, and authorities believe they got them from crime syndicates operating inside the government agency that issues the documents.cbsnews.com/ ... 02:45:52Iran is once again building centrifuges that can be used to make nuclear weaponry, breaking the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency's seals on the equipment in a show of defiance against international efforts to monitor its program iol.co.za/ ... 02:33:31An in-joke rather than a bomb hoax... "It can mean 'best on board' and indicates from the perspective of people on board the aircraft, whether it's passengers or whether it's cabin crew, that someone sitting in a particular seat looks good...."

Violencereuters.com/ ... 21:24:16A blast ripped through a mosque where Afghans were registering to vote on Wednesday, killing two people cnn.com/ ... 21:23:55A group calling itself The Islamic Army has released video showing the bodies of two Pakistani men it had taken hostage... released a third hostage -- an Iraqi -- because "he repented." [BASTARDS]apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:09:19Update: ...suicide car bomb ...outside a police recruiting center in central Baqouba on Wednesday killing 68 Iraqis ...killed 21 people inside a passing bus....
35 insurgents and seven Iraqi police were killed in clashes southeast of Baghdad
a U.S. soldier was killed in a bomb attack
a police officer was assassinated.reuters.com/ ... 02:31:33A Costa Rican policeman shot and killed three people on Tuesday inside the Chilean Embassy he was in charge of protecting and then turned the gun on himself in a dramatic hostage-taking... None of the seven surviving hostages was injured....reuters.com/ ... 02:27:23A car bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a police station in the restive town of Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing at least 13 people... as many as 80 people may have been wounded....local6.com/ ... 02:25:46A college student who took a cell phone call from her mother in a movie theater was pepper sprayed by an officer and charged with disorderly conduct, along with her boyfriend. Witness: "The man turned and asked the officer why he was making them leave and the cop just maced him in the face.... They weren't yelling or touching him. The man bent over and the girl asked why he maced her boyfriend. Then the cop maced her, and she dropped her soda."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:24:25Kashmir... five Indian police officers and two suspected separatists have been killed in a gun battle.

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 21:25:49An Army sergeant accused of carjacking a sheik's sport utility vehicle in Iraq testified Wednesday an officer told him to do it, and that he didn't think it was a criminal act.ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:25:32One of four soldiers charged with pushing two Iraqi civilians into a river, where one of them drowned, says he was ordered to do so and told what to say to officials looking into the death abc.net.au/ ... 21:18:18After 24 years the Medecins Sans Frontieres aid group is pulling out of Afghanistan... cites deteriorating security ...lack of progress in an investigation into the killing of five of its workers in June ...claims the coalition in Afghanistan is offering humanitarian aid in exchange for information on terrorists.apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:15:14"It's a moving film," Yeslam Binladin, a Geneva-based tycoon and one of the al-Qaida leader's 54 siblings, said in an interview with the French magazine VSD. "I even laughed at times," said Binladin, adding, "but a lot less when he states errors or inaccuracies about my family, knowing perfectly well that he's deceiving the public."mirror.co.uk/ ... 17:34:16Saddam Hussein has suffered a minor stroke and could die before his trial, his defence lawyers claim.foxnews.com/ ... 03:03:32CBS News -- which aired 30 reports on former Ambassador Joe Wilson's allegations that President Bush misled the country by saying Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium from Africa, has yet to report that two and a half weeks ago, a Senate Intelligence committee report undermined Wilson's account and cited intelligence indicating Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. The New York Times and Washington Post, meanwhile, each ran at least 70 stories on Wilson's allegations. But, according to the Washington Post itself, they have each run only 2 stories on the intelligence committee's conclusions regarding Saddam and Africa.....foxnews.com/ ... 03:00:56Clearly, changes are needed in the intelligence community. But no one should assume this means we weren't justified in waging war on Saddam Hussein. Doing so would neglect both the lessons we should have learned from Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein's threatening track record.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:23:18139... "bad guys" repatriated from [Guantanamo prison]... At least five of those released have "rejoined the fight", a Pentagon spokesman told BBC... But what of all the others, going back to home communities as far afield as Sudan and the UK?

TUE 2004-JUL-27

Supernaturalcanada.com/ ... 15:00:45Unaware of the fire, Hank Lierk [83] awoke when neighbours banged frantically on his front door. He stepped outside, saw the flames, and asked the young men for help. "My wife's still in there -- she can't walk," Dave Sullivan, 17, recalled him saying. Sullivan and his three friends didn't hesitate. They ran through the front door into the smoke and searched for the woman they knew was inside...

Haven't YOU always wanted to?reuters.com/ ... 10:41:11A four-year-old boy... at a Norwegian airport this week... hopped aboard a luggage conveyor belt... continued unnoticed through a trapdoor along with bags and suitcases about his size... ended abruptly when staff... noticed the boy in the X-ray machine and pressed the alarm button.

US Election 2004washingtonpost.com/ ... 02:07:55Washington Post Makes Printing Error -- Special Convention Issue in Boston Has 'Election 2000' Banner drudgereport.com/ ... 02:06:57A historic bombshell interview has surfaced of Teresa Heinz Kerry ripping Ted Kennedy and the Democrat political machine!

Digital Consequencestechnewsworld.com/ ... 14:35:24Just slip in to an MP3blue jacket from the German clothes manufacturer Rosner. It is equipped with a 128-megabyte MP3 player controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve, and headphones built into the collar. ... Alongside is a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, with the hands-free microphone inside the lapel, all fitted courtesy of German chipmaker Infineon. A tiny electronic module containing the player and the battery can be slipped out so the jacket can be washed.reuters.com/ ... 10:38:41TOKYO... counterfeiting... fake bills that cost more to make than their face value.... Experts estimate that it cost 1,000 yen ($9.10) to make each of the more than 400 bogus 1,000 yen notes that have turned up in vending machines in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo... "Police suspect a techno-maniac is involved...." made by replacing the middle strip of genuine notes with a color photocopy, and securing them with tape. To the human eye they are obviously bogus, but they fool some older vending machines....reuters.com/ ... 10:36:11All traffic to the former neo-Nazi Web Site "siegheil.de" has been redirected to "shoa.de," a site providing information on the origins of anti-Semitism and a detailed account of the Nazis' murder of some six million Jews.sfgate.com/ ... 02:06:18...The latest Mydoom began appearing between 5 and 6 a.m. on Monday, and had infected "tens of thousands of PCs" by early afternoon... "Never before have we seen something that uses search engines to supplement its address lists"....

Only Naturalusatoday.com/ ... 15:08:03A rising fastball. A slap shot to the chest. A wayward elbow as players battle for a rebound..... Commotio cordis takes place when a blunt impact over the heart occurs during a 20-millisecond window of the heartbeat, sending the victim into cardiac arrest. Only 15% of victims survive commotio cordis events... triggered by the timing of the blow, not the severity, so it is characterized by its lack of visible trauma to the heart itself mailtribune.com/ ... 15:02:17A teen outreach project featuring nylon necklaces strung with condoms was eliminated from a Planned Parenthood booth at the Jackson County Fair Thursday after outraged parents complained to officials... But a bowl of free candy-colored condoms was allowed to remain reuters.com/ ... 10:44:36Durex has donated... 130,000 free condoms... [and] 30,000 sachets of lubricant for the... Olympics, "to smooth the performance of the world's elite sports people in the arena and under the covers...."reuters.com/ ... 10:43:14an intrepid New Zealand tomtit... apparently dodged predators and braved open seas to fly more than 37 miles back to his lady-love... tiny black and white bird, tagged with the initials "RG," stunned conservation staff when he re-appeared... two months after he was transferred 63 km away to an island wildlife sanctuary, north of Auckland. "They weren't able to catch his mate and so they took the male tomtit and left his mate behind and he decided 'Bugger that, I'm going home', so he did...."local6.com/ ... 02:09:23... a home reportedly covered with feces and trash and filled with dozens of cats... a woman in her 90s sleeping with her son at her feet on a mattress... "You can smell it at the bottom of the road about 30 feet out...." "There's almost 3 inches of cat feces all over the house...."local6.com/ ... 02:04:49...new cable network ...targeting gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender viewers ...Among the shows on the Logo network is "Family Outing..." Cher and Chastity -- who is lesbian -- will tell stories of celebrities who came out of the closet.....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:51:31

Marine Lance Cpl. Vincent M. Sullivan, 23, of Chatham, N.J., died July 23 due to injuries received from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Human Rightfortwayne.com/ ... 15:04:26Two Fort Wayne Community Schools employees violated a student’s due-process rights by expelling him from Wayne High School in February 2003 for possessing nude pictures of himself taken by another student in the boys’ locker room, a federal magistrate ruled this week. "...was taking a shower in a place explicitly designated and designed for that activity and was, naturally, nude while doing so. To suggest that this conduct constitutes public indecency is the same as saying everyone who showers at the YMCA or athletic club commits a criminal act in the state of Indiana...."csmonitor.com/ ... 14:49:19The largest single group of defectors from North Korea, 230 people, arrived in South Korea Tuesday by jumbo jet from Vietnam - and Wednesday another 220 are expected to make the same journey canoe.ca/ ... 14:37:34IMMIGRATION OFFICERS are having to pore through naked pictures of hundreds of exotic dancers to keep impostors out of Canada. Foreign strippers planning to table dance in clubs here must now provide photos of themselves with no clothes on to qualify for a visa for Canada, immigration officials say. "Stage photos during performances are required...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:30:38A man who married his partner of 23 years after gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts .... Donald Henneberger, formerly Donald Smith, recently received a letter from the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, N.H., denying his request for a name change on his passport. The center said it would not recognize a marriage license for a same-sex couple as proof of a name change.boston.com/ ... 10:25:31Two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from randomly inspecting passengers' bags... say the searches violate the Fourth Amendment because they don't require information that the person searched is suspected of criminal activity....

Rebuildingcsmonitor.com/ ... 14:50:42"Labor and Materials" is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show. In 15-minute episodes, broken windows are made whole again. Blasted walls slowly rise again. Fancy furniture and luxurious carpets appear without warning in the living rooms of poor families. Over six weeks, houses blasted by US bombs regenerate in a home-improvement show for a war-torn country.

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:27:31Four French nationals captured by US troops in Afghanistan have been transferred home from the US military base in Guantanamo Bay.... "The last we heard suggested they were in a poor psychological condition," lawyer Jacques Debray said....

Threatsstraitstimes.asia1.com.sg/ ... 14:54:21Air China Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday midway through its flight from Beijing to Changsha... 32-year-old librarian at a Chinese university, demanded a reroute to South Korea... He is believed to be mentally ill... threatened to spray sulphuric acid on the flight crew and fellow passengers unless the plane was diverted... None of the other 107 passengers was harmed.janes.com/ ... 14:52:05The US armed forces infrastructure, and American society at large, remain vulnerable to a debilitating attack by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by a high-altitude nuclear blast, a senior-level, congressionally appointed panel has warned.cnn.com/ ... 14:35:57Egyptian officials in Cairo and Washington Tuesday dismissed a CNN report that Egypt had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom to win the release of an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq.sfgate.com/ ... 14:32:34written on the... air sickness bag... left it in one of the... toilets. the letters... "B O B"... which crew members took to mean "Bomb On Board"...ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:31:24The chief executive a Jordanian firm working for the U.S. military in Iraq said Tuesday he would pull out of the country to win the release of two employees kidnapped by militants and threatened with decapitation.usatoday.com/ ... 10:24:23The United States on Tuesday issued a veiled warning to Afghanistan's jilted defense minister not to undermine the country's fragile security.abc.net.au/ ... 10:24:11United Airlines flight that had left Sydney for Los Angeles this afternoon returned to Sydney airport... a note... [and] an object was found on board which raised security suspicions...

Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:33:54A major American Muslim charity and seven of its officers were charged Tuesday with providing millions of dollars in support to Hamas... Ashcroft said, "Today, a U.S.-based charity that claims to do good works is charged with funding the works of evil."ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:32:49An explosion Tuesday damaged a house outside Fallujah and injured six Iraqis... three women, including two who were in serious condition, two men and a child reuters.com/ ... 02:09:52Insurgents fired at least one mortar round in central Baghdad early Tuesday, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding another

MON 2004-JUL-26

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 16:09:03An 11-year-old Texas boy was in guarded condition on Monday after a shark attacked him at a beach on the Gulf of Mexico where was fishing.

Mobile Lifestylereuters.com/ ... 15:18:08"People have become extremely busy, especially in the Paris region. We help them get to their food faster," said Michael Joly, who says his new "Drive-in Joly" boulangerie is the first in France and caters to about 200 customers per day.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 15:03:16"Traders are kind of like rock stars," said David Nelson, a lead guitarist for The Turtles who traded in his 1959 Stratocaster, long hair and leather pants for a briefcase and suspenders in the world's financial capital. "It's an exciting personality -- and hedge funds are 'la creme de la creme,'" said Nelson, 56, who is now rocking on a new stage as the head of his own hedge fund company....store.yahoo.com/ ... 14:04:39Planned Parenthood is proud to offer yet another t-shirt in our new social fashion line: "I Had an Abortion" fitted T-shirts are now available.

US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 14:06:33Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic nominee John Kerry, told a reporter to 'shove it' on Sunday evening -- immediately after giving a speech calling for a more civil tone in politics.news.bostonherald.com/ ... 14:03:41Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, a key factor in John Kerry's primary sweep and the primetime convention speaker tomorrow, has derided blacks, southerners and easterners as bad speakers because she couldn't understand them.

Digital Consequencesedition.cnn.com/ ... 16:10:19[Google] Monday was unable to provide search results to a number of Web surfers, probably because of a variant of the MyDoom virus. Yahoo and Lycos may also have experienced some sluggish behavior....forbes.com/ ... 14:00:18Hewlett-Packard and wireless concern T-Mobile [announce] ...new hybrid device ...combines ...PDA with ..mobile phone... [and] Wi-Fi networking.... If there's a good Wi-Fi connection nearby, it will forgo the slower GPRS connection.... Motorola... very similar announcement ...as soon as this week.... about a handheld mobile phone [with]... Wi-Fi... wonder if Palmone... maker of... a PDA/wireless phone combination, and... a Wi-Fi ready PDA, is not far behind... What you won't see, at least initially, is direct support for making voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) voice calls over the Internet via the Wi-Fi connection. ...supports only the 802.11b version of the Wi-Fi standard ...only 10 megabits per second ...won't support ...802.11g ...at 54 megabits per second... [In development:] 802.11p... concerns maintaining a Wi-Fi connection while moving at a high rate of speed... 802.11r... all about handing off a connection from one hot spot to another.... It's not there yet, but its day is coming.billboard.com/ ... 13:42:49RealNetworks has developed a technology solution that makes tracks from its RealPlayer Music Store compatible with Apple Computer's iPod... [IN A TYPICAL FOOL-HEADED REALPLAYER TYPE SOLUTION:] Real's solution to the compatibility problem is to give consumers two files of the same song when they purchase a track... the normal file, designed for playback via ...RealPlayer... second is a transparent, "optimized" file that is not seen in the music collection but resides on the user's hard drive. ...used specifically for transfer to a portable device.... [yawwwnnnnn]

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:41:36

Army Sgt. Tatjana Reed, 34, of Fort Campbell, K.Y. died July 22 in Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy vehicle.

Human Right ojp.usdoj.gov/ ... 17:09:42Over 20% of the state prison population is from Prohibition violation. Over half from non-violent offenses

Most serious offense	Percent of sentenced State inmates
Most serious offense	1995		2001
Total	100	%	100	%
Violent	47		49
Property	23		19
Drug	22		20
Public-order	9		11

apnews.myway.com/ ... 17:05:25A record 6.9 million adults were incarcerated or on probation or parole last year, nearly 131,000 more than in 2002... 3.2 percent of the adult U.S. population, or 1 in 32 adults... Almost half of all probationers were convicted of a felony... 25 percent convicted of a drug violation.reuters.com/ ... 15:23:44OSLO (Reuters) - Angry hotel workers in Norway want to ban pay-TV pornography to stop naked porn-watching guests calling room service to lure female staff to their rooms. [TYPICAL PROHIBITIONIST RESPONSE: DEPRIVING THE HOTEL OF REVENUE AND OTHER GUESTS OF THEIR LUXURY TO ENJOY THE SHOWS BECAUSE OF A FEW KOOKS WHO OUGHT TO BE ARRESTED. DON'T BLAME PORN FOR WHAT SOME WEIRDOS DO. BLAME THE WEIRDOS!]

Kindnessreuters.com/ ... 15:20:39TOKYO... a mystery philanthropist... donated a $1.8 million lottery ticket to help victims of recent torrential rainstorms.....

Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:03:33Morocco has warned Spain that it has lost track of hundreds [400] of Moroccans who trained in al-Qaeda camps news.com.au/ ... 17:02:55Sydney International Airport... Passengers had not yet boarded Emirates flight 413, headed for Dubai... a stanley [boxcutter] knife... found on a seat during a routine security inspection...cnsnews.com/ ... 16:12:11Australia said Monday it would not be moved by new terror warnings related to its military involvement in Iraq and stood by its earlier criticism of countries that chose to withdraw troops from Iraq under threat of terrorism. "We will not take any notice of threats of that kind," Prime Minister John Howard told reporters. "We will not parlay and negotiate with terrorists, and I believe the overwhelming majority of the Australian public will agree with us."ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:02:20Phillipines President Arroyo: "The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives... "Sacrificing Angelo dela Cruz would have been a pointless provocation. It would have put the lives of 1.5 million Filipinos in the Middle East at risk by making them a part of the war.... Ask yourself this, if Angelo dela Cruz had been sacrificed, what would have changed for the better in Iraq today?" The United States, Australia and other allies have sharply criticized Arroyo's pullout decision, saying it encouraged more kidnappings in Iraq and broke the Philippines' commitment to the U.S.-led coalition there.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 16:11:19An Egyptian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq last week said on Monday his captors had freed him and he was safely at Egypt's embassy in Baghdad. "No deals were made"....seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 15:25:20Pirates killed 30 seafarers worldwide in the first six months of the year - the highest toll in more than a decade...ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:56:58A bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, injuring three American soldiers ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:56:26The smaller of Colombia's two main leftist rebel groups kidnapped a Catholic bishop but planned to set him free bearing a political message for the government,ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:56:02A suicide car bomber attacked near a U.S. base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul... a woman and a child standing nearby and an Iraqi guard were killed. Three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi guards were injured...nytimes.com/ ... 14:01:34An Air China airliner was hijacked Monday and the incident has been resolved... no details [China!]voanews.com/ ... 13:51:24Indonesia ...a small bomb exploded at the election commission offices. No one was injured ...minor damage to a ladies toilet in the building in central Jakarta.reuters.com/ ... 13:25:34A senior Iraqi Interior ministry official was gunned down near his home in Baghdad eight people killed by insurgents Monday two Jordanian drivers were taken hostage outside a U.S. base near the Syrian border

SUN 2004-JUL-25

Olympicsap.washingtontimes.com/ ... 20:26:21Torture equipment used by Saddam Hussein's slain son, Odai, to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes was displayed Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the opening of the Olympics next month in Athens.

US Election 2004washtimes.com/ ... 11:31:46[Kerry] campaign picked as its press-pass logo for its Motor City tour the gleaming showcase car of a foreign auto company -- Rolls-Royce... "That's an insult to the auto worker, it's an insult to the American worker, it's an insult to mainstream America," said Sam Burwell from Corunna, Mich., a third-generation auto worker for General Motors. "It also shows who he's really in touch with: his European, elitist French friends and not Americans like me. A Rolls-Royce, for cryin' out loud."apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:24:29the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.drudgereport.com/ ... 03:23:54...some of President Bush's missing records from his time in the Air National Guard were found today... DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe:... "The supposed discovery of these records on Friday afternoon, as reporters converge on Boston to cover the Democratic National Convention, is highly questionable...."

Digital Consequencessanmateocountytimes.com/ ... 11:23:24Google Inc.'s right to use the name "Froogle" for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com.thestar.com/ ... 11:16:17Walkman... Sony's little music machine turns 25 -- yes, it's been that many years since public conversations died

Only Naturaltheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 20:29:50In Padang, on the western coast of Sumatra island, people fled their homes in panic when the quake struck... also felt in tall buildings in Jakarta... Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago nation, is prone to earthquakes because of its location on an arc of volcanos and oceanic trenches encircling the Pacific Basin. [More like: Indonesia IS an arc of volcanos]....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 20:28:14A powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia's South Sumatra province at around 22:00 (local time) Sunday... no immediate report of fatality but land cracking was found in the area....apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:14:07Bangladesh... India... combined death toll in both countries...762... 535 fatalities in India.... in Bangladesh ...227 people have been killed by massive flooding.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:12:22The smallest, lightest animal with a backbone... minuscule fish, called a stout infantfish ...about 7mm (just under a quarter of an inch) long.... lives around Australia's Great Barrier Reef.... and has snatched the "world's smallest vertebrate" title from the 1cm-long dwarf goby fish....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:09:11An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed two people, injured 40 and destroyed hundreds of homes

Reasons for Repealobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 14:34:32SELF-JUSTIFYING PROPAGANDA MACHINE KEEPS GOVERNMENT CRIMINALIZING INNOCENT CITIZENS New super-strength marijuana [DON'T THEY EVER TIRE OF RETREADING THIS WORN-OUT OLD BARN FLOOR DECORATION?] readily available on US streets [NOT HERE!] is prompting the White House [UNCARING ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS OR THE CONSTITUTION OR CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLE] to change direction [FOR THE WORSE!] in its war against [SOME] drug[-ENJOYING CITIZEN]s.... [ETC ETC AD NAUSEUM FOR DECADES! REPEAL! REPEAL! REPEAL!]news.independent.co.uk/ ... 14:31:19PEOPLE DANGEROUSLY UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT: Children to get jabs against drug addiction -- Ministers consider vaccination scheme. Heroin, cocaine and nicotine targeted... Such vaccinations are being developed by pharmaceutical companies [SLOAGAN: WE WANT TO BE YOUR NEW DRUG PUSHERS] and are due to hit the market within two years.... Professor David Nutt, a leading government drugs adviser... [HEELLLLP! LORD! SAVE US FROM THE INSANE TYRANNY OF THESE UNHAPPY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE EVERYONE AS UNHAPPY AS THEY ARE!]

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:23:00

Army Pvt. 1st Class Torey J. Dantzler, 22, of Columbia, La. died July 22, in Samarra, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated on the side of the road near his convoy vehicle.

Threatsboston.com/ ... 20:27:17The CIA has intelligence agents inside Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network -- as it did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- but they are not within the terrorist leader's inner circle where key information about any future attack would be discussed telegraph.co.uk/ ... 20:26:45A key September 11 suspect who disappeared eight days before the attacks on the World Trade Centre has broken his cover by emailing his wife in Germany, prompting Pakistani police to renew their hunt for him.voanews.com/ ... 11:21:27Australia's foreign minister is blaming Spain and the Philippines for encouraging an Islamic militant group to threaten Australia with terrorist attacks, if it does not withdraw from Iraq.channels.netscape.com/ ... 01:09:24Israel's Security Minister warned Saturday of a possible attack on a Jerusalem mosque that is Islam's third holiest shrine by Israeli right wing groups seeking to derail a plan to pull out of Gaza.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 01:08:06South Korea and the United States agreed Friday in Washington to complete the planned relocation of the US military command out of Seoul by 2008, one year behind its previous schedule.

Violenceswissinfo.org/ ... 20:35:11A court in southern China has convicted 52 people of selling infants on the black market, sentencing six to death and five to life in prison.... accused of trafficking 118 babies and was involved in two high-profile cases in March 2003 in which 28 baby girls were discovered in travel bags on a bus and 13 other babies were found being smuggled in the southern region of Guangxi.voanews.com/ ... 11:15:06Palestinian security and medical sources say...at a house in Gaza City Sunday, wounding at least three people.reuters.com/ ... 11:10:23Eight Afghan soldiers have been wounded in an erroneous aerial bombardment by U.S. forces in central Afghanistan reuters.com/ ... 11:10:02Pakistan said on Sunday it believed two nationals missing in Iraq had been kidnapped as the wife of one of the men made an emotional plea for their release.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:10:16SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A state senator learned his nephew had been killed in Iraq as the Illinois Senate debated death benefits for military personnel during Saturday's special budget session.nytimes.com/ ... 01:07:25Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip took over a government building for several hours on Saturday

SAT 2004-JUL-24

Olympicsap.tbo.com/ ... 11:39:31Contrary to the modern stereotype, the [ancient Olympic] games weren't tightly scripted Homeric epics in which warriors dropped their weapons every four years to honor the twin virtues of amateur sport and brotherhood.... plagued by cheating, scandal, gambling and outsized egos.... emperor Nero bribed the judges to include poetry reading as an event. They also declared him the chariot champion, overlooking that he fell out and never finished the race.....

US Election 2004washtimes.com/ ... 11:31:46[Kerry] campaign picked as its press-pass logo for its Motor City tour the gleaming showcase car of a foreign auto company -- Rolls-Royce... "That's an insult to the auto worker, it's an insult to the American worker, it's an insult to mainstream America," said Sam Burwell from Corunna, Mich., a third-generation auto worker for General Motors. "It also shows who he's really in touch with: his European, elitist French friends and not Americans like me. A Rolls-Royce, for cryin' out loud."apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:24:29the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.drudgereport.com/ ... 03:23:54...some of President Bush's missing records from his time in the Air National Guard were found today... DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe:... "The supposed discovery of these records on Friday afternoon, as reporters converge on Boston to cover the Democratic National Convention, is highly questionable...."

Only Naturalstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 03:25:12Japan's top science council voted Friday to adopt policy recommendations that would permit the limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:16:16A dissident veterinarians group was kicked out of the American Veterinary Medical Association's annual convention after it ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times accusing the medical association of "betraying" farm animals.

Repercussionsap.tbo.com/ ... 11:41:43Spanish police found a rental car used by the Madrid train bombers, but much of the evidence was lost after the rental company cleaned the vehicle before police conducted forensics tests

peacereuters.com/ ... 11:30:11The United States pledged 50,000 tons of food aid on Friday for North Korea this year journalnow.com/ ... 03:27:15MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnians and foreign dignitaries celebrated yesterday the reopening of a more than 400-year-old stone bridge that became a symbol of the senseless brutality of Bosnia's war when shells destroyed it in 1993. ..."This is a good chance to allow our children to put behind all the evil of the war..." war ...killed 260,000 people and drove another 1.8 million from their homes.....

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 03:22:23Security experts all believe al Qaeda is determined to launch an attack on the United States and if it can will try to use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission said on Friday. "Every single one of them expects an attack,"

9/11 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 03:21:25as the final report of the Sept. 11 commission makes clear, the passengers' actions displayed a small group's ability to quickly grasp something brand-new, figure out what it meant and dream up and execute a plan at a moment of extreme stress and unimaginable fear. ..."We are sure that the nation owes a debt to the passengers of United 93. Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the Capitol or the White House from destruction."

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 11:42:44A roadside bomb exploded Saturday near a vehicle carrying religious students in the southern city of Karachi, killing one person and injuring seven....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:42:09Gunmen kidnapped the head of an Iraqi government-owned construction company in Baghdad on Saturday etaiwannews.com/ ... 03:11:40"The terrorists had essentially ordered the Filipino troops out, and that was a violation of Filipino sovereignty that a small group of terrorists told the Philippine government what to do and the government did it. That's the concern," U.S. Charge d'Affaires Joseph Mussomeli told DZBB radio yesterday.... "The issue is whether once you make a commitment to do something, whether you follow through with it," he said, but added that Washington was not looking "to punish the Philippines in any way."

FRI 2004-JUL-23

Digital Consequencesigargoyle.com/ ... 18:25:15display pixelated images from your cellphone on your shirt or sleeve

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 18:18:12President Bush told African Americans on Friday he wanted their vote and acknowledged his Republican Party had "a lot of work to do" to win the support of blacks,

History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:17:03Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale and other characters from history may soon be able to speak again, as scientists perfect techniques to recover the sound from recordings that are far too delicate to be played.

Only Naturalpressherald.mainetoday.com/ ... 18:24:21A Madison man who has undergone three cardiac surgeries said he was feeling "lighter and 100 years younger" after he survived a lightning strike this week.foxnews.com/ ... 18:23:29A woman who was mauled by an alligator died Friday in surgery to treat an infection caused by the animal's vicious bites.wftv.com/ ... 18:15:53VERO BEACH, Fla. -- A 16-foot-long Burmese python was captured on a city street after a passing motorist spotted about three feet of it hanging over a curb and called police.

Preternatural Patternscontracostatimes.com/ ... 18:11:48[Again!] Linda Ronstadt's political message sent close to a hundred concert-goers home early Thursday evening.

Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 18:01:58HOBE SOUND, Fla.... town house collapsed during construction, ...two workers [died]... Five other[s] ...injured.

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 18:21:03Colombian police have seized 5.5 tons of cocaine with a U.S. street value of $110 million in the biggest haul of the illegal drug for years [REMOVE THE BLACK MARKET! KILL THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVE OF GANGSTERS! REPEAL PROHIBITION!]

9/11 - still with usdaily.nysun.com/ ... 18:52:43according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four separate times... one can’t help but to ponder who might best defend the country going forward, and how.

Threatsboston.com/ ... 18:14:40The Democratic National Convention will attract thousands of visitors armed with laptop computers that feature wireless Internet access. ...could be a formula for disaster, according to a Boston data security firm...news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:13:33FBI began warning the U.S. news networks and divisions Thursday night of a "credible" terrorist threat targeting media vehicles during the Democratic National Convention in Boston next week.

Justice?voanews.com/ ... 18:05:38Indonesia's constitutional court has overturned the country's tough anti-terror law. Friday's decision casts doubt on recent convictions, in particular those involving the deadly bomb attack on the island of Bali in 2002.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 18:22:31An Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza that killed two Palestinian militants was aimed at a man believed to have jubilantly displayed the severed head of an Israeli soldier two months ago nytimes.com/ ... 18:09:50This morning, when the four brigade militants returned to try to set down a launcher along the road running in front of the Al-Za'nin house, the family members spoke up in anger. ...worried that Israeli troops would eventually retaliate against them, possibly even destroying their two-story stucco house.... members of the family ...argued with four militants, ...militants started firing in the air. ...fired off several shots directly at the family. ...[woman] struck in the back, an 18-year-old nephew was struck in the ear, and a 20-year-old nephew was struck in the hand. ...one nephew, ...15 ...hit in the back ...died. ...bullet penetrated the boy's heart. ..."Even if we ask them not to fire from our land, that doesn't give them permission to shoot at us"...quote.bloomberg.com/ ... 18:03:52U.S. aircraft attacked a hideout of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network in the Iraqi city of Fallujah early today... struck the courtyard ...where between 10 and 12 suspects were gathered... house was left intact, ...[no] details of casualties....usatoday.com/ ... 17:59:42A powerful car bomb exploded Friday as a convoy of U.S. military vehicles passed by, seriously wounding at least four American soldiers and raining debris over a wide area foxnews.com/ ... 17:56:22Militants in Iraq took an Egyptian diplomat hostage Friday and demanded his country forsake any plans it had to send security experts

THU 2004-JUL-22

LOL ROFLMAOreuters.com/ ... 10:57:15

...suing popular surfwear manufacturer Billabong for selling a bikini that features his [Peter Frampton's] face on the rear and the phrase "Baby, I love your waves."...img: Szereplok

Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 10:51:21

...Germany's economy minister was so confident a new benefits scheme was easy to grasp that he invited anyone who could not understand it to give him a call.....reuters.com/ ... 10:46:38

A South African woman mistakenly plunked a 100-year-old gold coin worth more than $1,000 into a parking meter while shopping without her glasses... She appealed to city authorities to keep a lookout for the Kruger sovereign when counting parking meter proceeds.

Only Naturalvoanews.com/ ... 23:20:5618-Year Moratorium on Commercial Whaling Remains in Force forbes.com/ ... 23:20:18Strokes are most common on Mondays... least likely to strike the day before....nzherald.co.nz/ ... 18:33:45The weight of floodwater in the eastern Bay of Plenty is believed to have triggered the swarm of earthquakes that have rocked the region. Since Sunday the area has experienced hundreds of earthquakes. They began after more than 250mm of rain fell in 48 hours.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:28:50The New Mexico Health Department is standing behind a sex-education teacher in Santa Fe who encouraged ninth-graders to taste flavored condoms. "Come on, sweetie, have a little fun."esa.int/ ... 18:27:17Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment blocks have been accepted as a leading cause of large ship sinkings. Results from ESA's ERS satellites helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and are now being used to study their origins.wftv.com/ ... 18:14:23...30-pound barracuda jumped into his boat and bit him....reuters.com/ ... 10:57:55

...soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.reuters.com/ ... 10:54:15

...meteorite from Mars has been discovered in Antarctica... "We've gotten something like 13,000 meteorites from Antarctica and this is only the sixth one from Mars... [This] 700 gram rock (about 1.5 pounds)... by meteorite standards it's a mountain of material."reuters.com/ ... 10:48:35

A woman fought a 10-minute battle with a 12-foot alligator on a Florida tourist resort island on Wednesday, escaping with arm and leg injuries... a man who helped the woman: "...like a tug-of-war almost,"
alligators... tend to shy away from humans. Saltwater crocodiles are considered far more aggressive.reuters.com/ ... 10:36:25

A Year On, Baghdad Zoo Faces Uncertain Future... The young South African zoologist lovingly scratches the head of a cheetah that once belonged to Saddam Hussein's sadistic son Uday....abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:34:04

Sonar used by the military to spot enemy submarines is to blame for increasing cases of whales being stranded on beaches and dying, the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission said in a report this week.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 10:20:19

A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only, like humans, after a near death experience.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 23:21:59The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to curb same-sex marriage on Thursday after rejecting concerns the measure may be unconstitutional.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:36:08

Army Pfc. Nicholas H. Blodgett, 21, of Wyoming, Mich., died July 21, in Abdalluyah, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:35:40

Army Spc. Danny B. Daniels, II, 23, of Varney, W.V., died July 20, in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol vehicle came under attack by small arms fire and hit an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:35:09

Marine Lance Cpl. Mark E. Engel, 21, of Grand Junction, Calif., died July 21 at Brook Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of wounds he received as result of enemy action on July 6 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:34:31

Marine Staff Sgt. Michael J. Clark, 29, of Leesburg Lake, Fla., died July 20 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq

Reasons for Repealnews.com.au/ ... 23:53:52

...raid by police yesterday on a house in Findon ...elaborate cannabis growing operation ...one plant that filled a whole room... 50 cannabis plants, worth an estimated $150,000... One room housed a single plant that filled the entire room. Superintendent Barry Lewis of Port Adelaide CIB said the crop had been cultivated for some time.news.scotsman.com/ ... 23:52:49

THE INSANITY JUST CHANGES ITS RHETORIC, BUT GOES ON There have been “significant” falls in the number of arrests for cannabis possession since the drug was downgraded to Class C, Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland of Asthal said today.... “We are working with police forces, to monitor the policing of drug offences since cannabis was reclassified. Initial feedback is highly encouraging. Police time can be redeployed to tackle Class A drug dealing offences ... “We have also started a health messages campaign to highlight the particular harm of cannabis.”team4news.com/ ... 23:51:01

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Mexican officials have discovered eight and a-half tons of marijuana stored at a house in a luxurious neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez.lasvegassun.com/ ... 23:50:38

A new trial granted to Jessica Williams, found guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana in the deaths of six teenagers on a southern Nevada road crew.... The former exotic dancer, sentenced to 18 to 48 years in prison, maintained she had used marijuana before the accident but was not impaired when her car, traveling about 75 miles per hour, went off Interstate 15 and plowed into the youngsters who were part of a juvenile detention crew cleaning up the side of the freeway. She said she fell asleep at the wheel.newsnet5.com/ ... 23:49:07

A drug bust in an Ashtabula County home is preventing over $1.6 million worth of marijuana from hitting the streets ... 931 pounds of marijuana... [STOP THIS INTERFERENCE WITH FREE TRADE AND HUMAN ENJOYMENT!! REPEAL!]thesouthern.com/ ... 23:48:10

A man police describe as a "major cannabis dealer in the Jefferson County area" was arrested on Monday with an alleged co-conspirator. A third suspect got away. ...seized 35 pounds of cannabis, one ounce of cocaine, 100 Ecstasy pills, 8 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and 1.7 grams of a substance containing what may be LSD.kesq.com/ ... 23:46:25

CAMP VERDE, Ariz. ...deputy pulled the man over ...for allegedly following too close ... and weaving.... man seemed nervous... gave his permission.... 448 pounds of marijuana in the cab's sleeper section.The driver, 23-year-old Jose Manuel Jimenez [PROFILED!] ...estimates ...street value of more than one (m) million dollars [STOP THE BLACK MARKET MONETARY INCENTIVE! REPEAL!]...dailyhome.com/ ... 23:43:32

TALLADEGA COUNTY... ...arrests of a brother and sister... who live with their mother... 22 mature marijuana plants, some more than 7 feet tall.... in the back yard of the house... among several tomato plants. ...on a second floor rear balcony... visible for several blocks along Tanner Street.... drug paraphernalia, specifically rolling papers and pipes.... ...punishable upon conviction by 10 to 99 years or life in prison. [STOP THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL SENTENCING! REPEAL!] ...arrests originated with a complaint from a citizen, and was verified by task force officers driving down Tanner Street....newsfromrussia.com/ ... 23:40:13

...Moscow ...federal drug control service ...liquidation of wild hemp crops ...discovered during the investigation of the activities of two drug dealers from Zaraisk... crops covered ...3 hectares... 15 tons of marijuana were liquidated... the drug dealers will go to trial in August.... REPRESSIVE TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENTS DO IT -- A "FREE" COUNTRY WOULD NOT tulareadvanceregister.com/ ... 23:37:46

Tulare County sheriff's deputies ...discovered the marijuana garden along Highway 245, four miles below Badger... seized 7,699 marijuana plants ... no arrests. ...estimated street value of the plants, if they had been allowed to mature, was more than $30 million. [BWAHHAH HAAH HA -- REPEAL! Remove black market monetary incentives!] ...evidence at the scene could lead to the growers' identities....masslive.com/ ... 23:35:03

Holyoke police officers yesterday trudged through poison ivy and deer tick-infested woods along Jones Point on the Connecticut River to confiscate 26 marijuana plants. [Protect the Police! Another serious reason for repeal!]wstm.com/ ... 23:33:36

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. A Binghamton-area sheriff's detective is on leave after state police found marijuana plants growing outside his home.theglobeandmail.com/ ... 23:32:44

Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday he plans to reintroduce legislation this fall that would decriminalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana -- 15 grams or less. Statistics Canada released a survey showing that, between 1989 and 2002, the percentage of Canadians 15 and over who admitted using cannabis in the previous year almost doubled -- from 6.5 per cent to 12.2 per cent. The would mean three million people in this country smoked dope in 2002.reuters.com/ ... 10:50:17Two Britons were found guilty on Wednesday of an elaborate plot to smuggle cocaine into the country by surgically implanting packets of the drug inside

two Labrador dogs... a drugs package... burst inside [one of the dogs]....hempcity.net/ ... 01:34:49

Prime reasons for repeal

Threatswashingtontimes.com/ ... 18:31:16Flight crews and air marshals say Middle Eastern men are staking out airports, probing security measures and conducting test runs aboard airplanes for a terrorist attack.... At least two midflight incidents have involved numerous men of Middle Eastern descent behaving in what one pilot called "stereotypical" behavior of an organized attempt to attack a plane....foxnews.com/ ... 18:30:24A report of a bomb aboard a Turkish merchant ship Thursday forced the U.S. Coast Guard to escort the vessel away from the port of Philadelphia and anchor it near the mouth of the Delaware River, where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean... the captain later told authorities he'd been joking about the bomb....reuters.com/ ... 18:15:57Boston-bound Amtrak train was stopped and searched by police in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday after a passenger reported a suspicious note, but the train was allowed to proceed reuters.com/ ... 10:40:40knife-resistant kid's sweatshirts and coats are the latest products aimed at providing parental peace of mind in a Japan horrified by a series of gruesome attacks on children....abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:16:16A Washington-to-New York Amtrak train was detained for more than an hour Thursday morning while police questioned passengers, checked identifications and searched overhead luggage racks.

Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 14:33:34Al-Jazeera television broadcast a videotape Friday from militants who claim to have kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in Iraq.azcentral.com/ ... 18:32:47A police officer who said he was traumatized by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has become a possible suspect in an explosion in a subway station in Times Square.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:31:47Four masked men shot dead a Presbyterian pastor as she spoke from the pulpit at her church in Central Sulawei, Indonesia.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:39:46...found a decapitated body in an orange jumpsuit on the banks of the Tigris River in northern Iraqap.tbo.com/ ... 01:34:13A bomb went off outside an Interior Ministry base Thursday in a Russian republic bordering Chechnya, wounding eight people ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:32:56Assailants tossed two gasoline bombs [at] a Culture Ministry building in central Athens on Thursday, causing no damage or injuries... anarchists were thought to be behind it

9/11 - still with uscnn.com/ ... 23:19:46The report says Jarrah intended to fly the plane into the White House or the U.S. Capitol. "He was defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers of United 93,"chron.com/ ... 10:19:27The Sept. 11 commission's final report... determined the "most important failure" leading to the Sept. 11 attacks "was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat."voanews.com/ ... 10:18:30Surveillance footage from Washington's Dulles Airport on September 11, 2001 shows... at least three of the five hijackers setting off metal detectors and being pulled aside and checked with hand-held detectors before being allowed to board the aircraft... flown into the Pentagon....

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 18:12:33A packed express train traveling from Istanbul to Ankara derailed Thursday, killing around 36 people in one of Turkey's worst ever rail disasters.